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foone

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

Dieses Profil is von einem föderierten Server und möglicherweise unvollständig. Auf der Original-Instanz anzeigen

foone , an Random Englisch
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I just got a cold call from another country because someone wanted to buy my minecraft account

the future is weird

gewt , an Random Englisch
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hm. one of my laptops went missing. wonder where the hell it ended up

foone ,
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@gewt I ate it

foone ,
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@gewt laptopy

foone , an Random Englisch
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arch linux is the best propaganda for using windows that I've ever seen

luigithirty , an Random Englisch
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I implemented msvcrt.dll’s rand function and now I can deal official Microsoft freecell games (this is #1)

foone ,
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@luigithirty nice!

enfys , an Random Englisch
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"Nice gender, did you pay for that or did you download the cracked version?"

Oh absolutely

RE: https://wanderingwires.net/notes/9scj2l1vdo3iqril

a screen recording of a fake keygen crack program. the title reads "GENDER PATCHER 2K24", below is rainbow text which reads "WAVETABLE CYMRU" on a pool water background image. underneath is the text "--==GENDER PATCHER==--". below that is a purple gradient plasma effect cycling between 4 different patterns. under that is a progress bar, a text entry box and two buttons labelled "PATCH" and "QUIT". on the bottom there are three checkboxes, labelled "Auto Update", "Unlimited Blahaj" and "Double Jump"

foone ,
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@vxo @enfys yeah. And I'm mainly annoyed I didn't think of it first

foone , an Random Englisch
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I put some stickers in my work laptop

foone OP ,
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@1000millimeter a temp job doing some microfiche scanning

foone OP ,
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@1000millimeter it's my own laptop, I just bring it to the workplace

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girl who uses "asexual" in exactly the same way and meaning as "agender"; to mean that traditional notions of sexuality do not apply, and the spectrum you might be imagining is irrelevant

foone ,
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@whitequark @munin wish I could find a manual for my sexuality. It's confusing as fuck, no pun intended.

foone , an Random Englisch
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why am I installing arch again?

I'm not being paid for this

foone OP ,
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HOW DID IT GO WRONG ON THE FIRST COMMAND

foone OP ,
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@Maven I didn't even get that far!

foone , an Random Englisch
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The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

foone OP ,
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So you think the ancient Romans ever called porn "thirty"?

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Rumor has it that both systemd and the kernel now have a new-ish "BSOD" mode. Can someone send me screenshots of what those look like? I need this for important comedy purposes.

foone ,
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@ariadne @jwz I'll see if I can trigger it in a VM so it can be properly screenshotted

foone ,
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@ariadne @jwz Here it is with arch linux and systemd-bsod. Pretty damn boring

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gender

foone ,
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@whitequark this gender toward enemy

foone , an Random Englisch
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A fun side effect of being anosmic is that sometimes I think I smell something, but it's just the nasal equivalent of phantom limb.
The best part about this is that because the smells I'm supposedly smelling aren't real, my brain doesn't seem to think they should be limited to things that would make sense to smell; you know, physical objects with distinct odors.

I just smelled slackware.

gewt , an Random Englisch
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today in “out of context wikipedia”: “The number zero is considered to be both real and imaginary”

foone ,
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@gewt it has a complex part! That part is just zero

Thorsted , an Random Englisch
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#fileformats #digipres #moviemagic

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@Thorsted somebody had to. they decided to be the ones who were coolest

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when I finally build my Workbench Keyboard, one of the weirder options I'm going to add is a way to paste pre-loaded text files from the onboard storage.

like you could have texts\serials\windows\win10.txt and you navigate to the that file and hit paste and it just types out the FCKGW- nonsense for you

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NO THIS ISN'T JUST BITTERNESS ABOUT HAVING TO INSTALL WINDOWS 10 TWICE THIS WEEK

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it would have been really handy back when I worked at that pc repair shop.
I had to memorize the win98 and XP volume license keys we used

foone OP ,
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@acsawdey basically yeah

foone OP ,
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@ralfmaximus well obviously

foone OP ,
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@immibis exactly! finally a use for that silly "windows" key

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Lmao Tesla has sold fewer cybertrucks than I've sold copies of MidBoss. Is this the power of the richest man in the world? Pathetic

foone ,
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@eniko yeah but how many copies of midboss has he sold?

gewt , an Random Englisch
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wow this household has transferred 17TB of data since september (mostly download but a couple tb upload)

i love collecting data

foone ,
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@gewt 16tb of that was me downloading catgirls

foone ,
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@brouhaha @gewt

https://youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html

foone , an Random Englisch
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the real reason we moved away from them is that IBM never managed to invent an RW variant of the punchcard. They were only Punchcard-Rs

foone OP ,
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this is a shitpost of course but it's actually pretty accurate in how punchcards and CD-Rs worked.

They both are sold with them being all 1s/all 0s, and then you can selectively change some of the bits to encode something into them

foone OP ,
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but you can only go in one direction, 1->0 or 0->1 depending, and you can't go back.

foone OP ,
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@TechConnectify you've got a point yeah

foone OP ,
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@nyrath yeah, I'm non-binary, so I know all about that! :)

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do cue cards instructing "punch" count as punch cards

foone ,
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@gewt what if you encode "PUNCH" into a punch card? do you have to punch them twice?

and is it a punch punch card?

foone , an Random Englisch
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Fun fact about microfiche:
One of the first uses of it was due to pigeons.

During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, Paris was under siege and they got dispaches out by using microphotography to make them small enough that they could be attached to pigeons and flown out of the city.

foone OP ,
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I've used a lot of weird media formats over the years but "we have to make the mail small enough that pigeons can carry it" is a unique reason for being invented

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@cadey punch cards, obviously. The most lesbian of all the formats.

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found my switch. it was underneath a project pile on my workbench

foone ,
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@gewt @axiixc I should design a keyboard that has like 5 USB ports on the back, but it's not a hub: you just have a knob you can turn to select which PC to control.

gewt , an Random Englisch
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i wonder where my nintendo switch went

foone ,
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@gewt I didn't steal it

foone , an Random Englisch
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Bad idea: an external floppy drive that can appear as a mass storage device of arbitrary size. The way it works is it has a little screen, and you use that to configure how big you want it to be, then it formats the proper number of 3.5" floppy disks.
Then when the PC tries to read a sector that's not on the current disk, the display will just prompt you to insert disk or whatever.

foone OP ,
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@Elbrar yeah something like that

foone , an Random Englisch
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I like how the ASRock site tells me to update my system by downloading a zip file, extracting it, and putting it on a USB drive or floppy disk

it's 16mb, dude. Which floppy do you want me to put it on? a zip drive? DOES YOUR BIOS SUPPORT ZIP DRIVES?

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obviously I'd try it but this is my roommate's machine and she wants it back and working, not broken because I tried to update the BIOS off a zip drive

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I updated the bios and now it can't boot

it can see the HD, the one I just installed windows onto, and it can start installing, but it gets like a minute into booting and then says it can't access the boot device.

I'm sure this is fine

foone OP ,
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@kawa yah. Where's the 7z disk?

foone , an Random Englisch
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So has anyone suggested the monumental bad idea of running an AI on the ethereum smart blockchain?

Like, chatgpt but every response costs you 230$

foone OP ,
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@whvholst so you just solve the halting problem?

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