Q: So, anything new? What'd you do today?

A: Oh, dug through menus in a new AV receiver to find its MAC addresses, configured my network DHCP server to give it a static address, and then wrote some iptables rules to keep that address from being able to reach outside the LAN. Pretty standard stuff.

Looking for a "DO NOT CONNECT THIS MACHINE TO THE INTERNET NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT NAGS" warning sign to print out.

https://www.europesays.com/uk/10610/ BRC Imagination Arts | USA pavilion Expo 2025 Osaka #Architecture #AV #Design #ExhibitDesign #ImmersiveExperiences #Japan #UnitedStates #us #USA #WorldExpos

So question for those in AV, live events, etc. out there (hoping for input/thoughts <3)

How on earth do you break into the industry when you've only had a few contracts ever plus a degree in the field?

"Who I know" hasn't been able to help me so far and when I've signed up as an ad hoc contractor kind of thing, no jobs ever came to my phone until they took me off their list >.>

I do this stuff on a volunteer basis but like...it'd be nice to get more experience and actually know how to get started after 5 years of banging my head against the wall. Particularly interested in live or studio audio stuff, but trained in the video side of things, lighting and enough logistics experience for the bump in/out stuff too

So yeah, how does one get started in this industry? Should I independently get any extra tickets/qualifications/etc.? And any other tags I could consider adding on to find the right place to ask? :3

#DPC members! Join us this Friday for an engaging Audiovisual Special Interest Group (AVSIG) session featuring one of our newest DPC members, RTÉ Archives.

Presentation by Adrienne Warburton (RTÉ Archives) on mass digitization of audio and audiovisual assets and RTÉ's #digitalpreservation work
Friday March 28th, 2-3pm UTC
Online members-only event
Register now: https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/475/-/audio-visual-special-interest-group

For anyone working with Whisper or other ASR tools, the white paper from our grant project "Increasing Accessibility of Audiovisual Content Using Whisper" is now available on the Lyrasis repository: https://doi.org/10.48609/na33-1y19

Resources gathered include stats for processing times, editing times, accuracy (word error rate), and power consumption; style guide examples for caption editors; and a project workflow for caption creation and editing.

I'm finally ready to release this AV project to the public. Which concludes 6 years of on/off work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKjTFGjWhpY

‘The hope is that, as Newman puts it, “you could have a DeepSeek moment” and the UK’s “extraordinary intellectual ability” in the #AV field will make up for it lacking the financial strength of China and the US. But while Jackson says the country can create an AV “super unicorn”, it needs a new road to get there.’
https://on.ft.com/3F5cSlE

Connected, The AV Integrator's Podcast

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/connected-the-av-integrators-podcast/

The sensitivity index: Corrupting Y2K

by @beet_keeper

In December I asked “What will you bitflip today?” Not long after, Johan’s (@bitsgalore) Digtial Dark Age Crew released its long lost hidden single Y2K — well, I couldn’t resist corrupting it.

Fixity is an interesting property enabled by digital technologies. Checksums allow us to demonstrate mathematically that a file has not been changed. An often cited definition of fixity is:

Fixity, in the preservation sense, means the assurance that a digital file has remained unchanged, i.e. fixed — Bailey (2014)

It’s very much linked to the concept of integrity. A UNESCO definition of which:

The state of being whole, uncorrupted and free of unauthorized and undocumented changes.

Integrity is massively important at this time in history. It gives us the guarantees we need that digital objects we work with aren’t harboring their own sinister secrets in the form of malware and other potentially damaging payloads.

These values are contingent on bit-level preservation, the field of digital preservation largely assumes this; that we will be able to look after our content without losing information. As feasible as this may be these days, what happens if we lose some information? Where does authenticity come into play?

Through corrupting Y2K, I took time to reflect on integrity versus authenticity, as well as create some interesting glitched outputs. I also uncovered what may be the first audio that reveals what the Millennium Bug itself may have sounded like! Keen to hear it? Read on to find out more.

I will be specifying these speakers exclusively for all future installations, no substitutions.
#ISE2025
#barcelona
#av #audio

Um, excuse me #autonomous #vehicle fanbois, but how do #robotaxis work, exactly, if the cameras get a little snow on them?

Come to think of it, why don’t Teslas, which are covered with cameras, have, I dunno, something equiv to eyelids to wipe the lenses on their own, as needed, you know, kinda intelligent-like? Too much $ for the extra parts? Oh wait, the robotaxi will instead stop, ask passenger to get out and wipe the lenses? Yes, that sounds like a Musk design.

Apparently “opportunity for continued improvement in these highly dynamic social interactions between man and machine” = #Waymo code for "Yep, AI can learn to break the law". Good luck, people wanting to cross the street. This also spikes the ableist "make eye contact" advice. wapo.st/3ZZDifm (gift link)

Democratic Party for the People (DPFP) leader Tamaki Yuichiro attended a symposium this week aimed at changing Japan's "New Adult Video Law." Adult industry attendees hope Tamaki's attention helps drive changes to the law, which they say is hurting their livelihoods.

https://unseen-japan.com/tamaki-yuichiro-av-law-symposium/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

Hey #AV archivists! Anyone collecting video from the web with yt-dlp would accept to share their policy/config?

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Challenges with #windoz10 #windoz11 on a #thinkpad #T430s

Good old #intel #intel_corp never bothered to update & release #drivers for the HD #graphics #4000 #graphics4000
The driver is for #windows8 only

I figured this out by having the #windowsSecurity alerting that #coreIsolation - specifically #memoryIntegrity could not be enabled. With #idgkmd64.sys being released of July 2015.

If you remove the driver, the laptop defaults to the base Microsoft video driver with the horrid resolution, but you can enable memory integrity at this point. Reboot, and windows will alert that the driver cannot load because a security setting is blocking the loading of the driver.

I have dug around at length, there is no updated driver for Windows 10 or 11 (abandoned by Intel). I have tried windows update, Intel's own driver update tool, and the usual ThinkPad forums with no success. Ive found multiple posts of less experienced folks trying to decipher this issue and situation, all threads become dead ends.

So either you use the default Windows #VGA driver with memory integrity enabled and horrible resolution, or the #windows8 driver release with memory integrity disabled. Looks as I need to have a hardened configuration with #AV #EDR on this #T430s to manage the risks - more on that approach later.

#siliconValley #SillyValley
#vintagecomputing
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware
#computerHistory
#retro
#retrocomputing #retroComputers
#WallOfRetro
#retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech
#nerds #nerd