Tried to write a year-end reflection, wound up in therapy:

Ethan Gates | 2021 Year in Review
https://ethan-gates.com/2021/12/2021-personal-review/

new EaaSI release just dropped, check out some details on the >600 (!!!) tickets and bug fixes closed from 2020.03 to now:

https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/eaasi-platform-release-notes-v2021-10/315

I've been a pretty loyal PocketCasts user for years, but they don't explicitly support private RSS feeds (e.g. from Patreon) and it's been tripping up and not showing episodes from those feeds more and more of late.

Anyone have a favorite Android podcatcher alternative? The things I have liked most about PocketCasts:
- ability to download and add an episode to listening queue in one swipe
- plays nice with Bluetooth connection in the car
- sleep timer, obvi

New EaaSI training module!

ARE YOU READY FOR MORE DISK IMAGE DISCOURSE?

https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/eaasi-training-module-5-disk-images/

Happy World Digital Preservation Day, digipres club!!!

@andrewjbtw indeed, I almost think that's the bigger win than the adjusted language in the exemption itself. we may never get *clarity* from the Copyright Office on many of our specific workflow questions - but the point is, no one's even fighting these use cases anymore, which makes it extremely unlikely that any of the weird and arbitrary limits in there will even be enforced

My take on the new, expanded DMCA exemption for software preservation is that, while still kind of nonsensical and written by someone without a clear understanding of the issues, the removal of the "on-premises" language means that the vagueness now works entirely in practitioners' and researchers' favor and I hope GLAM admins and counsel allow us to interpret it as such