Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

The lesson I took away from that mistake was to write-protect the source disk before thinking of starting a copy.

That force of habit is still with me today. If I format, image, or copy anything & have more than one SD card involved (including micro-SDs in SD dongles), I flip the tab to "Lock" on the source card.

The worst computer mistake I ever made was on my C64, way back when I had only one floppy drive. I wanted to make a backup copy of a disk, & the disk copying program I was using had to format the backup first. It was halfway done with the format phase when I realized I was holding the blank floppy in my hand and that the disk I wanted to copy was being formatted.

This is in my ~/.shrc on BSD to keep me from accidentally nuking or clobbering files I forget are there:

alias cp='cp -ip'
alias mv='mv -i'
alias rm='rm -i'

This also works in ~/.bashrc for bash, & with GNU versions of cp (except `cp -p` preserves different file attributes), mv, & rm.

"Interact with this post if you remember _______"

Thanks to the magic of the Internet, your kid might have to explain why they got 8-tracks, disco albums on any medium, and/or pet rocks.

ATTENTION ALL PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION
ATTENTION ALL PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION
ATTENTION ALL PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION
WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL
WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL
WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzAWw4qsmA

This #DarkPattern showed up after I emptied my shopping cart. Sneaky, Amazon...

Ah, it *was* Dubya, but much later than I remembered. The FCC mandated it in order to comply with the WARN Act back in 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts

I'm pretty sure we can thank, not Trump (hard as that may be to accept), but Dubya Bush for the unblockable Presidential Alert part of the Emergency Alerts feature.

It's been in cell phones for many, many years, and I'm certain it was part of the aftermath of That Day.

What I'm most impressed about, positively or negatively, is that the presidential alert test actually worked even half as well as it did. Last time they tried a national test that involved actually notifying the the public, it failed miserably.

Trump's taking the blame/credit, but he did nothing.

I wonder how much space I'll save by converting the WAVs to FLACs, and if the Android music player can play FLACs.

Tired: Toaster pastries are sandwiches.

Wired: Laptop power supplies are dongles.

Inspired: Bread slices are PB&J dongles.

You, pleading through endless tears: "You can't just point at everything and call it some kind of a dongle!"

Me, pointing at a USB flash drive: "File dongle."