Oh wow. This old backup drive of mine has an old old old copy of my homepage. Which means I don't need to go converting and digging through some really old Subversion repositories or something.

Found some old graphics from NeverBlender (#NeverwinterNights exporter for #Blender), and put them on the website! Also added more rambling to the page and links to where somewhat more modern version of the code is available.

https://umbraroze.github.io/hackground/neverblender.html

#archival

One of my projects (that I actually get paid for in my day job) is a collaboration with #Austrian #startup #Cerabyte who are developing a new #archival #storage #technology using femtosecond lasers to write data onto ceramic glass film.

They just got into the #Guinness Book of #WorldRecords for creating the world's smallest #QRcode (1.98 square micrometres).

https://www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktuelles/news/news/weltrekord-der-kleinste-qr-code-der-welt

Finally did some major maintenance to https://hash.mwt.me. Check it out!

This is a place where you can view markdown and math stored in a url which can be shared.

It helps combat dead urls because all of the information you are sharing is contained in the url itself. For example:

https://h.mwt.me/5

^ I can't post the whole url on here and have to use the short url feature, but you can see all 480 characters when it redirects.

#TeX #Sharing #Archival

Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

https://thriv.social/c/technology/p/165048/archive-today-captcha-page-executes-ddos-wikipedia-considers-banning-site

@ai6yr @MsMerope I recently discovered that pioneer stopped producing drives too and they were the gold standard of it. Scalpers started selling left over drives x4 mark ups now. I needed a new drive and bought what I can and perhaps I need to back it up too.

I still and will use bd-r disks for #backup and #archival purposes and they are still unmatched in consumer space.

*There is probably some arcane Bluesky reader who would fully appreciate this bizarre exchange and that guy would probably be me #deadmedia #postapocalypse #ancientweirdness #computation #archival

Ran the search.
Nothing came back.

#OSINT #Archival #TechCulture #InternetHistory #Archives #Epstein

am overcome with gratitude. after hours of searching usenet, ftp indexers, ftp sites, archive.org, discmaster and every archival tool i know of and coming up with zilch, i jusssst found the MacMOOSE software buried in a professor's apache open dir! he worked in the same research group as MacMOOSE (Epistemology & Learning Group @ MIT) and had the foresight to make a tarball of the lab's FTP server before it died years ago

this is the kind of archival once in a million thing - that someone self-archived an incredibly important and obscure piece of software by accident, and left a copy on the web. thank you prof fred g. martin 🙏

this archive of the MIT ELG ftp server is going straight to archive.org.

update: WinMOOSE has also been found thanks to https://mas.to/@justinto/115990209538195283

#archival #digiPres #worldWideWeb

@vkc

This is why Libre Indie Archive gets loaded manually and then rsnapshots those files to a different drive with version control.

This happens on the primary system. The primary system mirror then gets duplicated to the secondary system which then does its own rsnapshot.

The remote systems pull their backups from the secondary system which is the ssh server for the system.

And I still agonize about every little thing that could go wrong.

Indie Archive is an archival system.

#archival

What’s Past is No Blog

I decided to move all of my old LiveJournal archive category (452 posts!) to Private. These date from 2003 to 2008, before I moved to this self-hosted WordPress setup. I made most of them when I was still in college and connected to the SWIL current student and alumni community that used LJ heavily.

With the advent of generative AI for search, I’ve been seeing a significant uptick of traffic to these ancient posts, and when I’ve glanced at some of these, more than a few of them are extremely cringe. Nothing objectionable that I saw but I was just rude in how I expressed my opinions as an immature 21 year old. They’re a little bit embarrassing now, don’t all need to be public, and definitely don’t need to be harvested into some huge model somewhere. (Although that has assuredly already happened a bunch.)

Bulk Operation

There was probably a more automated one-shot query for marking all these posts as private, but I figured the safest was to paginate in the admin dashboard by category and move to private 20 posts at a time. 23 pages times 6 clicks took 10 minutes or so.

1. Move to next page in Category filter
2. Select all checkbox
3. Select Edit bulk action
4. Apply
5. Select “Private” in Status dropdown
6. Update

What’s Next?

I know a lot of people choose to set up autodeletion for posts, especially for microblogging, but in general I still want to keep my history up in the internet space I own. The hiding I’m doing today is primarily about scrubbing for my worst nerd-assertive posting, which I hope I grew out of a long time ago… but as an Elder Millennial, not long enough ago that it wasn’t frozen in amber on the public internet.

At some point I’d like to go through and republicize a bunch of these that are more along the themes of how I’ve been writing in recent years: pictures, recipes, tech topics, and so on. As long as my voice is nicer. 😂 I think there are some interesting topics from my first few years as a single dude in Boston for sure, including when I was a Big Brother. Restoring some posts, however, is a project for another day.

One silly sad thing about this post is that before I made it I happened to have exactly 1337 posts on the blog across all categories. I should have t3h c3lebr4ted. (Oops, there’s that immaturity again.)

Trying to find a post from Cohost with like, avali and rubber tf

Rapidly discovering that the export I've got doesn't include liked posts nor reposts and so I am just... sitting here grumbling, and really not wishing to dip into web archive stuff. Which uh, if using it as just "visit old url" isn't very useful for going through tags. And my own user page doesn't load fully...

guh

#cohost #archival #archiving

Modelbau – Bienenkorb [VAC-046]
#Experimental #Netherlands #Nijmegen #ambient #archival #collaborative #creative #drone #electronic #improv #lofi #niagara #outsider
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://vacancyniagara.bandcamp.com/album/bienenkorb-vac-046

#CfA The Most Documented War: Polyphony of Stories

📌 4th annual #Symposium of #Documentation and #Archival Projects in #Lviv | June 4-6 2026 | organised by #ResearchCentreUkraineMaxWeberFoundation, #InstituteForHumanSciences, #CenterForUrbanHistory and #INDEX

📅 26 January 2026

🔗https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/ausschreibungen/einzelansicht-calls/the-most-documented-war-polyphony-of-stories.html

Finally posting some scans I've done:

• How To Take Care Of Your Home (Unknown Year, Ontario New Home Warranty Program)

https://archive.org/details/how-to-take-care-of-your-home-ontario-new-home-warranty-program

#digipres #digitization #archival #ontario #toronto

Seriously, I don't have the geek-level of @TechTangents ...

But #archiving #LaserDisc is a honorable goal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDlbwl3f39Q

#Preservation #Archival

Jack London, standing [no date recorded on caption card]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

John Griffith London, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London

#JackLondon #Photograph #Portrait #Archival #BainNewsService #historical #glassnegatives #newsphotography
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014680671/

#archival

Petra (Wadi Musa) El-M'esrah area. Typical double corniced tomb. With pilasters, Nabatean capitals and pedimented doorway of classical conception. El-M'esrah [approximately 1920 to 1933]
American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Department
1 negative : glass, dry plate ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.

#Petra #WadiMusa #Nabatean #El-Mesrah #Jerusalem #PhotoDepartment #Greek #MiddleEastern #Archival #Jordan #Petra(Extinctcity) #photography

https://www.loc.gov/item/2019691527/