Notices by vxo (vxo@digipres.club), page 3

@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 I was trying to visualize how the cables would come off it and accidentally loss meme'd myself

@foone you've inspired me with the thought of more cursed form factors

how about Spiral PGA or something with many radial rings of lands that drops into a fingered socket like an RF power tube

@foone I think we need spreadsheets where the cells are on the walls and floor in a game of Hover!

@foone ewww I've had that happen before

@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 want my commodore 128 back thanks

@foone while you're away I'll install Clippy in all your editors
@ryanc

@ryanc okay I'm loving this already and I don't even know what it does yet
https://faultlore.com/cargo-mommy/book/customize/roles-and-pronouns.html
@foone

@foone I remember Norton Desktop coming with one.
@stripey

@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

@foone if they need belts for it or repair, Zin VTR Works is fairly local

@foone if your deck doesn't grok it, mine might.

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

@foone what will be your keyboard's boot time

@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.

i've just come back from a 4 day weekend and have not yet readjusted my standards to not want to scream at things like this

aaaaaaaaaaggghhhhhhhhhh if this were any more backlit I swear it'd just be an old Apple commercial

So I went to the river to shoot this story about beavers and then it was like bleebleebleebleebleep and my background was gone

oh here we go (Flashing lights warning!!!)
https://youtu.be/bdqOIju4lL4

I also hella aged myself with that reference, geez, what was that, like 2000 or so?

https://youtu.be/c72d4-LpilM

There's also a version of this floating around where someone replaced it with clips of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, I think it was part of AMV Hell

https://youtu.be/XJw_ds3cz-M

Oh hell I'm Sakaki, aren't I?