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madeintaipei posted:e:^^^Get out of my head. That's a very poetic goatse.
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Phy posted:I like the Pioneer plaques a bit more, no record grooves but it's got a drawing of naked people and that pulsar diagram so we basically sent nudes and directions to our house Our first contact with another species will be a restraining order from our stellar neighbors.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Millennia from now, explorers will locate a chamber, deep in the earth, and wonder about the message left carved in the walls. [translated from Hyper-Korean] "Im gay!" "Dr. -=#WEEDGOKU69420[BR]#=- this is hardly the time nor the place---" "No no Sir, the tablets, they spell out 'I'm gay'."
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Phy posted:I like the Pioneer plaques a bit more, no record grooves but it's got a drawing of naked people and that pulsar diagram so we basically sent nudes and directions to our house Turns out the aliens don't want our dick pics either.
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Powered Descent posted:If you can swing it, billions of miles away from the nearest wind and rain is even better. Here's a data archive from 1977 that'll last a while. Its musical selections, audio clips, and images will still be perfectly intact long after the Sun has burned out. Time to post this again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibByF9XPAPg
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Time to post this again  How have I never seen this before? This is awesome!
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I burned a legit mix CD for someone I met at work a couple of months ago. We got to talking about music, had similar tastes, and I said something about how I missed exchanging mix CDs. She said, "We should do that! I'll bring you mine Monday!" Well I made hers over the weekend and gave it to her Monday, but she never made one for me. She made excuses about it for a week and then never mentioned it, or whether she liked my CD. Then she left me on read and I haven't talked to her again. I'm married and wasn't interested in her or anything. Was just trying to make a new friend. Feels bad, man. So that's the end of my mix CD story I guess! 
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I installed so many of those Reveal CD-ROM/Sound-Card Multimedia Upgrade kits back in the mid nineties. I am 99% sure that they were not IDE based or compatible because I am 99% sure that they were not 40 pins. I think they were 38 or 36 pin connectors. Also, I am shocked that I couldn't find an image of one of those Reveal kits. The internet seems to only barely remember that they existed.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Time to post this again I blast this recording all the time at parties, if people scream and cover their ears I scream "uncultured alien swine" at them until the teleport home.
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One of my responsibilities at an old job was mastering CDs/DVDs for our software releases. They had just introduced downloads as an alternative, and stopped auto-shipping new versions. They went from production runs of 1000s to burning on demand. I introduced the idea of just sending an ISO to the production houses instead of fedexing disks all over the world. I'm pretty sure I haven't burned a disk since leaving that job.
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After a thorough examination of the cave, researchers could only find a set of strange pictographs carved onto the wall. "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0". At the moment, no one seems to know what they mean. Also, this all reminds me of a story from years ago (that was probably fake) that was about an underwater cave. In this cave, they found a self portrait of a giant squid made of the bones of sea creatures.
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Cojawfee posted:Also, this all reminds me of a story from years ago (that was probably fake) that was about an underwater cave. In this cave, they found a self portrait of a giant squid made of the bones of sea creatures. That's an HP Lovecraft story, can't remember the title right now. e: I was thinking of Dagon, but the creature there is not squidlike. There's a similar plot point in Terry Pratchett's Jingo. Zopotantor has a new favorite as of 21:22 on Dec 6, 2019 |
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Iron Crowned posted:I suspect that I stopped around 2014 when I got a smart phone for the first time. A few years prior (I wanna say 2007) I had a revelation that most of my CDs were maybe not rare, but uncommon and not easy to acquire, so whenever I wanted to listen to one in my car, I would just make a copy of it so I wouldn't care if someone stole my copied CDs. That particular car I had back then also had a habit of not ejecting CDs every time, so if a CDR stayed in there forever it also wasn't a big deal. I do the same thing. Worked in a new/used CD shop from 1990-93 and acquired a pretty good collection of stuff - imports, bootlegs, etc. Lots of it out of print now. Better to burn a 10 cent disc for the car than risk damage/theft.
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Sentient Data posted:Watching nero burn a cd, keeping a close eye on the buffer bar. Oh poo poo, the buffer's getting smaller and smaller! Is it because the cd is close to being finished or because trillian is doing something??? Having a stand-alone SCSI drive with a 640mb partition that you would copy files to and then defrag. Then put a blank CD in the 2x burner's caddy and start the burn. Don't touch anything, don't use the computer, don't breath. Then, let it do a verify to make sure that it was good. 1 in 6 burns were coasters.
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Powered Descent posted:It's been a little over a year for my last CD burn, that's when I got a new car to replace the 2005 and its in-dash CD changer. I had this issue with an old MP3 player but found a tool on the web that was made to fix this exact problem by reordering the FAT table (or whatever the hell it did).
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SLOSifl posted:And sometimes it decides to start from the first track in my library alphabetically, which is Abbaon Fat Track by Tricky. A good song on a good album but usually not what I want to listen to. That's almost certainly my phone's fault though. This is an iOS thing. The music app resets to the first track after it's been unloaded from memory for some stupid goddamn reason instead of resuming from wherever you left off like you'd expect an app in 2019 to do. I added the song A a a a a Very Good Song by Samir Mezrahi (it's ten minutes of silence) to my library to avoid the annoyance of hearing the same song's intro a bunch of times in a few days' span.
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Ruflux posted:This is an iOS thing. The music app resets to the first track after it's been unloaded from memory for some stupid goddamn reason instead of resuming from wherever you left off like you'd expect an app in 2019 to do. I added the song A a a a a Very Good Song by Samir Mezrahi (it's ten minutes of silence) to my library to avoid the annoyance of hearing the same song's intro a bunch of times in a few days' span. My fifth gen iPod was a lovely bit of kit, but if you fat-fingered the controls, it would often start playing the first album in the library to the point where I had to delete that album as I got thoroughly fed up with it.
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Ruflux posted:This is an iOS thing. The music app resets to the first track after it's been unloaded from memory for some stupid goddamn reason instead of resuming from wherever you left off like you'd expect an app in 2019 to do. I added the song A a a a a Very Good Song by Samir Mezrahi (it's ten minutes of silence) to my library to avoid the annoyance of hearing the same song's intro a bunch of times in a few days' span. Wouldn't it be a better idea to have a silent 5 second or so song named 00000000.mp3 or whatever? I'd be interested in hearing y'all's experiences with audio players "random" not being random at all. VLC, for example, doesn't seem like it has very good randomization.
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Powered Descent posted:It's been a little over a year for my last CD burn, that's when I got a new car to replace the 2005 and its in-dash CD changer. mp3dirsorter is your friend. Whenever I update the 32GB drive I keep attached, I just drag and drop it on there a couple of times. Done. I'm also anal as gently caress about metatagging all my poo poo so it's all in "Artist - Album" or "Compilation Name" folders, and renamed as "Track.Title" to keep it straight. Since my car's stereo handles MP3 CDs, I burn audiobooks to them. I can swap over to USB music or bluetooth without losing my place. ItBreathes posted:That's why they invented the M-Disc! and HTL BD-R discs which are almost as good; 75 years vs 100 or something like that
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:mp3dirsorter is your friend. Whenever I update the 32GB drive I keep attached, I just drag and drop it on there a couple of times. Done. I'm also anal as gently caress about metatagging all my poo poo so it's all in "Artist - Album" or "Compilation Name" folders, and renamed as "Track.Title" to keep it straight. Cool, it's a GUI version of my little python script! Written almost a decade before mine, too...
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Unperson_47 posted:I'd be interested in hearing y'all's experiences with audio players "random" not being random at all. VLC, for example, doesn't seem like it has very good randomization. What exactly do you mean by 'random' here? There's a good chance that 'random' means exactly that in a mathematical sense, but people in general don't have a good idea about what that actually means. True randomness can be 'streaky', in the case of audio players that might mean playing a bunch of songs by the same artist in a row, but people often think that that kind of behaviour isn't random when it actually is. IIRC Apple had to change the randomisation code on the iPod since it was truly random and therefore streaky so people were complaining. The fix for that was forcing the player to have less chance of playing streaks of songs by the same artist (or album or whatever) and therefore actually making it less random. Here's a good video that explains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-Ipsat90c
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People don't want random, they just want different songs. Spotify frustrates me because there will be days where it plays the same 5 songs each day even though there are over 200 on the playlist.
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Unperson_47 posted:I'd be interested in hearing y'all's experiences with audio players "random" not being random at all. VLC, for example, doesn't seem like it has very good randomization. I had an MP3 player a few years ago and had it set on "shuffle". At one point a song came up that, for whatever reason, I decided to hit the skip button. The next day the song came back up and I hit the skip button again. The player was not repeating the same pattern other than this one song that kept popping up. This would go on for several days until I finally decided to listen to the song. After that, that one song never showed up again.
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I'm sad all the cds of early 2000s porn will be lost forever due to digital rot.
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Cojawfee posted:People don't want random, they just want different songs. Spotify frustrates me because there will be days where it plays the same 5 songs each day even though there are over 200 on the playlist. There's a reason for that.
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twistedmentat posted:I'm sad all the cds of early 2000s porn will be lost forever due to digital rot. Ironically an ancestral cache of woodsporn will survive beyond the last cdrporn Ozymandias, but a corrupted .avi
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Look on my wanks, ye Mighty, and despair!
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Two vast and trunkless balls of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered phallus lies
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Don't forget the Horace Smith version In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Cock
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It's like episode of Twilight Zone where the guys rob a gold exchange and go into cryosleep but wake up in a CommunUtopia where there is no money and gold has no value. Except you inherited G-Gram's box of antique Computation gear and the Cds/DVD's are rotted out and the discs on the portable drives are faulty so you get some Gen 1 JPEGs from 1994 that look like rear end on your holodot AR lenses but the ASCII files are retro enough to be cool. Towards the end of the lot you find a disk binder with a few notebook pages scrawled with a meticulous catalog of disc names, sorting order and titles. "All-Star Assreilies vs Brazillian Butt Beauties: Dawn of Just-rear end" ??? You realize this was quaint ero-pop and wonder what kind of society would be aroused by such tame content. You try to find information about this weird "Real Media" format and conclude that it's probably impossible to read now. 65 years prior, G-Gram puts the finishing touch on her first porn archive disc. "It's a treasure, for future generations, for future me. A record of horny that will live on" she sighs...
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Unperson_47 posted:Wouldn't it be a better idea to have a silent 5 second or so song named 00000000.mp3 or whatever? I had a '95 Camaro, the OEM CD player's "shuffle" option would just play the same non-default order for a given disc (i.e., 9 4 2 6 7 8 1 5 3) every time. Not sure if it did the same "shuffled" order for all discs, but it seems likely: wouldn't it be about as easy to program a different shuffle order per-disc as it would be to program "true" shuffle? On the other hand, a pre-set shuffle is just a hard-coded play order.
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doctorfrog posted:I had a '95 Camaro, the OEM CD player's "shuffle" option would just play the same non-default order for a given disc (i.e., 9 4 2 6 7 8 1 5 3) every time. Not sure if it did the same "shuffled" order for all discs, but it seems likely: wouldn't it be about as easy to program a different shuffle order per-disc as it would be to program "true" shuffle? On the other hand, a pre-set shuffle is just a hard-coded play order. They are just using a function that returns the same string of numbers every time. I heard of CD players that wouldn't play the last track because they used the wrong condition for creating the shuffle order. Lurking Haro has a new favorite as of 09:47 on Dec 7, 2019 |
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Unperson_47 posted:Wouldn't it be a better idea to have a silent 5 second or so song named 00000000.mp3 or whatever? A a a was actually available on iTunes/Apple Music which made adding it far less painful. 10 minutes is a great length because even if I'm not paying attention to the radio because I'm driving I'll definitely still notice if absolutely nothing plays. Meanwhile a five second silent track would just result in a five second delay to the intro of A Light in the Black, the exact problem I'm aiming to solve. I like that song. I don't wanna ruin it by annoying repetition.
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twistedmentat posted:I'm sad all the cds of early 2000s porn will be lost forever due to digital rot. Upload to archive.org? I was just having a look there and came across https://archive.org/details/Backup0000 "This is the backup of my files from 1997 to 2015 from CDs, DVDs, floppies and hard disks...", some of the disc photos say they've got eMule downloads on them but it mostly seems to be related to programming and psychology. Would like to see DVDs full of eMule downloads from someone more interesting!
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twistedmentat posted:I'm sad all the cds of early 2000s porn will be lost forever due to digital rot. All these files will be lost, like tearjerkers in the rain.
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Ok here's my mom's projector TV  It's only use now is as a stand from that little flatscreen.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Ok here's my mom's projector TV Don't watch me or my son ever again!
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Johnny Aztec posted:That's just a classier, updated version of the old thing where you'd have one of those Console TVs on the floor, and another TV on top. Jeff Foxworthy posted:If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.
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My 2014 Camry sucks rear end for random on an mp3 drive. I swear when you hit random it makes a playlist and by god it starts that playlist every time you start the car up. Same songs in the same order from the beginning every time.
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