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The Archive's quickly moving into the phase of "what's left to get back up and running" and "what's with this little bug and that little slowness" and with "down" in the rear view mirror. What a tough time! But a lot of people recognize what it was providing and it's nice for people to know. Time to mirror us some government stuff. The Internet Archive donation page, with its subscription and various payment options, is back and functioning. If you wanted to help but avoid Paypal, this is the time. I just made a small donation. I use the Internet Archive to find broken links to articles I've posted on my blog or in my web library. I started the on-line library in the late 1990s and the blog in 2005, so when ever I update I find many broken links. I also use it to archive sites my organization built in the 2000s but which are now off line. People can still find these, and hopefully build new versions based on what I was trying to do. While waiting for Internet Archive to return, 51 terabytes of extracted data from 26,000 CD-ROMs are waiting for you to search and enjoy at DISCMASTER.  @textfiles Lately someone asked for help to find some old stuff for a project. He said he searched the archive for weeks. I pointed him to discmaster and he returned with big thanks saying it took 20 minutes instead of two weeks. 
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@textfiles Some people are just ungrateful. Thankfully, I'm NOT one of those people. I look forward to the Archive being back up and running better than ever. Good luck to you kids! @textfiles thank you for your hard work and dedication to this project. We all admire you! @textfiles@mastodon.archive.org I want to archive so many things onto the wayback machine, or I've wanted to access a huge number of sites only accessible through their archival there Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down for hours. According to their twitter, they're doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands. Meanwhile, we literally rescued 400,000 dissertations from being pulped. I like our side.
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@textfiles What can we do to help? Donations … volunteer hours … press?  Now at the archive: FORMAT CHANGES - airchecks of radio stations signing off forever, switching formats, or starting their new lives as a new call-sign. @textfiles Now I really need to repair my cassette tapedeck and find my tapes. Some of the most creative FM radio occurs. Most recently was the Canadian station that played Rage Against The Machine, over and over and over and over. Even over their stream. It was glorious. Internet Archive suffered a major power outage over the weekend and we are still recovering; if the site seems a little janky and slow, that's why. @textfiles I am now uploading and see problems but didn't want to brother. good to see an explanation. @textfiles how failsafe are the archives? you might want to look at the backend design of Google's servers. and/or register the nonprofit outside the reach of the courts, large corporations like google do it to avoid paying taxes, copyright only allows companies to hide the truth of there corruption and harm. A few years ago, a kid mourning his dad handed me over 300 DVDs his dad had made of local bands in his London Suburb in the 2010s before passing on. He didn't know what do with them. I did. All of them are up at Internet Archive, hundreds of hours of cover bands playing in a bar, and now, thanks to a volunteer, Ducky, we have them all with dates and descriptions, where known. Enjoy.
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 @textfiles With all respect to the kid, the dad and the dedication to archive a remarkable collection, did these bands consent to have their work published online and also exposed to the maelstrom that is AI? Or are we in an era of "we see it, we feed it"? @textfiles this post made it to my feed and wow, I had no idea the internet archive was anything other than than just the webpage indexing part. Very cool. A DDOS against the Internet Archive has commenced again, timed for maximum pain for the California staff to deal with. (I don't sleep, but I also can't do anything on the infrastructure here.) So, we're down until people wake up to deal with the constant DOOS against us because... reasons
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 @textfiles If you're interested in getting help dealing with DDoS attacks, I lead a program at #Fastly that is designed to help open source/ open internet projects with that kind of thing for free. It's called #FastForward. Please let us know if we can help! fastly.com/forward @textfiles DDoS attacks exist because bits are priced per second even though the same fiber run in 1993 can carry unlimited traffic. Its business model inception. If you just made the carriers eat the (in reality almost non existant) cost of DDoS traffic there wouldnt be any. You then wouldnt need the DDoS protection industry which has been the "protection racket" of the Internet. Ask Black Lotus how many sales calls they did right after DDoSing a potential customer's website. It was 65% Every time the Internet Archive goes down, a rash of tweets talk about how "they" got to it, and in doing so, demonstrate the need for a functioning Internet Archive   @textfiles Spotted it down earlier today, but I was... meh is it me or is it them... Then confirmed that it was on your end. Glad you're back. Busily spending part of my weekend enjoying one aspect of my job at the Archive - sorting through uploads of a certain type - in this case, anything calling itself a "Manual". There are hundreds of people uploading a single manual for the most obscure of things, and the style and breadth is amazing.  @textfiles Whoa, that Amstrad printer is a blast from the past! IA is the first place I'd go for a manual now, no contest. Internet Archive Canada, Vancouver HQ, is a great place to have events, and it now does on the regular. The all-hands monday meeting at Internet Archive featured Wylie Gustafson, who you may have heard as the Yahoo! yodel. 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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  @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 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. @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.  This is a frankly infurating framing of the natural end of a copyright literally a human century later
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 @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. @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.  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. 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.  @textfiles okay, maybe this is one of the valid uses of AI art, generating bespoke galaxy brain style escalation memes.
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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@textfiles Beautiful. Today's potato harvesters work on the same principal. Those guys 100 years ago had it sussed. @textfiles When I was a kid, I remember digging our potatoes with a similar one.  @textfiles @catsalad I thought this said “Event Driven Potatoes” and wondered why the potatoes needed a programming paradigm 12
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@textfiles @dangillmor uhhh. i seem to recall that there was a fair amount of key government stuff that was expected
to disappear / go offline (and did so) with trump-v1. any ideas re: preemptive mirrors here with round 2?
@textfiles I recall the many “rogue” twitter accounts in early 2017, after public notifications were ceased. With Elon owning twitter now, that avenue of communication is unavailable. It’ll be an opaque operation, without complaint or criticism allowed.
Dreamland!?
@textfiles climate data...