"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...

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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

Video conferencing apps should have a dedicated AFK button that you can click to say you're temporarily away from the meeting then click again to say you are back in the meeting

"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...

"This blog is about uncontaminated content that I'm terming "Low Background Steel". The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content that occurred in 2022." lowbackgroundsteel.ai

"Restoring Old Software for Child Learning Safety" rietta.com/blog/child-l... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4374...

"DigitalKoans and Digital Scholarship Have Been Published for 20 Years" digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans...

"Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues" www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

"Cliff Lynch RIP" blog.dshr.org/2025/04/clif...

"An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1 In our new 3-part series, we remember the people and ideas that made the Internet." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

"I don’t want to die with a freezer full of seeds. Biodiversity and preservation need rethinking" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

" There’s a new benchmark in town for measuring performance on Windows 95 PCs Did you want to see how fast your ancient computer was? Because now you can! " arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Over at Ars Technica, I wrote about the beauty of 1982 Atari 800 classic Salmon Run and how it serves the perfect metaphor for survival during our troubled times "The timeless genius of a 1980s Atari developer and his swimming salmon masterpiece" arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

"Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data New Spectral JPEG XL compression reduces file sizes, making spectral imaging more practical." arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Job cuts on the way for Department of Corrections and Archives NZ [and National Library], union says www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

"Oops: Google says it might have deleted your Maps Timeline data Google Maps switched to local-only Timeline storage in December." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

“The New Zealand Thesis Project: Connecting a Nation’s Dissertations Using Wikidata” digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans...

"MINISIS Comprehensive Digital Preservation The MINISIS Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) is a comprehensive solution for preserving digital assets" www.soutron.com/products/min...