The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog.

In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.

    • becausechemistry@piefed.social
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      21 hours ago

      There is nothing as hilarious as someone trying to use fancy words but missing pretty basic concepts of the language.

      You’re trying to sound smart. It’s making you sound dumber.

    • Widdershins@lemmy.world
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      Money you can fuck? I don’t see why not. Not entirely sure how it’ll change hands moving forward but it’s time to shake things up.

      • Troy@lemmy.ca
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        Went to a strip club once and the stripper was handing out fake $69 bills with her image on it and a link to her OnlyFans…