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Plenty of room for multiple collections.

..and I was visited by the FBI very rarely.

It's certainly a firm hint!

I gave everything a nice long think and I don't need another consultant, thanks.

Well, there is no situation where this isn't in some way labor-intensive.

But one of the reasons that I chose to use the feed scanner that I do is that I get 600 dots per inch on these scans of these massive tabloids.

Read the room, and by the room, I mean this thread.

I assure you, I hate that thing. It has dogged me and the Internet Archive for over a decade. It is not just vaporware, but dangerous.

That prototype "only" damages 70% of the pages.

No

finger guns

Also, people have already contributed thousands for this project, asking for a cutty-cutty machine is a bit much, especially when I'm really getting good with the heat gun.

Fundamentally.

During the LA Riots, some people parked in the parking lot spaces to loot supermarkets.

I have a longer essay coming up and I was worried that I was going to be sidetracked/waylaid into a rather silly debate, so this essay is meant to be pointed to when I hit that part of the discussion. Naturally, these are themes present in a lot of discussions, I just wanted one for my set.

Yesterday, I turned off the caching, thinking "It'll be fine." Whoops.

Going back on again.

Admin/Veteran of small social networks over the last 30 years here. Yes there are.

Thanks to everyone speaking up about the Internet Archive. Regardless of forum posts, the work stands before us and the love pours in.

brb Adding "Interesting Passing Curiosity" to my resume

Ah, another excellent posting and freely-given advice stream from the esteemed law firm of Guy, Guy, Guy, Guy and HackerNews.

Anyway, you nailed it. If you walk into Internet Archive Headquarters and go over to the Jason Scott statue and click his little top hat, a door opens in the floor and you're immediately lifted down 40 stories to a glowing LED-and-pulsating techno music lair containing dozens of Archive Team members, desperately gathering all the data they can from the world because [fill in the blank here, I'm sure you've got something].

Basically, Men in Black but more awesome and with more red bull.

Never change, Hackernews

I am happy for you, as it is clear you've never experienced actual bullying.

"Ah," I said, writing about my friend 4am and their Apple II cracking towards discussing project management. "It's going to be a little confusing when this gets to the front page of Hackernews, with all those busy people skimming the post, but I hope they'll not be scared by a modern pronoun usage and a link set to the projects to determine what I'm talking about."

You've modified your original comment (which I didn't know Hackernews allowed people to do). So now I look completely weird because it "seems" you only typed one word and I wrote something.

You wrote, essentially:

Why not train a LLM AI on the magazines, newsletters, documentation, etc, and have it generate the descriptions based on prompts?

...and I call this an "unfunded mandate", which is where someone comes along to a project, and tells them a bunch of things they should take on and do, instead of either offering to do something themselves, or pointing to a resource or project that fulfils the need that is being asked for.

The article is about me finding out that certain kinds of activities are jammed in a Catch-22 of necessity but lack of potential funding (time or money). Your idea shifts no needle and makes things more complicated, to no greater chance of success, but plenty of chance (contemporarily) of hallucination and misleading results.

Feel free to delete, I guess, even more.

This is the dictionary definition of an unfunded mandate.

I'll just say that I'm not seeking a glorped together description of the games in question, but a semantic listing of the contents of original articles, ads, discussions and mentions related to the titles. LLMs do not do this, and if you're training the LLMs (at cost) to do this, you're already having to do the very same searching out of materials within the corpus related to what you want. It'd be like gathering every TV guide in a stack to then ask it to describe things that are like All in the Family, instead of just going through them as you gather them to indicate what each issue has information about.

[ Willy Wonka puts his head on his fist and looks back and forth excitedly ]

Finger guns

My experience, down to the moment, is that IRC may be "superior" to other services because it never tries to extend past its small set of core competencies. Which means it appeals exclusively to people who are fine with that small set, and every extension past that is lambasted and doomed to obscurity because there's no interest on the whole to push the entire realm as a whole into the late 20th century, much less the 21st.

My response was tepid because I don't like telling someone stuck in a little tiny fishbowl going "the fishbowl is perfectly adequate" and dissuading them that the fishbowl is not adequate. Not that Discord is "the ocean" but it's a cruise ship and it's expensive, and a very nice ride comparatively.

My weblog entry describes a situation beyond Discord, and that of knowledge, and is at best a framing of the problem in a static area, because I believe this is the year Twitter closes down, closes up, or dies.

Someone should form a team of archivists. An Archive Force

Yeah! What the hell is wrong with him! Nobody wants to read that!

The site will return to responsiveness when the Hackernews storm is passed. I assure everyone the writing will still be relevant in a day.

Thanks for stopping by, folks. I just got back into updating my weblog and I'd not thrown on the optimizations and caching functionality in a while, and now it's there. It should work fine for you going forward.

Your pal, Jason