Post AnHiPtyYoh1T3OW6Ge by tsturm@famichiki.jp
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(DIR) Post #AnHgwK5f3ivzPAAb20 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T02:46:31Z
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So I've got this fun luggable that I picked up this weekend. (sorry this is a very image heavy thread and I'm posting as I take it apart, so I'm going to skip image descriptions after this one)
(DIR) Post #AnHh44ZMeJtxaHl5yC by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T02:47:59Z
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And inside it has this card that I pulled out: A Winnov Videum 4x SDI.It's a capture card for SDI video.
(DIR) Post #AnHh79Grcpal2DZW9Q by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T02:48:29Z
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But check out this part. See how the fan cable goes into those cuts inside the PCB?
(DIR) Post #AnHhA6zWYd3EpisGfY by seano@masto.nyc
2024-10-23T02:48:57Z
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@foone can you show where they hid the PSU?
(DIR) Post #AnHhCT4BSBWrsSB3Ca by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T02:49:08Z
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yeah... Rather than buy a fan with the correct length cable, they bought a fan with a cable that's too long, and then included a spot on the PCB to wrap it around.That's... impressively lazy!
(DIR) Post #AnHhRck9l02aEY2KUS by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T02:52:13Z
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Here's the inside.There's a PSU on the bottom left, a 2.5" hard drive on left, the full size motherboard on the back, and that tiny laptop DVD driver in the bottom-right, for some reason.
(DIR) Post #AnHhhiJ2qJLe7T1lmy by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T02:55:07Z
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And that top card. It's not a video card, it's a Winnov Videum RGB XPress! That's a capture card too.It doesn't capture DVI, though: it is supposed to have an octopus cable for each of those "DVI" ports. BTW you might look at this image and go "foone you're showing us the back of the card, flip it over so we can see the chips"
(DIR) Post #AnHhk5Nk1DRwGbM61A by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T02:55:35Z
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NOPE! both sides are basically blank.They build this fucker like a sandwich, with the good bits on the inside.
(DIR) Post #AnHhznfpcoebylJIRM by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T02:58:24Z
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I opened it anyway. The chips are mainly FPGAs and RAM, with a few other scattered about. I might come back and figure out what each of these are later.
(DIR) Post #AnHiDtRswyoVwbVV2m by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:00:55Z
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hard drive is a 500mb Seagate Momentus. and I think it may be dead.
(DIR) Post #AnHiPtyYoh1T3OW6Ge by tsturm@famichiki.jp
2024-10-23T03:02:02Z
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@foone Whaaaat? The deal on those fans with the long cable must have been incredible.
(DIR) Post #AnHj0PNdX6iSsUea2K by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:09:39Z
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Pulled the PSU. It's a Sparkle Power 480w PSU
(DIR) Post #AnHjMX3BhDZr2Ndce0 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:13:42Z
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The DVD drive is a Sony DVD/CD rewriter, apparently. An AD-7740H
(DIR) Post #AnHjOyGBVChA0PsdMm by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:13:58Z
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And we're mostly in!
(DIR) Post #AnHjTo1L034dhFF0sK by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:15:01Z
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and really, what the fuck is this? Did you run out of the correctly sized fans that day?
(DIR) Post #AnHjvpTPBycWJIjSHQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:20:03Z
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I'm starting to worry that they custom-made this heatsink.This thing is very heavy. I don't have a scale nearby or I'd weigh it, but it's the kind of heavy YOU DON'T PUT IN PORTABLE COMPUTERS
(DIR) Post #AnHkFWjEatmLxyWpyC by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:23:37Z
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The bracket for the power supply (yes, really) hides another board:This DVI to LVDS board.
(DIR) Post #AnHkI2NJu6wShBTXTE by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2024-10-23T03:24:07Z
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@foone sparkles are not what i want associated with my power supply[inserts Gamers Nexus clip of PSU exploding]
(DIR) Post #AnHkPN1lW93Mm5tFXk by lewdmachines@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T03:25:22Z
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@foone the LVDS board is what decides which country you're going to proselytize the word of Joseph Smith right
(DIR) Post #AnHkSbUkBV4OVszDTk by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2024-10-23T03:25:26Z
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@foone that's... that's not heat fins. that's bolts. like premade bolts. maybe M5. they used bolts. for their heatsink. why.
(DIR) Post #AnHkV9bGLyAIrrFeZk by lewdmachines@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T03:25:43Z
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@foone the LVDS board is what decides which country you're going to proselytize the word of Joseph Smith to, right
(DIR) Post #AnHknw9uYFVcgOPlBY by Novyx@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T03:29:51Z
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@foone The truly terrifying thing about this whole setup is that someone was almost assuredly really proud of how clever they were in designing it.
(DIR) Post #AnHl4Y4BNaw0stejFw by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:32:50Z
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They found low-profile RAM, because otherwise it'd run into the PSU
(DIR) Post #AnHl77X4UNWBSXOXrM by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:33:15Z
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Their LVDS cables were too long (A problem NO ONE HAS EVER HAD BEFORE) so they just bundled them over here
(DIR) Post #AnHlCq64E7qt7aUUYS by beeftacos@famichiki.jp
2024-10-23T03:34:20Z
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@foone wow, that is some wonderfully strange engineering. They *handbuilt* a very custom, strange heatsink??? And put the wrong sized fan on it? This is some college freshman stuff, haha. I'm here for it!
(DIR) Post #AnHlG6PY1lSYaV9txo by techokami@woof.tech
2024-10-23T03:34:56Z
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@foone is this heatsink literally made out of screws? Who made this and when? O_o
(DIR) Post #AnHlItbw4hA7l1Hjn6 by yomimono@wandering.shop
2024-10-23T03:35:04Z
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@foone i’m sorry, is that heatsink just a bunch of headless screws forced into a hunk of copper? autocorrect thought I meant “heartsick”, which is appropriate
(DIR) Post #AnHlLIYuHIGxim0vFw by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:35:36Z
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okay, the (broken) display is an LG LP171WU6.That's a 17.1"(43cm) laptop display, 1920x1200, LED backlight.
(DIR) Post #AnHlNhGHPsuEu9RePQ by martin_fff@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T03:35:48Z
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@foone didn't most luggables come with shoulder straps?
(DIR) Post #AnHlQoLFY6YhjSFqS0 by Lapsus@mastodon.is-a.horse
2024-10-23T03:36:18Z
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@foone I'm reasonably sure that's an old Swiftech MCX478-V cooler, lol
(DIR) Post #AnHlhKseL3ibHZkyg4 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:39:53Z
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The bottom of the device says it came with Windows 7 Pro Embedded, and it was manufactured in March of 2012
(DIR) Post #AnHljpYTGKfwzsVYFE by lachlan@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T03:40:20Z
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@foone :O
(DIR) Post #AnHlmmKzgHd9t4bs92 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:40:49Z
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@Lapsus I think you're right!
(DIR) Post #AnHlpVERjfoHhhqWu0 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:41:12Z
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@yomimono yes!
(DIR) Post #AnHlx99tghoVYrMacS by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:42:44Z
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And let's get back to what this thing is:It's a FleXtreme NextDimension, that's what!
(DIR) Post #AnHm9enjrpAtAqxqoi by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:44:59Z
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That's these people:https://solutions.nextcomputing.com/Apparently they started as Sun workstation supplier for government and military customers, and later started doing high-performance luggables for a variety of markets, including video production. Thus, this thing. I can't find this model on their site, but they did a lot of custom things (and this thing is 12 years old: they might have just deleted it from their site )
(DIR) Post #AnHmbuLHgBQBTx7rhg by vga256@dialup.cafe
2024-10-23T03:49:10Z
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@foone this the one? https://web.archive.org/web/20120205022255/http://www.nextcomputing.com/products/portable-workstations/nextdimension-evo
(DIR) Post #AnHmbvOVlfb4kFdxNA by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:50:06Z
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@vga256 nah, that's a little too new
(DIR) Post #AnHmeFiLBr1MLS1pGy by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:50:32Z
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hard drive is not dead! but annoyingly it's bigger than the spare hard drive I have in my imaging machine, so I can't just copy everything over
(DIR) Post #AnHmxCKXzl9XLuvuoi by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:53:57Z
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okay so I rapidly found out some info.This thing does have data on the hard drive. This used to be used by a church in the bay area, and it's one that boasts on their website that they livestream their services.I bet up until relatively recently they were using this machine to do that
(DIR) Post #AnHn8rccoYCubLx3s8 by artandtechnic@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:56:01Z
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@foone This felt like a weird livestream capture system.
(DIR) Post #AnHnKcfgE6oHhvzILQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:58:12Z
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relatively recently means "up until march 2020", judging by file dates.
(DIR) Post #AnHnRhXMXA0EpGTLpQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T03:59:28Z
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I have their OBS config. I could make PIRATE CHURCH SERMONS! especially if they didn't rotate their stream key between now and 2020
(DIR) Post #AnHndvx6lQzH0cLcC8 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:01:37Z
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uh. I think this thing might have been donated from someone who worked at NetApp, and didn't clear the hard drive.There's some files from 2016 that are Net App All Hands presentations.
(DIR) Post #AnHnhY63OvEwBEFvEm by kboyd@phpc.social
2024-10-23T04:02:18Z
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@foone you wouldn't download THE WORD OF GAWD
(DIR) Post #AnHnk0XyattIzqUMrY by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:02:49Z
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NetApp Confidential - Restricted Use YEAH ABOUT THAT: MAYBE DON'T LEAVE IT ON A HARD DRIVE IN THE GARBAGE
(DIR) Post #AnHnn1kWa22ZaunWsq by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:03:19Z
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fun fact about this:in 2016 I was working for Pure Storage, one of NetApp's direct competitors
(DIR) Post #AnHnrzJv2TlbVaidAu by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:04:13Z
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I am an expert at industrial espionage but I take the slow routeI just wait 8 years for your computers to get donated to a church and then thrown out, and then I pick them up and access your presentations that were foolishly left on the hard drive! It's the perfect crime!
(DIR) Post #AnHnxhe1faBuQSqgfA by Tertle950@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T04:05:15Z
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@foone all according to keikaku
(DIR) Post #AnHoACOZAJJfGwZmfA by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:07:32Z
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the machine runs IIS for some reason. I don't really feel like looking into what this does, but I think it's some weird SOAP thing
(DIR) Post #AnHoMLWP3k0L3J2AvA by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:09:43Z
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yeah this thing has 55 files in the Archive folder, and every one I've checked is an internal confidential NetApp presentation
(DIR) Post #AnHoXc4vqEMbaWYbeC by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:11:34Z
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they're not hiring for any security positions. I checked. Not surprised, really.
(DIR) Post #AnHonqcNYGrjJZwWRs by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-10-23T04:14:38Z
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@foone if replacing the heatsink, can you clip one of those pipes? I think it's literally screws turned upside down
(DIR) Post #AnHotnmP198YFWTEno by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:15:44Z
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oh hey there's another folder with another archive but this is the church's livestreams.I can pirate the Jesus!
(DIR) Post #AnHowL8pwxMwIZAs4G by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2024-10-23T04:15:48Z
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@foone archive dot org it is!or, you know, would be, normally
(DIR) Post #AnHp4vUAhuXXKnFQBM by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-10-23T04:17:44Z
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@foone Are they mad enough to have code on it?Like here is our proprietary...
(DIR) Post #AnHp8G0CsoZBpnouiO by madopal@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T04:18:10Z
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@foone Sweet livestream piracy of undead zombie Jesus!
(DIR) Post #AnHpE3uIlXkU3jpHUW by DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz
2024-10-23T04:19:24Z
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@foone Splice two recordings together, one with a large congregation and one with a small congregation. Convince viewers the rapture has happened.
(DIR) Post #AnHpJwnA8HuljIIEXQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:20:30Z
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@DotMaetrix sadly, you can't see the congregation
(DIR) Post #AnHpMXMT8hE3j82gme by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:20:43Z
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@lewiscowles1986 a little bit of ASP code
(DIR) Post #AnHpP6Ks4pQGmDW9rs by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:21:13Z
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gaze into the heatsink of insanity
(DIR) Post #AnHpdSxyjVWl1EexO4 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:23:57Z
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so @Lapsus figured out what heatsink this is. It's an actual product that was sold, not their custom thing (though the fan mount IS custom, they made their own aluminum bracket for it)It's a Swiftech MCX478-V (or very similar, since that one is designed for a Pentium 4, and this is a Intel Core (non-duo)
(DIR) Post #AnHpu2lRPCJmg2hSZE by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:26:59Z
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fun fact about this heatsink: They did not, in fact, drill the screw holes at an angle. That was too hard, so they drilled them vertically, and just bent the screws.
(DIR) Post #AnHpz5u79uEdraAJ2e by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:27:54Z
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@blackcorvo carefully!
(DIR) Post #AnHq1kFk76yva9XtWS by scottmichaud@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-10-23T04:28:20Z
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@foone That's literally screwed up, then.
(DIR) Post #AnHq7FmUJun6oSUMPA by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:29:23Z
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oh god the church has a link to their sharepoint instance.I was a bit iffy when my local church introduced powerpoint in the early 2000s, I think this fancy produced video stuff is extra bad, but Sharepoint? That's one of the layers of hell! It's in the bible*! * it's not. I checked.
(DIR) Post #AnHqG1vVCVEkRwtEyu by Lapsus@mastodon.is-a.horse
2024-10-23T04:30:33Z
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@foone :D I used to lust after Swiftech's coolers, probably because they were so weird.
(DIR) Post #AnHqJ3cBNbUOYTISy8 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:30:58Z
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I WAS gonna email the church and tell them "hey I have 122 livestreams of yours from 2019 to 2020, do you want any of these back?" but no, now that I realize they are CORRUPTED BY THE WORLD I will simply erase all their lost data.You had one chance, Bay Area Fancy Church. You lost it when I saw "Sharepoint"
(DIR) Post #AnHqLVJfMEzf33npD6 by jimp@masto.ai
2024-10-23T04:31:22Z
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@foone Looks familiar
(DIR) Post #AnHqOBmSRmetKQYA8O by violator@mathstodon.xyz
2024-10-23T04:31:57Z
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@foone are they screws proper? at least from one photo angle it looks like it's not a thread but just ridges.
(DIR) Post #AnHqTMnysxbqy6jPZg by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:32:17Z
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@crowbriarhexe to paraphrase XKCD, if your processor has any rate of fission about 0%, you will not go to Windows today.
(DIR) Post #AnHqUWViHpmJMIjq64 by emily@sparkly.uni.horse
2024-10-23T04:32:19Z
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@foone YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A DEITY
(DIR) Post #AnHqVw6waeFl2xpIhs by bmartin427@techhub.social
2024-10-23T04:32:37Z
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@foone The Blooming Onion of heatsinks
(DIR) Post #AnHqYFZxBDQU0LUzHE by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:33:39Z
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@violator I think you're right, it's just ribbed for her pleasure, not actually screws
(DIR) Post #AnHqdPy7ygtxfzGoNs by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:35:13Z
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OKAY. Machine is torn all too pieces, it's dusty as hell, and the display is broken. The hard drive works (at the moment) but if I'm not putting this thing back together, I don't really need the contents for drivers and such. So I think I'm done here for today. Thank you for visiting my fun story of a luggable that was used by NetApp and a Specific Bay Area Church, and neither of them understood the risk of throwing away hard drives.
(DIR) Post #AnHqi42gvXg17XcWTw by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T04:36:00Z
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if I ever become a security tech/researcher, which I hope never happens, 90% of what I'll be doing is yelling at organizations that COMPUTERS (AND OTHER THINGS) HAVE HARD DRIVES IN THEM! THEY STORE DATA! THEY KEEP STORING DATA EVEN AFTER YOU PUT THE COMPUTER INTO A TRASH CAN!
(DIR) Post #AnHqky6pRXwHaUwMvA by lopta@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T04:36:09Z
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@foone @Lapsus Core Solo or Pentium M might make a handy i386 test box.
(DIR) Post #AnHrWOPxRk8YnCV9ua by MichaelPorter@ottawa.place
2024-10-23T04:45:05Z
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@foone @Edent I’m sure they’re from the “never cut a rope” school of thought 😉
(DIR) Post #AnHrgyUECLKvYPXpdw by Brett_E_Carlock@mastodon.online
2024-10-23T04:47:00Z
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@foone@Lapsus Have, can confirm it's far too heavy 🤣Bent the shit out of my board.
(DIR) Post #AnHsHrz9Kfxy6abJr6 by elronxenu@mastodon.cloud
2024-10-23T04:53:41Z
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@foone That's the next generation SpaceX engine.
(DIR) Post #AnHsKKkDNTvhsZn3Jo by elronxenu@mastodon.cloud
2024-10-23T04:53:56Z
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@foone The farkkkkk
(DIR) Post #AnHsXuPQ5Zb6FuXKnw by shlee@aus.social
2024-10-23T04:56:21Z
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@foone Cool of cthulhu. etc etc
(DIR) Post #AnHtiYT26kgZLOrokS by paoloredaelli@mastodon.uno
2024-10-23T05:09:42Z
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@fooneFor heaven's sake, for what do they use PowerPoint and SharePoint in a church?
(DIR) Post #AnHu2fOY3p2mcbMLNw by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T05:13:23Z
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@paoloredaelli PowerPoint for lyrics and announcements on the projector.No idea what they use sharepoint for, though
(DIR) Post #AnHu50yimj8S8mOmOm by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-10-23T05:13:47Z
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@foone are you sure this is mb and not GB. Just asking because of multiple live-streams and 500mb not being very large.
(DIR) Post #AnHuAXC0RMyLV1FDaS by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T05:14:27Z
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@lewiscowles1986 whoops. Thanks for pointing out that typo
(DIR) Post #AnHxSJOwkqE1nkSwnQ by Eliot_L@social.coop
2024-10-23T05:51:10Z
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@foone FYI I've had good luck with one of these, they might not make this model anymore (and it only supports USB 2.0) but I've been able to connect a number of IDE and SATA drives to my PCs as external drives via USB. Might be a good investment if you are doing a lot of scavenging of old hardware. You might be able to find one of these on eBay or a similar model that's still being made.
(DIR) Post #AnHxf8INMELP7aVQQa by forgifuzzbutt@forgi.social
2024-10-23T05:53:46Z
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@foone Objectively correct reaction to SharePoint tbh
(DIR) Post #AnHya6ZsPszoIfrH4S by bison@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T06:04:12Z
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@foone does it sparkle joy?
(DIR) Post #AnI1IM9K5AGdFFfN0S by ppxl@social.tchncs.de
2024-10-23T06:34:34Z
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@foone don't buy in that's how they got everyone. First with communist Jesus then hardcore religiofascists
(DIR) Post #AnI2XcyfthThjcX14C by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T06:48:33Z
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@ppxl it's too late, I'm already a pope
(DIR) Post #AnI2hkS6xeZpoU7sUy by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T06:50:24Z
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@foone hell has circles, not layers, you're thinking of the OSI reference model
(DIR) Post #AnI2wvbXmQFQkEmCLQ by winfriedtilanus@mastodon.nl
2024-10-23T06:53:06Z
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@foone@ge0rg I'm doing research like that. People can get very annoyed when I ask for an audit trail showing the hard drives are destructed or properly wiped...
(DIR) Post #AnI5FQ8zAq0Sa8Mdw8 by outie@slime.global
2024-10-23T07:18:51Z
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@foone LVDS in this case is pronounced "lift this"
(DIR) Post #AnI5IJbtvEUjBeGlMG by noodle@aus.social
2024-10-23T07:19:19Z
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@foone I've long wondered what the responsible disclosure process is for this. Because it is arguably unauthorized access, so some idiot could decide to shoot the messenger.
(DIR) Post #AnI8ZavV5tedg3Ms8u by pilhuhn@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T07:56:06Z
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@foone Thank you for that thread - very entertaining
(DIR) Post #AnIA3zy4eemhz3dK2S by darkling@mstdn.social
2024-10-23T08:12:47Z
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@foone A repeated conversation in the btrfs IRC channel is "I'm getting this error from my filesystem. I've rebooted, and it's still happening. Why is that?"
(DIR) Post #AnICFJivk9rWLh4hG4 by ocnurb@woof.group
2024-10-23T08:37:18Z
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@foone It's giving strong Event Horizon vibes.
(DIR) Post #AnIE9Q5RNATMFpv3tQ by bayindirh@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-23T08:58:36Z
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@foone @Lapsus Looking at a review of its P4 version (https://silentpcreview.com/review-swiftech-mcx478-v-p4-cooler/), with a 92mm fan, it's a close contender to Zalman 7000 series, which is a serious achievement considering it's a bunch of screws on a copper base.
(DIR) Post #AnIH28UigKEfWoxhaK by geoffl@mastodon.me.uk
2024-10-23T09:30:54Z
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@foone I bought an Osborne 1 luggage from ebay many years ago. There was a floppy disc in the drive. The computer had apparently been owned by a senior police officer working in south Wales. A text file on the floppy was headed "confidential informants" listed the names and contact details of multiple people, with notes. 😱
(DIR) Post #AnII0XEvo9oteLNTPc by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T09:41:53Z
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@geoffl good lord
(DIR) Post #AnIJNF3VgNKXroQVlo by geoffl@mastodon.me.uk
2024-10-23T09:57:06Z
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@foone My reaction to the discovery contained several very bad words. I then overwrote the contents of the disc.
(DIR) Post #AnIQrfFpXY4nUHdvaC by svenjacobs@androiddev.social
2024-10-23T11:21:01Z
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@foone @Lapsus That's the ugliest heatsink I have ever seen.
(DIR) Post #AnIWLaaPxXwNT6MS7E by eltonfc@bertha.social
2024-10-23T12:22:32Z
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@foone tell me this is a prototype, please
(DIR) Post #AnIXwLP7TA5B3BAO5g by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-23T12:40:24Z
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@eltonfc used for at least a few hundred videos over 4-6 years, so... Doesn't look like it
(DIR) Post #AnIZonXbAorXuGf6h6 by eltonfc@bertha.social
2024-10-23T13:01:21Z
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@foone whelp, if it looks stupid but works, it's not stupid, I guess.Some guerilla hardware Development these
(DIR) Post #AnIaexZB8ziG3gH29I by Bluedepth@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T13:10:43Z
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@foone There is no greater geek joy than putting on safety glasses, leather gloves, and placing a storage device of any type on a concrete block and beating it to foil with a sledgehammer. Gets a good sweat on, and you can call it by name. This drive is “Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, TFG, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel” and boy, that is solid catharsis. Also, all that’s really left is slightly damaged concrete and teeny tiny little bits of technology the size of pennies.
(DIR) Post #AnIrC7aaV14zxxldgW by ppxl@social.tchncs.de
2024-10-23T16:16:07Z
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@foone will you have a glass-made papamobile, as well? 😅
(DIR) Post #AnJRwZkBkVM8xQhz0a by ace22b@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T23:07:51Z
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@foone that’s a bloomin onion from the Outback Steakhouse
(DIR) Post #AnJptmvkfBiFszJwrA by bmartin427@techhub.social
2024-10-24T03:36:10Z
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@foone I think those are not actually screws? Are the 'threads' actually a spiral, or just circular ribs?
(DIR) Post #AnJxK5Sn52vAZaGIQC by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-24T04:59:28Z
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@bmartin427 I'm not certain, but they might just be ribs
(DIR) Post #AnK7qj1wVQRi60uDNw by zeri@chaos.social
2024-10-24T06:57:26Z
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@foone I don't envy the poor sods that had to assemble this monstrosity
(DIR) Post #AnK84nXIYBee7mHZK4 by schaf@netzkms.de
2024-10-24T06:59:57Z
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@foone if you gaze for long into the heat sink, the heat sink gazes also into you
(DIR) Post #AnKLiEcJ65vQoOlCvw by JennyFluff@chitter.xyz
2024-10-24T09:32:39Z
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@foone @Lapsus i had a similar looking one for an AMD Athlon 1000 (the non-XP one). Oh gosh it was not doing so well.