Loving the character development arc.

You show me yours and I’ll show you mine ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ)

Can’t you see that gramp’s busy cleaning his ornery balls

The spelling difference was subtle.

…and, sometimes you just want to plant your teeth in those cheeks.

Just another few seconds of the sperm whale trying to chew and swallow its meal

A smidgen

There isn’t much more of it

I studied paper conservation so this is technically out of my wheelhouse. But while I was doing my MA we had an external tutor come in and demonstrate how to conserve various synthetic paints. The problem you’re having is the pigment has become friable as the solvent has evaporated. It may be possible to replace some of that lost solvent by exposing the signature to the right solvent in a gas chamber (stuff that you should leave to a professional conservator that works in this medium). The signature will still be susceptible to being abraded off so a cover would be needed. Preferably one that doesn’t contact the signature.

Professional conservation work is not cheap so you’d need to get a quote and judge if it is worth it to you.

It looks like the solvent from the ink has stained the case which will be more permanent than the friable pigment. You could just accept that the pigment is going to fall off and live with the signature’s underlying stain (though you’d still probably be wise to put a clear case on the phone to reduce the abrasion caused by handing and pocket storage). Be aware that the stain may become less recognisable with age (like an old tattoo) as the solvent spreads on the case.

If you are keen to try to fix it yourself the most important thing to do is get your hands on the exact same marker and a similar substrate as the phone body to test any proposed solutions. Give any test time to show itself. I relabeled thousands of books in an archive with a permanent archival pen then put adhesive clear covers over them, after five years none of those labels are readable anymore as the solvent in the adhesive made the ink spread. They were fine while I still worked there but I was getting some stink eye when I paid visit those five years later.

Block away. The doxing is obvious, you’re just trying to seal lion.

What do think doxxing is?

You responses are most helpful and you are, no doubt, a charming fellow however you don’t seem to understand that doxing can be a very serious problem for some people. Maybe I’ll buy you a coffee!?

Gyrovague’s blog

I disagree with your disagreement :p

It is a common manipulative method of praising something right before landing a substantive blow on it as a way lending your argument credibility.

Anonymouse has the most wonderful posts I have ever read, however I believe in this case he is down playing the threat to the owner of Archive.today that is represented by doxing them. Snowden isn’t hiding in Russia because he loves the weather. Assange didn’t hide in the Columbian Embassy because he liked their exercise bike. There’s a reason that the person who released the Panama Papars is only know as John Doe. And why can’t Francesca Albanese’s bank cards no longer work. Amongst the powerful elites are psychopaths.

Acting as if doxing someone who undermines the elite’s grip on PR is some benign act and irrelevant to the owner of archive.today’s reaction is a leading distortion of the reality of the situation.

I do wonder what the motivation of gyrovague to dox the owner of archive.today was?

From Hacker News:

“Gyrovague”, the author of the post we’re commenting under has for reasons unknown engaged in targeted harassment of the owner of “archive.today”. Now the owner of archive.today is attempting a rather lazy DoS attack against gyrovague.com. A rather mild response to gyrovague attempting to bring the archive.today owner physical harm by spreading potentially identifying information about them.

There’s really very little to be said about this whole thing besides that Gyrovague should try to be a less awful person in the future.

It is relevant to this discussion to mention that archive.today keeps in the public sphere that which governments and powerful people have scrubbed out of general awareness by applying various forms of pressure. So we should expect them to come under pressure too.

Maybe related, maybe not: Wikipedia’s owner came under pressure it seems to muddy the debate around the genocide in Gaza. Archive.today will hold a record of the propaganda warfare in mainstream media and more ephemeral web content like videos/blogs uploaded from within Gaza. So by excluding this particular archive Wikipedia seems to be prioritising media sources that are manipulated by governments and the powerful.