Euan Cochrane
@euanc.bsky.social
More gratification - so great to hear of people using @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social for digital preservation signature metadata. I just heard mention of using the Wikidata signature file in Siegfried! #ipres2025
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
More gratification - so great to hear of people using @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social for digital preservation signature metadata. I just heard mention of using the Wikidata signature file in Siegfried! #ipres2025
"[I often find that after installing e.g. a version of flash for one artifact, I just search for it for use with other artifacts]" Paraphrased quote from Bryony Cavallaro @ the State Library of New South Wales (I think) #ipres2025 - So great to here the benefits of #EasSI being realised #AusEaaSI
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"[I often find that after installing e.g. a version of flash for one artifact, I just search for it for use with other artifacts]" Paraphrased quote from Bryony Cavallaro @ the State Library of New South Wales (I think) #ipres2025 - So great to here the benefits of #EasSI being realised #AusEaaSI
So great to hear about the use of #AusEaaSI / #EaaSI in Australia. Hearing how it is also really useful for raising awareness of digital preservation is validating. Reminds me of my post on Digital Patinas www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/th... #ipres2025
The Emergence of “Digital Patinas” - Digital Preservation Coalition
www.dpconline.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
So great to hear about the use of #AusEaaSI / #EaaSI in Australia. Hearing how it is also really useful for raising awareness of digital preservation is validating. Reminds me of my post on Digital Patinas www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/th... #ipres2025
Reposted by Euan Cochrane
Talk to Zak, Cynthia and I about Utaina, a recently completed project of mass digital preservation of about 70,000 at-risk audiovisual magnetic media at ArchivesNZ and National Library of New Zealand. Uploading our poster here. Or see the PDF version at […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
[Original post on digipres.club]
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Talk to Zak, Cynthia and I about Utaina, a recently completed project of mass digital preservation of about 70,000 at-risk audiovisual magnetic media at ArchivesNZ and National Library of New Zealand. Uploading our poster here. Or see the PDF version at […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
[Original post on digipres.club]
Great post @exponentialdecay.bsky.social re: excessive storage- if we kept the software needed to make the change to the file, & kept the original unchanged file, could we just add the command to "fix" the file to the package to do on access in the future? exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/bsdiff-...
Revisiting bsdiff as a tool for digital preservation - ross spencer :: exponentialdecay.digipres :: blog
I first blogged about bsdiff in 2014. How does it stand up in terms of its potential and ease of use in 2025? Let's take a look.
exponentialdecay.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Great post @exponentialdecay.bsky.social re: excessive storage- if we kept the software needed to make the change to the file, & kept the original unchanged file, could we just add the command to "fix" the file to the package to do on access in the future? exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/bsdiff-...
The "beverage may be hot" of our time
September 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The "beverage may be hot" of our time
Reposted by Euan Cochrane
#DigiPres folks👋Whether you are attending #iPRES2025 virtually, or just curious about the latest in #digitalpreservation, iPRES Radio provides a front-row seat to the global conversation happening in Wellington this year! Read our blog on how you can tune in every day during #iPres: buff.ly/viLsIIc
September 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#DigiPres folks👋Whether you are attending #iPRES2025 virtually, or just curious about the latest in #digitalpreservation, iPRES Radio provides a front-row seat to the global conversation happening in Wellington this year! Read our blog on how you can tune in every day during #iPres: buff.ly/viLsIIc
"A new disk image format" comes with McOS 26 Tahoe. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica review
Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes.
arstechnica.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"A new disk image format" comes with McOS 26 Tahoe. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
"Tips for installing Windows 98 in QEMU/UTM" sporks.space/2025/08/28/t... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4522...
Tips for installing Windows 98 in QEMU/UTM - the sporks space
Windows 98 runs surprisingly well in QEMU via UTM SE, but it requires some care in setting it up. It’s a great way to run old 90s Windows and DOS software on your iPad (and Mac too, though you have… C...
sporks.space
September 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"Tips for installing Windows 98 in QEMU/UTM" sporks.space/2025/08/28/t... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4522...
"This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC
You don't have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
You don't have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC
You don’t have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore.
arstechnica.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
"This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC
You don't have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
You don't have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
"All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an "especially cursed" journey." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an "especially cursed" journey." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey.
arstechnica.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
"All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an "especially cursed" journey." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an "especially cursed" journey." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
Reposted by Euan Cochrane
✈️ Travel tips for your #iPRES2025 journey!🧳Local Organising Committee member and athlete, Carly, recently traveled from Wellington to Austria and back with Team New Zealand in the 2025 Roller Derby World Cup in July. Carly shares her best long-haul travel tips here: www.ipres2025.nz/post/long-ha...
iPRES Travel Advice: Tips for the Long-Haul Journey
Local Organising Committee member and athlete Carly Lenz offers her top tips for long-haul travel to Aotearoa and back.
www.ipres2025.nz
August 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
✈️ Travel tips for your #iPRES2025 journey!🧳Local Organising Committee member and athlete, Carly, recently traveled from Wellington to Austria and back with Team New Zealand in the 2025 Roller Derby World Cup in July. Carly shares her best long-haul travel tips here: www.ipres2025.nz/post/long-ha...
Ask Jeeves needs to make a comeback as an AI interface
July 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Ask Jeeves needs to make a comeback as an AI interface
" Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy
Seagate's heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Seagate's heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy
Seagate’s heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years.
arstechnica.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
" Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy
Seagate's heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Seagate's heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
AI Bitrot?
"This is like inducing catastrophic brain damage in the model: with just one bit flip, accuracy can crash from 80% to 0.1%, rendering it useless,” arstechnica.com/security/202...
"This is like inducing catastrophic brain damage in the model: with just one bit flip, accuracy can crash from 80% to 0.1%, rendering it useless,” arstechnica.com/security/202...
Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks
GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won’t be the last.
arstechnica.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
AI Bitrot?
"This is like inducing catastrophic brain damage in the model: with just one bit flip, accuracy can crash from 80% to 0.1%, rendering it useless,” arstechnica.com/security/202...
"This is like inducing catastrophic brain damage in the model: with just one bit flip, accuracy can crash from 80% to 0.1%, rendering it useless,” arstechnica.com/security/202...
Reposted by Euan Cochrane
📅 Reminder! The Call for #iPRES2025 Ad Hoc Contributions closes this Friday, 18 July 2025, End of Day, Anywhere on Earth. Don't miss out on submitting your ideas for:
⚡ Lightning Talks
🤖 Games
🐦⬛ Birds of Feather (BoF) sessions
Submit your Ad Hoc contribution here: forms.gle/MzbEbo4k9Gbb...
⚡ Lightning Talks
🤖 Games
🐦⬛ Birds of Feather (BoF) sessions
Submit your Ad Hoc contribution here: forms.gle/MzbEbo4k9Gbb...
iPRES 2025 Ad Hoc Call for Contributions
Submit your ad hoc contribution to iPRES 2025 using this form. These contributions—such as lightning talks, games, birds of a feather sessions, and more—are reviewed lightly by the Programme…
forms.gle
July 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
📅 Reminder! The Call for #iPRES2025 Ad Hoc Contributions closes this Friday, 18 July 2025, End of Day, Anywhere on Earth. Don't miss out on submitting your ideas for:
⚡ Lightning Talks
🤖 Games
🐦⬛ Birds of Feather (BoF) sessions
Submit your Ad Hoc contribution here: forms.gle/MzbEbo4k9Gbb...
⚡ Lightning Talks
🤖 Games
🐦⬛ Birds of Feather (BoF) sessions
Submit your Ad Hoc contribution here: forms.gle/MzbEbo4k9Gbb...
LLM + FFMPEG in browser
"I found that I am using ChatGPT more and more to get the FFmpeg command I need, but the process can be a bit tedious...
This site attempts to solve that."
vidmix.app/ffmpeg-in-pl... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452...
"I found that I am using ChatGPT more and more to get the FFmpeg command I need, but the process can be a bit tedious...
This site attempts to solve that."
vidmix.app/ffmpeg-in-pl... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452...
FFmpeg in plain english
vidmix.app
July 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
LLM + FFMPEG in browser
"I found that I am using ChatGPT more and more to get the FFmpeg command I need, but the process can be a bit tedious...
This site attempts to solve that."
vidmix.app/ffmpeg-in-pl... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452...
"I found that I am using ChatGPT more and more to get the FFmpeg command I need, but the process can be a bit tedious...
This site attempts to solve that."
vidmix.app/ffmpeg-in-pl... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452...
"Microsoft is deprecating Publisher," " However, the brand helpfully suggests creating a macro to export all your files in PDF format so they're still viewable, www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-pu...
Microsoft is deprecating Publisher, so here's 5 tools I could replace it with
How hard can it possibly be?
www.xda-developers.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"Microsoft is deprecating Publisher," " However, the brand helpfully suggests creating a macro to export all your files in PDF format so they're still viewable, www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-pu...
Reposted by Euan Cochrane
👀 Excited to see who's speaking at #iPRES2025? Our draft programme is still in the works, but we have released an indicative list of accepted submissions of Full and Short Papers, Panels, Posters, Tutorials, and Workshops: www.ipres2025.nz/post/preview... Please note the list is subject to change.
Preview of Speakers at iPRES 2025
Can't wait for the official iPRES 2025 programme release? Check out our indicative list of accepted submissions so far!
www.ipres2025.nz
June 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
👀 Excited to see who's speaking at #iPRES2025? Our draft programme is still in the works, but we have released an indicative list of accepted submissions of Full and Short Papers, Panels, Posters, Tutorials, and Workshops: www.ipres2025.nz/post/preview... Please note the list is subject to change.
"Games That Weren't: Preserving Cancelled and Unreleased Video Game History" www.gamesthatwerent.com via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438... which also mentions this EU citizens initiative www.stopkillinggames.com
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
that needs a few more signatures
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
that needs a few more signatures
Games That Weren't: Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games
Games That Weren't is a Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games archive with lost prototypes, developer history and assets for many computers and consoles of all ages.
www.gamesthatwerent.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
"Games That Weren't: Preserving Cancelled and Unreleased Video Game History" www.gamesthatwerent.com via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438... which also mentions this EU citizens initiative www.stopkillinggames.com
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
that needs a few more signatures
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
that needs a few more signatures
This is really helpful: "Writerperfect conversion tools for legacy file formats" bitsgalore.org/2025/06/10/w...
Writerperfect conversion tools for legacy file formats
This post gives a brief introduction to the Writerperfect tools. These can be used to convert a wide range of legacy (mostly office) formats to the modern OpenDocument and EPUB formats.
bitsgalore.org
June 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This is really helpful: "Writerperfect conversion tools for legacy file formats" bitsgalore.org/2025/06/10/w...
" Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux
It's funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be." by @benjedwards.com arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
It's funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be." by @benjedwards.com arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux
It’s funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be.
arstechnica.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
" Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux
It's funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be." by @benjedwards.com arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
It's funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be." by @benjedwards.com arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Just listened to this fascinating two-part podcast about one of the key people behind scientific publishing's current state m.imdb.com/title/tt3688...
"Behind the Bastards" Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science (Podcast Episode 2025) | History
1h 10m
m.imdb.com
June 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just listened to this fascinating two-part podcast about one of the key people behind scientific publishing's current state m.imdb.com/title/tt3688...
"macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format " eclecticlight.co/2025/06/12/m... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4425...
macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format
ASIF disk images are new in Tahoe, and promise to be space efficient, as they’re sparse files, and almost as fast as the disk they’re stored on. Ideal for VMs and general use.
eclecticlight.co
June 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format " eclecticlight.co/2025/06/12/m... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4425...
"Emulating an iPhone in QEMU (Part 2)" eshard.com/posts/emulat... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4426...
Emulating an iPhone in QEMU (Part 2)
We pushed iOS emulation further: debugging userspace, bypassing setup, enabling multitouch and network to reach a functional home screen.
eshard.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"Emulating an iPhone in QEMU (Part 2)" eshard.com/posts/emulat... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4426...