Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable. We are working on it & will post updates in comments. - ThreadSky

eatsomefood.bsky.social•280 days ago

Is someone trying to train their LLM?

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zorrn.net•280 days ago

Yep probably they need more content for better or worse suggestions (looking at you Google).

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chemicalprophet.bsky.social•280 days ago

Who DDOS attacks https://archive.org?!!

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bernardoverda.bsky.social•280 days ago

The big book publishing houses are the only group I can think of, that would even be interested.

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cuil.world•279 days ago

it’s probably just people trying to extort them for bitcoin or whatever, paying $10 an hour to rent a botnet of peoples’ compromised smart appliances to try and turn a profit under the threat of maintaining the attack forever

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clancyny.bsky.social•280 days ago

evil bast@rds

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lainwithtea.bsky.social•280 days ago

Imagine being so wretched that one of the few places on the Internet even scum off the boot of the web agrees is a universal good is your idea of a good bullying target. Manifesting the local forum creatures finding these people and giving them hell.

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rocksizedrock.bsky.social•280 days ago

Wishing you the best!

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kateorman.bsky.social•280 days ago

Love you https://archive.org, hang in there

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cantocomics.bsky.social•280 days ago

😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬
These fucks just can't let us have anything nice

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shaanu.bsky.social•143 days ago

Hi every one

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reggieh.bsky.social•280 days ago

It's evil when people do this to sites. Sending best wishes and good thoughts!

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mrl53.bsky.social•280 days ago

Hey what’s this all about?

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simmac.at•280 days ago

hello, based department?

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mrl53.bsky.social•280 days ago

I’m just inquiring about the beef.

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retr0.id•280 days ago

sounds pretty awesome to me!

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tandy400.bsky.social•280 days ago

This has big "you wouldn't download a car" energy

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mrl53.bsky.social•280 days ago

Really?

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retr0.id•280 days ago

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colesantewarner.ca•280 days ago

Fun fact: the music in that iconic commercial was ironically stolen and used without the original artist's knowledge or consent

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retr0.id•280 days ago

fun fact, the history accuracy of this fun fact is disputed!

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zoopaul.bsky.social•280 days ago

And I thought home taping is what killed music.

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why.bsky.team•280 days ago

Wow, where is someone getting enough bandwidth to pull that off?

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robeagle.bsky.social•279 days ago

Likely a Bot Network (thousands+++ infected devices unknowingly to their owners) being used across the globe targeting one specific IP, incredibly powerful. And dangerous.

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hk40.bsky.social•88 days ago

yes and no it's just abusing a high cpu count vps with a basic bypass for rate limits on a web server to overwhelm it

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hk40.bsky.social•88 days ago

It doesn't matter about bandwidth example just one of my VPN servers having half a Tb of data sent didn't do anything its how the data is being handle from the victim and most web based DDos protection is weak to exploits posing as real user agents connecting

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db-user.bsky.social•280 days ago

some failkid probably got a hold of dad's credit line again

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mary.my.id•280 days ago

it's been going for 5 hours too

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retr0.id•280 days ago

I noticed it having trouble yesterday, too

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cuil.world•279 days ago

Yeah I was trying to grab a file yesterday and it was so slow I had to go dig it up somewhere else, guess now I know it was abnormal archive slowness and not just that i pulled the short straw and got the slowest/most overloaded download server

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b7bird.bsky.social•280 days ago

And the Question,
WHY !!

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b7bird.bsky.social•280 days ago

IIRC, there was talk
in the past, that some
DDoS protection companies may have indulged in such practices ??

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why.bsky.team•280 days ago

yeah, I've heard those rumors too.

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smartvpants.bsky.social•280 days ago

What, to create need to sell product?

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martinmorrey.bsky.social•280 days ago

Basically a protection racket

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smartvpants.bsky.social•280 days ago

I feel like iPower was doing that when I was hosted there. My site was getting hacked and they were threatening to take it down, but conveniently willing to sell me security.

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marketburn.bsky.social•280 days ago

そんなことが可能だとは思わなかった。ということは、彼らによって物が取り除かれる可能性があるということですか？もしそんなことがあり得るとしたら、私はどうすればいいのかわからない

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umiberri.bsky.social•280 days ago

i love you internet archive pls don't die

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sgfuthey.bsky.social•280 days ago

Oh no no no.

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babewiththepower.bsky.social•279 days ago

Posting things were returning to normal would've been good.

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ias0na.bsky.social•280 days ago

ya it was being funny yesterday....big respect you all and what you do.

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electricjelly.bsky.social•280 days ago

It’s probably my fault. I just found out you guys host every episode of Liquid Television a couple days ago, and it’s clear the universe does NOT want me to see how things turn out for Winter Steele.

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maliburek.bsky.social•280 days ago

Oh shit. This just changed my life. Liquid Television was amazing. Ty for this!

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electricjelly.bsky.social•280 days ago

Cheers! Here’s a direct link to save you some time: https://bsky.app/profile/electricjelly.bsky.social/post/3ktewibm3zk2y

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maliburek.bsky.social•280 days ago

Fantastic. 🍻 Ty!

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animalcule.bsky.social•280 days ago

it's not working i think the website might be down for some reason

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electricjelly.bsky.social•280 days ago

Internet archive is getting DDoS-ed at the moment, unfortunately

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animalcule.bsky.social•280 days ago

i know, i came from the thread. i meant it as a dumbass joke. sorry🙃🙃🙃

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animalcule.bsky.social•280 days ago

...sorry...

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woodenman.bsky.social•280 days ago

godspeed

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mattdobbins.com•280 days ago

So someone isn’t happy with what was archived? Or what are they wanting?

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bbobolbold.bsky.social•280 days ago

I'm not defending piracy but some people uploaded digital copies of books that haven't been re-published (as paper format) in decades. British crime fiction (1930s-1950s), as an example. Those uploaders had means, to be generous.

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jiunuope.bsky.social•280 days ago

Some people hate readable evidence saved.

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mythosfox.bsky.social•280 days ago

Good luck.

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love2laf.bsky.social•280 days ago

Why are humans not being members of human*kind*? Hope this gets sorted quickly, and sorry it is happening.

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jaromino.bsky.social•280 days ago

ALL THE GOOD VIBES THAT ARE LEFT IN ME ARE IN YOU NOW TOO

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nikk.ca•280 days ago

who would do this

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numb.comfortab.ly•280 days ago

What the fuck is wrong with people.

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astu.bsky.social•280 days ago

Every day

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bluebrownie.bsky.social•279 days ago

I'd love to see an RCA on this, with names! Like James in TX at IP x.x.x.x did this shit. No reason, just curious....

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brooklynmarie.bsky.social•280 days ago

Our information worlds are under attack

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lifstr.bsky.social•280 days ago

😠

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rapieress.bsky.social•280 days ago

Sorry to hear it! 😕

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iswearima.top•280 days ago

oh no! D:

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nintala-scribble.bsky.social•280 days ago

😭🙏

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buffaloresearch.com•279 days ago

Offline for me just now. Not a complaint; just a report in case you're checking feedback. Very best of luck fighting off this attack.

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sagadego171.bsky.social•280 days ago

Oh FFS

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soitwent.bsky.social•280 days ago

That’s some bullshit

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janiah.bsky.social•279 days ago

damn Chuck Wendig is at it again

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shambolika.bsky.social•280 days ago

Why!? Did you annoy cat people? They craycray

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tiltedpirate.bsky.social•280 days ago

DDOS? In bird person speak we call that a “dick move”

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tandy400.bsky.social•280 days ago

Love you guys

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bjkeefe.bsky.social•280 days ago

Given the number of comments already, you may want to post updates as new skeets.

Good luck getting this resolved.

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davidcha.bsky.social•280 days ago

Sounds like an AI crawler got blocked so they retaliated

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markothecomic.bsky.social•279 days ago

What kind of a-hole . . .

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scrufflord.bsky.social•280 days ago

https://archive.org is one of the few sites that everyone agrees is good what cartoon villain would take the time to do this

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eggbag.bsky.social•280 days ago

Why would someone even do that

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deriantheimp.bsky.social•280 days ago

I hope they stop

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toonwatcher.bsky.social•280 days ago

Hang in there, the world needs you.

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chickenlady.bsky.social•280 days ago

StaY strong, we love you ✌🏻💙🥺

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kiritora.bsky.social•280 days ago

I don't understand why your website, of all things.

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iamyvonnel.bsky.social•280 days ago

Folks want to erase history

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joparkerbear.bsky.social•280 days ago

Yep. Erase, rewrite, burn the books, etc.

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adhdgobl.in•280 days ago

༼ つ ◕\_◕ ༽つ ARCHIVE.ORG TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕\_◕ ༽つ

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neonchinchilla.bsky.social•280 days ago

That's like ddosing Santa...

Who would do such a thing?

*scowl*

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subduction.bsky.social•280 days ago

Distributed Denial of Santa?

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smoggylamb.bsky.social•280 days ago

I better not catch those guys in the Guy Fawkes masks doing it, you know, ANONYMOUS?

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cuil.world•279 days ago

Why would anonymous do that, they probably use it as much as the rest of us

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darkwolf13.bsky.social•280 days ago

No!!! That is where I watch the Kirby anime in its original glory.

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sdvs.bsky.social•280 days ago

Now is a good time to start/increase a monthly donation to @archive.org, whose work is critical.

Even if you don't actively use the resources they provide, much of the journalism/research/media you _do_ enjoy relies on their generous, ongoing endeavor to make information free.

https://archive.org/donate

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rvmpd.bsky.social•280 days ago

Can we, the users, help somehow?

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fuzbrain.bsky.social•280 days ago

What fucking asshole ddos a library??

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reverendjesus.com•280 days ago

The sort of asshole trying to shut down the IRL libraries, I'd imagine

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maricelium.bsky.social•280 days ago

The sort of assholes that are raised and fed on religious brain rot.

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deathbydemocracy.bsky.social•280 days ago

The same people who are bombing libraries in Gaza, I would imagine

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-gaza-public-library-destroyed-bombing

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threetoehoth.gameclub.social•280 days ago

Sorry that was me. I launched David Crane's weird Transformers game via the site's C64 emulator and... well... easy to see how things escalated from there.

No hard feelings?

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cuil.world•279 days ago

Should have been playing neuromancer instead where you can go destroy AI

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