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That website is really struggling. Very tempting to go to a mirror on archive.org to view it :) This seems very distinct from Internet Archive in the US, I won
by insom 4mo ago
That website is really struggling. Very tempting to go to a mirror on archive.org to view it :)
This seems very distinct from Internet Archive in the US, I wonder how separate it is.
Internet Archive Canada (I worked there in 2024) operated like it was a subsidiary, even though I think it was technically an independent organization with some shared directors. Same Slack, same archive.org email domain, etc.
IA.ch has Brewster and Caslon on the board.
I suspect that for the political threats of the current decade the different Internet Archive organisations need to start operating more independently, especially when it comes to funding?
- crossroadsguy 4mo agoThey use Slack? I am kind of surprised. But I am sure on the plus side, that would also mean having to worry about one less uptime.
- insom 4mo agoSlack, Zoom and Google Apps (but not for email) - otherwise basically everything was internally ran. The Slack has (had?) hundreds of guest accounts due to volunteers and allied organizations. It’s an interesting (and cool) institution!
- catlikesshrimp 4mo ago[flagged]
- Barbing 4mo agoAbbreviated internetarchive.ch ?
- catlikesshrimp 4mo agoURLs don't admit abbreviations. "url shorteners" are page redirects.
- adrianmonk 4mo agoThey are suggesting that a human used an abbreviation rather than making a typo.
- catlikesshrimp 4mo ago"Using abbreviations" of URLs is pointing to *wrong* addresses. A phishing attempt can perfectly use this misconception. This is not even malpractice. I am not saying the user in question is malicious. I am sorry to repeat myself, but URLs don't admit abbreviations
- stackghost 4mo agoOh, so you admit to purposely playing dense by asking if it was a typo, to obliquely make a pedantic argument about phishing? I hate this fucking website sometimes.
- Barbing 4mo agoWait was that right in the sibling comment
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- jedberg 4mo agoYou can't register a ch domain with fewer than 3 characters. It's showing as available because that thing that checks available only looks if it's registered, not if it's allowed.
- rayhaanj 4mo agoTechnically they’re used for the Cantons so to register a two letter CH subdomain you first need to register a new Swiss Canton!
- Intralexical 4mo agoCan you share more about your time at the Canadian one? I feel like there was a big hullabaloo about it years ago, but it's not really clear what they do.
- insom 4mo agoNot sure what hullabaloo -- they do provide a bunch of services to Canadian institutions (including Libraries and Archives Canada) and they perform physical services like book scanning and in the last few years I believe they are the parent organization for the physical Canadian datacentre _somewhere in BC_. For my work, I worked in their Archiving & Data Services department, on https://archive-it.org/ https://archive-it.org/ -- I didn't know this before I joined, but Internet Archive offers various for-pay services to other cultural institutions, mostly around archiving their stuff or white-labelling playback of archives. For example https://webarchiveweb.bac-lac.canada.ca/ https://webarchiveweb.bac-lac.canada.ca/ (the Government of Canada's own Internet Archive) is actually outsourced to ADS within Internet Archive. On one hand this is neat, as IA have expertise around this, but on the other hand (as a Canadian) I don't like that it's not actually sovereign and that it looks like it's run by our government but that it's not. Tradeoffs, I guess.