Notices by Dorothea Salo (dsalo@digipres.club)

I'm sad and exhausted and afraid. And feeling very lonely tonight. That's all I got.

GDocs's spellcheck is a pile of steaming 💩 . At least it's easy to turn TF off.

@futzle WHAT? Unpossible. It's always DNS.

How Black Parents Are Fighting Against Growing Book Bans | Essence https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/book-bans-2024/

THIS IS WHY YOU HIRE LIBRARIANS AND ARCHIVISTS TO DO DIGITAL PRESERVATION.

IDEALLY ONES TRAINED BY SOMEONE LIKE ME, WHO DAMN WELL KNOWS BETTER THAN THIS.

DON'T HIRE IT PEOPLE TO DO THIS. STANDARD-ISSUE IT PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DAMN WELL DOING. (ASK THE STATE OF MAINE.)

LIBRARIANS. AND. ARCHIVISTS. KNOW.

WAREHOUSING HARD DRIVES IS NOT DIGITAL PRESERVATION.

FFS.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/

@platypus The Library Loon called this the "Library Shuffle" https://gavialib.com/2016/01/the-library-shuffle/

@inthehands oh dang

is the code for page population available? I would purely love to set up a similar honeypot

Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.

https://covid-long.com/

@inthehands Originally it was our way of teaching a super-basic web-development course without getting CS's knickers in a twist. (CS was SUPER-turfy, even about stuff they hella didn't want to teach.)

So we added sociology cooties and CS backed off.

But we now HAVE a web-dev course (in collab with CS!), so C&P morphed into 100% sociology-of-race-gender-sexuality-and-ability vis-a-vis high tech.

I let students prioritize topics this spring. Worked pretty well, I thought.

@inthehands Yep. I lean on this HARD when I teach Code and Power.

@snarfed.org Congratulations! You convinced me to block your entire domain!

Well done, you exploitative git.

@pettter @platypus You've... never heard of librarians or archivists, have you?