Hot take on digital sovereignty of #fileformats #digipres "A license tells you who owns the software, while the format tells you who owns the data", "Digital sovereignty is not achieved by changing who hosts the software, but by changing the format in which data is encoded." https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/02/document-formats-a-mystery-to-many/
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hometown 4.6.9+hometown-1.3.0Rambles about Mac’s and file formats.
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Your daily reminder to keep #floppydisks out of toasters. #digipres #beaglebros
Making stickers! #digipres #floppydisk #crocodile #beaglebros
Join me for a reflection on a file format identification workshop we presented at @ipres2025@digipres.club. https://opf.sh/WP681z
#fileformat Friday! Be Dead! Exploring Now Contact software. #digipres #macintosh https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2026/04/24/be-dead/
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@leninoc@digipres.club @britpunk80@digipres.club the resource we created for the file format workshop! #ipres2025 https://ffdev-info.github.io/searching-for-a-signature/
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@anj@digipres.club @bitsgalore@digipres.club @makethecatwise@digipres.club similar results to Johan. I was surprised how many support 720k disks, but found the older stock to work best. Newer stock did the worst. There is also OS limitations to functionality. More in our iPres paper!
Here is an interesting CD-ROM from 1991. First version of Microsoft Works for Windows in the High Sierra format. Also mixed mode with an audio track. #digipres https://archive.org/details/microsoft-works-multimedia-edition
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@mickylindlar@digipres.club You used the diamond quote didn't you. Yes, there should be some movies required to be seen if you want to work with me.
#fileformat Friday! This that time of year! Everyone's favorite topic, Taxes! #digipres https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2026/04/03/turbotax/
I am having a yearlong battle with Google Fiber advertisements. The city I live in does not use Google Fiber, the the city I work in does. I have block, reported, deleted, all ads in my gmail account for years to no avail. I get the impression, they don't care.
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@linguistory I played with this briefly while working on identification patterns. https://github.com/evanmiller/fmptools
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@bitarchivist Oh, this is excellent. I like the idea of risk profiles to help guide the review process. I have found using tools to identify PII is crucial, but can be very limited. I use the example of a scan of a social security card vs being in text form. It really does take a careful review, but tools can help us make it manageable!
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@bishbashbackup @beet_keeper Many folks will use the EWF format as it is available with the Bitcurator environment. It provides compression and metadata support. https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000406.shtml
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@bitsgalore I did some Grok testing as well awhile back and liked it. I used the Kakadu library for a bit, but was confused by the licensing. I guess you would need one in order to use these scripts?
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@despens maybe this is where we got burning CDs from. Why Roxio named their product Toast?
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@bitsgalore @bishbashbackup @beet_keeper They can be difficult to work with, but for Preservation they are helpful. Using the libewf in Preservation and Emulation can improve usability.
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@anj@digipres.club @bitsgalore@digipres.club @makethecatwise@digipres.club and I were just talking about this the other day. I tested a bunch of USB drives recently to get an idea of how many supported DD disks.