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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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javascript testing frameworks make me think computers were a mistake

foone,
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I can't mock the query because it's a method on a class instance, and the mocking library doesn't work right with ES2016 classes. I can't replace the require because it's using the new ECMAScript modules and not common.js require(). I can't mock the HTTP requests because it's not being done with the older http.request but with fetch, which as of node v18 is now native and not backed by a http.request polyfill

foone,
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this is a fractal annoyance

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Wow, this disk got Special Fucked.
I'm not even sure what happened here. Maybe rewrite half of it on a drive with a faulty index sensor?

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Something that absolutely existed but doesn't seem like it should:

Windows 95 device drivers for a DVD drive

foone,
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@Stormgren Yep! this seems to be the drivers for that card.

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I just imaged a floppy disk, only to discover it contained one file
an image of a (smaller) floppy disk

foone, to random
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I'm at work and running out of floppies. Why does this always happen to me?

foone,
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The only 3.5" disk I at at work had no logo on the shutter so I tried to laser-engrave one, but the inconsistent line thickness on my SVG made it come out kinda terrible. I don't have another disk (of the right size) on hand to try again, so it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

foone,
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I did the back of my ONE FLOPPY and it turns out doing dense engraving run (instead of score) using filled polygons looks pretty damn good.

image/jpeg

foone,
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There we go. Finally got a 5.25" floppy disk etched onto a 3.5" floppy disk

foone,
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I don't know why the quality of these images vary so badly. It could be related to bad autofocusing or maybe there's material differences between these two metal shutters?

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the thing with the .zip controversy is that it probably wouldn't be too hard to get a list of registered domains and do HTTP requests that look like they're coming from gmail and the like, looking for anyone misusing it for spam.

but do I really want to get into the security field? I have tried so hard to avoid it.

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.mov too, of course.

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although I guess there's always a way around this that the .zip scammers could use:

filename .photos .zip

We can't enumerate the subdomains, and they could always set up their script to only reply on the correct subdomain

foone,
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this seems like the kind of thing that should be done inside, like, gmail security (and the security of every other messaging platform that autolinks, for that matter), but given that google created this problem in the first place, they may feel slightly hypocritical in trying to fix it.

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@gsuberland yeah, exactly. I have the skills to do it, but it's very much not what I want to do with my life, ever

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This code to load the types from the bytecode is pretty simple.

Step one: read all types that aren’t type 2 or 3
Step two: read all types that are type 2 or 3
Step three: read all types that are type 1
Step four: read all types that are type 2, and separately, all types that are type 3

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if I ever get to talk to the people who programmed this, my first question is going to be what flavor of drugs they were on when they wrote it.
second question, obviously, will be "and where can I get some?"

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On my way home from office i saw a random old computer on the curb

foone,
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@kiwa this machine needs more floppy drives

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So at this week's electronics fair, I found a weird VR headset prototype. No names on it, and it says "prototype/not for resale". I took it apart to figure out who made it, and completely failed. It's weeeird:

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/717333209614090240/

foone,
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Also it has this on the front. No one can figure out what this says, or even if it's actually supposed to be test. The best suggestion I've seen is that it's designed for computer vision identification, not stylized text.

foone,
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@Rairii haven't figured out how yet, but I'm gonna try if I can.

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@gsuberland Nah. USB seems to be data-only.

foone,
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@gsuberland err, power-only

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Perhaps it's ONECRYSTAL upside down?
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