"I took much pains in sorting and folding of papers."
I agree so very very much, Sam. The folding part is often overlooked. A paper that is being put to use must be folded. It's a mark of recognition and appropriation. The unfolded paper is alien, the folded paper is trusted.
[The truth, I'm not sarky.]
@jessienab@wetdry.worldIs anyone in here subscribed to Scarecrow Video, and if so would you be willing to rent a very specific DVD, dump it to an ISO, and send it to me? The copy in Canada seems to be fucked beyond readability, could be disc rot. DM me, I am running out of options. #preservation #archive #dvd #vhs #archival #movie #movies #ScarecrowVideo #blockbuster
@gutenberg_org @internetarchive is anyone doing anything about the idea of including the codec with the scan for future future generations? I love digital archiving but at the same time there are already videos in my own archive that I can no longer easily decode.
#software #codec #transcoding #archiving #archival #digitalArchaeology
Today I wrote Maintaining The Remote System, a script for my Hacker Public Radio podcast in which I will discuss a remote tunnel reverse shell and why I need one for Libre Indie Archive.
I hope to read it tomorrow and get it submitted.
Here's an in advance funny part.
Remember, in the future the remote system is going to be sitting somewhere with no monitor, keyboard, or mouse.
Only computer programmers are required to remember the future.
How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes
@kkarhan@infosec.space@FerdiMagellan @jwildeboer @soatok I use #XMPP+#OMEMO, more specifically, @monocles / #monclesChat & @gajim / #gajim!
https://docs.monocles.eu/apps/chat.app/
I've sorted another aspect of my radar data archival efforts: In an effort to reduce the set I'm archiving to just those outside of the "clear air" surveillance volume coverage patterns, I have FINALLY found a reliable source of volume coverage patterns per day, per radar site 
#Twitch announced they are going to be deleting highlights down to the most viewed 100 hours of video for every #streamer in a few months time. Twitch has not provided any kind of useful tooling for creators to migrate their content off the platform, but yt-dlp can be used as a stopgap to help archive your highlight videos locally. For example,
yt-dlp --format 'bestvideo+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio/best' --merge-output-format mkv https://www.twitch.tv/<user>/videos?filter=highlights
This will download all highlights from <user> consecutively and save them as .mkv files, but it is still far from practical for more extensive sets of highlights.
Many people make use of highlights for archiving their streams so they are not simply lost when they are done, and it threatens to erase a lot of Twitch history including not only gaming but also videos from artists, musicians and many others. This is particularly the case in #SpeedRunning communities that use Twitch highlights for keeping verifiable records of runs and anything reposted would need to be re-verified.
Twitch claims this impacts only some 0.5% of users but the methodology for that statistic is at best suspect when it comes to long term active streamers. While I personally don’t have a massive amount of hours of highlights, I do use them for refining and sharing clipped moments as well as for building compilations to share.
It’s pretty concerning that large swathes of online history are being erased on various platforms (YouTube, imgur, etc) including from those people who are no longer with us or simply can’t archive elsewhere.
Here’s one place to make your voice heard whether you are someone who streams or watches, https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/928429-channel-page/suggestions/49496519-do-not-implement-100-hour-limit-for-highlights-and
I now have my own fully search-able mirror of #Kiwix hosted on my home server, including #Wikipedia. You can check it out at:
Content may change as time goes on since I literally "just" got it set up and working, and you should definitely prioritize the original resources and donate to the folks hosting it. But IF some of these resources become unavailable from their original source, feel free to use my mirror as long as it's up.
The Indie Archive is taken. There is a domain name
theindiearchive.com
for a different paid service.
My project is open source and free to anyone to use.
I'm not even in beta so I'm going to rename.
So far we came up with
Indie Archival Storage
which is an accurate descriptor but not nearly as cool as The Indie Archive.
So ...
Any ideas?
If you're interested here's the link to my podcast, What Is The Indie Archive.
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4312/index.html
Thanks
New Episode: hpr4312 :: What Is The Indie Archive?
The Indie Archive is a archival solution for indie producers.
Hosted by hairylarry on Tuesday, 2025-02-11 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: #PlainText, #archival, #programming
Today on the #HackerPublicRadio #Community #Podcast
“We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.” Harvard Library Innovation Lab (via BlueSky)
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/
https://bsky.app/profile/harvardlil.bsky.social/post/3lhjzh7f54226
@kkarhan@infosec.space@delta also the whole "BuT #mEtAdAtA?" Discussion is completely blown out of proportions by #Signal fanboys.
In fact, I'm convinced someone already made a #delta #chat #server as an #OnionService over @torproject / #Tor just for the lulz.
Not that this is something the average user encounters, but it is a big bonus for larger organizations!
by pure chance I’ve stumbled upon a beautiful Indonesian web comic The Great Insula, 2024, which seems to be lost media :[
host was hardly crawled by Wayback, I can’t find a mention of its author. tried searching a few social media platforms. one chapter was shared before it disappeared.
DuckDuckGo still has some of the beautiful pages cached. I’ve saved a few of my favourites. just wanted to post here in the hopes it’s not lost forever. lossy archival </3
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=The+Great+Insula+site:nonmemoir.xyz&ia=web
@kkarhan@infosec.space@luckytran do you or anyone else have the raw data, notes, etc from #CDC?
We've got a great lineup of #book releases over the next few months.
First up is a discussion of the new book Preserving #Disability: Disability and the #Archival Profession
Feb. 10, 11am Eastern
Register: https://libraryjuice.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_13B8ZXtpRMW6qepKN63CFA#/registration
(Note that this is event 1 of 2 for this book!)
I have a whole bunch of archive dumps of my own data that I got from dead websites or *ahem* sites that were clearly on the path of destruction.
Now, I realise one small problem: ...I'm not always sure where I left the dang things.
Would be cool if I could somehow have some kind of, like, compre-honking-sive archival system at home.
Like The Internet Archive, but at home.
Here's a dataset/tarball/whatevs. Enter title and category and descriptions of the stuff. Maybe even have some fancy ways of viewing the contents.
Then I'd be like, "So where were all of my posts to the birdsite before everything went to hell?" and the site would just say "Oh, they're right here, don't worry."
