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Posts by Kevin O'Connor

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Nooo my reginos

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Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

Publishers have real questions about AI, but let’s be clear: The Wayback Machine isn’t a backdoor for AI scraping.

For 30 years, it’s been built for people, not bulk harvesting. We actively monitor to prevent abuse. Learn more ⤵️
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

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As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.

Taxing billionaires is not radical.

What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

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The "why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box material" of our age is "why don't they just use Claude to fix Claude outages?"

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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

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The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

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Publishers’ AI battle hits Internet Archive SF organization losing access to some news content

“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine

When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth.

The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors.
➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

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Peter Gabriel you’re crazy for this one!!

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While the Earth Sleeps - Long Version

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Bring back Valleywag

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Mario movie bad

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In my homelab environment I've had good success getting Kubernetes to run on x86 NUCs + a raspberry pi 5. It works pretty flawlessly except for some things which just can't operate on ARM, so you have to explicitly set an anti-affinity there. I'd say 95% of what I've tried to do has worked

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I would love to start using ARM on our bare metal/on-prem deployment but I'm having trouble finding a go-to platform to use for it. Everything seems kind of halfway there at the moment?

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Thank you Chipotle and Steak and Shake for securing my child's financial future!!

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Marc Andreessen single handedly confirming or discrediting Phrenology, can not decide which yet

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Nice Josh! What a cool gig.

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Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

🧵TL;DR the biggest AI companies and the New York Times are destroying history and accountability at the same time. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

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Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠

Read more via @techdirt.com 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

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Dr Melfi's son The Sopranos is a cross between Bill Hader and Adam Friedland

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i have a new hobby i made up where i look at hundreds of ancient stock photo cdroms from archive .org and try to find cool shit in them. ill post more later but for now these are "tonights picks"

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A white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes featuring the words Internet Archive in script lettering across the chest. It has black trim on the sleeves and a button-up front.

A white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes featuring the words Internet Archive in script lettering across the chest. It has black trim on the sleeves and a button-up front.

The back of a white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes displaying the number 10 with a small 12 above it, and the words WEB PAGES printed below in bold black lettering, representing 10 to the 12th power web pages preserved.

The back of a white baseball-style jersey with black pinstripes displaying the number 10 with a small 12 above it, and the words WEB PAGES printed below in bold black lettering, representing 10 to the 12th power web pages preserved.

A white baseball cap with a black brim and maroon accents, featuring a front patch that displays the Internet Archive logo and the words “Universal Access to All Knowledge” and “Internet Archive.”

A white baseball cap with a black brim and maroon accents, featuring a front patch that displays the Internet Archive logo and the words “Universal Access to All Knowledge” and “Internet Archive.”

🎁 Looking for a unique gift for an archivist—or a treat for yourself?

👕 1 Trillion Web Pages Baseball Jersey (LIMITED EDITION)
🧢 1 Trillion Web Pages Baseball Hat (LIMITED EDITION)
🧦 Socks, tote bags, and more!

💛 All proceeds benefit the #InternetArchive.
Shop here ➡️ store.archive.org

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Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.

Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.

Collections growing at 150TBytes/day

@internetarchive

archive.org/donate

www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

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We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.

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The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed.

We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.

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There are no words for how evil this is

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Celebration of
1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome.

over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world.

@archive.org show video with tabs to jump around:

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Poster with a gradient blue background. Large text reads “the web we’ve built.” Smaller text says “Celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived.” Pixelated 3D icons of a floppy disk, magnifying glass, cursor arrow, computer window, and others radiate outward from a bright starburst in the center. On the right, text lists event details: “Wednesday, October 22, 5–10PM PT. Live stream: 7–8PM PT. 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco.” The Internet Archive logo appears in the bottom right corner.

Poster with a gradient blue background. Large text reads “the web we’ve built.” Smaller text says “Celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived.” Pixelated 3D icons of a floppy disk, magnifying glass, cursor arrow, computer window, and others radiate outward from a bright starburst in the center. On the right, text lists event details: “Wednesday, October 22, 5–10PM PT. Live stream: 7–8PM PT. 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco.” The Internet Archive logo appears in the bottom right corner.

Planning your week? 🎉

Join the #InternetArchive to celebrate The Web We’ve Built — from the first pages to 1 trillion & counting. 🌐

📅 Weds, Oct 22
🎟️ In Person ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
🖥️ Virtual ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...

#Wayback1T #Livestream

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REALITY ORP Virtual Performance for Internet Archive ♦ Paloma Kop

slowly catching up on things after some miscellaneous chaos has begun to settle down... just managed to assemble a blog post about this livestream performance we did for the internet archive earlier this month!

palomakop.tv/blog/2025-10-03_reality-...

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Graphic with pixelated, 3D-styled webpage icons radiating outward from a bright point. Center text reads: "Fundraise with us! Celebrating 1 Trillion Webpages Archived."

Graphic with pixelated, 3D-styled webpage icons radiating outward from a bright point. Center text reads: "Fundraise with us! Celebrating 1 Trillion Webpages Archived."

We’ve archived 1 trillion web pages via the Wayback Machine. Help us preserve 1 trillion more with P2P fundraising: donate.archive.org/1T

#Wayback1T

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