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Spammers would have to host a page (permanently) that links to your post, and even then they don't get to control what (if anything) from that page gets displayed on your site. I g…

Webmention receivers can filter on whatever parts of a URL they want to. Maybe a WordPress implementation limits this to the domain? But as far as the spec goes, the receiver just …

That's all true, and probably a better system overall, but burning an optical disk, labelling it, and putting it on a shelf does feel like a more accessible backup regime for many …

Oh yeah, that makes sense, thanks!

Rostered Time Off? Rent To Own? (Sorry, not being a nob, just not sure of the abbreviation!)

I don't know about the best way to split things (I do it topically mostly, e.g. each website backup goes to a separate disc). But hashdeep is a great little tool for producing file…

I've done this sometimes with hosting images and other large files on a combination of Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, Internet Archive, and Zenodo. Flickr costs money, but it feels lik…

Oh right, I've never seen polythene resealable ones here in Australia. (The floppier 'freezer bags' are I think, but they're less useful for archiving.) I think it's mainly PVC tha…

True. Although the ziploc bags can just be left a bit open, that's quite sufficient. The good thing about food-safe bags is that they're usually polypropylene and so good for archi…

The horizontal vs vertical storage thing is interesting. I've often wondered what the rationale is with the difference, and it seems that it's cultural to a large extent. One thing…

As others have mentioned, Transkribus works pretty well for handwritten text recognition. You can also train your own model if you have enough source material. If the documents you…

I'm also interested in this. I've been using SpiderOak for years, but am currently trying to migrate away (to rsync.net, coincidentally). It's not that I've ever had any issues wit…

There are a few OSM apps that make it easy to share tracks. I use OsmAnd, it allows easy recording, viewing, and uploading to OSM. OSMTracker probably has better battery life, mayb…

I agree, Overland is good. I recently added support for it to my blog (which uses twyne.rtfd.io) so I could more easily geolocate photos (from my non-GPS camera), and it was pretty…

Me too. And at the same time it sets a "non-us" cookie, so maybe it's some sort of geolocation silliness. Anyway, here's an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/2021110200…

One of the indieweb approaches to feeds is to just structure the HTML sufficiently, and not have separate feed files. This works pretty well, and some feed readers work with it. So…

> This boils down the difference between pigment and dye based inks. Dye based inks are more expensive but more resistant to UV light. I think it might be the other way around: pig…

That is interesting! I wonder what the "100 year plan" will be. Flickr does seem like one of the few places that could conceivably store copyright photos for as long as it takes fo…

Flickr has set up a non-profit "to properly preserve and care for the Flickr Commons archive, support Commons members […], and plan for the very long-term health and longevity of t…

Whitworth's method of scraping (mentioned in this article) is explained in this 1858 paper: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Papers_on_Mecha...

Yeah, I love OSMAnd for that reason. With it, you can add POIs and for more complicated edits that need a bigger screen etc. it's easy to add OSM Notes (which other mappers can the…

I'm the same. I used to almost exclusively write with a fountain pen. Now I write everything with a keyboard. Primarily, because I realised that notebooks full of words are hard to…

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