FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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Joined May 2019
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This is a broken Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD87. This has a rare 4X speed floppy drive, so I thought I'd open it up and see if I could remove it and use it elsewhere.
(This is going to be a very abbreviated thread because most of my images are blurry, since I no longer have an office for reverse engineering teardowns)
This one is from 2001 and can take photos up to 1280×960 pixels, at which resolution you'll barely manage to fit four images on a 1.44mb floppy disk.
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I love prediction markets. sure why not. 24:1 odds Christ returns. sign me the fuck up. I'm gonna find a pliable journalist to bribe to say it happened and laugh all the way to the bank
It's so beautiful outside with all the blossoming trees 🌸
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Argh, accidentally read another "stop anonymity/pseudonymity to stop abuse" article. And, to maximize cringe, also most of the replies, "one account per person, real names everywhere" (meaning "legal name", which is not the same thing; would you really feel safer if I used my wallet name here, which none of you except the one who I happen to be married to have ever heard, instead of the name everybody knows me by?). Shouldn't torture myself like that.
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OH NO! CARMEN SANDIEGO HAS STOLEN YOUR mech!
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I'll have to switch to one of my many other USB floppy drives.
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oh WAIT we just figured something out about circular buffers. we've implemented these before, it just never clicked for us...
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Workin' on s'more EGA-ish forest art! https://www.twitch.tv/deivore
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the 555 timer is 55 years old, so if we celebrate on the 5th of May it can be the 555's 55th on 5/5.
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"To anyone who, for the first time, sees a great stretch of sandy shore covered with innumerable ridges and furrows, as if combed with a giant comb, a dozen questions must immediately present themselves. How do these ripples form?"
April 28, 1854, birthday of British engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor Hertha Marks Ayrton.
In a 1904 paper she explained how currents can form sand ripples 🌊
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"He who relies solely on antivirus is destined to be defeated… by his own impatience with the pop-up alerts." - The Art of Cyber War
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computer, eight miles of soup, no bowl
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Remember that switching to another pair of bluetooth headphones is always faster than recharging
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i said elsewhere but there is a distinction between things being commodotized and things being democratized
sure enough there's a new low cost bidder in town and things are a little more affordable to some
but we all know those prices aren't sustainable, and i'm pretty sure that when the prices go up, and the adverts appear, the world won't be much better off for it happening
i give it a year before your representatives are cutting library funding "who needs it when we have ai"
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similarly, i've heard a few times that "we might cure cancer", and sure enough some brute force computation can fold proteins fast
but in practice it is more likely these tools will be used to fabricate experimental results, push dietary supplements and other snakeoil cures
and more coarsely, ai isn't pouring funding into the CDC, ai isn't reversing the destruction of the FDA, and is more than likely going to be used to justify those things
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i've heard a few times that "waymos will make streets safer" so i went and looked up sf's traffic fatality statistics and they're pretty much identical
i mean, there is a slight increase over the last two years but there's sufficient variance to avoid suggesting a trend
as i understand it, waymos tend to take people off busses and other forms of transit, rather than out of their own cars
so i'm doubtful it will lower deaths on the road, just the number of busses
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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