What ads are on the site? They don’t accept advertising.

That was only for a temporary time and only included a subset of books. This was to help out the schools during early Covid. I am not sure that it was the smartest move but I can understand why they did it.

From https://blog.archive.org/national-emergency-library/

> The National Emergency Library was a temporary collection of books that supported emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries were closed due to COVID-19. The National Emergency Library launched on March 24, 2020, and closed on June 16, 2020

This is the exact title so it should stay up 🙂

This is a very major event, people don’t réalisé the amount of data and history that is on Internet Archive

Thanks for posting this. My version that linked a blog was removed because I took the time out of the title. Hopefully this one stays up. Some comments that I posted in my one:

From: https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

> A major lawsuit against the nonprofit Internet Archive threatens the future of all libraries. Big publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ ownership and control of digital books, opening new paths for censorship. Oral arguments are on March 20.

and

> The Internet Archive has been scanning millions of print books that they own, and loaning them out to anyone around the world, for free. Other libraries like the Boston Public Library are using the same process to make digital books too. > > This is happening because major publishers offer no option for libraries to permanently purchase digital books and carry out their traditional role of preservation. > > Instead, libraries are forced to pay high licensing fees to “rent” books from big tech vendors that regard patron privacy as a premium feature and are vulnerable to censorship from book banners. Under this regime, publishers act as malicious gatekeepers, preventing the free flow of information and undermining libraries’ ability to serve their patrons. > > But it looks bad if publishers sue the Boston Public Library. So instead, they’ve launched an attack on a groundbreaking nonprofit, including a lawsuit with clear repercussions for every library in the US.

The OS market as a whole simply IS depressing, just no way around that fact sadly.

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Like in my experience:

Windows is simple, but lies to your face and changes/resets things unnoticed with updates. this OS is just getting worse and has been going downhill for quite a while, with the spied on user data, or "you, the User" being the product for their immeasurable corporate gain first and foremost and they don't actually care about you the user and with many things it's change for change sake.

MacOS is not much better here if not a bit more consistent and is also an expensive proprietary nightmarish hellscape where it's Apple's way, or no way, with little wiggle room nor choice.

Linux could be great and is free and open source, yet comes with "too much" choice in a way. is seemingly more fractured then ever and therefore has support and compatibility issues even among their own derivatives. Meanwhile this OS in general is also quite demanding in its many iterations and issues requiring that the user is quite a bit more advanced then average to keep it or the desired programs working. having done some IT support (for friends/family) many people can't really handle that (without excessive searching, frustration and or fucking things up at least a few times) so in general the public tends to avoid Linux which doesn't help its cause.

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Am currently still using windows 10 and when that is truly at its EOL i'll probably go back to Linux (Mint... Maybe another now?) for better or worse as i do like Linux, but dread facing the hands-on aspects again to just get the various common programs, education required junk apps and my games to just run without having to jump through multiple hoops, VM's and command line interface experiences.

EDIT: typos and such.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 91%. (I'm a bot)

> Book publishers and the Internet Archive will face off today in a hearing that could determine the future of library ebooks - deciding whether libraries must rely on the often temporary digital licenses that publishers offer or whether they can scan and lend copies of their own tomes.

> In a response, the Internet Archive says it's received around $5,500 total in affiliate revenue and that its digital scanning service is separate from the Open Library.

> Digital rights organization Fight for the Future has supported the Internet Archive with a campaign called Battle for Libraries, arguing that the lawsuit threatens the ability of libraries to hold their own digital copies of books.

Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: library^#1 Book^#2 publishers^#3 digital^#4 Archive^#5

While I think preserving knowledge is a noble goal I cannot possibly see how the Internet Archive can win this one. They are not simply scanning books for preservation but

> As physical libraries closed their doors in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, the Internet Archive launched what it called the National Emergency Library, removing the “own-to-loan” restriction and letting unlimited numbers of people access each ebook

previously they were lending 1 digital copy for each physical copy they owned creating a gray area of book lending. But unlimited lending without having rented or owning the physical copies is piracy.

On top of that they actually profit from ads on the site, so the publishers are also using those profits to strengthen their case.

Why is it difficult in the first place hmmm?

It is easy, this article is nonsense.

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Hiring freeze started in October IIRC

A smaller Amazon is good.

As a Linux user this title alone is depressing. Setting default apps ought to be as simple as creating a new folder.

Nope. I’m in IT for a non-tech company in the SF Bay Area, 15 yoe

Me too ! It’s an important part of the internet.

Hope Internet Achieve wins/survives

This is a pretty good writeup that touches on some of the things we've talked about, including remote work, with data:

https://thenewstack.io/how-will-working-in-tech-change-in-2023/

I get the impression he's younger FAANG that moved out or looked to move out of the bay area and is now worried.

>The latest round is expected to impact Amazon’s cloud computing, advertising, human resources and Twitch units.

They would fit in the latter two descriptions.

It’s all luck of the draw. Some teams are chill, but the company culture as a whole is pretty cutthroat. But I don’t think from an individual perspective getting laid off (especially in this job environment) is ever really an ideal situation

those aren't the people getting laid off, lol

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Oh okay I definitely thought you were saying the opposite.

If you’re going to be pedantic, the limited data behind my hypothesis is that I’ve seen more companies call for workers to come back to the office and I’ve seen more workers in my area acquiesce to the demands out of fear of job loss (where a year ago they were laughing about it saying they’d never go back). All anecdotal, yes