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the internet has kind of enabled a lot of disingenuous talentless narcissistic douchebags but they get found out pretty quickly and endlessly dunked on which is good i guess. maybe in the medium term useless people who trade on others’ good faith will just not be able to get away with things for very long at all. no more esrs or musks plz
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Midjack posted:"loadsharer" sounds like what he'd call the other people at "key parties" iykwim unfortunately I do
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:unfortunately I do 
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rotor posted:i beg to differ when the gooncon attendees grow up
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Midjack posted:"loadsharer" sounds like what he'd call the other people at "key parties" iykwim this has really gone far enough.
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post hole digger posted:this has really gone far enough. agreed
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Talking of Slashdot made me think of Jon Katz and I googled him and found out he's 75 years old.
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the funniest thing about john katz is that he writes books about dogs.
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rotor posted:i beg to differ bottom tier low effort Shrek cosplay *turns monitor on*
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:maybe esr really is as talented a roleplayer as he insists and he’s just been rp-ing as an insufferable racist computer chud this whole time but, hey, he acquired the coveted three-letter nick.
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extremely stupid racist
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Sweevo posted:extremely stupid racist there we go
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Sweevo posted:extremely stupid racist
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Sweevo posted:extremely stupid racist
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Sweevo posted:extremely stupid racist
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Sweevo posted:extremely stupid racist
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Sweevo posted:extremely stupid racist
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The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003
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nudgenudgetilt posted:The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003 can spam? ✅
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Sweevo posted:extremely stupid racist
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Beeftweeter posted:can spam? ✅ Yes, you can spam, thanks to this act.
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half-width MIDI synthesizer boxes for playing video game background music like the Roland SoundCanvas SC-55
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and its companion floppy drive the SoundBrush SB-55
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companion floppy huh
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eschaton posted:half-width MIDI synthesizer boxes for playing video game background music it made SQ3 sound great for the three people who had one. to me it sounded awesome on a regular AdLib card. https://youtu.be/arOgwo9ZWZI
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axolotl farmer posted:it made SQ3 sound great for the three people who had one. to me it sounded awesome on a regular AdLib card.
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Dex Drives. They allowed you to upload have saves to the internet back in the 90s/early 2000s. Stick the memory card in, transfer the save files to a floppy disk, then insert the floppy disk into your computer and upload your saves to GameFAQs. (Or I guess back them up to your computer if desired). I guess technically obsoleted by the PS3 era, but even before that I think most people realized they just didn’t really care about trading save files and cheat engine, trainers, cloud backups, and general save file editing can probably do what you really wanted to in the first place. Zip disks. I imagine the number of successful restores from backups is a rounding error compared to how many were sold. Hell I wonder how many were actually unboxed. Every disk and drive I ever saw were in unopened boxes sitting in an IT storage closet. Pulcinella fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Nov 2, 2022 |
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Pulcinella posted:Zip disks. I imagine the number of successful restores from backups is a rounding error compared to how many were sold. Hell I wonder how many were actually unboxed. Every disk and drive I ever saw were in unopened boxes sitting in an IT storage closet. zip drives were used everywhere from the late 90s to the mid-00s until usb flash memory became cheap and ubiquitous. in university, every computer had a zip drive and everyone used them except for that one weirdo who used a cd-rw for everything mr backup z64 was superior to the dr v64 as well
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zip drives really hit a sharp decline in about 2000. scsi was on its way out the door and usb was too drat slow for a zip drive. by the time usb 2.0 was out, flash drives were everywhere
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nudgenudgetilt posted:zip drives really hit a sharp decline in about 2000. scsi was on its way out the door and usb was too drat slow for a zip drive. by the time usb 2.0 was out, flash drives were everywhere lol "too drat slow for a zip drive". you want slow, the first zip drives had a parallel port connector. ide versions were available shortly thereafter usb 2.0 came out in 2000, and flash drives were absolutely not everywhere at that point, as the first 8 meg ones didn't come out until 2001. even in 2003, the biggest flash drive you could get was only 64 megs and it wasn't cheap relative to its size. zip had about a decade where it was the sweet spot for relatively fast, portable storage
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The_Franz posted:lol "too drat slow for a zip drive". you want slow, the first zip drives had a parallel port connector. I had one of these and yeah it was real slow but if you had some big video file, like 10mb or so, there wasn't much else you could do.
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The_Franz posted:lol "too drat slow for a zip drive". you want slow, the first zip drives had a parallel port connector. ide versions were available shortly thereafter pretty sure the original was scsi -- the parallel port version was literally the same device with a built in parallel port to scsi adapter. the parallel port based devices were for suckers who were willing to shell out for a zip drive then skimp out on buying a scsi card. by 02, 16-32mb flash drives were everywhere. I remember being amazed at how quickly they took over my freshman (only) year of college
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Pulcinella posted:Zip disks. I imagine the number of successful restores from backups is a rounding error compared to how many were sold. Hell I wonder how many were actually unboxed. Every disk and drive I ever saw were in unopened boxes sitting in an IT storage closet. they were extremely widely used as removable storage for passing around large files before 100Base-T networking and marginally reasonable Internet speeds were pervasive I’ve really never had any fail either, and I used them a ton in 1995-2000 and have recently started going through what I have to try to find some ancient files (like wmc.tar.Z, the source archive for the CMU Computer Club version of the pre-X Andrew window system’s wm)
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