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0points · 2026-09-23T06:05:39

And here I was thinking this was proved beyond any reasonable doubt when 4chan users spoofed the Time Magazine person of the year poll of 2009 to spell out "MARBLECAKE, ALSO THE GAME" by the initials of the top winners:

https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/27/time-magazine-throws-up-it...

Or when Kim Jong Un won in 2012, spelling out "KJUGASCHAMBER":

https://observer.com/2012/12/4chan-successfully-votes-kim-jo...

hyperpape · 2026-09-23T10:41:46

You're half right, half not.

This is evidence, but it would be a mistake to think that high profile online contests would have the same dynamics as low profile online polling. 4chan is characterized by an insane level of effort on the specific jokes that they care about. But they don't care about a random poll nearly as much as they care about big stunts like this.

nemomarx · 2026-09-23T11:11:07

Of course, but a low profile poll also needs less effort to manipulate, so it scales down for both ends.

aniviacat · 2026-09-23T09:34:12

Online polls being easy to manipulate makes it so weird to me that the European Central Bank made an online poll on what the new Euro bank note design should be. (Participants did not have to identify themselves in any way.) I wonder if the results will at all be taken into consideration in the following decision-making process.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr2609...

account42 · 2026-09-23T11:19:49

In that case there was heavy pre-selection und strict rules for submissions even before that. So they were probably fine with any of the presented choices winning and the "poll" is really just PR.

rhdunn · 2026-09-23T08:52:50

Or Boaty McBoatface winning the name of a research ship (given to a submarine on the ship).

dcminter · 2026-09-23T10:43:36

In fairness I think a lot of people (me included) genuinely thought that would be an entertaining name for the ship, so the polling result wasn't necessarily wrong per se.

rhdunn · 2026-09-23T11:03:37

Fair, though it does show how things like that can skew polling results.

mitxela · 2026-09-23T11:35:19

i.e. engagement bait

alchemism · 2026-09-23T11:24:51

At the time, we ended up with a conference room with the same name, after an office vote.

c4rnifex · 2026-09-23T13:47:42

Those were not bogus respondents, just silly ones.

0points · 2026-09-21T11:08:06

I think you are being misguided. The repository itself contains disassembly directly from the copyrighted ROM, and is thus not original work.

0points · 2026-09-21T11:06:14

> endangering preservation

Luckily preservationists are found outside such ridiculous jurisdictions, and most recognized titles have been preserved for a long while already.

onetrickwolf · 2026-09-22T14:33:57

True I just wish they didn't have to skulk in the dark for what is essentially a public service. I also think some projects aren't so lucky.

We probably have a pretty brief window where projects like this can even be done where there's people alive who worked on the original systems. It would be nice if these were encouraged rather than being in some gray area.

0points · 2026-09-16T09:37:06

This?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

> The FDIV bug affects the 60 and 66 MHz Pentium P5 800 in stepping levels prior to D1, and the 75, 90, and 100 MHz Pentium P54C 600 in steppings prior to B5. The 120 MHz P54C and P54CQS CPUs are unaffected.

0points · 2026-09-13T22:10:23

AI made a zodiac-looking cipher for the headline image.

dhosek · 2026-09-13T22:39:04

It’s a warning of what it’s going to do next…

0points · 2026-09-11T19:27:30

    // ==UserScript==
    // @name                   Twitter Alternative
    // @description
    // @match                  *://*.x.com/*
    // @namespace              TwitterAlt
    // @run-at                 document-start
    // ==/UserScript==
    window.location.replace("https://xcancel.com" + window.location.pathname + window.location.search);

0points · 2026-09-08T05:40:54

Are you describing a plex feature? I was under the impression they required the media to follow certain naming conventions. [1]

Maybe mkv-renamer is of use to you? [2]

1: https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-...

2: https://github.com/ssanj/mkv-renamer

jshier · 2026-09-08T07:02:15

I'm describing a hypothetical feature that I want. Essentially an automatic version of mkv-renamer that can identify series, episodes, and special content based on the signature of the ripped files. For whatever reason, such a service doesn't even exist.

IAmBroom · 2026-09-08T13:22:04

Does Filebot not do this for you? A quick glance suggests it does, but I'm not overly concerned with its decision-making; name matches are close enough.

jshier · 2026-09-09T01:48:20

That may actually be what I need, I'll give it try.

0points · 2026-09-06T15:53:51

FWIF, way back when, Twitter was the "Twitter for tech nerds".

Lots of water under the fridge since...

weberer · 2026-09-06T16:28:03

That's not how I remember it. Ever since the beginning circa 2008, it was the one site that was being pushed hard by the mainstream media, celebrities, and marketers. None of it was organic. All the tech nerds were on sites like Digg, old Reddit, or Slashdot.

hnlmorg · 2026-09-06T17:19:04

Early Twitter was used loads by tech nerds as a notifications API.

There definitely was a community of experimentation back in early days.

0points · 2026-09-06T18:37:23

How you remembered it is anecdotal, it's not relevant for the discussion unless you add something of value.

Way back when is not when it broke mainstream. It's when the service started getting attention.

It was literally pitched as a "micro blog site" for techies to communicate news, and the "app" was 160 character SMS messages.

Nerds used it as a free (as in beer) way of sending alert SMS on server errors. (At least I did).

In 2008, twitter had already started to become mainstream, quickly shifting focus away from nerd interests.

kapitanjakc · 2026-09-06T19:18:25

What is the meaning of FWIF ?

Google says "For what it's worth", won't that be FWIW ?

0points · 2026-09-11T19:29:04

Typo. I meant FWIW

reactordev · 2026-09-06T16:14:31

“Just place all that corporate malware on the X, X marks the spot”

taylor-tg · 2026-09-06T16:44:58

Just have to remember that it's X, not Y, that marks the spot.

0points · 2026-09-05T11:00:19

    // ==UserScript==
    // @name                   Twitter Alternative
    // @description
    // @match                  *://*.x.com/*
    // @namespace              TwitterRedir
    // @run-at                 document-start
    // ==/UserScript==
    window.location.replace("https://twit.0r.cx" + window.location.pathname + window.location.search);

crtasm · 2026-09-05T17:33:46

TIL ublock can do this (and won't have to wait for the initial response from x.com) - see the Tips section on https://twit.0r.cx

stavros · 2026-09-06T08:47:02

Wait, what tips section?

crtasm · 2026-09-07T17:24:27

Oh that's a redirect, it's on https://nitter.miningtcup.me/

You'll need to remove a couple of unintended spaces when copy pasting the rule.

0points · 2026-08-21T13:24:30

> Though I'd really need 2 drives - one replacement, and a mirror.

Yea, with just a single drive it's not really a backup is it?

> If I copy some files with zfs to another drive, I'd also like to check that there wasn't an error in the copying process.

That's what rsync is for.

> I wouldn't mind buying a mirror set a year or two ago, but storage is so expensive now.

Prices went up, yes but not that much to be fair. And I think it mostly affected M2 disks.

Here's my very limited notes on HDD prices.

In 21 october 2023, a 22 TB disk cost me 0.37 SEK per gigabyte.

In 28 may 2026, a 26 TB disk cost me 0.36 SEK per gigabyte.

Both were WD red disks.

josephg · 2026-08-22T03:58:00

> In 28 may 2026, a 26 TB disk cost me 0.36 SEK per gigabyte.

The best price I can find for a 24gb+ hard drive is $1250 AUD for a 24gb Seagate Barracuda drive, at my local computer store. They're a similar price on amazon. Amazon US has refurbed drives too, which are a little cheaper but not much.

$1250 for 24gb is $52AUD per gigabyte, or 353 Swedish Krona per gigabyte.