Misty / is on Nostr

Runs digipres.club. Writes software, works on digital preservation on the side. Current gig: devtools at axodotdev (npub1k9a…rqnv). Previously worked at Artefactual, plus non-digipres companies.

Pronouns: she/her
Multimedia software blog: https://cdrom.ca
Multimedia software aesthetics blog: https://botsin.space/@compactdiscinteractive
Website: https://www.mistys-internet.website

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2024-09-03 19:49:57

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Newer versions of those tools are in the Saturn SDK; I’ve used it before. That version has you use the standard WT Cinepak encoder. I can check if it still supports Sega CD.

2024-08-10 21:35:55

Question for other #mastoadmin people: I've had a user get followed by a Flipboard account - looks like one of those ones set up to aggregate random interesting fediverse content. The user wasn't sure what to make of it.
Any opinions on these from a privacy perspective? How well-behaved is Flipboard? Anything I should be concerned about here as an admin?

2024-07-08 05:42:34

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We had such luxuries once upon a time…

2024-07-05 17:25:31

#mastoadmin friends: any advice on rerunning a post-deploy migration that failed in prod? `db:migrate:down VERSION=blah` doesn't seem to do anything in this case, even though its `down` does contain the change I'd need to be able to retry.

2024-07-03 02:00:27

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Solid choice of test game.

2024-06-15 01:36:16

Academic librarians of the fediverse: I could use your help.
There's a book that would be useful for my research that I can't get via ILL. There are three copies in Worldcat: one at the Smithsonian, one at the University of Alberta, and one at l’Université du Québec à Montréal. If anyone at any of those libraries is able to check something for me, I'd be *very* grateful.
Worldcat entry: https://search.worldcat.org/title/756977016

2024-06-11 17:45:44

Really sad to hear of Lynn Conway's passing. She made key advances in CPU design that ended up being an influence on everything we use today. http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/wordPressNEW/2024/06/11/lynn-conway-january-2-1938-june-9-2024/

2024-05-31 19:49:44

Oh man, this news story. Former MLA from Manitoba asks Meta's own "ask AI" chatbot if a phone number he found on Google is really Meta support. It tells him yes. It isn't, and he's scammed out of $500 and control of his accounts. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581

2024-05-24 16:06:39

Mac users: if you're a fan of The Unarchiver but you're annoyed by the analytics and stuff the new owners have been putting in, give Keka a try. It's free (or $7 on the app store), and so far it seems to support pretty much anything The Unarchiver does.
https://www.keka.io/en/

2024-05-22 00:29:56

Every Linux and macOS shell script programmer is a retrocomputing practitioner because shell script has been forbidden from changing for 40 years

2024-05-10 18:32:46

Well, I'm sure that's fine
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2024/05/08/ai-generated-employee-handbooks-are-causing-mayhem-at-the-companies-that-use-them/
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/418/223/759/653/893/original/1392ded804dc7f39.png

2024-05-08 20:42:37

Looks like the same attack that took down the British Library for so long also targeted the US Library of Congress, but good multifactor auth and fast action from their IT and security staff protected them. https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2024/05/thwarted-cyberattack-targeted-library-congress-tandem-october-british-library-breach/396399/

2024-03-19 21:47:10

I feel like the funny thing for me with the Tiktok ban is that a lot of Americans, on either side of the debate, don't seem to realize that Tiktok feels to Americans like every single social media platform feels to people outside the US. You're telling me the app is located outside your country and your government's control, and you don't know how its data gets handled in that country? That's every app, to me.