Notices by Chris (chrisvest@mastodon.social)

@whitequark yeah, infuriating and disgusting

@whitequark this whole story is so insane I don’t know what to say. I hope you’re safe.

@whitequark I’m tempted to use Newton as a unit from now on… as in Apple Newton (battery pack capacity)

@Sebastian is @soatok involved or is their work in this area being looked at?

@whitequark SD card and the wear level is “bald”

@whitequark wishful thinking dot ppt

@whitequark pff, take your upvote Catherine

@whitequark the #RigolPosting continues

@whitequark converting one to the other is called transcoding

@whitequark for preservation purposes MS ought to release its source code so that you can compile it to wasm and put it in a browser

@whitequark there are apparently different interpretations, and Pestilence is also a popular one for the white horse, according to Wikipedia

@whitequark trying to place them… Conquest is Musk, War is Thiel. Trump is Famine? Not sure Death has fully stepped into the light yet.

@whitequark what is a “commissioner of oaths”?

@whitequark an older code, but it checks out

@whbboyd @whitequark I imagine to spin the disc, it will have to be levitated on an air cushion like in an air hockey table, which itself would be pretty cool

@whitequark didn’t calculate that, wikipedia volunteered the CD data more readily.

@whitequark but imagine if we did… if we took a look at laserdisc and were like “yeah, this is on the right track.” LD (aka. DiscoVision!) is analog, though, but CD is digital and encode 650 MiB in a 5.38km track. We’ll need 69430km for 8 TiB. With the 1.6um CD pitch, the spiral area jumps from 86.05 cm^2, to roughly 111.1 m^2, which is close to one fifth the wing surface area of a Boeing 747-400, or half of a singles tennis court, or 1.6 times the surface area of a human lung.

@whitequark there should be an achievement for getting the first local build to go through

@whitequark yeah, I knew this. I … try not to think too much about it. The mail part is why the format has uh, opinions about line lengths.

@x_cli @dalias @eff and even if something is technically possible, it doesn’t mean we should do it. The only age verification we need are those landing pages where you click yes or no; the visitor determines if it’s appropriate or not and the website trust their judgement.