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I just went over there to retrieve an article snapshot that I pulled up last year, and the snapshot is fucking GONE from the Wayback Machine.

I know it was there a year ago because last time I pulled up the snapshot I saved the entire page as a PDF file which shows the snapshot date and the date the pdf was generated. So I'm literally looking at the snapshot date on the pdf file and the snapshots available on the Wayback Machine and it's not there anymore.

SAVE EVERYTHING - IT WILL BE SCRUBBED!!!!!

I just went over there to retrieve an article snapshot that I pulled up last year, and the snapshot is fucking GONE from the Wayback Machine. I know it was there a year ago because last time I pulled up the snapshot I saved the entire page as a PDF file which shows the snapshot date and the date the pdf was generated. So I'm literally looking at the snapshot date on the pdf file and the snapshots available on the Wayback Machine and it's not there anymore. SAVE EVERYTHING - IT WILL BE SCRUBBED!!!!!

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[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

Yup. When I see something very interesting online, I save it. You can't trust these bastards.

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I'm thinking move it all over to a linux box which is kept offline too. We know Microsoft has every backdoor possible into your PC file system.

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Make sure you get a distro without systemd, the new NSA backdoor for most Linux distros. I'm enjoying Devuan, as it's just Debian with every systemd reference removed. Some packages don't work as they have hard-coded references to systemd, but they're worth avoiding just on principle.

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I'd make the relevant 1984 reference here but I'm just at my wit's end.