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After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

In der heutigen #wikikult Runde hat @… die AvoinGLAM-Handreichung zur Verwendung von #wikimedia-Projekten in Medienkunstarchiven vorgestellt. Ein sehr nützliches Do…

Bellingcat has just launched a major new update to our Auto Archiver tool, simplifying the process of archiving online content for individuals or teams.
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2025/08/13/the-open-source-to…

The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat
Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

Updating my CloudNativePG Clusters to postgresql:17.5 broke wal archiving to my Ceph S3 Object Store. Here's a new blog post describing the fix:
https://www.beyondwatts.com/posts/debugging-barman-xamzcontents…

beyondwatts | Debugging Barman XAmzContentSHA256Mismatch error after upgrading to postgresql:17.5
In an effort to keep my home cluster up to date, I upgraded CloudNativePG to v1.26 and the associated database clusters to cloudnative-pg/postgresql:17.5. All seemed ok with the upgrade until a couple of days later when the cluster primary instance PVCs started to run out of space. wal archiving had stopped working with the error message:

Domainnamen wie beim Friseur:
RosDok bei Uni Rostock
https://rosdok.uni-rostock.de/

I started the massive cleanup of the production libraries. I don't care what one party says. I am moving jobs, control files, and SPUFIs that are not being run in the production environment. Just for one item type, I am archiving 14k members. This will make sure that no one can accidentally run them in production! They are still available for reference in the archive libraries.
They have never done this, and the libraries are so bloated it takes a long time to scan them looking…

My substitution for the Pocket read-it-later app has become Inoreader. As a mix of RSS Reader and read-it-later and archiving (with notes and tags function) app I think it's worth the pro plan. I have very little money but feel like a sustainable version of this is something I don't want to do without.

Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify
Matteo Cancellieri, Martin Docekal, David Pride, Morane Gruenpeter, David Douard, Petr Knoth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02335

Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify
The discoverability, attribution, and reusability of open research software are often hindered by its obscurity within academic manuscripts. To address this, the SoFAIR project (2024-2025) introduces a comprehensive workflow leveraging machine learning tools for extracting software mentions from research papers. The project integrates repository systems, authors, and services like HAL and Software Heritage to ensure proper archiving, citation, and accessibility of research software in alignment…