Hacker News: nosamu

New comment by nosamu in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

nosamu — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:41:00 +0000

Has anyone else noticed that some of Archive.today's X/Twitter captures [1] are logged in with an account called "advancedhosters" [2], which is associated with a web hosting company apparently located in Cyprus? The latest post [3] from the account links to a blog post [4] including private communications between the webmaster of Archive.today (using their previously-known "Volth" alias) and a site owner requesting a takedown. Also note that the previous post [5] from the "advancedhosters" account was a link to a pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine article, archived via Archive.today of course. Seems like an interesting lead to untangle.

[1] https://archive.today/20240714173022/https://x.com/archiveis...

[2] https://x.com/advancedhosters

[3] https://x.com/advancedhosters/status/1731129170091004412

[4] https://lj.rossia.org/users/mopaiv/257.html

[5] https://x.com/advancedhosters/status/1501971277099286539

New comment by nosamu in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

nosamu — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:53:02 +0000

Yes please open a GitHub issue and attach all materials needed to reproduce the issue. Thank you!

New comment by nosamu in "PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts"

nosamu — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 03:27:40 +0000

I took a look at this script and you can do the same thing it does with the ia command line tool (`pip install internetarchive` is the easiest way to get it)

ia download --search uploader:youremail@example.com

New comment by nosamu in "PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts"

nosamu — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 07:09:29 +0000

I found that it's possible to download an account's Web Archives list as a json file, for example: https://archive.org/download/@brewster/@brewster_web-archive...

User accounts have other json files such as _mylists.json, but they are access-restricted and cannot be downloaded, unfortunately.

New comment by nosamu in "Ruffle: Flash Player Emulator"

nosamu — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:47:09 +0000

They're still up! http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

You'll need to install the Ruffle extension in your browser to view them.

New comment by nosamu in "Ruffle: Flash Player Emulator"

nosamu — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:28:48 +0000

I've passed this on to the Ruffle team, thanks! They are working on improving support for external videos, which was added only a few months ago.

New comment by nosamu in "Flash Museum"

nosamu — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:57:19 +0000

I've uploaded the animation for you here: https://archive.org/details/flash_skipintro

I sourced it from the Wayback Machine, and thanks to the Internet Archive's Ruffle integration, it's playable on the web!

New comment by nosamu in "Flash Museum"

nosamu — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:52:41 +0000

Both are web frontends for the Flashpoint Archive's database: https://flashpointarchive.org/

The difference is that 9o3o is Flashpoint's official (experimental) site, whereas Flash Museum is a third-party site that imported Flashpoint's database into WordPress and reuploaded the Flash files into an S3 bucket (without preserving directory structures or accounting for multi-asset items).

New comment by nosamu in "Flash Museum"

nosamu — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:41:00 +0000

This site ripped its entire database from Flashpoint Archive (https://flashpointarchive.org/), including all of the metadata, screenshots and "Hall of Fame" list. As a contributor to Flashpoint, I'm not opposed to sites like this (as long as they remain nonprofit endeavors), but I think they should make these facts clear.

In addition to its desktop client, Flashpoint Archive also offers its own experimental web frontend called 9o3o (https://ooooooooo.ooo/static/browse/), also using Ruffle for playback. It's not as fleshed out as Flash Museum yet, but games are embedded at their intended resolution and other efforts have been made to improve game compatibility, so I think it is already a worthy alternative. Check it out!

New comment by nosamu in "Internet Archive expands Flash support"

nosamu — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 02:17:26 +0000

The Flashpoint project has some great documentation here:

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Uploading_SWFs_for...

New comment by nosamu in "Internet Archive expands Flash support"

nosamu — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 02:15:29 +0000

I've opened some new Ruffle issues so we can hopefully fix the problems you mentioned:

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/12071 https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/12073

As I noted on those issues, this game uses multiple assets, so downloading and playing just the main SWF file won't work. You can play the game by loading the URL of its main SWF file in the Adobe Flash projector, which can still be downloaded from here: http://web.archive.org/web/20220401020702/https://www.adobe....

New comment by nosamu in "Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th"

nosamu — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 20:24:47 +0000

Note that this announcement is about Shockwave, not Flash. Here is an article about the difference between the two: https://medium.com/@nosamu/the-difference-between-flash-and-... While Shockwave Player will be discontinued on April 9, Flash Player will be discontinued at the end of 2020: https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/