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    | arXiv
    arXiv’s database will be down for scheduled maintenance tomorrow, Wednesday, September 17th, 2025. This maintenance will occur between the hours of 7AM and 9AM EDT. While it will be possible to browse, view, and search papers on arxiv.org during this time, all functions that require log in will be d [...]
    | arXiv
    TeX Live 2025 is now available in the arXiv submission process. What is TeX Live? TeX Live is a free distribution of the TeX typesetting system that includes many TeX-related programs, fonts, and macros packages, including LaTeX, maintained by a core group of TeX users and the TeX User Group. What d [...]
    | arXiv
    arXiv authors – notice anything new? Say hello (if you haven’t already) to Submission 1.5! arXiv has been hard at work updating and streamlining our submission process. This is a part of the work that we are doing to improve arXiv and ensure that the technology that upholds arXiv and open science is [...]
    | Internet Archive
    The following guest post from free-range archivist and software curator Jason Scott is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. Read more essays online or download the […]
    | www.textfiles.com
    This post has two interesting aspects: It will disappear when it’s finished what it set out to do, and it’s also a fundraising for another fundraiser. This is the 20th anniversary of the BBS Documentary, my 2005 released DVD box set. The work was always open licensed and it can be downloaded very ea [...]
    | www.textfiles.com
    This first paragraph is a paradox. I want you to go to a funding campaign and click on a button and support a project. But the project is one that expects you to be the kind of person who loves reading. I personally think there might be a slight amount of people who don’t have […]
    | www.textfiles.com
    One can choose to focus on the car crash, or the lessons learned from the car crash. Let’s do a little of both. The proposition of the Living Computer Museum was initially simple, and rather amusing in a Slashdot-baity sort of way: You could apply to get an account on a real, actual ancient Mainfram [...]
    | www.textfiles.com
    Imagine, if you will, a vast river. It flows fast, so fast that when you look away and look back it’s in many ways an entirely different river, not just a slightly different one. It used to be blue with an occasional brown or black. Nowadays, it’s basically brown and black and a signficant amount [… [...]
    | Academic Torrents
    This dataset contains metadata for 174,158 character profiles from CharacterHub. The dataset includes metadata such as character names, descriptions, backstories, tags, attributes (like species, age, appearance), and links to profile/cover images.
    | Academic Torrents
    This dataset contains hand-drawn artwork collected from PaintBerri. The dataset includes images along with associated metadata such as publication dates, titles, descriptions, and dimensions.
    | Academic Torrents
    The Z1 was the first computer built by German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse in 1936-1938 - a mechanical binary floating-point computer with free programmability. The logic gates and memory cells consist of moving and moved plates with cutouts, coupled by switching pins, grouped into layers, grouped i [...]
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