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lsde

68 karma · joined December 1, 2020

I do film preservation
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lsde··on Resolume
There's Vimix for Linux and Mac (no windows binary yet), and it's great! https://github.com/brunoherbelin/vimix
lsde··on Vice website is shutting down
Web archiving is a solved problem, you record the website in an interactive environment [1], and everything what happens on-screen will be saved in a single file in an open [2] and standardized [3] file format authored by Internet Archive and endorsed by Library of Congress for preservation [4].

You can store the resulting WARC file wherever, be it on S3 or under your pillow.

As an archivist, I urge everybody here to not reinvent the wheel, please..

[1] https://webrecorder.net/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARC_(file_format)

[3] https://www.iso.org/standard/68004.html

[4] https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0002...

lsde··on Lost film of life in Brazil’s Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces
The scan of duplicate negative was done in 2K (2048x1556).

We had considered doing the scan in 6K, but the tests proved it unnecessary as it didn't yield any more detail except more grain from the film emulsion.

lsde··on Lost film of life in Brazil’s Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces
An example of a nonpermissive license is the General Public License (GPL) that ensures users have the freedom and responsibility to share their changes with the community.
lsde··on Lost film of life in Brazil’s Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces
The film has been digitized by us (Národní filmový archiv) to make screening DCP for the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, where the film will be unveiled.

The raw scans were also provided to our counterparts in Cinemateca Brasiliera who are now in charge to decide about the film's fate. I surely hope they will make it accessible under a non-permissible license.

lsde··on Ask HN: Developer Workstation Backups
There are at least two GUI's for borgbackup:

* Vorta (https://github.com/borgbase/vorta)

* Pika Backup for Gnome (https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.World.PikaBackup/)

Vorta is multiplatform and more reliable by my experience.