Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@arielmt same energy https://web.archive.org/web/20080117032102/http://phoenix.cc.edu:80/MegaFloppy.htm

SD cards are a technology taken right out of early Gibson, real neuromancer shit. Incredible trash tech. Gigabytes of low quality abundance. Small enough to lose even when you're paying attention. Extraordinary but embarrassingly low grade.

There's very nice classy ones from SanDisk but there's so many more from nameless foundries for sale on AliExpress and a tenth the price, that mostly work.

(Chairman George Morrow would shit bluebirds: "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of floppy disks", two obsolete things in one sentence.)

I'm using the big ones in my cp/m machine. Doing serious endurance testing and marginal testing. The really cheap ones do _weird_ things sometimes but work ok, mostly. I now have some good test code, ask me in a week....

With two cards installed, on the same SPI buss, doing random disk random block random read/write I *suspect* there is some odd stuff going on, but it's hard to separate code from electronics from the cards' various effects.

Pretty fucking interesting though.

I want to make the cheap cards as usable as the good ones. I think tristate buffers will do that.

Rooting for the underdogs.

back in the day, we all would scoff at deploying apps written in Lisp or Smalltalk because the binaries would end up being tens of megabytes with the runtime included. but in this era of gigabyte-sized static binaries and Electron apps, what's stopping us from going back

If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash reports coming from Raptor Lake systems.

The bucket is half foal

Have you taken a sip of water recently?

firing up my mastodon client by hand cranking it until a piston is a little bit past tdc, turning on the magneto, putting a blank 12 gauge cartridge in the receptacle in the cylinder head, and whacking it with a hammer

i will die on this hill

https://www.osnews.com/story/142677/servers-and-thin-clients-in-every-home-is-the-future-they-stole-from-us/