Jeff Cutsinger

@jeffcutsinger@tenforward.social
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A guy came back from the dead and now I eat him. Once rented a hamster. High-fived a whale. Mr. Hooper is my hero.

Profile picture description: the head and shoulders of a white man wearing a suit. His facial expression is neutral. His eyes are blue. His trimmed brown hair is receding. He has a full beard and mustache, both also trimmed.

Header description: An agape possum face in a helmet from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey".

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JobComputer janitor
Jeff Cutsinger2h ago
Cassandrich13h ago

Retro computing friends,

Has anyone done a reverse engineering of the Stacker compressed disk volume format (stacvol.dsk)? It was a predecessor to DoubleSpace/DriveSpace via third-party software for DOS.

I have a volume compressed with it that might have data of historical significance, but I believe there was some fs damage, so sufficient knowledge to process it manually would probably be better than trying to setup a VM capable of reading it only to be greeted with errors and no tooling to debug them.

Boosts for reach welcome!

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@johnnysbug I'm cancelling you for this post
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@yaelwrites tag urself I'm Denmank
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@jplebreton 'It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies' ... 'Together we'll make X great again!'
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@yaelwrites People in LA being willing to risk life & limb for their migrant neighbors. They shouldn't have to, but it's inspiring nonetheless
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@lcamtuf I think the coastline paradox is a good way to intuitively describe this; if you circumscribe a land area with coarse measurements, you get an approximation of its perimeter and area. As you refine the measurements, the area decreases as the perimeter increases; your shape is just that phenomenon taken to a pathological extreme. Also, "X taken to a pathological extreme" is a pretty good way to describe what math is.
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@Ashedryden Trump being a coward is one of the very few good things about him. I really don't want to encourage him to be braver than he is
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@0xabad1dea FYI: BDS is calling for a boycott of Microsoft https://aftermath.site/elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remaster-bethesda-microsoft-bds
You Don’t Need To Buy The Oblivion Remaster - Aftermath

In a move equal parts surprising and totally expected (for literal years), Microsoft shadow-dropped its not-so-secret The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster today. Cool, great. Also, it does not need to exist, and you do not need to buy it.