Notices by Mark Gardner (mjgardner@social.sdf.org)

@foone On the one hand, I cannot comprehend the carelessness that would result in that kind of damage.

My other hand, however, failed to hold onto the neoprene sleeve wrapped around my PowerBook G4 when I slipped on a patch of ice during a bitterly cold mid-2000s Pennsylvania winter. My tailbone eventually healed from the fall; the TiBook’s flimsy aluminum hinges did not.

So yeah, stuff happens. Good luck with the repair.

@itsfoss Unfortunately, my #Linux resolutions are HiDPI so they’re kinda janky and experimental

@clairely_undaunted @foone Except the #Commodore Datasette doesn’t work anything like that.

It has a *lot* more error protection and uses multiple square waves and a parity bit instead of alternating analog tones like other systems. It even has a DAC and filters—no audio conversion on the computer necessary. (1/3)

But it’s stupid slow! 50bps, not 300bps! So prerecorded #Commodore 8-bit software bootstraps “turbotape” code to use a faster and compressed, but still digital, format.

Using turbotape, you could hypothetically fit roughly 3 megabytes on your 120-minute #C64 cassette! So #Cyberpunk2077’s #AprilFools 97,619 1.44MB floppies could theoretically span only 43,885 datasettes, plus any code needed to stitch the split code together. (2/3)

Honestly, I don’t know why @foone even bothers with floppies. (3/3)

@foone How about cassette?

This seems like something @foone would like: https://duckeys.com 🐥⌨️

I love that “too tired to care” edged out “insecure” to win @april’s poll
#curl #shell #InfoSec #security https://macaw.social/@april/111222117706035798

@feditips Or maybe general-purpose #fediverse platforms like #Mastodon (or third party clients) could introduce features to better manage following non-#microblogging sources

@jaredwhite

@swaggboi @masstransitkrow Research librarian as reply guy. I’ll take it.

@masstransitkrow @swaggboi “Mammoth [🦣] was approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.0 in 2020.” https://emojipedia.org/mammoth/

@aral Sorry, can’t get on board the “#capitalism is evil” train. I know where it stops.

@aral I get what you’re saying in the article about how individual servers are the endgame, and I’m onboard with that personally both via #ActiviryPub and #IndieWeb. But we have to cross the distance to there for non-geeks and people who can’t afford celebrity geek concierges.

@aral I’m kinda hoping for a little bit of #BigTech investment because actual #Mastodon server and network scaling is kinda terrible. Some folks with better distributed systems experience and a commitment to gradual uplift would be really appreciated.

@aral They didn’t ask themselves from 2016-2020, why would they start now?