I've seen a bunch of bike packing videos with people holding a bike tube up to their ear or using water, trying to find location of a leak. In Yvette Kooijman's latest video her partner used something entirely unexpected.
@BorrisInABox @cordova5029 Okay, so first you need a floppy drive. No problem! a.co/d/5nnSz9M Then you would need floppy disks, which seem to only come in 10 packs: a.co/d/gRuh3DB And at 1575 floppies, you would need at least 158 boxes, so at 37 bucks per box, it would cost you around $5846, plust the cost of the drive itself. So barring any bad disks, for a bit less than 6K, you should be all setup to your hearts content. LOLOLOL!
@mcourcel @BorrisInABox and of course, don't label any of the disks. that stack must remain it's integrety, any time you need a disk, you must count it, from the pile.
@mcourcel @cordova5029 Pocket? That's so big! You can buy 2TB MicroSD cards these days. How many of those could you glue to the surface of a 3.5 inch floppy disk without stacking?
@BorrisInABox @tarrenvane @mcourcel make an adapter, that shrinks an sd card's content size, and expands it's formfactor, and repackage them as floppies.
@BorrisInABox @tarrenvane @mcourcel that way if you ahve a really old machine with a floppy drive and want to massively increas the size of it's what ever, put this thing in it that looks like a floppy but is really a 2 tb sd card in a thing that massively increases it's formfactor, but is totally readable by this machine, because it reads it like a floppy, somehow automagically it reads it.
@cordova5029 @tarrenvane @mcourcel Well, the multi-format combination card reader and floppy drive combos were all the rage in the early aughts. That fad didn't last long. Stick a thing in a 3.5 inch bay and get usually two or three card slots plus a floppy in one unit.
@BorrisInABox @cordova5029 @tarrenvane Back in 2019, I was returning some equipment to I T, because I was moving on from a job. I dropped off a floppy drive and the kid was all confused. Is this a GameBoy cartridge reader or something? I said: "Yes, yes it is, but it's missing the universal cartridge converter, so not sure what to do." Some dude behind him started laughing, "That's a floppy drive, stupid." Hehehe lolol! so much fun!
While the UK has a million problems, the right-wing talking point over "arrests for social media posts" is entirely fake, made up, and 100% bullshit. The reality is that the number of people convicted for online posts in the UK has declined sharply since 2015 - from about 2000 then to less than 1100 in 2025. Of note is that only about 10% of those received any prison time, and the majority of those were less than two months long.
And no, those convictions weren't over shitposts, but posts inciting actual violence, calling for murder, abuse and god knows what else - like right-wingers calling for burning down asylum centers or killing non-white children.
So, if you see right-wing lunatics ejaculating over social media posts arrests in the UK - it's bullshit. None of it is true.
On June 3, Georgian Dream MP Nino Tsilosani wrote that in the United Kingdom, more than a thousand people are arrested each month due to social media posts.
I'm noticing a weird thing in files on IOS 26. If I open an mp3 file, VLC opens it. Is there a way to change this behavior? I don't always want it doing that.
When you move to the file, flick the rotor down until you come to "get info.. A one finger triple tap would also get you to the context menu which includes get ingo. Once in there, you can change the always open with default. There's also the "share" option when you have a default but want to open a file in a different app.
🏷️ What brand are you requesting? XMPP 🌐 Official website http://xmpp.org/ 📘 Brand assets or guidelines (optional) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XMPP_logo_(without_text).svg 🔍 Request che...
Tomorrow night join @Liz, for Full Circle from 7 P.M. eastern (US time). As it is the second last show of the year, their will not be a showcase, or Chickenman, but their will be something special. So tune in tomorrow night, and see what that special thing is. HKCRadio.com
A raptor has landed on a tree outside our window! It’s SO big, I could tell immediately from its swoopy landing that it was not a regular birb, and then I found my binoculars and yeah, it’s a biggun. A hawk I think?
Looks a little floofy, like it’s been through it a bit (or maybe it’s just a juvenile?). But seemed healthy, spent a good ten minutes peering down at the town, swaying back and worth as the tree moved in the wind.
I'm heading back to Singapore next month for iOS Conf SG. I'll be doing a workshop on AI using Apple's Foundation Model and helping with speaker introductions.
I also hope to visit the orchids again and perhaps the night zoo.
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I decided to get into SDR, as it seems very interesting. Gave SDR # a try, and found that the software is inaccessible. Does anyone know of a good accessible alternative? If not, it might be time for another vibe coding project.
Out of the box, the most accessible SDR package on Windows is HDSDR. At least it has lots of hotkeys.
If you have a RTLSDR though, not one of their SDRPlay units, or something like an Airspry, you'll also need an external DLL file, which is available for download somewhere on their webpage. The Airspy one in particular is hard to find, and there are a few versions. The RTL one is a bit easier to come by. Unfortunately, HDSDR doesn't support stereo wideband, but you can pipe I/Q to some other decoder to get that if you really need it.
I really like the idea of #deltachat but I never tried it until now. It just seemed sooo uninteresting. Why? Because of the graphical and #UI branding.
I'm not even a huge UI fan, I use CLI apps 90% of the time. But the mundane and gray logo, the gray UI, every graphical element of it seems so uninteresting. The screenshots look like they are from 2010s.
I think upping their design game will really boost users. Delta is a unique idea on the backend, give users a unique experience in the frontend too.
I recently started using Book Notification (booknotification.com).
For me, the use case is simple: add a list of #authors I like, and they send me a weekly email with upcoming releases by those authors and a link to a personalised #book release calendar page.
I read a lot of #books, so I like what they're doing. Unfortunately there is a catch. Two, actually.
Firstly, they use an #accessibility overlay (Ally by Elementor). While it isn't personally bothersome for me (particularly given the fact that my primary interest is in the content they email out), I do fundamentally object to using a service that perpetuates the use of these tools however unmaliciously.
Secondly, the first time I visited the site after signing up, I'd been signed out and the backend had apparently forgotten my password. Services not handling authentication data and user sessions well is a development pet peeve of mine.
All of this to say: if this sounds appealing to you and you're not put off by the highlighted caveat and hiccup, it does seem to work well. But I'm also interested in recommendations of other services like this that will let me keep track of new book releases by authors I enjoy. Do you know of any?
(Please no Goodreads, Amazon, Audible, or the like.)
Greetings Mac VO users. What are you all using to read PDF files? Preview is what I have been using, but it insists on every page being a group of things, and then any tables, lists, ETC become subgroups of things. There used to be a view where you could just have everything be on one page, and just be able to move through it like a document, but I think they've removed this? Is there anything other than preview that’s worth a look? Thanks for any feedback on this.
Would love to know as well. This is kinda weird but I just use Microsoft Edge to read PDF files lol.. It works pretty well actually, and you can even have them read using Microsoft's neural voices which is nice sometimes.
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