Contradiction FinderAug 12, 2023
I bring you yet another ironic display of #hypocrisy. The UN’s Universal Declaration of #humanRights has recently become an access-restricted document. If you are in the excluded group you get a #403forbidden error. And worse, if you try to fetch a copy using the #WaybackMachine, /everyone/ gets to see a copy of the 403 error instead of the human rights declaration because the #UN is blocking the #InternetArchive (effectively, the UN has become anti-Library).
Show threadBoudAug 12, 2023

@batalanto

You're right: dig www.un.org gives

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.un.org. XXXX IN CNAME d1z8tokz9k79tw.cloudfront.net.

Some of the Wayback snapshots got through, e.g. [1].

What alternatives to #Cloudflare can be proposed to UN web sysadmins? Recent thread including @selea @martijn has suggestions such as https://noc.org and

# apt install fail2ban crowdsec

in [3].

@beto

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230811040727/https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

[2] https://social.linux.pizza/@selea/110843731792358387

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Show threadContradiction FinderAug 12, 2023
@boud @beto @martijn @selea Thanks for digging up functional version of the #UniversalDeclarationOfHumanRights. You saved me from that effort. Although in principle it wouldn’t be a big effort as the #deCloudflare / karma project produced a tool that automatically finds the last non-403’d archive in the #WaybackMachine :)
Show threadBoud

@batalanto

The UN docs server is even worse: https://undocs.org it's Amazon and the pdfs are un-archivable.

But there's a workaround.

Official UN records, UN documents, and UN public relations material is generally in the public domain [1]. Volunteers can enter any UN record/document/PR into Wikisource and verify it: UNHDR1948 [2], UNSCR1325 [3], 2023 UNSCRs: missing [4].

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Administrative_Instruction_ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.2

[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights

[3] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1325

[4] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolutions/2023

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