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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #offbyone #konqueror #kde
Catch of the Day: The 1MB Wonder! 💥💾
Hey Retro Fans!
The highlights of the day:
🪶 Off By One Browser: An absolute legend of minimalism visited us today. The Off By One Browser for Windows consists of a single standalone executable and is a tiny 1 megabyte in size. No bloated frameworks, no plugins – just pure, fast web browsing. It aligns perfectly with our philosophy!
🐉 Konqueror: The classic KDE file manager and web browser for Linux also stopped by. Just a reminder: This browser's engine (KHTML) was so groundbreaking back in the day that Apple used it as the foundation for Safari!
Whether it's tiny browser oddities or massive Amiga traffic – the Frog pond is buzzing. Keep it up!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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Baby food companies in the US are apparently legally obligated to test their foods for heavy metals content and to publish the lab results on their websites. I have a colleague who is looking to collect this data, so I started looking at the Gerber website.
Not only is the data not available in bulk, the website is *actively* hostile towards scraping. Standard cookie checks, etc... are bad enough. However, here, you have to retrieve data for each UPC/Batch pair one page at a time... and the actual lab results (for **one** UPC/Batch pair, and so about 20 integer values stored in a json blob)... come along with nearly **half-a megabyte** of interface goop.
Ugh.
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#bzip3 continues to amaze me:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ~~~ ~~~ 100M Apr 1 2025 outbox.json $ simplify $(bzip3 < outbox.json |wc -c) 4.57 MiB $ simplify $(xz -9e < outbox.json |wc -c) 4.69 MiB $ simplify $(zstd --ultra -22 < outbox.json |wc -c) 5.06 MiB(I didn't time it, but it was much faster than the other two)
Also, just in case anyone's curious,
simplify(poor name pick, but I couldn't think of anything better) is just a bash function for converting byte counts to an SI unit:function simplify { #Reduces a big bytes count down to megabytes or whatnot local steps num [ $1 ] || ( warn "simplify() called without parameters\n (requires a number of bytes with no unit name)"; return 1 ) steps=0 num=$1 while [[ $(echo "$num > 1024" |bc) == 1 ]] #bc has to be used because num is a float do let steps++ num=$(echo "$num/1024" |bc -l) done #Cut off after two decimal place: num=$(echo "$num" |sed 's/\(\.[0-9][0-9]\)[0-9]*$/\1/') printf "$num " case $steps in 0) echo b;; 1) echo KiB;; 2) echo MiB;; 3) echo GiB;; 4) echo TiB;; 5) echo PiB;; 6) echo EiB;; 7) echo ZiB;; 8) echo YiB;; *) echo "1024 ^ $steps bytes";; esac } -
Panoramic view of #LakeGuatavita in #Colombia
My sister is visiting Colombia, reminding me of my time there. This sacred lake was the burial place of indigenous kings along with their gold. The Spanish became very frustrated that they were unable to retrieve these treasures.
///adeptly.megabyte.spices [what3words]
#Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #AYearForArt #MastoArt #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Clouds #TravelPhotography #Travel #WellTravelled #OATtravel #OverseasAdventureTravel #CanonG5X #SaturdayVibes #Saturday
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Indeed this started somewhere when we had hundreds of megabytes of space for hard drives. For me, clients were told beforehand that the space on the drives was calculated in decimals. I simply told them that because of a conversion system the drives are actually (much) smaller in raw capacity. Some of the clients were semi-technical and knew about the binary system used for hard drive space before.
Those I could tell in detail about the marketing ploy, to sell drives which are under capacity and Market them as higher.
For me the annoying thing is that Storage Systems are still sold with incorrectly displayed capacities.
And since drives will become really large soon, we'll have 32+ terabytes of drives available for consumers, it will be harder _no_ it will be an unnecessary **extra step** to calculate how much raw capacity the drive actually has
Meanwhile in the 80s you knew exactly what the raw capacity was, because they were properly stated by the manufacturers
#FileSystems #HDD #SSD #Storage #Standards #Binary #Hexadecimal #Linux #freeBSD #DOS #Partition #programming
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"Project Horizon" by Electric Black Sheep is a tactical shooter in the style of Chaos Engine or Alien Breed. The title, developed with Amos, requires 2 megabytes of chip RAM. The HD version, which is over 100 MB in size:
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Thunderbird plans to launch open source alternatives to Gmail, Google Calendar and Office 365
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open source email client, calendar, and contact application that’s been available for more than two decades. It first launched at a time when Gmail wasn’t a thing and most web-based email service providers offered only a few megabytes of storage space. But the demand for desktop-only email applications has diminished in recent years. So now the Thunderbird […]
#ai #cloudServices #email #emailClient #foss #thunderbird #thunderbirdAppointment #thunderbirdAssist #thunderbirdPro #thunderbirdSend #thundermail
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For Data Protection Day 2026, we're taking you from Ancient Rome to now.
Our rights expanded in the Information Age to include the electronic body. Data is our DNA.
But now protections are shrinking. All while surveillance becomes industrialised, AI outstrips regulation and our institutions fall under corporate capture.
We must learn from history and course correct now.
Read our blog ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/give-a-bit-theyll-take-a-megabyte-data-protection-then-and-now/
#DataProtectionDay #dataprotection #privacy #humanrights #DataPrivacyDay
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Yes source based distro's have been around since the very beginning - in fact, MCC Interim Linux and #SLS weren't far from that mark, except that they merely tried to make it a bit more convenient by packaging up tarballs to be exploded during installation. And there's always #LFS.
If you think about Slackpkg - and you consider that you can actually re-install the entire system by compiling every single component of the default (full) install with the evocation of a single command, followed by the customization of your entire system by installing every kind of software imaginable through the use of #sbopkg or some other automated, dependency resolving package manager that uses #SlackBuilds (which are downloaded, then exectuted, and subsequently download the latest release of he software package desired, which is in turn compiled, packaged, and exploded) - you actually have a fully source based distro installed on your box.
That's right - Slackware is (can be forced to be) an entirely source based distro installed on your device.
And choosing to convert from a point release to Slackware -current switches you from a point release to a #Rolling_Release distro.
*Debian Testing, aka at this time, Trixie is a rolling release. #Arch_Linux is a rolling release, SourceMage and Lunar Linux are source based distros based on #Sorcerer_Linux, the original fully source based Linux distro released when Linux was only about 8yrs old in 2000, and the #Gentoo or #Funtoo source based Linux distros.
SystemD my ass. That has nothing to do with nothing in that conversation - it's completely non-sequitur and truth be told, most source based distros (Arch, Gentoo) support the type of init system that *YOU CHOOSE. For Debiantards such as myself, well..... There's #Devuan - and that's very refreshing to actually have control over your system again with true init scripts. But I rarely use Devuan, even though I've been associated with the initiative since its inception, after leaving the #Mageia team several years ago.
As I state in almost all of my profiles, I'm a Slacker, since 1993 (Slackware Linux), and I'm also a bit of a #Debiantard. On the BSD side, after leaving #Jolix (386BSD) for Slackware, I've pretty much settled on either #OpenBSD or #Dragonfly_BSD, w/the awesome #HAMMER2 FS. I still have a lot of love for #FreeBSD and of course #NetBSD - where I spend a lot of time in my proper #Korn Shell....
But what the heck does any of this have to do with a comparison of using Gentoo Linux being akin to using SystemD?
I don't like SystemD - but if you're a realist, that doesn't mean you forgo using distros that only have that init tooling. You just roll with the punches and keep following the innovations that support you - NO ONE STILL RUNS WINDOWS XP in production - at least, no one outside of state mental hospitals, that's just insane to do in a forward facing business environment.
But a lot of companies do leverage OpenRC, SysVinit, etc., instead of SystemD - that's not going away, and SystemD itself and Poetering have their own up and coming challengers.
SystemD is (supposed to be, originally) a way to boot your box. Yes, it's indeed encroached upon other landscapes since, but not all of those constructs are even considered by many mainstream distros - it's not a fact of life. Other init systems thrive in the UNIX world to this day and will continue to do so.
Likewise, Source based Linux distros are just one among many distros that exist, and may or may not leverage SystemD as their init systems - to really get a good grasp of this, I recommend doing a few Arch Linux installs - with and without SystemD as the base init system. Heck, even Debian still supports your regular, good old #syslog, and at every turn during your updates, reminds you how to keep it enabled since the whole journalctl crap just isn't as elegant, IMO.
Personally, I think more concurrent options are usually better - space is cheap. Storage no longer costs a dollar a meg. or worse, like it was when I was a kid, a few thousand dollars a meg. That's right... MegaByte - Not TB for penny's!
Okay so now I'm waiting to hear back from the OP and see just what the heck they meant when I got triggered. In the meantime....
Enjoy installing and using #Sorcerer_Linux, or the subesquent forks of it's surviving lineage like #SourceMage and #Lunar_Linux - you're now a part of mainstream source-basedLinux History once you do 🤘 💀 🤘
#tallship #Linux #FOSS #distros #Sorcerer
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RE: https://social.sdf.org/users/tallship/statuses/111957857148746923
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Panoramic view of #LakeGuatavita in #Colombia
My sister is visiting Colombia, reminding me of my time there. This sacred lake was the burial place of indigenous kings along with their gold. The Spanish became very frustrated that they were unable to retrieve these treasures.
///adeptly.megabyte.spices [what3words]
#Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #AYearForArt #MastoArt #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Clouds #TravelPhotography #Travel #WellTravelled #OATtravel #OverseasAdventureTravel #CanonG5X #SaturdayVibes #Saturday
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Panoramic view of #LakeGuatavita in #Colombia
My sister is visiting Colombia, reminding me of my time there. This sacred lake was the burial place of indigenous kings along with their gold. The Spanish became very frustrated that they were unable to retrieve these treasures.
///adeptly.megabyte.spices [what3words]
#Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #AYearForArt #MastoArt #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Clouds #TravelPhotography #Travel #WellTravelled #OATtravel #OverseasAdventureTravel #CanonG5X #SaturdayVibes #Saturday
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Panoramic view of #LakeGuatavita in #Colombia
My sister is visiting Colombia, reminding me of my time there. This sacred lake was the burial place of indigenous kings along with their gold. The Spanish became very frustrated that they were unable to retrieve these treasures.
///adeptly.megabyte.spices [what3words]
#Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #AYearForArt #MastoArt #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Clouds #TravelPhotography #Travel #WellTravelled #OATtravel #OverseasAdventureTravel #CanonG5X #SaturdayVibes #Saturday
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Panoramic view of #LakeGuatavita in #Colombia
My sister is visiting Colombia, reminding me of my time there. This sacred lake was the burial place of indigenous kings along with their gold. The Spanish became very frustrated that they were unable to retrieve these treasures.
///adeptly.megabyte.spices [what3words]
#Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #AYearForArt #MastoArt #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Clouds #TravelPhotography #Travel #WellTravelled #OATtravel #OverseasAdventureTravel #CanonG5X #SaturdayVibes #Saturday
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Subject: A few Christmas ZIP files
May I offer something useful? It's a set of 3 ZIP files. Warning: The ZIP files aren't especially small. Dial-up connections will need to be upgraded.
Zip file #1: I've bundled 14,817 PDF files from the EFTA series in #Voidzilla's Christmas 2025 #Trump Dump into a single easy-to-handle [albeit large] ZIP file.
Zip file #2: I've bundled 8,627 JPEG files from the House Oversight series in the same Voidzilla dump into a 2nd ZIP file.
Zip file #3: I've placed the banned December 21, 2025 "60 Minutes" Trump TV segment that was blocked from airing in the U.S. in a 3rd ZIP file.
Credit for the contents of the 1st 2 ZIP files goes to Voidzilla. The TV segment was provided [albeit by accident] by Global TV in Canada [before they hastened to delete their copy at the request of CBS].
The 1st 2 ZIP files may be useful regardless of the existence of Voidzilla's site as I didn't see a way to bundle directories directly on the site.
Even if there is a way to do that, it's advisable to get backup copies of the PDFs and images out there. Otherwise, as MissConstrue has suggested, the odds of unexplained defenestrations will be higher.
Uploads to Internet Archive are in progress. Those uploads may not be done until Christmas Day or later. Until then, people can get the 3 ZIP files at the temporary direct download links listed below.
If too many people download the 3 ZIP files, my host or I will need to delete the links. Or maybe I'll turn them into torrents. So, if possible, readers should share the files themselves in different venues where possible.
Link #1: 14,817 PDF files from the Trump Dump EFTA series (5 gigabytes)
https://oldcoder.org/trumptown/EFTA_XMAS_2025.zip
Link #2: 8,627 JPEG files from the House Oversight series (7 gigabytes)
https://oldcoder.org/trumptown/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_XMAS_2025.zip
Link #3: The banned Christmas 2025 "60 Minutes" Trump segment (85 megabytes)
https://oldcoder.org/trumptown/60-minutes-CECOT.zip
Come, they told me,
pa-rump, trump, trump
A newborn dump to see
pa-rump, trump, trump
Our finest gifts we bring
pa-rump, trump, trump
And to the King we sing
Merry Christmas, Mr. Trump!
Text: Original and not LLM. Illustration: The attached photo is from the House Oversight ZIP file.
Hm. Yes, the photo certainly supports the claim that Trump and #Epstein scarcely knew other and weren't like brothers at all. -
Sad: Android has a *hardcoded* 256KB clipboard limit while iPhones are constrained only by memory. $1k+ Android phones with 12GB RAM can't copy/paste long articles, but years old iPhones can copy megabytes. 90s Throwback. Open ecosystem, you say? #Android #iPhone #FreeYourAndroid
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After another major change to my #NetGate setup, I finally remembered to save another damned local backup. I'm still a little amused at the 4ish whole megabytes it's worried about when I back up RRD data as well.
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@Tutanota
Latest discovery is that Samsung has a browser but I've only had it for almost 12 hours now and have barely used it, so can't give an informed comment beyond it having some anti-tracking protection.Oh, I forgot to say that the download is 100 megabytes which unpacks into just over 500 megabytes!
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You can attach images, videos and audio files to your posts on Mastodon. Just click on the paperclip ( 📎 ) icon to add an attachment.
You can add up to four images, each up to 8 megabytes in size.
Video and audio can be any length, but there is a file size limit of 40 megabytes.
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"In 2007, build engineers at Google instrumented the compilation of a major Google binary. The file contained about two thousand files that, if simply concatenated together, totaled 4.2 megabytes. By the time the #includes had been expanded, over 8 gigabytes were being delivered to the input of the compiler, a blow-up of 2000 bytes for every C++ source byte."
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you are about to be subject to a rant...
I have been using #Unix *compatible* operating systems since 1993, when I first got the chance. That was the sole reason why I went back to get another engineering degree, for internet access and Unix, which was very difficult for a normal person to get back then. Very selfish of me, but I met awesome people and early architects of the internet as we know it today, It was about free unrestricted access to the greatest engineering information and communication in the world. There was a massive satellite dish at the university library that went into the telecommunications room that supplied #dialup connections to the offices and home computer use. In the faculty offices, 19200 baud, at home the mighty 1200 baud modem and a telephone line.
All I needed was an 80x25 VT102 compatible terminal. Back then, thousands of dollars could easily afford a computer to run a terminal emulator. The IBM PC/AT 386 that could double as a boat anchor did the job, but only had just over a megabyte of memory, which was a lot in those days. All I still need is a 80x25 terminal, but 80x50 is nice. 120x50, even better, sweet!
Fast forward through the 2000's, after the historically amazing RedHat IPO that helped unseat the absolutely brutal Microsoft monopoly. Yes, I was a diehard Redhat advocate. But then their fucking #systemD and their cringe provocative claim "Unix is dead" and deliberate #enshitification of things they don't understand. Fuck that shit. I still run embedded #minimalist operating systems that are perfectly compatible with many decades also as my full desktop to this day.
/rant
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One antique chip posted from the UK, a small piece of tape, a tiny act of vandalism, and finally my Amiga has achieved a new level of hackery. One whole megabyte of chip RAM!
Just to stocktake here, what used to be a stock revision 5 Amiga 500 now has ...
- a 68010 CPU
- an upgraded Angus to support 1MB of chip RAM
- an 8 meg RAM expansion and IDE controller
- Kickstart 3.2 ROM
- a gotek floppy emulator
- 64GB SDD
- Compact Flash card readerIt's getting closer to done, I guess. Not much else to do without turning it into something completely different.
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"Apregio" was created for this year's AmigaGameJam. The horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up was created with the Scorpion Engine and is available in OCS and AGA versions. An A500 is specified as the minimum requirement, but an AGA computer with 4 megabytes of Fast RAM is recommended.
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"Just use Postgres until it breaks."
https://topicpartition.io/blog/postgres-pubsub-queue-benchmarksWe are far from that – we use #postgres to power #CATMAID for #connectomics and so far so good.
"Donald Knuth warned us in 1974 - premature optimization is the root of all evil. ... The point of this article is to show you that this “small scale” number has grown further than what people remember it to be - it can comfortably mean many megabytes per second. We are in a Postgres Renaissance for a reason: Postgres is frequently good enough. Modern NVMEs and cheap RAM allow it to scale absurdly high."
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I have now repeatedly heard the claim that #ADVENT was spread over #ARPANET. I'm pretty sure that this is a modern misconception since bandwidth was so limited in the 70s that 100s of kilobytes or even megabytes surely couldn't just be transferred at will.
Can anyone shed more light on this? A proof one way or the other?
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Bash csh zsh ksh tksh fish are powerful
Entire networks can be controlled and build with them.
Let's take for example command line tools to control media output
For me e.g mplayer and vlc -I cli are much more interesting when it comes down to standard control of media playback. I prefer to use MOC (mocp) Music 🎼 on Console, instead of bulky RAM hungry programs, which go on the internet to fetch data that I never asked for and thus burn bandwidth
The memory footprint of Music on Console is so low that you can use it on a system which has been built more than two and a half decades ago.
The only graphical media playback program I know that can do that also has been written by my friend Andy Loafoe and that is alsaplayer
Andy programmed alsaplayer when he saw Delitracker playing on my Amiga systems
We're talking the period when Linux was barely moving in Xwindows when you had window managers like fvwm twm and few others.
The alsa audio interface was also just Born.It is within this context that Andy envisioned alsaplayer. It should be modular just like delitracker Amiga, it should be lightweight daily tracker runs on an Amiga 500 with just half A megabyte of chip ram
That should still be memory left to do other the things so straight calls were made to widget libraries.Within a few weeks to a few months of coding alsaplayer came out of Alpha and went Bèta in code stability.
Because everything was written with efficiency in mind and it was programmed as portable as possible, alsaplayer can still be used many decades after It has been written, one of the main reasons is that it has been coded by a command line programmer
#programming #Bash #csh #zsh #ksh #tksh #fish #alsaplayer #MOC #mocp #VLC #widgets #libraries
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Was going through old physical photos, weeding out all the old 'nameless landscape and mountain' shots, prints with people on them that I now have no recollection of.... etc, as one does at this time of year.
Found this interesting one - that's my desk at work back in '96. The IBM tower behind the desk was the TV station's web server. The hardware stack on top was the ISDN connection to our ISP. At that time, local ISP's didn't offer web hosting of the kind we wanted/needed.
If you want a giggle, check out the Wayback Machine snapshot of the site.
Heh, the system specs:
'Our webserver is an IBM PC Server 320 with 3 gigabytes of hard disk space, 156 megabytes of RAM, running on an Intel Pentium 90mhz processer (with the ability to upgrade to dual Pentiums).'https://web.archive.org/web/19961230143005/http://www.itv.ca/
#YEG #CITV #Internet #Website #RetroTech #WaybackMachine #WebDesign #OldSchoolComputing #Alberta #Canada #Television #Broadcasting BroadcastingHistory
