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Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by smolder »

badlibrarian wrote: post #217
smolder wrote: post #144

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I've watched whole video series from their archives. What are you doing to get throttled?

Which archives? Wayback is different from Archive. Which is different from Archive-It. And the problem with Wayback was power poles being set on fire by homeless people, then SF power in general, then "upgrades," then "bad actors," then hot weather causing the machines to slow down because they don't have air conditioning, evil AI companies, and now seems to be the fact that an organization backed by someone with nea…

Archive.org. I watched the whole of Norm Macdonalds "cancelled" (in the "cancel culture" sense) show/podcast on there. Oddly, he died a few days after I finished it.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by throwaway2037 »

zetanor wrote: post #32

I like the theory of the IA enough that I have a reoccurring donation, but I've thought a few times about e-mailing them to cancel (they have to halt your monthly donation charges manually). There's plenty of things I can overlook, like having to compete with scrapers to get a single page to load, or a myriad of longstanding technical issues (my favorite being that the collection upload system silently and irrevocabl…

    > I'm all for ending copyright
I don't understand this sadly, common sentiment on HN. How will authors and artists that produce copyrightable artefacts earn income via royalties without strong copyright laws? Are there any highly developed nations that have abandoned copyright? Or any that have weak/non-existent copyright laws and thriving arts and letters? I doubt it.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by badlibrarian »

smolder wrote: post #271
badlibrarian wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which archives? Wayback is different from Archive. Which is different from Archive-It. And the problem with Wayback was power poles being set on fire by homeless people, then SF power in general, then "upgrades," then "bad actors," then hot weather causing the machines to slow down because they don't have air conditioning, evil AI companies, and now seems to be the fact that an organization backed by someone with nea…

Archive.org. I watched the whole of Norm Macdonalds "cancelled" (in the "cancel culture" sense) show/podcast on there. Oddly, he died a few days after I finished it.

Different site, different backend, different problems. GP was talking about wayback.archive.org, which threw a 429 error just now when I verified the URL.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by solarkraft »

I’m a big fan of the IA and have donated before.

I would really appreciate it if they spent more resources on improving the site’s UX and fewer on picking pointless and expensive copyright fights.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

detourdog wrote: post #236
ProllyInfamous wrote: post #202

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The major problem with the (low) payout on Storj is that 29/54 node requirement is still too high for reliable long-term data retention. Also, even if you live in the least-expensive electricity places in the world, residentially it will cost you more in electricity to keep those platters spinning 24/7 [than the payout]. ---- It is popular in the hobby cryptomining community to replace your under-desk spaceheater wit…

How many BTUs or kJs is that?

I have a combined 2800BTUs of Monero heating capability, which is equivalent to a standard US "spaceheater" running on medium heat.

Localized beneath my main office computer desk, this allows me to further reduce heating of my entire domicile.

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Post by nijave »

addy34 wrote: post #270
frenchtoast8 wrote: post #183

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How much did IA spend on legal fees, employee time, etc in their defense of the COVID emergency library that most people thought was a lost cause? I need to know where my donation dollars are going.

Tax filings are available here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943... Rev. Costs(all) Legal ----------------------------- 2019 37 37 0.2 2020 22 20 0.4 2021 30 25 2.0 2022 31 26 1.8 2023 24 33 1.0 2024 27 24 2.2 USD millions. Legal is non-employee costs.

Are there on staff lawyers hiding in payroll or do they contract everything?

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by T3RMINATED »

raybb wrote: post #224

I have been volunteering with the Internet Archive via Open Library for about half a decade now. Sending money is awesome and they're also always looking for volunteers! There are so many projects going on for Open Library and staff has quite a few volunteers but right now especially I think it would be awesome to have a few more experienced folks joining to help (many volunteers are students). Here's just a few thin…

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Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by anandology »

raybb wrote: post #259
b40d-48b2-979e wrote: post #257

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I'm curious, why a BDFL framework like FastAPI over Litestar or a different, performant language altogether?

Not another language because the performance issues are limited to the code being sync. Anyway, a gradual migration was a must as well. This is the first I hear of Litestar and I think it does seem very values aligned. I fastapi was picked simply because it was already known by the team and had a very thriving ecosystem. That being said, the hard part is getting off the old sync web.py stuff. Once everything is in as…

I was one of the initial developers of Open Library and wrote most of it's backend code. I doubt any of the performance issues could be because of code being sync. Open Library is IO bound and it is most likely spending time waiting for db to respond.

Was there any performance analysis done that indicated that the "code being sync" the main bottleneck?

Happy to help.

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