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   Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 04:41:07 JST Matthew Garrett

   I've just been handed what appears to be an elaborate party invitation?

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 04:41:21 JST prettygood

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     @mjg59 I would party with these people.
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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 05:03:12 JST jwz

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     @mjg59 You think *that's* elaborate? Pffff
     https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/04/18.html

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     James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 05:13:52 JST James Morris

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     @mjg59 So that's what a party invitation looks like.
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     Jef Poskanzer :batman: (jef@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 12:43:04 JST Jef Poskanzer :batman:

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     • jwz

     @jwz Do you still write data to the disks or is it just the label these days? And also how wedded are you to black? Because I have some leftovers from this old project for my bathroom windows but they have all been cracked open at one corner so the disk part could be removed.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 13:06:04 JST jwz

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     • Jef Poskanzer :batman:

     @jef Oh, I prefer a variety of colors to black! It's just that black or beige have been what I mostly end up with. I can definitely give those a third life. (Third half-life?) I write to the ones that are writable, but hand out lots that are not. The usual conversation is, "Is there data on this?" "Could you read it if there was?" If the answer is yes, they get a disk from the other pocket. floppydisk.com sells working disks for $1 and not-working for $0.19. Until they're all gone forever.

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     Jef Poskanzer :batman: (jef@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 13:28:53 JST Jef Poskanzer :batman:

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     • jwz

     @jwz Well then I'll drop them off some time. Also a 10-pack of mini-CDRs in similar neon colors. Those you could in theory write 185MB to.

     floppydisk.com makes me think of Dennis Duffy from "30 Rock", the last beeper salesman in New York.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 17:10:51 JST jwz

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     • Jef Poskanzer :batman:

     @jef Thanks! If you haven't read the interview with him it's pretty great: https://jwz.org/b/yj4x