Nostr notes by Jason Scott

It's not normally a good idea to share internal security ...

2026-05-25T02:51:11+02:00

It's not normally a good idea to share internal security processes, but I did want to offer the funniest trivia in my work to fight spam - I just added gamepad support to my spam-fighting client, meaning I'm literally using a joystick and buttons to do the work.

Turns out, if you can consolidate part of your job to an Xbox controller, you can speed it up significantly.

Fifteen years ago, offered a job at the Internet Archive two days ...

2026-03-26T23:41:08+01:00

Fifteen years ago, offered a job at the Internet Archive two days previously starting in two days.

we have reached out to them.

2026-01-06T21:56:31+01:00

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we have reached out to them.

This (mastrodon) seems like a good place to bring this up: As ...

2025-11-15T00:35:03+01:00

This (mastrodon) seems like a good place to bring this up:

As people upload digtized video on the archive, especially from older media, a more-than-it-should-be review left under is a review that simply says "Do you have ______"? In some cases, they leave this review on every single upload by the uploader. Other times they leave it everywhere, repetitively.

Those reviews should be moderated (removed). If you see them in action, especially en masse, let me know.

Manuals Plus : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : ...

2025-09-12T10:26:06+02:00

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Manuals Plus : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive https://share.google/KMBLcp8gSAY5oZIzv

Finally, there's another bit of precious history in these ...

2025-06-17T02:00:03+02:00

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Finally, there's another bit of precious history in these tapes that came out - Bob did work with something called the Jewish Hour in Arizona, which was syndicated to other parts of the country. It has Yiddish sequences, songs, and other aspects of variety and news radio, and as far as my multiple searches can tell, there's basically no information on the net about this. And here we have recordings!

https://archive.org/details/Jewish_Hour_Recordings_And_Interviews

These are audio tapes he used to do those interviews. He would ...

2025-06-17T01:50:44+02:00

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These are audio tapes he used to do those interviews. He would often use the same tape multiple times, overwriting with each new interview, but he obviously didn't know I'd be coming down the line decades later.

In the 56 interview tapes we recovered, digitized, and put up, we have extensive interviews with stars both here and gone, television and movies, stars at the end of their careers and stars just starting out, speculating on what comes next.

All are of spectacularly terrible quality.

The Internet Archive gets many donations over the months and ...

2025-06-17T01:47:53+02:00

The Internet Archive gets many donations over the months and years - some are dealt with immediately, while others might not be gotten to for some time, or are redundant. In one case, a treasure trove sat for a few years and has finally come online: The Bob Lardine Tapes.

https://archive.org/details/boblardinetapes

There are three sets of materials here: Interviews, Personal Tapes, and Jewish Hour Radio Tapes. Let's talk about the first.

Video Essayist Lindsay Ellis was talking about a movie production ...

2025-05-22T21:32:17+02:00

Video Essayist Lindsay Ellis was talking about a movie production and said "the script is on Internet Archive" and I found it was hard to find, so I just assembled over 1,100 screenplays and scripts (and growing) and they have a collection now:

https://archive.org/details/scriptarchive

We're already chatting.

2025-05-22T18:59:47+02:00

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We're already chatting.

Tomorrow at noon, Pacific time, I'll be livestreaming from ...

2025-05-01T01:52:08+02:00

Tomorrow at noon, Pacific time, I'll be livestreaming from the one and only internetarchive (npub1umd…wfr7) for a few hours to celebrate it and enjoy the first of May! It'll be at twitch.tv/textfiles - see you there!

The Physical Donations (and Rescues) of the Internet Archive. ...

2025-04-28T22:02:32+02:00

The Physical Donations (and Rescues) of the Internet Archive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/theinternetarchive/comments/1ka51t4/the_physical_donations_and_rescues_of_the/

At noon Pacific Standard Time (California) I'll be hosting an ...

2025-04-28T19:34:23+02:00

At noon Pacific Standard Time (California) I'll be hosting an informal but fun May Day celebration at the Internet Archive. just vibes and Internet Archive - https://twitch.tv/textfiles - see you Thursday!

scroll further down

2025-04-21T15:06:18+02:00

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scroll further down

The folks rushing to want to make up this direct shortfall in the ...

2025-04-19T16:16:02+02:00

The folks rushing to want to make up this direct shortfall in the grant is very inspiring, but it's better just to donate to archive.org/donate if you want to do that.

But also, don't sacrifice funds you don't have if that's the case. The archive will just seek funding away from where it has previously come.

I don't want to be negative, but walk away.

2025-04-02T16:01:03+02:00

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I don't want to be negative, but walk away.

Well, that's because it literally has had code ripped out of ...

2025-03-28T05:22:20+01:00

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Well, that's because it literally has had code ripped out of it, for one thing. But yeah, maybe VirusTotal doesn't track Apple II.

I was kindly handed another virus for the Malware Museum! We now ...

2025-03-28T04:26:35+01:00

I was kindly handed another virus for the Malware Museum! We now have a (de-fanged) version of what's considered the first microcomputer virus, "Elk Cloner", in the Museum:

https://archive.org/details/elk-cloner-virus-demo

Info on the screening: ...

2025-03-25T00:33:06+01:00

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Info on the screening:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/staff-picks-from-the-prelinger-archives-tickets-1261633011299?aff=oddtdtcreator

Moved 15,000 items around the archive today, didn't break a ...

2025-03-25T00:32:19+01:00

Moved 15,000 items around the archive today, didn't break a sweat. A great start to the week on-site.

There's a Prelinger screening tonight. See some of you there.

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2025-03-24T23:51:17+01:00

I suspect those will come soonish, maybe through a service (in ...

2025-03-24T19:23:42+01:00

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I suspect those will come soonish, maybe through a service (in the US they use a functional job search site so the applications are consistent)

What have we here! https://www.internetarchive.eu/

2025-03-24T18:06:59+01:00

What have we here!

https://www.internetarchive.eu/

A lovely set of mirrored US government documents, with more to ...

2025-03-10T21:47:04+01:00

A lovely set of mirrored US government documents, with more to come:

https://archive.org/details/usgovernmentmirrors?tab=collection&query=mediatype%3Acollection&sort=-publicdate

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2025-03-09T15:57:14+01:00

It's my 14th year work anniversary at Internet Archive!

"DEEP" does the same as fuzzy.

2025-03-04T01:41:09+01:00

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"DEEP" does the same as fuzzy.

to be clear, I'm just the front guy

2025-03-03T16:57:43+01:00

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to be clear, I'm just the front guy

from dev team ...

2025-03-03T16:37:40+01:00

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from dev team

throw em on archive and we will see

2025-03-03T04:19:04+01:00

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throw em on archive and we will see

In 2022, I introduced the project DISCMASTER, which is a unique ...

2025-03-03T01:31:47+01:00

In 2022, I introduced the project DISCMASTER, which is a unique project to make the internals of tens of thousands of 1990s-2000s CD-ROMs findable in a semantic search.

Today, I'm announcing the team has now made DISCMASTER 2, a ground-up rewrite with so much improvement.

http://discmaster.textfiles.com

in my case I had a posterior vitreous detachment, and a few days ...

2025-03-02T15:38:35+01:00

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in my case I had a posterior vitreous detachment, and a few days after I noticed it, I had some blood which indicated I was beginning to get a tear, which they quickly lasered and sutured together. No cutting

he knows it extremely well but really appreciates you wanted to ...

2025-02-20T13:31:36+01:00

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he knows it extremely well but really appreciates you wanted to make sure of that

Power outage at the internet archive. Systems will take a little ...

2025-02-18T02:12:31+01:00

Power outage at the internet archive. Systems will take a little while to get up.

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2025-02-09T03:35:40+01:00

as mentioned in the article, he was a teenager when Aaron died. ...

2025-02-09T03:17:40+01:00

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as mentioned in the article, he was a teenager when Aaron died. Mythology is always difficult and complicated.

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2025-02-08T21:07:28+01:00

https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/aaron-swartz-marble-statue-unveiled-internet-archive/

This is the absolute first time I've ever heard of Lemmy, and ...

2025-02-06T19:23:22+01:00

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This is the absolute first time I've ever heard of Lemmy, and the 16th year I've heard of Reddit.

I created a subreddit for the Internet Archive which is a little ...

2025-02-06T18:59:02+01:00

I created a subreddit for the Internet Archive which is a little more information and substance-based and intended for deeper focus topics that don't make sense as blog entries, but have interest for the users. Join if you'd like:

https://www.reddit.com/r/theinternetarchive/

Over 7,800 scanned pages!

2025-01-30T01:15:52+01:00

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Over 7,800 scanned pages!

Very busy year ahead! ...

2025-01-21T01:51:21+01:00

Very busy year ahead!

yes. We have thousands, I'd love thousands more

2025-01-20T04:28:56+01:00

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yes. We have thousands, I'd love thousands more

An Internet Archive user named issung has begun uploading lots of ...

2025-01-20T00:40:05+01:00

An Internet Archive user named
issung has begun uploading lots of photos of LAN parties from the 1990s and 2000s. Grainy, wired hanging-out goodness!

https://archive.org/details/@issung

Don't miss that we're now emulating the Tiger Electronics ...

2025-01-16T02:00:02+01:00

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Don't miss that we're now emulating the Tiger Electronics GAME.COM console!

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_gamecom

Oh, it's so bad!

As you might imagine, recovering from rebuilding the Internet ...

2025-01-16T01:58:57+01:00

As you might imagine, recovering from rebuilding the Internet Archive systems from a new perspective took time, and the priority was super important systems, and ones merely "working" were left alone. But that's changed - we updated emulation at the Internet Archive so it's more secure, and the systems we're offering just added a few!

george blood is the absolute best. Pay the money

2025-01-15T17:29:45+01:00

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george blood is the absolute best. Pay the money

A few years ago, high off my own supply of the success of the ...

2025-01-04T22:11:51+01:00

A few years ago, high off my own supply of the success of the JSMESS/Webassembly MAME project, I suggested to VLC to consider porting to Webassembly as well. They did experiments but it just revealed a huge and crazy mess.

However, we've had a number of years and improvements over Webassembly compilation since then. If someone wants to take a shot, the VLC.js code is here:

https://code.videolan.org/jbk/vlc.js/

I wanted to correct something, because I know the archive's ...

2025-01-01T22:38:52+01:00

I wanted to correct something, because I know the archive's actions/function can encourage tea-leaf reading, but:

There is no throttling on the upload speed/bandwidth. There's no actual "well, only give this person X amount of speed, ha ha, tally ho" in effect.

What IS in effect, post-hack, are re-factoring of the security and networking aspects of the Archive's internals, with a focus on security before speed, and getting speed back to full is taking some time.

So there you go.

Staring Into the Void ...

2024-12-26T17:00:06+01:00

Staring Into the Void

https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/25/staring-into-the-void/

yes, buy it and I'll take it

2024-12-14T04:01:11+01:00

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yes, buy it and I'll take it

There's other details, but I wanted to say: ZIP ON THE FLY IS ...

2024-12-12T19:53:32+01:00

There's other details, but I wanted to say:

ZIP ON THE FLY IS BACK AT INTERNET ARCHIVE.

You can go to an item, click on a file type on the right, and you can download all the pdfs, the mp3s, or whatever else, in a zip. We missed you, little bulky! So glad you're back.

working here

2024-12-04T02:47:34+01:00

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working here

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but ...

2024-12-01T15:50:50+01:00

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here:

https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access

They're using over 1,000 domains to do this so there's ...

2024-11-21T06:23:50+01:00

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They're using over 1,000 domains to do this so there's not even a good one I can point at.

Someone felt they needed to upload 60,000+ documents to Internet ...

2024-11-21T06:10:43+01:00

Someone felt they needed to upload 60,000+ documents to Internet Archive for spam purposes. (This was across the last three months.) They're not even good spams, they didn't render right.

Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down ...

2024-10-09T21:45:01+02:00

Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down for hours. According to their twitter, they're doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.

Meanwhile, we literally rescued 400,000 dissertations from being pulped.

I like our side.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/09/leidse-proefschriften-worden-toch-niet-vernietigd-400000-dissertaties-gaan-naar-de-vs-a4868698

Multiple folks are launching a spam assault on the Internet ...

2024-09-29T00:46:28+02:00

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.

When Don Joyce of Negativland died, Internet Archive took the ...

2024-09-05T02:52:22+02:00

When Don Joyce of Negativland died, Internet Archive took the back catalog items and band materials to house for nearly a decade. The tape materials are now out to get archival quality captures, and the archivist Taylor posted a cut tape track from Escape From Noise, "Gun and the Bible", being digitized.

You can see the cuts!

https://youtu.be/xML3I0j2nQM?si=kxUvIUJT_4FpWRtP

I was going to write some sort of "please don't do ...

2024-09-02T01:09:06+02:00

I was going to write some sort of "please don't do this" but that's not going to stop the people who do it, so I'll just say: be a good Internet Archive Patron. You're our favorite.

OK, the big experiment has begun. A ham radio group has funded ...

2024-04-24T03:32:28+02:00

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/