#bitrot — Public Fediverse posts
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I've now written an article (Medium sub required) on how our images will decay and how I'm acknowledging this in my 'Consumer' project.
https://cameralux.org/embracing-bit-rot-in-digital-photographs-baa7fb15a1cc
#photo #photography #artphotography #technology #art #bitrot #abstract #consumed
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Another from my series on 'bit rot' using algorithmic random image manipulation (no AI involved). This is downtown #Houston, 1984.
##photo #photography #artphotography #technology #art #bitrot #abstract
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I'm experimenting with computer-manipulated images (not AI), using algorithms I wrote that apply effects randomly to pictures to roughly simulate extreme cases of 'bit rot'. More to come.
#photography #originalphotography #artphotography #bitrot #abstract
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I'm experimenting with computer-manipulated images (not AI), using algorithms I wrote that apply effects randomly to pictures to roughly simulate extreme cases of 'bit rot'. More to come.
#photography #originalphotography #artphotography #bitrot #abstract
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I'm experimenting with computer-manipulated images (not AI), using algorithms I wrote that apply effects randomly to pictures to roughly simulate extreme cases of 'bit rot'. More to come.
#photography #originalphotography #artphotography #bitrot #abstract
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I'm experimenting with computer-manipulated images (not AI), using algorithms I wrote that apply effects randomly to pictures to roughly simulate extreme cases of 'bit rot'. More to come.
#photography #originalphotography #artphotography #bitrot #abstract
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I'm experimenting with computer-manipulated images (not AI), using algorithms I wrote that apply effects randomly to pictures to roughly simulate extreme cases of 'bit rot'. More to come.
#photography #originalphotography #artphotography #bitrot #abstract
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just connected a 2 TB SanDisk ssd that wasn't connected for more than 5 years now, still no #bitrot yet 🤞
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Stop leaving hard drives in a drawer: Why 'Bit Rot' is destroying your data
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The number one reason AI will slowly turn to bitrot, is because humans who use the internet, will stop using the internet. I'm looking for a specification that I can trust and like with most hardware, it's now getting increasingly difficult even in the open to find specifications. If you do, the question then becomes can you trust it or are other people using the same specification and not some other copy/clone/draft that has been modified in a source forge somewhere... It's a mess and this is only the beginning. Paywall's and walled-gardens are making comebacks and it's almost like we are back in the 90's.
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The original discs I've tested all run fine so far, but some CD-R burned media I'm trying (on this MODchipped Playstation) are failing or glitching. I wonder if that is just CD-R bit rot?
I probably burned these 15-20 years ago, mostly.
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🛡️ BitCheck v1.0.0-beta.6 released!
A tool for monitoring important documents, photos, and media archives for data degradation. Now built with DotNet 10!
⚡ Lightning fast
🌍 Windows/Linux/macOS
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My buddy, a dev, complained that code he wrote on a server that is still live no longer works. No staff or funding, so it'll never work again.
A "program," a self-contained selection of source code, is self-contained in only the most artificial, abstract, and banally false sense. Ask any curator of a computer museum. Ask any contemporary librarian. Ask the guy whose thankless job is to deal with Andy Warhol's Amiga artefacts.
The effort required to make something work from ten or twenty years ago may not even have a path to success.
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Woke up my #Mac to find one of my desktop pictures (the active one, they rotate every 5 minutes) had just corrupted itself. No change in its modification date, loading it into image editors - #SketchbookPro shows the black as white. #AffinityPhoto shows the whole image as grey. #Apple #Preview shows the image as attached. Loading it into Mona, my mastodon client, the whole image shows up undamaged (and possibly scaled), so I had to take a screencap to post this.
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Currently archiving some old home movies for my neighbor. A lot of them are on these mini DVD-RW discs. I'm glad I talked him into it because some of the discs are already starting to rot. 😳
Bitrot is real. Be careful out there, y'all.
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I am shocked at how much #bitrot their is. I've been looking for some information on #postscript and all the good stuff has pretty much disappeared. After much hunting, I've managed to find some of it, but there's still much missing. Heck, buried somewhere in my storage are the PS SDK 3.5" floppy disks, but little of it is online (or if it is, its hard to find). If anybody knows where I can get the example files that were part of the colored books I’d be very grateful for a pointer. (1/2)
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Can confirm:
"One form of public speaking not usually recognized as such is teaching. I've had a few experiences in educational situations and they've been worse than flies crawling over my face...
You can't pay teachers enough to do what they do. Having been in their shoes, even briefly, has converted me into an education advocate. Double all teaching salaries now." - Douglas Coupland
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Fighting #bitrot one upload to @internetarchive at a time: saw that they were missing an item from their irdial catalog, and I happened to have it in one of my old backup drives.
https://archive.org/details/ird070-madonna-over-yorkshire-02-four
One of my favorite ambient records, and one that had been released free to the Internet in 2001, at that. #music #ambient #electronica #techno
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I was foolish enough to link to a Twitter thread in an old slide deck. It's not on IA.
Are there any alternatives where I can look up the tweet?
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Development cycle time decays just like anything else in software. If not actively maintained, it gets worse over time.
I've worked on Clojure development cycles with tools.namespace and Component, but it's still hard: You have to intentionally design your code for interactive development and be careful not to break the feedback cycle.
https://github.com/stuartsierra/component.repl
#SoftwareEngineering #BitRot #Clojure #REPLDrivenDevelopment
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#Bitrot
“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/they-curdle-like-milk-wb-dvds-from-2006-2008-are-rotting-away-in-their-cases/ -
What will you bitflip today?
by @beet_keeperI want to let you into a secret: I enjoy corruption. Corrupting digital objects leads to undefined behavior (C++’s definition is fun). And flipping bits in objects can tell us something both about the fragility, and robustness of our digital files and the applications that work with them.
I had a pull-request for bitflip accepted the other day. Bitflip is by Antoine Grondin and is a simple utility for flipping bits in digital files. I wrote in my COPTR entry for it that it reminds me of shotGun by Manfred Thaller. The utility is exceptionally easy to use (and of course update and maintain written in Golang) and has some nice features for flipping individual bits or a uniform percentage of bits across a digital file.
My pull-request was a simple one updating Goreleaser and its GitHub workflow to provide binaries for Windows and FreeBSD. I only needed to use Windows for a short amount of time thankfully, but it’s an environment I believe is prevalent for a lot of digital preservationists in corporate IT environments.
Bitflip is a useful utility to improve your testing of digital preservation systems, or simply for outreach, but let’s have a quick look at it in action.
#Archive30 #Archives #Art #Binary #bitflip #bitrot #Code #Coding #digipres #digital #DigitalArchiving #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #FileFormats #GenerativeArt #GlitchArt #outreach #Ravensburger #SomethingFun #Vagabond
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What will you bitflip today?
by @beet_keeperI want to let you into a secret: I enjoy corruption. Corrupting digital objects leads to undefined behavior (C++’s definition is fun). And flipping bits in objects can tell us something both about the fragility, and robustness of our digital files and the applications that work with them.
I had a pull-request for bitflip accepted the other day. Bitflip is by Antoine Grondin and is a simple utility for flipping bits in digital files. I wrote in my COPTR entry for it that it reminds me of shotGun by Manfred Thaller. The utility is exceptionally easy to use (and of course update and maintain written in Golang) and has some nice features for flipping individual bits or a uniform percentage of bits across a digital file.
My pull-request was a simple one updating Goreleaser and its GitHub workflow to provide binaries for Windows and FreeBSD. I only needed to use Windows for a short amount of time thankfully, but it’s an environment I believe is prevalent for a lot of digital preservationists in corporate IT environments.
Bitflip is a useful utility to improve your testing of digital preservation systems, or simply for outreach, but let’s have a quick look at it in action.
Continue reading “What will you bitflip today?”…#Archive30 #Archives #Art #Binary #bitflip #bitrot #Code #Coding #digipres #digital #DigitalArchiving #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #FileFormats #GenerativeArt #GlitchArt #outreach #Ravensburger #SomethingFun #Vagabond
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What will you bitflip today?
by @beet_keeperI want to let you into a secret: I enjoy corruption. Corrupting digital objects leads to undefined behavior (C++’s definition is fun). And flipping bits in objects can tell us something both about the fragility, and robustness of our digital files and the applications that work with them.
I had a pull-request for bitflip accepted the other day. Bitflip is by Antoine Grondin and is a simple utility for flipping bits in digital files. I wrote in my COPTR entry for it that it reminds me of shotGun by Manfred Thaller. The utility is exceptionally easy to use (and of course update and maintain written in Golang) and has some nice features for flipping individual bits or a uniform percentage of bits across a digital file.
My pull-request was a simple one updating Goreleaser and its GitHub workflow to provide binaries for Windows and FreeBSD. I only needed to use Windows for a short amount of time thankfully, but it’s an environment I believe is prevalent for a lot of digital preservationists in corporate IT environments.
Bitflip is a useful utility to improve your testing of digital preservation systems, or simply for outreach, but let’s have a quick look at it in action.
#Archive30 #Archives #Art #Binary #bitflip #bitrot #Code #Coding #digipres #digital #DigitalArchiving #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #FileFormats #GenerativeArt #outreach #Ravensburger #SomethingFun #Vagabond
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What will you bitflip today?
by @beet_keeperI want to let you into a secret: I enjoy corruption. Corrupting digital objects leads to undefined behavior (C++’s definition is fun). And flipping bits in objects can tell us something both about the fragility, and robustness of our digital files and the applications that work with them.
I had a pull-request for bitflip accepted the other day. Bitflip is by Antoine Grondin and is a simple utility for flipping bits in digital files. I wrote in my COPTR entry for it that it reminds me of shotGun by Manfred Thaller. The utility is exceptionally easy to use (and of course update and maintain written in Golang) and has some nice features for flipping individual bits or a uniform percentage of bits across a digital file.
My pull-request was a simple one updating Goreleaser and its GitHub workflow to provide binaries for Windows and FreeBSD. I only needed to use Windows for a short amount of time thankfully, but it’s an environment I believe is prevalent for a lot of digital preservationists in corporate IT environments.
Bitflip is a useful utility to improve your testing of digital preservation systems, or simply for outreach, but let’s have a quick look at it in action.
#Archive30 #Archives #Art #Binary #bitflip #bitrot #Code #Coding #digipres #digital #DigitalArchiving #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #FileFormats #GenerativeArt #outreach #Ravensburger #SomethingFun #Vagabond
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What will you bitflip today?
by @beet_keeperI want to let you into a secret: I enjoy corruption. Corrupting digital objects leads to undefined behavior (C++’s definition is fun). And flipping bits in objects can tell us something both about the fragility, and robustness of our digital files and the applications that work with them.
I had a pull-request for bitflip accepted the other day. Bitflip is by Antoine Grondin and is a simple utility for flipping bits in digital files. I wrote in my COPTR entry for it that it reminds me of shotGun by Manfred Thaller. The utility is exceptionally easy to use (and of course update and maintain written in Golang) and has some nice features for flipping individual bits or a uniform percentage of bits across a digital file.
My pull-request was a simple one updating Goreleaser and its GitHub workflow to provide binaries for Windows and FreeBSD. I only needed to use Windows for a short amount of time thankfully, but it’s an environment I believe is prevalent for a lot of digital preservationists in corporate IT environments.
Bitflip is a useful utility to improve your testing of digital preservation systems, or simply for outreach, but let’s have a quick look at it in action.
#Archive30 #Archives #Art #Binary #bitflip #bitrot #Code #Coding #digipres #digital #DigitalArchiving #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #FileFormats #GenerativeArt #outreach #Ravensburger #SomethingFun #Vagabond
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#MinIO è un'implementazione #OpenSource per l' #ObjectStorage su protocollo #S3 compatibile.
Potete installarlo #onprem e impostare con un paio di click la #replicazione e #ridondanza (anche off-site), risparmiare sullo storage veloce con il #tiering su HDD meccanici per i dati meno recenti, e #versionare i documenti con grande facilità. In più supporta la #cifratura dei dati e la prevenzione al #bitrot (corruzione silente dei dati).
Esiste qualcosa di meglio?
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#MinIO è un'implementazione #OpenSource per l' #ObjectStorage su protocollo #S3 compatibile.
Potete installarlo #onprem e impostare con un paio di click la #replicazione e #ridondanza (anche off-site), risparmiare sullo storage veloce con il #tiering su HDD meccanici per i dati meno recenti, e #versionare i documenti con grande facilità. In più supporta la #cifratura dei dati e la prevenzione al #bitrot (corruzione silente dei dati).
Esiste qualcosa di meglio?
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#MinIO è un'implementazione #OpenSource per l' #ObjectStorage su protocollo #S3 compatibile.
Potete installarlo #onprem e impostare con un paio di click la #replicazione e #ridondanza (anche off-site), risparmiare sullo storage veloce con il #tiering su HDD meccanici per i dati meno recenti, e #versionare i documenti con grande facilità. In più supporta la #cifratura dei dati e la prevenzione al #bitrot (corruzione silente dei dati).
Esiste qualcosa di meglio?
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#MinIO è un'implementazione #OpenSource per l' #ObjectStorage su protocollo #S3 compatibile.
Potete installarlo #onprem e impostare con un paio di click la #replicazione e #ridondanza (anche off-site), risparmiare sullo storage veloce con il #tiering su HDD meccanici per i dati meno recenti, e #versionare i documenti con grande facilità. In più supporta la #cifratura dei dati e la prevenzione al #bitrot (corruzione silente dei dati).
Esiste qualcosa di meglio?
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#MinIO è un'implementazione #OpenSource per l' #ObjectStorage su protocollo #S3 compatibile.
Potete installarlo #onprem e impostare con un paio di click la #replicazione e #ridondanza (anche off-site), risparmiare sullo storage veloce con il #tiering su HDD meccanici per i dati meno recenti, e #versionare i documenti con grande facilità. In più supporta la #cifratura dei dati e la prevenzione al #bitrot (corruzione silente dei dati).
Esiste qualcosa di meglio?
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I remember how people in the 90s were talking about how we are—thanks to digital technology—the first generation being able to preserve everything.
Uhm, well...
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/
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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying - Enlarge / Hard drives, unfortunately, tend to die not with a spectacula... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2049391 #harddrivefailure #dataarchiving #ironmountain #hddfailure #archiving #biz #bitrot #tech #hdd
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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying - Enlarge / Hard drives, unfortunately, tend to die not with a spectacula... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2049391 #harddrivefailure #dataarchiving #ironmountain #hddfailure #archiving #biz #bitrot #tech #hdd
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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying - Enlarge / Hard drives, unfortunately, tend to die not with a spectacula... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2049391 #harddrivefailure #dataarchiving #ironmountain #hddfailure #archiving #biz #bitrot #tech #hdd
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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying - Enlarge / Hard drives, unfortunately, tend to die not with a spectacula... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2049391 #harddrivefailure #dataarchiving #ironmountain #hddfailure #archiving #biz #bitrot #tech #hdd
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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying - Enlarge / Hard drives, unfortunately, tend to die not with a spectacula... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2049391 #harddrivefailure #dataarchiving #ironmountain #hddfailure #archiving #biz #bitrot #tech #hdd
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Has Geek and Sundry just thrown away ALL of its old articles?!
I noticed that NextCloud Bookmarks has a "broken links" section and there's two G&S links in there. The site looks like it's basically a single page promoting "Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode" now and nothing else.
Capitalism sucks.
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Has Geek and Sundry just thrown away ALL of its old articles?!
I noticed that NextCloud Bookmarks has a "broken links" section and there's two G&S links in there. The site looks like it's basically a single page promoting "Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode" now and nothing else.
Capitalism sucks.
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Has Geek and Sundry just thrown away ALL of its old articles?!
I noticed that NextCloud Bookmarks has a "broken links" section and there's two G&S links in there. The site looks like it's basically a single page promoting "Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode" now and nothing else.
Capitalism sucks.
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Has Geek and Sundry just thrown away ALL of its old articles?!
I noticed that NextCloud Bookmarks has a "broken links" section and there's two G&S links in there. The site looks like it's basically a single page promoting "Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode" now and nothing else.
Capitalism sucks.
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Wait, isn't there something like a summer break for this guy ever?!
Nope. 'cuz summer 🌞 time is…
Radio Irrtum! SPECIAL time!
↓↓↓ German version far below the English one ↓↓↓
Precisely said, the next issue of #RadioIrrtum! will be on air this Saturday, 2024/07/06, 8:00pm UTC+2/Berlin time, sharp. Over at Alex Berlin FM at 91MHz and DAB+ K7D around Berlin and worldwide at https://www.alex-berlin.de/radio/15-live-auf-91.0 .
#Radio Irrtum! is a German language #radioShow exploring the sonic vastness of the #underground to raise your attention for new unheard #music. So it's fine to ignore that German language aspect - 'cuz it's all about the music!
And this time there is a Special rolling in! The…
Chiptune PuNk Special!!
Up to date helluva #phunky #demoscene #chiptunes running on old rusty #homeComputers from the 80s like the #zxSpectrum, #C16/#Plus4, #AtariST, #C64 and of course the #Amiga.
No additional effects, no extra synths, no added drums. Just pure chippy bless!
Music full of #bitrot sample aliasing & strange chirps on brutally tackled chips like the #TED, #YM2149, #SID, and of course #Paula. No worries, I'll explain it all (however in German – as my station demands it).
With super cool music hackers like…
- @[email protected]
- Shiru
- @[email protected]
- STU (didn't know him when I produced this show 4 weeks ago – just found his music excellent. However this weekend I was performing next to him on stage in La Chaux-de-Fonds (not kidding - life is sometimes full of surprises) - AND WHAT A SET HE DID, LIVE on his 2 original Atari STs!!)
- LMan
- Jammer
- @[email protected]
- Groo
- Xale or
- Psych858o
I've always wanted to produce THIS FEATURE and now it's right there, already uploaded to the station and ready 2 hit the aether. I'm totally happy how it came out and can't wait to have it in public. That is why I'll attach my in depth explanation trailer instead of just the animated Radio Irrtum! logo. This one: https://video.ploud.fr/w/iDTikV3q7y5YqeY2LBdLwn
I'll post playlist + manuscript later here (provided I’m home, else it will come up the day after). And if you have questions? I'll gladly answer! Just ask!
CU all on Saturday! :)
↑↑↑ ...::English version above, the German one now below::... ↓↓↓
goddohgodd, kaum 700 Zeychen noch :( → LOS!
Radio Irrtum! Chiptune Special
Diesen Samstag, 06.07.2024, 20 Uhr auf Alex Berlin, in/um Berlin auf FM 91.0 MHz und DAB+ K7D + weltweit im Stream (s.o.).
Brandaktuelle echte unverfälschte Chiptunes (kein Hall, keine extra Drums, keine extra Samples) auf alter Hardware der 80er, die auf deart absurde Weise durchgehacked wird (code only!), dass sie jetzt definitiv nicht mehr so klingt, wie ursprünglich gedacht – dafür aber major phunky! ;)
Details auf englisch oben, Playlist + Sendemanuskript nach der Sendung hier drunter und wenn ich mir was wünschen darf: Euch als Zuhörer:innen obendrauf. Danke Euch und vielleicht bis zum Samstag Abend… -
I just published a new article: Behind the Scenes of Innovation - Reflections on technological innovation and an invitation to consider the multiple variables that influence decisions, whether business, environmental, legal or social, going beyond simplifications and appearances.
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Atome statt Magnet-Bits: Das diamantähnliche Material Siliziumkarbid könnte die sichere Langzeitspeicherung von digitalen Daten ermöglichen – in ihm halten sie Generationen statt nur wenige Jahre. #Datenspeicher #bitrot #Archivierung
https://www.scinexx.de/news/technik/atomgitter-als-langzeit-datenspeicher/ -
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I wrapped Arlington in a Docker container if that would be easier. I can try to see if #bitRot has overtaken that... if you have an interest.
