@textfiles Kind of iconic!

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Already did. With management approval.

@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.

@textfiles Even "About Cows?"

@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

@textfiles What can we do to help? Donations … volunteer hours … press?

@textfiles https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/

@textfiles Clodflare might repair their reputation a bit if they took you in for free.

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This hits hard. I was on the air at KDEO, once a station in Honolulu, that changed format twice and then shuttered. Times and tastes change, that's for sure.

@textfiles cc @jaythurbershow !

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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.

@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.

@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 Amazing work! Wonder how the kid is doing today.

@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.

@textfiles Is there a way to donate while the site is down?

@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%

@textfiles terrified (but curious) to know who 'they' might be in this case

@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.

@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.

@textfiles How do people contribute those?

@textfiles I played with that in high school. Haven't thought about it in years.

@textfiles coincidence🤔I think not.

@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

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Thanks for giving the internet a memory

@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.

@textfiles shark boy and lava girl vibes

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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.

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 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

@textfiles 1. Charge your damn phone. 2. I miss Sockington.

@textfiles Yes.
🤷🤦

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Irony noted.
Thanks