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by pronoiac 3y ago
I have notes somewhere on roundtripping Time Machine backups between USB drives and network shares. (It's non-trivial, and it's not supported, but it worked.) It was with HFS+ backups, and there were various bits that were &quot
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by pronoiac 3y ago
I emailed the mods.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
I'm not the OP, but I'd recommend the music for The Pentavirate , but not the show.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
It's been quite a while, but I think extremely redundant information, like mostly zeroes, is one of those cases where compression can be usefully be done repeatedly. I might check to see if it holds true here.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
My opinions: * write in Pandoc Markdown. * give each sentence its own line. It helps with composing and reordering, and gives much cleaner diffs if you keep this in a git repo. * personally, I used GitHub for html, Pandoc to make the epub,
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by pronoiac 3y ago
For some fractals on the regular, Benoit Mandelbot on Mastodon - https://botsin.space/@benoitmandelbot
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by pronoiac 3y ago
On iOS, you only have to logon to the main app. Game installs and launches are normal - App Store, Home Screen - and they can detect the account from the main app. It looks like they've added "which profile?" selection. I tri
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by pronoiac 3y ago
dvbackup! https://dvbackup.sourceforge.net/ I didn't use this either, as I worried about wearing down the camera heads, and DVD-R's were cheaper and more plentiful.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
These might be useful tools, if you don't want to maintain an Atari 410 but do have a tape player - https://a8cas.sourceforge.net/
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by pronoiac 3y ago
From memory: it was a FireWire port, which could connect to D-VHS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS
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by pronoiac 3y ago
This is a C compiler. You might be thinking of Cygwin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin
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by pronoiac 3y ago
I emailed the mods.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
Ah. I think two leading spaces fix this? I'll try: #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell #! nix-shell -i python3 -p python3Packages.pillow python3Packages.ansicolor # scale image by 50% import sys, PIL.Image, ansicolor
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by pronoiac 3y ago
Yay, the forum is back online!
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by pronoiac 3y ago
I expected IPv4 addresses
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by pronoiac 3y ago
I've idly been considering how to score this with more languages, with far less memory. I'm thinking, buildpacks on a Raspberry Pi.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
@'s don't do anything here. I've emailed the mods.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
Did anyone else trip over the unclear usage of ZIP? Z-machine program files and PKZIP files share the .zip file extension, but not file formats.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
cat -v For a very short file, I might reach for hexdump -C
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by pronoiac 3y ago
If you have large mailboxes, this would steer you toward paying for cloud storage at Microsoft, which might be a surprising bill to face.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
I'm aware of an open collection of Apple Feedback Assistant reports on GitHub - https://github.com/feedback-assistant/reports/issues > Apple Feedback Assistant reports are not public. To help other develop
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by pronoiac 3y ago
It responded eventually for me, but the Wayback Machine has it - https://web.archive.org/web/20231028021348/https://boston.co...
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by pronoiac 3y ago
If you can use help with the scan, let me know. I'm in the Bay Area.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
Amnesty International released Mobile Verification Toolkit to check your phone for malware, by checking encrypted backups on your computer. https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt
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by pronoiac 3y ago
When I was looking for a Raspberry Pi, I kept an eye on https://rpilocator.com/ ; it's still useful to gauge supply. It's not zero, but it's not widespread in all regions, either.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
There's an 11 meg iso file included, and there are some exe files among its contents.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
Huh. I was able to get a working epub, but I'd recommend the pdf version instead. The OCR and formatting for the epub are automated rough drafts.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
Oh! I thought I'd seen this before, but I was thinking of a Wipeout-specific version - https://phoboslab.org/wipeout/
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by pronoiac 3y ago
You might be thinking of: https://blog.nelhage.com/post/systems-at-capacity/
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by pronoiac 3y ago
If I'm thinking of the same article: was it about going from message queues to state machines for more operational robustness?

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