Nice Josh! What a cool gig.
Nice Josh! What a cool gig.
π§΅TL;DR the biggest AI companies and the New York Times are destroying history and accountability at the same time. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...
Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.β
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Dr Melfi's son The Sopranos is a cross between Bill Hader and Adam Friedland
I've never understood how renewables aren't the MOST "patriotic"/"American" option. We can reduce our dependence on Saudi Arabia and other oil exporters! We can do America First or whatever people are calling it these days!
i have a new hobby i made up where i look at hundreds of ancient stock photo cdroms from archive .org and try to find cool shit in them. ill post more later but for now these are "tonights picks"
Thank you for your service
Another power outage in SF has knocked archive.org offline again
It's...complicated! There is no single point of failure for data storage, but the serving path kind of runs through it. We're going to work on this in 2026.
archive.org is down due to another PG&E outage in San Francisco
Itβs related to ongoing Pg&e issues in SF
AI has now been jammed into the money management app Monarch, with no ability to just turn it all off. Please stop!
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Three racks of Internet Archive servers at one of our data centers - a church in San Francisco.
We're hiring at the Internet Archive!
We're looking for a Senior Datacenter and Network Infrastructure Engineer to help implement big network improvements and improve the reliability and usability of our datacenters. One is in a converted church in San Francisco. Yes, really.
Things are definitely OK over there
It's just a shame John Lennon died before he could see all the
"SLOWED & REVERB BEST!!!" versions of his songs
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Christmas Tree Lights has to be in the top 3-4 most confusing things to hang yourself with
Trying to get some AI help debugging a terrible clickhouse query. I'll let you guess whether or not it was "FINAL WORKING QUERY (100% correct)"
We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
Creating a surveillance network by ordering low dollar orders to various target addresses and collecting the delivery proof photos
I'll take Motorboating please
There are no words for how evil this is
A receipt for a political donation in support of Zohran Mamdani from 10/18/2019.
Zohran and I go way back, no big deal really...I Do not want to be called a hero
I have started big timing AI chat bots and ending my requests with "chief" or "boss" or "pal"
Hey why don't you tell me what's wrong with this YAML chief
Is there an equivalent of encryption for compute tasks?
Like you don't need to worry about the safety of your data regardless of where it's hosted thanks to encryption, can the same be said for running applications? You can run it anywhere and be assured there's no tampering or introspection?
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Celebration of
1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome.
over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world.
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