Mastodawn

jackcole 1d ago

@Nigel_Purchase

Richard Vasquez 1d ago

McNadoMD 2d ago

Every. Single. Time.

Every single time someone says alligator alcatraz, correct them with “alligator Auschwitz”. Every time. Every fucking time. Make it uncomfortable and embarrassing.

This is just another Republican team slogan meant to make something we all know is horrific more palatable. Don’t let it happen.

Gareth Simpson 3d ago

Is this ironic? It feels like it might be ironic.

#gravy #ai

I submit #snails to be the next #gravy. Gotta change the vectors every so often.

(((Cindy Weinstein)))3d ago

I think a lot about Emerson's quote, "the corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language" (Nature).

With this in mind, I ask that people not use "Alligator Alcatraz" to identify the concentration camp in Florida. Do not use the language of the fascists. It masks (like the ICE agents who wear them) the reality of what is happening. Don't let them do that.

#ConcentrationCamps
#Fascism

Nando161 3d ago

#art #antifa #anarchy #classwar #ausgov #politas

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/goodbye-to-all-that

Anne Applebaum 3d ago

A senior FBI officer resigns

Goodbye to All That

My resignation from the FBI.

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Richard Vasquez 4d ago

Nullstring 🏴‍☠️4d ago

fuck tyranny

all my homies hate tyranny

Richard Vasquez 5d ago

Dear News Site,

I understand that running servers isn't free. Nor are salaries for writers and IT. You need to make money and that requires subscribers and ads.

Back in 2000, that wasn't too bad, and we understood it. But you also seemed to understand that we were reading, damnit. So your ads would be in a different colored text block, or there'd be an image showing a product.

All good.

Then the gifs started animating. Then Flash crap started dancing across the text we were reading. Then the malware guys hooked up with the ad distributers. Then the cookies started tracking us all over the Web thanks to selling your souls to Meta, Google, Amazon and the like.

Not good.

You broke our trust.

You can go to hell. Why?

Because fuck you, that's why.

Richard Vasquez 5d ago

Malcolm Nance 5d ago

#trump, #StephenMiller, and Tom Homan are FURIOUS about this ICEBlock app, which informs folks where #ICE is operating.

So you definitely shouldn't RT this like crazy, because it would make trump even madder.

PastaThief Jan 17, 2023

Boost if you're old enough to know why I have one of these on my computer desk.

Dan Q Jan 17, 2023

@PastaThief sometimes 720k just isn't enough!

Abie Jun 28

@PastaThief oooof. Never saw any uned but I can guess :)

Master of Crevettes Jun 28

@temptoetiam @PastaThief (I have one for binders, and my dad used to own the specific one used for horse races betting cards)

Abie Jun 28

@MaitreCrevettes @PastaThief I suspect it was used here to punch holes in punchcards computer programs, but I might be wrong.

Bernd Herd Jun 28

@temptoetiam @MaitreCrevettes @PastaThief Maybe you had a single-sided 5 1/4" floppy drive and you punched a second hole in your floppies to be able to use the backside by placing them rotated in your floppy drive.

I did that in 1982 or so.

Single sided, 34 tracks, single density were about 80 KByte capacity per side. I still have that drive in my cellar.

Master of Crevettes Jun 28

@temptoetiam @PastaThief obviously.

(Note that some knitting machine also ran on punch cards, so you can find such items in knitting tools on Etsy I guess, though they are probably different because you punch in the middle of the card, not only on the sides like this one or the "pince à tiercé")

Master of Crevettes Jun 28

@temptoetiam @PastaThief ohlalalala 😍

https://www.reddit.com/r/specializedtools/s/W6FBBYtjQW

@MaitreCrevettes @temptoetiam I actually used them mostly with floppy disks, although you could use them with punch cards, yes. :) A friend of mine actually operated a Jacquard Loom for demonstrations at the local at the local science centre for a time! (I don't know if she's still doing that.)

@temptoetiam @MaitreCrevettes There are those who used them for that; I used them for making 5.25" floppies double-sided. :)

Master of Crevettes Jun 29

@PastaThief @temptoetiam trust us both to read all the comments to your post. We both live in *that* corner of the fediverse, and Abie has a thing for finding the best oddities.

Ken Butler Jun 28

@MaitreCrevettes @temptoetiam @PastaThief betting shops used to have floors "carpeted" with losing betting slips. I suppose that's all on phones these days.

Kevin P. Fleming Jun 28

@PastaThief PROTIP: These don't work on SSDs.

Hdunagan Jun 28

@kevin @PastaThief Best post of the week.

Bill Jun 28

@kevin @PastaThief Underrated comment of the day.

Jim Flanagan 4d ago

@kevin @PastaThief you have to squeeze real hard

Hdunagan Jun 28

@PastaThief I know what it is, but I keep three three-version on MY computer desk.

adorfer Jun 28

@PastaThief i was never fan of GCR. For MFM drives (of shugart flavor) you could not operate without the index pulse.
So we opened the sleeves, removed the media and drilled that 2nd index hole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_coded_recording

Group coded recording - Wikipedia

zipkid - Breaker of Systems Jun 28

@PastaThief Like the little wad of paper to push in the hole in the side of the cassette tape :-)

Michael Weiss Jun 28

@zipkid @PastaThief I just used Scotch tape over the hole

Cegorach Jun 28

@PastaThief why you have one on your desk, now?

I have no idea... you like to feel old?

@dat I mean, I still have two working 80s-era computers on my desk (an Apple IIe and an Atari 130XE).

Chad McCullough Jun 28

@PastaThief Ha! I know exactly why you have one of these on your computer desk.

Jon Quass Jun 28

@PastaThief
Classic debugger 😂

Jean-Francois Mezei Jun 28

@PastaThief the holes in punched cards or paper tape were rectangular , not round. Thinking this was perhaps used to destroy floppy disks ? (Prior to the 3.5 inch ones).

Olivier Aubert Jun 28

@jfmezei @PastaThief not destroy: double their capacity

Jean-Francois Mezei Jun 28

@olivier_aubert @PastaThief ok remember now. Turn single sided to double sided. One if the corners, right?

@jfmezei @olivier_aubert On the side a bit beneath the corner, but yes. :)

Chris Bohn Jun 28

@olivier_aubert @jfmezei @PastaThief If you have poor aim, destroy

Ian Turton Jun 29

@jfmezei @PastaThief paper tape used round holes

Ross of Ottawa Jun 28

@PastaThief in case of impromptu weddings.

UkeleleEric Jun 28

@PastaThief Although it wasn't strictly necessary (punch on ticket machine), I have used one of these in the past.

Darren Hobbs

Jun 28

@PastaThief Old enough, but I was fancy. I had the one made for the task.

@dkh NICE!

quadrivial 💛🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽Jun 28

@PastaThief takes me back to about 1984...

Hdunagan 4d ago

@quadrivial @PastaThief Snd I keep thinking 1984 was only a few years ago.

René Dario Jun 28

@PastaThief I do not know why.

considerate Jun 28

@PastaThief you'll face consequences for stealing artifacts from museums! 😅

James Donohoe Jun 28

@PastaThief

My floppy of choice back in the day...when I could afford them.

@JamesMDonohoe Elephant was nice, although I was a bit of a Dysan afficianado.

James Donohoe Jun 29

@PastaThief Yepper - Dysan also a fantastic choice.

Murphestophelese MurphMeister Jun 28

@PastaThief I recall punching holes in the case with one of these, in my old computers, to reduce weight, and therefore increase speed.

@ZenHeathen @PastaThief "So do (I) you!"

Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Jun 28

@PastaThief kinky!

Athena L.M.Jun 28

@PastaThief I am not old enough, but it's for making 5.25in diskettes double-sided, right?

@alilly Yep!

rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually Jun 28

@PastaThief

You can make the flip side usable or, if you’re bad enough at it, both sides unusable.

Shriram Krishnamurthi Jun 28

@rk I see all the references to 5.25" floppies, which I knew well, but I have never used a punch with one. What does it do with a floppy?
@PastaThief

rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually Jun 28

@shriramk @PastaThief

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/flippy.html

You could use a hole punch to make another write notch on the other side of a single-sided floppy, doubling your disk space (though at the time most drives could only read one side at a time).

Some disks were also shipped without a write notch at all, so that you couldn’t replace whatever was on them; a hole punch gave you a free reusable floppy!

flippy