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Thomas Adam<a href="https://bsd.network/tags/libucl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libucl</a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/configuration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#configuration</a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formats</a> libucl -- a universal configuration library:<a href="https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl</a>A really interesting project, and a premise which really works for different configurations.This Is BSD-based, and is used in a lot of FreeBSD projects: <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/hikari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hikari</a>. <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/pkg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pkg</a> from <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freebsd</a>, etc.I'm trying to give it some love as it needs it.To that end, I have created the <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/libucl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libucl</a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#irc</a> channel on irc.libera.chatThose of you interested, come by, say "hello".I hope the maintainer(s) of <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/libucl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libucl</a> do likewise. :)

fuumaMorning Fedi! Opinions on the DSD music format? I hear about it from places like this: <a href="https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop</a>But one of my friends say it's a pointless format because you can't really hear the difference, so it's better to get FLAC.<a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/dsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dsd</a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/qobuz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qobuz</a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formats</a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/flac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flac</a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#audio</a>

Frankie ✅Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/02/08/freed-at-last-from-patents-does-anyone-still-care-about-mp3/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/02/08/freed-at-last-from-patents-does-anyone-still-care-about-mp3/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mp3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mp3</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#audio</a>

BørgeWith jpg xl, can you choose how high quality you want to see the image, that is can you serve one file and different people can choose how they want to see it, according to how much data they are willing to download?Could we do the same with video? Could we have just one torrent with one video file, and everyone could choose how much they want to download and still see the whole thing? 4k, 1080p, 720p, etc all in the same file, just choose how much you're willing to download?<a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formats</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/jpgxl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jpgxl</a>

petersuberUpdate. I've had similar experiences with PDFs. Some search committees insist that letters be signed printouts on letterhead stationery scanned into PDFs. Now that I'm semi-retired and do all my work remotely, I explain that I don't have a printer or scanner. Some committees forgive this deficiency. But one didn't, and I had to do some back-and-forth emailing with a supportive colleague to get the letter in the right format. <a href="https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/110718374823742223" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/110718374823742223</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formats</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PDF</a>

petersuberUpdate. I just remembered a related peeve, this time about Microsoft Word. Grown ups with PhDs employed by a major university once asked me to re-submit a letter of recommendation I wrote for a colleague because it wasn't in MS Word. It had to be in Word to be "official" (their word). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190316204410/https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/ErCof6Q6C8K" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20190316204410/https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/ErCof6Q6C8K</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formats</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MSWord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MSWord</a>

petersuber2/ I only post this because the misuse of "PDF" is a pet peeve. Sorry to spell out the obvious. PDF is a file format, not a paywall. It has nothing to do with paywalls. PDFs can be <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a>. A related mistake is to use "the PDF" as a synonym for the version of record, as opposed to some other version, like a preprint or accepted author manuscript. Sorry. Any version can be a PDF, and the version of record can be any file format. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Diction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Diction</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formats</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PDF</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Versions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Versions</a>

petersuber1/ Here's how one journal alerts readers that they've hit a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paywall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paywall</a>:"This paper is only available as a PDF. To read, Please Download here." <a href="https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(24)00249-X/abstract" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(24)00249-X/abstract</a>This is from the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, published by <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>.🧵<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formats</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PDF</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>

petersuberUpdate. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ArXiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArXiv</a> will use a new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NIST</a> tool to make mathematical notation easier to read for users with visual impairments. <a href="https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/01/nist-tool-will-make-math-heavy-research-papers-easier-view-online" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/01/nist-tool-will-make-math-heavy-research-papers-easier-view-online</a>"ArXiv…will begin using the tool to make its papers available in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTML</a>. More than a quarter of the world’s population has a diagnosed vision impairment, and users of assistive technology indicate that <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PDF</a> formatting is their biggest barrier to arXiv use…For years there was no effective way to convert <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaTeX</a> into <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTML</a>."<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/A11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#A11y</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formats</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mathematics</a>

Em-squaredHaving a concerted (ok with lots of tea breaks) attempt to go through stuff. Legacy formats still in boxes. Only one of these I can still access (sshh. It's the minidisc). The floppy disc was for the Amiga. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stuff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stuff</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hi8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hi8</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MiniDisc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MiniDisc</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Amiga</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DVCam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DVCam</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FloppyDisc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FloppyDisc</a>

petersuberFrom the Digital Public Library of America (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DPLA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DPLA</a>, <a href="https://bird.makeup/users/dpla" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dpla</a>): <a href="https://dp.la/news/toward-a-digital-library-ownership-model" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://dp.la/news/toward-a-digital-library-ownership-model</a>"In the model we are developing, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libraries</a> would own [digital <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a>], just as they do with physical books. Libraries would be able to both transfer their books to other libraries and to update books as needed for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#preservation</a> or to adapt to new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formats</a>. Rights holders would retain <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copyright</a> to their works…Lending would be restricted to one reader at a time."<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CDL</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Licensing</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RightsRetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RightsRetention</a>

petersuber<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NISO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NISO</a> just announced a new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/standard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#standard</a> "enabling the combination of arbitrary portions of content, data, semantics, & other resources from separate sources [e.g. articles, books, data sets, metadata schemes] into a single, standards-based format optimized for interchange, search, & display." <a href="https://www.niso.org/publications/z39105-2023-cpld" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.niso.org/publications/z39105-2023-cpld</a>The new standard supports "machine-actionable <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FAIR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FAIR</a> (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) materials." <a href="https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/cpld" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/cpld</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formats</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Publishing</a>

Em-squaredIn my parallel world laser discs for audio would've replaced vinyl (the right form factor but able to contain both digital and analogue audio simultaneously) along with video8 tapes (also able to hold both analogue and digital audio simultaneously). <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#audio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Music</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formats</a>

Aoikurayami<a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/aoisramblings" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aoisramblings</a> noun. noun. /dɪsˈtoʊpiə/ "A place where <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/flac" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flac</a> , <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/ogg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ogg</a> , <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/mp3" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mp3</a> and <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/wav" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wav</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/files" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#files</a> are no longer <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/decodable" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#decodable</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/music" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/formats" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formats</a>"

Paolo MelchiorreI just updated my article "Resize a video with FFmpeg for Mastodon" with new parameters for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FFmpeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FFmpeg</a> to convert a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#video</a> to a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WebM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebM</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/container" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#container</a> using the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VP9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VP9</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/codec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#codec</a> for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#video</a> and the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Opus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Opus</a> codec for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#audio</a> which are all <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/open" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#open</a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/royaltyfree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#royaltyfree</a> and well-supported <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formats</a>.This way you can easily convert very heavy videos before uploading them to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> while remaining within the strict limits.<a href="https://www.paulox.net/2022/11/17/resize-a-video-with-ffmpeg-for-mastodon/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.paulox.net/2022/11/17/resize-a-video-with-ffmpeg-for-mastodon/</a>

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