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by textfiles 10d ago
Before anyone gets too heated a poptart: While I appreciate a small post being thrown on hackernews, this is just me free speculating, not a policy or project. Like anyone else dealing with hard drives, the archive has seen that price rise
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by textfiles 4mo ago
I'm the guy in the shirt!
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by textfiles 4mo ago
There's a bad setting on my virtual host. I'm in conversation with the support team about getting it tuned up.
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by textfiles 4mo ago
Hurrah!
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by textfiles 5mo ago
Well, ASCII is a different box than textfiles.com. I suppose I could host the site on that box, but I have a rule with the original textfiles.com that no scripts are being run on it, hence less chance of hacking, etc. Someday I'll figu
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by textfiles 5mo ago
Yes, I've taken a long walk and spoken with my team and I'm emotionally fine with the situation.
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by textfiles 5mo ago
Classics never go out of style.
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by textfiles 5mo ago
He just really, really, really committed himself.
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by textfiles 5mo ago
I don't have to do anything.
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by textfiles 5mo ago
Shout out to everyone in this thread who seem unable to understand a club might have three unrelated acts on, so each performance is called a "concert" under this collection. Aadam and the crew are focused on making each performan
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by textfiles 6mo ago
Why mess with perfection?
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by textfiles 8mo ago
Badlibrarian, you had a very fun run. You got to be 30% correct with Internet Archive criticism and enjoy unfettered, sometimes problematic commentary with little pushback. Maybe you should take what your version of the W is.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
The assumptions are still pretty zesty, now you just made them longer.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
There was a lot of renovation. One day they fired up the pipe organ (which still works) inside the building as well as the servers and the transformer for the street blew up. That was a legendary day.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
We've had showdowns with lawyers, governments, hackers and spammers, but I'm not sure how we'll stand up against perception.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
Fridays at about 1pm, we give tours.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
It's an AI-generated article. It's going to be pretty terrible.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
This seems like a lot of zesty made-up assumptions. And a lot of non-profits would be very very surprised to hear that once you cross the threshold of $9,999,999 costs, you are a business.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
Here's some photos I took a long time ago. https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/7215763372220...
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by textfiles 8mo ago
Show me the faster wayback machine we are competing against.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
It is on my desk to fix this soon.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
They absolutely are.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
We absolutely lap them with many, many more petabytes of material. But archive.today is also not doing speculative or multiple scheduled captures of the amount of sites that archive.org is.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
What do you want some pictures of?
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by textfiles 8mo ago
We've hired a few dozen people over the past couple of years. We think they're pretty talented.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
That project gets discussed every once in a while.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
There is a fundamental resistance to tape technology that exists to this day as a result of all those troubles.
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by textfiles 8mo ago
Not in the way I think you're talking about. The archive has always tried to maintain a situation where the racks could be pushed out of the door or picked up after being somewhere and the individual drives will contain complete versio
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by textfiles 9mo ago
This is the most "here is a glass of orange juice - argue about it" post about my site I can recall.
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by textfiles 9mo ago
Always appreciate your efforts, Tonte.

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