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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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Be inquisitive: a Thread by @cyb3rops on Thread Reader App – The act of hiding is often more suspicious than what’s being hidden.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/19

[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @cyb3rops on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

If your agent gets flooded – detect the flooding.
If code gets obfuscated – detect the obfuscation.
If ETW gets silenced – detect the silence.
If the EDR gets killed – detect the killing.
If logs get cleared – detect the clearing.

The act of hiding is often more suspicious than what’s being hidden.

It’s like a surveillance camera going black or freezing.
That is the signal.
I’ve been doing this successfully for years.

I detect obfuscated crap all the time.
People ask, “What is it?”
I say, “No fucking clue. Could be:
– a Themida-packed sample with a Microsoft copyright,
– a UPX-packed ELF with a 1-char filename,
– a PowerShell script that looks like static noise, or
– a fake svchost.exe with no Microsoft copyright.”

I don’t need to know what it is.
It’s obviously shady.
That’s enough to detect it – and deal with it.
There’s a Chinese saying that fits perfectly: 欲蓋彌彰
The more you try to hide it, the more obvious it becomes.

--jeroen

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EGBG tegenscript (via Angrynerds 023)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/19

Voor mijn link archief: script tegen telemarketeers: [Wayback/Archive] EGBG tegenscript

Met name deze onderdelen op de pagina:

Via [Wayback/Archive] Angrynerds 023 – YouTube

–jeroen

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Naming devices and animals

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/18

Via [Wayback/Archive] Diederik Jekel on Twitter: “@CaAl @michielveenstra Mijn montage PC’s voor video-editing heette Edit Piaf, Chiel Montage en Antje Montero. Kwam in brainstorm naar boven met mijn maatje Jon.”:

  • Video-editing equipment:

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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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More Apple ][*, //* II* and classic Macintosh hardware upgrades

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/14

The mini micro classic Apple emulators related post last week became way too big, so here is the classic Apple 2/Macintosh hardware upgrade part follow-up I announced in Some notes on mini/micro Apple //e emulators.

Last week, I mentioned [Wayback/Archive] ARC Javmaster – YouTube. Let’s continue from there for an even bigger post (:

Javmaster actually has a shop at [Wayback/Archive] Welcome to the 8-bit stuff store – 8 bit stuff cool retro computer 3D gadgets and geekery with a lot of interesting (mainly Apple ][ era related) retro things like:

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Wlz PGB tarieventabel 2025 (voor budgethouders met indicatie voor verblijf)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/14

Ik had dit vergeten te schedulen: [Wayback/Archive] r248773-202409-zk-tarieventabel-pgb-2025-web.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]

Het wordt belangrijk omdat we overwegen van Wlz gebaseerde Zorg in Natura terug te gaan naar Persoonsgebonden Budget (PGB).

--jeroen

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Some notes on running Postfix inside a docker container

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/14

The plan was to run a Postfix secondary MX inside a docker container.

Below are many links that might help me to get that going.

For now, I think this is the shortlist of solutions to try:

  • Docker Mailserver
  • Mailcow
  • Mailu

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roehling/postsrsd: Postfix Sender Rewriting Scheme daemon

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/12

This finally made me perform the (long overdue) migration from Sendmail to Postfix:

The Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS) is a technique to forward mails from domains which deploy the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) to prohibit other Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) from sending mails on their behalf. With SRS, an MTA can circumvent SPF restrictions by replacing the envelope sender with a temporary email address from one of their own domains. This temporary address is bound to the original sender and only valid for a certain amount of time, which prevents abuse by spammers.

[Wayback/Archive] roehling/postsrsd: Postfix Sender Rewriting Scheme daemon

Via a long queste to figure out why Gmail every now and then bounces forwarded messages because of Sender Policy Framework (SPF). Below are a few of the links that brought me here in mostly reverse order, but first some links that should help me further on the topic of Postfix virtual aliases.

The sendmail setup had some features not covered below (like a catch-all forward for email to addresses virtual domains not covered by a virtual alias) which I hopefully can cover later.

One thing learned both over the past decades and related postfix material: use separate servers or containers for each of your functions. So do not mix web-hosting, outgoing mail, incoming mail, fail2ban and others on the same server.

Links:

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ASCII Art Archive, my own ASCII signature, plus many FIGlet and TOIlet ASCII font art links

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/11

Earlier this year I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Art Archive

This brought back instant memories about ASCII art, so in the future expect af few unfinished blog-posts that were in my “if I ever get to it archive” about it.

Let me start with my very limited ASCII art I used in late 1980s and early 1990s newsgroup and LISTSERV mailing list signature I reconstructed from a comp.virus post¹ having some very old contact data²:

    o  _   _  _   _   _            voice: +31-2522-20908 (18:00-24:00 UTC)
   /  (_' |  (_) (_' | |           snail: P.S.O.
__/                                       attn. Jeroen W. Pluimers
                                          P.O. Box 266
jeroenp@rulfc1.LeidenUniv.nl              2170 AG Sassenheim
jeroen_pluimers@f521.n281.z2.fidonet.org  The Netherlands

Shortly after that, my main source of income moved from the command-line to GUI based tools, so I temporarily kind of lost interest in command-line tools and customs. In that period FIGlet (see below) got created, which I totally missed (though I vaguely remember the 1.0 version being named newban).

The link at the start of this blog post not only pointed me to FIGlet, but also has a lot of examples (like some [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Art Logos – asciiart.eu) of which many by ASCII artist Joan Stark, and also links to JavaScript based tools:

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