#GitHub is blocking users based on national origin, citing US trade controls law restrictions....
People from #Iran, #Syria, #Crimea, #Cuba, and North Korea woke up one day to lose access to all their public and private repositories. There's reporting that even people *who traveled* to any of those countries in the last 2 years are losing their data...
And #GitHub has not said ONE WORD ABOUT IT.
just spent ~2 hours trying to wrangle ImageMagick or pdfjam to convert and condense about 400 jpegs into one PDF
finally did it in about 5 minutes with gscan2pdf:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/gscan2pdf
sometimes....GUIs are good
Now in blog form! "rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions" https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2019/06/29/rsync-guis-power-control-design-and-decisions/
Any vintage computing and/or emulator enthusiasts out there who have favorite hobbyist sites or resources? I realized this was a crucial missing piece in my emulation-resources repo:
https://github.com/EG-tech/emulation-resources/blob/master/README.md#hobby-blogs
new slide for when people ask us if the legacy operating systems in EaaSI are "secure"
Great post by @ashley on character encoding, a challenge many at digipres.club face on a regular basis
iPRES program is out!
https://ipres2019.org/program/
Can't wait for my favorite pre-conference activity, which is planning when to take a break (not going to be easy since our hackathon got accepted!!)
"Full-time maintainers are technically talented people responsible for issue management, security, navigating toxic complaints, while often receiving below the industry standards."
v. into this analysis on FLOSS funding, "Software below the poverty line"
https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
LAST DAY TO REGISTER!!!
Any colleagues going to Texas in August for #SAA2019, please join the EaaSI and FCoP teams for this FREE day-long workshop on preserving software and implementing emulation access services
Come hang and catalog some software!!! (really)
I wrote a personal essay on federated social web meets the rogue archivists, the nuance and power of forgetting, and building social software around consent and archival resistance. https://wilkie.how/posts/social-archival
First blog post of the new project is up 🎇 Sarah Nguyen, research scientist, wrote up an update on the first phase of her part of this project, investigating the scholarly git experience -- and what that means!
https://investigating-archiving-git.gitlab.io/updates/what-is-scholarship-and-git/
V/O, WINDOWS 10 DESKTOP WITH HI-RES "GAME OF THRONES" WALLPAPER AND SHORTCUTS FOR MINECRAFT, FORTNITE, BITTORRENT:
*somehow both too quiet and too close to the mic at the same time*
hhhhhhhhhhh ok guys hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh today I'm going to show you hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh how to upload a QEMU Docker container into EaaSI
📝 📷 ➡️ 🖥❓What's your favorite software+hardware for scanning still images or digitizing archival docs—ideally open source? Uber-conservator @unstablearchive and uber-preservationist @ablwr would love Twitter replies or notes added to this Google Doc! https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2016/12/02/minimum-viable-transfer-station-documentation/ #digipres [repeated from Twitter]
Hooray, digipres.club is back! So now I can ask a question of any QEMU tinkerers and/or legacy Linux users:
Any suggestions for getting '90s-era Mandrake (5.x) to recognize sound and network cards? As far as I can tell from modprobe, Mandrake had native drivers for QEMU's emulated SB16 and NE2000 PCI devices, and they're loaded into the kernel, but the OS still won't see them.
Am I going to finally experience the joys of recompiling the Linux kernel???
Software preservation. Moving image archivist/technician. Soviet Cinema enthusiast. Passionate about film, TV, audiovisual cables. He/him.