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Lisa Petrides (ISKME.org) interviews Matthias Kirschner, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe. He started using GNU/Linux in 1999 and joined FSFE in 2004 while studying political and administrative science.

The conversation is about why software freedom matters to people who don't write code: the urge to tinker, share and collaborate, and how the rights to use, understand, adapt and share software support free speech, a free press and privacy.

He also wrote a children's book, Ada & Zangemann – A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Pi, and they talk about teaching these ideas to kids. See: https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/148480/overview

This season of the "Educating to Be Human" podcast is about people working to keep access to information and knowledge open and decentralized.

Also on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/educating-to-be-human-...

Hi,

I manage the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

Very happy so many people here care about preserving, and making available, our cultural heritage!

Please know a dedicated, and talented, team of engineers works every day to do a better job of archiving more of the public Web, and making it available via the Wayback Machine.

As noted the Internet Archive is experimenting with filecoin.io and storj.io and is always open to suggestions about how we might do our jobs better, and improve our service. We also host regular meetups (and have hosted summits and a camp) related to the Decentralized Web. See: https://blog.archive.org/tag/dweb/

The Internet Archive also offers archive-it.org, a subscription service, for those who want a higher level of support and more features.

We appreciate any support you can offer, financial and otherwise. Please share any bug reports, feature suggestions and other feedback with us via email to [email protected]

Oh/and… checkout the new PDF Search feature we just launched at the bottom of web.archive.org. More to come like that in 2022.

Finally, you might also find some of the things I wrote here of interest: https://gijn.org/2021/05/05/tips-for-using-the-internet-arch...

Yes!

We have been doing that for several years... nearly 13 million links fixed so far!

We suggest/encourage people link to original URLs but ALSO (as opposed to instead of) provide Wayback Machine URLs so that if/when the original URLs go bad (link rot) the archive URL is available, or to give people a way to compare the content associated with a given URL over time (content drift)

BTW, we archive all outlinks from all Wikipedia articles from all Wikipedia sites, in near-real-time... so that we are able to fix them if/when they break. We have rescued more than 10 million so far from more than 30 Wikipedia sites. We are now working to have Wayback Machine URLs added IN ADDITION to Live Web links when any new outlinks are added... so that those references are "born archived" and inherently persistent.

Note, I manage the Wayback Machine team at the Internet Archive. We appreciate all your support, advice, suggestions and requests.

We try! :-)

No. No $ is changing hands.

To be clear... we are super happy that Brave values helping to make the Web more useful and reliable.

We welcome other browser companies joining them and working with us as well.

The extra load on our servers is not that significant. At this point we support thousands of request per second, we can take on a few more.

Having said that... we always appreciate the support and love from the community to people (and companies) who use and appreciate our services.

We are adding more a billion URLs/day to the Wayback Machine these days... that is a LOT of hard drives :-)

If you let me know what your email address is I will ensure we take you off our list and on behalf of the Internet Archive I, and we, apologize to you. Please feel free to send your request to [email protected] and please reference me, Mark Graham in your email. I will look out for it. We appreciate the support you have given us in the past and are very sorry for not respecting your request to not get more email from us. I assure you we have no desire to send email to anyone who does not want to get it. In fact, just the opposite!

The Internet Archive uses various Web archiving technologies and processes to capture Web-based resources and is working to improve them on an ongoing basis. This includes support for sites/pages that support infinite scroll via JS. If you have specific requests, bug reports, issues, please send them to [email protected] and we will try to do better.

You don't need to be surprised. We do account for what you reference.