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davew, 7 days ago to random

It’s weird that we’re exploring an amazing new technology, but because Twitter is so disrupted, there’s no single place to report your discoveries. A pretty big handicap.

anirvan, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

I’m looking for an app or website recommendation:

I have a list of books I’ve read. I want to paste that list of authors/titles/etc into an app or website, and get back a pretty visualization of the book covers.

It’s OK if not every title can be matched to a work. I’m also not looking for a tool that’s mostly a social network.

Suggestions? Thank you!

beet_keeper, 5 months ago to opensource

Anyone had a look at the open source document management system paperless-ngx? #digipres #OpenSource #InformationRecordsMgmt

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/releases/tag/v2.0.0

stefan, 6 months ago to fediverse

Does anyone maintain a comprehensive list of state, federal, and other government agencies that run their own fediverse servers, or at least have an account here?

#fediverse #mastodon #governmet #govtech #civictech

davew, 6 months ago to random

This is probably why Facebook is slow to implement federation.

beet_keeper, 7 months ago to random

Shattering the eyeglass: Using Kaitai Structs to dissect the eyeglass’ contents

https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/shattering-the-eyeglass/

A decade later I revisit the Eyeglass training format to dissect its contents. I though about a couple of approaches to doing this and landed on looking at part of it manually a la #digipres research and then using #kaitai to illustrate the principles further. Hopefully it is of interest to some! #FileFormats

@file_formats

beet_keeper, 7 months ago to mastodon

Seeing the bulk follow methods on Mastodon and getting "we didn't ask whether we should" vibes from it...

Bulk following your fave <profession here> is one thing...

But those CSV lists and tooling for other groups of individuals... it's the same machinery/methodology.

I may be missing some of the detail. Do we have opt-in/opt-out breakers for this kind of thing?

#Mastodon #ActivityPub #SocialMediaEthics #Ethics

timClicks, 7 months ago to random

Technology feels like it's come a long way, but most apps are just todo lists or messaging.

beet_keeper, 8 months ago to random

pdf-differences "targeted PDF files exhibiting portability and interoperability issues"

https://github.com/pdf-association/pdf-differences

#digipres #FileFormats #PDF #FormatCorpus #FormatCorpora

beet_keeper, 11 months ago to fediverse

Getting started with federation on digipres.cafe.

https://digipres.cafe/post/11

#digipres #archives #glam #DigiralPreservation #Fediverse #IntroToFediverse

mcc, 11 months ago to random

Okay. So. Help me understand how (if at all) the Lemmyverse interacts with the Mastoverse.

Per the original promise of ActivityPub, and according to claims from other Mastodon users, you should be able to read Lemmy from Mastodon (if awkwardly). You should be able to follow a Lemmy user, you should be able to subscribe to a Lemmy community, you should be able to see a Lemmy post as a Mastodon status & reply to it and that reply should show up in the Lemmy community.

I cannot figure out how.

debcha, 1 year ago to random

TIL: lace cards

It’s a computer punch card with every possible spot punched out, so what remains is a flimsy filamentous net of paper that instantly tears and jams up the card reader.

Old-school denial of service attack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card