Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club)

@adr Reminds me I ran into an honest to goodness Ballistic reference in the wild the other day

I'm open for work again! I'm looking for interesting opportunities; want to work with me?

My experience includes web archiving and digital preservation, devops, and internal developer tooling. I'd love to put that experience to work for you and your team.

Experience includes the Internet Archive, GitHub, Shopify, and others alongside a number of open source projects.

I feel like if you have to say "standard features of your browser won't work", you've made a mistake in your design and should go back to the drawing board?

WSL stands for Windows as a second language

Incredible headline and also a ton of great photos here https://defector.com/my-life-among-the-33-pomeranians-and-a-few-thousand-other-dogs?giftLink=30671251a42e36bf9336c4fc919ff508

When Discord shuts down let's all join Ray_and_Beef_Chat or local equivalent thereof

I've seen enough people complain about how bad vinyl prices have gotten I feel like it's my duty to warn you: the new thing is CD collecting. We are, today, where vinyl collecting was in 2009.

CDs are still cheap in a lot of music stores and thrift stores, but expect to see thrift stores get more picked over in the coming years and used prices to start climbing as the revival gets in full swing. If you ever thought there's stuff you'd like to collect yourself, no time like the present.

It really is a little absurd that “I’m considering switching to Linux on my laptop for better availability of games” is a real thought in my head. Valve have made strange things happen

Absolutely brutal headline: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867874/stripe-visa-mastercard-amex-csam-grok

Floppy disk sweaters! Floppy disk sweaters!! https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-through-digital-decay-a-collection-of-digital-preservation-jumpers-no-one-asked-for-but-478c48009521

Highly recommend reading this story about a reporter casually finding out his wife is a world Tetris champion: https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/

Misinformation thrives in stressful times. I know we all want to share news right now but when you feel the urge to share something on your feed consider asking:

* Who posted this? Are they a reporter, or do they have what looks like a reliable source?
* Have you heard of this news site before?
* Where is this photo from? Did they take it? Could it be something other than what the poster claims? Is there a way you can tell if it is what it says it is?

One of my favourite Wingroove features is that it measures how good your PC is in terms of how many times faster it is than the developer's PC. My Windows 98 VM is 131 times faster, apparently.

Canadians: the CECOT 60 Minutes story is streaming on the Global TV website right now. Looks like no one pulled the episode when it was cancelled in the US? https://watch.globaltv.com/series/2893de5a-f2cc-11ea-9089-0242ac110003/episode/GLOB0057515870000000?action=play

The episode title is the replacement that aired in the US, but the description opens with the CECOT segment, as does the video itself.

Seems I'm able to screenshot while it's playing but not do a screen recording, which isn't a surprise.

Big news from the Video Game History Foundation - they’ve come into a huge collection of previously-inaccessible Sega Channel data. Largely unseen since it originally broadcast in 1994-1997. https://gamehistory.org/segachannel/

From Lake County Public Library last year: https://lakecountylibrary.tumblr.com/post/769064384357089280/library-wrapped

Saw someone referring to “their substack” again, which is just making me think again about this from @anildash https://www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/

FYI for people who have been sharing that Malwarebytes blog post about Gmail training on your email - they misunderstood and have updated their post with a correction at the top. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off