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If you need any particular ones not available on http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/ let me know here and I can pull them out of an old archive for 2000-2007.
Does Google Web Fonts not do some tracking along the lines of analytics? I'd never integrate a Google service in my site and sell user info out for little/no benefit.
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Having to pay $15/month ($180/yr!) to be able to search stuff on my own computer for years seems awfully expensive. I'd rather depend on some simple open-source piece of software that I can understand and maintain if necessary.
Google used to have a native Mac extension like a launch bar. Command space ... Enter search all local files. It was really fast
As a digital native I never gave it a thought, but she told me that there is a collective memory gap in films that have been shot or stored digitally. With stuff that has been stored on film, there was always soem copy in some cellar and they could make a new working copy from whatever they found. With digital technology this became much much harder and costly for them, because it often means cobbling together the last working tape players and maintaining both the machines and the knowledge of how to maintain them. With stuff on harddrives a hundred different codecs that won’t run on just any machine etc this combined to something she called the digital gap.
I had never thought about technology in that way. Nowadays this kind of robustness, archiveability and futureproofing has become a factor that drives many of my decisions when it comes to file formats, software etc. This is one of the main reasons why I dislike relying soly on cloud based solutions for many applications. What if that fancy startup goes south? What happens to my data? Even if they allow me to get it in a readable format, couldn’t I just have avoided that by using something reliable from the start?
I grew to both understand and like the unix mantra of small independent units of organizations — trying as hard as possible not to make software and other things into a interlinked ball of mud that falls apart once of the parts stops working for one or the other reasons. Thinking about how your notes, texts, videos, pictures, software, tools etc. will look in a quasi post apocalyptic scenario can be a healthy exercise.
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What benefit does that provide compared to regular browser bookmarks? It doesn't seem to address either of the issues I mentioned.
1. it's independent of the browser 2. it works with any browser 3. I can move it to any machine and use it 4. It is not transmitted to the browser vendor 5. Being a text file, it is under my control 6. I can back it up 7. I don't need some database manager to access it 8. I can add notes and anything else to the file 9. It's stupid simple
Some of the classic articles from the Kuro5hin website mentioned are available at https://web.archive.org/web/20061124151022/http://ko4ting.ma... If you need any particular ones not available on http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/ let me know here and I can pull them out of an old archive for 2000-2007.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis_of_Prime_Int...
When I studied media science one of the most lasting experiences I had was a talk with one lady of the viennese film museum (on of the few film museums that store actual films instead of film props). As a digital native I never gave it a thought, but she told me that there is a collective memory gap in films that have been shot or stored digitally. With stuff that has been stored on film, there was always soem copy i…
Post internet, most content is globally replicated. Someone somewhere will find time and energy to make an Amiga simulator with exactly correct bugs, to run the program you want. Amount of content lost proportion to amount of content created must have gone down dramatically.
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I think the Stack Overflow guidelines have "solved" this problem in about the cleanest way currently possible: expect links to die, and include the relevant information in your answer. If the link still works when it gets clicked on that's a bonus, but it shouldn't need to be available for the content you're reading to be understandable.
And directly quoting the information has been endangered by modern copyright directives. Will you still be allowed to do that in ten years? Or will aggressive takedown policies have forced a shift?
I guess paraphrasing or summarising hasn’t been prohibited.
> will aggressive takedown policies have forced a shift?
Shifting to prarphrasing or to summarising doesn’t sound too bad.
When I studied media science one of the most lasting experiences I had was a talk with one lady of the viennese film museum (on of the few film museums that store actual films instead of film props). As a digital native I never gave it a thought, but she told me that there is a collective memory gap in films that have been shot or stored digitally. With stuff that has been stored on film, there was always soem copy i…
Some tape of master's were infamously reused to store other contents. Beside the whole archive problem come from the reusable nature and scarcity of the chosen storage. I think I've read something about reusing paper as well in medieval time.
When I studied media science one of the most lasting experiences I had was a talk with one lady of the viennese film museum (on of the few film museums that store actual films instead of film props). As a digital native I never gave it a thought, but she told me that there is a collective memory gap in films that have been shot or stored digitally. With stuff that has been stored on film, there was always soem copy i…
Ask Whovians ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes ). Post internet, most content is globally replicated. Someone somewhere will find time and energy to make an Amiga simulator with exactly correct bugs, to run the program you want. Amount of content lost proportion to amount of content created must have gone down dramatically.