@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??
side note: has the "Delete and redraft" feature always been part of Mastodon or was that part of the recent update? because CLUTCH
LAST DAY TO REGISTER!!!
Any colleagues going to Texas in August for #SAA2019, 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)
@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
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
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.
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
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. https://wilkie.how/posts/social-archival
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
@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
@ashley yeah this is a much better arrangement
📝 📷 ➡️ 🖥❓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! https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2016/12/02/minimum-viable-transfer-station-documentation/ #digipres [repeated from Twitter]