Joe Carrano @joe@digipres.club

disappointing url of the day: http://mit.edu/pie/

So far I'm most interested in finding out what's on this disk, my hope is it's toilet design software https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/65486

finally starting a survey for legacy digital media in our collections, catching up to archivists from the early 2010s!

Wake up, who knew, it's me, it's you
Get a CLU https://github.com/MITDDC/clu-1976-1989

I went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole recently which led to writing a post on a strange web domain for kids the U.S. government created in the early aughts https://carrano.org/2021/08/kids-dot-us/

TIL you can now easily set your pronouns in Zoom settings. Hooray for dedicated metadata fields! https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/4402698027533

Putting some born-digital material into our terrible DSpace repo! It's all we've got so it's good enough until we reach that mythical replacement access system ❣ https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/312392

The way archivematica stores AIPs by breaking the UUID into subfolders has resulted in a wonderful one just called "beef"

The scanned source code for ELIZA is now publically available and CC0 (the first I'm hearing of this lolsob) https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/the-original-eliza

omg [unrelated to last toot] the help text for the 7z "-r" flag: "Recurse subdirectories (CAUTION: this flag does not do what you think, avoid using it)"

This is a real error message from Archivematica, copied here in its entirety:

<h1>Whoops!</h1>

If anyone was worried, i got the drive 🎷

I am now ranked 6th in the app

Before it was the MIT Media Lab it was the Architecture Machine Group, here's some pics of their office: https://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/189520

This one is the best, and even better is I don't *think* it's Negroponte https://dome.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.3/189520/ref131_f0m_004_recto.jpg?sequence=7&isAllowed=y

new 🔸 tiny 🔸 website! https://carrano.org/

Being a mansplainer must be exhausting, my energy levels are depleted just when explaining things to people when they actually ask me to

Baby's first floppy disk virus found! > https://malware-history.fandom.com/wiki/Joshi

highlight of a recent webinar, someone saying "I am so sick" with no context or follow up after