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Vancouver: our municipal by-election is tomorrow. Please vote, and especially help keep ABC's candidates out of office. I'm personally voting for Sean Orr and Lucy Maloney, both of whom are great choices for the city going forward. #vanpoli https://vancouver.ca/election/2025/where-to-vote.aspx

on Fri, 6PM

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Attached: 1 image even back in the 90s, software didn't understand consent.

on Thu, 2PM

Bertrand Caron (@BertrandCaron@digipres.club)

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Hey #digipres folks! How do you appreciate the term "complex objects"? I was very reluctant to using it, then I realized it was a pretty well-established term. I still see it as a way of avoiding a more precise categorization, like "multimedia" or "electronic resources" that smell like the 90's...

on Thu, 9AM

bri (@brhfl@digipres.club)

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Attached: 1 image but, hey, professionals need games too, right? the english-speaking world only got a handful - chess, backgammon, and of course tetris. one or two others. japan got a ton of games including arcade ports from sunsoft, tecmo… there’s even an rpg for the thing! anyway you’ll...

on Wed, 11PM

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the fun thing about being a programmer is that sometimes you'll be like "I just need to do X, fortunately I already wrote a script to make doing X easy!" and then instead of just doing X with your script, you instead spend an hour slightly optimizing your X-script

on Wed, 7AM

Jon Ippolito (@jonippolito@digipres.club)

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Attached: 1 image Can you trust AI with your archives? On April 2 at 5pm EDT, UMaine's Digital Curation program hosts a webinar with Sara and Ben Brumfield on blending human crowdsourcing with AI's scale and speed. Join us for a discussion of practical uses and thorny...

on Mar 30

Webrecorder (@webrecorder@digipres.club)

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Whether it's a DH project, a personal site, or even gov site that is going offline, all you need is a WACZ file created with any of our tools (Browsertrix.com, ArchiveWeb.page) and you can host a web archive-powered mirror of your own, for free! To get started, check...

on Mar 29

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It's kinda funny how the Nicole the fediverse chick spam wave is happening the exact same way as the Japanese minecraft teenager spam waves from last year, just way less intense.

on Mar 28

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on a day with no ADHD meds, my roommate knocks on the door and is like "a friend got their discord hacked but before I knew it they sent me an EXE and I ran it. am I hacked?"

on Mar 28

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anyone an actual security researcher who knows how (and with what authority) to yell at NPM to get this taken down? https://www.npmjs.com/package/ilovingcats

on Mar 27

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Wow, this Pixelfed bug is *nasty*. Allowed users to access private posts of remote users they're not following so long as another user on the same Pixelfed server legitimately followed that account. If you're running a Pixelfed server, definitely upgrade immediately now that the vulnerability...

on Mar 26

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I really can't overemphasize how destructive this is to the open web. The web is built just as much on a consensus on how to fairly do things as it is on technical measures keep things going, and AI scrapers have blown that up....

on Mar 25

Jon Ippolito (@jonippolito@digipres.club)

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Attached: 1 image Viewing large language models as compression machines helps explain why they seem at turns big-brained and pea-brained. To learn more, join me for Honey, AI Shrunk the Archive, an IEEE/UMaine AI webinar next Thursday 3 April at noon...

on Mar 25

abrasive (@abrasive@digipres.club)

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Attached: 1 image I only just learned that we have home-grown Australian modems! For those overseas, "woomera" is a Dharug word for a lever that matches the impedance of a hunting spear to that of a human arm - a skilled user can get a massive range increase (I've heard 3× bandied about).

on Mar 25

.:/ DiSCATTe \:. 💾 ᓚᘏᗢ (@discatte@digipres.club)

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Attached: 1 image This thing has seen some polygons.

on Mar 24

Tim 🎮 (@timixretroplays@digipres.club)

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Attached: 2 images Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark...

on Mar 23

Trevor Owens (@tjowens@digipres.club)

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This is the best piece of reporting I’ve seen so far on what is going on at IMLS. I encourage everyone who cares about the key role that libraries and museums play in the United States to read it. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doge-imls-institute-museum-library-services-2623286

on Mar 23

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I need to reverse engineer something but all the to-do deathgenerators are GBA hacking projects. I don't want to hack GBA games right now! I should just pick another random DOS game and start hacking it

on Mar 22

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Attached: 1 image Here's the aliens.

on Mar 22

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Attached: 1 image it opens right up to COPY PROTECTION! this is getting better and better.

on Mar 22

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Attached: 1 image Pizza Hut website (ca 1996, in NCSA Mosaic 3)

on Mar 19

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I'm not really sure why this website has a non-mobile version. I signed up on my laptop, and it told me it needed to verify my identity. First, a SMS code. Normal enough. then it told me to use my smartphone to scan a QR code to send me to a website that used my phone's browser to take a picture...

on Mar 18

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It turns out no matter how many times you try, you can't clone-tool away a spec of dirt on your screen

on Mar 15

wzhkevin (@wzhkevin@digipres.club)

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Question for #linguistics and #sociolinguistics from an ex-linguist who never did any work outside Southeast Asia: Do we reckon current… relations between the US and Canada are likely to have any long-term sociolinguistic implications in Canada? Asking out of interest because anecdotally, I...

on Mar 14

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Good news Canada, we got a sword now https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/king-charles-sword-canadian-attendant-1.7482738

on Mar 13

vxo (@vxo@digipres.club)

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@stefthepef@mastodon.social I was immediately reminded of this horse who can't pass gas normally but can if it rolls around and lets it rip! https://youtu.be/Wj0SNoTqGpE

on Mar 13

Digital Preservation Coalition (@dpc_chat@digipres.club)

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Attached: 1 image Now Released: Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Digital Preservation Community 🫶🏽 This survey explores workplace wellbeing among digital preservation practitioners, highlighting: • Effects of solitary work environments • Impact of high workload demands • Challenges of...

on Mar 11

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Attached: 1 image now THAT'S a weird restriction.

on Mar 11

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Truly incredible things happening in sports merchandising https://defector.com/wow-perfect-a-hat-you-cant-read?giftLink=7a43909a3c5f7823d1bd106f4feafb7b

on Mar 11

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COMPUTERS WERE A MISTAKE SMALL COMPUTERS DOUBLY SO

on Mar 10

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Really not a fan of the hyperactive subtitles on short videos these days, the ones that are like a word at a time or rapidfire highlighting words. Like I get it's meant to be engaging, but I literally can't focus on the video itself anymore. With normal subtitles I can read a line at a time then...

on Mar 9

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"when I was getting the USS Revere flight ready for the fleet museum, I had to trade a Mark 5 Interphasic scanner AND half a dozen duonetic couplers with a Lissepian engineer out by the Typhon Expanse. The only other place I could find any was on subspacebay and I'm not paying 5 bars of...

on Mar 7

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Attached: 1 image A very, very different time. Which version of DOS you can use with this game depends on how much RAM you have.

on Mar 7

digitalpreservation.fi (@dpres_fi@digipres.club)

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3 Posts, 0 Following, 43 Followers · Kansalliset pitkäaikaissäilytyspalvelut / The National Digital Preservation Services in Finland

on Mar 7

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Attached: 1 image I always felt like this screen was judging me for answering "no"

on Mar 6

Phil M0OFX (@philpem@digipres.club)

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Leeds to Swindon return: £180. Now I know they're taking the absolute piss.

on Mar 4

The Open Buddhist University (@obu@digipres.club)

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📰 Mythologies of Bosat Viṣṇu (A free, 20-page article from 2007) Tags: #SriLanka #India #SriLankanHistory https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/mythologies-of-bosat-vishnu_holt-john-clifford

on Mar 4

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Wow, this is pretty: https://defector.com/its-snowing-sea-cucumbers-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea?giftLink=b15c1b7edf12030a6d7bf1c84800f30b

on Mar 4

Euan Cochrane (@euanc@digipres.club)

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"Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don’t work anymore Due to the way WB manufactured their DVDs, virtually all discs pressed between 2006-8 are unplayable now." https://www.joblo.com/hundreds-maybe-thousands-of-your-warner-bros-dvds-dont-work-anymore/

on Mar 3

raffaele (@raffaele@digipres.club)

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The redesigned VIAF site has broken this Openrefine conciliation service https://refine.codefork.com/ (or at least I think this is the cause). Do you know other reconciliation services? Or some forum/git where the issue is being tracked?

on Feb 25

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Attached: 1 image this was about the Wonder Tools Cruiser (and the software for it) which I've been hacking on for the last couple days. Mainly on the software side so far: For the RomChip stream, it was running on old hardware rather than conversion to USB or anything, as that was all we...

on Feb 23

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Tigerbrew users: I have a branch with GCC 14 available for testing. Anyone interested in giving it a shot before it’s merged? I could especially use some testing on C++ code using newer C++ standards. https://github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew/pull/1286 Please note that it can’t be built from...

on Feb 22

ladigitalizadora.org (@espiguemos@digipres.club)

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Attached: 1 video Ha fallecido Juan Mariné, cineasta y restaurador fílmico, que entre otras muchas cosas fue uno de los cámaras del entierro de Durruti.❤️ 🖤 Le rendimos homenaje con estas palabras de Diamantino García sobre el anarquismo pronunciadas durante el homenaje a otro anarquista,...

on Feb 18