The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Tue, May 28, 2024, 9:36 PM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #157

Lammy wrote: post #105

This is why I’ve gotten into the habit of maintaining my own WWW archive of sites I find interesting. Probably have around 1 TiB now, and One Of These Days I’d like to set my network up so it can serve arbitrary sites directly from local archive to revive any site I want. I have a `wget-mirror` shell function invoking wget with all the trimmings that takes care of 99% of sites. I’ll edit the full command into this co…

Assume everyone is familiar with this project, dating back to 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWWOFFLE https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/wwwoffle-2.9j.tg... The way the www is going, it seems like downloading a copy of libgen, i.e., nonfiction books, and scimag, i.e., academic journals, via torrent, would be more valuable than archiving websites, in general. These primary sources are part of the materia…

Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Tue, May 28, 2024, 11:52 PM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #93

archive-it.org is still working

Post by sanroot99 » Wed, May 29, 2024, 3:08 AM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #105

This is why I’ve gotten into the habit of maintaining my own WWW archive of sites I find interesting. Probably have around 1 TiB now, and One Of These Days I’d like to set my network up so it can serve arbitrary sites directly from local archive to revive any site I want. I have a `wget-mirror` shell function invoking wget with all the trimmings that takes care of 99% of sites. I’ll edit the full command into this co…

Post by account42 » Wed, May 29, 2024, 6:14 AM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #153

nox101 wrote: post #149

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how is this a solution? The Archive performs a valuable service. They're collecting wahy more of the internet than you are (I assume) so when that thing you didn't back up today is not available in 10yrs it's more likely to be on the archive. I donate to The Archive. More people should too.

I don't know why you're treating them as mutually exclusive. Single points of failure are as bad when it comes to organizations as they are with anything else. Internet Archive (the org) could stop existing with the flick of a pen. I don't think “Let Somebody Else Do It” is a healthy attitude to take, and I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing. Plus for as great of a service as Wayback Machine is, it can be very unpl…

Post by theshrike79 » Wed, May 29, 2024, 7:12 AM UTC

OutOfHere wrote: post #96

jsyang00 wrote: post #66

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Cloudflare is not "an extortionist firm". It is a large tech company, where occasionally teams employ shitty sales tactics to meet their numbers, but generally provides a valuable service and acts reasonably ethically. There are open source tools to mitigate DDoS, but all of them will have some marginal cost to run, and they will all be significantly worse than Cloudflare as they benefit from neither Cloudflare's dat…

No, thanks. Cloudflare acts ethically only until it suits them. It is the pre-exploitation phase to lure a customer. We are not fools here. The report at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808 says it all. Secondly, considering Cloudflare would MITM all traffic, it would make a data good source for the NSA, thereby violating all user privacy.