Post Ax53FPEweKvSpp7WE4 by gnomon@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Ax4DuWri0bYKjyXVcu by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-11T17:30:48Z
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the problem with being "the floppy person" is that every decade or so you have to write some code to read FAT12 tables. and every time you wonder if it's worth it
(DIR) Post #Ax4EnxTml9cbD4mR0q by arbe@mathstodon.xyz
2025-08-11T17:40:51Z
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@foone the problem with being "the floppy person" is that most human infrastructure is designed with people with internal skeletons in mind.
(DIR) Post #Ax4Fmx2wz1M1X3JPG4 by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-08-11T17:51:51Z
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@foone Ohhh ... I had successfully repressed the memory of the "one byte and a couple bits" dance on floppy FATs. I remember it as an enjoyable brain teaser, but that's probably because I haven't had to look at it since ... the eighties? Good times, good times...
(DIR) Post #Ax4IQoJB5hdPvG2JTU by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-11T18:21:54Z
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everyone is talking about the 2038 apocalypse but not enough people are talking about the 2108 apocalypse when the DOS FAT format runs out of years
(DIR) Post #Ax4IXKAdXaquTl9CFc by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-11T18:22:40Z
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it records years as a 7-bit number starting at 1980, so it can't store dates after 2107
(DIR) Post #Ax4IajbtPh1kFOWRWq by jbqueru@floss.social
2025-08-11T18:22:43Z
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@foone Is that limitation still in exFAT?
(DIR) Post #Ax4IgYCWkGEkbGQmbw by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-11T18:24:29Z
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@jbqueru yep
(DIR) Post #Ax4Ipqo0wWTKuKOr0i by pikesley@mastodon.me.uk
2025-08-11T18:26:06Z
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@foone [Ron Howard voiceover]: "Not enough people were, in fact, talking about the 2038 apocalypse"
(DIR) Post #Ax4JwLYbcedjyOr17o by leonerd@fosstodon.org
2025-08-11T18:38:23Z
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@foone Ah yes, everyone loves the byte-and-a-half data type
(DIR) Post #Ax4KwwlZNc23KTlfeK by darkling@mstdn.social
2025-08-11T18:49:40Z
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@foone It's OK, there's a new filesystem I've heard of called ozempic that's meant to deal with that.
(DIR) Post #Ax4LB61Vl6sk5syHku by Oneironaut@infosec.exchange
2025-08-11T18:52:06Z
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@foone
(DIR) Post #Ax4LF1dA26Ntd1SHg0 by dormouse759@mas.to
2025-08-11T18:52:32Z
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@foone Actually it's 2024 apocalypse.That's the year we overshot targets for 2038.
(DIR) Post #Ax4Mac8BcWFurrpETg by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2025-08-11T19:08:04Z
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@foone I thought the problem would be having to stand outside used car dealerships and flailing erratically
(DIR) Post #Ax4NVQ1vHfxLqLyxgu by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-11T19:18:15Z
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@lyncia fat12, fat16, fat32, and exfat
(DIR) Post #Ax4QpxAW5KKyH7U8Mi by curtmack@floss.social
2025-08-11T19:55:44Z
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@foone personally I'm most worried about the 2028 apocalypse, when all the software with a 10-year sleep working around some obscure issue will break
(DIR) Post #Ax4S3uZ8ev2QD8Dn16 by peturdainn@mastodon.social
2025-08-11T20:09:26Z
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@foone oh not FAT12 with its alternating byte and nibble
(DIR) Post #Ax4U3a2fALFgSw07yy by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-08-11T20:31:51Z
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@fooneIf I recall correctly DOS floppy time stamps also only have 5 bits for seconds, so all files are created at a time with an even number of seconds...
(DIR) Post #Ax4YVfAI6yyYHODPo8 by dfx@techhub.social
2025-08-11T21:21:40Z
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@foone @zeratul2099 Screaming while running around in circles!!!
(DIR) Post #Ax4Ykjnx8xfT0rxHIe by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-08-11T21:24:29Z
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@foone I know this is meant mostly as a joke, but this is actually interesting because EFI uses FAT16... Probably not a breaking issue, but perhaps not a non-issue?Well, hopefully by then we use a real filesystem that's slightly less horribly insanely almost uselessly outdated like EXT4 which is only incredibly, shockingly and wildly outdated, lol.
(DIR) Post #Ax4YoUnesAsPdQbpgm by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-08-11T21:24:51Z
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@foone @jbqueru Really?That's wild! exFAT was supposed to fix stuff like that!
(DIR) Post #Ax53FPEweKvSpp7WE4 by gnomon@mastodon.social
2025-08-12T03:06:11Z
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@foone ah yesThe Year When Every Clock Will Lie To DOS
(DIR) Post #AxBeSMxpHmJ2nCuvgG by pitrh@mastodon.social
2025-08-15T07:30:54Z
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@foone you just released in me a gust of deep fear that some descendant of mine will encounter just that, on a system that runs off ancient floppies.