#dontcopythatfloppy — Public Fediverse posts

Time again to up my computing game - installing #Windows for Workgroups 3.11, it's the future! #dontcopythatfloppy 💾

I found this video on my computer of a anti piracy campaign from 1992 and decided to run it through my video synthesiser. Its slogan "Don't copy that floppy" warned that if piracy continues creative industries will fail.

Fast forward to 2025 and tech bros are being given free reign to steal from creators to feed their AI slop machines and are being hailed as innovators. Clearly it's only stealing if we do it.

Might go copy me a floppy or two.

#piracy #ai #fuckai #videosynthesis #dontcopythatfloppy

Opening a sealed pack of KAO 3.5" floppy disks.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #floppydisk #floppy #dontcopythatfloppy

@rogeliop

Circa 1982, junior high: we'd bring our floppies in for trade. We used the single-hole punch method to double-side our disks. Cool kids had a hardened case for their floppies.

We were #Apple ][ people. We were, after all, students at Cupertino Junior High School.

#dontcopythatfloppy #retrocomputing

@mike @SpindleyQ they should have had a C64 and two 1541s in the back of that car #DontCopyThatFloppy

If I said to you, "Don't Copy That Floppy" - would you know what I was referring to?

Please boost for enhanced reach.

#QuestionOfTheDay #Poll #QoTD #Boost #PleaseBoost #Silly #Internet #Piracy #90sMemes #AncientMemes #Millennials #GenX #DontCopyThatFloppy #InternetHistory

#dontcopythatfloppy

@foone Does that mean terraformation would be a form of piracy? #dontCopyThatFloppy

#DontCopyThatFloppy 🚫💾🔁💾

#DEFCON31

@loadhigh @SharkaBytes Here's what the card looked like in this issue, along with a handy key on the previous page. :)

#Retro #RetroAdRead #RetroComputers #VintageComputing #BASF #DontCopyThatFloppy

A simple advertisement for floppy disks from the time...but I dig the artwork :)

#Retro #RetroAdRead #RetroComputers #VintageComputing #BASF #DontCopyThatFloppy

Haha! Best use of SCO Unix media I’ve seen. Erased for the use of C64 stuff :)

#Dontcopythatfloppy #C64 #Commodore64 #Retrocomputing #unix

Exploring food takeaway options in the city of Dordrecht, using a 1995 interactive street map that runs in a virtual machine under #MS #DOS 6.0. Software installed from disk image of 3.5" #floppy 💾 #DontCopyThatFloppy

Track from new Legowelt album with matching floppy-themed animation 💾 #dontcopythatfloppy

https://youtu.be/7Vg7Cn_rQ6o

#Floppy 💾 disks, write blocker woes, pesky Windows behaviour: this blog post on my (occasionally somewhat hellish) journey trying to write yet another workflow tool for imaging portable media has it all #dontcopythatfloppy:

https://www.bitsgalore.org/2023/01/23/writing-a-workflow-tool-for-imaging-portable-media

For the #digipres #digitalForensics crowd - a few years ago I published a workflow description for imaging 3.5" #floppies, which included a Tableau USB write blocker.

Turns out this device does in fact not work well with USB floppy drives (I have a confirmation on this from the manufacturer). This can result in faulty or incomplete captures. More details in the updated workflow description:

https://github.com/KBNLresearch/forensicImagingResources/blob/master/doc/floppy-35.md

This probably affects other manufacturers as well.

#dontCopyThatFloppy 💾

On various #CopyProtection schemes:

"Floppy Copy Classics", Tedium (https://tedium.co/2022/11/16/copy-protection-scheme-history/).

#Piracy #Games #ComputerGames #OldSkool #Copy #DontCopyThatFloppy #DigitalPiracy

Amateur DIY infographic time #dontCopyThatFloppy 💾

When you see a FOSS project's github advertise a Slack room for interaction. Egad. Kill it with fire. #DontCopyThatFloppy #FOSSSnob

Anyone remember DeskMate, OnDisk, or PrintMaster
#DontCopyThatFloppy

https://photos.app.goo.gl/vGALByZoxNdHvSwf9