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Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

• arcticwombat 8y ago
  "Origin DNS Error" on the archive link.
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  • oxguy3 8y ago
    Try this one: http://archive.fo/8uu5x http://archive.fo/8uu5x
    • zaarn 8y ago
      archive.fo gives me a SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP error, consistently from that latest Firefox release. Might be a good idea to enable TLS1.0 on that site?
  • ignoranceprior 8y ago
    Let me guess, you're using Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)? Archive.is blocks Cloudflare DNS. You should switch to another DNS server if you want to use it.
    • oatmealsnap 8y ago
      Why?
      • buren 8y ago
        > [...] Nameservers responsible for archive.is (ben.archive.is, anna.archive.is) are returning answers tailored to the IP address of the requestor [...] From this thread https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/18227 https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...
        • zamadatix 8y ago
          That's "how" not "why". Most major services tailor queries based on the source IP, for some reason when archive.is does it to cloudflare queries it's either broken or purposefully broken. At first I thought it might be something to do with 1.1.1.1 in the archive.is network but then I noticed cloudflare queries on behalf of clients don't even source from that IP.
          • topynate 8y ago
            See here: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aarchiveis%20cloudflare&src=typd&lang=en&lang=en https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aarchiveis%20cloudflare&s... Archive.is intentionally returns bad results to Cloudflare DNS, because Cloudflare don't send them the EDNS Client Subnet Header. Archive.is haven't said much about why, but what they have said appears to accord with this blog post: https://www.sajalkayan.com/post/cloudflare-1dot1dot1dot1.html https://www.sajalkayan.com/post/cloudflare-1dot1dot1dot1.htm...
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          • compuguy 8y ago
            Apparently he discards requests from DNS servers that don't send EDNS in their requests: https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680 https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680
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• jacquesm 8y ago
  Thanks for posting this, I have passed a message to a friend of Aaron's dad.
  • 0xferruccio 8y ago
    Awesome :) Hope this gets solved soon as I think it's important to keep Aaron's thoughts alive
    • jacquesm 8y ago
      Np, he would have noticed this thread sooner or later anyway, maybe this makes it happen a bit sooner.
  • wglb 8y ago
    I let Aaron's Dad know, and it seems he contacted Ben.
• toomuchtodo 8y ago
  Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/...
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• joshuaunitus 8y ago
  I was able to see all pages except for "3. Look at yourself objectively"
  • krtkush 8y ago
    You can read that post if you navigate to the main blog page and then scroll down to that particular post.
    • joshuaunitus 8y ago
      Found it, thanks!
• perfmode 8y ago
  aaronsw.com ought to be declared a heritage site. He is one of a kind.
• crunchlibrarian 8y ago
  I doubt his kind of "dangerous" thinking will be allowed to be spread for much longer in our corporate dystopian internet. It's just a matter of time before speech daring to criticize the corporations will be considered a security threat or whatever and immediately deleted.
  • jasonvorhe 8y ago
    Based on which precedent did you arrive at this conclusion?
    • iseeyoubydesign 8y ago
      based on all the twitter banning of right wing thinkers. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander. Swartz isnt exempt just because you like him. When it was allowed for twitter to silence people from their platform ,for host companies to take down sites the flood gates are now opened.
      • jasonmp85 8y ago
        Hey thanks for starting my week off with a laugh. "Right wing thinkers". Heh. Clever!
        • dang 8y ago
          This comment also breaks the site guidelines and only makes the thread worse. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when commenting here.
      • PhasmaFelis 8y ago
        > Based on all the twitter banning of right wing thinkers. I did some Googling to see what "right wing thinkers" Twitter has banned lately, and you appear to be talking about Alex Jones and a bunch of literal Nazis. > When it was allowed for twitter to silence people from their platform "Free speech" does not and has never meant "guaranteed access to private businesses and websites." And I'd bet money that you wouldn't say a word if Twitter started banning far-left progressives.
• soneca 8y ago
  His post "I hate the news"(0) was(is) very influential for me personally. It was seminal in what become a rather significant change in my habits and view of the world. I am now very conscious that news are entertainment, purely and simply. With the goods and bads of any other entertainment form. From time to time, while explaining my position to others (often seen as kind of radical), I refer this post. I hope it continues to be available. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
  • kadendogthing 8y ago
    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Kp5EC2ZDiEcJ:www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Kp5EC2Z... Google currently has it cached.
  • the_clarence 8y ago
    What is a good source of information? By that I mean: - not about daily information (which are usually as fast as possible and don’t take the time to really understand the situation) - not biased - not about juicy news, but world topics that are ~objectively important I feel like there should be a subreddit for that.
    • theWheez 8y ago
      I have not found something like this on the internet, but if it exists I'd love to know about it. Otherwise, books are the only place that fill out those qualifications.
    • GuiA 8y ago
      A few suggestions: academic papers, books, documentaries (including indie produced ones on Youtube), radio shows/podcasts.
    • jwr 8y ago
      Every source of information will be biased, and you have to take that into account by being critical. I found that the best source for me is The Economist: once per week, written by smart people, with good summaries of anything that is important. Delivered digitally (with an excellent audio version, too). It is "biased" in the sense that the editors hold a set of opinions and you have to be aware of it. I do not agree with all of their opinions, but I am aware of them. The news useful even if you disagree with their interpretation or recommendations. Surprisingly, it is the only intelligent and non-sensational news source that I have found.
• bensw 8y ago
  I’ll try to figure this out today
  • lewisjoe 8y ago
    Thank you!
  • perfmode 8y ago
    I'm happy to make a contribution towards the preservation of his site. If there is a Venmo to which I may contribute, please let me know. Also, I'm not sure how it is presently configured, but if the site is presently a dynamic CMS, it might be worthwhile to export the static assets and host the site on S3/GCS/IPFS. And to publish a tar.gz copy along with a signature checksum.
    • toomuchtodo 8y ago
      I have archived Aaron's site into a WARC file if someone wants to host it. Also in cold storage in the event there are any gaps in what the Internet Archive has.
      • jason_slack 8y ago
        I’d actually love to do this. I just finished reading his book again.
      • Jaruzel 8y ago
        I'm happy to host a copy, as I was just about to crawl his site for my own personal archive.
  • 0xferruccio 8y ago
    Thanks a lot! You might also want to set up certbot ( https://certbot.eff.org https://certbot.eff.org ) to have https too, as I remember visiting it last time and having it flagged as unsafe because of the http. It only takes 60 seconds to do it :)
  • bensw 8y ago
• sli 8y ago
  As of 11:18AM EST I can access everything just fine. Seems to either be back or it's an isolated problem.
• dpau 8y ago
  I’m interested to know how others are preserving websites. Due to incomplete snapshots, broken links and spam companies taking over expired domains, it’s often difficult to browse or get a complete image of a website using the Wayback machine. So lately I’ve been using tools like Wayback Machine Downloader to grab as much as I can, then fix up the archive (using relative links, removing unnecessary Javascript, etc.) and finally republish everything as a Github repo using gh-pages. There must be a better way?
  • hopler 8y ago
    Making a better archiving tool would be a great open source project. Wayback machine's archiver appears to be open source: https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback
• paulcarroty 8y ago
  Good example of "suicide sucks" rule.
  • sctb 8y ago
    If you keep posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments we'll ban the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
• buttscicles 8y ago
  Seems to be back online.
• StavrosK 8y ago
  Here you go, an IPFS copy: https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/QmbABUy4jr8432sfAV97Vicyzu9kmptJ5pDGyLkefP1FXq/ https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/QmbABUy4jr8432sfAV97Vicyzu9kmpt... Now it's permanent (please pin the hash to help).
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• joshuakelly 8y ago
  Knowing that this would happen eventually, I created an archival copy on GitHub soon after his death: https://github.com/jdjkelly/www.aaronsw.com https://github.com/jdjkelly/www.aaronsw.com I can hardly believe this was six years ago.
  • qwerty456127 8y ago
    Cool. Nevertheless I feel like this should be upgraded to the 100%-offline-readable level (i.e. at least qblog.aaronsw.com should be mirrored too, so should be Twitter and Pinboard accounts preferably), converted to the epub format and distributed among commercial (for free or for charity), free and pirate ebook libraries. I'm actually surprised nobody has done this yet.
    • vivekseth 8y ago
      Why don’t you do it?
      • qwerty456127 8y ago
        I've already put this to my to-do list so I probably will if somebody won't do this faster.
    • corbold 8y ago
      I made an epub out of his blog 2 years ago. It is not sorted or edited in any way though. https://github.com/C0rby/aaronsw-weblogToEpub https://github.com/C0rby/aaronsw-weblogToEpub
      • defn 8y ago
        Thanks for this!
      • sundar4344 8y ago
        Thanks very much
• onetimemanytime 8y ago
  can someone find a key Aaron's family member and pay for 10 years of hosting and domain renewals? That's nothing to thousands of his fans
  • widforss 8y ago
    His brother is literally in this thread.
• clishem 8y ago
  It's up again
• burtonator 8y ago
  I new Aaron well but didn't interact with him as much as I would like. I think it's one of those things where you expect that there's always going to be time ... I think I'm going to go back and read some of his blog posts since I haven't read most of them. Should bring back some good memories.
• beefman 8y ago
  jottit.com (aaronsw project) is also down, because of an expired certificate
• nikisweeting 8y ago
  I have several of his pages and posts saved in my personal Bookmark Archiver archive as well: https://archive.sweeting.me/archive/1528683804/aaronsw.com/index.html https://archive.sweeting.me/archive/1528683804/aaronsw.com/i... Including his list of saved articles on Pinboard: https://archive.sweeting.me/archive/1528683819/pinboard.in/u%3Aaaronsw.html https://archive.sweeting.me/archive/1528683819/pinboard.in/u...
• ziont 8y ago
  a young man was killed for web scraping a passworded site. Only in murica
  • whatshisface 8y ago
    He wasn't killed, they were ("only") going to imprison him.
• kragen 8y ago
  It seems to be back online now. Thanks for letting us know.
• mindcrash 8y ago
  Correction: His weblog is (back) online. And I think his friends and family take great care in making sure his legacy stays online and make sure everyone still alive can keep reading some of the most provocative posts from one of the brightest minds of our generation published on the internet.
  • abhiminator 8y ago
    Thanks for the update, I was about to post this myself. Glad to see it's back online!
• tlrobinson 8y ago
  I noticed a Bitcoin address was added to his website, it looks like in 2016 [1]. It would be nice to know who controls it and what it's for. 1. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1AaronhQN1sfV24364mneNmVYvyzrZrEPh https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1AaronhQN1sfV24364mne...
  • ViViDboarder 8y ago
    Are those custom? Or is it a total coincidence it starts with 1Aaron?
    • tlrobinson 8y ago
      https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen
• piracy1 8y ago
  It looks like his domain name expired and was squatted. Someone should try to buy it back and rehost the original site. If someone trustworthy undertook that project I'd contribute like $50