Joe Carrano @joe@digipres.club

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

TIL MIT has an enterprise app for surplus inventory management. There are a total of 10 users and each user gets a ranking based on activity. Requested a Iomega Jaz drive that was posted 2 years ago, I am now ranked 7th in the app. #HappyEarthDay

Documentation never ends but I guess it's good to share! Here's our combo digital/physical processing manual if curious about "the way we do it here": https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/x/bBiuC

"CL_TYPE_SCRIPT may be assigned to data contained in a PDF when the PDF indicates that a stream of bytes is “Javascript”" [1] sort of makes me think it does if scanPDF [2] is turned on

[1] https://www.clamav.net/documents/clamav-file-types
[2] https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/clamav-daemon/clamd.conf.5.en.html

Sort of an in-the-weeds question but does anyone know if how clamav scans PDF's normally will detect things like embedded javascript or do you have to enable detection of potentially unwanted applications for that? https://www.clamav.net/documents/potentially-unwanted-applications-pua

Nice, the outdated version of Confluence we use only has a PDF viewer that requires Flash 🤦‍♂️

Presenting today and tempted to reply to all questions with, "I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it"