Notices by Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)

One nice side effect of ripping my old CDs is rediscovering music I like that has been sitting in my basement.

I know, I should've seen that coming right?

#TIL wget is able to use HTTP Range requests to complete a file download that was previously terminated due to a connection failure.

@raffaele @wikimediaitalia @nemobis I'm working with an automated translation, but that seems ... weirdly anachronistic?

@alex interesting questions! I found myself thinking of how #webrings could fit in somewhere.

@alex For some community archiving work [1] I've been helping evaluate ipfs-cluster for adding/deleting pins (files) amongst a group of collaborators. I do find myself worrying about overcommitting to IPFS because even after all these years it doesn't seem to get used by many in actual production systems. But maybe that's not fair.

[1] https://www.shiftcollective.us/ffdw/

@alex we have been focused on getting static site exports out of dynamic web applications, and onto ipfs-cluster where they can then be replicated amongst friendly organizations. But really the harder part so far has been, like you said, the social governance part.

https://inkdroid.org/2024/10/20/pincushion/

@alex random aside re governance: I just received this in the mail yesterday from @medlab

https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/10/03/get-our-latest-zine-open-source-governance-change-cards

@alex but back to torrents, clients have been around a while, and have been stress tested under the most severe conditions. It's hard to imagine the protocol going away as long as there is an Internet? You might want to check out how Magnet Links work, which let users share links to their torrents and retrieve the metadata and data from peers using a Distributed Hash Table (DHT). IPFS uses a DHT as well.

@beep the next sentence is a banger too:

> AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.

I wish more developers thought about how they were binding systems together when they integrated ML models and AI services into their software. But maybe they are, and its their managers who are not.

This is a good reminder for me to read your book!

#TIL at #loco2024 that the #bbc has a Sustainable Engineering Team. Of course they do. 🙌

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/sustainable-engineering

Has anyone read anything that backs up the assertion that "semantic search" actually does get at the meaning of words? I mean apart from tautological definitions where semantic search is always already semantic.

The folks in Harvard's Library Innovation Lab are looking for a senior software developer. They operate the https://perma.cc/ web archiving service, and do a ton of impactful work at the intersection of libraries and technology.

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/jobs/#sse-fs

I'm watching the anxiety level around .gov web resources grow after the election (for good reason) and am reminded of the #DataRefuge and #EDGI web monitoring work that started in 2016.

In theory the End-Of-Term #WebArchiving project pulls in lots of resources that could be at risk. https://eotarchive.org/ But it can be challenging to verify and get a sense of how good coverage is, e.g. for GIS data.

It feels like it could potentially be made easier?

Here's a random example. The USGS has a clearinghouse list of datasets:

https://apps.nationalmap.gov/datasets/

One of them is linked to here:

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/59fa9f59e4b0531197affb0f

Both of these pages have been archived by the Internet Archive (actually by #archiveteam

The dataset page has only been archived twice, and there is a new version of the dataset on the web that hasn't been archived yet.

The dataset page links to a ZIP file of GIS data on S3 which has not been archived at all:

https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GovtUnit/Shape/GOVTUNIT_Alabama_State_Shape.zip

@ntnsndr thanks for sharing this! & apologies if you knew this already, but she is here with us on @SocialCoop as @jennitaur

@ntnsndr @internetarchive I just noticed? https://heads.social/@bourgwick/113445958359875116

It was sitting in my queue for a bit, but I finally got around to listening to this discussion between @ntnsndr & @gleemie about his new (open-access) book Governable Spaces. It seemed an especially good moment to reconnect with ideas of how we can better work together, especially online.

https://archive.org/details/governable-spaces

@mattcropp I was attempting to write down the history of the social.coop domain at https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Social.coop which @ntnsndr expanded a bit more. He suggested you might have some memories of how things happened?

@andrewe I'm ok on my personal membership since I set it up to auto-renew, but it does look like @SocialCoop is up for renewal, I'm assuming that's what you are asking about?

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Member Name: SocialCoop
Membership Due Date: 2024-11-27
Amount Due: $250 USD
Membership Renewal period: 2024-11-27 - 2025-11-27

@andrewe I believe the membership notices go to mayfirst@social.coop which forwards to @ntnsndr (Finance Working Group). If anyone else needs to be added to the email alias let me know?