Does anyone know the social history of `libtorrent`? it now appears only sparsely maintained and still almost exclusively by arvid, really huge bugs go unresponded to, and i'm finding tons of offers to help with stuff also getting just ignored? like how did this whole protocol get built on top […]

I just had to write an introduction for a thing, and since what I do with my time has changed a bit recently I figured it might be time for a new #introduction here too! Hi folks! My name is Danny Garside and I wear too many hats - until recently I was a post-doc at Sussex University doing […]

Ein sehr höfliches "Boah mann ey" der @stabi_berlin : "Gleichzeitig wird so die Möglichkeit eröffnet, den Grad der gelegentlich betonten Unentbehrlichkeit der papierenen Originale zu bestimmen und Formate eines würdigen Abschieds zu gestalten." https://blog.sbb.berlin/makulierung_zettelkataloge/

I know there aren't many people exploring the fediverse from the UK heritage sector, but worth a try: is anyone out there associated with a museum or gallery (etc) in Leeds? I would like to connect with such people! #museums #galleries #GLAM #GLAMEd #heritage #MathsInMuseums #museum

Jetzt hat das Warten ein Ende: Die Schilder sind ausgetauscht und die #antonwilhelmamostraße ist in #berlin Sharon Dodua Otoo hat es beschrieben: Die Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße ist nicht nur ein Ort. Sie ist nicht nur eine U-Bahn-Station. Sie ist auch ein Symbol: Sie steht für Widerstand und für […]

Finde ich über Mastodon eine Person, die in der Lage wäre solche Stühle zu restaurieren (2 Stück)? In Berlin oder Umgebung. Natürlich gegen Bezahlung. Bitte gerne boosten. 🙏🧡 #Möbel #berlin #restaurierung

Many EU member countries have a rich colonial past, e.g. France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium... (I know, Germany too - but this is off my topic here.) Do you know any museum from any of such country who would be interested to work with us on a European funded project about taking […]

All the LLM tools are like 100 pages of markdown pleading with the model to be a real boy, 100k lines of boilerplate, but it's the 100 lines of handrolled crypto, and 100 lines of hardcoded leaking every byte of data that passes through them that really makes them shine

Aus Sicht der Kulturerbedigitalisierung wirkt es auf mich wie eine vertane Chance, wenn in physischen Ausstellungen regelmäßig nicht auf entsprechende Digitalisate der gezeigten/abgedruckten Objekte verwiesen wird – gerade so, als gäbe es das online-Angebot nicht. Hinzu kommt, dass es schlicht […]

Article from @thetransmitter about what's going on with FlyBase https://www.thetransmitter.org/community/harvard-university-lays-off-fly-database-team/

Here's a good write-up on universities in Sudan surviving against all odds, with some tips on what we could do to support higher education there, and for its displaced diasporas by my former student, and now dear friend, Rebecca Glade, and Muna Elgadal. www.cmi.no/publications...

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Ich hab kürzlich ein sehr schönes Gespräch mit Sexworkerin Jay Stark geführt. Das Video ist nun auf YouTube. #sexarbeit. Also falls Ihr Auch schon mal gefragt habt, warum ich als Historikerin auch was zur Gegenwart sagen kann... Und noch einige Themen mehr […]

Gibt's hier irgendwen, der beruflich zumindest in Grundzügen mit der Kühlung großer Rechenzentren zu tun hat? Ich hätte da ne technische Frage

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Diesen Text von @afromm.bsky.social derherrschulz.bsky.social und Daniel Schubert lege ich euch sehr ans Herz. Es geht um die erste rassistische Hetzjagd im Nachkriegsdeutschland - 1975 in Erfurt und zum ersten Mal kommen auch die Betroffenen zu Wort. taz.de/Rassistische...

The slides of my talk at #why2025 "Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings!" are now online: https://hu.berlin/SRC-WHY2025 More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/ #safeguardingresearch #sciop

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Today I learned about Super Sema, a Kenyan animation series about a ten year old superhero girl who uses science, technology, and maths to save society. https://www.supersema.com/

The slides of my talk at #why2025 "Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings!" are now online: https://hu.berlin/SRC-WHY2025 More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/ #safeguardingresearch #sciop

I will be at #WHY25 & give a talk about @SafeguardingResearch#why25 https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/ (Saturday, 22:35 - 23:00; should be the last talk of the day^^) Sadly, I need to leave Sunday before lunch :( If you want to meet, feel free to ping me!

I will be at #WHY25 & give a talk about @SafeguardingResearch#why25 https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/ (Saturday, 22:35 - 23:00; should be the last talk of the day^^) Sadly, I need to leave Sunday before lunch :( If you want to meet, feel free to ping me!

I've been looking at assorted ways how to (a) replace my German Folklore Map with something #openstreetmap -based (b) making it filterable based on narrative elements (such as "dragon", "treasure", and so forth), and (c) integrating it into my new #mediawiki wiki. Based on my investigations so […]

Have you noticed the user agent ‘Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0’ in your log files? Thousands of such requests come in from 25 servers at a German provider. They look like search queries on the website as if using a form, but all quite pointless. This has […]

Bezeichnend auch, dass traditionelle Datenzentren noch deutlich mehr Energie verbrauchen als KI-Datenzentren. Die Energieffizienz von KI-Chips steigt zudem exponentiell (5). Das soll die teils absurden Auswüchse des KI-Hypes nicht kleinreden. Schön wäre […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

Es scheint mir eine Wahrnehmungsverzerrung in der (notwendigen) Diskussion um die Umweltfolgen LLMs zu geben. Ressourcenverbräuche werden oft nur hier erwähnt. Dann scheinen LLMs schlicht böse. Implizit vorausgesetzt ist, dass unser sonstiges digitales Handeln nicht ins Gewicht fällt. Dabei […]

BitTorrent never asks for age verification.

There are several SSI Fellows with #glam and #digitalhumanities backgrounds: it would be amazing if there could be more of us! If this is you and you have an idea for a Fellowship project, please feel free to DM me with questions, I'd be happy to help. It might be that you write research […]

📢 Applications open for the 2026 Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship on 11 August, just a couple of weeks away, closing 6 October! 🚀 You don't have to be writing software yourself, just interested in promoting good research software practice. It's UK-based but there are 3 places […]

Was machen Universitäten im Fediverse, wie zufrieden sind sie und wer fehlt? Das habe ich recherchiert und die 42 (sic!) größten deutschen Universitäten befragt. Das Ergebnis als #longread: ➡️ […]

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government [1] 👉Government datasets modified without notice. ▪️We gathered metadata from the US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, and Veterans Affairs database harvest sources [... ] that were modified between Jan 20 and March 25, 2025. ▪️We […]

I boosted false information, WeTransfer did a normal TOS change: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/114856595954614172

Wir wollen im @fidromanistik mit annif https://annif.org/ experimentieren und suchen dafür Verstärkung im Team: https://blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de/?p=40495 (die Ausschreibung wird verlängert) Das wird spannend und das Team ist toll! Fragen gerne an @jomla oder mich!

This might be of interest to some attendees of the libraries meeting at #DH2025, who just mentioned the need to safeguard data. From: @SafeguardingResearch#dh2025https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/114852130478020946

Dear #library bubble, does anyone know of a resolver for #OCLC IDs that is not #worldcat? Worldcat decided to block all IPs coming from my #vpn service. #dh2025

cont.: "The remote team places high value on working collaboratively with productivity and project management tools. If that sounds like you, please contact them at [email protected]" 3/3

cont.: "Working with collection partners and archives, this requires a working knowledge of OpenRefine for data transformations and a basic knowledge of HTML, XML, and JSON to enrich existing metadata and fill in gaps where needed. Subject matter expertise in any particular field, as well as […]

A group dealing with at-risk educational materials is looking for help: "The Digital Public Goods Library is looking for librarian volunteers who have experience cataloging materials with education-related metadata in a digital library environment, to assist in identifying and making available […]

"Hallo, das Angebot „DigiZeitschriften“ wird ersatzlos eingestellt. " link: https://www.digizeitschriften.de/ Wenn ich richtig informiert bin, konnten FIDs Fachsegmente übernehmen. Als Gesamtergebnis der deutschen Bibliosphäre ist das alles nicht so toll. #ripdeutschesjstor

As the horizon begins to light, a being of pure architectural majesty opens a portal next to the wizard's mailbox. The being drops a letter into the mailbox. It's the interdimensional play by mail post!

If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an answer! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/

Among the reasons we didn't set up SUCHO (emergency archiving Ukrainian cultural heritage) as an institutional web archiving project: institutions aren't neutral, and shouldn't be assumed to be perpetually on the right side of things.

Wer sich über den angeblichen „Deckelungsvorschlag für Kinder mit Migrationshintergrund“ der Bildungsministerin aufgeregt hat (ich gehörte dazu), dem kann ich dieses wieder einmal exzellente „Altpapier“ sehr ans Herz legen (allen anderen auch). Spoiler: Es war alles ganz anders! „Prien […]

#QGIS auf dem #Historikertag: Heute wurde das Programm der @digigw veröffentlicht. Mit dabei: mein #OER Tutorial zur Georeferenzierung alter Karten mit QGIS. Entstanden für die #FOSSGIS2025 des @FOSSGISeV Hier gehts zum gesamten Programm: 👇 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

The wizard is having lunch with the librarians. He brought taro and they brought green peppers, papayas and seitan.

Don't use the "Change my Mind" meme with Stephen Crowder for anything. He is a racist and a homophobe who abused his ex wife while she was pregnant with their kids. Fuck that guy and find a better meme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Crowder

@404mediaco reports on #saveoursigns: https://www.404media.co/save-our-signs-national-parks-archive-qr-codes/ Quoting Jenny McBurney, whose work has been invaluable for this effort: "There has been SO much work over the last 30 years to widen the lens and nuance the interpretations that are […]