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artandtechnic

@artandtechnic@digipres.club

From post to production, infinity and beyond.

Video archaeologist for histories of Closed Captioning.
On-Set Digital Imaging Technician.
Owner of Art & Technic LLC.

ars sine scientia nihil est

formerly known as
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on the bird site

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artandtechnic , an Random Englisch
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I see that Google and friends are back on their scraping bullshit.

The IP addresses that Google complained bitterly about being blocked, are attempting to scrape my site… and not just from Google’s domain.

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The img2dataset github project mentioned in several of the user agents is “interesting”:

https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset

foone ,
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@artandtechnic ewww

artandtechnic , an Random Englisch
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Cute User Agent, kid.

Here’s 5¢, go buy yourself a real scripting language.

foone ,
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@artandtechnic at one point I did something similar: I'd use the user agent "msie lol" to bypass a certain site's anti-scripting block, which just 403'd any UA with "wget", "curl", or "python" in it. "msie lol" was accepted just fine.

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@foone That’s legitimately hilarious. 😂

artandtechnic , an Random Englisch
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It’s too bad that no one over at Google does any long term strategic thinking.

I mean, when your corporate strategy encompasses stealing from everyone on the web, to redirecting search traffic away from paying clients to Google themselves, using that very same stolen content… you’re definitely gonna need a long term strategy, and sooner than you realize.

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@artandtechnic I've worked for Google, and I'd agree, except for the implication that they do any short term planning either.

artandtechnic , an Random Englisch
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Got on one of the toll highways this afternoon to make my way back to the thrift store I’d discovered last weekend… and found myself immediately stuck in traffic. After noticing that there only seemed to be traffic in a single direction - southbound - it hit me: this is Urban Weekend (a.k.a. Urban Beach Week).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Beach_Week

The wikipedia seemingly hasn’t been updated since 2013, so it omits that weekend’s overwhelmingly violent, criminal history.

Thankfully, I wasn’t going that far.

foone ,
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@artandtechnic If you're in the area, you might also want to check Captain Video in San Mateo. Lots of VHS there, including some beta.

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@foone Oooh, added to the list! Next time I’m in California, I’ll need to make it a road trip.

I haven’t been in the Silicon Valley area since ’96 … which is probably too long. 😂

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There are few things that say ‘this is a cultural product of The South’ more than a promotional photograph of the women employed by a business, who are all wearing white blouses (or in more recent years, white polo shirts).

It’s one of those things that becomes weird, when you realize it’s something that only people in certain areas do… but it’s not clear why.

foone ,
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@artandtechnic yeah I never really realized how much a southern thing that is. Especially back in the 80s

artandtechnic , an Random Englisch
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One of the VHS tapes that I purchased yesterday was selected entirely on the basis of its label, which claimed that it contained (bootlegged) recordings from 1977.

Since I’m perpetually on the look-out for recordings from that year, so that I can acquire samples of the Line 20 Nielsen SID signal, you could say it grabbed my attention. 😂

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@artandtechnic the system is hardcoded to the east coast?!

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@foone Yeah, super weird choice.

artandtechnic , an Random Englisch
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Ahhh… when the future was just “1990 - 2010.”

foone ,
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@artandtechnic sometimes it does feel like the future is over, and we've moved past it

artandtechnic , an Random Englisch
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I’m going to make some coffee, and crack open the 1541 that I’d rediscovered at the beginning of the year, so I can make another set of measurements of the head resistance.

Words alone cannot express how exciting the prospect of getting the otherwise blown-out read heads to work again is. 🔥🧨🎆🎇

foone ,
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@artandtechnic I can loan you a working 5.25“ drive or a 1541 (I have several, I think at least one works) if that would help

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@foone That’s very kind of you, I appreciate that.

I’m still working on some local leads, but if those don’t work out, I’ll let you know. :)

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