Great read here about a kind of telephony I’d never heard of: barbed wire fence networks. (via @ldx) https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
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Great read here about a kind of telephony I’d never heard of: barbed wire fence networks. (via @ldx) https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/ -
New blog post!Enthusiast communities and institutional archivists tend to work in very different spheres, and I don't always see the right connections get made for people to take advantage of stuff at the intersection. Since I've got a foot in both worlds, I want to be a bridge when I can.
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New blog post!New blog post! I've been using enthusiast-developed lower-level CD reading techniques for awhile, and I think institutional archivists would benefit from trying them out. Wrote up a summary of what it is, how it works, and how it could be useful for you.
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The last two CD-ROM Journal posts have been about floppy disks. Someone's going to revoke my domain name -
The last two CD-ROM Journal posts have been about floppy disks. Someone's going to revoke my domain nameThe last two CD-ROM Journal posts have been about floppy disks. Someone's going to revoke my domain name
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New blog post!New blog post! This time I'm taking a look at fonts. I ran into a floppy disk containing a pair of extremely cute dingbat fonts - a tokusatsu helmet alphabet, and a set of decorative lucha mask characters. They're well-designed and very detailed.
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I've migrated a cohost blog to Mastodon: I'll be posting images from interesting CD-ROM discs (games and otherwise), with information about the source included.https://botsin.space/@compactdiscinteractive/113133781261935900I've migrated a cohost blog to Mastodon: I'll be posting images from interesting CD-ROM discs (games and otherwise), with information about the source included.
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Anyone have experience with Writefreely or any other blog software that federates via activitypub?Anyone have experience with Writefreely or any other blog software that federates via activitypub? I'm looking at options for longer-form blogging that feels social within the fediverse, and I'm specifically looking for something that feels tailored for the job. (Long-character-count mastodon/etc is awful on the eyes for me personally - need something that's styled for blogging.)
goblin.band actually works okay for it but I'm wondering about something that's, like. Blog qua blog, too.
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#MastoAdmin question: if I delete an account, will a new user be able to register using the same username?#MastoAdmin question: if I delete an account, will a new user be able to register using the same username?
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Really impressed with how good Infinite Mac is these days.Really impressed with how good Infinite Mac is these days. Being able to just drag an ISO onto my browser desktop and have it be mounted in a way that just works is really, really impressive. https://infinitemac.org
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maybe I'd be better at getting back into my reverse engineering projects if getting back into them didn't involve first figuring out which of the 13 Ghidra versions I have installed is for that project@foone Reminds me of a game I was looking at which used a virtual filesystem with a sidecar file containing the filenames…on one platform. They didn’t ship it on the other platform and the file sizes/orders didn’t line up.
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Putting out the call again: does any #mastoadmin know of a managed hosting solution for Mastodon that supports Mastodon forks?Putting out the call again: does any #mastoadmin know of a managed hosting solution for Mastodon that supports Mastodon forks?
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If I ever become rich, I'm gonna start a factory to make laserdiscs.@foone A way to make LDs again is the only thing I've ever wanted
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I can't say I'm a *huge* fan of AI services becoming Zed's monetization strategy, but on the plus side it lets you turn it off so thoroughly the UI for it disappears entirely. Sure can't say that for GitHub.I can't say I'm a *huge* fan of AI services becoming Zed's monetization strategy, but on the plus side it lets you turn it off so thoroughly the UI for it disappears entirely. Sure can't say that for GitHub.
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Pretty upset that the car I bought 3.5 weeks ago looks like it's dead - now waiting to hear back from both mechanic and the dealer I bought it from...@kestral Geeze. That’s no time at all.
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Doing okay over there GitHub?Doing okay over there GitHub?