Old L.A. PhotosPretty but treacherous https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/56348
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Pacing The Halls
Mario GuzmánI have added a new topic to my HIG for Macintosh series on Inspectors.
I would like to point out that I did this myself. I create the AppKit/SwiftUI code myself. I wrote the guidelines myself in Pages. I edited (to stitch) the screenshots myself. I did the HTML myself.
There was *no* use of AI here. This was done with my own brain, skill, and hands.
Let me know if there's anything I've missed or errors you may find on this page.
@hotdogsladies @siracusa Knowing your appreciation for the Waffle House Magic Marker system, I think you may enjoy the McDonald's Nintendo DS training game, if you haven't seen it before. https://archive.org/details/mcdonalds-japan-ecdp-rom-training-nintendo-ds-cartridge-dump A video on the backstory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6xOBCAVvA There's an english translation online too. The more of it you "play," the more fascinating and bizarre it gets.
McDonald's eCDP - eCrew Development Program ROM (Nintendo DS) : babylonian : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A complete ROM dump (save file included!) of the ultra-rare McDonald's Japan eCDP - eCrew Development Program Nintendo DS software, used for training...
Paul Hudson
Had to do a quick sanity check. I've seen and heard these terms online more often in the past six months than the rest of my life combined. Prerequisites in any blog post or podcast about AI.
My parents found a stack of 5.25" Commodore 64 disks in the basement that I thought were long gone. We got rid of the computer when I was about 10, so I don't remember specifics, but all the disks are handmade and packed with lists of obscure programs I've never heard of. I'm thinking some of what's on these could be lost media.
Does anyone know of tools that exist for dumping the data off of these onto a modern system so I can try to run them in an emulator?
Marcin WicharyI had a lot of fun revisiting Apple Lisa and seeing how it has functions we’ll all recognize today, but with early names that are just odd and/or charming, for example…
Save & Put Away
Select All Of Document
Clear Lines Off Top
Allow To Cross Pages
Find What?
Find Next Misspelling
Tear Off Stationery
Same As On Clipboard
…with sometimes equally fascinating keyboard shortcuts.
Freeway awash in sea of newspapers https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/126868
I'm always at odds about how to treat these scans from a preservation standpoint. I chose to overscan and keep the fringing at the edge of the glass, and not to desaturated it to pure black and white, even though I'm not sure if these are artifacts of the photography or just wear and aging of the image. There's one angle where you preserve the artifact as it is, and another where you preserve the original intent (if you can figure that out). I usually end up going with the former.
This is an 8x10 plate glass negative from ~1919 that I scanned and over the weekend restored by hand-cleaning the dust and blemishes in Photoshop. The file is roughly 12000x10000. The second photo is a crop from the right side, where you can see the remarkable sharpness. I love images like this because they break the mental model that old photos were "bad." They were just expensive. Many of the most striking images I have are the oldest.
