⚡ Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
— Ars Technica

｢ But hard drives present their own archival problems. Standard hard drives were also not designed for long-term archival use. You can almost never decouple the magnetic disks from the reading hardware inside, so that if either fails, the whole drive dies ｣

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…

#hdd #preservation #retro

There are only 3 apps that #WINE needs to make sure they work out of the box when the user tries to install them (without hacks or complications). But the project is lacking vision and direction to know it.

1. #Photoshop CS5 (pre-subscription version)
2. Affinity Photo (due to #Gimp sucking)
3. #CapCut video editor (due to #DavinciResolve having too many limitations on #Linux).

That's it. That's 95% of your WINE "application" userbase right there.

#steam #proton #windows #affinityphoto #adobe

15 September 1929 | Polish Jewish woman Halina Birenbaum was born in Warsaw.

She survived the Warsaw ghetto, Majdanek, Auschwitz (no. 48693), Ravensbrück & Neustadt-Glewe camps. In 1947, she emigrated to Israel.

A poet & writer.
Today she turns 95.

Read "There is my soul".

"Great poetry lives in a state of perpetual transformation, perpetual translation: the poem dies when it has no place to go."

#SundaySentence #TodaysPoem @poetry
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger (1987 @NewDirections) tinyurl.com/2p95v5mk

What would have to happen in Parliament to trigger an early election?

Conservatives are calling on opposition parties to bring down the governing Liberals in a confidence vote

@gemelliz Would you mind sharing this please? thanks :)

#News #Politics #Canpoli #
Election #Voting
#Canada

cbc.ca/news/politics/what-has-…

#FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

September 15, 2020 – During an ABC News town hall, Trump maintained that the coronavirus would “disappear.” Apparently referring to “herd immunity,” Trump said, “You’ll develop, you’ll develop herd — like a herd mentality. It’s going to be, it’s going to be herd-developed, and that’s going to happen.” Trump also faulted Biden for not instituting a national mandate on masks. Biden, however, does not hold public office.

#TrumpWillLose2024 #WeirdGOP #USPol

Found 5 new servers and 17 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

22,780 servers checked. 13,725,090 Total Users with 1,052,849 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

fictional-dictionary.isbrill.com a #wordpress server from United Kingdom
vnc.l5.ca a #mastodon server from Hungary
orcavella.com a #mastodon server from France
azhdarchid.online a #gotosocial server from United States
hey.kejadlen.dev a #gotosocial server from United States

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

#SevenYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

September 15, 2017 – Following a terrorist attack on the London subway, Donald Trump responded to the event by propping up his travel ban. He also falsely suggested in a series of tweets that authorities had identified those responsible, and that those people had recruited others online. British Prime Minister Theresa May rebuked Trump’s speculative claims.

#TrumpWillLose2024 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #WeirdGOP #USPol

Can you read Latvian, or you can share this with someone who can? If so, perhaps you can help me.

I have 68 archive documents from the Latvian National History Museum, describing traditional farmhouse brewing, dated 1925-1943. But I can’t read them and need the text translated.

The dots on the map show where the documents are from. If you can help, please contact me (e.g via email to larsga@garshol.priv.no). I will send you a document. They’re mostly short (1-2 pages), the longest is 7 pages.