I try to be super upfront that I'm running Ubuntu any time I have an issue with university systems and have to file an ITS issue

And yet, every time, do I have to spend half an hour with the poor help desk employee whose script requires them to send me .exe remote desktop installers? You betcha!

Code4Lib live streams available today, tomorrow and Friday on their youtube page!
https://www.youtube.com/code4lib

Sarah Roberts' opening keynote on megatech content moderation has been bone-chilling but confirms that I want to be a part of a community that is putting issues like this front and center

#c4l19

Working on a lecture for next week inspired me to properly condense all my bookmarked emulation resources into one basket, and put the list out there for everyone.

If you've got favored blogs/papers/guides for emulation, please contribute and share!!

https://github.com/EG-tech/emulation-resources

@ashley perf, thanks! I have a mini-project I want to be sure gets out there...

can't wait!

Veteran #Code4Lib -ers : what's the general protocol for lightning talks? I see there are blocks for them each of the three days, do we send in proposals day-of? Or is there an opening on the first day and all three get scheduled from there?

The good news: thanks to car troubles, I got to ease back into work today by writing a ton of emails from the comfort of home (and the car's all right in the end, too!)

The bad news: whirlwind 48-hour trip to New Orleans last weekend (featuring sick plane baby coughing straight into my face) has left me with a persistent cough that still endangers returning to the office tomorrow! 👍

For 2019 I have been reflecting on how preservation helps everyone, often in unexpected ways.

A friend died very unexpectedly this year, and it’s because of (somewhat reluctant) digipres from a third party that we have videos she recorded & stories she wrote. We often think of preservation as saving humanity’s grand culture / history, but the mundane content of friends & fam is priceless in a different way. Her memory matters.

New #digipres tool klaxon red alert! First public pre-release of tapeimgr, a simple tape imaging and extraction tool (GUI + CLI). Details here: https://github.com/KBNLresearch/tapeimgr

I wonder if buying a space heater for my office is acceptable use of a p card

@andrewjbtw yeah, certain tools' man/help pages are not very helpful tho

But I should point out that https://tldr.sh has cut down on this issue *a lot* - probably the answer is to write my own local tldr pages!

How do y'all keep track of terminal commands that are super handy but you will still probably only use them once every ~3 months and completely forget the flags/syntax/regex in the meantime