@foone I seem to remember a performance-art bit in the floppy disk era which was a single-user experience (a hypertext book, IIRC) that deleted itself after viewing, and was never put online. This reminded me of it but I cannot remember what it was called. Fitting, perhaps.
@foone You can also imagine this inadvertently becoming the only record of some work, in some distant future.
Alien archaeologists: "Our records show that in the late days of human civilization, before the Antimatter Wars of the 2050s, the works of a bard named 'Tolkien' were popular. But after the Great Copyright Enforcement Purge of the libraries, then the war, all we have are excerpts, ritualistic graphics called 'memes' and one language model that produces in-universe erotic literature."
Bad idea: you know how sometimes people have a "me but a bot" account? Where they've trained a gpt3 bot on their original posts, and have it regularly generate a fake post by them?
Why stop there? Train another bot on the first bot account's output. And another.
See how many bot accounts it takes until foonebot7 is just posting "floppy floppy floppy floppy floppy floppy" 24/7
I was copying a Totally Legal Game Backup onto my roommate's switch and it confused Windows so much that it told me I had the wrong floppy diskette in the drive.
gah. I'm having continual trouble with a modded switch, because you need a microSD card which you copy files onto and they keep getting corrupted.
I corrupted my first SD card by trying to copy a game that was too big and the fat filesystem filling with lost sectors, so I wiped it and started setting it up again. My idea was that I'd set it up and then image the whole SD card!
@falken@DrGravitas@foone This is a comment section, not your audience🗿
I'm also on a Mastodon server, safe to assume I don't know anything about computers, despite the domain name.
I wonder if you could clone a FlashPath floppy disk emulator but as a PCB.
Youd need a hole in the middle for the spindle, but if you could keep the height down and do some magnetic coils at the right place, it could work?
With all the different microcontroller platforms out there, it's sometimes annoying because there's a solution that does exactly what you want but it's targeting some weird architecture that isn't what you use, or has suddenly become hard to find.
I think it's about time we organize all our open source microcontroller-based firmware around a simple, widely available, and powerful architecture, for consistency and interoperability.
@DoodlestheGreat@pseudonym@foone You might be interested in my new app Rabbon™️ - Whatever you need, wherever you need, whenever you need it, delivered by rabid gibbons.
I'm disappointed in how hacking works in real life. I'd played enough video games to have an idea how it would go, but I've been hacking games and hardware for like a decade now and not even once have I had to solve a pipe maze puzzle
Gonna hook up a bot to my mastodon account that just periodically searches for people referring to me in the past tense or passing around obituaries.
It'll just reply "I'm not dead!" to those posts.
It won't get a lot of use now, but I predict it'll be pretty funny someday, in the (hopefully far) future