Dusty 
@ChlorideCull@fuzzy.systems
Admin
27, ace/aro(?), some form of enby, autism and add, I work as a software developer, ancom
on all levels except physical, i'm drgn
plural system copiloted by Dusty and Klor, you can find him at @Klor
random gifts are OK (as long as it's not sexually explicit) and will make me very flustered
admin of fuzzy.systems, chairperson of fuzzy systems
will generally approve all follow requests as long as your account has *anything* in it
backup: @ChlorideCull
Joined Oct 2020
(we have some form of slight long QT syndrome, IIRC. gives me an elevated risk of getting tachycardia.)
considered trying a shock collar, but then I remembered I have heart issues of the electrical kind in the family
probably worth being a bit careful
I swear I’m gonna accidentally call a coworker “xir” or something on Monday
my brain is doing a funny where it insists certain people have neopronouns, but they don’t
it’s “update my age in bio” day
Dusty
boosted
boosted
It is done. My quest to get a scanner to working over iSCSI is complete.
I can now safely claim that Chris on SuperUser is wrong. There is nothing stopping you from having scanners running over a storage network.
https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2024/05/08/jbos/
This has been one of my dumbest, expensive and time consuming projects.
it’s kinda funny that this PS1 registered demo disc starts with a “please don’t copy this disc it hurts the developers” plea
how dare you share this CD of demos with others
Dusty
boosted
boosted
this is a lot better than products like defraggler, which operates on a file by file basis (it will consolidate all fragments of a file into the first available cluster that fits it) because that mostly sits there spinning CPU calculating which files to move where, instead of just giving the OS a big chunk of IO work
A quick looks shows that it seems to work like this in a pass:
1. grab a lot of fragments to a new cluster, consolidating them (so you get a new cluster with defragmented files)
2. once you're out of empty clusters or out of fragmented files, it consolidates existing clusters to create empty space
it repeats this until satisfactory
I wonder exactly how the multi pass defragmenter in Windows works. It can’t be moving individual clusters at a time, because of the amount of IO it’s managing to queue, compared to third party software.
Dusty
boosted
boosted
I realize that this is a very vague question, but: What's your go-to display vendor/family for one-off hacks? (illuminated, text)
I still have a soft spot for transmissive/transflective 5x8 LCDs, but they're a bit bulky/annoying to integrate mechanically and not really sourcable reliably.
Dusty
boosted
boosted
I've decided that when I'm old and retired, my hobby is going to be soldering pain receptors on to printers
you may think i've abandoned this place, but no, i've just not been on any social media recently
Dusty
boosted
boosted
I accidentally found a security issue while benchmarking postgres changes.
If you run debian testing, unstable or some other more "bleeding edge" distribution, I strongly recommend upgrading ASAP.
Dusty
boosted
boosted
Raise your hand if you ever made a paper snake out of tear-off tractor-feed margins.
Admin
27, ace/aro(?), some form of enby, autism and add, I work as a software developer, ancom
on all levels except physical, i'm drgn
plural system copiloted by Dusty and Klor, you can find him at @Klor
random gifts are OK (as long as it's not sexually explicit) and will make me very flustered
admin of fuzzy.systems, chairperson of fuzzy systems
will generally approve all follow requests as long as your account has *anything* in it
backup: @ChlorideCull
Joined Oct 2020
