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#softwareheritage

Računalniški muzej
7 hours ago

🌟 The #GuessTheOS rolls on with a new challenge! 🕵️‍♂️ How many of you can identify this operating system?

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #ScreenshotSaturday #Samstag #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

screenshot
Računalniški muzej
14 hours ago

🍏🖥️ The Apple Studio Display ("G3 Blue and White" style, vintage 1999) is a 15'' LCD monitor with a native resolution of 1024x768, which would cost around €1500 today. When did you get your first LCD?

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #apple #vintageapple #retrocomputing #macintosh #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

LCD monitor
Računalniški muzej
2 days ago

☎️📞 Museum at the ARNES Knowledge Network showcases an authentic dial-up internet experience, a classic VT320 terminal, and historical press clippings about the beginnings of the now 30-year-old ARNES (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARNES).

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #retrocomputing #historyofinternet #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

photo of two men pointing at the computer monitor
Računalniški muzej
2 days ago

😄 So long and thanks for all the fish, Quantum Bigfoot. 👋👋 Windows, Netscape, Encarta,... reinstalled on the "new" disk. 😅

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

used hard disk device and a PC
Računalniški muzej
2 days ago

The first domestic 16-bitter, PMP-11, was developed in 1984. PMP-11 boasted 64 KB of RAM and 2 KB of ROM memory. It featured the third in the series of 16-bit DEC microprocessors named T-11. In tests, PMP-11 proved to be a contender with the DEC PDP-11/34 mini-computer. 🚀

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #retrocomputing #sloveniancomputerhistory #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

PMP-11s
Računalniški muzej
3 days ago

At the exhibition, you can also try the first Linux distribution in Slovenian - Pingo Linux 1.0 from 2000! 😍 @lugos

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #gnu #softwarelibre #retrocomputing #linux #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #2000s

a penguin toy, t shirt, computer and linux on it
Nicolas Fressengeas
3 days ago

@itsfoss

Check here : https://www.softwareheritage.org/

#SoftwareHeritage is harvesting github and many more. No log in required to browse.

Računalniški muzej
4 days ago

🛠️🧰 Back in the day, every computer enthusiast used to have Norton Utilities installed (or at least Norton Commander 🟦) and, for good measure, Norton Uninstall Deluxe 😅

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

Norton Utilities and Norton Uninstall Deluxe boxes
Računalniški muzej
4 days ago

🏋️💪 With our Iskra Delta 4850 system, you also get 4 Fujitsu M2294 hard drives, each with a capacity of 335 MB and a weight of 45 kg 😅

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #mainframes #mainframe #sloveniancomputerhistory #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

4 massive hard drives
Računalniški muzej
6 days ago

🇸🇮💻 The Gorenje Point GLT-216A is a Taiwanese laptop with a Slovenian brand. Slovenian company had the Point product line until 2018.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #gorenje #retrocomputing #sloveniancomputerhistory #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

Gorenje Point GLT-216A
Računalniški muzej
6 days ago

🌞🌞 Come visit our exhibition and experience our iMacs: 🍇 Grape (1999), 🍓 Strawberry (1999), 🏖️ Bondi Blue (1998), 🍊 Tangerine (1999), and 🌸 Flower Power (2001) 😍

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #apple #imac #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

iMacs photo
Računalniški muzej
6 days ago

The architecture of the building housing the museum is top-notch, but over the years, a few pieces of the exterior have been missing - that doesn't stop us, as we use a 3D printer 💪

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #3dprint #3dprinting #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #europee

part photo
Računalniški muzej
1 week ago

Shall we engage in a little game? Can you take a wild guess as to which operating system this might be? 🕹️🤔 #GuessTheOS

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #Samstag #retrocomputing #ScreenshotSaturday #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

screenshot
Računalniški muzej
1 week ago

🌎📚 In the museum, with the help of dedicated volunteers, we also maintain an extensive collection of computer literature. In 1994, the internet was still so small that its directory could be printed in a book 😅 Today, the number of websites approaches 2 billion, and 60% of the world's population already has access to them.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

New Riders' Official Internet Yellow Pages paper book
Računalniški muzej
1 week ago

🧮🔢 The Croatian Digitron db 803 from 1974 is one of the first Yugoslavian calculators. We charge it in its case, where it can be used even if the batteries are empty.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #calculator #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro

db 803 photo
Računalniški muzej
1 week ago

🍎💼 The Apple IIc is a charming computer from 1984. It features a 1 MHz 65C02 processor and addresses 128 - 1125 KB of memory.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #appleii #appleiic #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

Apple IIc
Računalniški muzej
1 week ago

🔥📺 Old turned-off CRT monitors tell us stories written in their phosphor - this one served for many years in an industrial plant. 🏭

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #vintagecomputing #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer

old turned-off CRT monitor with traces visible
Računalniški muzej
1 week ago

✒️✍️ The HP 7225A is a simple plotter from 1978. Many of us have never seen this predecessor of modern printers in action - we're excited to be able to demonstrate it to you 🙂 In the collection, we also have the Sharp MZ-1P16 and Calcomp 5324.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #hewlettpackard #retrocomputing #retrotech #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

HP 7225A photo
Računalniški muzej
1 week ago

🎮🕹️ We have a rich collection of video games for many classic systems: 405 for NES, 92 for SNES, 115 for Game Boy, 47 for Nintendo 64, 232 for Atari, 121 for Sega, and 500 more. 😀😀

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #retrogaming #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #vintagegaming #nintendo #atari #retrocomputing #sega #vgm #vintagecomputing

catridges
Računalniški muzej
1 week ago

When starting machine translation, we assumed ASCII encoding, but discovered a different system. Seeking help on social media, our followers cracked the code in under 24 hours, revealing the use of an IBM Supertyper 8500 punch and BCDIC. 🕵️‍♂️🔍 Thanks to them, we found the decoding table in the IBM 1620 computer manual. 🙌🔠

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #punchtape #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

screenshot
Nicolas Fressengeas
1 week ago

#SoftwareHeritage, the library of Alexandria of software source code, recognized as a key infrastructure for #OpenScience by @scossfunding in its fifth pledging round : https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/11/21/swh-selection-scoss-campaign/

👏

Računalniški muzej
2 weeks ago

🟥🟩 Windows 95 brought a series of changes and innovations that are still with us today. 🟦🟨

- The Start Menu! When Microsoft tried to eliminate it with Windows 8, it faced significant resistance.
- File names could finally be longer than 8 characters.
- Applications became 32-bit, opening up new possibilities for developers.
- PCs finally became powerful multimedia devices, reflected in the growing range of programs and games for Windows.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #softwareheritage

Windows 95 box
Računalniški muzej
2 weeks ago

❓🤔 Prize question without a prize 😃 Which three data storage media from the old times are in the photo? 🦖🗄️🦕

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

storage media
Računalniški muzej
2 weeks ago

📸✨ In response to your requests, we'll be sharing additional photos showcasing the exterior of the museum in the upcoming posts. Stay tuned for more glimpses of its captivating architecture and surroundings!

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #brutalism #brutalist #retrocomputing #modernistarchitecture #socialistarchitecture #vintagecomputing

museum building
Računalniški muzej
2 weeks ago

📦🖥️ Commodore also ventured into the PC-compatible computer market - first with the release of the PC 10 model in 1987, featuring an 8088 processor.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #80s #retrocomputing #commodore #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

PC 10 model
Računalniški muzej
2 weeks ago

⚠️ STACK FAILURE ⚠️ Looking at the history of data storage technologies, older ones were typically less reliable. In the case of this ferrite core memory stack, it seems a failure occurred, leading to it being decommissioned in less than six months from the manufacturing date.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #retrocomputing #storage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

memory stack with label
Stefano Zacchiroli
2 weeks ago

At @swheritage we are looking for a #fullstack #Python developer to work on the Web UI and APIs that provide public access to the #SoftwareHeritage archive.

See job details at: https://www.softwareheritage.org/jobs/

Interested? Let us know!

Računalniški muzej
2 weeks ago

➿📼 Large reels with magnetic tapes were once ubiquitous, except perhaps in home environments. In the museum, we store many types of them and hope to read something interesting from one of them someday! 😀

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #storage #magnetictape #retrocomputing #retrotech #vintagecomputing

reel tape photo
Računalniški muzej
2 weeks ago

📼✏️ Those who used home computers in the last millennium know that tapes weren't just for music. Data on these nostalgic media was recorded in a manner similar to how communication occurred between modems over analog telephone lines.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #datasette #tape #retrocomputing #cassette #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

computer compact cassette
Računalniški muzej
2 weeks ago

🥳💾 Everything is ready for the museum's floppy party, where we'll join volunteers to tackle a massive pile of 3.5'' and 5.25'' floppy disks in search of rare Slovenian software! 💪😍

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #retrocomputing #sloveniancomputerhistory #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

floppy party photo
Računalniški muzej
3 weeks ago

🇯🇵⌨️ Sharp also joined the battle for the best home computer - a generous donor gifted us a excellently preserved unit, the MZ-731, still in its original packaging 😍

✒️📼 Powered by a Z80-compatible processor addressing 64 KB RAM, it also features a built-in mini-plotter and cassette deck.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #homecomputer #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

Sharp home computer
Računalniški muzej
3 weeks ago

🗒️ ThinkPad (pictured is the 340CSE model) is a series of legendary laptops that IBM initiated in 1992, passing through the hands of LG and Acer before ending up under the Lenovo brand. Over 100 million units have been sold.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

laptop photo
Računalniški muzej
3 weeks ago

Slovak virus OneHalf continues to wreak havoc even in this millennium 🦠👾 So resilient that only Slovak tools 💪 (by the same authors as ESET NOD32) can remove it.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #cybersec #cybersecurity #retrocomputing #infosec #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

computer screen
Računalniški muzej
3 weeks ago

At the exhibition 'What about Software?' we also explore unwanted software 🦠 When was the last time you got malware on your device, and how severe was it? 😡

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #infosec #cybersec #cybersecurity #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

exhibit photo
Računalniški muzej
3 weeks ago

🤝🙂 In its final efforts, Commodore tried to compete with the rise of PCs with the Amiga 1200 and 4000. The AGA chipset architecture, the third in line, brought some graphic advancements and faster processors. However, it all proved to be too little and too late to halt the company's decline.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #amiga #commodore #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

Amiga photo
Računalniški muzej
3 weeks ago

💾💸 With the Commodore 1541 disk drive, games and programs can be loaded onto the Commodore 64 from 5.25'' disks instead of the more common audio cassettes. Because it's a fairly complex device - almost a computer in itself - it's not surprising that it would cost around €1000 today.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #c64 #commodore #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #commodore64

disk drive photo
Računalniški muzej
3 weeks ago

🍌🦍 Playing GORILLA.BAS on the Toshiba T5100 laptop 🤩 That orange plasma screen ❤

You can also play it - in your browser - if you attempt to format the "disk" at https://zbirka.muzej.si/ 😂 (in QBasic, press F5 to start the game)

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro

Toshiba T5100 laptop
Ludovic Courtès
3 weeks ago

Second day of the Reproducible Software Environment Workshop starting with a nice overview of #SoftwareHeritage by its engineering manager, Benoit Chauvet.
https://hpc.guix.info/events/2023/workshop/program/#software-heritage-archive-your-source-code-for-a-consistent-and-durable-referencing

Benoit showed how it relates to (and benefits to!) #Guix.

Računalniški muzej
1 month ago

🔢🕹️ The Schmid TVG 2000 is a German clone of the second-generation Emerson Arcadia 2001 console from 1982. It is powered by an 8-bit Signetics 2650A processor running at 3.58 MHz, which addresses 1 KB of memory. The screen has a resolution of 128x104/208 and supports 8 colors.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #vintagegaming #vgm #retrogaming #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro

Schmid TVG 2000
Računalniški muzej
1 month ago

🐎🏎️ The game DONKEY.BAS is as old as the PC and DOS, celebrating its 40th anniversary 🥳. It was written by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen as one of the demo programs for the BASIC programming language included with DOS.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #billgates #vgm #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #dosgaming #msdos #vintagegaming #retrogaming #basic

DONKEY.BAS game
Računalniški muzej
1 month ago

🇵🇱🧱 Did you know that the game Blockout, published by California Dreams, was developed by Polish developers? 🤗

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #dosgaming #vgm #retrocomputing #vintagegaming #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #poland #retrogaming

Blockout game
Računalniški muzej
1 month ago

🔫👽 Id Software (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake) released this game as their first in 1990. Have you ever played it?

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #vgm #retrogaming #idsoftware #quake #doom #dosgaming #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #gaming

game on computer screen
Računalniški muzej
1 month ago

👦🏠 In 1990, the movie Home Alone was released, and since then, the holiday TV program has never been the same 😅 We could set up traps for burglars in a DOS video game just a year later 🔥

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #vintagegaming #vgm #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #dosgaming

Home Alone game
Računalniški muzej
1 month ago

⚪🏏 The collection of pinball tables, Epic Pinball, was released for DOS in 1993 by Epic MegaGames (known for Unreal, Gears of War, Fortnite). It's known for its smooth animations and diverse tables. Have you ever played it?

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #dosgaming #vgm #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retrogaming

Epic Pinball game
Računalniški muzej
1 month ago

⚾🧱 Arkanoid for DOS was developed by the Japanese company Taito in 1988. It successfully continued the brick-breaking genre that Atari had pioneered with the arcade game Breakout in 1976. Arkanoid was a hit, with versions available for nearly 20 different systems in addition to DOS. What's your favorite "breakout"?

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #dosgaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #vgm #vintagegaming

Arkanoid
Računalniški muzej
1 month ago

🔺⚪ Hexxagon is a simple yet addictive puzzle game for DOS from 1993. It features charming animations and sounds, and you could even purchase its sequel, Hexxagon 2. Today, you can relive it right in your web browser: https://hexxagon.com/

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #vintagegaming #vgm #dosgames #retrogaming

Hexxagon game
Računalniški muzej
1 month ago

💡🔢 A brand new addition is this Wang 700B programmable calculator from 1969 with an astonishing 32 Nixie tube displays 😍🤩. More details to come once we get to know it better.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #MundoRetro #wang #calculator #nixietube #nixie #retrotech #programmablecalculator #60s #60er #wanglaboratories

Wang 700B programmable calculator
Računalniški muzej
2 months ago

📓✒️ If you had purchased Corel Ventura 5 for desktop publishing in 1995, you would have received a booklet to help you browse through the 17,000 included cliparts. 😁 Did you use clipart for your documents and presentations? What about WordArt? 😆

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #MundoRetro #számítógépek #corelventura #wordart #90er #annees90 #Años90

Corel Ventura box
Računalniški muzej
2 months ago

📚🟤 We don't want to boast, but we've received a new disk pack on which we will archive our social media posts for future generations! 😅

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #storage #diskpack #retrostorage #removable

disk pack photo
Računalniški muzej
2 months ago

🧠🧳 We are delighted to welcome the HP 85 computer in its original case to our collection 🤩.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #hp #hewlettpackard #vintagecomputing #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer

HP 85
Računalniški muzej
2 months ago

💼💻 Many people would have loved to own an HP 200LX in 1994. It's powered by a 186 processor running MS-DOS 5.0, with 2 MB of available RAM, and offers plenty of I/O ports and expansion possibilities.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #hp #hewlettpackard #vintagecomputing #pda #retrocomputing #palmtop #msdos

hp pda
Računalniški muzej
2 months ago

🦕🖥️ The Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal (1976) looks like it's straight out of The Flintstones 😃 We received it 12 years ago from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and it dates back to the times before the influential VT100 terminal.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #MundoRetro #computerterminal

computer terminal
Računalniški muzej
2 months ago

📚📚 Hunting for rare Slovenian software from the early PC era, we've combed through dozens of hard drives of all types and sizes. 💪

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #MundoRetro #preservation #datapreservation #datarecovery

hardware photo
Računalniški muzej
2 months ago

🐧💿 The internet has already forgotten them (read: .iso files are nowhere to be found), so it's time for us to revive them: Pingo Linux 4.0, Slo-Tech Linux 2.0, and FeriX 2.1... 3 successful Slovenian Linux distributions. Attention: We are still searching for Pingo 4.1 ⚠, slix, Slobuntu, and Slonix!

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #sloveniancomputerhistory #vintagecomputing #linux #gnulinux #gnu #foss #opensource #floss #freesoftware

Old Linux screenshot
Računalniški muzej
3 months ago

We warmly invite you to visit us at our location on Celovška cesta 111 in Ljubljana! Our opening hours are as follows: Thursdays and Fridays from 16:00 to 20:00, and Saturdays from 10:00 to 16:00. Please note that the museum remains closed on Sundays and during all public holidays.

https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en/visit-us/

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #commodore #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #amiga #makerspace #homecomputer #techeducation #retrocomputing #sinclair

Museum's entrance photo
Steve Crawford
5 months ago

Every time I see Roborto Di Cosmo’s slide, I have to toot it - these examples from the Apollo code show just how important it is to comment your code.

Text:

# Astronaut: Please crank the silly thing around

# PROCEED: See if he is lying

#NASA #OpenScience #opensource #opensourcesoftware #CERNNASA #SoftwareHeritage

Man standing in front of slide showing Apollo 11 source code and Quake II source code talking about the importance of source code and software as knowledge
Ludovic Courtès
5 months ago

Fellow hacker Simon Tournier did an experiment: reproducing a pure #Guix 2020 paper in the worst-case scenario—shutting down network access except for #SoftwareHeritage and #Disarchive, and from there rebuilding everything from source.
https://simon.tournier.info/posts/2023-06-23-hackathon-repro.html

Spoiler alert: there are lots of bumps on the road. But it works in the end and there are many lessons we can learn to improve on it.

#ReproducibleResearch #OpenScience

8 months ago

@stroppypanda @neil #SoftwareHeritage.org (#SWH) exists for precisely this purpose. You can get more redundancy by hosting at a more ethical forge than #Github. Check out this list: https://git.sdf.org/humanacollaborator/humanacollabora/src/branch/master/forge_comparison.md

Simon Phipps
8 months ago

All the computer code that governs our lives and liberty should be open to public scrutiny in this new era. That's a big part of why I support #SoftwareHeritage and #OpenSource

https://the.webm.ink/code-is-law-so-we-must-have-open-access

Simon Phipps
8 months ago

#Software is becoming a key to democracy as more and more citizen contact points with government are automated. All such systems MUST be #OpenSource and archived at #softwareheritage
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/03/30/ambassador-simon-phipps/

The #SoftwareHeritage project provides an extension each for Firefox Chrome and Edge, which can tell you the archival status of a repo at a glance and also allows you to trigger archival.

www.softwareheritage.org/brows…
Pare :pace: 🚲
10 months ago

@EC_OSPO Yes, I've seen a presentation by Di Cosmo. in #Torino, about #SoftwareHeritage. Very interesting!

But we should persuade him to leave the birdsite and #joinmastodon 🙂

Maciej Barć
1 year ago

Added some configuration options for #SoftwareHeritage Helper web extension!

https://gitlab.com/xgqt/webext-softwareheritage-helper/