James Truitt (he/him)

New contingency planning lingo!

Tired: "If I were hit by a bus tomorrow…"
- Everyone's heard it before
- Makes public transit look like a villain
- Bus drivers are trained, skilled professionals

Wired: "If I were hit by a Ford F150 tomorrow…"
- Fresh and new
- Massive truck is deadly to pedestrians
- Why are these behemoths everywhere?
- Wait, you don't need a special license to drive these people-crushing machines?

RE: @BertrandCaron@digipres.club

Oh wow, how have I not run across this paper before??

I'm just nodding along vigorously to the whole abstract

Hey, #digipres folks, what algorithms do you use for periodic fixity checks on data at rest (esp. if stored in the cloud)?

CRC32 is tempting, because it's much faster than MD5 (and thus presumably cheaper in terms of compute, emissions, and money). However, I get the impression that it's not much used for this purpose. Is that because of collision worries? Not being cryptographically secure? Something else?

I really love this annotated definition of #digipres that Natasha Fisher (digital archivist at arquives.ca) gave at #c4l26.

In fact, I've printed it out to put on the bulletin board by my desk!

Hah! I ended up running the following to get a list of files SQL and rows they contained:

for i in *.sql; do
echo $i $(sqlite3 $i 'select count(1) from "'$(sqlite3 $i '.tables')\") >> recordcounts.tsv
done

Man, whatever happened to flash mobs?

Hi #digipres folks, does anyone have experience working with FileMaker 12 files? I'm trying to do QC on migrating data out of them, and a tool to display in batch how many records are in each file would be very useful

Does anyone happen to know of a syntax highlighter for regex? I want to do some writing about them, and am coming to the conclusion that I might just have to write my own little parser to add enough color for them to be readable

Edit: specifically looking for something I can embed in my own web project

Once again reminded how annoying it is that "Composite" and "Component", two very different types of video signals, have very similar names