why did Zoom remove the link to download an ICS from recurring meeting invitations????

i'm so annoyed, I'm so close to a unified user management strategy but each link in the chain (Discourse, Zoom, Outlook) is separately missing one piece of functionality that, were any one of them available, would click everything together. But no:

- Discourse won't generate events with the recurrence I need
- Zoom has totally obfuscated ICS files
- Outlook won't create a Contact Group from a CSV

AHHHHHH

Catching up with adding the iPres proceedings to my emulation bibliography, and wow, even for a conference historically very friendly to the discussion, it was a banner year for write-ups of emulation use cases and technology for digital preservation!!! I counted 8 new papers (and even a couple others with glancing mentions that I excluded because the connection was tenuous for the purposes of this bibliography, e.g. one passing mention of emulation in the NDSA levels)

https://www.zotero.org/ethan-gates/collections/ERZIYJ3T

Is there anything to be done about domain name prices skyrocketing once you're in like year 5?

One of mine is now jacking up to ~$70 per year on Namecheap and like, ugh, I really don't want to be paying that but I'm also so tired by the idea of going through the whole rigamarole of transferring to a different service that will do the same thing after a year or two anyway

lmao now they're sending me emails demanding that I register a new MFA device b/c Duo "will no longer work" on mine past Feb (which is not even true, Cisco's docs explicitly say this is end-of-support, not end-of-life) and what hellscape is this we've designed where schools that saddle you with $100k+ of debt for a two-year degree also follow you around for the rest of your life demanding you contribute to the artificial e-waste crisis for the privilege of receiving more credit card spam

Have any reMarkable users played with rmfakecloud? Seems like what I've been wanting to sync my tablet in a meaningful way to my Nextcloud, but a little nervous about it

Also curious what kind of hardware folks run it on. Raspberry Pi? Could it maybe run on the same VPS my Nextcloud is already on?

https://github.com/ddvk/rmfakecloud

Forget the secret Prince tapes or whatever, release the Ishtar soundtrack

I finally pieced together all the tutorials that folks on the birdsite linked me on APIs, a GUI tool that makes (some) visual sense to me, someone else's Python script, and some half-baked/auto-generated documentation into a successful GET request on an EaaSI deployment and I'm so stunned I forgot what to do next

A quirk of our apartment is that our landlord provides and controls the wifi (he's a WFH San Francisco expat tech manager of some sort) - nice in that he shouldered the cost/brunt of getting both our households set up with the highest-tier service option available (covered with rent) and set up a good mesh network, downside is that I don't have router control ergo can't set up all the weird home servers I want

Frankly not sure whether I ever did a proper #introduction post, so making one I can pin:

Hello, new and seasoned fediverse! My name's Ethan, I live in central Massachusetts in the U.S I'm also a struggling puzzle addict and I'm curious about tech. I post too much about work (as a digital archivist) so trying to post more about what I'm reading, watching, playing.

I keep several long-form blogs if that's your thing:
https://patchbay.tech
https://bestfilmofourlives.blog
https://ethan-gates.com/blog

Settling into a rate of one new Patch Bay post every two years

https://patchbay.tech/blog/2022/04/21/the-cloud-is-just-someone-elses-10000-computers/

Mellon Foundation and Doodle re-branding on the same day: coincidence?

New EaaSI training module out, this time introducing what we mean by an "EaaSI network" and how we use OAI-PMH:

https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/eaasi-training-module-6-building-an-eaasi-network/

By god, I just might actually finish 8 of these before the end of the grant period as promised!

NYU Cinema Studies still using a VirtualBox setup I put together five years ago to access artists' CD-ROMs, giving me a pick-me-up after two weeks of wrangling with the uncertain future of a grant-funded term position 🤗

https://interactivemediaarchive.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/media-archeology-projects-spring-2022/

give this to me immediately:

https://deadline.com/2022/02/seeking-mavis-beacon-neon-to-produce-jazmin-jones-doc-1234959499/