Post Aq3a6QLIkIC1J6JvMW by ryanfb@digipres.club
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(DIR) Post #Aq3Z9dKCpmWOUAm56O by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T00:49:36Z
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The Floppy Disk drawers of Babel
(DIR) Post #Aq3ZFHp9gdF3XVwjw0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T00:50:41Z
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it's semi-infinite library containing one 3.5" floppy disk for every possible combination of 11,796,480 bits (1.44mb).
(DIR) Post #Aq3ZYSQoTNFlwKhaZE by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T00:54:07Z
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@Rairii I wondered how long it would take someone to point out that this means Windows 95's original release floppies aren't in here
(DIR) Post #Aq3ZbRhBfJH6WgmmH2 by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T00:54:22Z
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See this article for the dangers of having Every File:https://everything2.com/title/Converting+Pi+to+binary%253A+Don%2527t+do+it%2521
(DIR) Post #Aq3ZjJWPwGcZUbV4Eq by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T00:56:09Z
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also yes this means that the library doesn't contain 1-to-1 copies of DD disks, everything GCR formatted (HI OLD MACS!), and DMF formatted disks. I'm sorry, you can't install Windows 95 from the Floppy Disk Drawers of Babel
(DIR) Post #Aq3ZoaYW2Db5lnzrPM by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T00:57:06Z
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but figuring out how many bits you need to represent EVERY floppy is above my paygrade, so it's left as an exercise for the reader.
(DIR) Post #Aq3ZuLzT6KHQKmLvU0 by johnefrancis@cosocial.ca
2025-01-14T00:58:06Z
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@foone only weighs 2.5B metric tons. Mostly garbage, but there's going to be some great stuff in there...
(DIR) Post #Aq3ZxoLs6vM7AETq76 by munin@infosec.exchange
2025-01-14T00:58:44Z
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@foone I'm feeling lazy; can't I just`dd bs=11796480 if=/dev/random of=/tmp/babelfloppy` in a loop for a while? I don't wanna deal with changing disks.
(DIR) Post #Aq3a6QLIkIC1J6JvMW by ryanfb@digipres.club
2025-01-14T01:00:08Z
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@foone unfortunately, the closer you look at floppies the more you realize the cosmic horror that they don’t have “bits” at all
(DIR) Post #Aq3a9dh9YeulaV4gYC by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T01:00:33Z
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@ryanfb yeah, they're analog! like everything when you look too closely
(DIR) Post #Aq3aCbZNus1vrgr4zI by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T01:01:10Z
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@munin no sorry, you have to go find the exact disk
(DIR) Post #Aq3aZ42ak4UkXNE3lo by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T01:05:29Z
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@johnefrancis I think you're miscalculating. It's not 11.7 million floppies, it's 2^11796480, which is a Big Number
(DIR) Post #Aq3aqSrDjBWQQZCiLg by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T01:08:37Z
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@kawa same, yeah
(DIR) Post #Aq3auyaDiKIJyvP5iy by astrid@tiny.tilde.website
2025-01-14T01:07:43Z
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@ireneista @ryanfb @foone or as i like to think of it, magtape is a time machine for your transformer coupling
(DIR) Post #Aq3auzo5AGydmCtfyC by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T01:09:11Z
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@astrid @ireneista @ryanfb out, out! you RF witches!
(DIR) Post #Aq3bMdPY1bmSQSbHgu by johnefrancis@cosocial.ca
2025-01-14T01:14:25Z
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@foone oh, I definitely miscalculated and forgot to divide the bits by 1.44M before multiplying by 18 grams...
(DIR) Post #Aq3bUvqbMYpZvDD9Dk by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-14T01:15:54Z
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@kawa deer can meow if they want to.Besides, I don't have a set fursona, I'm some kind of cow-deer-cat-puppy-slimegirl-angel who can't decide
(DIR) Post #Aq3uj2Io3hQ97mqISm by Archivist@social.linux.pizza
2025-01-14T04:51:35Z
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@foone according to my summary calculations, you can store the variations of 4 bytes (aka the case where 1 floppy would be 4 bytes) in the equivalent surface of my regional archives (assuming drawers that store 4 rows of 32 floppies in 16 drawers, packed 64 of them in a room, putting 256 room in each 8 main hallways of each floor)
(DIR) Post #Aq3uvhIbSYgvkTmidE by Archivist@social.linux.pizza
2025-01-14T04:53:57Z
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@ryanfb @fooneQLS SSDs store a level of voltage between 0 and 15 to store 4 bits per electron trap. The most dense modern storage format is analog
(DIR) Post #Aq4JD5SJITsyUY9Mlk by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T09:25:36Z
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@foone so that's why there are so many different programming languages
(DIR) Post #Aq4TCSxFRSpqcmxnt2 by ge0rg@chaos.social
2025-01-14T11:17:32Z
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@fooneIt becomes trivial once you realize that you need 11,796,480 bits to index the library, and the visitor asking for a given floppy has to provide you with the 11,796,480 bit index.
(DIR) Post #Aq4dY6jxiJyZdmhvIu by MedeaVanamonde@chaosfem.tw
2025-01-14T13:13:27Z
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@foone but is it mirrored?Such Libraries, contained inpock universes at the heart of Sum Runners make an appearance as a location/character in Bear’s City At The End Of Time
(DIR) Post #Aq4dk3x1uTiaStWK36 by MedeaVanamonde@chaosfem.tw
2025-01-14T13:15:43Z
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@foone calculate Pi in Base 11 only for a fun surprise
(DIR) Post #Aq4sMtkz91OtV4Ib7g by diyelectromusic@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T15:59:25Z
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@foone Is there a similar one containing an image for every combination of bits that represents the contents of the state of a modern digital display?Weirdly that would include numbers representing a screenshot of my display right now whilst writing this reply.And another for now. And now too...
(DIR) Post #Aq8wlSuhGGZDw3eQoC by notsoloud@expressional.social
2025-01-16T15:07:39Z
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@fooneI have those floppies in my library, sorted by contents. Just give me the number of the floppy and I'll return you what's on it.