The administration didn’t threaten to take down the IA or investigate it or anything like that, so it’s not similar at all.

It’s conspiratorial to think the FBI is doing this to censor or hide something. archive.is is primarily used to get around paywalls. The most likely explanation is news sites complained to the FBI that their copyrights are being violated (which is true), so the FBI is investigating. They’ve had a problem with falling revenue for a decade or more at this point as everything went online and people expected to get instant access for free in contrast to print media.

It really highlights just how centralized so much of the internet is on like three companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google)

Cloudflare: What am I? Chopped liver?

The comic is from 2011. The upgrade to OS X Lion, released that year, was paid originally and then made available for free.

I’m similarly skeptical it’s a genuine outage given how so much stuff nowadays is done with cloud computing which enables dynamic on-demand procurement of server resources. Or whatever the correct terminology is to describe that.

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Schools could have used that time they were “teaching” the Office suite to give an introduction to unix, programming, and the basics of how the internet functions. I had to read and analyze Beowulf, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Homer and memorize the names and formulas of 33 polyatomic ions. Computing education to the same depth should have been and should be required as it was required for the other subjects.

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Ha, lamers. A true wizard writes their assignments in roff.