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Just out of curiosity, how do we know that what is in the Wikipedia comments is accurate? I have no skin in the game. I was just wondering. Anybody can post any
by sam345 10d ago
Just out of curiosity, how do we know that what is in the Wikipedia comments is accurate? I have no skin in the game. I was just wondering. Anybody can post anything on Wikipedia comments. I find it odd that Ars Technica would use that as a source. Maybe it's fine for gossip and speculation but it shouldn't be in Ars Technica then.
- fc417fc802 10d agoBecause a lot of us watched the drama unfold in real time.
- avadodin 10d agoWe have always been at war with Eastasia.
- Mogzol 10d agoThere is a megalodon.jp archive of an archive.today page that shows the edits: https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1654-07/https://archive.ph:443/LZymb https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1654-07/https://archive.ph:44... There's also a bunch of previous hackernews discussions about it: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474255 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 And you obviously have no reason to believe me, but I was following this when it was happening at the start of this year and can confirm that the DDoS script and archive text replacements really did happen.