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@ryanfb@digipres.club

📜 Papyri, Ancient Greek, Latin, computers, video games, cats, etc.

https://papyri.info maintainer

Creator of https://podqueue.fm, the missing "Listen Later" for audio on the web

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Greetings from Charmylos…I've sent you 5,000 nuts. Please order someone to receive them from our agent. Thanks. #OTD #OnThisDay June 3rd, 257 BCE #5000nuts

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.mich;1;15

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May 26th, 25 CE—#OTD #OnThisDay "little Menches" sends fellow kid Olymbas two toy balls made out of palm as a gift to play with

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/apf;61;326_2

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This letter is written by/between the childrens' parents, but the beginning with their names has been lost. From Nikolaos Gonis, "Seventeen Beinecke Papyri", AfP 61 (2015), p. 326-327 no. 2:

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May 24th, 124 CE—#OTD #OnThisDay Apollonios acts as a judge in a trial deciding who will be held responsible for damaged papyrus rolls in the public archives. Various former keepers of the archives are summoned as defendants.

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/sb;4;7404dupl

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Are people generally aware that these OpenAI clowns are also seriously trying to get $7 trillion to pursue the dream of…building out fab capacity? https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/09/openai-ceo-sam-altman-reportedly-seeking-trillions-of-dollars-for-ai-chip-project.html

ryanfb,
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We already have something that actually can achieve the human-level performance that keeps being claimed by these charlatans yet not attained, it’s called humans. Imagine what investing $7 trillion in humans could accomplish.

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May 19th, 296 CE—Aurelia Apollonia aka Dieus petitions the board of protostatai of Oxyrhynchus , saying that while the normal rotation of duties would require her yoke of oxen to haul stones for construction, one of her oxen has injured its foot

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;38;2849

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Getting movies in Pan & Scan is annoyingly hard. I'm just gonna have to buy a bunch of VHS tapes and digitize them, I guess.

Maybe some occasional early "full-screen" DVDs on ebay. Those'd be easier to rip.

ryanfb,
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@grumpy @foone VHS-Decode (forked from Laserdisc Domesday) looks pretty interesting from an archival perspective, not least being you can store the raw drum head signal and reprocess it https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode

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I’ve got a bunch of random servers hosting random things and I think I’d like to move them home due to increases in hosting prices. Anyone have thoughts on NAS devices?

I run software like PhotoPrism, Pixelfed, Plex, mostly

ryanfb,
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@skinnylatte fwiw, I love my Synology as a NAS, but feel like unless you pay serious serious money for the beefy CPU variant of a unit, running other services on one has too many performance issues - so what I use instead is a Synology NAS just as a NAS for file storage, and all my services in Docker on other computers that have more compute. Biggest gamechanger for self-hosting for me personally lately is the ease of using Tailscale for personal VPN.

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April 25th, 251 BCE—Apollonios writes to Zenon , saying that the king keeps demanding gifts for his crown, and commanding Zenon to "turn night into day" (νύκτα ἡμέραν ποιούμενος) working all hours in order to ship enough gifts to the king within a 3 day deadline

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/psi;5;514

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Here’s a neat article i think all my friends on mastodon will agree with and enjoy

ryanfb,
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@hannah ok who else immediately thought of this picture

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the thing where "flammable" and "inflammable" are english synonyms is as recent as 1813, which means unlike most things that suck about english someone knows what guy's fault that is https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/flammable-or-inflammable

ryanfb,
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@NoraReed according to OED, it’s Thomas Busby

pleaseclap, to academia
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Any advice for reading 500+ pages/day?

Don't say log off

ryanfb,
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@pleaseclap in half-seriousness, equivalent to about 18 hours as an audiobook—doable in an 8 hour session at 2.25x speed

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April 14th, 206 CE— Artemisia hires Isidora and two other castanet dancers to perform at a festival at her house in Philadelpheia. They will be paid 36 drachmai per day, plus 4 artabai of barley and 20 pairs of bread loaves.

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.corn;;9

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@slothrop FWIW this is Ptolemaic coinage in Roman Egypt, the value could vary wildly over time and conversion to modern currency is somewhat fraught (which is all to say, figuring out the value of a drachma is complicated and depends on time and place)

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April 7th 216 CE—Pakysis kept a pantry on the second floor of his daughter-in-law's house, and it was discovered that the tenants below him had been stealing grain through a hole in the floor. He petitions a centurion to make them pay it back.

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/bgu;1;322

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"ridiculous heist plots in the papyri" might be a small corpus, but it's one of my favorites

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In this heist-papyrus from 190 CE, a woman deduces that robbers were able to steal 10 artabae of wheat from their house by breaking in through the window and lowering the bales out of the same window with a rope, because it left rope fibers on the sill: https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;1;69 (translation from John Garrett Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri, 1933, p. 110)

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Restarting my thread for videos, where I play through the @internetarchive Woz-A-Day collection of disk images from @a2_4am in upload order and post the video! You can find the old thread here: https://digipres.club/@ryanfb/110395916573555503

ryanfb,
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can I successfully copy a floppy with Copy II Plus v2? only one way to find out https://youtu.be/CZPA7G4YDJQ #WozADay #retrocomputing #apple2 #AppleII

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Before starting this series, I was completely unfamiliar with this game from the makers of the Oregon Trail…because it was recalled shortly after its release in 1992 (CW for content in video: slavery, potentially offensive portrayals of Black people/speech) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBa9ZmZaCBc

ryanfb,
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going down the rabbit hole with Alice in Wonderland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5al3f7ZVAY&list=PLXVtlqgyC7v2ACowTpMXcMrLbfX1qdBHE&index=1&pp=gAQBiAQB

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karaoke & slime in Alternate Reality: The Dungeon (Apple II, 1987) - Woz A Day E362 https://youtu.be/YXHRBdO93ng

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forget it, Jake. it’s Moptown (Apple II, 1981) - E363 https://youtu.be/LWoBiKORywY

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going walkthrough-free with Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge (Apple II, 1987) - Woz A Day E364 https://youtu.be/1hC3zqf822I

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blasting our pains away in Alge-Blaster Plus! (Apple II, 1989) - E365 🎂 https://youtu.be/UvE808x1Obk

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