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as part of this change, i'll be migrating this mastodon account to social.coop. more details about what i'll be doing next after the...

as part of this change, i'll be migrating this mastodon account to social.coop. more details about what i'll be doing next after the jump...

today is my last day working at Internet Archive. big love to everybody who has worked there past and present. definitely feel like i'm...

today is my last day working at Internet Archive. big love to everybody who has worked there past and present. definitely feel like i'm leaving a part of myself here after 5 years (...and literally will in the form of a statue)

good clouds and cacti in anza borrega desert (socal, biking)

good clouds and cacti in anza borrega desert (socal, biking)

there is an analogy between less-contaminated, pre-nuclear-weapons steel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel) and content on...

there is an analogy between less-contaminated, pre-nuclear-weapons steel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel) and content on the web before/after generative AI.

I would speculate that for training, text/image/video/audio/code corpuses from before the current era will be more valuable for training models.

Would be nice if models would reliably watermark output to make detection possible, but I guess a lot of folks would "defect" and disable this

Just noticed that there are 1+ TByte microSD cards! Those periodic dizzy moments of awe, standing in god awful florescent-lit big box store...

Just noticed that there are 1+ TByte microSD cards!

Those periodic dizzy moments of awe, standing in god awful florescent-lit big box store aisles, boggling at our collective birthright of insane digital abundance via Moore's Law

from "Turtle Geometry" (1980)

from "Turtle Geometry" (1980)

from earlier this spring, along the I-90 corridor. I love the white+green+red that time of year #mosstodon

from earlier this spring, along the I-90 corridor. I love the white+green+red that time of year #mosstodon

#mosstodon

#mosstodon

thinking of fall meals, this was my birthday dinner for 2022: (vegie) squab pie, mashed, and mushy peas. carrot cake for dessert, 'Port...

thinking of fall meals, this was my birthday dinner for 2022: (vegie) squab pie, mashed, and mushy peas. carrot cake for dessert, 'Port of Spain' cocktail

bluesky / atprotoI wrote a blog post about atproto and "big world" social media use cases:...

bluesky / atproto

I wrote a blog post about atproto and "big world" social media use cases: https://bnewbold.net/2022/atproto_thoughts/

I am way out of practice writing and feel like this is poorly edited, but have to start again somewhere!

cranksgiving

cranksgiving

cranksgivingIt is cranksgiving time in Seattle!

cranksgiving

It is cranksgiving time in Seattle!

twitter migrationgotta get depthsofwikipedia over here. and depthsofinternetarchive!via:...

twitter migration

gotta get depthsofwikipedia over here. and depthsofinternetarchive!

via: https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1550224145304231936

IA did a rare public event at the East Bay warehouse last month. Really glad more folks got a chance to see the space; even many staff never...

IA did a rare public event at the East Bay warehouse last month. Really glad more folks got a chance to see the space; even many staff never get out there. Loads of books, servers, digitization equipment, side projects. The scale (and the frugality) of the whole endeavor is clearer, and this isn't even a large physical storage site for us these days.

And great to see it all spiffied up, a lot of work!

Still thinking about these beautiful fall hills near Salt Lake City a few weeks back

Still thinking about these beautiful fall hills near Salt Lake City a few weeks back

bluesky / atproto.com`adenosine` is a prototype implementation of https://atproto.com for self-hosting:...

bluesky / atproto.com

`adenosine` is a prototype implementation of https://atproto.com for self-hosting: https://gitlab.com/bnewbold/adenosine

Demos at http://pierre-menard.robocracy.org/ and https://hobbes.demo.adenosine.social/

This is the twitter-like dweb social media protocol proposed by Bluesky. I think they have some interesting ideas around "big world" aggregation and discovery features, different from Mastodon. Still not sure if I think "big world" features are "good" or not.

personal digital archiving / git-annexEarlier this year I re-did my "personal digital archiving" setup using `git-annex`...

personal digital archiving / git-annex

Earlier this year I re-did my "personal digital archiving" setup using `git-annex` (https://git-annex.branchable.com/) and have been happy with it. It did take some work to wrap my head around it conceptually.

Can track which replicas live where, push out tidy-ups from any replica safely, and keeps a log of what changed when. Have also been using it to manage photos (https://bnewbold.net/photos/) for years.

#introduction I work on preserving the "scholarly web" at @internetarchive, which has mostly meant contributing to...

#introduction I work on preserving the "scholarly web" at @internetarchive, which has mostly meant contributing to https://fatcat.wiki and https://scholar.archive.org.

Not really sure to what degree this will be a strictly work/professional account, versus a personal account. But having not been on any large social media platforms for something like a decade, looking forward to chatting and sharing ideas!