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LinkedIn comes across as a not-so-great company to work for. I find their product to be very toxic, off-putting and full of life coaches and scammers.


Just so you know: https://grapheneos.org/ and https://signal.org/ do exist!


Isn't this a red herring though? If some spyware has ring0 level access on device, security properties of apps like Signal don't really matter since the spyware can trivially access them(?)


Well said!


For a phone, I think you want an older Pixel device running GrapheneOS!


That's amazing, I do like it large by the way!



Couldn't this functionality be automized somehow? Every time there's a link on HN to a paywalled article, I have to the same dance:

1. Click on the link

2. Find out it's behind a paywall

3. Go back in the browser

4. Click on the "comments" link.

5. Look for the post that has the archive.is version of it.

6. Click on that.

Surely that could somehow be collapsed into just a single click?


You can go in the browser URL field and type "archive.is/" in front of the URL and press enter after step 2. It'll either redirect you to an existing archive page or lets you create one if one doesn't exist.


I get good use out of this browser extension: https://github.com/arantius/resurrect-pages

Sites are usually archived already.


For some reason it isn't loading for me, but if you use a search engine that supports bangs in your URL bar (DDG or Kagi) you can prefix the url with !ais and just search that. Same with !wbm or !ia for Wayback Machine


Open the current page in archive.li:

    javascript:(function()%7B%0A%20window.location%20%3D%20%22https%3A%2F%2Farchive.li%2F%22%20%2B%20window.location%3B%0A%7D)()


I usually just start with the comments. If I see an archive link I'll use that (assuming I've determined that the source article is worth reading at all).


Here's how this could be done as a HN-side feature with zero interaction with archive.is servers:

* Compile a list of domains like nytimes.com that have soft paywalls.

* When a link like https://example.com/ is submitted and its domain is on the paywall list, insert [archive](https://archive.is/timegate/https://example.com/) after it in the title area. Just prefix the timegate part and it's a working link.


It cant be a first party feature.





Everyone has a price...


Yes. The positive is that the code is left behind. I am sympathetic with (and sorry for) those who will not learn fast enough about the acquisition and will have their private data sucked out. That's why I posted it here, after I learned about it only today.


I am more concerned about the licensing issues.

Seems that the original author recieved some external contribution in GPLv3.


He thinks that he doesn't need to care about external contributions since he wrote over 90% of the code lol


Well, to a point that's true: there is a not-clearly-defined line about what's copyrightable when it comes to the amount of text that's reproduced without explicit permission (as a matter of fact, that might be the same thing OpenAI is using as a loophole to consider their model immune to copyright claims).

Basically, I can't copyright an "article" which only says "This is an article." — there is high probability of someone coming up with the exact same wording, so you can't get protections for it. How much is too much is definitely left up to the interpretation.

Finally, unless one of those contributors takes him to court (external party like EFF or FSF can't protect your rights, you have to do it yourself), it's unlikely he should care. If one or two people do, there's also a relatively cheap option of rewriting just those parts too: court won't try to challenge other possible license issues.


he claims it's 99% by him and paid contributors. to verify you'd have to ask any major contributors if they have been paid.


There are many contributors in the GitHub Issue that claim that they never signed a CLA nor received any compensation


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