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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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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.  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: If you were wondering when that My Little Pony Flash Game collection was going to arrive, you can stop wondering. 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. 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: @textfiles No it doesn't. Here is the text of the bill: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1069/?Tab=BillText 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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@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!  @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. 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: 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/ @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 🙂 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. 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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@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???  @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.  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. 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. @textfiles Even "Google Cemetery" (on the linked page) looks like it's dead -- hasn't been updated in over 3 years. I’m now left wondering what I should do with my never-opened Stadia controller and Chromecast Google sent me for being a drive subscriber…  So, I have been turning my attention to the idea of buffering 24 hour grabs of all radio spectrum, using Web SDR. I'm just reaching out in case people are sitting on sets of these from times past. DM or jason@textfiles.com. Am I really to the point of archiving radiation? Yep. The big concern is disk space. Under current approaches, a full spectrum grab of 24 hours of signal in one geographical location is ten terabyes! But one day a year might be worth it. For history. If people don't know, we already grab 11,000 hours of radio a day worldwide, but that's not the same as radio spectrum. Seven years ago, a fellow named "MIDI_MAN" compiled 130,000 unique MIDI files by browsing a ton of sites, placing them into directories, and generally assembling years of MIDI music. Now that collection (1gb compressed, 3.5gb uncompressed, 130,000 files for real!) is at the Internet Archive at this URL:
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 MIDI, General MIDI and MIDI FILES are three different concepts that most people usually confuse for each other. This is a collection of MIDI files, probably using the General MIDI instrument set definition, but MIDI itself is not involved when someone plays one of these files on their computer. A bit confusing, I know... Hey there, Admin of the Internet Archive Mastodon here. I've seen some people speculate/rumor that the Archive's mastodon instance is set up to be an involuntary vacuum spot for all toots passing back into the Wayback, and it is NOT that. Any archiving of toots would be some other project (and outside my knowledge) but the Internet Archive Mastodon is just another instance, doing the mastodon thing. Communicate with us at will.
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@textfiles yo, you all do such big work in keeping the most powerful thing humans have - information - free and accessible to all. Thank you so much!   There is a moment, a joyous moment, between when the staff stands ready, feet shuffle quietly, a hush and a murmur runs in the space before the giant doors creak open and the day's endeavors begin. And this is that moment. Welcome to Mastodon, Internet Archive.  @textfiles Congratulations. Have you considered adding the handle of your general announcement account on this server to your Twitter profile? It would help people find you. 12
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