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RodolfoRGI'm wondering if there is a image file format that allows to embed translated text. Useful for a lot of stuff, including comics.<a href="https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@davidrevoy</a> do you know any?<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/i18n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#i18n</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FileFormats</a>

Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:Hilarious <a href="https://graz.social/tags/SMBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SMBC</a> on the <a href="https://graz.social/tags/plural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plural</a> of <a href="https://graz.social/tags/files" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#files</a>: <a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/plural-2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/plural-2</a><a href="https://graz.social/tags/fun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fun</a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/file" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#file</a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/fileformats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fileformats</a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/PIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PIM</a>

ComradeVlastLooking for some more advanced techies to help me out here. I was browsing the files of old abandonware (as one does) and came across the .zym file format in a game called Gubble 2. Does anyone have any idea what this file format is? Is it something proprietary by the gubble devs? Something that just isn't used anymore? The only thing google brought up regarding .zym was some mods for quake.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techquestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techquestions</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fileformats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fileformats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abandonware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#abandonware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#windows98</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oldtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oldtech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

jonny (good kind)literally who hurt genomics to make you all encode one specific kind of number as the ASCII characters from ! to ~ as an integer input to some logarithm function, but then others of you changed the function but kept encoding it as a single ASCII character ranging from -5 to 62 (???), and then later they decided that -5 to 62 was silly and so they changed that to 0-62 and throwing away half the original range for no reason, except actually it's 0-40 by convention.did anyone consider "encoding it as a number"<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1137" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1137</a><a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/DataStandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataStandards</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FileFormats</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Genomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genomics</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@matt303" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@matt303</a> Get-Help Convert-FromCsvYou know that it makes sense.Or man -S 1 mlr(-:<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PowerShell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PowerShell</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Miller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Miller</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FileFormats</a>

Teknikal_DomainToday's cursed fact: <a href="https://mastodon.tekdmn.me/tags/Erlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Erlang</a> BEAM files, WAV files, and AVI video files, are the same type of file...I'm, not joking. They're all the same basic file format.<a href="https://mastodon.tekdmn.me/tags/funFact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#funFact</a> <a href="https://mastodon.tekdmn.me/tags/funFacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#funFacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.tekdmn.me/tags/cursedFacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cursedFacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.tekdmn.me/tags/fileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fileFormats</a>

petersuberUpdate. Again this year <a href="https://bird.makeup/users/librarycongress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@librarycongress</a> recommends <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/XML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#XML</a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EPUB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPUB</a> over <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PDF</a>. (Scroll to I.ii.B.) <a href="https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/text.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/text.html</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FileFormats</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formats</a>

Thorsted<a href="https://digipres.club/tags/fileformats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fileformats</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#digipres</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/moviemagic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#moviemagic</a>

Jeanne (spellboundblog)I love the clarity of this list of the 7 sustainability factors used by the US Library of Congress as global/community criteria for determining recommended file formats for preservation and long-term access: * Disclosure * Adoption * Transparency * Self-documentation * External dependencies * Impact of patents * Technical protection mechanismsMore info here: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/sustain/sustain.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/sustain/sustain.shtml</a><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalPreservation</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/SoftwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwarePreservation</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FileFormats</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Archives</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Preservation</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/LoC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoC</a>

CegorachI still don't get why <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/bandcamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bandcamp</a> gives me ~8 different <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#audio</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FileFormats</a>?there"s 128kbit/s MP3 (I get that one, wouldn't choose it)then 320kbit/s MP3 (if you ONLY can play MP3? maybe)2 decent losless formats (if space isn't relevant, that's nice)and then a whole bunch of shitOgg? there's some Vorbis, with near-128kbit/s-MP3-quality? (but even smaller) No Opus, no better quality.AAC? WAV? WHY!So if I want something decent, then I'd get FLAC and convert… but then why give me choice?

petersuberVery glad to see the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/arXiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#arXiv</a> steps toward <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#accessibility</a> (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#a11y</a>). These include "offering well-formatted <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTML</a>, alongside <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PDF</a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TeX</a> source." <a href="https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/01/19/access-is-not-the-same-as-accessibility-a-framework-for-making-research-papers-truly-open/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/01/19/access-is-not-the-same-as-accessibility-a-framework-for-making-research-papers-truly-open/</a>PS: There are 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 reasons to offer well-formatted HTML alongside PDF, or to stop PDF-only publishing. Accessibility is first, followed closely by making work friendly to mobile users, users with low bandwidth, and users who need to text-mine, cut/paste, or use machine translation.<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formats</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FileFormats</a>

Doc Edward Morbius ⭕On Paperwork vs. Digital Formatstired: Our customer's paperwork is profit. Our own paperwork is loss.[1] wired: Your proprietay data format is loss. Our proprietary data format is profit.I'd remembered the first aphorism from a long-ago collection of Murphy's Laws.Thinking through my struggles at organising online and digital media, references, etc., I realised that a huge problem is that these formats don't serve my goals. They're designed far more around their authors' goals, or even more often, the publishers' goals, largely around advertising, marketing, tracking, building lock-in, creating and defending monopolies, and the like.Digital formats that are in the end-user's interest and specification serve the user. Those that are in the publisher's specification serve the publisher.A related thought is that a key affordance of printed periodicals (newspapers, magazines, journals) is that of garbage collection, to put a contemporary spin on it.When you're done reading a newspaper or magazine, you pick up the whole lot and throw it out. There's an intermediate level of organisation other than "the article" and "the whole collection" (that is, everything published in your office or home), "the issue". (Or perhaps a box or shelf of archived media.) That is, _there are multiple naturally-occurring levels of aggregation.)When you're trying to sort through a set of browser tabs, you generally have only two levels of aggregation: the individual tab, or the entire session. There are typically no intermediate levels, and sorting through what you want to keep (or re-read, or work with) means you've got to go through the set one at a time and resolve disposition. The data format serves the browser vendor, but not the user.Tools such as Tree-Style Tabs, an absolutely essential Firefox extension, give a higher level of natural organisation, the tab tree. Here, a structure emerges, without user effort, of related content. At the top of the tree is whatever page began an exploration, and as you descend it, you go further down into the search. When cleaning up, it's possible to pick any given tab, branch, or whole tree, and close it out in one fell swoop. Garbage collection costs are reduced.(Three guesses as to what I've been attempting to do, and the first two don't count.)<a href="https://toot.cat/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/paperwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paperwork</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DigitalMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalMedia</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DigitalFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalFormats</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FileFormats</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DataFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFormats</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/kfc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kfc</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/docfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#docfs</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/UserCentricDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UserCentricDesign</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/TreeStyleTabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TreeStyleTabs</a>

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