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   Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 08:08:16 JST Veronica Explains

   The video I'm putting out tomorrow had a whole thing about Internet Archive that I removed.

   The reason why is that I can't figure out if the "forgotten software" I found is fully archived right now. So talking about it could be confusing to viewers later on.

   IA helps so many of us spread a bit of joy in our lives, and I hope they are able to weather all of this.

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 08:08:14 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Jeff Geerling

     @geerlingguy @vkc We have to enjoy them while we still can since sadly, they're on borrowed time right now as they face lots of challenges including this one and a second major lawsuit from the record labels after losing the publishers case.

     What we really need is to find ways to archive ourselves and/or rely on other underground options since there's a good chance they'll shut down in the near future and what a sad day it would be.

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     Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 08:08:15 JST Jeff Geerling

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     @vkc definitely; they are an essential part of the Internet on so many levels!

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 08:11:52 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Duplicake

     @duplicake @vkc As you know, there's lots of industries that would love to be the one that would shut it down and I hope they can survive and hold on.

     I would rather wait until they put out a postmortem explanation blog post into what really happened and they can excess the damage. We still don't know if it's really safe right now and it could take weeks to sort out.

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     Duplicake (duplicake@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 08:11:54 JST Duplicake

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     @vkc Yeah. I'm very happy that the data isn't gone, and it seems that they are not only getting it back online, but also overhauling the backend (and maybe frontend) for more speed, security and DDOS resistance. So when they come back online they'll be better than ever!