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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 07:03:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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   • Charlie Stross

   @cstross I've done that in the last decade! On windows!

   I was trying to do a log of CPU instructions run by an emulated CPU but the speed of writing the log was the main bottleneck. So I bought another m.2 drive and set up the VM to use it directly, then logged CPU instructions to it.
   Then my system froze, and it turned out I accidentally targeted my C:, not the new drive, so I overwrote my windows install with logs

   • Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 07:03:35 JST Charlie Stross

     I love this!

     "One day, Linus accidentally attempted to use his hard drive to dial the university, resulting in his master boot sector starting with "ATDT" and the university modem-pool phone number. After recovering from this, he implemented file permissions in his kernel."
     https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/