Finally expanding the potential of my Floppy Disk Drive!
USAians, I see that Target, Best Buy, Amazon, and probably others have #PS5 game consoles on sale for $100 off. PS5 with drive is $450.
Meanwhile, #Xbox Series X with drive is still $650.
"On July 23rd, 1984, the song was recorded at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse in Eden Prairie with the entire band. The song was played and recorded live. After 21 minutes the tape was full and the band were still playing."
It was never released before, with a reason, 21 minutes is a bit long 😆, still interesting for any Prince fan. And the song has an amazing groove...
Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles announced a flash flood warning for the region beginning on Tuesday
and is urging people to use caution while traveling for the upcoming holiday.
The city is also deploying staff with the Los Angeles homeless services authority (Lahsa) to get supplies and hotel vouchers to those living outside.
Just a hut under a tree in the mist ...
I saw this when I was walking back from a location scouting. When I was back at the car, I turned around - already ready to drive away when I noticed this gnarly tree in the field.
The fog was just light enough to create an interesting mood I think.
#photography
"We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth. These risk triggering feedback loops...
Ultimately that could cause the planet to drift away along the pathway to “hothouse Earth”, a scenario where even if emissions were reduced, self amplifying feedback loops would drive global temperature increases up to or even beyond 5°C"
Så er mail rykket væk fra Google Workspace, og jeg er i gang med anden omgang af at flytte filer ud af Google Drive, siden jeg havde en masse korrupte filer fŸrste gang. Denne gang går det langsommere, og jeg må tage mappe for mappe, men det går den rigtige vej. Glæder mig til at lukke kontoen. Må lige finde ud af hvad jeg gŸr med www. #DanmarkSkifter
RE: https://sonomu.club/@c_reider/115950575565764953
My favorite Hafler Trio album. Used to drive empty back roads late at night listening to this.
If you're cold, it's cold.
Plug it in PROD! 💣
A fascinating thing about so many ostensibly very intelligent "AI-curious" people is that they're—in public—attacking e.g. academics who wrote papers critical of claims of the tech industry, often with wild conspiracy-type theories and ad hominems.
Like hello, I (not a trained scientist) can drive trucks through the holes (logical fallacies) in some of these arguments and accusations.
New research from UC San Diego and Princeton reveals the winning formula for climate action: carrot AND stick.
Their study shows that combining clean energy subsidies with pollution taxes drives faster adoption of green tech than either approach alone. Economic models prove this dual strategy can deliver rapid emissions cuts in the near term.
"Scores of frogs have been removed, with the remaining sanitized ones displayed like an interior designer was called in.”
I don’t drive on Paterna Road in Santa Barbara often enough to have a good sense of how different it is,
but a Riviera resident said someone has been working on it for months now.
Anyone know more?
Collapsing HIV prevention across the world to drive millions of new infections | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/hiv-prevention-aid-cuts-us-b2871883.html
Someone ingested 2,911 Epstein documents into Google's NotebookLM. The auto-generated podcast is disturbing, but still better than most news outlets.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t2rnog2bVA_Zdf0pBQOzbns-ktMW8Kg5/view
#Vietnam is pushing hard on the #semiconductor front, the first fab in view. 32 nm only, and few details on how it shall be built. But it remains a theme reshuffling funds, also supported by growth in #datacenter
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115604873348659045
Maybe you think all of this is irrelevant now, who gives a fuck about a media format more than 50 years old?
Well, fun fact, the design of SD cards is referencing the design of floppy disks, and were specifically made thin enough to be used in floppy adapters (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath).
Yes, they made an adapter to stick your SD card in and read and write it in a standard floppy disk drive; though you would need to install special software to use it (ironically that software probably came on a CD).
Why would they do such a thing? Because there was no (widespread) USB.
Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, said Unions are gearing up to challenge the US president’s “Billionaire First” agenda in 2026
– and drive candidates in key elections to stand up for “struggling” Americans.
In an interview with the Guardian, she described how the federation has pushed to restore collective bargaining rights for federal workers,
-- and filed lawsuits against the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken unions and worker protections.
“People were …
We are supposed to get some ridiculous temperatures going into tomorrow and my parents want me to drive them out to a nighttime CT scan appointment, tonight. 🥶
Attosecond-resolved quantum fluctuations of light and matter
Matan Even Tzur, Chen Mor, Noa Yaffe, Michael Birk, Andrei Rasputnyi, Omer Kneller, Ido Nisim, Ido Kaminer, Maria Chekhova, Michael Krueger, Misha Ivanov, Nirit Dudovich, Oren Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18362 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18362 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18362
arXiv:2511.18362v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Until recently, attosecond optical spectroscopy and quantum optics evolved along non-overlapping directions. In attosecond science, attosecond pulses have been regarded as classical waves, applied to probe electron dynamics on their natural time scale. Here, we transfer fundamental concepts of quantum optics into attosecond physics, enabling control of both the properties of the XUV attosecond pulses and the quantum fluctuations of matter on attosecond time scales. By combining bright squeezed vacuum (BSV) with a strong laser field to drive high-harmonic generation, we transfer the quantum properties of the BSV onto the resulting XUV attosecond pulses. Applying advanced attosecond interferometry, we reconstruct the quantum state of the XUV high harmonics and their associated attosecond pulses with attosecond precision. Finally, we resolve the squeezing of the electron's wavepacket during one of the most fundamental strong-field phenomena - field induced tunneling. The ability to measure and control quantum correlations in both electrons and XUV attosecond pulses establishes a foundation for attosecond quantum electrodynamics, manipulating the quantum state of electrons and photons with sub-cycle precision.
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Who's ready to clean some floppy drive heads? Not really the way I planned to spend my day off but things are reaching dire straights for available floppy drives. Starting to hold up other projects.
#retrocomputing
RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115587666837745216
Sometimes I wonder if these semi-regular Grok quirks are nothing but a ploy to get more people to play with (t)his toy and thereby drive up user/customer stats & valuation... equally likely is that he rea…
Mit Straßenbahn, Bahn und Book-n-drive: Mobil in Darmstadt ohne eigenes Auto #Ladelust https://stefanpfeiffer.blog/2025/11/09
Búzios Scientific Statement, summary in 5 posts.
100 climate researchers, coordinated by @… &
IIASA, , released a joint statement to inform the #COP30 negotiations and provide guidance on difficult but doable global efforts designed to limit da…
you need your hard drive checked, it bears too many signs of a beautiful soul
'Whether it’s left Labour MPs worried about retaliation from the whips, “Your Party” organisers arguing over the finances and structures of a new left vehicle, or Greens whose leaders still view a rapidly militarising EU as some kind of progressive force, we need more seriousness and urgency over the deadly threat to us all posed by the ruling-class drive to war.'
Confront the war fever sweeping the continent
| Morning Star
I missed #mondog but this is Waffles, concerned at the delay at the drive through… he was really jonesing for his puppachino.
#dogsofmastodon @…
Anyway, obviously floppy disk refers to the floppy disk that stores data, just as thumb drive refers to…
wait a minute
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115602153224142336
Wendy’s is using AI for their drive-thru. Ugh!!!
shakey forensics: attempting to pin down the dates neil young wrote & recorded "like a hurricane" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j8Oa8vWbSg1GhI8UHizmcBW6FlS9bwap/view
RE: https://esq.social/@SuffolkLITLab/115754124159087567
I have my doubts about this answer because of the reporting about how they were caught with videos spying on consumers. To his argument, cameras are older tech than lasers and Teslas will drive thro…
Is there such a thing as a USB to 50 pin SCSI adapter? I have a HD from a Mac SE/30, before I destroy it I wonder if there is anything on it? Its the drive from my wife's Mac when we met and got married so umm.. its old. I know Linux could read these formats years ago, not sure if that is still the case. #RetroComputing
You know, David Brooks used to drive me up the wall but I think he's facing up to the crisis of the present time in this interview with Scott Galloway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJAAQ0W4Czs
Yup, as I suggested yesterday the new law to release the Epstein materials from the Justice Dept is just a sham that the R-party maga-klan inserted (and the D-party missed or ignored) and that Bimbo Blondy Bondi will drive a truck through.
The D-Party certainly needs to listen to the Who's Song "Won't Get Fooled Again" because they certainly got fooled again.
How dumb is our D-party? It appears that it is really and sincerely dumb.
In March last year, I bought an 8TB hard drive for €156. The same hard drive costs €236 today.
This is crazy, guys.
#hardware
Christmas Eve morning MRI at West Coast General. We were 30min early. They came for us within a couple minutes of sitting down. So we might be done before the scheduled appointment was scheduled. 😝
A good omen hopefully.
Then we’ll be packing up for a potentially snowy drive to Victoria.
#healthcare #portalberni #mri #wcgh #bcpoli #christmas
“When we think of technology as a tool that can be used for good as well as evil, we also think that we are in control of why, when, and for what it is used. But this is only partly the case. We may decide to buy a car to drive ourselves to work. And thus we may think of the car as a tool to achieve our goal of getting to work as fast as possible. But we never made the decision that fast is better than slow. It’s an idea that comes with the car. So is the idea that it should be easy and conveni…
Investigation: in 22 US states, Uber approves drivers with many types of convictions, such as violent felonies, that are over seven years old to keep costs low (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/business/uber-background-chec…
Sechs Wochen ohne Auto – und? Kein Drama. In Eberstadt fährt die Tram, Book-n-drive steht um die Ecke, und selbst der Weg nach Frankfurt klappt (meistens). Nur die Bahn bleibt das bekannte Glücksspiel. Jetzt ist der ID.3 da – mal sehen, wie alltagstauglich er wirklich ist.
#EAuto #ÖPNV
Mercedes pauses the rollout of Drive Pilot, a Level 3 "eyes off" driving feature available in Europe and the US, citing low demand and high production costs (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/860935/mercedes-dr…
Immigrant rights advocates are sounding the alarm
about a high-pitched noise they say is coming from machines installed outside the Home Depot in the Cypress Park area of Los Angeles.
Day laborers say the machines were put in place to drive them away amid immigration raids at the store.
City officials and advocates gathered earlier in the week to protest these alleged noise machines.
They claim that a loud piercing sound has been emitted for months.
The L.A. Ti…
Aurora as seen from Florida
But I think that - first of all - Europe needs a strong cost reduction drive for components, systems, and processes in the energy transition, in a cooperation between R&D, manufacturers, and governments, and aligned with scaling up the market for 'made in Europe' solutions. We'll probably not get to the Chinese level, but we need to get a lot closer. This is essential both for competitiveness and affordability.
my annual year-end mix, 103 mp3s i've known & loved, 7 hours of music ready for shuffling & affronting darkness. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GyQzP_3fHhu18hdu9FSl3mhPqCZZz3ye/view?usp=drive_link
Waymo already operates in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Austin, and Phoenix.
But maps published by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles showed that the company can now test and deploy its autonomous vehicles across a much larger area in both the Bay Area and Southern California.
In the Bay Area, Waymo’s approved areas of operation now include most of the East Bay and North Bay (including Napa/Wine Country), as well as Sacramento.
In Southern Cal…
"Out of the blue, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services canceled multiple naturalization ceremonies in multiple counties in New York. And just to drive the point home, USCIS also announced that there will be “no more ceremonies moving forward.”"
Trump can't pretend his war targets only 'illegal' immigrants
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/20/2354819/-Trump-can-t-pretend-his-war-targets-only-illegal-immigrants
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115929450635562848
Tried all three variants of it and nada, I think the cpu or storage is bad.
Diagnostics said no hardware problems.
I’ll try booting of USB but need to make a drive for that
Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters drive a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-conservative-youtube-stars-marketing-boom/
Self-driving cars have been just 2–3 years away since 2003.
The car industry should be happy that the tech industry replaced it with a new grift (AI).
https://insideevs.com/news/784404/mercedes-level-3-drive-pilot-canceled/
The Pentagon plans to cut its participation in elements of NATO’s force structure
and a range of the alliance’s advisory groups,
-- the latest sign of the Trump administration’s drive to scale back the U.S. military presence in Europe,
according to multiple officials familiar with the matter.
The impending move will affect about 200 military personnel
and diminish U.S. involvement in nearly 30 NATO organizations,
including its "Centers of Excellence&…
Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks, ETFs, and other financial instruments, raised a $150M Series D led by Drive at a $1.15B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/14/alpaca-fundraise-series-d-brokerage-infrastruct…
Love how eBay descriptions are often “AI” generated now
(This disk drive is neither black nor for ThinkPads, and wtf is a “unit-type” product?)
Q&A with SiFive co-founder Krste Asanović, who was part of the original team that developed RISC-V, on creating a company that builds IP around RISC-V, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)
https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-dr-krste-asan…
Strikes run on pizza.
Turns out they also can begin to end on them.
Several pies, in fact, arrived on North Shore Drive on the brisk Tuesday that was Oct. 18, 2022,
when the strikers first walked out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom
because the PG had violated federal labor law.
The workers said they would not go back to their jobs until their employer followed the rules.
They had no idea it would take three years
and become the nation’s lon…