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Reading Roundup: Persistence / Degradation

Fiction: “The Forest Has No Immediate Plans to Kill You”.

Battle of the Boxes: archivists on different document-packaging mechanisms.

To save a deteriorating data tape, bake it. (Same cause and procedure as brittle PLA?)

Institutional memory and reverse smuggling.

In memory of Mr. TIFF.

The computer wants to lose your data (slide deck); ever fancier ways to lie on durability to meet performance benchmarks.

Referred to from there, logs from fsyncgate.

SQLite’s full text search, via Phil Hagelberg’s personal search engine.

A static site for offline bookmarks, with “offline archive” to be added.

All that said: this is a lot of trouble to go to to save links or later. modernity is stupid.