Archive for the ‘WayBack machine’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/26
The description of [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dessant/web-archives: Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari is missing Firefox and Opera, but in the meantime the extension is available in these stores for:
As a great example of how to write a browser plugin for all these architectures, it shows how to write this in mostly JavaScript with Vue.js with a tiny bit of play HTML.
Web Archives is a plugin that lets you search either the URL from the current browser tab, or a URL you type, within various archival sites (all Wikipedia links):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/24
LLM eat a lot of energy and are their hallucination are bad: [Wayback/Archive] LLM-generated passwords ‘fundamentally weak,’ experts say • The Register
Your AI-generated password isn’t random, it just looks that way
…
AI security company Irregular looked at Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, and found all three GenAI tools put forward seemingly strong passwords that were, in fact, easily guessable.
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Basically they are almost as good as the 2007 XKCD “four” number generator, the 2013 XKCD “I’m So Random” or the 2001 Dilbert “nine” number generator further below (don’t read the latter if you dislike Scott Adams)
Is it a coincidence or are these two using two small squared numbers?
Anyway: avoid LLM whenever possible, as most often they do more bad than good.
And for passwords, better use the blog post that was already scheduled for tomorrow: Generating random strings for passwords and uuids/guids on both Windows and Linux using base64 and hex encoding, plus: “Hive Systems: Are Your Passwords in the Green?”
Via [Wayback/Archive] Eloy.: “LLMs are centrist randomness: not useful for anything that requires truth but neither for password generation” – HSNL Social
Below this post, there are some great responses as well.
Comics
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/23
I pulled this post forward from the blog queue in light of the recent Archive Today controversy (which started because of the Gyrovague article mentioned below). Please note that in this controversy, the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive plays no role: it is purely about the Archive Today behaviour. Apart from this remark above the line I left this blog post in the original form I wrote it in, as I liked it a lot and quite a few published and queued blog posts still depend on it.
From a while back, but still a historic relevant article: [Wayback/Archive] archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet – Gyrovague
Via [Wayback/Archive] difference between archive today and wayback machine – Google Search
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/31
From 12ft – Wikipedia:
On July 17, 2025, the News Media Alliance reported that it had taken down the website.
It’s impossible to enjoy the content of online media by paying (for instance because payment systems are not compatible, but also because those media often have region blocks), so this is to longer ladders (and understanding how ladders work):
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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:
- [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: https://wiert.wordpress.com/?p=187822
(Hopefully Mastodon gets backtick code formatting)
- [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:
https://mastodon.archive.org/@textfiles/115581682877344258
https://bsky.app/profile/textfiles.com/post/3m627d5hdfc2b
https://bsky.app/profile/textfiles.com
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive The…” – Mastodon
There is at least some progress:
– https://web.archive.org/save/ returns a 503
– https://web.archive.org/save/https://mastodon.social/@wiert/115582221809188503 returns a 404
– https://web.archive.org/https://mastodon.social returns a 503
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive Som…” – Mastodon
@ricmac @internetarchive
Some progress:
– https://web.archive.org/save/ returns 200
– https://web.archive.org/save/https://mastodon.social/@wiert/115582221809188503 returns 200 with “system is overloaded” message and no imagery on the canvas
– https://web.archive.org/https://mastodon.social returns 503
– https://web.archive.org/https://mastodon.social/@wiert/115582221809188503 returns 503
– https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://mastodon.social returns 200
– https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://mastodon.social/@wiert/115582221809188503 returns 200
– https://web.archive.org/web/20251120215143/https://mastodon.social/@wiert/115582221809188503 returns 503
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive Som…” – Mastodon
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive Als…” – Mastodon
@ricmac @internetarchive
Also some social media coverage yesterday:
– https://x.com/internetarchive/status/1991504182411685955
– https://x.com/internetarchive/status/1991600485489656023
– https://bsky.app/profile/archive.org/post/3m62vw5dsr22r
– https://bsky.app/profile/archive.org/post/3m63lafzzhs2r
– https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115582351252189547
– https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115583852434614027
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.
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive – H…” – Mastodon
@ricmac @internetarchive
– HTTP 200 for https://web.archive.org/save/
– HTTP 200 for http://web.archive.org/save/https://mastodon.social/@wiert/115587592601512225 plus a succesful archive
– HTTP 307, 307, 302, 200, 307 and finally 200 for https://web.archive.org/web/20251122120322/https://mastodon.social/@wiert/115587592601512225
– HTTP 303, 302 and finally 200 for https://web.archive.org/https://mastodon.social
– HTTP 303, 302 and finally 200 for https://web.archive.org/https://mastodon.social/@wiert/115582221809188503
– HTTP 200 for https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://mastodon.social
– HTTP 200 for https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://mastodon.social/@wiert/115582221809188503
Oh: interesting: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20
- [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:
– https://x.com/internetarchive/status/1991888073446318191
– https://bsky.app/profile/archive.org/post/3m65l4skb3c2c
– https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115588341280707332
Glad things work again. Now going through my backlog of pages that need to be archived.
- [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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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26
Need to look into this further: [Wayback/Archive] Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust.
Likely running it on my blog requires JavaScript to be enabled which means going from the premium to the small business plan (at te time of writing from USD 8 to USD 25 per month: a 200+% increase).
Let’s first start with an example:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/07
For my link archive:
Via [Wayback/Archive] Home: buriedbits which also brought wabarcbot to my attention:
@wabarc_bot: Snapshot webpages to Internet Archive, archive.today, Telegra.ph and IPFS.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/07
The people knowing about the really early Pascal history are a dying breed. So before I pass away (see the posts on my rectum cancer), let me post a few more links here that based on yesterday’s Trip down memory lane: book on p-Code based UCSD Pascal which I ended with:
I learned a few more things from [Wayback/Archive] What do you think about something like Pascal bytecode? (Page 2)
Here we go:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/03
Learned a while ago: if you have the username from a GitHub or GitLab user, you can download interesting that sometimes can make life easier (but not necessarily more secure):
github.com/username.keys gives you their public SSH keysgitlab.com/username.keys gives you their public SSH keysgithub.com/username.png gives you their profile image
And that there are tools like gh, glab and age that can make direct use of them.
I love Twitter, so thanks for these for teaching me these little tricks:
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