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The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About Is Here

2026-08-182026-08-18 Danie
Chat interface showing a conversation with the GLM-5.2 language model from Z.ai on a dark-themed screen.

The “best” model is not always the “best” model for you. Why I say this, is because Z.ai’s model is still outperformed in some dimensions by proprietary models from Anthropic for example. But can you […]

BlogAI, archiving, technology

Archiving Data On Plain Paper Using 2D Images

2024-09-162024-09-16 Danie
Section of an A4 size paper, showing some horizontal lines made up from a 1 cm patterns of dots. At the bottom is printed in words TWIBRIGHT OPTAR 0-32-46-24-3-1-2-24

Optar or OPTical ARchiver is a project capable of squeezing a whopping 200 kB of data onto a single A4 sheet of paper, with writing and reading achieved with a standard laser printer and a […]

Blog#obsolescence, archiving, technology

Paperless-ngx is an open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive

2024-07-042024-07-04 Danie
A webpage showing a tiled layout with tiles arranged in horizontal rows, each one representing a document that has been scanned in. Each tile shows a thumbnail image of the document contents with titles below, tags, a creation date, etc. Down the left side is a menu f options such as Dashboard, Documents, Recently Added, Inbox, Correspondents, Tags, Document Types, Storage Paths, Custom Fields, Templates, Mail, Settings etc. At the top is a search bar.

You can either scan or upload various document formats into Paperless-ngx. It will organise and index your scanned documents with tags, correspondents, types, and more. Your data is stored locally on your server and is […]

Blogarchiving, documents, opensource, technology

What’s the Value of 3 Million LPs in a Digital World? Easy! They can be Played still in 50+ Years’ Time!

2024-01-072024-01-07 Danie
Tall library shelfves that show vinyl records stacked on the shelves. A man is seen walking between the rows of shelves.

The ARChive of Contemporary Music has one of the largest collections of vinyl records in the world and is in danger of losing its home. Its champions are making a case for the future of […]

Blogarchiving, music, technology, vinyl

Well Documented Code Helps Revive Decades-Old Commodore Project: Moral Of The Story, If You Want To Keep It, Print It On Paper

2023-06-082023-06-08 Danie
commodore game main

Luckily, Stephen’s younger self went to some extremes documenting the project, starting with a map he created which was inspired by Dungeons and Dragons. There are printed notes from a Commodore 64 printer, including all […]

Blogarchiving, commodore64, gaming, technology

What’s the Best Way to Store Data for Decades or Centuries? Bottom line: No Technology that is Easy or Practical

2023-05-282023-05-28 Danie
SSD drives and RAM

The concern keeps coming up (I’ve also been pondering it a lot and posted in this last week what I’ve been doing). This linked article does sum up the essentials very well, and this helps […]

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With around 180,000 people dying daily, I found more analogue ways of preserving my memories

2023-05-242023-05-24 Danie
preserving your digital memories

Reading an article about this published two days back in The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review, got me thinking yet again about this topic (as you do when you are past your 40’s or 50’s) and […]

Blogarchiving, digitalmemories, memories, technology

Android is getting App Auto-Archiving, a bit like iOS has, but not manually controllable

2023-04-112023-04-11 Danie
App store screen showing a pop up message offering to enable auto-archiving of apps

Similarly, to iOS, it will retain the icon and user data and remove the application itself to save about 60% storage space (and also not run anything as a background service). This is different from […]

Blogandroid, archiving, storage, technology
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