Notices by Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)

it's always a good idea for a function to become recursive when it hits an error, right? if you can't locate the image file you're supposed to return, just call yourself with 'missing_image.png' as your new argument, in the exception handler!

Personally I don't think I should ever have to pull over and search the web for how to reboot part of my car, but apparently Nissan doesn't agree with me

here's a question:

I've got a keyboard with a cable that's been chopped off. The cable has 4 pins and a shield ground.

What's the easiest way to determine if this keyboard is USB or PS/2 / AT?

Nothing like finally getting to use some software you've been wanting to use, and it turns out that it has no built-in help (it came on a floppy! there wasn't space!) and the manual hasn't been scanned.

It's normal to have published source/software under FIVE different names, right?

Wow, I wrote this code so long ago it's got the wrong name in the credits!

(the code is 7 months old)

I get a new name approximately every decade and I'm 41 and I've been coding since before I had a computer to touch, so I've published a LOT of shit under a LOT of names

1. A few very early bits of code under my birth name (1998-2003)
2. A few VN extractors & APNG hate code under my 4chan nickname, late 2000s
3. A bunch of software under my 3D Movie Maker name (1999-2008ish)
4. Everything else from 2008-2026 under Foone Turing
5. Everything since April 2025 under Alice Averlong.

God I hope I'm not forgetting anything. I have more names than this but I don't think I published any software as them

okay I made a spreadsheet to explain my Era System

Maybe I should start my own calendar system, like how the japanese era names work, but based on my own names?

(after all, I'm a pope, creating new calendars is one of my jobs)

We're currently in the year of Alice 0, with Alice 1 starting January 1st.

I am currently 1.2 terabytes into archiving a 30-minute laserdisc

fortunately the discmapping process only results in 50gb used

per side

To explain better: The reason this is so huge is, first of all, laserdiscs are analog.
The base capture I'm dealing with here is a 10-bits-per-sample 40 million samples/second capture off the RF test point of the player.
Secondly, I say "30 minute laserdisc", but really I have 6 copies here: Three discs, each double-sided with the same content on each.

correction: it takes out the whole VM so hard that I can't SSH into it

and I thought MAYBE I'd somehow corrupted the processed laserdisc, so I deleted the files and ld-decoded it afresh

STILL HANGS

I don't know what the fuck is going on with this specific laserdisc side

like I have 6 sides of one laserdisc I'm decoding and discmapping, and step 2 is to do ld-process-vbi on all of them, right?

sides A, C, D, E, & F complete fine with no issues.
Side B hangs so hard that it takes out the tmux session that it's running inside.

it's a RAM problem!

For some reason this one disc causes ld-process-vbi to allocate 6 gigabytes of RAM, which this VM simply didn't have

how does this only happen with ONE side?

now I just need to discmap another 321,000 frames and then I'll be like... closer to being done!

laserdisc archival is a nightmare of slow and diskspace

I'm not sure why htop says this one process is using 2700% of my CPU, this is a single-core VM