Notices by Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)

@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co Ah, thank you! For the refurbs, is there a good supplier, or do you just find them on EBay and the like?

There's a lot of these highly specific drive units out there, meant to slot into specific tape archival units. If they could be repurposed, that'd be great.

I can find some 'normal' LTO-5/6+ drives out there, but they're running like, 600 smackers used and that is WAY more than I'm willing to spend at this time. Honestly, I just wanna get in at the 5 level, at least, due to the existence of a file system...

Anyone know what a reasonable price on an LTO-5 tape drive (just the drive is), and whether a drive like this one, for example, can have the more, uh... HP specific parts shucked off to just have what would fit into a standard 5.25 inch slot with a SAS connector?

https://ebay.us/m/uWbDma

(HP 695111-001 AQ284B#103 LTO-5 6Gb/s SAS HH Tape Drive BL540B)

I'm not specifically looking at this one, precisely, but I'm not willing to fork over 100 bucks just to find that there's no way for me to hook it up. I'd take LTO-5 or above; that's the first generation, to my understanding, that has an actual file system, which would make my life a lot easier.

Boosts appreciated!

#LTO5 #tapeBackup #backup #backupYourData #tapeDrives #LTO6

But I would still be very interested in the answer to this question, if anyone knows, because I think we're currently at an age with portable media formats that if you can, you should have a supply line of backup readers/writers...

WELL, and then I found something that'll fit, confirmed (not as part of one of these weird shells) in the price range. Luck of the draw for you, I suppose.

On this note: someone please kick my ass and make me do the bluray test I've been planning to do, where I prep a dataset + parity recovery data, burn 4 blu-ray copies with 2 burners, place two in safe, relatively controlled conditions and then place 2 in horrible shit conditions (planting them outside) and then, every month or so, test

1. am I able to read the disks?
2. if so, am I able to recover the data, and if so, how difficult is it and how much recovery data is necessary

I have the hardware and media ready to go, just have lacked time/energy for it.

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place @cwebber@social.coop this part drives me INSANE. They bring all of like, 12 jobs, if that, they inevitably have a TON of tax breaks so they don't bring in any freaking tax income, they get sweetheart deals on power and water that drive up costs for everyone else, they're often noisy...

has anyone done a "If Altman didn't want a molotov cocktail thrown at his house he should have opted out" bit yet, or is that still available

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party I'm struggling to imagine what might be more environmentally friendly than "just put a compostable thing up to block the sun"?! Like what was she even advocating FOR?? Tons of manual labor? Chemicals??...

ordered some relatively thin audio cable to make some new wrapped cords and it came bundled up, and it feels almost exactly like just holding a bunch of loose, fresh pasta. It is both pleasing to hold and making me a little hungry, maybe?

some soldering is in my future...!

anyway, gonna make some new patch cables since like, at least 3 of the tiny ones I bought for guitar pedals all fucked out and shorted, somehow? Plus I need more headphone cables. Gonna wrap them all in ... paracord (I almost wrote pycord, thanks Python!).

(EDIT: to be clear, I bought two thicknesses; one for the guitar pedals and the other for headphones)

it's wild how fast "making your own audio cables" becomes cheaper than buying the damn things.

Exponential fucking growth on the need for audio cables the moment you get into electronic instruments of any stripe...

@alienghic@timeloop.cafe @blogdiva@mastodon.social Pinkerton walking into a West Virginia dive bar after the mine closed "Who here loves the mining conglomerates, amirite or amirite?? Shareholder value??"

To protect our citizens from the toxic waste dumped into the river by negligent companies, we're taking strong action: guards will be posted at the river and you must identify yourself as being over 18 to drink the toxic waste that will still be dumped into the river.

did you know: my purchase from you isn't "green" if I never fucking buy anything from you again because you gave money to a nazi millionaire for his fucking window compositor dotfiles?

can't help but notice I've covered up a lot of corporate logos on shit, lately. they just fucking annoy me. so covered up with paint, stickers, pen, whatever, fuck offffffff

but, with this framework laptop here, I am specifically covering up the logo because fuck you, framework.

so anyway Bill Gates is almost certainly a rapist, potentially of children, and people at the company he founded are rushing to institute "age verification" at the behest of a pedophile king

yeah, great job

I think every fucking "protect the children" bill should have to come with some real fucking evidence or research as to how, exactly, it is going to "protect the children". "Would this have done anything to stop Epstein?" "What ways are children being harmed now and how would this stop it?" People who raped and trafficked children are holding the reins of society and demanding we all build the bricks of our own prison

I'm no expert but I suspect "universal health care", "maternity/paternity leave", "food access programs", "universal free education", etc, would go a long way towards "protecting the children" as a start. I bet that people who specialize in this have great ideas, as well, and that probably none of them are "your computer spies on you".