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Toshiba T4600C repair (~) 

Reading online and talking to the indy Radio Shack folks, I'm told I can probably get away with using a rubber band as a temporary replacement belt. I'm sure I can, and now that I know how to dig the floppy drive out, it's something that I could try, but the fewer times I disassemble the laptop all the way from the top shell down to the bottom, the better.

Also, things are starting to look up regarding the mere existence of replacement floppy drive belts.

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And so many of the responses to that Tor Browser & NoScript bypass are doing nothing but arguing semantics over whether it should be called a zeroday or not.

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Grumpsec Spottycat

RT @SarahJamieLewis@twitter.com
"This Tor Browser exploit was acquired by Zerodium many months ago as a zero-day and was shared with our government customers."

In case there was any doubt over the threat environment.

donate.torproject.org/pdr twitter.com/campuscodi/status/

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Jani

We are re-federating with snouts.online. There has been a misunderstanding and @noiob is sorry that defederating so quickly and with that notice has caused so much harm. Snouts.online and @Ace do not support harassment campaigns.

here's to reconnecting with friends :janiawoo:​

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Does anyone else get voice mails from phone numbers without corresponding phone calls? I do, and they're always spam.

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HRT Timeline

hrt 

oops! I took these weird blue pills and turned into some kind of goop

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A bulging CR-2032 button battery. That's a first for me.

Yes, it was supposed to be a BR-2325 button battery instead, but the previous owner either didn't know or didn't care. I found out while removing a MicroBiotics M501-s RAM & Clock Expansion out of my Amiga 500.

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disaster fembro [xe/xem]

grs joke 

i'm proposing a new algorithm for sorting binary strings lexicographically called Generalized Radix Sort

i highly recommend GRS if you're looking to get your bits sorted

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People are making new games for computers 30-40 years old, and that makes me so incredibly happy. youtu.be/FLgYkRLsWqY

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BTW, that line after the syntax error message isn't one I typed in again. It printed the line & put the cursor at the beginning so I could edit it.

Also, I miss messy full-screen program editors like that. Press Enter, the line your cursor's on is executed. If the line starts with a number, it's inserted in your program, automatically sorted numerically, replacing the same-numbered line if it already exists.

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It's amazing what plugging in a compatible keyboard can accomplish. Now I can clean the floppy drive, get boot disks, & weigh HDD options.

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Welcome to IBM PC-XT (5160) Cassette Basic in ROM, required for the earliest PC-DOS BasicA even though the cassette port & header pad both ceased to exist after the 5150.

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disaster fembro [xe/xem]

mastodon is a fascinating social experiment showing that when our online communication is unfettered by algorithms enforcing corporate incentives and when given the tools to better organize and moderate our communities, we inevitably gravitate towards horny on main

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Selfcare LB: I so need to do that.

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selfcare.tech

Set an alarm so you remember to eat regular meals if you have a tendency to get caught up in work and forget.

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What happened in the 1980s that made computers uniquely male-dominated? Lots, but a biggie is that home computers were marketed as toys for boys, not for girls.

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Landy Manderson

@thatcosmonaut For folks asking when 'literally all women used to be programmers' ... when I first started in 1980, over 2/3 of data center developers (working w/COBOL, OLTP, mainframes and such) were women, as were most all production control ops and supervisors. At one point in the mid-80's my boss was a woman, as was her boss, as was her boss, as was her boss. Very different representation now.

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dankwraith KNZK FAREWELL TOUR

tfw you remember that literally all programmers used to be women until men realized that it was actual intellectual work and ran them out of the field so that 17 year old shitheads could make posts on reddit about how man brains are genetically wired for programming

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traabot

An acronym for the transphobes that pretend TERF is a slur. redd.it/9dx81q

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Reminder: The women who programmed the ENIAC literally programmed on bare metal. That should've made them awesome. Women deserve lots more than just footnotes in the history of computer sciences.

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