freosam

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by freosam 1y ago
Spammers would have to host a page (permanently) that links to your post, and even then they don't get to control what (if anything) from that page gets displayed on your site. I guess one danger is that they only serve the page that
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by freosam 1y ago
Webmention receivers can filter on whatever parts of a URL they want to. Maybe a WordPress implementation limits this to the domain? But as far as the spec goes, the receiver just gets a `source` parameter that's a URL. They can then d
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by freosam 1y ago
That's all true, and probably a better system overall, but burning an optical disk, labelling it, and putting it on a shelf does feel like a more accessible backup regime for many people. :-)
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by freosam 1y ago
Oh yeah, that makes sense, thanks!
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by freosam 1y ago
Rostered Time Off? Rent To Own? (Sorry, not being a nob, just not sure of the abbreviation!)
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by freosam 2y ago
I don't know about the best way to split things (I do it topically mostly, e.g. each website backup goes to a separate disc). But hashdeep is a great little tool for producing files full of checksums of all files that get written to th
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by freosam 2y ago
I've done this sometimes with hosting images and other large files on a combination of Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, Internet Archive, and Zenodo. Flickr costs money, but it feels like it's worth it given I'm using Netlify and a
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by freosam 2y ago
Oh right, I've never seen polythene resealable ones here in Australia. (The floppier 'freezer bags' are I think, but they're less useful for archiving.) I think it's mainly PVC that's to be avoided for archivin
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by freosam 2y ago
True. Although the ziploc bags can just be left a bit open, that's quite sufficient. The good thing about food-safe bags is that they're usually polypropylene and so good for archival use (and much cheaper than anything from a pre
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by freosam 2y ago
The horizontal vs vertical storage thing is interesting. I've often wondered what the rationale is with the difference, and it seems that it's cultural to a large extent. One thing that wasn't covered, that sometimes matters
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by freosam 3y ago
As others have mentioned, Transkribus works pretty well for handwritten text recognition. You can also train your own model if you have enough source material. If the documents you have are able to be made public, you could upload them to W
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Mastodon.technology Shutdown(ashfurrow.com)
630 points by freosam 4y ago|584 comments
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by freosam 4y ago
I'm also interested in this. I've been using SpiderOak for years, but am currently trying to migrate away (to rsync.net, coincidentally). It's not that I've ever had any issues with SpiderOak, but nor do they seem to be
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by freosam 4y ago
There are a few OSM apps that make it easy to share tracks. I use OsmAnd, it allows easy recording, viewing, and uploading to OSM. OSMTracker probably has better battery life, maybe.
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by freosam 4y ago
I agree, Overland is good. I recently added support for it to my blog (which uses twyne.rtfd.io) so I could more easily geolocate photos (from my non-GPS camera), and it was pretty easy to integrate. I tried GPSLogger too, but found that ba
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by freosam 5y ago
Me too. And at the same time it sets a "non-us" cookie, so maybe it's some sort of geolocation silliness. Anyway, here's an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20211102003457/https:&#x
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by freosam 5y ago
One of the indieweb approaches to feeds is to just structure the HTML sufficiently, and not have separate feed files. This works pretty well, and some feed readers work with it. Some info is at https://indieweb.org/h-entry
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by freosam 5y ago
> This boils down the difference between pigment and dye based inks. Dye based inks are more expensive but more resistant to UV light. I think it might be the other way around: pigment-based inks are opaque particles bonded to the paper,
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by freosam 5y ago
That is interesting! I wonder what the "100 year plan" will be. Flickr does seem like one of the few places that could conceivably store copyright photos for as long as it takes for them to become public domain (i.e. it's wor
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The Flickr Foundation(flickr.org)
20 points by freosam 5y ago|7 comments
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by freosam 5y ago
Flickr has set up a non-profit "to properly preserve and care for the Flickr Commons archive, support Commons members […], and plan for the very long-term health and longevity of the entire Flickr collection."
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by freosam 6y ago
Whitworth's method of scraping (mentioned in this article) is explained in this 1858 paper: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Papers_on_Mecha...
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by freosam 7y ago
Yeah, I love OSMAnd for that reason. With it, you can add POIs and for more complicated edits that need a bigger screen etc. it's easy to add OSM Notes (which other mappers can then follow up on). Notes I find particularly good when I&
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by freosam 9y ago
I'm the same. I used to almost exclusively write with a fountain pen. Now I write everything with a keyboard. Primarily, because I realised that notebooks full of words are hard to search and fragile in a archival preservation sense. F
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by freosam 9y ago
What's that?
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by freosam 9y ago
I've found it depends on how soon you want it to be waterproof: I've had ink run when it's got wet within a few weeks of being written, but the exact same ink on the exact same paper (Watermans in a Moleskine) has not smudged
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by freosam 9y ago
This articles says that inkjet ink "frequently uses pigment, not dye," but my understanding is that most inkjet inks are actually dye-based, and that you have to somewhat go out of your way to find pigment-based ones (and they cos
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by freosam 9y ago
The thing I've never figured out with my Pandoc-generated static sites is how to generate RSS feeds from Markdown frontmatter metadata.