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Post by city41 » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:44 AM UTC

mostlysimilar wrote: post #2

archive.org feels like an irreplaceable treasure, the Wayback Machine alone is a time capsule of our digital history. I donate to them monthly and know a lot of other people do as well, so I don't worry much about their financial stability. I'm more worried about external pressures taking content down. I hope the data is backed up six ways to sunday, and that somewhere there's a plan to make it all accessible if Inte…

Post by Stratoscope » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:46 AM UTC

chronomex wrote: post #53

SteveNuts wrote: post #3

I'm really surprised they don't use more CDN for this. Anyone know the reason why it isn't served by something like cloudflare?

They serve everything in-house and are their own AS; this allows them to provide stronger guarantees of reader privacy than sites that use a CDN.

Post by twicetwice » Tue, May 12, 2020, 4:02 AM UTC

textfiles wrote: post #104

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #34

They increased the bandwidth and traffic immediately filled the new capacity. While this could be just a faster web site attracting more users / users were giving up due to slow loads before, it could also indicate that they have a lot of automated traffic that will consume whatever resources are available and can be throttled without endangering their mission. I hope they'll look into it, find a way to identify that…

We don't save logs of who hits us, but we watch who hits us. It's not bots. But good thinking.

Post by Kalium » Tue, May 12, 2020, 4:09 AM UTC

Stratoscope wrote: post #103

chronomex wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They serve everything in-house and are their own AS; this allows them to provide stronger guarantees of reader privacy than sites that use a CDN.

> They serve everything in-house and are their own AS Forgive me, but what is an AS?

Post by Kaze404 » Tue, May 12, 2020, 4:14 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #12

toomuchtodo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m sorry to hear this. I will make an additional donation on your behalf. I can appreciate how authors feel, but they must also realize copyright laws are asymmetrical (tilted heavily towards copyright owners) and in these times, many have no access to their local public library. They are essentially robbed of access to the book materials their tax dollars (which pays an author) have paid for during this time. It’s…

I also find it amusing that sofware developers do not recognize any more how we are on the same side in this fight. Imagine if we were still selling boxed software and they decided that in light of COVID-19 they just hand it out with a two week limit. It's an imperfect comparison but the current situation is not a reason to just discard the law. It might not be the best law, the place to fight that is in Congress and…