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anomalocarididae

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Your (non)local cybersecurity major, the cyborg raccoon. :transgender_flag: :pansexual_flag:
I block minors. I am not an NSFW account. I simply make adult jokes sometimes that I don't want minors looking at.

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anomalocarididae, to random
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Transgender women be like:

We built this titty
We built this titty
We built this titty from es-tro-gen

anomalocarididae, to random
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https://modrinth.com/mod/blahaj

Dude I just. Lookie. Blahaj mod

anomalocarididae, to random
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Fun computer fact: Computers store information in what are called clusters. It's like a chain of buckets - when a new file is saved, the computer dumps its data into one bucket (cluster). If it doesn't fit in the bucket, the extra data is put in another bucket. And so on if it doesn't all fit in that one.

There's a little issue here, however. When a file (or the last segment of a file) doesn't fill a cluster completely, the space it doesn't fill becomes useless. The computer won't use it for another file.

Different file systems have different sizes of clusters - clusters are a logical thing, not a physical thing like sectors. Clusters have their sizes measured in bytes.

FAT16 had huge cluster sizes, meaning that a lot of files couldn't fill them up properly. This resulted in hard disks filling up on the logical side. On the physical side, there was plenty of space!

So when people switched from FAT16 to FAT32, they found their drives had a lot more free space.

anomalocarididae,
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Less fun fact: Older Windows versions put completely unencrypted copies of RAM in the empty spaces at the end of clusters because it didn't like them unfilled.

This is, predictably, a security no-no.

anomalocarididae,
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Also, today I learned that ARM processors used to not like virtualization very much.

anomalocarididae,
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Professor: Do not use Balena Etcher for my assignments! It is bad, and it will eat your firstborn child!

Professor: Here's an assignment where you have to make a bootable USB stick with Kali Linux on it because it won't boot into forensics mode as a virtual machine.

Me, who made a Kali bootable USB with Balena Etcher back in late 2022 because I thought "oh hey, maybe this'll be useful later": Do I say "my time has come" or do I do more research into why Balena Etcher is bad

jupiter_rowland, to random

Since the BridgyFed drama, there might be four more reasons for Mastodon users to want Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) out of the Fediverse. I mean, aside from their usual atrocities like their users writing well over 500 characters, using text formatting, quoting and quote-posting like it's totally normal. Because it is for them. And aside from no instance on any of the three having rules and moderator numbers on par with Mastodon.

One, they aren't based on ActivityPub. They're technically bridged to Mastodon. They're bridged one instance at the time, and the bridge is a plug-in on the instance and therefore part of the project. But still, it isn't that much different from BridgyFed connecting Bluesky to the rest of the Fediverse.

Two, since they aren't based on ActivityPub, they're aliens. Aliens of basically the same kind as Bluesky, only that they've mostly got those features that Mastodon has that Bluesky doesn't. But the BridgyFed drama isn't about Bluesky's features or lack thereof, and it isn't only about Bluesky being commercial either. It's also about Bluesky being too different in technology, functionality and culture. But let me tell you a secret: Bluesky is probably much closer to Mastodon than Hubzilla. I mean, I've already mentioned how Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) users "misbehave" from a Mastodon point of view. You won't see any of this come from Bluesky anytime soon.

Three, Friendica is already fully federated with Bluesky. It's a feature that was introduced with the latest stable release.

Four, speaking of Friendica, that allegedly "hate-fuelling" Fediverse News is a public group account on Friendica. Only that the user who started that particular thread is on Firefish, and Fediverse News only automatically forwarded what he had posted.

So where's the outrage?

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #BridgyFed #Bluesky #Bridge #BlueskyBridge

anomalocarididae,
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@mikedev @jupiter_rowland
Thank you for the information and insight. =)

anomalocarididae, to random
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I have fully consumed four of the seven bottles of hot sauce I got for Christmas. It is February 5.

The last two contain habaneros and ghost peppers, so hopefully they'll last longer...

rolle, (edited ) to fediverse
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Why do you like Mastodon (or any open source Fediverse app of your choosing) the most? (You can choose multiple choices)

Boosts appreciated for reach.

anomalocarididae,
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@rolle Moderated way better, open source too

RickiTarr, to random
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One of my friends pointed out that Bible stories sound exactly like Florida Man Headlines!

Example:

Florida Man Starts Building Ark, Says God Is Going Flood The Whole Earth

PLEASE, add your own Florida Man Bible Headlines for everyone's amusement!

anomalocarididae,
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@RickiTarr Florida Man Curses Fig Tree For Not Giving Him Figs

anomalocarididae,
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@RickiTarr Florida Man Claims To Have Been Eaten By Whale

anomalocarididae, to random
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Babe wake up new text just dropped

arch, to random
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Morning fedi

anomalocarididae,
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@arch It's 4am

cloudguy, to random

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    anomalocarididae,
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    @cloudguy What desktop environment is that? I can't really tell and I have a Mint install I'd like to try that out on.

    anomalocarididae,
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    @cloudguy Oh wait, I forgot, isn't that the game whose playerbase kept leaking classified military documents on the forums to win arguments?

    anomalocarididae,
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    @cloudguy Thanks! Next time I open up the ol' Mint laptop, I'll look into that. =D

    anomalocarididae,
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    @cloudguy Pretty sure the devs had to beg the players to stop doing that. XD

    anomalocarididae,
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    @cloudguy TBH, I just use Firefox. But a radio player and printer drivers sounds like a good idea.

    I can't explain just how weirdly difficult it is to connect to the printers in my house sometimes. I've not tried to print from the Mint install yet.

    anomalocarididae,
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    @cloudguy Thanks for the advice. Mint's a joy to use on the laptop I put it on.

    Hmmmm, now you've got my mind on drivers. I wonder if graphics tablet drivers exist for Linux that'll work for the make and model I own - one quick lookup says people on the Ubuntu forums have tried making official drivers run on Linux w/ workarounds.

    anomalocarididae,
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    @cloudguy I'll have a look.

    anomalocarididae,
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    @cloudguy Unfortunately, I use a Huion. There's no Huion drivers in Software Manager. :blobfoxmelt3:

    Eh, at least I know that the old wired tablet (replaced under mildly amusing circumstances) will work without drivers, but also without the buttons or pen pressure.

    anomalocarididae,
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    @cloudguy I didn't think to look and see if they had a native driver. Thank you. I feel a bit foolish.

    anomalocarididae, to Breakcore
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    Anyone got some recommendations that I could listen to while studying? I have designated it as my "listen to while studying" genre.

    anomalocarididae, to random
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    People are handing out cans of beans at furry cons?

    anomalocarididae,
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    @arch Oh no.

    anomalocarididae,
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    @arch I've never been to a furry con ever I am afraid

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