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banana_meccanica, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

My first porn was on floppy disk

KernelAnxiety,

There’s something poetic about using a floppy disk to get hard

preasket,

I wonder if they could now make floppy disks with the same form factor but modern tech

GeneralVincent,

Like this?

preasket,

Haha, that’s cool

Selmafudd,

I thought it was gonna be a USB drive but this works too

theneverfox,
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

If you put a small, double sided optical disk inside, you could probably get a few hundred gigs in there, maybe even up to a terrabyte or three. If you put flash storage, you could fit a few dozen terrabytes. Hell, you could build that yourself if you just bought a bunch of microsd cards and soldered the contacts into a different form factor

TurboDiesel,
@TurboDiesel@lemmy.world avatar

I downloaded my first porn from Kazaa, over dial-up.

SeedyOne,

3.5", 5.25" or the monster 8" is the question…

comrade_pibb,
@comrade_pibb@hexbear.net avatar

5.25 inches but the disk was smaller

tiredofsametab,

My first porn was probably NNTP (newsgroups) before I even had the actual WWW. Had to learn how to stitch images together from multiple posts in the early-mid '90s.

Sabata11792,
@Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

4chan... I rolled the fucking dice and lost I guess.

electrorocket,

UUE decoding!

marx2k,

Forté Agent was a blessing

tiredofsametab,

I thought the name sounded super familiar, but I had to look it up. My dad was into BBS and CompuServ in the '80s. He eventually got AOL, which is where I got started with NNTP. I really need to get his history on these things. I know that, when I was super young in the early '80s when they divorced, he was often spending a lot of time online. I'd really like to know more about that era as my memories are scattered and fractured.

popemichael, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
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Those are the only times when it’s appropriate to insert a 3 1/2 inch floppy.

rigatti, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
@rigatti@lemmy.world avatar

They are truly iconic.

Zerush, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

A simple command line in AutoGPT can be enough, as proven with ChaosGPT. But I am more afraid of human stupidity than of AI, it is this that is going to destroy us.

themeatbridge,

If AI destroys us, it will be a result of human stupidity.

Zerush, (edited )
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar
pinkdrunkenelephants, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

Nowadays it’s microSD cards.

Madison420,

Nah. Nuclear launch sites just retired 8" floppies required for launch verification like maybe 5 years ago.

nytimes.com/…/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html

Donkter,

I mean, microSD makes for much more interesting drama. You can hide it in the lining of a suit, sew it underneath the skin, hide it in a ball point pen, in your pet. MicroSd drama is much more sneaky.

RIP_Cheems, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
@RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

Who said they still cant?

name_NULL111653,

They can, actually… Many nuclear bases in the US use floppy disks for code to reduce the risk of a cyberattack and because upgrading that intricate of a system is prohibitively expensive for how little good it would do.

SeatBeeSate,

Who would win? Thirty years of US security and tech, or one magnet boi?

assa123,
@assa123@lemmy.world avatar

private keys fit in a floppy disk, and their use range includes ransomware decryption and identity verification. In Mr. Robot, all 9-M could’ve been undone with a floppy.

gazby, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
Fritzer09,

Woolsey! We need a stargate community :D

jelloeater85,
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar
jelloeater85,
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

Look it’s the EMH… Err ummm. ❤️❤️❤️

LoveSausage, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
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doublepepperoni, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
@doublepepperoni@hexbear.net avatar

Let’s not forget the MO Discs from Resident Evil and MGS

not_that_guy05, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

Here me out:

Let’s go back to floppy disk drives but with SSD nvme hardware.

seitanic,
@seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

That would be awesome. I hate having to find a cable to plug my SSD into. If it was simply a card that could be inserted into a slot, that would be so much easier.

kogasa,
@kogasa@programming.dev avatar

You can get a housing that lets you pop it in and out

seitanic,
@seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

For external SSD?

Caboose12000, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

what are all these old memes doing with save icons? /s

unrelatedkeg,

SAVING THE WORLD

buzz86us, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

Well considering most code is under a megabyte it makes sense

bartolomeo, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

The most important 1.44 MB you can imagine.

altima_neo, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Shredder had a zip disk

Agent641,

He would

alienanimals, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

Nowadays it’s all data crystals.

atlasraven31,

Stargate did it.

alienanimals,

Babylon 5 as well.

kogasa,
@kogasa@programming.dev avatar

And Star Trek and Star Wars and probably Galaxy Quest

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