Links for August 2017

2017-08-31 (updated 2017-09-19)

• Apple's Adoption Of HEVC Will Drive A Massive Increase In Encoding Costs Requiring Cloud Hardware Acceleration - Slashdot
• Argh-P-M! – Dissecting the RPM file format – Stefan's Blog
• Emoji is the new universal language. And it’s making us better communicators. | Vyv Evans | Pulse | LinkedIn
• Examining a vintage RAM chip, I find a counterfeit with an entirely different die inside
• GitHub - svg/svgo: Nodejs-based tool for optimizing SVG vector graphics files
• How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made | The New Yorker
• I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked - Slashdot
• IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge | Ars Technica UK
• Online Font Converter
• Online WebP Converter
• Preserving electronics: vermin, leaky batteries, melting rubber, brittle plastics, dribbly capacitors, fungus and dust / Boing Boing
• Project 54/74 - 54xx/74xx-series logic chips and subfamilies
• SVG can do THAT?! by sdrasner
• The HERE IS key | Dave Cheney
• This 70-Year-Old Programmer Is Preserving an Ancient Coding Language on GitHub - Motherboard
• ripienaar/rotrep: A tool to capture and report on file checksums with an aim to report bit rot
• ✿ Our favorite set — CopyPasteCharacter.com

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