Kevin O'Connor's Avatar

Kevin O'Connor

@rulethepla.net

Engineering @ Internet Archive, made silly things @ Recurse Center

125
Followers
94
Following
113
Posts
18.10.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Kevin O'Connor @rulethepla.net

Nice Josh! What a cool gig.

05.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizationsβ€”including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Redditβ€”are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

🧡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...

19.02.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 259 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 7
Preview
Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizationsβ€”including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Redditβ€”are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
⁠
Read more via @techdirt.com πŸ”— www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

18.02.2026 02:00 πŸ‘ 324 πŸ” 107 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6
Post image

Dr Melfi's son The Sopranos is a cross between Bill Hader and Adam Friedland

16.01.2026 07:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

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!

07.01.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Running list of Apple software disappointments I've been using an iPhone since 2007 and using MacBooks as my primary computer since 2010. I think Apple software reliability and quality is at an all time low point in my history with it. Pretty much...

rulethepla.net/running-list...

07.01.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image Post image

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"

02.01.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 594 πŸ” 140 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2

Thank you for your service

02.01.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Another power outage in SF has knocked archive.org offline again

31.12.2025 22:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

29.12.2025 07:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

archive.org is down due to another PG&E outage in San Francisco

29.12.2025 04:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s related to ongoing Pg&e issues in SF

24.12.2025 14:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

AI has now been jammed into the money management app Monarch, with no ability to just turn it all off. Please stop!

20.12.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Recruitment

Reach out here and apply at workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

11.12.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Three racks of Internet Archive servers at one of our data centers - a church in San Francisco.

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.

11.12.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Things are definitely OK over there

11.12.2025 05:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's just a shame John Lennon died before he could see all the
"SLOWED & REVERB BEST!!!" versions of his songs

09.12.2025 03:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes featuring the words Internet Archive in script lettering across the chest. It has black trim on the sleeves and a button-up front.

A white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes featuring the words Internet Archive in script lettering across the chest. It has black trim on the sleeves and a button-up front.

The back of a white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes displaying the number 10 with a small 12 above it, and the words WEB PAGES printed below in bold black lettering, representing 10 to the 12th power web pages preserved.

The back of a white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes displaying the number 10 with a small 12 above it, and the words WEB PAGES printed below in bold black lettering, representing 10 to the 12th power web pages preserved.

A white baseball cap with a black brim and maroon accents, featuring a front patch that displays the Internet Archive logo and the words β€œUniversal Access to All Knowledge” and β€œInternet Archive.”

A white baseball cap with a black brim and maroon accents, featuring a front patch that displays the Internet Archive logo and the words β€œUniversal Access to All Knowledge” and β€œInternet Archive.”

🎁 Looking for a unique gift for an archivistβ€”or a treat for yourself?

πŸ‘• 1 Trillion Web Pages Baseball Jersey (LIMITED EDITION)
🧒 1 Trillion Web Pages Baseball Hat (LIMITED EDITION)
🧦 Socks, tote bags, and more!

πŸ’› All proceeds benefit the #InternetArchive.
Shop here ➑️ store.archive.org

05.12.2025 18:01 πŸ‘ 188 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 13
internet archive photo

internet archive photo

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.

Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.

Collections growing at 150TBytes/day

@internetarchive

archive.org/donate

www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

29.11.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 960 πŸ” 675 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 15

Christmas Tree Lights has to be in the top 3-4 most confusing things to hang yourself with

26.11.2025 04:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

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)"

23.11.2025 06:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.

21.11.2025 15:14 πŸ‘ 797 πŸ” 99 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7

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.

20.11.2025 13:49 πŸ‘ 915 πŸ” 151 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 18

Creating a surveillance network by ordering low dollar orders to various target addresses and collecting the delivery proof photos

19.11.2025 23:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll take Motorboating please

14.11.2025 14:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There are no words for how evil this is

07.11.2025 01:36 πŸ‘ 10628 πŸ” 3751 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 289
A receipt for a political donation in support of Zohran Mamdani from 10/18/2019.

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

06.11.2025 03:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

28.10.2025 16:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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?

27.10.2025 14:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
poster

poster

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.

@archive.org show video with tabs to jump around:

26.10.2025 05:12 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1