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foone

@foone@digipres.club

Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

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foone , an Random Englisch
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Personally I only use the most legitimate of software.

Archivist ,
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@foone you only use software that can go buy himself a gallon of vodka if it damn want to

screw_dog ,
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@foone oh god I remember having a cracked version of that! But like, the crack required a loop-back plug in the parallel port so I had to wire one up to get it to work

foone , an Random Englisch
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I can't remember all the details of my dream but I do recall having to troubleshoot the activeX support in my VR headset, so I don't think it was a good dream

scottmichaud ,
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@foone Wouldn't that be ActiveXR at that point?

ShinyBlueThing ,
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@foone Do you ever have dreams where it feels like you're working stage and sound/tech on someone else's dream?

foone , an Random Englisch
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Someone on tumblr asked why 3.5" floppy disks seem so much more friendly (or "pleasant and edible" to use their terminology) than 5.25" floppy disks, so I wrote about it:

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/750216135935492096/why-do-35-inch-floppy-disks-seem-so-much-more

TL;DR: It's because Sony.

elithebearded ,
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@foone So what I am getting from this and other conversations is Sony is great for hardware but terrible at licensing / access rules for games / entertainment content

1000millimeter ,
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@foone edible???

foone , an Random Englisch
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this electrical device is a special sort of terrible: They labeled the polarity of the DC power jack, but not the voltage (or current, for that matter)

bytex64 ,
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@foone Surely you will not regret 97v 19amp.

gooba42 ,
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@foone Plug that sucker into a variable power supply and turn the knobs until it either works or explodes!

foone , an Random Englisch
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I love when sites have 1.5factor authentication.

You put in your username, and it's like "hey, log in with a code to your phone, or a password!" and my password manager already filled the password, so I just hit continue.

and then it asks me to verify a code it sent to my phone anyway for 2fa

kithrup ,
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@foone On a Mac, if you log in to your Apple ID in Safari, it'll send a code for 2FA.

To the Mac you are trying to log in on.

BoydStephenSmithJr ,
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@foone Extremely frustrating when your phone dies while you are traveling, and you are trying to find and pay parts / repair services.

Yes, I do have backup codes, at home.

foone , an Random Englisch
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Is anyone planning a Berlin Airlift situation to drop vitally needed hormones and antiandrogens into occupied England?

Beckydog ,
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@foone @AnCuRuadh

Can you slip in some micronised progesterone please? That stuff’s an arse to get

oohshiiiny ,

@foone how about my ADHD meds, I'm running through quick release Ritalin rn as my slow release is out of stock😬? And insulin (I assume you meant that lol)

foone , an Random Englisch
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Here's a weird question: so Dynix made a text-based library catalog system that used Wyse terminals, and they shipped them with custom keyboards. They had four keys above the numpad: one of these keys was Start Over/New Search.

Does anyone remember having used these terminals, and recall what those other keys were?

foone OP ,
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@wftl @thatdawnperson @Canageek that'd be great if you could!

foone OP ,
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@SpuriousInterrupt oh that'd be a neat thing! I'd love to see web search results in this style

foone , an Random Englisch
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Having one of those fun days at work where I have to ask "hey, is the edison cylinder phonograph supposed to be on?"

UpLateGeek ,
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@foone Foone: check out this phonograph, it’s made by Edison!
Musk: … [insert I made this meme here]

wonka ,
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@foone Could one mill a fitting steel cylinder?

foone , an Random Englisch
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"2 factor authentication" is an english word meaning "we'll text you a 6 digit number"

Tathar ,
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@foone
If it made sense, it would be:

  1. Your username (something you are)
  2. Your password (something you know)
spacekatia ,
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@foone 2 factors: the password in my password manager, and the 6 digit number my password manager generated

foone , an Random Englisch
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my telco just gave me the option to login to my account with fingerprint or face-id.

totally normal except I'm just using firefox on a laptop. I'm picking that option just to see how it works!

foone OP ,
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ahh, it just routed a notification to my android phone to make me sign in there, with a fingerprint.

then it failed to work on the website. well done, guys

foone , an Random Englisch
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I wonder how hard it would be to introduce intentionally faulty memory to QEMU, to emulate what happens when bits flip

shac ,
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@foone Just run qemu on a machine with bad ram

reedmideke ,
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@foone I've done something very similar accidentally (and boy was that confusing to debug), should be pretty easy

Making it follow the same failure patterns as real hardware might be tricky, but random stuck bits should be straightforward

foone , (Bearbeitet ) an Random Englisch
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I'm a "full stack developer", in that my stack is full and if you try to push any more tasks on me I'm gonna overflow it and start corrupting my own memory

starstorm_x1 ,
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@foone Me with a tiny stack that overflows if I so much as try any task beyond my comfort zone

cturnbow ,
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@foone

If you overpush to my stack, I'm liable to pop, for sure...

foone , an Random Englisch
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We need a different word for "old computer parts" and "parts for old computers". People use "retro" for both.

Like a Packard Bell 486 is the former: it was made in the 90s.

And a PicoGUS is the later: it's an ISA card that can be used in computers from the 90s, but it was made recently.

lanefu ,
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@foone

PicoGUS == "lab grown replacement organs"

neilturner ,
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@foone retro and retro-compatible?

foone , an Random Englisch
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When are they gonna make a smartphone with a built in RFID cloner? It'd make managing all those fobs easier

flyingsaceur ,
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@foone “I keep my RFID car keys in my password manager” when

sleepy ,
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@foone flipperzero

foone , an Random Englisch
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You know the whole "defund the National Labor Relations Board" thing that musk & bezos are pushing?

I'm currently working on a project where I'm digitizing old supreme court records, and it makes me think we definitely need the NLRB, if only for how often they were having to sue companies for flagrant violations of labor law.
Seriously it seems sometimes every 3rd case is "Some Horrible Employer vs NLRB"

foone OP ,
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@thebluewizard it's a project for work, yeah. They're all going on archive.org

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@foone
Thank you for doing that!

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