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Ah, the good ol' days of loving computers 🤖❤️, when nerds were fueled by #floppy #disks and not by Silicon Valley snake oil. Who knew an overgrown calculator could inspire such poetry and profound #nostalgia, while #AI #villains cackle in the background? Clearly, the author missed the memo: the '90s called, they want their #tech #romanticism back! 😂
https://michaelenger.com/blog/i-love-the-computer/ #90s #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the good ol' days of loving computers 🤖❤️, when nerds were fueled by #floppy #disks and not by Silicon Valley snake oil. Who knew an overgrown calculator could inspire such poetry and profound #nostalgia, while #AI #villains cackle in the background? Clearly, the author missed the memo: the '90s called, they want their #tech #romanticism back! 😂
https://michaelenger.com/blog/i-love-the-computer/ #90s #HackerNews #ngated

#ALMA has been in scientific operations for almost 15 years.

As of the beginning of February 2026, ALMA had observed 3933 independent coordinates.

Here is a collection of ALMAs observations of circumstellar #disks with substructures in dust continuum emission, available in the literature.

Each panel is 400 au in size, and the disks are scaled based on the #Gaia DR3 parallax, ranging from largest to smallest continuum disk from top to bottom.

#astronomy
https://astrobiology.com/2026/06/an-archival-summary-15-years-of-alma-observations-on-disks-and-planet-formation.html

Paper by Kurtovic et al. (2026):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30023

#ALMA has been in scientific operations for almost 15 years.

As of the beginning of February 2026, ALMA had observed 3933 independent coordinates.

Here is a collection of ALMAs observations of circumstellar #disks with substructures in dust continuum emission, available in the literature.

Each panel is 400 au in size, and the disks are scaled based on the #Gaia DR3 parallax, ranging from largest to smallest continuum disk from top to bottom.

#astronomy
https://astrobiology.com/2026/06/an-archival-summary-15-years-of-alma-observations-on-disks-and-planet-formation.html

Paper by Kurtovic et al. (2026):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30023

where are you buying your #HardDrives in #Europe? #disks #hardware #mastodon #fediverse #linux #BSD

where are you buying your #HardDrives in #Europe? #disks #hardware #mastodon #fediverse #linux #BSD

where are you buying your #HardDrives in #Europe? #disks #hardware #mastodon #fediverse #linux #BSD

where are you buying your #HardDrives in #Europe? #disks #hardware #mastodon #fediverse #linux #BSD

where are you buying your #HardDrives in #Europe? #disks #hardware #mastodon #fediverse #linux #BSD

🎉 In 1985, #Maxell thought life-size #robots devouring #floppy #disks was a killer ad idea. 🤖💾 Fast-forward to now, and it's just a relic of bad #tech marketing—imagine thinking robots are the future when your floppies can't even hold a single cat meme. 🙄
https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/maxell-life-size-robots/ #marketing #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 In 1985, #Maxell thought life-size #robots devouring #floppy #disks was a killer ad idea. 🤖💾 Fast-forward to now, and it's just a relic of bad #tech marketing—imagine thinking robots are the future when your floppies can't even hold a single cat meme. 🙄
https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/maxell-life-size-robots/ #marketing #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

You can use #Floppy #disks to store #private #keys offline. They can hold at least 300 #PrivateKeys. #Archaic #Technology #ModernTimes #informationsecurity #InformationAssurance @computers8networks tr.ee/wim7nV

Call for testing and comment: Make the installer prefer >1G disks https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250502060000 #openbsd #installer #disks #storage #softraid #keydisks #partitioning #development #configuration

Call for testing and comment: Make the installer prefer >1G disks https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250502060000 #openbsd #installer #disks #storage #softraid #keydisks #partitioning #development #configuration

My experience with #FlashDrives recently has been mixed. I have no problem in encrypting them with #LUKS, using #cryptsetup or with formatting a partition with #Btrfs, for instance, using #gparted and doing other tinkering with #Gnome #disks. But the problem has been with the actual drives themselves. The cheaper ones seem to have quite a few bad sectors, etc. and so they’re not really reliable for medium term storage.

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#Hardware #StorageDevices #Unix #GNU #Linux #Fedora

My experience with #FlashDrives recently has been mixed. I have no problem in encrypting them with #LUKS, using #cryptsetup or with formatting a partition with #Btrfs, for instance, using #gparted and doing other tinkering with #Gnome #disks. But the problem has been with the actual drives themselves. The cheaper ones seem to have quite a few bad sectors, etc. and so they’re not really reliable for medium term storage.

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#Hardware #StorageDevices #Unix #GNU #Linux #Fedora

Hi #astrodon, time for an #introduction 👋

I’m an #astrophysicist, staff researcher at the Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (#CNRS and Université #Grenoble-Alpes). I work on the formation of #stars and #planets, more specifically the evolution of gas ans dust in #protostars and protoplanetary #disks. For my research I mostly use #ALMA and #NOEMA observations. I also develop models and analysis tools, with a peculiar attention on research #reproducibility and #openscience.

Unfortunately Video Rendering + .img Rendering Drive Completely Failed... unexpectedly.

Sharing Actionable Advice + Tools You May Like To Know About, Prior To (pre-warn - backup, don't entirely depend on warning - didn't occur here until failed drive), And Post Failure (recovery).

Was able to recover important things!

#Harddrive #Disks #Data #Backup #ddrescue #smartmontools #smartctl #linux https://www.buymeacoffee.com/politictech/prevent-harddrive-failure

Unfortunately Video Rendering + .img Rendering Drive Completely Failed... unexpectedly.

Sharing Actionable Advice + Tools You May Like To Know About, Prior To (pre-warn - backup, don't entirely depend on warning - didn't occur here until failed drive), And Post Failure (recovery).

Was able to recover important things!

#Harddrive #Disks #Data #Backup #ddrescue #smartmontools #smartctl #linux https://www.buymeacoffee.com/politictech/prevent-harddrive-failure

Unfortunately Video Rendering + .img Rendering Drive Completely Failed... unexpectedly.

Sharing Actionable Advice + Tools You May Like To Know About, Prior To (pre-warn - backup, don't entirely depend on warning - didn't occur here until failed drive), And Post Failure (recovery).

Was able to recover important things!

#Harddrive #Disks #Data #Backup #ddrescue #smartmontools #smartctl #linux https://www.buymeacoffee.com/politictech/prevent-harddrive-failure

Western Digital adds “Red Plus” branding for non-SMR hard drives - Enlarge / The newer SMR-equipped small drives remain “Red”—while the CMR models will all become “Re... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1686817 #westerndigital #harddrives #harddisks #storage #biz&it #disks #tech #smr