@foone yeah I gave this some thought-- like there's a Wordpress plugin I use on my site that adds a bunch of specific "User-agent: ai-hooverbot-v69 Disallow: /" to robots.txt, which at least keeps the well behaved training crawlers from beating it to death.
Of course I have seen evidence of non well behaving ones still coming through as well as desirable things like search spiders and archive bots. I don't want to block those inadvertently or create any user annoyance
@foone way back when I was trying to fix a first generation Harris Broadcast HD radio exporter and found a bunch of rather revealing .bash_history and home directory entries. I found it pretty hilarious. Rushed to market? Neeeeeverrrrr
@foone I need to get some of the dodgy mid 2000s floppies just so I can carry them around in my pocket and do that dramatic floppy wield as seen in Hackers
What made me think I'm the only one around here who has their own U-Matic? I kinda wish mine could record too though, I'd put video through it for aesthetic degradation
@timixretroplays this reminds me of a goofy thing I did once when somewhat deliriously exhausted and trying to revive an FM broadcast exciter. The old Harris Flexstar had a front panel USB port for saving the config and maybe also loading firmware - I forget. Anyway it only reliably worked with the original purple Lexar Jumpdrive, of which we had one or maybe two. I had a lobster claw clasp attached to it so I could hang it from the rack handles but suddenly it vanished!
@timixretroplays I was looking all over the place for the dumb thing and absolutely dreading having to fight with it instead of being able to just restore a known good state when I decided it was absolutely time for a break from all that.
I left and went to Denny's. The restroom mirror there answered all:
I had clipped the Jumpdrive to my collar and immediately forgotten about it.
There's something to be said about proper backup practices here, and whatever it is, it is very silly.