India official drains entire dam to retrieve phone
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This is actually funnier then the title leads you to believe.
I'd archive BBC though, fuck those assholes.
His excuses and reasoning are hilarious.
One of the main reasons why I don´t archive links is because I like the source URL to be visible. Another reason is that I don´t find it such a big deal directly visiting the BBC, CNN, etc.
It removes an attack surface. A redirect or archive site could be pointing anywhere.
And if it is a well known website seeing the URL you also get an idea of their editorial politics.
I like to know what site I am visiting, simple.
The source URL is clearly visible when you visit the archived site. Not sure what your issue is.
I want to see the URL before clicking, it helps me decide whether to click or not.
I realise this is not very popular opinion but this is the way I like it, when you post do it your way, I never complained about anybody archiving links. When I post I will do it my way.
Fair, I suppose. I guess I'd suggest just including both in the OP somehow. Two birds with one stone, covering both. But that's just me.
And I don´t post that much I would not worry about it, I post far more often in other threads and nobody ever complains there.
we archive it, because of how fast they pull down articles when we link to them if they break their narrative too bad.
I understand, but that has not been my experience with the BBC and other major big news sites, they don't usually pull articles down. Sure there are exceptions, I understand that too, but in my experience I have only seen that very seldom.
I'm not sure why he said "pull down articles". They make subtle changes to the article or headline more than straight pulling them down. Shadow edits, with no "this article has been updated" text. And no they don't usually do it. Most articles aren't that important. We're talking about protection for the exceptions. It's insurance.
not just removals, they also do edits, especially the bigger guys after we caught them doing the removing. The bigger concern these days are the stealth edits.
Don't be a faggot. Archive it anyway.
Quick! Take some photos of the empty reservoir for those "Global Warming is Going to Kill Us All" articles!
I wish I was joking. German government-run media literally did that recently.
They ran an article how lakes are dry because "muh global warble". They used dramatic pictures of a completely dry lake with cracked earth everywhere. The horror! Small problem though: those pictures were from a lake that was dry because it had been intentionally drained to repair a dam.
Everything environmentalists say is a lie, especially if they're telling you the truth.
I will not be dictated how to post, I don't like the archive links, when I post I will do it my way, feel free to make your contributions archived, no problem.
A thing they teach in remote places is that water conservation is critical. To drain an entire dam just to retrieve a phone that wouldn't even work because yeah, it's obviously water logged is just stupid.
To be fair, it may be possible for a data recovery service to unsolder and read out the flash chips
I hope they can also decrypt that stuff.
Someone dumb enough to drop a phone with critical data in a river might not be smart enough to have encryption
Tru I think iPhones always do by default, and most android phones don't. I mean last I checked. He said it was Samsung, but it was worth 1200 dollars so maybe a new one that has full disk encryption by default. It's becoming fairly standard for android with most phone hardware also accelerating its operation.
It’s India. There would 100% be corruption on the side (perhaps someone else benefitted from this, somehow), but also, he probably is also just that stupid and inept…
VISHNU BE MERCIFUL, THEYRE GOING TO FIND MY FEET COLLECTION!
In any other era, a man who wasted that much water for a fucking widget would have been executed.
You could've gotten a guy with scuba gear to go in for lessor just bought a new phone, sometimes the idiocy of establishment figures boggles the mind..
The dude had bobs and vagene on that phone. No cost to small for that.
To be fair, they actually did that.
Then get non local divers, make it a free diving event or something like that, there's a long list of shit you can do before draining it and risking a future drought.
Two million litres is a lot of water, but Kherkatta is a six billion litre dam. Pumping out the stilling basin at the base of the dam because you dropped your phone is ridiculous, but the article is abusing your lack of familiarity with the subject to make it sound a lot worse than it is.
No, it's just as ridiculous as it sounds. He didn't drain the water to save a child or something, he drained it for a fucking phone. The phone was worth far less than the water.
Portland has on multiple occasions drained a water reservoir because a single drunk guy pissed in it.
W-what?
A better reason would be the phone would contaminate the water.