Five years after closing to repair the restrooms, our local library branch is finally reopening in December.

What strategies are people with small websites using to mitigate AI crawlers? Because searching for this just gives me one thousand useless slop answers.

Mastodon in a nutshell

Kudos to YouTube's autogenerated subtitles for introducing me to Field Programmable Gatorade

can someone much more Rust brained than me explain why the Never type is represented by "!" instead of the word "Never"

I think we can all agree that a valid use of AI would be a system that warns posters when they're being pedantic

We are proud to announce that we have done the Gattaca from the beloved 90s sci fi classic, "Don't Do The Gattaca"

"Gentlemen, we all understand that eugenics is bad. But consider: what if that, but monetization?" *standing ovation*

I found something at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door that said "beware of the leopard"
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/-/blob/main/docs/development.txt?ref_type=heads

close enough, I guess

Just to be clear, this is not "obscure corner case" software, this is "one of the first things that runs on almost every single linux desktop" software

I know it's no longer fashionable to write documentation, but when you've got a decade-and-a-half old piece of very widely used software (plymouth) and your documentation is a single wiki page which is mostly dead links to old blog posts, you have a problem

255 BPM ought to be enough for anybody

you can keep your LPs, your CDs, your magnetic cassettes, your FLACs, your MP3s, your Oggs Vorbis. I'm sticking with the best music encoding format ever developed: the PLAY command from IBM BASIC.

And here's the unlabelled card that I'm assuming is video. The chip is completely undocumented but apparently SARC was one of many bullshit brands that sketchy 80s-90s chip manufacturers would spin up for Nothing To See Here reasons. There's a DB9 on the back, so presumably this is an RGBI output.

LMK if you know anything about the RC2002SP!

#compaqdeskpro286

Here's one of the HDDs; it's a BJ7D5-A (probably 30MB). It had its own controller card. Haven't gotten the other one out yet.

Ha, realized I hadn't put up any photos. I've got about 15 minutes a day to work on this so I haven't been doing a great job of documenting, but the inside of the machine looks relatively clean.

Looking through the specs for the PSU of the #compaqdeskpro286 and it seems really well designed. It could easily be replaced with a modern PSU, but frankly if it works I may as well leave it. I'll open it up to check for RIFAs and similar time bombs before I power it up, though.

You have a few hours left to vote in this bizarrely popular poll

How much do you think this Compaq Deskpro 286 weighs?

You definitely will not regret picking up a filthy Compaq sitting in the weeds by the canal