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foone

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Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

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Someone on tumblr asked why 3.5" floppy disks seem so much more friendly (or "pleasant and edible" to use their terminology) than 5.25" floppy disks, so I wrote about it:

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/750216135935492096/why-do-35-inch-floppy-disks-seem-so-much-more

TL;DR: It's because Sony.

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I can't remember all the details of my dream but I do recall having to troubleshoot the activeX support in my VR headset, so I don't think it was a good dream

molly0xfff, to random
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i...

foone,
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@molly0xfff annoyingly I've written about this before. It's solely because of people who have copies of the blockchain stored on offline/unplugged computers that wouldn't get fried.

But let it be known that if society falls, me and my gang of roving bdsm-core warriors will be finding and smashing every one of those computers.

foone,
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@aburka @molly0xfff yeah. And most crucially, it'd provide a way for people to bring the blockchain back online once technological civilization is restored.

Thus the smashing

foone, to random
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Is anyone planning a Berlin Airlift situation to drop vitally needed hormones and antiandrogens into occupied England?

foone,
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Flying a Cessna Skyhawk low over Stoke-on-Trent and dropping "bibles" like I'm some sort of Christian missionary, but it turns out it's copies of Julia Serano's Whipping Girl, but they've been hollowed out and it's full of estrodiol valerate and cyproterone acetate

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The opportunism of cats. The sheepishness of sheep.

foone,
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@terrygrundy oh hey! I've read this is actually a chemical thing: sheep wool contains lanolin oil, and so does the fur of nursing cats. So cats smell it and are like "why does this big fluffy thing smell like momma?"
You'll sometimes see cats sitting on top of sheep and kneading them, in exactly the way kittens do to encourage milk production!

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I guess he's enjoying VHS Hi-Fi as an audio-only format.

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foone,
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@vwestlife what, isn't this how you watch all your VHS tapes?

foone, to random
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this electrical device is a special sort of terrible: They labeled the polarity of the DC power jack, but not the voltage (or current, for that matter)

foone,
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It's an L7805: so the max voltage is 35v, recommended voltage is about 10v?

foone,
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I shouldn't have to disassemble your device and find the voltage regulator and read the datasheets to know how many volts to give you!

foone,
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gonna assume that just means I can throw whatever I want at it.

97v 19amp, here I come!

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I love when sites have 1.5factor authentication.

You put in your username, and it's like "hey, log in with a code to your phone, or a password!" and my password manager already filled the password, so I just hit continue.

and then it asks me to verify a code it sent to my phone anyway for 2fa

foone,
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so your options are login with phone, or login with password, but verify with phone

clairely_undaunted, to random

lol gender fields in password manager
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112417672862416276

foone,
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@clairely_undaunted I use a separate gender manager, so it can generate unique genders for every site I need to register with

Gammitin, to random
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Trin's back home and she's a beauty! 😍📺

foone,
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@Gammitin lovely!

foone, to random
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Here's a weird question: so Dynix made a text-based library catalog system that used Wyse terminals, and they shipped them with custom keyboards. They had four keys above the numpad: one of these keys was Start Over/New Search.

Does anyone remember having used these terminals, and recall what those other keys were?

foone,
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@SpuriousInterrupt oh that'd be a neat thing! I'd love to see web search results in this style

foone, to random
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Having one of those fun days at work where I have to ask "hey, is the edison cylinder phonograph supposed to be on?"

foone,
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It turns out in 2023 I could have bought a Neil Cicierega phonographix cylinder, but they're now all sold out.

It's okay, I already have that album on 8-track anyway

foone,
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Note to self: figure out how to get Never Gonna Give You Up recorded onto a wax cylinder

foone, to random
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my telco just gave me the option to login to my account with fingerprint or face-id.

totally normal except I'm just using firefox on a laptop. I'm picking that option just to see how it works!

foone,
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ahh, it just routed a notification to my android phone to make me sign in there, with a fingerprint.

then it failed to work on the website. well done, guys

foone, to random
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"2 factor authentication" is an english word meaning "we'll text you a 6 digit number"

foone,
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there are rumors about 2fa possibly involving other things, like authentication apps or biometrics or "you bee keys", whatever those are, but there's no evidence of that ever being real.

it's just a password and a 6 digit number you get texted

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