Jason Scott

https://mastodon.archive.org/@textfiles

Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive

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2024-09-28 22:46:28

Multiple folks are launching a spam assault on the Internet Archive that are, basically, next level stuff. Literally tens of thousands of additions/attempts a week. Please be patient while it's sorted out.

2024-08-09 02:13:45

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The idea is well appreciated and the kind words about the archive especially so, but no 28 year old organization is a good choice for a planned 150 storage solution.

2024-08-08 02:25:54

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.
https://archive.org/details/airchecks-formatswitches

2024-08-06 05:18:20

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I am

2024-08-06 02:13:19

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THERE WAS BLACK SMOKE OUT OF THE TRANSFORMER OUTSIDE

2024-08-06 02:06:11

BREAKING NEWS: BLACK SUVS LEAVING INTERNET ARCHIVE AS SPECULATION ABOUT KAHLE AS VP PICK GROWS
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2024-08-03 03:23:49

The AI Copyright Trap, by Carys J. Craig (July 2024):
https://archive.org/details/ssrn-4905118

2024-07-31 23:20:19

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Literal factions of demands on every level, including prominence of power buttons and what to call control panel items

2024-07-31 23:19:53

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I remember some discussion about how many Microsoft managers/engineers were involved in the start menu of Windows XP and it was insane

2024-07-27 01:00:50

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if you could give me an identifier that you tried to upload it up there, that would have me track down the problem. Could be a virus scanner could be a bunch of other things. You could then put it up somewhere for me to look at and grab.

2024-07-25 21:00:02

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I also can't use Munchy because I have to do this with the Media Preservation Frontend because so so SO many of these DVDs are unfinished so I'm grabbing as much data as they have.

2024-07-25 20:58:41

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I see people who are in the know are concerned/skeptical.
It's going to two Windows machines to do this - I agree - Windows X.X will usually start to choke and blow up with that many removable media drives humming at once. I MIGHT try 8 (making it 4 per machine) but I am not currently feeling I need to - 6 at a swing is pretty sweet.

2024-07-25 19:39:28

Imaging six dvds at once, as it's a normal thing humans do
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2024-07-24 01:57:47

A lot of spammers who have been taking on the internet archive from various vectors are asleep in their cots or wherever it is they rest and none of them are dreaming of the script I just loosed. 1,000 spams gone and climbing.

2024-07-23 22:48:31

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2024-07-21 18:31:35

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2024-07-21 15:03:00

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been working on it for 10 years so yes

2024-07-18 22:44:04

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check urlte.am

2024-07-16 03:52:52

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is pretty great

2024-07-15 13:45:52

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Contact https://linktr.ee/kinekovideo who do this exact thing, and well.

2024-07-14 15:36:21

I was doing some rooting around in the stacks and found out someone is uploading piles of Old Time Radio Enthusiast newsletters, which is pretty great. I've gone ahead and made a collection for it, the "Jay A. Hickerson Collection" inside Old Time Radio.
https://archive.org/details/jay_hickerson_collection
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2024-06-29 09:00:29

The Internet Archive is hiring a Director of Platform Engineering. In my opinion, this is the most crucial and important position we have had open at the company in some time. The right person in this position is not just helpful, but a make or break key between success and merely acceptable levels of technological advance for the archive. It's a non-profit level of pay but the work is world changing.
https://app.trinethire.com/companies/32967-internet-archive/jobs/91807-director-of-platform-engineering

2024-06-20 02:28:33

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je suis auto

2024-06-20 01:05:49

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just the imdb.

2024-06-19 17:56:06

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work is work

2024-06-19 03:18:07

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they have told me that after the July Premiere will be going straight to streaming like all quality Cinema

2024-06-17 16:37:08

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Over 100 petabytes of not just the wayback.

2024-06-17 16:05:36

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packed into storage.

2024-06-17 15:20:10

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.
https://archive.org/details/hamiltonpubperformances
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2024-06-10 04:14:41

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Blackmagic Intensity Pro 4k

2024-06-09 21:19:10

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I always recommend 600 dpi. Just scan the full pages and then you're going to have a little project turning each individual page into two pages and getting them all back in order, but after you're done, make a zip file and change the zip to cbz for the extension and the archival will do the rest.

2024-06-09 02:17:00

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2024-06-08 21:25:17

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one of the leads and also one of the co producers are friends, and they saw an opportunity to cast an American Gangster using an actual American

2024-06-07 19:21:10

A few years ago, I had a role in an Austrian Sci-Fi movie about a rogue AI and its attempts to interface with humans via a car, and the question of the roles of humans in a world with AI. Nothing from it is relevant today. Anyway, the premiere is July 1, Austria Stadtkino.
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2024-06-05 17:26:38

Facts (from our donor comment channel)
https://mastodon.archive.org/system/media_attachments/files/112/565/182/876/677/426/original/ec39e6dd515be38d.jpg

2024-06-03 01:19:10

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I used WGET to download them, but you can download them from the Internet Archive using the IA client.

2024-06-03 01:03:27

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Fun fact: over 900 of these mention the internet archive:
https://archive.org/details/oapen-library?tab=collection&query=%22Internet+Archive%22&sin=TXT

2024-06-03 01:00:02

One of my projects was mirroring the OAPEN (Open-Access Materials) library collection, and all the ones it made sense to, I have, with over 28,000 books and 4,800 chapters from journals. It still has some metadata settling to do, but go enjoy them:
https://archive.org/details/oapen-library
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2024-06-02 13:16:15

The Gofundme was a success! The tapes will now be digitized. Turns out they ARE the master tapes, lost from an unpaid storage locker. The hunt is on for more...

2024-06-02 02:58:31

Kay Savetz took a leap of faith and bought dozens of master tapes for a lost radio show, with one of a kind interviews on them. He's seeking funds to pay a professional to digitize the tapes, and they all go on Internet Archive.
Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Atari’s Jack Tramiel, MacPaint’s Bill Atkinson, Infocom’s Joel Berez, Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry, musician Herbie Hancock, EA’s Trip Hawkins, Stewart Brand... they're all on here.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/digitizing-the-famous-computer-cafe
Let's just fund this and move on.

2024-05-27 10:55:44

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

2024-04-24 01:32:28

OK, the big experiment has begun. A ham radio group has funded the scanning of 4,000 manuals from the Great Manuals Plus Haul. Now, the experiment is - will people kick on a special link in the blog entry to help fund the other 20 PALLETS of manuals?
https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/24/a-happy-ending-for-some-manual-labor-and-a-call-for-support/
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2024-04-20 16:10:55

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)
https://archive.org/details/CarBuilder4amCrack (Apple II Version)
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2023-03-28 21:08:01

In college, game design legend Jeff Minter (Ox) created a game with his friends called DEFLEX for the Commodore PET. The original code is lost to time, so Minter recreated it (on the PET!) from scratch and put it out as a Vice Save State. A volunteer converted it to a .PRG and now it's emulated at Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/deflex-remake
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