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   My name is RAGE (how@ps.s10y.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 19:40:02 JST My name is RAGE

   If the #NSA would propose you to run memory-safe code on you computer using their proprietary #hypervisor, would you trust it?

   Of course not. You've seen what they can do.

   Keep working on #ReproducibleBuilds #AGPL #WASM that can be authenticated for integrity, or it shall, sooner or later, plant a #backdoor on everyone's device.

   Do not get lured into contributing to that.
   Reinforce AGPL free software for networked code.

   Just sayin' because of current #FOSDEM approach to blindly follow money

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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 20:28:25 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   Something that's not getting published but might be useful if you have to work with .ima floppy backup images created using WinImage, rather than Linux-standard .img files that you can just mount as a device.

   Do all of this as superuser.

   List your loop devices:
   losetup

   If there's anything in this list, pick a loop device number that doesn't appear. I used 10.

   If you don't already have a dedicated mount point for floppy drives:
   mkdir /mnt/floppy

   losetup /dev/loop10 ./disk.ima
   mount -t vfat /dev/loop10 /mnt/floppy

   I threw each disk of the sequence into a different loop device, and then sequentially mounted them on /mnt/floppy to swap disks in DOSBox.

   You can also copy the mounted loop device to a more Linux-friendly img file, thus:
   dd bs=512 if=/dev/loop10 of=image.img

   Thanks to this person from 2008 who published the solution to their own question, thus saving me a lot of trial and error:
   https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?185346-How-to-deal-with-WinImage-ima-files-in-linux

   Why yes, I am still making replacement floppy disks to replace dead ones in sets of installation media.

   Back up your magnetic media while you still can.

   #SoftwarePreservation #DataRecovery #FloppyDisks