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The Brother Micro Disc was a floppy disc for use in the standalone Brother MD-200 Micro Floppy Disc Drive for use with certain Brother electronic typewriters (seemingly some of the EM series of the 1980s such as the EM-200) and possibly for use with industrial sewing or embroidery machines.

It consists of a 2.5-inch flexible disc in a carrier. The discs were available in either double-sided or single-sided form.

obsoletemedia.org/brother-micr

The European Court rules that “the requirement to decrypt encrypted communications, as applied to end-to-end encrypted communciations, cannot be regarded as necessary in a democratic society” and infringes on the European Convention on Human Rights.

#telegram #encryption #privacy

@remixtures tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/1

Hey nerds y'all got any tool that can show me which version of a package is distributed across multiple distros/package managers? My use case is that I'd like to see which versions of Lilypond are currently actually being distributed so that I know which version to best target for my project.

The ADHD experience of wanting to do something fun but feeling guilty you’re not doing something you’re supposed to do , so you end up doing nothing

I think they're yelling at the bridge guy precisely because they know he's one of the few people who will listen. They want him to take responsibility for protecting them. They want anybody who understands this world to do something because they know the bad actors don't care. I think part of this is how people ask for the structures that they need in order to feel safe. It's just unfortunate that it takes the form of yelling and assuming bad faith.

The news: Russia wants to put nukes in space to use on satellites
Me: *laughing maniacally* we are so getting Kessler syndromed

Printer goes like woof woof, woof woof, woof woof, woof woof and awoof, awoof

Finally! A torrent I've been downloading took a month and a half to download because there was only one seeder and they seem to have their upload speed capped to ~10 kB/s or something.

tired: “error: cannot borrow ‘x’ as mutable more than once at a time”

inspired: “with this reference’s creation, the thread of memory safety is severed. refactor your code to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created”

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