Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club)

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

I get that people are newly concerned about AI training in Gmail, but I hope the people upset about the AI training are aware that Google has been reading and acting on private emails since day one for things like ads. This is just what Gmail is.

@adr Your talking about Linux gaming reminds me, I've got a CD lying around with a Linux game from 1996(!) and I'm wondering if there's any way to get that running on modern Linux…

@rocky1138 @adr Oh no, it might be. I didn't even consider that. IIRC it also uses vgalib for video out, and I'm sure any compatibility shims for that are long gone.

I’m the 600-oddth speaker scheduled to call into today’s city meeting. They just called speaker 11. Maybe they’ll get to me by next week.

45 minutes later we've reached speaker 30. Average of 2.3 minutes a speaker (the max is 3 minutes), which suggests we're looking at close to *24 hours* of speaker time until we hit me assuming no breaks. Yeah I guess they'll reach me by Monday at the soonest

@giflian You're meant to dial in ~20-30 minutes before you're expected to speak, then stay muted on hold until they call you. So I'm not actually on hold right now. They'll send me a reminder email when it's approximately 20 minutes from my turn.

Question for the retro PC people out there: does this "PC2MAC" tool look like one you've seen before? I'm trying to figure out if it's bespoke to the environment I got it from or if it's a pre-existing general purpose tool.

@AmyZenunim The thing that always strikes me about video essays is the "produce a visually-engaging work that communicates a sense of authoritativeness" skill and "actually have deep knowledge and insight" skill are totally unrelated even though one implies the other