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

@ashley eeee I hope so too but I'm actually not hanging around for most of the conference! pretty much going for the workshop.

maybe drinks that evening??

June 14, 2019
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

side note: has the "Delete and redraft" feature always been part of Mastodon or was that part of the recent update? because CLUTCH

June 14, 2019
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

LAST DAY TO REGISTER!!!

Any colleagues going to Texas in August for , please join the EaaSI and FCoP teams for this FREE day-long workshop on preserving software and implementing emulation access services

Come hang and catalog some software!!! (really)

bit.ly/about-aug-2019-emulatio

June 14, 2019
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

@sabrams @ashley

June 07, 2019
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

@andrewjbtw I think you're right, and I think it's one of our long-term goals to investigate routing source repository requests from emulated environments to Software Heritage (or a similar source archive/mirror) rather than their originally-intended repos, for stability and security

in the meantime, being able to temporarily connect an Ubuntu 8.04 environment to the net and just apt-get install a dependency b/c hoary/universe is still live.....is saving me a lot of time

June 07, 2019
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

I know it's now like part of my job to figure out what happens when this is no longer the case, but thank christ Ubuntu has kept all its old-release source repositories up and running

June 06, 2019
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Misty
misty@digipres.club

I’ve seen people express concern that Apple’s Ruby announcement will affect Homebrew. Don’t worry - we’ve been shipping our own Ruby where needed for a few years now. We’re in a good position to adapt, and we’ll be ready long before the change actually happens.

June 04, 2019
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club
June 03, 2019
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

I know HBO is probably preserving the literal assets and all but who is preserving *the spirit* of HBO's desperate attempts to maintain subscriptions after the GoT finale

I just want to catch up with Barry, please chill out with the four trailers for your lineup before every episode, my dudes

June 02, 2019
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wilkie (quilt appreciator)
wilkie@mastodon.social

I wrote a personal essay on federated social web meets the rogue archivists, the nuance and power of forgetting, and building social software around consent and archival resistance. wilkie.how/posts/social-archiv

May 29, 2019
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

I'm recording EaaSI demo videos, do you think the Mellon Foundation will get the joke if I go for the "12-year-old YouTuber explains how to install VirtualBox" screencast aesthetic

May 23, 2019
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

@ashley my gf, who in addition to fielding requests from curators and researchers and staffing public reference desk shifts, is diligently trying to *inventory* the thousands of unorganized boxes in her musem's basement without the help of any cataloging software or on-site IT support (they've been promising to "investigate" an ArchivesSpace instance for over a year, but again, "IT" is a dude who comes in once a week to run anti-virus), is constantly asked what her "digital preservation plan" is

May 17, 2019
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club
May 16, 2019
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Jon Ippolito
jonippolito@digipres.club

📝 📷 ➡️ 🖥❓What's your favorite software+hardware for scanning still images or digitizing archival docs—ideally open source? Uber-conservator @unstablearchive and uber-preservationist @ablwr would love Twitter replies or notes added to this Google Doc! bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/201 [repeated from Twitter]

May 14, 2019