#Repositories

[the-magiarcheologist]

Hogwarts Legacy Timeline

I've gone deep into research to try to put together a timeline of events that happened before the start of the game.

Ok, let's break it down! (I'll provide my sources for all of this)

And let's start with the most shocking: when anne gets cursed.

Almost everyone assumes (logically) that she got cursed sometime during the fourth year or the summer before the start of fifth year. But, in the book "The Art and Making Of Hogwarts Legacy" there is a short paragraph introducing Sebastian and here is what it says:

If we take this info as legit (and I think it is since that book was written by the people developping the game) then Anne has been suffering from that curse for far longer than anyone thought!

That also means that Ranrok opened the first repository over a year before our MC starts at Hogwarts and discovers ancient magic.

Before we start the mission 'It's all Gobbledegook" with Amit, Lodgok tells the MC that Ranrok orginally unearthed Bragbor's journals that had been long lost. From these journals, he discovered that wizards had hidden for 'repositories' full of magic that Bragbor had built for them. He knew all of this was connected to five names: Rackham, Fitzgerald, Bakar, Morganach and Rookwood. Ranrok then sent Lodgok to begin the search at Rookwood castle.

Sebastian also confirms that Goblins first arrived at Rookwood castle. Before we visit his sister, he tells MC: "No one has felt safe here since Ranrok's Loyalists took a peculiar interest in that castle over there - Rookwood castle."

Miriam was actually already at Rookwood castle, conducting her research on ancient magic, before the Goblins arrived. That is how Lodgok meets her. She had already found the container (with the portkey inside) and was studying it. (Lodgok tells us this after we complete the mission with Amit).

Other Goblins join Lodgok at Rookwood castle to search it. At this point, Rookwood must have joined hands with Ranrok and allowed the Goblins to tunnel under Rookwood castle to search for the repository. (We overhear Rookwood telling Ranrok: "I allowed you to tunnel under my family home!" when we first visit Rookwood castle to start the second trial from the Keepers).

The Goblins find the first repository and Ranrok is thrilled. That is when Lodgok tells him that he met Miriam and that he trusted her and allowed her to continue her research on the container independently. Lodgok does not really know what happens after that but we know that Ranrok eventually found her and killed her. So Miriam died sometime between Ranrok finding the first repository and the start of the fifth year.

The only other thing we know to try to piece together when Miriam died is that shortly before her death she first sent George Osric a letter warning him about Ranrok's activities (presumably she knew that he had accessed the first repository) and then "before [George] could respond" she also sent him the container. Since George himself says he had not had time to respond to her first letter before he received the container, that probably means only a few days went by between Miriam being worried about Ranrok's activities and when he found her and killed her. (We learn all of this from George Osric in the carriage going to Hogwarts.)

The other interesting thing is that George tells Prof. Fig that he had received Miriam's first letter (and the contained shortly after), "months ago". Rookwood sort of confirms this when he tells Ranrok that he spent "months and countless Ministry favours" locating the container (he says this when we overhear his conversation with Ranrok at Rookwood castle). So this means that Miriam died several months before september 1890.

This raises a lot of questions: Why did George Osric wait that long to tell Prof. Fig that he has received a mysterious container from his wife before her death? Also, why did Miriam send the container to George and not her husband? Were Prof. Fig and his wife estranged? Did Miriam not trust Prof. Fig? But that's the topic for another post I suppose...

Anyway, after Goblins started searching at Rookwood castle, they also started searching at other locations connected to the 5 names of the Keepers. (We know this, again, from Lodgok before we start the mission with Amit). That is when they arrived at Isidora's house. We don't know the exact timeline between them arriving at Isidora's home and the fire during which Anne got cursed. This could have happened before Ranrok found the first repository. But it happened after Ranrok and Rookwood started their alliance since Rookwood was at Isidora's house with the Goblins. So I think it happened after Ranrok had already found the first repository but we can't be sure.

Anyway that's all I've got! Have I forgotten something?

[here-be-dragons-and-whatnot]

Treat yoself to some free assets for Blender

This is probably old news to everyone but me, but there are some incredible free repositories to be found for Blender these days. These two in particular really stood out to me.

[shadydestinycollector]

Altered Census Records

Navigating genealogy platforms has its challenges, and recently, I encountered a situation that sparked reflection.

While I appreciate the collaborative nature of free platforms, I've observed instances of users altering historically accurate information.

For example, imagine retrieving a record to use in a citation from a free platform: the 1900 US Federal Census, from Burleson County, Texas, only to discover that someone has inaccurately changed it to Briscoe.

It's essential to recognize that while family names can be misspelled by the enumerator and ages often fudged by our ancestors, place names are critical in tracing our ancestors’ footsteps.

In this case, the alteration is more than just a minor adjustment; it involves distinct locations with no historical connection.

This experience underscores the importance of being vigilant in our contributions and to encourage the prioritization of accuracy when sharing information.

In such situations, it becomes crucial to advocate for the use of accurate primary sources and official records from the repository that maintains the integrity of our family histories.

By sharing specific examples, like the unfortunate alteration from Burleson to Briscoe County, one can understand the challenges faced by genealogists and family historians.

[archivyrep]

"Digitization in progress": Yuu, Touko, Reference rooms, and keeping secrets

The student council floor plan shown at the beginning of Vol. 2 of the Bloom Into You manga. Note how the reference room, which is close to the door has a note “digitization in progress,” implying that the records in this room are being digitized. Sorry for the blurriness but it was hard to photograph this on my phone. Last year, I bought volume 2 of Bloom Into You, a yuri romance manga series…

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Pssst... something new is coming...

...this weekend!

Free, non-AI animal art references.

[keatongamer1248]

i have changed my github account's username. you can still find my repositories under my new username.

[qhsetools2022]

Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have accessed customer data

Hello, We are writing to inform you of a security incident. Due to a two-factor authentication (2FA) misconfiguration on an employee’s account, an unauthorized user gained access to certain Zapier code repositories. Normally, this would not impact our customers. Out of an abundance of caution, we audited the contents of the repositories, and we found that in isolated instances, certain customer…

[biscuitmagpie]

Hey, don't cry, 236 species of woodpecker, ok?

[strathoa]

Do Strathclyde authors need to include the 2-line rights retention statement in the funding acknowledgements section of their manuscripts?

Pablo de Castro, Open Access Advocacy Librarian at U Strathclyde

Following the passing of the Strathclyde Institutional Rights Retention Policy (IRRP) by Senate a year ago, there have been a good number of presentations at various Strathclyde departments to explain what this policy entails and the workflows for their application. The policy came into force on 1 Jan 2024 (for manuscripts submitted on or after 1 Jan 2024 to be precise) and a report "The Strathclyde IRRP 12 months into the policy" will be shared at the start of 2025 showing the uptake of the policy by month, by Strathclyde department and by publisher.

In the meantime, certain lack of clarity has been reported on whether the 2-line rights retention statement below needs to feature on the funding acknowledgements section of manuscripts submitted for publication today.

It's not surprising that authors are unsure of this, as different institutions are applying different criteria around this requirement. A recently published post on the IRRP implementation at Sheffield Hallam states for instance that at this university they are requiring the inclusion of the 2-line RRS above in order to apply their IRRP. Other universities are also applying this more cautious approach to the adoption of rights retention strategy.

However, these decisions can be influenced by other factors such as the size of the institutional research support team in charge of chasing the manuscripts to which the IRRP will be applied (the smaller the team, the more cautious the approach for the sheer purpose of being able to identify the publications that should be targeted by the policy).

Moreover, "rights retention clauses" like the one shown below remove the need to include the 2-line rights retention statement altogether when the publisher has specifically agreed that they accept the application of the institutional policy.

So for Strathclyde authors, the guidance is at follows: you don't need to include the 2-line rights retention statement in your manuscript, but if you want to do it to be on the safe side you are very welcome to do so. The explanation for this guidance is provided below.

1. As a rule, Strathclyde authors do not need to include any rights retention statement on their manuscripts. This is so even if the UKRI Open Access policy (released in Aug 2021 and applicable to manuscripts submitted on or after 1 Apr 2022) says this statement should feature on the manuscripts for their funded papers.

2. Strathclyde authors do (as a rule) not need to include this statement because their submissions are already covered by the Strathclyde IRRP, which clearly states that the UKRI OA policy requirement to deposit a copy of the accepted manuscript (AAM) under no embargo period and a CC BY licence whenever Gold Open Access is not an option applies to all institutional research outputs. This is no specific policy decision for Strathclyde: all thirtysomething IRRPs adopted by UK universities (most of them research-intensive) at the time of writing state exactly the same intention.

3. The "as a rule" caveat is included above because in order for the Strathclyde IRRP to be applied by default the publisher needs to have been notified about the IRRP by the University. At Strathclyde we emailed the 100-odd main publishers for the aggregated research outputs for the university shortly after the IRRP was passed by Senate a year ago.

The issue is that there are hundreds of publishers out there, often discipline-specific publishers, and not every single one of them has been notified about the IRRP.

4. So then the question becomes "how do I know if the publisher whose title I am submitting my manuscript to has been notified about the passing of the Strathclyde IRRP?". The answer is "you may always ask us at openaccess@strath.ac.uk" – we haven't made public the list of notified publishers because this is a potentially sensitive information but the list exists and it's easy for us to confirm whether a specific publisher is included in it. Moreover, the list keeps growing as "new" publishers get notified when we see a just-accepted manuscript to which the IRRP should be applied.

5. And this latter action is the one that really matters. At Strathclyde we are trying to apply our IRRP in the least inconvenient way for our researchers, meaning they don't really need to ask us if a publisher is covered by the policy. Most publishers are covered anyway, but if a new one arises for a publication the author contacts us about while the manuscript is in the pipeline or whose just-accepted manuscript we come across, we will make sure the publisher is notified about the Strathclyde IRRP in time for the policy to be applied to the paper when it gets first released online.

6. This said, the "least inconvenient way" doesn't mean researchers being unaware of the policy and its application workflows (the screenshot below taken from an international webinar on the topic of rights retention shows a very low level of awareness of rights retention among academics as per the results of a survey; it's fair to state though that the survey was conducted among Italian researchers and that no Italian university has – yet – adopted an IRRP). Any Strathclyde researcher wishing to opt-out of the policy for any of their papers can easily do so (on a paper-specific basis) by just emailing the Open Access mailbox at openaccess@strath.ac.uk. Any Strathclyde researcher may also email us if they wish to know whether any of their accepted manuscripts has been made openly available embargo-free and under a CC BY licence in our Strathprints repository.

[here-be-dragons-and-whatnot]

I'm telling you guys, Blender is incredible these days. This is literally a skin modifier, simple UV paint job, some Mixamo mocap data, and a couple area lights. I remember spending HOURS in college trying to get reasonable renders of stuff for school deadlines and this was just... so dang easy (by comparison). Like, approaching Keyshot levels of easy. This is actually a whole animation, but it takes over an hour to render a single frame on this i5 integrated graphics laptop so no renders for me :c

I used the dynamic particle fur system, and I'm struggling to get the fur to look less clumpy. Regardless, this is a big upgrade from my rotating Suzanne.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.

[150en]

From Gem's stream on 15.04.24 'hermitcraft - let's get back to work :D' [1:31:40~].

[spurtcommerce]

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[digitalcreationsllc]

Cloud Engineer Wreaks Havoc on Bank’s Network After Firing

The engineer deployed malware, deleted code repositories, and emailed himself proprietary bank code in retaliation for being fired, impersonating a coworker in the process.