Show threaddorotaCFeb 14

This is not an accidental thing. You don't get random spots on your screenshots by accident. It's the company deliberately bloating people's storage for their own data.

As for the article itself: https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737747574784/the-void

The Firefox extension I used to archive that web page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

#digitalarchiving

the void

Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? I am myself. This object is myself. The shape that forms myself. But I sense that I am not me. It's very strange. - Rei...

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Show threaddorotaCFeb 14

Well, maybe my human eyes cannot see something that's there.

Captain #GIMP to the rescue!
A little thresholding... and there it is. The sand in the gears of #PNG . Not-quite-random noise all over the background (try different thresholds to see the rest).

The regularity makes me think it's some actual data inside. A watermark from the chatbot company.

What could be inside? Well, I don't care enough to spend my time on this :P

#graphics #LLM #chatbot #digitalarchiving

dorotaCFeb 14

How much does a screenshot of some text weigh?

5kiB? 50kB?

But not this one.

I wanted to store an article for future reference and it was a crazy 500kiB!
And there's nothing in it!

What's the answer to this riddle? Follow this thread to find out.

#compression #graphics #archiving #digitalarchiving

Unofficial PetaPixel BotFeb 13
HP FilmScan 7″ Brings Old Negatives and Slides Back to Life https://petapixel.com/2026/02/13/hp-filmscan-7-brings-old-negatives-and-slides-back-to-life/ #digitalarchiving #filmscanner #Equipment #digitize #filmscan #Analog #News #hp
HP FilmScan 7" Brings Old Negatives and Slides Back to Life

You can digitize your old slides and negatives with the new HP FilmScan 7-inch LCD scanner featuring easy editing tools.

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ResearchBuzz: FirehoseFeb 8

Internet Archive Blog: Recording Now Available from “Protect Our Future Memory” Webinar. “Held on January 27, the event brought together legal experts, library leaders, and advocates to talk about Our Future Memory and the global coalition working to secure the protections that memory institutions need in our increasingly digital and networked world.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/08/internet-archive-blog-recording-now-available-from-protect-our-future-memory-webinar/
Internet Archive Blog: Recording Now Available from “Protect Our Future Memory” Webinar

Internet Archive Blog: Recording Now Available from “Protect Our Future Memory” Webinar. “Held on January 27, the event brought together legal experts, library leaders, and advocates to talk …

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ResearchBuzz: FirehoseFeb 1

Evolving Web: Designing a digital archive in partnership with an Indigenous community. “At Evolving Web, we recently collaborated with the University of Denver on the Our Stories, Our Medicine Archive (OSOMA), a community-owned digital archive that centres traditional Indigenous knowledge related to health, wellness, culture, and identity. Built in close collaboration with community partners, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/01/evolving-web-designing-a-digital-archive-in-partnership-with-an-indigenous-community/
Evolving Web: Designing a digital archive in partnership with an Indigenous community

Evolving Web: Designing a digital archive in partnership with an Indigenous community. “At Evolving Web, we recently collaborated with the University of Denver on the Our Stories, Our Medicin…

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DeftPDFJan 2

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#PDFA #PDFAFormat #ArchivalPDF #DocumentPreservation #DigitalArchiving #PDFTools

Klaus FrankDec 3

Days since I last regretted not having setup #ArchiBox to archive specific mastodon posts for later: 0

#Archiving #DigitalArchiving #Mastodon

Show threadjoshuatjNov 8

Final workshop for #PARBICA21 - From Start to Finish: A Workflow for Digital Archiving, presented by Jodie Kell, Steven Gagau and Julia Miller, PARADISEC @paradisec_aus

#DigitalArchiving #DigiPres

Miguel Afonso CaetanoNov 7

"The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls on the internet and to avoid sending traffic to the original publishers of web content, according to a subpoena posted by the website. The FBI subpoena says it is part of a criminal investigation, though it does not provide any details about what alleged crime is being investigated. Archive.today is also popularly known by several of its mirrors, including archive.is and archive.ph.

The subpoena, which was posted on X by archive.today on October 30, was sent by the FBI to Tucows, a popular Canadian domain registrar. It demands that Tucows give the FBI the “customer or subscriber name, address of service, and billing address” and other information about the “customer behind archive.today.”"

https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/

#DigitalArchiving #Archiving #Paywalls #FBI

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

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