I've noticed with both DuckDuckGo and Google that the ai overviews related to #retrocomputing are almost always wrong. And they will tell you things that maybe the manufacturer at the time WANTED you to think.
For instance, the SunPCi "penguin" supports other CPUs, I was searching for the jumper table.
Both sites told me in the ai summary to not bother looking for jumpers as you can't change anything.
I wonder how many potential nerds just give up reading that slop.
Eternity Crystal: The 5D Storage Breakthrough Preserving 360TB For Billions of Years.
#5DDataStorage, #EternityCrystal, #DataPreservation, #LongTermStorage, #Nanotechnology, #FutureTech, #DigitalDarkAge, #QuartzDataStorage, #TechInnovation, #ScienceBreakthrough, #ArchivalSolution, #BigData, #SustainableTech
Really good podcast that touches on the "digital darkage" problem : https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/laser-versus-parchment-doomsday-for-the-disc . Though he doesn't mention the phrase. He missed talking about how important Open Source is to digital archiving. But it rings loudly to me and do doubt others who work/live in FOSS. It also rings louds about how digital rights and access becomes real life rights and access.
In 1086, William the Conqueror pioneered a medieval database. 900 years later, the BBC's began a (digitized) Domesday project of its own... but just a few years later, it became unreadable, the information lost. Digitization of history doesn't ensure longevity, and this erasure can be disastrous.
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As I recall, before they standardized at all, the speed of recordings would vary too, so we don’t know what pitch they were originally played in 🤷🏻♂️
Thousand play silent movies back at the wrong speed too 🎥
Who knows what they’ll do to today’s popular entertainment in the future — if they manage to reproduce digital media in the future at all
It might all disappear into the #DigitalDarkAge
'Cause we are living in a #digital world …
Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades - in this #LongNow essay, #AdrienneBernhard is "Shining a Light on the #DigitalDarkAge":
https://longnow.org/ideas/shining-a-light-on-the-digital-dark-age
"Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?"
Check out our recent mention in this article from the #LongNowFoundation for an important conversation about mitigating data loss in the #DigitalDarkAge.
https://longnow.org/ideas/shining-a-light-on-the-digital-dark-age/
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