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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:10:42 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   new module idea: PAM-floppy-OTP

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:11:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     you can log into your computer by inserting a floppy disk containing a one time pad.

     yeah that OTP means "one time pad" not "one true pairing"
     I'm not saying you can log into a computer by using a floppy disk full of kirk/spock slash. although... maybe that'd be a better idea

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:14:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Hugo Mills

     @darkling sadly I don't have one of those that's USB and plugged into my work laptop

   • Hugo Mills (darkling@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:14:49 JST Hugo Mills

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     @foone I'm assuming that's a single-sided 8" floppy.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:16:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     one minor downside is that it takes about a minute to read an entire 1.44mb floppy disk. that's long while to login

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:22:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     now here's the question: can I fill a floppy disk with just kirk/spock slash? plain text!

     that's a silly question. of course I can. we trekkies have been writing that shit for 57 years and a month, more or less.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:23:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     ao3 alone has 16,754 kirk/spock fics. they only need to be 90 bytes long each to make up a full megabyte

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:24:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     if I had more time I'd pull the lengths of all those fics and figure out how many floppies I'd need to store it all

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:39:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     fun fact:
     star trek went off air 2 years before the first floppy hit the market

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:40:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this means there's kirk/spock fic that predates the floppy disk

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:41:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     probably, at least.
     the first known K/S fic is from 1974, at which point floppy disks were already out.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:42:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     but there are probably K/S fics that predate that which are lost to time.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:48:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Thomas Lumley

     @tslumley good question. I really doubt it can be. text doesn't compress THAT much

   • Thomas Lumley (tslumley@fediscience.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:48:48 JST Thomas Lumley

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     @foone more interesting question: can you still fill a floppy with them *after compression*? How high is their entropy?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:57:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs this is why the tech in the original series is so different than expected. star trek is a terrible alternate universe where floppy disks were never invented

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 08:57:01 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     @foone well, obviously they stored it on duotronic cartridges