Euan Cochrane

"The internet promises forever. I’m not buying it. WordPress promises a century of website hosting. But the history of books and digital preservation reveals just how elusive permanence can be." archive.is/DsxnH#select...

Claude Code made it. Free and Open Source. Do with it whatever is useful. It took a few hours of computation and seems quite promising.

Vibe-coded a new Disk Imaging tool "DiskWright" over the weekend. euanc.github.io/diskwright/ It's something I wanted years ago and now (hopefully - haven't been able to test on real hardware yet) exists. github.com/euanc/diskwr...

"The Architecture of a Missed Opportunity How early warnings about NARA's Electronic Records Archives anticipated problems that later audits would rediscover" metaarchivist.substack.com/p/the-archit...

"PlayStation killing physical discs has inspired PS5 emulator devs to ramp up development" www.pcguide.com/news/playsta...

bi weekly and bi monthly are pointless terms as they mean two different things so always have to be clarified.

@digitalscholarship.bsky.social are you still posting to Digital Koans?

"DigitalKoans and Digital Scholarship Have Been Published for 21 Years" digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans...

. @barbaraamsterdam.bsky.social has been writing a great blog series "30 Years of Digital Preservation", she's onto issue 2 - They're all available on her blog here: digitalpreservation.nl/seeds/

"Emulating Inmagic DB/TextWorks databases with QEMU" bitsgalore.org/2026/02/16/e...

"Game Preservation In The Digital Age: What Happens When Servers Die?" editorialge.com/game-preserv...

Join the next Art+Feminism event in partnership with Wikimedia Deutschland:  Intro to Wikidata + Archives training session 🗓 29 Jan, 15:00–18:00 UTC 💻 Online (Zoom, English) 🔗 Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Google unkills JPEG XL?" tonisagrista.com/blog/2025/go... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4610...

So miro.com can export board "backup" files in "rtb" format. That format is a zip file with a bunch of images and "json" files inside of it. Unfortunately the .json files are full of random binary data and are not json compliant. Poor form

"Vintage Large Language Models" "A vintage LLM is a large language model trained on texts and potentially images or other multimodal data up to a particular date." owainevans.github.io/talk-transcr...

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

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

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]

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

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"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...

"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/...

"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/...

✈️ 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

" 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...

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...

📅 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...

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...

"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...

👀 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

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...

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...

"Emulating an iPhone in QEMU (Part 2)" eshard.com/posts/emulat... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4426...

"FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems - Windows 95 also being phased out" www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

"On File Formats" solhsa.com/oldernews202... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404...

Etymology of the term "dial-up connection", ca. 1978 Acoustic Coupler Modem (Sendata Model 1070) and Dial-up Phone. University of Canterbury, api.digitalnz.org/records/5664...

Just exported a .rtb board backup file from miro.com. It extracts as some sort of archive using 7-zip and is made up of a bunch of JSON files and images. The canvas.json contains json fields holding binary data which is very disappointing.

How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.” By Kyle Chayka May 7, 2025 archive.is/Dqqe2#select...

#NDF25 NOW: Preservation, Connection, and Community: Utaina’s impact on the audiovisual record of NZ Aotearoa \ Jessica Moran, Kate Roberts, Louise McCrone #Utaina

The first of the two international conferences that I’m helping organise this year starts tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing everyone at #NDF25

"The Hidden Hand: Galyn Susman, the Woman Who Saved Toy Story 2 From Deletion You won’t see her name in big lights. But the lights stayed on because of her." roughcut.heyeddie.ai/p/the-hidden...