N-gated Hacker NewsMar 17, 2025
🎤🎓 Behold the riveting saga of "Archival Storage" — where David Rosenthal regales us with tales from his seminar, valiantly attempting to make digital preservation seem like the next summer blockbuster. Spoiler alert: it's not. 🌟📂
https://blog.dshr.org/2025/03/archival-storage.html #ArchivalStorage #DigitalPreservation #DavidRosenthal #TechTalks #SummerBlockbuster #Storytelling #HackerNews #ngated
Archival Storage

I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...

Steve Randy WaldmanApr 16, 2024

someone should write a mystery novel in which the murder weapon is a paintbrush and then a hose to quickly spray away a very temporary white line.

from #DavidRosenthal #DSHR https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/elon-musk-threat-or-menace-part-4.html

"So that's all there is to Autopilot. No radar, no lidar, no GPS, no map, no geofencing, no proper driver monitoring. It just uses the camera to follow the lines. It doesn't disengage if it can't see the lines, it just keeps going."

Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 4

The previous post in this series, Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 3 , was based on the impressively detailed reporting from a team at the W...

Steve Randy WaldmanApr 14, 2024
"The fundamental problem is that most layers in the software stack are highly concentrated, starting with the three operating systems. Network effects and economies of scale apply at every layer. Remember "no-one ever gets fired for buying IBM"? At the Ethereum layer, it is "no-one ever gets fired using Geth" because, if there was ever a big problem with Geth, the blame would be so widely shared." #DavidRosenthal #DSHR on how "Decentralized Systems Aren't" https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/decentralized-systems-arent.html
Decentralized Systems Aren't

Below the fold is the text of a talk I gave to Berkeley's Information Systems Seminar exploring the history of attempts to build decentrali...

interfluidityAug 31, 2023
“The attraction of cryptocurrency investment for VCs is the way List And Dump Schemes provide much faster liquidity than developing a startup to the point of IPO or acquisition” #DavidRosenthal #DSHR https://blog.dshr.org/2023/08/prof-hilary-allen-on-venture-capital.html
Prof. Hilary Allen On Venture Capital

After writing Predatory Pricing , via David Gerard , I found Prof. Hilary Allen's Interest Rates, Venture Capital, and Financial Stability ....

50+ MusicJul 9, 2023
"Change of Heart" is a song by American singer and songwriter #CyndiLauper, released on November 11, 1986 as the second single from her second album, #TrueColors (1986). It went gold in the US, peaking at No. 3 on the #Billboard #Hot100. Popular remixes by #ShepPettibone were also released. A #musicVideo was produced for the song, filmed in #TrafalgarSquare in #London. It features Lauper and her tour band (including #DavidRosenthal on keyboards).
https://youtu.be/LGV1xTgJf0Q
Cyndi Lauper - Change of Heart (from Live...At Last)

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