#digitaldarkage — Public Fediverse posts

I've noticed with both DuckDuckGo and Google that the ai overviews related to #retrocomputing are almost always wrong. And they will tell you things that maybe the manufacturer at the time WANTED you to think.

For instance, the SunPCi "penguin" supports other CPUs, I was searching for the jumper table.

Both sites told me in the ai summary to not bother looking for jumpers as you can't change anything.

I wonder how many potential nerds just give up reading that slop.

#digitaldarkage

@vwbusguy

#DigitalDarkAge :(

"Despite the thousands of #digitalprojects launched during the past 20 years, experts warn of a new #digitaldarkage as our ability to produce digital information continues to outpace our capacity to preserve and access that knowledge for the long haul.
These challenges extend across many domains, but they are particularly pressing for #digitalhumanities (DH) projects."
#DigitalLongevity
https://endings.uvic.ca/about.html

Really good podcast that touches on the "digital darkage" problem : https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/laser-versus-parchment-doomsday-for-the-disc . Though he doesn't mention the phrase. He missed talking about how important Open Source is to digital archiving. But it rings loudly to me and do doubt others who work/live in FOSS. It also rings louds about how digital rights and access becomes real life rights and access.

#digitaldarkage #cautionarytales

@joat @CWilbur @klausman @paul_ipv6
As I recall, before they standardized at all, the speed of recordings would vary too, so we don’t know what pitch they were originally played in 🤷🏻‍♂️

Thousand play silent movies back at the wrong speed too 🎥

Who knows what they’ll do to today’s popular entertainment in the future — if they manage to reproduce digital media in the future at all

It might all disappear into the #DigitalDarkAge

'Cause we are living in a #digital world …

Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades - in this #LongNow essay, #AdrienneBernhard is "Shining a Light on the #DigitalDarkAge":

https://longnow.org/ideas/shining-a-light-on-the-digital-dark-age

Great article on the #digitaldarkage over at the #longnow foundation's website. I spend a decent amount of time thinking about this anytime I have to dig out an old external hard drive to find a file from a few years ago. Digital media is so very delicate. https://longnow.org/ideas/shining-a-light-on-the-digital-dark-age/

"Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?"

Check out our recent mention in this article from the #LongNowFoundation for an important conversation about mitigating data loss in the #DigitalDarkAge.

https://longnow.org/ideas/shining-a-light-on-the-digital-dark-age/

"Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?"

Check out our recent mention in this article from the #LongNowFoundation for an important conversation about mitigating data loss in the #DigitalDarkAge.

https://longnow.org/ideas/shining-a-light-on-the-digital-dark-age/

"Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?"

Check out our recent mention in this article from the #LongNowFoundation for an important conversation about mitigating data loss in the #DigitalDarkAge.

https://longnow.org/ideas/shining-a-light-on-the-digital-dark-age/