I want to know if the socket he used was metric or imperial?

There are donuts in this world.

It's a place worth fighting for.

Yes, yes. I need to teach them how to stay *a little* more still while shooting film. But this does capture the energy of being a third grader on a camping trip with your best friend.

Image of the Northern Lights reflected in a tree-lined lake

This image has been my #background on my work computer since I took the pic in May 2024
#blueskyartshow ##photography #Aurora #eastcoastkin

The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate battle flag that belonged to the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, the flag was brought to Minnesota and exhibited at the state's capitol for several years before passing into the permanent collection of the Minnesota Historical Society after 1896 where it has remained since.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

Forming Your Corpus You need 'stuff' to do DH

The #DataSittersClub Little TL;DR is back with the short (under 1,500 words! And believe me, it was a struggle to get there!), practical guide you or your colleagues need to get started with building a corpus to "do digital humanities" with, thanks to @readywriting.bsky.social.

Saving local news means saving our shared memory. When archives disappear, communities lose their history. Learn about the librarians & archivists helping safeguard local history, & the collaboration between @archive.org, @poynterinstitute.bsky.social, & @ire.org that’s providing tools & training ⬇️

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEER:

ok boss, the cleanroom swap worked and we were able to reseat the storage and memory in a donor iPhone 13 from the archives.

We've got about 70% of the photos and a full web history, folks at the Internet Archive sent over tape copies of the Internet-to-date.

Beautiful northern lights

My idea of paradise, from lake Superior

I mean, that's impressive. Not good, but certainly impressive.

👀⬇️

me 🤝 Proton's comms person

explaining that you cannot simply decide a court order doesn't apply to you just because you don't like it

Your brain and data may be in the internet, a world that is both everywhere and nowhere. But your ass is still firmly planted in the jurisdiction of somebody's courts. And police.

Proton is correct. The odds of you finding a company that won't comply with its local police are basically zero.

Snow Crash was not an instruction manual

Please don't make me tap the sign

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

I think I need to make one of these informative lists for myself and put it up at work now.

Them: That's just gatekeeping behavior!
Me: Chesterton's Fence is more a reminder to learn why things are like they are before taking knejerk actions.
Them: But then you never do anything.
Me: Perhaps, but if you do it's done thoroughly. And then you make sure to remember to keep the old shit gone.

You think that parts would be available for a consumer product produced more than 3 months ago?

The name is irrelevant, because there are no parts available.

- A very frustrated customer^wconsumer

Pic of Gowron's face photoshopped into the sun from Teletubbies

It is a good day to farm

I still wish there was an ecosystem. We could hang out! We could send each other awesome swag and co-rent suites! We could be a little town of booths at ALA.

We could give each other tips, like please don't DDOS people using your playback client.

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"

"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."

After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"

"This, too, is magic."

had someone ask "why a tape drive"

well the fiber-channel controller was €20 and the cabling another €20 and the drive was €90 and a stack of 15 LTO-5 tapes of various sorts was €90, so I now have ~22TB of bulk storage for the grand total of €220, which is half the price of a ~22TB HDD

Logo for The Def Con 33 Hackers' Almanack, with the logo for the conference and text overlaid in a circle

My DEF CON talk on DIY web archiving and SUCHO made it into the annual publication, the Hackers' Almanack (p. 10)!

All in all, it's a very accessible summary of major trends and highlights from the conference, worth checking out!

harris.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...

Fresh churro being dipped in a “FUCK OFF UNTIL I GET COFFEE” mug by Effin Birds, filled with BBotE

DECADENCE.jpeg

"Your file? You wanted your file? Fine." *growls* *Whirrs* <100 seconds pass on average> "I am prepared to give you this data, but are you prepared to receive it?"

A decade ago, my version of this story ended with:

"This week, I have two tape libraries."

Good luck. Have fun.

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

shout-out to everyone else who had "the first 500 strips of Questionable Content as a formative experience"