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   Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 22:57:46 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

   WTF, this 16GB microSD card is only 15,931,539,456 bytes!? Rude!

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     Jernej Simončič � (jernej__s@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 23:09:15 JST Jernej Simončič �

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     @ryanc Reminds me of an 8 GB CF card I bought years ago that was around 7 500 000 000 bytes (just about 7 GiB).

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     Christopher (roflcow2@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 23:20:39 JST Christopher

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     @ryanc
     shrinkflation at its finest 🤣

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     Tim Clevenger :donor: (timjclevenger@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 23:30:42 JST Tim Clevenger :donor:

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     @ryanc

     Engineer: "I know we wanted to be the first company to make a gigabyte hard drive but I only managed to get to 953.67 megabytes."

     Marketing: "I have an idea..."

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 00:30:44 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Tim Clevenger :donor:

     @timjclevenger 1.44MB floppy disks were 1440*1024 bytes

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     Tim Clevenger :donor: (timjclevenger@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 02:59:53 JST Tim Clevenger :donor:

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     @ryanc Yup, 360K diskettes are 362,496 bytes even after the FAT and directory are laid down.