Dorothea "LibSkrat" Salo @dsalo@digipres.club

Oh right. #introduction Dorothea, librarian, LIS educator (for now; I'm kinda looking tbh), former scholcommer and research-data person, privacy hawk, bicycle rider, figure-skating fan, Good Omens fan, Cat Person.

Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/

Nope.

Still don't do peer review for Big E. Not no way, not no day.

(I was polite in my refusal.)

Pity, it looked like an interesting piece.

Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing Geo Tracking Data to ICE https://theintercept.com/2022/06/29/crypto-coinbase-tracer-ice/

Inclusive Access Savings or Spin? https://www.inclusiveaccess.org/facts/savings-or-spin

Did I just read "stored in a Sequel database" in an LIS research article.

Did I.

And NOBODY CAUGHT THIS?!

Dafuq are editors EVEN FOR.

Hah. I actually only have one more module in metadata course to put together; the last one's fine as is. That's nice to know.

Three total vaccinations in the last week, two yesterday, and honestly I'm a bit achy and out of it today.

You go, li'l immune system. Wish I could coddle you a bit more, but at least I'm not horribly behind on anything and there's a three-day weekend in store.

Replaced the screenshots in my "LCSH minces words; Wikipedia doesn't" slides today.

Switched from the Rwandan genocide to the Rohingya genocide.

I hate having a fucking CHOICE of GENOCIDES. FFS.

Why am I really seeing that ad? The answer might be Real Time Bidding (RTB) | Privacy International https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2974/why-am-i-really-seeing-ad-answer-might-be-real-time-bidding-rtb

I read this headline as "Random House" and my brain segfaulted.

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/hacking-2/2022/06/ransomhouse-claims-to-have-stolen-at-least-450gb-of-amds-data/

Password Storage - OWASP Cheat Sheet Series https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet.html

This ridiculous (on a personal level) day. I'm not even telling the whole story, but I assure you it's a series of minor-in-the-scheme-of-things inconveniences, nothing serious, just FREAKIN' ANNOYING.

But health check came out pretty okay so far. For an old broad.

Releasing Color.js: A library that takes color seriously Lea Verou https://lea.verou.me/2022/06/releasing-colorjs/

xmlns.com is glitching.

So much for FOAF.

When exactly are we gonna admit that the linked data experiment has failed?

OSINT in real life: picking up someone's lost driver's license at the bus stop this morning and locating an email address for them so it can be returned

MLA : Blogs : Open Letter to NLM Regarding MeSH Term Changes https://www.mlanet.org/blog/open-letter-to-nlm-regarding-mesh-term-changes

Got the back deck restained, and put a coat on one of my Kentucky stick chairs while I was at it. I win at adulting today!

Matthew Noe (#alaac22) on Twitter: "Someone posted about this on the BCALA listserv (specifically that "Blacks" category) and I naively thought "old language past-time to update" but according to the MeSH pages these were all updated in 2022? #m https://twitter.com/NoetheMatt/status/1524743814442856451