One of my biggest worries in retrocomputing is the scarcity of documentation. There's often only a single source on the internet for a given file format or a given piece of timing information on a proprietary chip, and it doesn't take much for that information to disappear.

If I spend too much time keeping a copy of that information, I don't create anything new. Too little, and the information disappears when I need it.

#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #AmstradCPC

"[He] said on Parkinson that he became confident he was gay when he fell in love with a man."

Pretty solid reasoning, tbh

Oh, and #RIP (10 years now)

To whom it may concern:
This sucks!
#Mastodon5

RE: https://d-64.social/@dejan/117495210808451805

Ich möchte mich mal bei @dejan für seine mittlerweile jahrelange Serbien-Berichterstattung hier bedanken. Auch wenn ich nicht interagiere, lese ich mit und bin dankbar, niederschwellig informiert zu bleiben. Mittlerweile bekomme ich ein Störgefühl, wenn ich mit anderen Leuten rede: Nahezu niemand hat von den bemerkenswerten Dauerprotesten in Serbien gehört, weil die einfach massenmedial so gut wie nicht stattfinden. #Followfriday

Punks kaufen ihre Klamotten gebraucht im Zecken-Hemd-Laden

Hello, people. I'm a Ukrainian trans girl that's currently in Slovakia with my transphobic and very homophobic parents that do physical and psychological violence towards me. I'm planning to move to Germany on 26 of October (I already booked a ticket to the train). The problem is, I don't really have a place to live here. I would be very happy if someone can help me in this very stressfull to me situation. ​:bocchi_dead:​ #trans #germany #transidentitat

Ente Ente Fedi: ... wenn ich nextcloud ersetzen will, weil ich eh nur caldav/carddav server brauch, was nehm ich da?

und wenn ich daneben webdav (für seedvault backup) machen will?

Wenn Antifas sich gegenseitig Klamotten weiter geben, ist das dann aus Zecken-Hand? 🤔

2027 will be my first #FOSDEM & I'm delighted to be part of the devroom "Archives, Libraries, and Digital Memory", spearheaded by Software Heritage 🎉
(@SafeguardingResearch got invited & we gladly joined forces)
https://fosdem.org/2027/news/accepted-developer-rooms/

And to be clear, 'preserving what for whom' is on the forefront of my mind - in this sense, I would have talked about so called DEI topics regardless.
But I gladly take the FOSDEM pledge @janl proposed: https://writing.jan.io/2026/10/22/the-fosdem-pledge.html

Stay tuned for our CfP :)

Die ganze Nacht hindurch protestierten Menschen in Prag gegen die Zerschlagung der öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien durch die Babiš-Regierung.
https://bsky.app/profile/manifest-2025.bsky.social/post/3mykvpzprfs26

Um 4:30 am Samstagmorgen hat die rechts-rechtsextreme Regierungskoalition in Tschechien die Abschaffung der Rundfunkgebühren und damit die Beseitigung unabhängiger öffentlicher Medien im Parlament in erster Lesung durchgedrückt.
https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/koalice-prosadila-prednostni-jednani-o-konci-poplatku-pro-ct-i-rozhlas.A261023_095639_domaci_kop

Basically, if you're looking for something of mine on Heroku or Cloudrun and the urls no longer work, head to https://wraggelabs.com where everything should be listed. I can't afford to keep redirects in place for ever.

What sort of bird are these again?

@telescoper I agree with the main spirit of the article, that the boundaries and material foundations of the scientific commons are being strained by AI, but there seems to be some lack of critical theorizing (and references to prior work) about the reality of scientific commons prior to AI

Falls ihr kenntlich machen möchtet, dass ihr hier im Fedi :mastodon: von uns gelesen habt, schreibt gern "Fedi" oder so dazu, wenn ihr uns schreibt, spendet oder Mitglied werdet.
Wir brauchen euch und eure Aufmerksamkeit 💜

Zum "Tag der Bibliotheken" empfehle ich eine Registrierung.

Das geht auch aus der Ferne:

https://biblioarchive.blog/2024/05/29/liste-registrierung-aus-der-ferne/

Ich nutze aktuell primär die Pressedatenbank Genios - Bibliotheken:

https://t1p.de/mk9wf

Empfehlungen: Nürnberg, Dresden, Taunusstein (Hessen), Hoyerswerda.

Hey, self-hosting people, need your help!

Could you recommend static site generators suitable for non-technical people? i.e. Ones that work without needing any command lines, that work entirely graphically.

(There's an odd paradox that static sites are technically much simpler but their editors are often harder to use.)

#StaticSite #StaticSiteGenerators #AskFedi

swiiifz, #IIIF from a single zip file, served by a Service Worker
https://atomotic.github.io/swiiifz/

Little updates: the zip is portable; it doesn't matter what URL is used to generate it. Multiple viewers are available for testing. Tify and UV have problems loading thumbnails, but this is an issue with `mkiiif`, and I'll look into it.

You might remember me trying to get in contact with folks working on the Mathematics Genealogy Project, the last time it went offline.

Now, with the PHP issues & the ever increasing load of AI-Crawlers, they need help to pay for a complete overhaul of their backend:
"[...] we ask that you donate securely online through North Dakota State University. Even small contributions, if made by enough supporters of MGP, will help get us back on track.

https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/

h/t @highergeometer

Moin Leute. Ich sag's wie's ist. Wenn wir bei @netzpolitik_feed zum Jahresende um Spenden bitten, geht uns oft der Arsch auf Grundeis. 🍑↘️🧊

Sehr wenige Wochen, sehr viel Geld, das fehlt. Langfristig zu planen wäre viel besser.

Deshalb suchen wir jetzt gerade in 30 Tagen 300 Dauerspender*innen.

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