Ethan Gates

Software preservation. Moving image archivist/technician. Soviet Cinema enthusiast. Passionate about movies, crosswords, audiovisual cables. He/him.

Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

I am miffed by the suggestion earlier in the Great Question session of that CD-Rs are only for mixes from the 2000s, and not, as clearly demonstrated by me, a digital archivist, for your mixes from 2024

March 19, 2024
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

Sliding in under the wire, just hours ahead of the Oscars, with the 2023 Ethans - no, wait, the EMOs:

bestfilmsofourlives.blog/2024/

March 10, 2024
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

ok self-hosting Wordpress folks - what's a good/simple alternative plugin to Jetpack for uptime monitoring? literally I basically just want an email when/if my site goes down so I can quickly reboot the server and (hopefully) keep it up while I have time to circle back round to proper troubleshooting

February 28, 2024
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

EaaSI users and onlookers rejoice: we've reset the development roadmap to better reflect the immediate priorities and functionality the program team is pursuing

tl;dr we're investing heavily in features to improve EaaSI's use as a "virtual reading room"-type access platform for special collections, and giving estimates based on what's conceivable in the coming calendar year versus trying to project the full scope of dev work in a two-year grant cycle is a blessing

forum.eaasi.cloud/t/announcing

February 01, 2024
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

These are all things that I enjoyed this year! If you haven't enjoyed them yet, I hope you do!

ethan-gates.com/2023/12/best-o

December 26, 2023
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

Hello! Don't think I've forgotten about Qiwi: release 0.6.0 adds on a menu to convert and/or compress your existing disk images

(this update brought to you by the crusade against the fallacy that emulation for appraisal or access requires keeping around giant raw copies of hard drives!!!)

gitlab.com/EG-tech/qiwi/-/rele

December 15, 2023