#data corruption

[pi-slices]

Data Corruption.

[robsheridan]

Early works with mpeg compression corruption, 20 years ago, during my 2003/2004 journey of experimentation with new forms of visual decay in the digital age that would lead me to the Nine Inch Nails With Teeth aesthetic. Some of this stuff made its way into parts of the large body of With Teeth artwork, but some of it is liminal inspirations in accidents, spawning ideas and techniques that I still carry with me today in my works across all mediums.

See my previous post for more thoughts from this unique era of early digital glitch art.

You can read more about my digital glitch art processes for With Teeth, and download a full tutorial, on my Patreon.

[disk28]

[lucidexe]

more concepts this time with color

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Over 50% of my saved Daggerfall images got corrupted when moving them to a new folder.

Apologies if you see a bit less Daggerfall this week.

But fret not, I have a vault of 2,000+ TES concept and art images to post, so the volume of posts will not drop whatsoever.

For context, I try to post 10 images a day and I try to keep a diverse spread to the posts so it doesn't look like all I post is Skyrim or something (not that Tumblr seems to display my posts chronologically for most people lmao).

TES fans can love the series as a whole or mostly just have a relation with a single game or piece of media from it, and thats OK!

It's really important to me that this blog provides for the artistic curiosity of TES fans in general,so I honestly do try my best to post a little something for everybody :)

"Divines smile on you, friend."

[craftsman-and-mover]

Erosion is a fun word. It is a fun word. Erosion. What does it mean again?

[szulcyk]

my old SDHC card got corrupted. i've got a lot of weird glitchy nine year old photos now

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[skautism]

I MADE THIS POST BECAUSE IM A NINTENDO FAN WHY WOULD I MAKE FUN OF SYSTEMS I DONT PLAY

anyway all wii u defenders and gameboy line and gamecube soldiers i love you

QUIT CONFUSING THEM. I FEEL INSANE. THIS IS MY SPECIAL INTEREST

[victorian-robot]

Fun fact: a lot of generative AI for text works off predicting the next word on a data set so if you want to communicate something humans can understand that will corrupt data you could encode it. Like maybe alternate words between two sentences.

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Apparently they're selling post content to train AI now so let us be the first to say, flu nork purple too? West motor vehicle surprise hamster much! Apple neat weed very crumgible oysters in a patagonia, my hat. Very of the and some then shall we not? Much jelly.

[solasistim]

d e c a y

photoshop + audacity

other versions on my instagram

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[robsheridan]

recombinance (2004). Early works with DV data corruption, 20 years ago. As I mentioned in a recent post about NIN’s 2002 And All That Could Have Been DVD, I became during the creation of that film fascinated with the aesthetics of Y2K-era consumer digital video. I was drawn to the uniquely chunky corruption blocks that occurred on lightly-damaged DV tapes, how they were sparse and sometimes gentle in nature.

I filmed some soft gradients, some out-of-focus landscapes and other smooth organic surfaces, and then damaged the tapes (wrinkling the tape, applying magnets/heat, just enough to disrupt the data but still let the tape pass through), seeking the right balance where the harsh digital corruption disrupted and contradicted the soft backdrop while also at times trying to become part of it.

It’s how things felt in the post-millennium migration to all-things-digital, like our old organic analog world was fading out of focus as more of it became rapidly mass-digitized, encoded, and compressed down into tiny efficient grids that more or less replicated what we were at the expense of all the complicated gradients of humanity in between.

Harsh DV data glitches and video interlacing against soft organic textures would form much of the inspiration and methodology of my NIN With Teeth album art in the latter part of 2004 and early 2005.

You can read more about my digital glitch art processes for With Teeth, and download a full tutorial, on my Patreon.

[thedbahub]

Ensuring Database Integrity with DBCC CHECKDB in SQL Server

Introduction Maintaining the integrity of your SQL Server databases is crucial for ensuring data reliability and preventing corruption. One of the most powerful tools available for this purpose is DBCC CHECKDB. In this article, we’ll explore what DBCC CHECKDB does, how to use it effectively, and provide practical T-SQL code examples to help you incorporate it into your database maintenance…

[infosectrain03]

Race condition vulnerability is a type of software or system flaw that arises when the program's behavior depends on the timing of events or processes. It occurs in concurrent or multi-threaded environments when multiple threads or processes access shared resources, like variables, files, or data structures, without proper synchronization or coordination. 

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