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You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.

Jason Scott@textfiles.com

The ongoing 429 errors are due to a variety of infrastructure issues and repairs being done on Wayback. Sorry, folks

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Rcmaniac25

@rcmaniac25.bsky.social

6 Sept

I wonder if Backblaze could help in this.

kathzhi.bsky.social

@kathzhi.bsky.social

6 Sept

Hopefully you get the stuff you need for the site

Eleanor Grant

@eleanor7.bsky.social

6 Sept

After Trump and DOGE, the Wayback machine will surely be needed more than ever!

pig-endian

@porkkalo.bsky.social

6 Sept

Hard drive market is absolutely brutal right now as a hobbyist data hoarder

Julian 🏳️‍🌈

@julian.andanti.no

6 Sept

Yeah I was considering replacing some 15 year old hard drives with newer SSDs and had to nope right out of the webstore.

Mari Ale

@digitalcoffin.bsky.social

6 Sept

I promise you I don’t say this pithily, but could you perhaps shunt backups of statistically unaccessed data to tape storage to free up HDD as well as crowdsourcing?

Hel Eline

@hel.eurosky.social

6 Sept

Crowdsourcing, as in distributed storage? Like perhaps using the BitTorrent protocol?

Mari Ale

@digitalcoffin.bsky.social

6 Sept

The archive is too precious to trust with that imo, but at least cold storage shit might be better off on tape 😔

Hel Eline

@hel.eurosky.social

6 Sept

Trust? No. With the right implementation it could serve as a way for people to donate a little bit of their devices' resources to serve as redundancy in case of epic failure in a centralized storage solution. A custom made "torrent client" could automatically prioritize maintaining availability,