Jason Scott

It's not normally a good idea to share internal security processes, but I did want to offer the funniest trivia in my work to fight spam - I just added gamepad support to my spam-fighting client, meaning I'm literally using a joystick and buttons to do the work.

Turns out, if you can consolidate part of your job to an Xbox controller, you can speed it up significantly.

Manuals Plus: The Wrap-Up

https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5833

Fifteen years ago, offered a job at the Internet Archive two days previously starting in two days.

And Internet Archive is back.

Internet Archive down. Internet Archive Operations is on it.

Setting off the movement of 22,000 items between collections before getting on a flight. Productivity x 2

The internet archive is having a slight "HTML Outage" at the moment, and hoping to get it back pretty quick.

New archive suit

It'd be cool if you signed this petition.

https://www.change.org/p/defend-the-internet-archive

I was kindly handed another virus for the Malware Museum! We now have a (de-fanged) version of what's considered the first microcomputer virus, "Elk Cloner", in the Museum:

https://archive.org/details/elk-cloner-virus-demo

In 2022, I introduced the project DISCMASTER, which is a unique project to make the internals of tens of thousands of 1990s-2000s CD-ROMs findable in a semantic search.

Today, I'm announcing the team has now made DISCMASTER 2, a ground-up rewrite with so much improvement.

http://discmaster.textfiles.com

What we're gonna do is go back
Wayback
Back in time

MIT Press maintains a set of their books that are listed as "Open Access", and of them, 297 different books and documents provide a helpful PDF edition of their titles.

I have "ported" these over to the Internet Archive where they live a life and have links back to their original MIT Press pages should you want to buy a hard copy:

https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access

I acquired (with help) a killer audio cassette digitizing rig, and then IMMEDIATELY had to spend over 2 months digitizing 90+ cassettes from the 1999 Game Developers Conference (via a slow-and-steady workflow that got the job done without being too disruptive to any other work I was doing).

So, here we are, it's done. Go enjoy 70+ hours of presentations about all aspects of game making and producing, in 1999.

https://archive.org/details/1999_Game_Developers_Conference_Audio

Earlier this year, I became aware of STANDARD EBOOKS, a donation-dependent group of edtiors and layout experts who have been doing the amazing work of taking out-of-copyright books, turning them into top-quality ebooks, and then releasing them for free.

Some of the books they've done are in the Internet Archive here:

https://archive.org/details/standardebooks

They're seeking 75 patrons in December to keep themselves afloat, consider donating to this amazing cause.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks