#detecting — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #detecting, aggregated by home.social.
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The Torygraph contacted me last week, but I told them their paper didn't align with my world view...
They wrote it anyway and I have to say, it's pretty good. Much that I hate the Telegraph, it's also in exactly the right newspaper...
#Detecting #Treasure #Archaeology 🏺
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/25/museums-paying-millions-to-detectorists-for-treasure/
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Some great news - thank you to everyone who contributed their hard earned cash!
(Just a reminder that had the finder/ landowner donated the dress fastener, it would have cost £0 instead of £150,000...)
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Underwater drone with underwater drone detection devices.
Underwater drone equiped with underwater drone detection systems.#UnderwaterDrone #DetectionSystems #Underwater #Drones #UnderwaterDrones #Detecting #Detection
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Underwater drone detection systems for detecting underwater drones.
#DetectionSystems #Underwater #Drones #UnderwaterDrones #Detecting #Detection
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Will be sold to highest bidder - collection broken up, histories lost & disappearing into private collections, some overseas...
Issue of legacy collections - where owners or heirs don't want things, will only get more common...
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...annnnnnnnnd again.
"it was hoped the artefact...could be acquired by Lincoln Museum"
Note the word 'hoped'. But if Museum can't raise the funds to buy it, it could be sold at auction, sent overseas or melted down.
100% legally
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj1w12ddp2o?app-referrer=search
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Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue
https://www.vegardstikbakke.com/kqueue/
#HackerNews #Detecting #file #changes #on #macOS #with #kqueue #kqueue #macOS #file #monitoring #programming #tips #developer #tools
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£300,000 to buy 2 stunning pieces of prehistoric goldwork from 4 people.
So far, c.200 lovely people have given their hard earned cash to rescue these important finds - here's to them!
https://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/the-ellastone-fastener/
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-leicestershires-bronze-age-torc#
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"If the total of £150,000 is not raised, the British Museum has an option to buy the torc, or the finder and owner of the site are able to put it up for sale to the highest bidder."
Grim.
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-leicestershires-bronze-age-torc#
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747n8kd4y7o?app-referrer=deep-link
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I wonder which of these 25 ingots @findsorguk.bsky.social (all were returned to finder...) ended up being melted down?
There's very few truly undiagnostic finds - most are awaiting a person or technique to decode their secrets...
#Treasure #Detecting #Archaeology 🏺
Text from: https://spectator.com/article/why-a-set-of-gold-coins-have-divided-british-archeologists/
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I disagree with Mike in a lot of this - in the fact that we're divided (really we aren't), the absence of recognition that the museum probably couldn't afford it, his conclusions, and the archaeological 'worth' of many detected finds, but it was good to see the raw £ finally getting some coverage, even if it is the awful Spectator!
Also confirmation that disclaimed hoards *are* being melted down... 😫
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺
https://spectator.com/article/why-a-set-of-gold-coins-have-divided-british-archeologists/
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This is what happens when 'treasure' can't be bought by a museum - the hoard has been broken up into individual auction lots & will disappear into many different hands, some almost certainly overseas.
When do we start saying enough is enough??
https://www.noonans.co.uk/auctions/calendar/898/catalogue/?specialcollectionpart_id=1721
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr033kk7zxo?app-referrer=search
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It was such a pleasure to talk to Geraldine from the Museums Journal about the various issues associated with 'treasure', detecting and dwindling museum resources...
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'more than 45,000 members of the public had contributed to the cause'
... and all to pay the detectorist and landowner for a lucky find!!!
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I rather liked this... not the usual type of story we get about things from fields - it's gentle and thoughtful.
Top marks for getting it in Farmer's Weekly too...
It ain't all 'treasure'...
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
https://www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/ancient-objects-uncovered-beneath-britains-farming-fields
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450,000 artefacts from the HS2 excavations *alone*.
So the next time detectorists tell you they find everything archaeologically important - they don't. 😝
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93v21q5xdvo?app-referrer=search
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The PAS report for 2024 is out. 79,616 finds were reported (up 7% from 2023's 74,506) 1540 Treasure finds (up 12% from 2023's 1358) So... numbers are still rising at alarming rates.
https://finds.org.uk/documents/annualreports/2024.pdf
Only 4238 finders are reporting to PAS (up from 2023's 3877... but considering the huge boom in the numbers of those detecting, this is still only 1-10% of the number of detectorists in UK). AKA we're still in a mess and it's only getting worse...
Interestingly, there is *NO INFO* in the 2024 PAS report (unlike the 2023 report) regarding numbers of finds being exported!! Why is that?? Hmmmm...
TLDR All numbers are still increasing and the picture I've been highlighting over the last few months isn't getting any better...
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If anyone's feeling brave, this will be on tonight.
In case you don't know of Detectival, it's an annual metal detecting rally where 1000 detectorists, from 37 countries (their info for 2025), take part and which results in hundreds of finds, many of which are exported...
PAS (understandably) won't attend, so instead a commercial artefact recording organisation is paid to.
Not entirely sure why this would be something to celebrate on prime-time TV, but we shall see how they cover it...
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FOI requests show that, in 2024/2025, payments to individual finders & landowners for 'Treasure' rewards cost us £7,280,321.26
That's £7.3 million that could have been spent on curators, museums & heritage...
It's time to reduce rewards & regulate detecting. Our shared history requires nothing less.
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I sometimes wonder how often this happens- unless it's something really obvious, how would we know?
...and the current financial motive certainly makes it more likely.
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
BBC News - Detectorist faked 'Roman brooch' he bought on eBay
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly544d1eg1o -
The latest Treasure Valuation Committee minutes for 2024: £4,285,000 was recommended in 'reward' payments to finders/landowners for detected 'Treasure' artefacts in 2024.
When you add in the costs of administrating PAS, FLO costs, museum time, etc, this is an awful lot of cash going from the public purse (via DCMS, crowdfunding, grants etc) directly into the pockets of individual finders and landowners.
Reminder: the detecting community contributes nothing financially.
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"Community effort saves treasure hoard for public"
Not.
A.
Word.
About.
Who.
It.
Was.
Saved.
From...= a detectorist & landowner who got the £1500 raised! 😔
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Gold & silver prices have more than doubled in the last 5 years.
This has an impact on the value of our nation's historic gold & silver artefacts (& their security 😔)...
...and the price we'll all be paying for 'treasure' rewards in the coming years!
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp393nz95y5o -
Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/
#HackerNews #Honey #Dieselgate #Detecting #Tricking #Testers #AutoIndustry #News #TechEthics
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Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/
#HackerNews #Honey #Dieselgate #Detecting #Tricking #Testers #AutoIndustry #News #TechEthics
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Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/
#HackerNews #Honey #Dieselgate #Detecting #Tricking #Testers #AutoIndustry #News #TechEthics
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Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/
#HackerNews #Honey #Dieselgate #Detecting #Tricking #Testers #AutoIndustry #News #TechEthics
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Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/
#HackerNews #Honey #Dieselgate #Detecting #Tricking #Testers #AutoIndustry #News #TechEthics
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My thoughts on the APPAG detecting report and an update on donations...
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/12/29/the-appag-detecting-inquiry-and-an-update-on-donations/
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So why can't we do this with detecting?
Why not a license required to own a detector and an online test (to check knowledge of the law and Code of Practice) to be completed before license granted...?
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Don't think I've seen this in previous years - an annual round up of #archaeology on the BBC website!
Good to see ' #treasure ' not being centre stage for once.
...also interesting to note that cash value is only mentioned in relation to the #detecting finds.
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Pre-Christmas present... 🤪
The APPAG Inquiry into Detecting report is out. I'm still mulling it over - good to see rallies identified as an issue, and also that museums and PAS need more resources... BUT the thorny issue of actually slowing down the number of detectorists and the character of the community still hasn't be grasped...
I wish licenses had been recommended.
Still...I can't wait to see what NCMD and the AMDS make of being told they've got to work together to come up with a code they all agree with... 🤣
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Urgggh...it's even worse for 2023...
1343 Treasure finds, 50 were donated or offered at a reduced rate to museums...
53 were archaeologically found which suggests at least 3 archaeologically found items of treasure weren't donated.
So, what does this mean?
Treasure found on digs not being donated? Unlikely...
Private digs (see 'dodecahedron Norton Disney' type sites for example?) not donating? Hmmm.
Either way it looks like almost no detectorist found treasure is being donated to museums & it's getting less & less... 😭
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/04/22/private-finds-and-image-rights-and-wrongs/
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Something I missed previously:
2022 Treasure figures.
- 1377 cases.
- 64 cases donated or given at reduced cost to museums.
- 53 of those cases were archaeological finds...>>> detectorists actually only donated 11 cases (0.8%) out of the 1377 treasure finds recorded in 2022.
Urrghhh...
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Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python
https://alexwlchan.net/2025/detecting-av1-videos/
#HackerNews #Detecting #AV1-encoded #videos #with #Python #AV1 #Python #VideoEncoding #VideoProcessing
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Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python
https://alexwlchan.net/2025/detecting-av1-videos/
#HackerNews #Detecting #AV1-encoded #videos #with #Python #AV1 #Python #VideoEncoding #VideoProcessing
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Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python
https://alexwlchan.net/2025/detecting-av1-videos/
#HackerNews #Detecting #AV1-encoded #videos #with #Python #AV1 #Python #VideoEncoding #VideoProcessing
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Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python
https://alexwlchan.net/2025/detecting-av1-videos/
#HackerNews #Detecting #AV1-encoded #videos #with #Python #AV1 #Python #VideoEncoding #VideoProcessing
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Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python
https://alexwlchan.net/2025/detecting-av1-videos/
#HackerNews #Detecting #AV1-encoded #videos #with #Python #AV1 #Python #VideoEncoding #VideoProcessing
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Everything I've written about detecting, Treasure, private ownership, image rights etc can be found here:
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"...as the threat of a public sale loomed."
AKA the finder/landowner ransomed our shared heritage until we coughed up. 😡
Again, and again, and again, and again... it's relentless.
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Unpatriotic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrz46y4636o?app-referrer=deep-link
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A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/who-pays-for-the-hobby-metal-detecting-in-england-and-wales/
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Honestly. We all need to read this. The amount of money apparently being spent, which could instead be being invested in our museum services is horrific.
Next figures from DCMS/PAS are due in the next month or two. How bad will they be?
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#Science and #medical #editors, check out the topics @ElisabethBik / @elisabethbik.bsky.social covers in the summer 2025 Science Integrity Digest: #research #integrity sleuths, #questionable #quality of #scientific #papers, #detecting #fraud, & more. https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/25/science-integrity-digest-summer-2025/
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Detecting if an expression is constant in C
https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/c-constexpr-macro
#HackerNews #Detecting #Constant #Expressions #C #CProgramming #Coding #Techniques #SoftwareDevelopment
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Tidying up some torc admin before Christmas and have added a DOI and download PDF to the 'Detecting and Torcs' blog.
Seems it's a bit popular and I know several folks are using it for teaching etc (thank you! 😊)
#Archaeology #Prehistory #Torcs #Detecting
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/09/11/detecting-and-torcs-a-researchers-view/
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(14/N) Having familiarized ourselves with categories of adversaries, their main goals and their respective, overall "modus operandi", let's look at the types of threats posed by them.
Again, it pays to focus on types of threats: We don't want to become mainly alert-triggered, but proactive. There are several frameworks we can borrow ideas from, most notably the LINDDUN framework that is geared toward threats to privacy, and can be extended a bit to cover more ground.
First, our list of threat types:
- #Linking (spotting connections and relationships)
- #Identifying (mapping to identities)
- Undesirable #NonRepudiation or #repudiation
- #Detecting (absence or presence of indicators)
- Data #disclosure (to the unauthorized)
- Manufacturing cooperation (disguised or imposed bad consequences)
- #Obstructing (access, information, resources)
- #NonCompliance
- #Interfering (with information, resources, processes, interactions)
Our definitions of these, for our context:
Linking
An adversary can figure out connections and relationships between formerly isolated items of interest.
Identifiying
An adversary can link items of interest directly to a natural person.
(to be continued)
Start of this thread:
https://mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228291818865LINDDUN:
https://linddun.org/ -
'Principled Out-of-Distribution Detection via Multiple Testing', by Akshayaa Magesh, Venugopal V. Veeravalli, Anirban Roy, Susmit Jha.
http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/23-0838.html
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It’s a #MysteryMonday twofer, with bonus #CatofMastodon thrown in for good measure #Nantucket #Detecting #AmReading @bookstodon