Posts by 0x56@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AQPAMXBshinAS3MhHs by 0x56@mastodon.social
2022-12-08T13:56:33Z
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@Raspberry_Pi slashing demand by alienating your customer base is definitely one way to solve your supply chain problems...making light of police surveillance is definitely a misstep, being an asshole in your replies is inexcusable. guess i'll be looking at other vendors next time i'm picking up SBCs
(DIR) Post #AQPAMZ4Vi65IHlvq4m by 0x56@mastodon.social
2022-12-08T15:53:51Z
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@Raspberry_Pi got blocked for this also lol, looking forward to the moment they realize how much goodwill they're pissing away from folks who have used them since 2012...
(DIR) Post #AQSDTidLRNGVIyCy4u by 0x56@mastodon.social
2022-12-08T15:36:31Z
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Some #RaspberryPi alternative SBCs to consider:- ROCK Pi 4 (https://rockpi.org)- MangoPi MQ Pro (https://mangopi.org)- Odroid C4 (https://www.hardkernel.com)- ROCK64 (https://pine64.com)- Le Potato (https://www.loverpi.com)- Banana Pi M6 (https://www.banana-pi.org)These examples share similar form factors and/or specs to various RPi models, but their vendors offer many other options as well. What other recommendations do folks have?
(DIR) Post #AQSDTjFHALbfCbxGCW by 0x56@mastodon.social
2022-12-08T19:47:36Z
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turns out there's a whole directory of SBC options, searchable by architecture, specs, form factor, header compatibility, etc. (thanks @be!)https://hackerboards.com/#RaspberryPi
(DIR) Post #ARJVsmbptQfJmwu9JY by 0x56@mastodon.social
2023-01-03T06:35:41Z
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PSA: take some time in 2023 to back up your/your family's CD-Rs (and other recordable media) full of memories you threw into storage 10+ years ago; there's a decent chance they've started to rot!the tenuously thin layer of dyes/adhesives holding the data *will* break down over time, rapidly so if their environment is uncontrolled, the surface was previously nicked/contaminated, or they were cheap ones to begin with
(DIR) Post #ARJVsoKtTOIl8yzeBU by 0x56@mastodon.social
2023-01-03T06:35:41Z
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thanks to error correction, and with the help of free, modern file forensics tools (e.g. PhotoRec/TestDisk) even damaged disks may have recoverable contents. use your OS or a disk imaging tool to save a raw ISO/"master" image ASAP, which you can later mount (or carve) for the files withincloud storage and USB drives are cheap today (especially in comparison to the size of CDs and JPEGs from the 2000s), and what price would you wish you could pay to get the data back once it's truly lost?
(DIR) Post #ARJVspxZR4pkBE636m by 0x56@mastodon.social
2023-01-03T06:35:41Z
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if you don't have a disc drive readily available, they're easy to find with both USB-A and USB-C connectivity. i've had good luck with an Asus ZenDrive U9M (~USD $35) and a Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD (~USD $200). for 99% of discs the $35 one is perfectly adequateso, don't give up hope if you notice deterioration setting in, but definitely don't put this off either!
(DIR) Post #ARNTNQltc2r3o5N8cK by 0x56@mastodon.social
2023-01-06T19:56:53Z
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@naxxfish @Polychrome i also wondered about this, and took a note to come back and try to crunch the numbers around correctible error rates, spare blocks, and write cycles induced by the error correction process to get an upper bound on how long a drive would take to eat itself while keeping the data alive. keeping it powered implies other potential risks also though (power supply failure causing a surge or fire, accelerated electromigration, etc.)
(DIR) Post #AVZJDtJSHkJgOjLYQ4 by 0x56@mastodon.social
2023-05-12T05:07:26Z
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@zhuowei took several seconds to register that this is not a https://botsin.space/@gaycats post
(DIR) Post #AVjdkpl0boPkuXw9ho by 0x56@mastodon.social
2023-05-17T04:25:19Z
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@siguza @zhuowei i know it's word salad, but a few of those lines go kinda hard metaphorically speaking. "purring, decisive oxygen" is low key unsettling lol
(DIR) Post #AVooamlSx1eW1IMU0u by 0x56@mastodon.social
2023-05-19T16:32:16Z
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@simon i said "none", tho i can't rule out unintentional use at this point (e.g. getting trolled by a chatbot-powered social media account)i have a vague but semi-functional understanding of the underlying technology, and i've "delegated" my data gathering in a sense, to the people with more intuition for/experience with eliciting & describing interesting behavior from models (mostly because it's too easy to self-nerd snipe)
(DIR) Post #AVz20lX58BqVdlHLl2 by 0x56@mastodon.social
2023-05-24T14:57:47Z
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@lowqualityfacts unfortunately, this will become common knowledge as global warming increasingly prevents them from maintaining an outer shell of snow all year
(DIR) Post #AWV6wQRLr0lkmUyfI0 by 0x56@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T02:23:46Z
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@lowqualityfacts "up", "backwards", and "left" are the only real directions, everywhere else is a side effect of relativity (if you ever get dizzy thinking about physics, this is why)
(DIR) Post #AXU6NWQGiQmGqQLSGu by 0x56@mastodon.social
2023-07-08T02:09:00Z
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it's super odd to me that many folks opposed to instances preemptively blocking zuck, frame the decision as "admins holding users hostage". this seems to come with the assumption that "admins" are purely this objective, dispassionate entity outside each instance's community, rather than active participants in it, well aware of the standards and preferences of its members
(DIR) Post #AXU6NYIXk7mof2kJVY by 0x56@mastodon.social
2023-07-08T02:13:31Z
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i'm not denying the tension it causes, especially for users who feel pressure to re-home right after settling in somewhere. but, i can't help feeling like people aren't articulating what's actually on their mind when they object on these grounds, or their motivations for being on social media are fundamentally different from minei mused about some of this last year, but there's a dynamic i didn't predict and still struggle to empathize withhttps://mastodon.social/@0x56/109384029765867111