kepstin⯑ @kepstin@glitch.social

You may note that these floppy disks came *unformatted*. Before you could use them, you had to do a low-level format operation, which the controllers in most USB floppy drives can't do.

Official floppy disk of World Cup 1990

This is my really dense, tiny mini-itx box, so I'm not looking forwards to trying to debug anything here.

You know what, it's alright. I had too many computers anyways.

Ah, yes! Beep codes will tell my why this motherboard isn't working!

ASUS:

My favourite numbers are two to the power of a number that is a power of two. e.g.
2^(2^1)=4
2^(2^2)=16
2^(2^3)=256
2^(2^4)=65536
and so on. They, uh, get big quick.

The top application (black bar) is reading data from my NAS and writing it to an eSATA drive. It's credited with 5mbps of network, which is the return traffic (acks, etc.)
Meanwhile, windows defender ("Antimalware Service Executable") has >800mbps, which is all the received traffic.

A weird quirk of windows 10 is that if you have an application reading data off a network share, the network traffic is accounted to the "Antimalware Service Executable" instead of the application that's actually doing the read operations.

I don't always love it when I a word. Whatever, not gonna bother fixing that now.

I always love it when I out about a new musician or group, and it turns out that they have their stuff available on a straightforwards drm-free store with lossless options e.g. bandcamp.

netcat - tool to read/write data across network connections
@netkitty - cat for petting across network connections

hmm.

Hmm, turns out they're not *quite* compatible, it looks like LG moved the manual eject hole 1cm to the right on the latest BD drives.

Well, if I can live with that not working, it's maybe still possible.

Looking at my collection of DVD and BD drives, I just realized that all LG drives since at least 2007 and maybe earlier have faceplates interchangeable with each-other.

And back 10 years ago, LG made drives with beige face plates.

In other words, I *can* hack together a modern Blu-ray drive that'll match this classic beige IBM case I'm using.

Hmm, now I'm pondering porting @xor 's video datamoshing stuff to ffmpeg's C api, so it can work at the parsed packet/frame level and maybe be a bit more reliable.
Would be neat to give it multiple codec options (x264/5, vp8/9, maybe some older stuff like mpeg2?) to see how the results differ.

peertube, where you peer at at far away stuff through a tube that magnifies it using lenses or mirrors contained inside.

Ah, eBay is forcing me to add some insecurity questions to my account. I guess my first pet's name is, uh, (opens random password generator in password manager).

I'm gonna be honest, these sound a lot better after I copy them over to my Win98 box and play them on my AWE64 than with the software midi synth included with Windows 10.