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I completely forgot that DVD-RAM was a thing once. Found my old disks and they still work. 🤯 The data on them is from 2008, so they’re not that old. Still impressive.
The disks are two-sided. On the photo, that particular side of the disk on the left appears to be completely unused. 🤔
And then I read on Wikipedia that DVD-RAMs aren’t produced anymore at all today. Huh.
(I refuse to tag this as “retrocomputing”. Read/write DVDs that you can use just like a harddisk, thanks to UDF, are still “new and fancy” in my book. 😂)
I’m this close to making an Android app for managing a shopping list.
I just accidentally deleted the wrong list in the app that I’m currently using, and now there’s no way to get it back. Recreating it is a major pain, because typing on a phone sucks ass. Fuck.
Maybe I should just go back to using pen and paper …
(#ja3dqbq) @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no I had to ask because they translated this with “for fucking the devil in hell”, which sounds very wrong to me and almost made-up. 😂 But maybe it’s just a botched translation.
(#ptplydq) @eapl.me@eapl.me You’re right, it was powerful! I mean, hey, this was a Dual Core machine, which was still a new and crazy thing at the time. 😃
the keyboard was amazing
Was it? It’s quite a bit “mushy” in my opinion. 😅
It’s funny how tiny the touchpad is by today’s standards.
(In the case of the Rust installer, I still wonder why they go through the trouble of having a shell script (POSIX, portable, even runs on Windows apparently), when all it does is download a binary and run that. Is that super useful to people, yeah? I’m sure there’s some reason, I just don’t see it.)
(#zm5qtpq) @mckinley@twtxt.net I think we (as in “the free software community”) have largely given up on that. curl foo | sh is basically equivalent to running precompiled binaries or the huge dependency mess that we have these days (simple programs pulling in 47289 libraries). We run completely untrusted code all the time and nobody cares anymore. The idea of eliminating distributions (which at least provide some layer of quality control) pops up again and again. A curl foo | sh is probably the least harmful thing these days, because it’s the easiest issue to fix.
(Meh: Rust’s curl https://sh.rustup.rs | sh downloads a 15 MB binary that does god-knows-what.)
(#a4gv6ea) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org … haha, I also came across that line today … while trying to compile some software that insisted on using a super modern Rust version, so I had to deal with rustup. 🙄 I guess the same is true for Newsboat?
Hmm, no, not really. Newsboat wants “Rust Edition 2021”, which is supported since Version 1.56. That’s already “ancient”. 🤣
(#yqz7kvq) @mckinley@twtxt.net Hmm, now that you mention it, my CSS is relatively “modern”. 🤔 Variables and such. I gave up on backwards compatibility here, really old browsers just don’t do CSS at all, so why bother. 😅 Maybe not the best approach.
I was today years old when I learned that you can connect to a DOS machine over a serial line. 🤯🥴
Do ctty com2 in DOS and then something like minicom -D /dev/nullmodem -R cp437 -b 9600 on Linux, for example.
It literally only redirects stdin/stdout/stderr on DOS, which limits what you can do quite a bit. Launching edit, for example, starts the editor on the normal screen and you have to use the actual keyboard to control it.
(It’s probably useful to note that you can back to normal operations using ctty con.)
Those 9600 baud are pretty slow and they make it feel like you’re sitting in front of an old machine where even dir prints line by line, slowly.
(#n66yp3q) @mckinley@twtxt.net I shut it off. It became increasingly difficult to decide where to put which content. Does it go into the phlog, the weblog, just twtxt, Mastodon, something else, … ? I wanted to reduce the number of “channels” that I use. And Gopher is the hardest for people to access – not from a technical point of view, of course, but regular clients basically don’t support it anymore. Aside from a small “elite” group, nobody could access it (and I’d rather not have to point people to Gopher proxies all the time).
I’d rather focus on keeping my website compatible with older/retro clients. Not having a forced redirect to HTTPS and sticking to a simple layout is mostly enough.
Netscape 4.07 on WfW 3.11:
Netscape 2.02 on OS/2 Warp 4 (only 16 colors in QEMU at the moment):
(Those older clients tend to extend HTTP/1.0 a bit by sending a Host: header. Without that, my webserver wouldn’t be able to find the correct vhost.)
Really, having my exact same website accessible with those browsers feels more rewarding than having to resort to Gopher. 🤔