Re: Link Rot

2021-05-24 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 24 May 2021, ben via cctalk wrote: On 2021-05-24 9:58 a.m., Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/21 10:28 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: A more disturbing popular trend is information being placed in long-ish Youtube videos that could have been summarized concisely in a page

Re: Link Rot

2021-05-24 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2021-05-24 9:58 a.m., Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/21 10:28 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: A more disturbing popular trend is information being placed in long-ish Youtube videos that could have been summarized concisely in a page of text. Kids. It seems to be the modern

RE: Link Rot

2021-05-24 Thread Ali via cctalk
> Kids. It seems to be the modern way - current generations don't want to > spend a couple of minutes reading text when they can sit though 30 > minutes > of visual content instead. It's like brains have lost the ability to > focus > on something unless it's noisy and moving. No. Money. It is

Re: Link Rot

2021-05-24 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 5/22/21 10:28 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: A more disturbing popular trend is information being placed in long-ish Youtube videos that could have been summarized concisely in a page of text. Kids. It seems to be the modern way - current generations don't want to spend a couple of

Re: Link Rot

2021-05-22 Thread Justin Goldberg via cctalk
can use the cloud proxies which call themselves sdwan. Yacy and other p2p web crawlers are another way to go. On Sat, May 22, 2021, 11:28 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 5/22/21 7:41 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: > > link rot is weird in what disapears vs still works >

RE: Link Rot

2021-05-22 Thread Ali via cctalk
> However, it's far from perfect--in particular ftp content has > apparently Yes, who would have ever thought FTPs would be dropping like flies though? Web sites? Sure. But FTP - how else were you going to distribute all those drivers, patches, etc... Short answer just don't bother doing it

Re: Link Rot

2021-05-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 5/22/21 7:41 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: > link rot is weird in what disapears vs still works > > On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 6:45 PM Ali via cctalk > wrote: > >> Interesting article on Link Rot and its prevalence. According to the >> article even source

Re: Link Rot

2021-05-22 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
link rot is weird in what disapears vs still works On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 6:45 PM Ali via cctalk wrote: > Interesting article on Link Rot and its prevalence. According to the > article even sources being referenced as early as 2018 have about a 60% > Rot.I think all of us in this

Link Rot

2021-05-22 Thread Ali via cctalk
Interesting article on Link Rot and its prevalence. According to the article even sources being referenced as early as 2018 have about a 60% Rot.I think all of us in this hobby can relate nor only to loss of articles but from sites, drivers, file repositories, etchttps://www.theverge.com