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Digital Mad Scientist. specializing in professional long-term use of all things digital+electronic and audiovisual preservation.
https://blog.rockarch.org/FFV1-at-the-RAC-Part-2-Implementation
"As mentioned in an earlier blog post, the RAC had been investigating FFV1/MKV as a possible preservation standard for over 6 years.
[...]
We also realize that the preservation decisions we make now greatly impact both the longevity and the future accessibility of our archival holdings, particularly in regard to increasingly obsolete magnetic media."
I have manually created over several hundred-thousand digital filesystem objects on my storage(s).
Even way more blocks, the filesystem must keep assigned and working properly.
The whole world trust the filesystem to keep those bits in order and accessible.
Why not trust the filesystem to do the same with more objects - and split everything into xattr-annotated objects?
It'd be doing the same thing: Simply for /more/ objects.
To all #VHS and analog video capture people:
Just found this!
https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode
It contains /a lot/ of detailed info on analog video signals, and claims to be able to decode the captured FM signal.
I'd loooove to test it.
Got no time right now. But looks very interesting... 📼
What's your opinion on using the default unix "file" tool vs DROID to roughly-and-quicky-identify mixed data sets?
🙋♀️ ❓
Interesting too literally see how little-to-nothing this man cares about "the people's voices and opinions".
I especially like the 'flexibility' requirement in Wikidata's (design-)requirements for their data-model:
"Flexibility: accessing and re-purposing data should be supported; the utility of the data should not be limited to one context"
Goes towards #DataCentricParadigm.
Think of "applications" as "context".
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/DataModel#Goals_and_requirements
https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/debian-13-5-linux-security-update/
I love #Debian as role model for keeping my tech-foundations stable - with non-disruptive updates:
keeping things consistent, reliable and stable.
Big thanks to everyone contributing to this guild-quality style!
Possibly interesting read, regarding NTFS capabilities to store related object-metadata in the filesystem:
["How to Create, Open, Detect, and Remove Alternate Data Streams"](https://www.minitool.com/partition-disk/alternate-data-streams.html)
#WhatIf
We people of the world (currently online, for starters):
May we vote for a party to rule, which has the following definition/declaration?
> "The You-Party" declares its power and visions as: We, the voted by majority of its supporters "party" hand over all power back to all of you in the world, and resign.
Revolutions are real: Imagine. Free. Worldwide. Tomorrow.
Choose wisely, pay attention and get good sleep and friends.
It will be great."
[Y/N] You-Party = You rule. ❤️💜️💚️
@cmconseils ...and my father was like:
Interesting. No, thanks. I was looking for the proper one: I wanted the one in "cool" that my #Linux #hacker son showed me.
So apt install chromium, right?
https://cloud.arkthis.com/index.php/s/AHAlodeck2026?dir=/videos
A 50 minute show-and-tell, about #AHAlodeck, and how #xattrs on #ZFS can be used as #DataCentric catalog/environment.
Enjoy!
Perfect for #longterm preservation #dltp - and any other digital data collections.
@beet_keeper@digipres.club The "good-old" #FOSS community dynamics - which closely relate to what I've learned in history about "guilds" who did a pretty good job for centuries.
I QUIT my job(s) when I was asked to build things "improperly" to:
I put my lifetime into my work. and I want me to be proud of my work - and my lifetime.
https://oxfordarchival.com/about/f/comparision-10-bit-uncompressed-and-ffv1-video-preservation
1. This is simply not true:
"FFV1 is open source and as such will not play on video software on MAC and Windows, nor can FFV1 be utilised within commercially available digitisation hardware and software."
2. True for closed stuff, not true for FOSS:
"Any file format that does not eventually achieve widespread adoption and universal playback within the broadcasting and film-making communities has a higher risk of long term obsolescence and lack of engineering support. "