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Is this the ultimate XKCD “Dependency” derivative?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/29

xkcd modern digital infrastructure torn down by a satisfied looking cat

Besides the August 2025 XKCD infrastructure dependency inspired cartoon on the right, the more recent and great [Wayback/Archive] XCKD: Dependency derivative below is a monumental piece as it combines the recent:

  • fiber outage of the Internet Archive
  • DoS of Cloudflare by itself
  • AWS us-east-1 dependencies outage
  • Crowdstrike DoS of Windows machines
  • framework-du-jour mentality in the JavaScript world
  • many more¹

Image [Wayback/Archive] 36247840bf294a9d.png (1080×1389) from [Wayback/Archive] xyla 🐀🪇: “someone pls alt text this shit…” – buy shitpost cheap:

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Currently, the Wayback Machine is down – again – without proper indication “Internet Archive: Scheduled Maintenance” will take or how long it might last

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/20

For more than an hour, any page on the Wayback Machine leads to [Archive] Internet Archive: Scheduled Maintenance:

Temporarily Offline

Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.

Please check our official accounts, including Twitter/X, Bluesky or Mastodon for the latest information.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Edit 20251209 18:22Z:

Back then I didn’t have time to put all updates in the blog post, so I put them as a reply below the [Archive] Richard MacManus: “The Wayback Machine has been offline for the past hour or so…” – Mastodon.

Later I forgot to update this blog post, but I just bumped into the thread again, so here it is:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “RE: https://wiert.me/2025/11/2…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    This is very typical for almost all their maintenance and outages and really frustrating for their users (of which luckily more and more are donating to them).

    Plus that the title suggests the whole Internet Archive is under maintenance whereas the rest really is working pretty OK.

    A page like `status.web.archive.org` or `status.archive.org` would be a much welcomed.

    Just blogged about it: wiert.wordpress.com/?p=187822

    (Hopefully Mastodon gets backtick code formatting)

  2. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive It …” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    It didn’t, but now that I’m back behind a keyboard, I see some social media activity by Jason Scott:

    mastodon.archive.org/@textfile

    bsky.app/profile/textfiles.com

    bsky.app/profile/textfiles.com

  3. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive The…” – Mastodon

    There is at least some progress:

    – web.archive.org/save/ returns a 503
    – web.archive.org/save/https://m returns a 404
    – web.archive.org/https://mastod returns a 503

  4. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive Som…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    Some progress:

    – web.archive.org/save/ returns 200
    – web.archive.org/save/https://m returns 200 with “system is overloaded” message and no imagery on the canvas
    – web.archive.org/https://mastod returns 503
    – web.archive.org/https://mastod returns 503
    – web.archive.org/web/*/https:// returns 200
    – web.archive.org/web/*/https:// returns 200
    – web.archive.org/web/2025112021 returns 503

  5. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive Som…” – Mastodon

    Some 32 hours after the outage started, the status is this:

    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/save/
    – SRY page for web.archive.org/save/https://m
    – HTTP 303, 302 and finally 200 for web.archive.org/https://mastod
    – HTTP 303, 302 and finally 200 for web.archive.org/https://mastod
    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/web/*/https://
    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/web/*/https://

    It’s slowly but steadily returning to normal behaviour.

  6. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive Als…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    Also some social media coverage yesterday:

    – x.com/internetarchive/status/1
    – x.com/internetarchive/status/1

    – bsky.app/profile/archive.org/p
    – bsky.app/profile/archive.org/p

    – mastodon.archive.org/@internet
    – mastodon.archive.org/@internet

    The first were at almost 8 hours after the incident started. That’s pretty late for status updates on a large outage.

    Time to get to the next appointment. Back in some 8 hours or so.

  7. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive – H…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/save/
    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/save/https://m plus a succesful archive
    – HTTP 307, 307, 302, 200, 307 and finally 200 for web.archive.org/web/2025112212
    – HTTP 303, 302 and finally 200 for web.archive.org/https://mastod
    – HTTP 303, 302 and finally 200 for web.archive.org/https://mastod
    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/web/*/https://
    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/web/*/https://

    Oh: interesting: stackoverflow.com/questions/20

  8. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive The…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    The appointment took way longer: got back late, did the mandatory 12 hour recovery hence the follow up only now.

    The good thing: the Wayback Machine seems to have fully recovered.

    New social media coverage some 2 hours after my coverage yesterday confirms this:

    – x.com/internetarchive/status/1

    – bsky.app/profile/archive.org/p

    – mastodon.archive.org/@internet

    Glad things work again. Now going through my backlog of pages that need to be archived.

  9. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive Slo…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    Slowly archival times go down. From about 20 hours 2 days ago to about 6 hours now.

    [Wayback/Archive] 3102eff610756ff0.png (770×272)

Edit 20251120T1614Z: 

For a short time, some of the links didn’t redirect to the above SRY page, but now they again do. This was just a short happy period:

[Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive …” – Mastodon

@ricmac @internetarchive

There is at least some progress:

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Goedkoop vast internet is soms best duur – Wordt dit de zomer van goedkoper internet? – Achtergrond – Tweakers

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/17

Tips rond overstappen tussen ISPs:

[Wayback/Archive] Goedkoop vast internet is soms best duur – Wordt dit de zomer van goedkoper internet? – Achtergrond – Tweakers

--jeroen

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Ziggo klantenservice wanneer 0900 nummers geblokkeerd zijn

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/26

Voor mijn contact-archief voor als je het Ziggo 0900-nummer niet of slechts tegen kosten kunt bellen:

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Some notes on Wikipedia tags for references, citing URLs that are archived like in the Wayback Machine

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/24

Used it for instance for this edit: [Wayback/Archive] Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: verschil tussen versies – Wikipedia.

–jeroen

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Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/17

Voor mijn link archief: KPN telefooncentrales, waarvan een paar waar familie of ik een aansluiting had:

[Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl

Wijkcentrales
Code Plek
Ssh [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Sassenheim – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Asd-Bdh [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Amsterdam-Badhoevedorp – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Asd-Osdp [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Amsterdam-Osdorp – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Nhout [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Noordwijkerhout – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Lis [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Lisse – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl

Deze hadden Mojibake met de generic replacement character (“�”):

Wijkcentrales
Code Plek
Ctlr [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Castelr� – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
(moet Castelré zijn)
Odi [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: St. Odili�nberg – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
(moet Sint Odiliënberg zijn)

Let op: de [Wayback/Archive] fourstack KPN UI (toenmalig gebouwd door [Wayback/Archive] FourStack) is sinds 2021 uit de lucht, zie [WaybackSave/ArchiveBad] FPI Fourstack Snelheid DSL – Internet en hosting – GoT , dus de gegevens worden niet meer bijgewerkt.

--jeroen

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msftconnecttest/msftncsi: Trouble connecting to Web sites and services because of certificate errors? Check if you’re being held captive – The Old New Thing

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/05

Note that http://neverssl.com is the way to figure out if you are in a captive portal, see below.

In Windows 10, the name of the endpoint changed from msftncsi to msftconnecttest, presumably to make the purpose of the access more obvious in security and audit logs. Nobody will understand that NCSI stands for Network Connectivity Status Indicator.

[Wayback/Archive] Trouble connecting to Web sites and services because of certificate errors? Check if you’re being held captive – The Old New Thing

It refers to a few other interesting sites, for instance about modifying if/how NCSI detects internet connectivity:

As mentioned at the top: my blog post on http://neverssl.com: NeverSSL – helping you get online on WiFi networks requiring authentication

Other related blog posts:

–jeroen

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LAN/WAN network building: test and know how to locate your cabling

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/04

I have seen too many sites where cabling was laid en never tested before actual use, which meant locating the cabling and faults was a nightmare.

Be sure to have good (which can be very simple, but more complex when Power over Ethernet is involved) testing hardware and use it during installation. You will thank yourself later.

A few videos that can be helpful:

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Revisited: Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/02

Quite a I while ago, I wrote Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA).

The bookmarklet has been very stable, but as of a week or so I need to press the Enter key for it to actually archive.

The reason is that Archive.is, also known as Archive Today, introduced a new URL parameter for auto-starting the archive of an URL.

The old one looked like this: https://archive.is/submit/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history

The new one like this: https://archive.is/submit/?anyway=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history&submitid=auT7eAltRDxCOGSjdoRMhu3H9d91VEFlvjVztfvNU8XO0ccAhji5DvTyqQew6rfm

The new submitid URL 40 character base64 parameter is being checked in the back end. One way of obtaining one by loading https://archive.is/ then wait for it’s completion and grab it from there.

The alternative is to wait for the submit page to fully load, then find the “save” button via its HTML <input type="submit" value="save"> and press it.

So that’s on the todo list for the updated Bookmarklet of the above blog post.

For now, I just have to press the Enter key for each archived page, I wonder how long that will last (:

Oh: to get the “do you want to save the page again” URL you will have to know the canonical URL first, as that ID is in the again URL, see the bold bits here:

  1. https://archive.is/c6d09
  2. https://archive.is/c6d09/again?url=https://www.youtube.com/feed/history/comment_history

--jeroen

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Fix a “Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC” on an UEFI system: when Windows cannot be located

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/22

I got the below error when booting a Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro, a machine not just supporting supporting UEFI but preferring it, on which I had copied a backed-up disk image, then moved the hidden Recovery partition to the end of the physical disk (to make room to extend either the OS or DATA partitions).

Fixing it lead me to a trip that was on the boundary of software archaeology, so this blog post has a truckload of archived links to information that is still relevant, but for which the original links have long vanished due to link rot or (often worse) part of the historic information got lost because of migration to new tooling forgot to cover important additions (especially in comments).

One thing that I had to unlearn was MBR disk basics, for instance the fact that on GPT disks a partition can be active (they can only be on MBR disks, but despite UEFI supporting both MBT and GPT, GPT disks are way more common and required). The same holds for partitions having a boot flag: that too only applies to MBR disks. For the same reason, bootrec is only useful for MBR disks. More details towards the end of this blog post. CSM (Compatibility Support Module) booting is the UEFI way to simulate BIOS boot for operating systems that do no support UEFI.

Back to the error at hand:

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