a reminder that some CD drives in the early 2000s reached high read speeds by just spinning CDs so fast they would sometimes shatter in the drive, and some manufacturers compensated for this with reinforced fronts
http://www.qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm and these magnificent people ran an experiment on when various media would shatter
tl;dr, if you want shards of plastic fired at you at half the speed of sound, old 50+-speed CD drives are where it's at
hey im signal boosting for my friends, pls commission them so one of them can fly down here to see the other and be Real Gay http://bugwing.tumblr.com/post/177009308949
🎉WOOHOO!🎉
Fully TWENTY mini grants (http://posts.bcavello.com/post/174519809445/2018-mini-grants-pride-edition) have been allocated, & I hate to say it but we still HAVEN'T HEARD BACK from some recipients! 🙀 CHECK YOUR SPAM
Emails from me had "your Mini Grant is here!" in subject
⚠️Any unclaimed grants at the end of this week will be re-allocated! ⚠️
PLEASE BOOST!
@revenant the powdered house of the cell
well that was
fucking awful
tried to log into ebay to update my details, it kept saying wrong details despite multiple attempts entering the CORRECT password typed EXACTLY CORRECTLY in a row only for it to finally accept it for no rhyme and reason then IMMEDIATELY log me out any time I try to actually change my details and force me to do it again.
"Fax machines, at least HP officejet, vulnerable to code injection... OVER FAX. You can jump from a phone line connection into the network."
Inspirobot suggests a new Fediverse motto. (Source: https://best-of-inspirobot.tumblr.com/post/176943996104)
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.