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#WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon

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Johan van der Knijff<p>Time again (not?) to <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯, as here is one of my vintage <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/QuattroPro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuattroPro</span></a> for <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOS</span></a> spreadsheets from 1996, rendered by Quattro Pro for DOS 5.0, running in <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DOSBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSBox</span></a>-X</p>
Johan van der Knijff<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@BertrandCaron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BertrandCaron</span></a></span> </p><p>No need to <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯 yet though, apparently Codeberg Pages is down at the moment:</p><p><a href="https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">status.codeberg.org/status/cod</span><span class="invisible">eberg</span></a></p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>Time again to <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯 - "NFTs That Cost Millions Replaced With Error Message After Project Downgraded to Free Cloudflare Plan":</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/nfts-that-cost-millions-replaced-with-error-message-after-project-downgraded-to-free-cloudflare-plan/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/nfts-that-cost-mil</span><span class="invisible">lions-replaced-with-error-message-after-project-downgraded-to-free-cloudflare-plan/</span></a></p><p>Cue throwback to the Digital Dark Age Crew's "JPEGs on blockchain" reference in the lyrics to "Wheel Out the Digital Dark Age Klaxon" (from late 2022):</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C47ZCosJPAw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=C47ZCosJPA</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>Time again to <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯 as this just showed up in my Youtube recommendations - "AUDIO'S HOTTEST TREND!!11!!" <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/opticalmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opticalmedia</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/cds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cds</span></a> 💿📀🌶️</p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>Possibly of interest to the optical media preservationists out there - "Master List of Rotted Warner Home Video DVDs" 💿 📀 :</p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CyLGHyuhA2mfhPr4Bkyj8RAapl_0LTmN/edit?tab=t.0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/document/d/1Cy</span><span class="invisible">LGHyuhA2mfhPr4Bkyj8RAapl_0LTmN/edit?tab=t.0</span></a></p><p>Background story from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>arstechnica</span></a></span>:</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/they-curdle-like-milk-wb-dvds-from-2006-2008-are-rotting-away-in-their-cases/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/they-curdle-like-milk-wb-dvds-from-2006-2008-are-rotting-away-in-their-cases/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯</p>
Johan van der Knijff<p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/PubMed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PubMed</span></a> blackout stokes fears about database’s future - "If this doesn’t end up being just a one-off accident, we are in deep trouble, and it can delay research globally" <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯 </p><p><a href="http://archive.today/ic5U6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">archive.today/ic5U6</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>From a recent (December!) Ars Technica forum thread:<br> <br>"I have been having this itch lately to get back into burning cd/dvds/bluray. It's like the early 2000s are calling me again. I want to burn 3d movies and blu ray and though I like streaming music, I have this fantasy of getting a wicked nice audio system and making my entire library cds again." </p><p>😱 <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯 <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/wtfOpticalMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wtfOpticalMedia</span></a> 💿 📀 </p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/am-i-the-only-one-who-wants-to-buy-an-external-burner-again.1504663/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/civis/threads/</span><span class="invisible">am-i-the-only-one-who-wants-to-buy-an-external-burner-again.1504663/</span></a></p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>ICYMI, the Digital Dark Age Crew vs the Millennium bug <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Y2K" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Y2K</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯 - "tomorrow, we could all be living in the dark ages!" </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ86meMFqT8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=pJ86meMFqT</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>Just in time before the end of 2024, the Digital Dark Age Crew are back!</p><p>Always fashionably late, after 25 years they finally finished "Y2K", their legendary, previously unfinished track that addresses the threats of the year 2000 <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Y2K" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Y2K</span></a> problem.</p><p>Enjoy, and remember: tomorrow, we could all be living in the dark ages! <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯 </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ86meMFqT8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=pJ86meMFqT</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>It's almost time to <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯 again, as a new track by the Digital Dark Age Crew is about to drop. Watch this space!</p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>On a related note, time for a periodic reminder this exists <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C47ZCosJPAw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=C47ZCosJPA</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>Time again to <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯, "Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory" (ht <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@peterwebster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>peterwebster</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@paigeroberts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>paigeroberts</span></a></span>):</p><p><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/123276" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">muse.jhu.edu/book/123276</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Johan van der Knijff<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tallison" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tallison</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@BertrandCaron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BertrandCaron</span></a></span> Time to wheel out a whole army of digipres CRABS 🦀 with digital dark age klaxons <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a>📯:<br><a href="https://youtu.be/jwU7J-VvREE?si=6-Kxfzu0VbOM12L6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/jwU7J-VvREE?si=6-Kxfz</span><span class="invisible">u0VbOM12L6</span></a></p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>Time again to <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯 as the "Finale" music notation software is discontinued after 35 years:</p><p><a href="https://cdm.link/2024/08/finale-music-notation-software-discontinued-devs-embrace-dorico/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cdm.link/2024/08/finale-music-</span><span class="invisible">notation-software-discontinued-devs-embrace-dorico/</span></a></p><p>(No idea about any possible <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> implications, as I'm not at all familiar with the software myself)</p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>Latest version of <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> standard includes a warning that advises against using the <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/XML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XML</span></a> syntax (formerly known as <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/XHTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XHTML</span></a>), stating that it's "essentially unmaintained"🧐 :</p><p><a href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage</span><span class="invisible">/xhtml.html</span></a></p><p>Looks like a recent change, as there's no mention of this in the April 3 version of the spec:</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240403210532/https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2024040321</span><span class="invisible">0532/https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html</span></a></p><p>Unless I'm misreading it, this seems like a big deal? E.g. XML syntax is mandatory in <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/EPUB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPUB</span></a> 3 documents:</p><p><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/#dfn-xhtml-content-document" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">w3.org/TR/epub-33/#dfn-xhtml-c</span><span class="invisible">ontent-document</span></a></p><p>Time to <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯?</p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>What's so hard about <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDF</span></a> text extraction? ​</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230107081641/https://filingdb.com/b/pdf-text-extraction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2023010708</span><span class="invisible">1641/https://filingdb.com/b/pdf-text-extraction</span></a></p><p>Good overview piece from 2020, sadly only available on <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span> because the original website is gone <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/wtfPDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wtfPDF</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯</p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC:</p><p>"At first glance, the Recall feature seems like it may set the stage for potential gross violations of user privacy. Despite reassurances from Microsoft, that impression persists for second and third glances as well."</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">5/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯 😱</p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>Time again to <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯:</p><p>This is a slide about bit-level corruption/degradation from a 2016 PowerPoint presentation. What's supposed to be an arrow symbol on the left is rendered as gibberish in Microsoft Office 365 (oddly it is rendered correctly in the thumbnail view).</p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>For the last week or so, <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Teams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Teams</span></a> has been showing me this notification bar every time I log in.</p><p>I already switched to the "new Teams" 3 times (which every time involves a setup process that takes several minutes to complete), after which it switches back to the "old" Teams on the next login.</p><p>Never change, Microsoft, never change .... </p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯 <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/wtfMicrosoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wtfMicrosoft</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/wtfTeams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wtfTeams</span></a></p>
Johan van der Knijff<p>Turns out the abandoned domain was also used for the documentation, so that's also gone. There's still this in Internet Archive:</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130013529/http://dpfmanager.org/reference-documentation.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2019013001</span><span class="invisible">3529/http://dpfmanager.org/reference-documentation.html</span></a></p><p>But since the navigation is entirely Javascript-based, that's completely unusable as well <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon</span></a> 📯</p>
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