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I have notes somewhere on roundtripping Time Machine backups between USB drives and network shares. (It's non-trivial, and it's not supported, but it worked.) It was with HFS+ backups, and there were various bits that were "Here Be Dragons", so I never posted them.

I emailed the mods.

I'm not the OP, but I'd recommend the music for The Pentavirate, but not the show.

It's been quite a while, but I think extremely redundant information, like mostly zeroes, is one of those cases where compression can be usefully be done repeatedly. I might check to see if it holds true here.

My opinions: * write in Pandoc Markdown. * give each sentence its own line. It helps with composing and reordering, and gives much cleaner diffs if you keep this in a git repo. * personally, I used GitHub for html, Pandoc to make the epub, then Calibre to turn the epub into a pdf.

The "internal links" thing is a pain, admittedly. I have an idea for a workaround:

* sprinkle hidden, unique <a id="ch1.2"></a> around

* on GitHub, use links like chapter1#ch1.2

* for Pandoc, preprocess to remove the filename before the #

I'm working with a big enough book that it's an undertaking, so I haven't done this yet.

For some fractals on the regular, Benoit Mandelbot on Mastodon - https://botsin.space/@benoitmandelbot

On iOS, you only have to logon to the main app. Game installs and launches are normal - App Store, Home Screen - and they can detect the account from the main app. It looks like they've added "which profile?" selection.

I tried out Laya's Horizon, but my main device isn't powerful enough to play it, so it's been a while.

dvbackup! https://dvbackup.sourceforge.net/

I didn't use this either, as I worried about wearing down the camera heads, and DVD-R's were cheaper and more plentiful.

These might be useful tools, if you don't want to maintain an Atari 410 but do have a tape player - https://a8cas.sourceforge.net/

From memory: it was a FireWire port, which could connect to D-VHS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS

This is a C compiler. You might be thinking of Cygwin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin

I emailed the mods.

Ah. I think two leading spaces fix this? I'll try:

  #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
  #! nix-shell -i python3 -p python3Packages.pillow python3Packages.ansicolor
  
  # scale image by 50%
  import sys, PIL.Image, ansicolor
  path = sys.argv[1]
  image = PIL.Image.open(path)
  factor = 0.5
  image = image.resize((round(image.width \* factor), round(image.height \* factor)))
  path = path + ".s50.jpg"
  image.save(path)
  print(ansicolor.green(f"done {path}"))

Yay, the forum is back online!

I expected IPv4 addresses

I've idly been considering how to score this with more languages, with far less memory. I'm thinking, buildpacks on a Raspberry Pi.

@'s don't do anything here. I've emailed the mods.

Did anyone else trip over the unclear usage of ZIP? Z-machine program files and PKZIP files share the .zip file extension, but not file formats.

  cat -v

For a very short file, I might reach for hexdump -C

If you have large mailboxes, this would steer you toward paying for cloud storage at Microsoft, which might be a surprising bill to face.

I'm aware of an open collection of Apple Feedback Assistant reports on GitHub - https://github.com/feedback-assistant/reports/issues

> Apple Feedback Assistant reports are not public. To help other developers discover existing reports, copy-paste your submitted Feedback Assistant report into a new issue. Make sure you include everything.

> This is similar to Open Radar, but it's easier to fill out the report and GitHub has better search. Also, Open Radar doesn't yet support Feedback Assistant.

> Instead of voting on issues opened here (which Apple won't see anyway), file a new Feedback Assistant report and copy-paste the contents of the report you found here and link to the original report. Apple encourages duplicates.

It responded eventually for me, but the Wayback Machine has it - https://web.archive.org/web/20231028021348/https://boston.co...

If you can use help with the scan, let me know. I'm in the Bay Area.

Amnesty International released Mobile Verification Toolkit to check your phone for malware, by checking encrypted backups on your computer. https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

When I was looking for a Raspberry Pi, I kept an eye on https://rpilocator.com/ ; it's still useful to gauge supply. It's not zero, but it's not widespread in all regions, either.

There's an 11 meg iso file included, and there are some exe files among its contents.

Huh. I was able to get a working epub, but I'd recommend the pdf version instead. The OCR and formatting for the epub are automated rough drafts.

Oh! I thought I'd seen this before, but I was thinking of a Wipeout-specific version - https://phoboslab.org/wipeout/

You might be thinking of: https://blog.nelhage.com/post/systems-at-capacity/

If I'm thinking of the same article: was it about going from message queues to state machines for more operational robustness?