<story><title>Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz&apos;s death</title><text>thank you for everything</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeulike</author><text>This StackOverflow question from Aaron about using rsync to download and copy lots of files is like a piece of history frozen in time.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;48491&amp;#x2F;keep-rsync-from-removing-unfinished-source-files&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;48491&amp;#x2F;keep-rsync-from-re...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>And the required context, for those coming across this: Aaron was under investigation for downloading an archive of academic articles from within MIT (because they&amp;#x27;d otherwise cost a lot), presumably to make them available outside free of large, much like Sci-Hub does nowadays.&lt;p&gt;He committed suicide during the investigation, and it&amp;#x27;s supposedly not unlikely to be related to the pressure the investigation and trumped-up charges brought him. And then there&amp;#x27;s those that surmise he was murdered, of course.&lt;p&gt;See also this documentary: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz&apos;s death</title><text>thank you for everything</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeulike</author><text>This StackOverflow question from Aaron about using rsync to download and copy lots of files is like a piece of history frozen in time.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;48491&amp;#x2F;keep-rsync-from-removing-unfinished-source-files&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;48491&amp;#x2F;keep-rsync-from-re...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaf</author><text>The names of his machines &amp;quot;speed&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;mass&amp;quot;. Very cute.</text></comment>