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  1. 🎉 Behold, the groundbreaking revelation: #Xz is not the Holy Grail of data formats! 🚀 Apparently, using xz for digital preservation is like using a sieve as a bucket—bound to fail. Who knew? 🤦‍♂️ Stick to #bzip2, #gzip, or #lzip if you want actual functionality and avoid sinking your data into the abyss of inadequacy. 🔍💾
    nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate. #dataformats #digitalpreservation #HackerNews #ngated

  2. Shane O’Sullivan: Search Huge JSON files on the Web. “Working with very large JSON files (20MB+) using online tools tends to be a crashy affair. Whether you’re looking to format or search them, all the tools I found just crash. I found myself having to work with huge JSON files recently, so I built a tool specifically optimized for huge JSON files, called Huge JSON Viewer.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/19/shane-osullivan-search-huge-json-files-on-the-web/