Can confirm:

"One form of public speaking not usually recognized as such is teaching. I've had a few experiences in educational situations and they've been worse than flies crawling over my face...

You can't pay teachers enough to do what they do. Having been in their shoes, even briefly, has converted me into an education advocate. Double all teaching salaries now." - Douglas Coupland

#Education

Fighting #bitrot one upload to @internetarchive at a time: saw that they were missing an item from their irdial catalog, and I happened to have it in one of my old backup drives.

https://archive.org/details/ird070-madonna-over-yorkshire-02-four

One of my favorite ambient records, and one that had been released free to the Internet in 2001, at that. #music #ambient #electronica #techno

Development cycle time decays just like anything else in software. If not actively maintained, it gets worse over time.

I've worked on Clojure development cycles with tools.namespace and Component, but it's still hard: You have to intentionally design your code for interactive development and be careful not to break the feedback cycle.

https://github.com/stuartsierra/component.repl

#Bitrot
“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/they-curdle-like-milk-wb-dvds-from-2006-2008-are-rotting-away-in-their-cases/

What will you bitflip today?

by @beet_keeper

I want to let you into a secret: I enjoy corruption. Corrupting digital objects leads to undefined behavior (C++’s definition is fun). And flipping bits in objects can tell us something both about the fragility, and robustness of our digital files and the applications that work with them.

I had a pull-request for bitflip accepted the other day. Bitflip is by Antoine Grondin and is a simple utility for flipping bits in digital files. I wrote in my COPTR entry for it that it reminds me of shotGun by Manfred Thaller. The utility is exceptionally easy to use (and of course update and maintain written in Golang) and has some nice features for flipping individual bits or a uniform percentage of bits across a digital file.

My pull-request was a simple one updating Goreleaser and its GitHub workflow to provide binaries for Windows and FreeBSD. I only needed to use Windows for a short amount of time thankfully, but it’s an environment I believe is prevalent for a lot of digital preservationists in corporate IT environments.

Bitflip is a useful utility to improve your testing of digital preservation systems, or simply for outreach, but let’s have a quick look at it in action.

Die gewünschten Fonts nicht erhältlich. #bitrot #oldsite #encoding #history

I remember how people in the 90s were talking about how we are—thanks to digital technology—the first generation being able to preserve everything.

Uhm, well...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying - Enlarge / Hard drives, unfortunately, tend to die not with a spectacula... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2049391 #harddrivefailure #dataarchiving #ironmountain #hddfailure #archiving #biz⁢ #bitrot #tech #hdd

Reflecting on Nibble in Cyberspace as a live demonstration of bitrot and its conversely generative experience created out of its own corruption.

https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/nibble-in-cyberspace-digipres-adventures-vol-1/

I just published a new article: Behind the Scenes of Innovation - Reflections on technological innovation and an invitation to consider the multiple variables that influence decisions, whether business, environmental, legal or social, going beyond simplifications and appearances.

https://mirko.pm/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-innovation/

Just watched this video about the #Archie #search #engine and I have to say that I am inspired, it's nice seeing that other people are trying to hold on to the past and not letting projects die a sad #bitrot death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUwR9xdEuZI

OMG, this is first hand #bitRot !!

Never can be repeated often enough (esp. for anyone who relies on building a portfolio of sorts):

Archive your old projects! (by @arne)

https://arne.me/articles/archive-your-old-projects

The Great Graveyard in the Cloud https://blog.oddball.tech/how-code-dies/ #Linux #bitrot

Finally took the plunge and upgraded to a Dumb TV. And the best part is... I didn't need to change a thing

Weekend #bitrot fun: Just discovered that Mac OS 12 Monterey no longer reads HFS disks. Was checking on some backups from late 90s on burned discs and disk images and was relived to find they still work fine on 10.13 High Sierra on an Intel Mac Mini I kept around. Kind of wish I still had a PPC machine that could boot Mac OS 9, but was able to get it going under emulation with #SheepShaver and it’s a trip to see Photoshop 3.0 on a window in my current Macbook.