The all-hands monday meeting at Internet Archive featured Wylie Gustafson, who you may have heard as the Yahoo! yodel.
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Jason Scott
The all-hands monday meeting at Internet Archive featured Wylie Gustafson, who you may have heard as the Yahoo! yodel.
Jason Scott
This meme is making the rounds. Naturally people are going "this isn't real". Well, I can't attest how much Musk was inspired by the original, but Internet Archive lets you play the PC and Apple versions in browser: https://archive.org/details/msdos_shareware_fb_CARBUILD (PC Version)
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Alina 0xFF
@textfiles I can't confirm that the body design yields a good coefficient in the wind tunnel test, I've tried to get as close to the chassis in the screenshot and my coefficient was only about 0.33
Jason Scott
You know that thing where something disappears and people go "I remember all the stuff they had, there was nothing like that, it was special, I'm sad it's gone"? Well, that's the Internet Archive, and the contributions collections are brimming every day with stuff I constantly go "I had no idea anyone ever made a PDF of that obscure emphemera". Oh, and we're not gone, with no plans to be gone. Anyway, enjoy the place. It's special.
BogusMeatFactory
@textfiles if it wasn't for the diligent work of the Internet Archive, we wouldn't have a very thorough archival of the Nintendo Wii U's miiverse, a legitimate cultural snapshot from its birth to its death and I can not stress enough just how much I appreciate the work everyone at the archive has done to keep record of all of the things happening in this world "important," or not.
Jason Scott
This is a frankly infurating framing of the natural end of a copyright literally a human century later
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Nicole Parsons
@pluralistic points out that corporations made terrible archivists of cultural artifacts. They often stop art, and other items of cultural significance, from surviving by hoarding it under poor conditions then discarding it later.
Steve Holmes
@textfiles I actually watched the CBS morning show segment and it was pretty good. They interviewed Larry Lessig, and the point that Walt Disney has been using the IP of others for a century was emphasized.
Caleb James DeLisle
Oh no, this means there's going to be mickey branded EVERYTHING next year :(
Disney is such a horrible company and I'd rather not be reminded of their evil, nor expose it to my kid.
Jason Scott
Hot new trend in AI generated art, the "more of this" meme.
Jason Scott
Old days: ?SYNTAX ERROR? These days: <scratches head under cap> ya know, I'm not sure we can go any further with this thing, boss.
Demon Queen Lucretia
@textfiles okay, maybe this is one of the valid uses of AI art, generating bespoke galaxy brain style escalation memes.
Jason Scott
STOP EVERYTHING. THE 1920 POTATO DIGGER CATALOG JUST DROPPED https://archive.org/details/1920-potatoes-and-profits-with-the-iron-age-digger-catalog/mode/2up
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Jim Daly
@textfiles Beautiful. Today's potato harvesters work on the same principal. Those guys 100 years ago had it sussed.
Steve :flan_hacker:
@textfiles When I was a kid, I remember digging our potatoes with a similar one.
Urda
@textfiles @catsalad I thought this said “Event Driven Potatoes” and wondered why the potatoes needed a programming paradigm
Jason Scott
Periodic reminder that the full ISO files for the GET LAMP Documentary are available for free at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/GET_LAMP_The_Text_Adventure_Documentary Playing them in VLC gives you the full feature set, including subtitles, commentary, easter eggs, and so on.
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Jason Scott
Internet Archive is having a power/network issue at one of its datacenters, so we're taking a big ol' nap. People are on it.
Jason Scott
MIT Press maintains a set of their books that are listed as "Open Access", and of them, 297 different books and documents provide a helpful PDF edition of their titles. I have "ported" these over to the Internet Archive where they live a life and have links back to their original MIT Press pages should you want to buy a hard copy:
Jason Scott
If you were wondering when that My Little Pony Flash Game collection was going to arrive, you can stop wondering.
Jason Scott
Thanks to efforts by volunteers Nosamu and bai0, the Internet Archive's flash emulation just jumped generations ahead. Mute/Unmute works. The screen resizes based on the actual animation's information. And for a certain group who will flip their lid: We can do multi-swf flash now! A pile of previously "broken" flashes will join the collection this week.
Jason Scott
Internet Archive now has a menstruation information and history library, since we now live in a world with Florida bill 1069, which bans the mention of periods before sixth grade in Florida public schools. Library is universally available:
Ross Andrews
@textfiles No it doesn't. Here is the text of the bill: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1069/?Tab=BillText
Jason Scott
I acquired (with help) a killer audio cassette digitizing rig, and then IMMEDIATELY had to spend over 2 months digitizing 90+ cassettes from the 1999 Game Developers Conference (via a slow-and-steady workflow that got the job done without being too disruptive to any other work I was doing). So, here we are, it's done. Go enjoy 70+ hours of presentations about all aspects of game making and producing, in 1999. https://archive.org/details/1999_Game_Developers_Conference_Audio
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Jason Baker
@textfiles So cool! Circa 2001, when I was a high schooler, I bought a lot of used game development books off of eBay from a person I'm pretty sure was a professional reviewer. Lots of pre-print editions, but also, the GDC proceedings books from the late '90s. I'm so sad I don't have them anymore, but they didn't make it through the many moves one makes as a young person. Can't wait to browse this!
bovaz
@textfiles This is absolutely fantastic. I've shared the link with a gamedev community I'm in. Some topics I'm sure will still be interesting today.
Jason Scott
Millions of people in 2023: oh my god, ChatGPT will change everything, look at it go, my life will never be the same Me in 1980: same reaction, but it's the Atari 800 dealer demo:
Jason Scott
A number of people have come out of the woodwork to ask me how they can "Help" the Internet Archive. 3 years ago, I wrote an essay about that. It holds up nicely: http://blog.archive.org/2020/06/14/how-can-you-help-the-internet-archive/
cherrybombspice
@textfiles Hey what do you think of this graphic Jason? I just whipped it up, and I made it to be go with the link to your essay 🙂
Jason Scott
Using IA Copilot (an experimental AI interface to Internet Archive) I could load in a book from the archive, and ask questions about the book. The answers are basically accurate.
Jason Scott
I strongly consider Algorithmic Intensity (AI) to be at what "self-driving" is - you really have to sit with it and take over/discard choices when it gets things wrong. And just like you wouldn't ask a "self-driving car" to "drive around to interesting places that are fun for cars" and get a non-weird answer, this sort of approach works better with the dataset when you're just using it like a dumb Watson to your Sherlock.
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Kroc Camen
@textfiles IS NOBODY GOING TO COMMENT THAT THE TAPE IS FROM 2004 BUT IS CONSIDERED THE HOTEST RENTAL IN 2007 BECAUSE THAT’S HOW LONG FILMS TOOK TO GET HOME RELEASES IN THE 80s???
Kevin Boyd
@textfiles ad copy like this is why I've never bought a PlayStation: many years ago, Sony aired a commercial for the "PlayStation 9", and I'm holding them to it.
Jason Scott
As of this writing, it is all still deriving and getting into the system, but 2 Player Productions has chosen to put 4k versions of the Double Fine PsychOdyssey (and 1080p version) on Internet Archive. Also, archival versions of their previous documentary AND the bonus footage AND deleted scenes of the previous documentary.
Jason Scott
Obviously, for most, the Youtube channel where they've released the 32 (!!) part documentary will suffice and do the job, but the Internet Archive is there to ensure it lasts longer beyond that, AND is downloadable for people at 4k for the future. |