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foone

@foone@digipres.club

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

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foone, to random
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So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.

There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know?

So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order!
It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.

mcc, to random
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In the future, the only way to escape execution by the Microsoft killbots will be to legally change your name to be longer than 256 characters, thus rendering you invisible to their AI https://helvede.net/@jwcph/112485841825022134

foone,
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@mcc jokes on them, my name is fractal and of infinite length.
Foone B. Turing
The B stands for "Benoit B. Mandelbrot" and so on.

DotMaetrix, to random
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My uncle who works at Nintendo is now my aunt who works at Nintendo and she wrote paper mario and that's why it's good now

foone,
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@DotMaetrix thank her for her service

h3, to random
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@foone what do you think of this: https://youtu.be/pJ-25-pRhpY

foone,
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@h3 I can't watch the video yet but the thumbnail is very promising!

foone,
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@h3 I've seen it now. It's pretty great!

foone, to random
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Someone needs to make a version of doom that works like those 1960s flight simulators that NASA used, where it's a physical model and the controls are just driving a video camera around it

foone,
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Someone needs to 3D print a copy of E1M1

foone,
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@rasteri nice idea

foone, to random
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So when I see a floppy disk anywhere my natural instinct is "ooh, I should image that and upload it to the internet archive!"
Which is a drive (no pun intended) that has served me well: I've imaged a lot of floppy disks.

Recently it has started betraying me, however. See, I've been doing a temp job where I digitize microfiche for the internet archive.

So now most of the time when I go "hey I should image that disk and put it on the archive", it's already IN the internet archive. Physically!

foone,
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And if it's ALREADY IN THE BUILDING, they probably imaged it long ago, or it's in a pile of "disks we need to image" and someone else will be imaging it shortly.

So my instincts are useless in this situation!

foone,
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@puck working on it

nanochess, to retrogaming
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I don't want to disappoint the 3 Body Problem series fans, but in episode 4 where an old IBM PC shows alien messages, the screen resolution is wrong and outside of the capabilities of the CGA and Hercules video cards available in 1984. #DOS #IBMPC

foone,
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@nanochess series ruined for me!

foone,
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@nanochess what about the PGC? That came out in 1984, and could do 256 colors at 640x480?

foone,
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@3rz @nanochess honestly if I could get all my scifi on 4:3 sources, I would. VHS, Laserdisc, and over the air NTSC, please!

misty, to random
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Every Linux and macOS shell script programmer is a retrocomputing practitioner because shell script has been forbidden from changing for 40 years

foone,
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@misty I once had to maintain a single shell script that needed to run on Ubuntu Linux, a commercial embedded Linux, Solaris, SunOS (yes, both), AIX, and HP-UX.

The same script. No changes between OSes.

I have SCARS

whitequark, to random
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i want something like Microsoft's Recall thing and will probably eventually build it for myself, using different tech

foone,
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@whitequark @timotimo I had a friend who did this back in the late 2000s.
It archived every HTTP request he did. It was pretty neat, but sadly I don't think he ever released it.

It also meant if I figured out the right search terms on his anime girls site, I'd get pictures downloaded from his banking site

foone,
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@whitequark yeah. This is a perfectly fine assistive technology that would help a lot of people (like me), it's just that it should be something you can audit and you decide to turn on, after knowing the risks.

terinjokes, to random
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Does anyone have copies of the Information Age Floppy-ROMs? The audio doesn't seem to be online, at least by my searches of the Internet Archive, and I'd like to explore (and archive them, if necessary). /cc @foone

foone,
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@terinjokes I've got at least one of them. I can work on getting it digitized

jwz, to random
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Is there any recourse -- besides bolt cutters -- to these scooter companies coming by in their truck and locking their commercial product to every slot in every bike rack so that nobody with a bike can use the rack at all?

Is there anyone at the city who will do something about these assholes?

foone,
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@glyph @jwz clearly the local waters have been insufficiently scootered

tef, to random
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i know i'm showing my age but every time i see "AI features added!" i mentally interpret it as "Bonzi Buddy 2.0™"

foone,
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@tef yep.
I've got bonzi buddy installed on one of my VMs, I keep meaning to plug it into chatgpt to make some kind of point.

foone, to random
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when is GCC gonna have support for shock collars?
it might help to shock the programmer whenever the compile fails

foone,
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@realtime that's one way to try and get the record!

foone,
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@JLab8 you can use pyflakes for that. It does a syntax check without executing anything

foone,
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@TheColourOfFear it usually does, but only as an optimization for if it has to import that module again. It doesn't do it for the main program, and it can be turned off with no side effects other than it eunningly a little slower

foone,
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@vxo @gooba42 nice

foone,
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@ppxl it'd either get people to stop writing C, or it'd get them to write better C.

Seems like we win either way.

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