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DO-SAY-GO / tdf

tdf

🌱 TDF - Tree Document Format - a universal file format for web collections

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🌱 TDF - Tree Document Format - a universal file format for web collections

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2019-12-22 08:42:40 UTC to 2023-09-06 08:03:09 UTC.

0510152019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 5 submissions, 10 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 3 submissions, 4 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 2 submissions, 7 comments2023

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15510
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC734
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC927

What Hacker News says

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If you're interested in utilizing your history information for something in your intentional interests, consider saving an archive of pages you browse to make a search engine you can query back through later. You can save the full content for indexing with full text search, and you can even export archives as tarballs by zipping up the directory. Many people find this a useful way to "mine" their own browser history to create a curated search engine aligned with your interests. Or simply to save the pages they browse for review offline--either to save bandwidth, or just because they're actually "offline"--at a remote site, or on an airplane. Everything is saved in a fully interactive way. Personally tho, I find search the most useful feature. Also, we're open source so if you want to get involved, please do so! https://github.com/dosyago/
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In Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting
Replying because I can't edit: I loved this project when it was called 22120 and was here https://github.com/c9fe/22120 It was AGPL3 and it was great! http://web.archive.org/web/20210123003545/https://github.com... The author links to an interview with an open source focus publication about it! I should not have allowed the credit of the previous clearly explained open source project to carry forward after renaming, because it is now a different project. I am sorry. I apologize. I will not recommend this software again, and I will try not to make this mistake in the future. Thank you for helping me see this error.
In Wayback: Self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive
Another approach that may be less at risk of the vicissitudes of legal trajectory on the copyright issue is a mass-scale decentralized archive: in other words, a democratization of archiving. One "organized" way to do it would be to have "Internet Archive" run a SETI-at-home type of daemon on your computer to use a bit of idle time and disk to store blocks (obviously there's a rich literature of decentralized file sharing which I'm not apprentice to and so please be suspicious of my suggestions as the "best" method~~but you get the idea). A "disorganized" way could be to have a "federation" of personal archives, comprised by tools like SingleFile^0, ArchiveBox^1, and my own DiskerNet^2 -- which all in various ways make it possible for you to save web content to your own device, and. It can be then shared with others. I think in general, a
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side from any legal perturbations, one should not as a general rule rely on such a single point of failure for something (to some at least) so critical. Probably humanity (or at least netizenry) needs to embrace some form (or mish-mash of various forms) of truly dcentralized archiving. ^0: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile ^1: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox ^2: https://github.com/dosyago/DiskerNet
In If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
Hey. My project Diskernet does this: full text search over browser history. Put it in "save" mode when using Chrome (linux is fine) and it automatically saves every page you browse (so you can read it offline), and also indexes it for full text search. It's a work in progress and there are bugs (so my advice initialize a git repo in your archive directory, and make regular syncs to a remote in case of failure -- that also gives you a nice snapshotted archive). Anyway, best of luck to you! :) Diskernet: https://github.com/crisdosyago/Diskernet
In Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?
I would love to have a searchable personal web archiving solution that works across devices. Something like https://github.com/i5ik/Diskernet or Webmemex but not implemented as a browser plugin but as a VPN with a self signed SSL certificate that I can configure on my mobile devices as well as on the Desktop. Personally I would only use this as a self-hosted solution because the security implications of MITM myself through a tunnel controlled by a third party are rather significant. I had a working prototype of this for a while and it was wonderful but debugging the edge cases took too much of my time as I’m not well versed with low-level networking. I would have loved to open source it but as it was started as a hacked together mess of configuration files that would have required me to rebuild it from scratch as a containerized solution
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. I have more time right now and if people round here would be interested in collaborating on a project that could give users autonomy over their digital history I’d be more than happy to have another go at it.
In Ask HN: What problem do you wish someone would solve?

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