#information tech

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[nando161mando]

Remember Luigi is currently innocent

Couldn't Be Any Conflict

[onlineartifactinternetintro]

GFCGlobal has made tutorials, titled Beyond Email, to make it easier to understand online communication.

They've also provided tutorials on the basics of social media and how to navigate it.

[theflashjaygarrick]

The ladies of Gotham (and Talia) as Reductress/Onion headlines

[dragon-champagne]

picked up one of these in a batch of tech to be thrown out. it was sticky. like really, grossly sticky.

instagram: cheri.png

[gayjedicoded]

hey babe new personality chart just dropped

[nostalgiahime]

Gameboy Advance SP Promotional Information Sheet (2003) [✩]

[nando161mando]

[dragon-champagne]

For those looking for a real definition, and also because i like sharing useless shit, bandwidth is the amount of data able to be transmitted over a given network medium in one second. For example, a CAT5e Ethernet cable can transmit up to 1 gigabit of data per second (theoretically). A bit is a single 1 or 0 in a computer transmission. A gigabit is equal to one billion bits.

[tenebrare]

As of yesterdays TOS change...

... ADOBE can claim ownership of all you do with their products*.

Since both my Substance Painter/Designer and Photoshop have been outbound blocked, I have not got the TOS/version update, but I be changing to Mari, Toolbag (I have been practicing either some time) and I will be pondering what happens to my life long marriage to Photoshop. I might just swap to "Russian Original" for rest of my life or finally do change to let say - Corel Painter. As shit my works are, they are mine. Even when IPs I do fan art of are not mine, the work I do is. Even stick figures I do are mine. And no TOS will take it from me. I have read a lot of industry people being quite shocked over this change and if you think it is not bad, it is worse (according to people speaking "legalese").

Some alternatives for ADOBE products :

*- TOS change is earlier, but they forced it on people just now. As you can have different versions of their products on your systems and not always have accepted latest TOS.

I have told Discord stories of how I come from 'regime' where being LGBT was criminal offense (and still is in 2024). Imagine you draw this pride month a fancy rainbow and your regime enforces Adobe tell them about you. You think its not possible, well I have you few real world stories form "the regime" and 2024. I am living now in free world, but I still know people form my "old world".

[here-comes-the-moose]

I feel like if Phee was pregnant, she and Tech would act like how my parents acted during each of my mom’s pregnancies.

Phee would just be chilling, doing her own thing and going on as usual pretty much up until it’s time to have the baby (and gets annoyed if she’s told to slow down or take a break), and basically making the whole thing look effortless. Then you have Tech freaking out any time he has to go somewhere for longer than an average workday, constantly asking if she’s comfortable, nearly having a heart attack when he sees her doing things around the house, and tripping over himself to get whatever food she might be craving.

[theoutcastrogue]

My thoughts on the best strategies to preserve human knowledge and creation in perpetuity

1) don't put all your eggs in one basket

archives need to be paper and digital, public and private sector, centralised and decentralised, fully legal / by the book and rogue, in vaults and cabinets and servers and torrents

create as many redundancies as you can: make copies, and copies of the copies, and copies of the copies of the copies, ad nauseam; anyone anywhere who can make copies, should

spread the physical hubs (paper stacks or servers) geographically, in as many places as possible; you never know what kind of natural disaster or man-made horror will take out a whole building, city, region, or continent tomorrow

2) entropy is a bitch, think longterm

pick methods that are more likely to last

schedule regular copying: you gotta transfer the stuff to a new medium before the old one falls apart, so have some idea when it's expected to fall apart

3) keep converting to new formats

no format becomes obsolete instantly, there's always a transition period; use transition periods to furiously convert everything

4) indexing and searching is as important as the content itself

self-explanatory

5) eyes on the prize: the end goal is public access

if a random nobody, with no status and no money, can't access it easily, freely, and anonymously, the job is only half-done; you've built the back-end and neglected the front-end; get someone to complete it ASAP, because now it's just sitting pretty and isn't doing anything; or isn't doing enough, in any case

bonus: use. fucking. torrents.

It is truly bonkers that the bittorrent protocol is not being used for archiving. It's an ideal method for digital archiving and it should be standard procedure. If a university has stuff on a hard disk, it can put it on its server, and if it can put it on a server, it can torrent it and seed it 24/7. If the same archive is useful for another university on the other side of the planet, that one can download it and then stay in the swarm, also seeding it. If a library or city council anywhere on earth finds the archive of interest, it can do the same. The more the merrier, every download is a potential redundancy and every seeder is an actual redundancy.

If you got space to store it, you got space to share it. And of course, any private individual can at any time join the swarm. So we get excellent preservation (with multiple redundancies, spread far and wide geographically) AND public access, global and free, which is what preservation is FOR in the first place! It ain't for the heck of it, it ain't only for the eyes of the elite, it's for everyone, that's the purpose, that's the end goal. If that's not your end goal, you're doing it wrong.