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"New File Format Research and Documentation on the Sustainability of Digital Formats" | The Signal https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/06/new-file-format-research/

Slowly but steadily I clean up the mess I made in my notes when I moved to Obsidian from #orgmode and back again.
In addition I’m renaming the notes to #denote format and clean out some old stuff.
Today I looked through a file full of links and migrated them into Nextcloud Bookmarks…

The Iris File Extension
Ryan Erik Landvater, Michael David Olp, Mustafa Yousif, Ulysses Balis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10009 https://

The Iris File Extension
A modern digital pathology vendor-agnostic binary slide format specifically targeting the unmet need of efficient real-time transfer and display has not yet been established. Growing adoption of digital pathology only intensifies the need for an intermediary digital slide format with an emphasis on performance for use between slide servers and image management software or for inter-institutional transmission of cases. Although the DICOM standard is a well-established format widely used for long…

Today I stumbled on a file in a very weird encoding: it uses 'c9 75' for ü or 'c9 41' for Ä (so 'c9' puts ◌̈ on u or A). Anybody got any idea what encoding this is and how to convert it to UTF-8 without having to fiddle with bytes myself? It was in a MAB2 file (which is an old German bibliographic data exchange format). @…?

today's "I can't believe I wasted half a hour on this" computer issue: whether Wireshark validates the Ethernet checksum in packets depends on the capture format you're using
.snoop: nope, and ignores all settings including "always check FCS"
.pcap: yep
saving a .snoop file as a .pcap file makes it immediately check all FCS

This thread is a goldmine of technical arcana. Andiamo would never mislead… https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114622441513185735

Every time I convert one of my PNG images to WebP format I'm kinda blown away by how small the file becomes.

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I just lost a days worth of work because I had the audacity to include an equation in MS Word. Somehow that corrupted the docx file. I guess it happens when word tried to translate latex style markup to whatever jank it uses under the hood to format equations.
Unbelievably frustrating but also sort of fascinating. In my lifetime I’ve watched word descend from the obvious best choice for writing on a computer to a pile of laggy jank that just isn’t as useful as other options. Or maybe …