DHH is a fascist. Do not call him anything else. He is a fascist.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260717193933/https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d
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@raffaele@digipres.club
hometown 4.6.9+hometown-1.3.0— what I do: digital libraries, metadata, web archiving, digital preservation, IIIF, Readium LCP
— what I love: mountains, bikes, JG Ballard, Colin Wilson
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Germany's massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world's largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/germanys-1-5-million-project-to-build-the-worlds-largest-game-archive-collapses-after-funding-dries-up
#digpres
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@spraoi@tooting.ch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson we should boycott everything he makes
I love simple and usable software. Lazycut¹ enters my toolset today. A brilliant tui for ffmpeg: cut a video, and convert (can change aspect).
LosslessCut² and Handbrake³ are good, but they have more features than I need
¹ https://github.com/ozemin/lazycut
² https://mifi.no/losslesscut
³ https://handbrake.fr
This tool has literally changed and improved my posture for public web searching. Hister's search box is now the default search in my browser, and with 6 months of history it satisfy all my recall queries. I don't use browser bookmarks anymore, as I can search everything quickly.
rclone 1.74 has a new embedded web ui
https://rclone.org/changelog/#v1-74-0-2026-05-01
https://rclone.org/gui/
I have mixed feelings when I learn more things reading a SKILL.md from a whatever github repo than from the original software documentation.
Pagefind v1.5.0-beta.1 (pre release) https://github.com/Pagefind/pagefind/releases/tag/v1.5.0-beta.1
This release adds UI components https://ui.pagefind.app/
small/medium library collections, that are rarely updated, could benefit by adopting this tool. it's fast, simple, low maintenance.
RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@stuartyeates/116972405510951605
useful data for #webarchiving provenance
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Know a website that use to be on an old domain that's now hosting badware? Here's how to encode that in #wikidata:
Does robots.txt still matters? Short answer: yes.
A wrong committed robots.txt and Googlebot (real bot, verified IP block) can hammer an application (Solr server CPU in the graph), until an aggressive rate limit is applied.
End of the story: the application queries should be improved.
Pagefind¹ 1.5 is out! Most notable feature I see now (or maybe was already there?) is searching from multiple sites²
> Pagefind can be configured to search across multiple sites, merging results and filters into a single response. Multisite search configuration happens entirely in the browser, by pointing one Pagefind instance at multiple search bundles.
¹ https://github.com/Pagefind/pagefind/releases/tag/v1.5.0
² https://pagefind.app/docs/multisite/
A very simple and effective python script by @danielvanstrien@sigmoid.social https://huggingface.co/datasets/uv-scripts/iiif-tiles/blob/main/tile_iiif.py wrapping pyvips and the new Huggingface storage to create #IIIF Level 0 tiles and manifest
duckdb-web-archive-cdx 👀
DuckDB extension to query web archive CDX APIs directly from SQL.
https://github.com/midwork-finds-jobs/duckdb-web-archive
#webarchiving
PDFphilia
An intense fondness or obsession with the preservation and accumulation of digital documents in #PDF format, often resulting in the excessive hoarding of electronic files and reluctance to transition to more modern document formats."
https://reverse-contradictionary.net/words/pdfphilia.html
Hyperlinktrophy
The over-reliance on #hyperlinks and interconnected digital content, resulting in a state of information overload and the inability to focus on linear, coherent narratives.
https://reverse-contradictionary.net/words/hyperlinktrophy.html
I see a very uniform design among recent blog posts.
Does this "Claude style" have a name?
Is it beautiful? Doesn't matter, we have lived a decade with Bootstrap
👀 👉 Use Case 3: Periodical
https://iiif.io/api/presentation/4.0/#use-case-3-periodical
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@samwilson@wikis.world I agree with the print option. Even if we adopt minimal technology (plain HTML or better text files) and replicate to multiple hosts (without the guarantee that they will be operational in future) the problem of discoverability remains: how will we know the addresses of these copies? We probably needs to print the addresses somewhere, too.
Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642372
The comments are funny, but the question is legitimate.
And €38,500 for a 100 years wordpress hosting https://wordpress.com/100-year/ ? I wouldn't trust them.
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@ed@digipres.club and is very fast
~ vips dzsave large.tiff large.iiif --id http://example.com/iiif/1 --layout iiif3
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@ed@digipres.club @danielvanstrien@sigmoid.social Yes, it's actually vips dzsave (https://www.libvips.org/API/current/method.Image.dzsave.html) The great thing about this script is that it doesn't use any dependencies to create the manifest it just uses this object (https://huggingface.co/datasets/uv-scripts/iiif-tiles/blob/main/tile_iiif.py#L69-L117)
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@Edent@mastodon.social Readium's position on communicating these flaws is not brilliant, even worse is the threat to avoid publication. But consider that LCP is not just a DRM for vendors, it is widely used for digital lending in public libraries, even the Internet Archive uses it. If publishers lose confidence, that means they might decide not to lend digital content to libraries (where people read freely) Your research is good and should be used to collectively improve the ecosystem https://github.com/edrlab/thorium-reader/discussions
"We made website-making harder". a thread ↓
@ifixcoinops@retro.social
The best tv serie watched this year: The House of Spirit, an adaptation of Isabelle Allende's novel https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33022938
beautiful and heartbreaking
“THE TIME UNTIL 404”
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@stuartyeates@cloudisland.nz yeah absolutely. I often thought about the need for a domain change log (registry), but in fact, Wikidata is a good place to keep this information.
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@ink@merveilles.town It seems a very useful extension. I haven't tested it thoroughly, as the CDX API often times out from Italy today.