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  1. Since I'm on a bit of a #MediaPreservation kick, here's an obscure thing that was so scrubbed from the internet that I don't even know why it was.

    Back in the day, I wasn't just a person who made music with Renoise. I was in the Renoise forums, listening to other people's music, including an Australian producer by the handle of mr_mark_dollin. One of his works that really stuck in my head was Summertime in Bureaucratic Proportions, a lonely gray and bruised piece about being loved by someone in a way that isn't really love.

    I thought I lost this, because I'd uploaded all my files to Google Play Music, and lost them when Google discontinued this in favor of YouTube Music. Evil company. That particularly hurt, because it was the era I slowly came to realize I was in a marriage that felt the way SiBP felt. I was that wife.

    Eventually I got lucky and found my old music trove on the hard drive of my college netbook! Thank you for your service, Morgan. Your 1GB RAM could never curtail your spirit.

  2. Since I'm on a bit of a #MediaPreservation kick, here's an obscure thing that was so scrubbed from the internet that I don't even know why it was.

    Back in the day, I wasn't just a person who made music with Renoise. I was in the Renoise forums, listening to other people's music, including an Australian producer by the handle of mr_mark_dollin. One of his works that really stuck in my head was Summertime in Bureaucratic Proportions, a lonely gray and bruised piece about being loved by someone in a way that isn't really love.

    I thought I lost this, because I'd uploaded all my files to Google Play Music, and lost them when Google discontinued this in favor of YouTube Music. Evil company. That particularly hurt, because it was the era I slowly came to realize I was in a marriage that felt the way SiBP felt. I was that wife.

    Eventually I got lucky and found my old music trove on the hard drive of my college netbook! Thank you for your service, Morgan. Your 1GB RAM could never curtail your spirit.

  3. Since I'm on a bit of a #MediaPreservation kick, here's an obscure thing that was so scrubbed from the internet that I don't even know why it was.

    Back in the day, I wasn't just a person who made music with Renoise. I was in the Renoise forums, listening to other people's music, including an Australian producer by the handle of mr_mark_dollin. One of his works that really stuck in my head was Summertime in Bureaucratic Proportions, a lonely gray and bruised piece about being loved by someone in a way that isn't really love.

    I thought I lost this, because I'd uploaded all my files to Google Play Music, and lost them when Google discontinued this in favor of YouTube Music. Evil company. That particularly hurt, because it was the era I slowly came to realize I was in a marriage that felt the way SiBP felt. I was that wife.

    Eventually I got lucky and found my old music trove on the hard drive of my college netbook! Thank you for your service, Morgan. Your 1GB RAM could never curtail your spirit.

  4. Since I'm on a bit of a #MediaPreservation kick, here's an obscure thing that was so scrubbed from the internet that I don't even know why it was.

    Back in the day, I wasn't just a person who made music with Renoise. I was in the Renoise forums, listening to other people's music, including an Australian producer by the handle of mr_mark_dollin. One of his works that really stuck in my head was Summertime in Bureaucratic Proportions, a lonely gray and bruised piece about being loved by someone in a way that isn't really love.

    I thought I lost this, because I'd uploaded all my files to Google Play Music, and lost them when Google discontinued this in favor of YouTube Music. Evil company. That particularly hurt, because it was the era I slowly came to realize I was in a marriage that felt the way SiBP felt. I was that wife.

    Eventually I got lucky and found my old music trove on the hard drive of my college netbook! Thank you for your service, Morgan. Your 1GB RAM could never curtail your spirit.

  5. Since I'm on a bit of a #MediaPreservation kick, here's an obscure thing that was so scrubbed from the internet that I don't even know why it was.

    Back in the day, I wasn't just a person who made music with Renoise. I was in the Renoise forums, listening to other people's music, including an Australian producer by the handle of mr_mark_dollin. One of his works that really stuck in my head was Summertime in Bureaucratic Proportions, a lonely gray and bruised piece about being loved by someone in a way that isn't really love.

    I thought I lost this, because I'd uploaded all my files to Google Play Music, and lost them when Google discontinued this in favor of YouTube Music. Evil company. That particularly hurt, because it was the era I slowly came to realize I was in a marriage that felt the way SiBP felt. I was that wife.

    Eventually I got lucky and found my old music trove on the hard drive of my college netbook! Thank you for your service, Morgan. Your 1GB RAM could never curtail your spirit.

  6. I got tired of TV shows and movies cluttering up my commercials, so I built software that deletes them automatically.

    Fed it a 4:46:46 tape rip. Got back 22 minutes of ads.

    The other 4.5 hours? Gone. As intended.

    Should I release it?

    Sample: youtu.be/vLCmeiwF9JU

    #vhs #lostmedia #MediaPreservation

  7. I got tired of TV shows and movies cluttering up my commercials, so I built software that deletes them automatically.

    Fed it a 4:46:46 tape rip. Got back 22 minutes of ads.

    The other 4.5 hours? Gone. As intended.

    Should I release it?

    Sample: youtu.be/vLCmeiwF9JU

    #vhs #lostmedia #MediaPreservation

  8. I got tired of TV shows and movies cluttering up my commercials, so I built software that deletes them automatically.

    Fed it a 4:46:46 tape rip. Got back 22 minutes of ads.

    The other 4.5 hours? Gone. As intended.

    Should I release it?

    Sample: youtu.be/vLCmeiwF9JU

    #vhs #lostmedia #MediaPreservation

  9. I got tired of TV shows and movies cluttering up my commercials, so I built software that deletes them automatically.

    Fed it a 4:46:46 tape rip. Got back 22 minutes of ads.

    The other 4.5 hours? Gone. As intended.

    Should I release it?

    Sample: youtu.be/vLCmeiwF9JU

    #vhs #lostmedia #MediaPreservation

  10. I got tired of TV shows and movies cluttering up my commercials, so I built software that deletes them automatically.

    Fed it a 4:46:46 tape rip. Got back 22 minutes of ads.

    The other 4.5 hours? Gone. As intended.

    Should I release it?

    Sample: youtu.be/vLCmeiwF9JU

    #vhs #lostmedia #MediaPreservation

  11. Today I convinced a room of people to illegally copy their DVDs and Blu-Rays

    I'm pretty passionate about data preservation. Now, I wanna be clear. I'm NOT a pirate. I never download anything from illegal torrent sites. I like to make sure I have backups of my DVDs and Blu-Rays, mostly because I've been affected by disc rot before. It's becoming increasingly relevant though. With the Sony thing a couple weeks ago there comes to light another need for people to crack the encryption on their devices to retain their streams of purchased content ad infinitum. It is unfair […]

    snowebell.cc/today-i-convinced

  12. Today I convinced a room of people to illegally copy their DVDs and Blu-Rays

    I'm pretty passionate about data preservation. Now, I wanna be clear. I'm NOT a pirate. I never download anything from illegal torrent sites. I like to make sure I have backups of my DVDs and Blu-Rays, mostly because I've been affected by disc rot before. It's becoming increasingly relevant though. With the Sony thing a couple weeks ago there comes to light another need for people to crack the encryption on their devices to retain their streams of purchased content ad infinitum. It is unfair […]

    snowebell.cc/today-i-convinced

  13. Been in touch with some "Archivist" working on a comprehensive archive of all the Cybersix material...

    They plan to release like a BitTorrent or something to make it easy to share and prevent "Link Rot"...

    Excuse me, I'm not that technical...

    #CyberSix #Archival #Preservation #MediaPreservation #Comic #Cartoon #Anime #LiveAction #TV #Series #BitTorrent #LinkRot

  14. Been in touch with some "Archivist" working on a comprehensive archive of all the Cybersix material...

    They plan to release like a BitTorrent or something to make it easy to share and prevent "Link Rot"...

    Excuse me, I'm not that technical...

    #CyberSix #Archival #Preservation #MediaPreservation #Comic #Cartoon #Anime #LiveAction #TV #Series #BitTorrent #LinkRot

  15. Been in touch with some "Archivist" working on a comprehensive archive of all the Cybersix material...

    They plan to release like a BitTorrent or something to make it easy to share and prevent "Link Rot"...

    Excuse me, I'm not that technical...

    #CyberSix #Archival #Preservation #MediaPreservation #Comic #Cartoon #Anime #LiveAction #TV #Series #BitTorrent #LinkRot

  16. Been in touch with some "Archivist" working on a comprehensive archive of all the Cybersix material...

    They plan to release like a BitTorrent or something to make it easy to share and prevent "Link Rot"...

    Excuse me, I'm not that technical...

    #CyberSix #Archival #Preservation #MediaPreservation #Comic #Cartoon #Anime #LiveAction #TV #Series #BitTorrent #LinkRot

  17. Been in touch with some "Archivist" working on a comprehensive archive of all the Cybersix material...

    They plan to release like a BitTorrent or something to make it easy to share and prevent "Link Rot"...

    Excuse me, I'm not that technical...

    #CyberSix #Archival #Preservation #MediaPreservation #Comic #Cartoon #Anime #LiveAction #TV #Series #BitTorrent #LinkRot

  18. Interestingly, CyberSix is not available on LaserDisc, HD-DVD, HDVS, W-VHS or D-VHS but was only released on regular VHS, DVD & blu-ray.

    The VHS version seems particularly obscure...
    reddit.com/r/Cybersix/comments

    Still, it would've been very interesting to see a Hi-Vision LD with the words "サイバーシックス" on the cover.

    #サイバーシックス #CyberSix #HiVision #LaserDisc #ObsoleteMedia #VHS #MediaPreservation #Anime #Animation #Cartoon #Comic #art #preservation

  19. Interestingly, CyberSix is not available on LaserDisc, HD-DVD, HDVS, W-VHS or D-VHS but was only released on regular VHS, DVD & blu-ray.

    The VHS version seems particularly obscure...
    reddit.com/r/Cybersix/comments

    Still, it would've been very interesting to see a Hi-Vision LD with the words "サイバーシックス" on the cover.

    #サイバーシックス #CyberSix #HiVision #LaserDisc #ObsoleteMedia #VHS #MediaPreservation #Anime #Animation #Cartoon #Comic #art #preservation

  20. Interestingly, CyberSix is not available on LaserDisc, HD-DVD, HDVS, W-VHS or D-VHS but was only released on regular VHS, DVD & blu-ray.

    The VHS version seems particularly obscure...
    reddit.com/r/Cybersix/comments

    Still, it would've been very interesting to see a Hi-Vision LD with the words "サイバーシックス" on the cover.

    #サイバーシックス #CyberSix #HiVision #LaserDisc #ObsoleteMedia #VHS #MediaPreservation #Anime #Animation #Cartoon #Comic #art #preservation

  21. Interestingly, CyberSix is not available on LaserDisc, HD-DVD, HDVS, W-VHS or D-VHS but was only released on regular VHS, DVD & blu-ray.

    The VHS version seems particularly obscure...
    reddit.com/r/Cybersix/comments

    Still, it would've been very interesting to see a Hi-Vision LD with the words "サイバーシックス" on the cover.

    #サイバーシックス #CyberSix #HiVision #LaserDisc #ObsoleteMedia #VHS #MediaPreservation #Anime #Animation #Cartoon #Comic #art #preservation

  22. Interestingly, CyberSix is not available on LaserDisc, HD-DVD, HDVS, W-VHS or D-VHS but was only released on regular VHS, DVD & blu-ray.

    The VHS version seems particularly obscure...
    reddit.com/r/Cybersix/comments

    Still, it would've been very interesting to see a Hi-Vision LD with the words "サイバーシックス" on the cover.

    #サイバーシックス #CyberSix #HiVision #LaserDisc #ObsoleteMedia #VHS #MediaPreservation #Anime #Animation #Cartoon #Comic #art #preservation

  23. Interestingly, CyberSix is not available on LaserDisc, HD-DVD, HDVS, W-VHS or D-VHS but was only released on regular VHS, DVD & blu-ray.

    The VHS version seems particularly obscure...
    reddit.com/r/Cybersix/comments

    Still, it would've been very interesting to see a Hi-Vision LD with the words "サイバーシックス" on the cover.

    #サイバーシックス #CyberSix #HiVision äLaserDisc #ObsoleteMedia #VHS #MediaPreservation #Anime #Animation #Cartoon #Comic #art #preservation

  24. The first two minutes of this video alone is exactly why physical media won't save us from games and media being destroyed by companies: tube.gayfr.online/w/98HSCyGwBU

    No, having a physical disk will not stop a company from remotely bricking your game. It's a red herring.

    #Preservation #StopKillingGames #GamePreservation #Video #MediaPreservation

  25. Annas Archive scrapes and makes available to torrent "around 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB in total size"[1]

    According to Anna's Archive Spotify's total music library contains 256 million tracks 99.9% of which they have archived the metadata of, the smaller music archive was created in order of Spotify's "popularity" metric

    #Piracy #MediaPreservation #Music #Spotify #AnnasArchive

    [1]
    annas-archive.li/blog/backing-

  26. Annas Archive scrapes and makes available to torrent "around 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB in total size"[1]

    According to Anna's Archive Spotify's total music library contains 256 million tracks 99.9% of which they have archived the metadata of, the smaller music archive was created in order of Spotify's "popularity" metric

    #Piracy #MediaPreservation #Music #Spotify #AnnasArchive

    [1]
    annas-archive.li/blog/backing-

  27. Annas Archive scrapes and makes available to torrent "around 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB in total size"[1]

    According to Anna's Archive Spotify's total music library contains 256 million tracks 99.9% of which they have archived the metadata of, the smaller music archive was created in order of Spotify's "popularity" metric

    #Piracy #MediaPreservation #Music #Spotify #AnnasArchive

    [1]
    annas-archive.li/blog/backing-

  28. Annas Archive scrapes and makes available to torrent "around 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB in total size"[1]

    According to Anna's Archive Spotify's total music library contains 256 million tracks 99.9% of which they have archived the metadata of, the smaller music archive was created in order of Spotify's "popularity" metric

    #Piracy #MediaPreservation #Music #Spotify #AnnasArchive

    [1]
    annas-archive.li/blog/backing-

  29. Annas Archive scrapes and makes available to torrent "around 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB in total size"[1]

    According to Anna's Archive Spotify's total music library contains 256 million tracks 99.9% of which they have archived the metadata of, the smaller music archive was created in order of Spotify's "popularity" metric

    #Piracy #MediaPreservation #Music #Spotify #AnnasArchive

    [1]
    annas-archive.li/blog/backing-

  30. Here's a New York Times article which talks about the process that one company goes through to preserve valuable recordings. It seems that tapes from before 1970 have fewer problems, a lot of tapes from the 70s and 80s are deteriorating fairly quickly. (Gift link)

    nytimes.com/2025/12/01/arts/mu

    #audio #recording #mediapreservation

  31. Here's a New York Times article which talks about the process that one company goes through to preserve valuable recordings. It seems that tapes from before 1970 have fewer problems, a lot of tapes from the 70s and 80s are deteriorating fairly quickly. (Gift link)

    nytimes.com/2025/12/01/arts/mu

    #audio #recording #mediapreservation

  32. Here's a New York Times article which talks about the process that one company goes through to preserve valuable recordings. It seems that tapes from before 1970 have fewer problems, a lot of tapes from the 70s and 80s are deteriorating fairly quickly. (Gift link)

    nytimes.com/2025/12/01/arts/mu

    #audio #recording #mediapreservation

  33. Here's a New York Times article which talks about the process that one company goes through to preserve valuable recordings. It seems that tapes from before 1970 have fewer problems, a lot of tapes from the 70s and 80s are deteriorating fairly quickly. (Gift link)

    nytimes.com/2025/12/01/arts/mu

    #audio #recording #mediapreservation

  34. Streaming platforms betrayed us. They deleted shows we loved. Criminalized sharing. And now, they're calling it “content strategy.”

    Piracy may feel like rebellion—but it's not preservation. It's not ownership.

    We believe art deserves better.

    Read Christine Brenneke’s full breakdown of the broken promises in streaming and how we’re building something better:
    streevomedia.com/blog/streamin

    #DigitalOwnership #Streaming #Streevo #MediaPreservation #FOSS #TechForGood #Mastodon

  35. Streaming platforms betrayed us. They deleted shows we loved. Criminalized sharing. And now, they're calling it “content strategy.”

    Piracy may feel like rebellion—but it's not preservation. It's not ownership.

    We believe art deserves better.

    Read Christine Brenneke’s full breakdown of the broken promises in streaming and how we’re building something better:
    streevomedia.com/blog/streamin

    #DigitalOwnership #Streaming #Streevo #MediaPreservation #FOSS #TechForGood #Mastodon

  36. Streaming platforms betrayed us. They deleted shows we loved. Criminalized sharing. And now, they're calling it “content strategy.”

    Piracy may feel like rebellion—but it's not preservation. It's not ownership.

    We believe art deserves better.

    Read Christine Brenneke’s full breakdown of the broken promises in streaming and how we’re building something better:
    streevomedia.com/blog/streamin

    #DigitalOwnership #Streaming #Streevo #MediaPreservation #FOSS #TechForGood #Mastodon

  37. Streaming platforms betrayed us. They deleted shows we loved. Criminalized sharing. And now, they're calling it “content strategy.”

    Piracy may feel like rebellion—but it's not preservation. It's not ownership.

    We believe art deserves better.

    Read Christine Brenneke’s full breakdown of the broken promises in streaming and how we’re building something better:
    streevomedia.com/blog/streamin

    #DigitalOwnership #Streaming #Streevo #MediaPreservation #FOSS #TechForGood #Mastodon

  38. Hey Fedi Friends, anyone have experience fighting with YouTube over copyright bullshit? I’m not entirely convinced this isn’t a troll and it’s taken down my whole channel, including some other endangered shows and my podcasts.

    My main concerns being that I’d think Hasbro would have in-house lawyers, not some solo rando, and the original copyright ping when I uploaded them was from Hasbro Studios, not Hasbro, Inc.

    #YouTube #Copyright #MediaPreservation

  39. Hey Fedi Friends, anyone have experience fighting with YouTube over copyright bullshit? I’m not entirely convinced this isn’t a troll and it’s taken down my whole channel, including some other endangered shows and my podcasts.

    My main concerns being that I’d think Hasbro would have in-house lawyers, not some solo rando, and the original copyright ping when I uploaded them was from Hasbro Studios, not Hasbro, Inc.

    #YouTube #Copyright #MediaPreservation

  40. Hey Fedi Friends, anyone have experience fighting with YouTube over copyright bullshit? I’m not entirely convinced this isn’t a troll and it’s taken down my whole channel, including some other endangered shows and my podcasts.

    My main concerns being that I’d think Hasbro would have in-house lawyers, not some solo rando, and the original copyright ping when I uploaded them was from Hasbro Studios, not Hasbro, Inc.

    #YouTube #Copyright #MediaPreservation

  41. Hey Fedi Friends, anyone have experience fighting with YouTube over copyright bullshit? I’m not entirely convinced this isn’t a troll and it’s taken down my whole channel, including some other endangered shows and my podcasts.

    My main concerns being that I’d think Hasbro would have in-house lawyers, not some solo rando, and the original copyright ping when I uploaded them was from Hasbro Studios, not Hasbro, Inc.

    #YouTube #Copyright #MediaPreservation

  42. Hey Fedi Friends, anyone have experience fighting with YouTube over copyright bullshit? I’m not entirely convinced this isn’t a troll and it’s taken down my whole channel, including some other endangered shows and my podcasts.

    My main concerns being that I’d think Hasbro would have in-house lawyers, not some solo rando, and the original copyright ping when I uploaded them was from Hasbro Studios, not Hasbro, Inc.

    #YouTube #Copyright #MediaPreservation

  43. My "masters" for ExoSquad (someone's web rip from Peacock that I torrented) seem to be getting along better with the "anime" upscaling models than my PAL DVD rips of Visionaries and Inhumanoids. I really should look into making a training model specifically for the style of 80s action cartoons, and maybe a robot-specific one trained on things with existing 1080p+ masters like TFTM and GaoGaiGar.

    #VideoUpscaling #MediaPreservation #MediaRestoration

  44. My "masters" for ExoSquad (someone's web rip from Peacock that I torrented) seem to be getting along better with the "anime" upscaling models than my PAL DVD rips of Visionaries and Inhumanoids. I really should look into making a training model specifically for the style of 80s action cartoons, and maybe a robot-specific one trained on things with existing 1080p+ masters like TFTM and GaoGaiGar.

    #VideoUpscaling #MediaPreservation #MediaRestoration

  45. My "masters" for ExoSquad (someone's web rip from Peacock that I torrented) seem to be getting along better with the "anime" upscaling models than my PAL DVD rips of Visionaries and Inhumanoids. I really should look into making a training model specifically for the style of 80s action cartoons, and maybe a robot-specific one trained on things with existing 1080p+ masters like TFTM and GaoGaiGar.

    #VideoUpscaling #MediaPreservation #MediaRestoration

  46. My "masters" for ExoSquad (someone's web rip from Peacock that I torrented) seem to be getting along better with the "anime" upscaling models than my PAL DVD rips of Visionaries and Inhumanoids. I really should look into making a training model specifically for the style of 80s action cartoons, and maybe a robot-specific one trained on things with existing 1080p+ masters like TFTM and GaoGaiGar.

    #VideoUpscaling #MediaPreservation #MediaRestoration

  47. My "masters" for ExoSquad (someone's web rip from Peacock that I torrented) seem to be getting along better with the "anime" upscaling models than my PAL DVD rips of Visionaries and Inhumanoids. I really should look into making a training model specifically for the style of 80s action cartoons, and maybe a robot-specific one trained on things with existing 1080p+ masters like TFTM and GaoGaiGar.

    #VideoUpscaling #MediaPreservation #MediaRestoration

  48. Donations and patronage keep me able to save #filmstrips. We are way behind, and dangerously close to having to shut down. We aren't eligible for grants, and this is full-time work. Can you help us spread the word?

    uncommonephemera.org/donate

    #FilmPreservation #MediaPreservation #Retro #RetroMedia #LostMedia #VintageMedia #Vintage #InternetArchive