PingFS
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GitHub - yarrick/pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets
Stores your data in ICMP ping packets. Contribute to yarrick/pingfs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Haven’t been here in a while, but saw this and thought of you lot.
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It reminds me of a similar FS module...
GitHub - benjojo/dnsfs: Store your data in others DNS resolver cache
Store your data in others DNS resolver cache. Contribute to benjojo/dnsfs development by creating an account on GitHub.
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These things (and many, many others) make me think of George Leigh Mallory's comment on why people climb mountains: "Because it's there". Neither of these things serves any useful purpose except to show that it can be done. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but, come on guys, there are surely other things you could do that are less ... pointless.
I'm also amused by the "Contribute to ${PROJECT} development by creating an account on GitHub" on each one. For reasons related to
$(cat steve\'s\ job.txt), I have a GitHub account tied to$(cat steve\'s\ job.txt), but neither of these things could ever persuade me to create one for my own purposes.
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These things are pointless, but these guys must've had fun while thinking about them and actually writing them, otherwise they would have never been created.
Personally, I wish I had one such "pointless but really fun" project up my sleeve.
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@strangeways said in PingFS:
These things are pointless, but these guys must've had fun while thinking about them and actually writing them, otherwise they would have never been created.
Personally, I wish I had one such "pointless but really fun" project up my sleeve.
There's always sex and alcohol abuse.
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@MrL it's quite possible these projects are results of alcohol abuse.
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Too lazy to look up a link, but yesterday youtube suggested me a video about a guy who hooked up a 1930s telex machine as a linux hardcopy terminal.
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@MrL it's quite possible these projects are results of alcohol abuse.
Honestly looks more like "lack of sex".
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Too lazy to look up a link, but yesterday youtube suggested me a video about a guy who hooked up a 1930s telex machine as a linux hardcopy terminal.
I have done the needful.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in PingFS:
Too lazy to look up a link, but yesterday youtube suggested me a video about a guy who hooked up a 1930s telex machine as a linux hardcopy terminal.
I have done the needful.
The steampunkiest Linux ever.
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@MrL it's quite possible these projects are results of alcohol abuse.
Or sex abuse
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Too lazy to look up a link, but yesterday youtube suggested me a video about a guy who hooked up a 1930s telex machine as a linux hardcopy terminal.
I connected a FWT [Fixed Wireless Telephone - Cell Antenna on Back, RJ-11 on Front] to an ASR-33, with the Tape Punch Enabled (And printer disabled). Was loads of fun (for certain values of fun) to send an SMS and have the TTY jump to life spitting out paper...
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Blockchain exists to take up everyone's hard disk space with massive pointless duplications of everything. Now you can put a blockchain on PingFS and take up everyone's network bandwidth in the same way.
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Isn’t this just a variation on what MMORPG players have been doing for years, namely, storing equipment they need but have no bag space for in the game’s mail system?
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So to expand on this idea I propose a project I call AbuseFS.
Basically it would have a long list of free internet services that you can publish information for free: youtube, reddit, wikipedia (they reverse vandalism, but they don't purge it - perfect case!), random forums and blogs... and it would pick a random subset and store your files by posting them there. Obviously it'd have to be encrypted and sufficiently redundant.
Youtube kinda makes all others redundant though. Given that they'll happily host any video file you hand them, forever, and they can be kept private.
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@MrL it's quite possible these projects are results of alcohol abuse.
Honestly looks more like "lack of sex".
But is that the cause or the effect?
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@HardwareGeek said in PingFS:
@MrL it's quite possible these projects are results of alcohol abuse.
Honestly looks more like "lack of sex".
But is that the cause or the effect?
Both, probably.
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@anonymous234 said in PingFS:
they'll happily host any video file you hand them, forever
What if instead you encode it stenographically in "10 hours of" videos?
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What if instead you encode it stenographically in "10 hours of" videos?
git plugin?
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What if instead you encode it stenographically in "10 hours of" videos?
git plugin?
Emacs mode, Shirley.
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@HardwareGeek said in PingFS:
What if instead you encode it stenographically in "10 hours of" videos?
git plugin?
Emacs mode, Shirley.
It does allow for a large undo stack.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in PingFS:
George Leigh Mallory's comment on why people climb mountains: "Because it's there".
Huh. I always thought that was Edmund Hillary who said that. TIL.
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Since this is now the "just because" thread, here's a blog post of someone building a GameBoy Color program to act as a remote-control for an airconditioning system (for which they had a working remote, BTW):
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Normally, official game cartridges can only be programmed once. However many bootleg cartridges do not have this limitation and can be freely rewritten.
TIL
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What if instead you encode it stenographically
In notes of court proceedings? I guess that'd work.
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@JBert I nominate the Gameboy Color infrared transmitter for "most underused feature".
Seriously, Nintendo could have given us a way to clone TV remote buttons, in 1998.
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@anonymous234 That actually got some use, though. I think the Virtual Boy Link Cable port (cable never released), and the PS Vita's mystery port, both have it beat.
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@Unperverted-Vixen said in PingFS:
the Virtual Boy Link Cable port (cable never released),
I recall someone actually hacked one together and actually got it working....
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@Tsaukpaetra They did, but no officially-released games support it, only homebrew.
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@Unperverted-Vixen said in PingFS:
@Tsaukpaetra They did, but no officially-released games support it, only homebrew.
Considering how few officially-released games there are, I'm not surprised.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in PingFS:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in PingFS:
George Leigh Mallory's comment on why people climb mountains: "Because it's there".
Huh. I always thought that was Edmund Hillary who said that. TIL.
I first heard it in an interview with Chris Bonnington (when I was aged about eight), and for some reason I associated it with him (I think because I was only half-listening to the interview). Good thing I checked before posting it...
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@anonymous234 said in PingFS:
Nintendo could have given us a way to clone TV remote buttons, in 1998.
That already existed eleven years earlier:
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@anonymous234 said in PingFS:
Nintendo could have given us a way to clone TV remote buttons, in 1998.
That already existed eleven years earlier:
Casio also had a programmable remote control watch in the early nineties. But because they still have a few such models, finding information about the early one is to much work for me to dig up a link.
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@anonymous234 said in PingFS:
Nintendo could have given us a way to clone TV remote buttons, in 1998.
That already existed eleven years earlier:
Wasn't inside a popular portable game console though.
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@Carnage A little searching leads me to think it’s the CMD 40:
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@Gurth Ah, I love products that advertise their features via permanent display. "We've got ALARM! And a CALCULATOR!!!! Don't forget, we also offer LEARNING FUNCTION! Did we mention CHRONO is included?!?!?!?"
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@Tsaukpaetra Totally!
That said, they've mostly knocked it off lately...
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@Applied-Mediocrity Plastering things like "GPU Boost" all over the place may be unnecessary, but I'll take it if they have labels for the front panel connectors printed on the board
e: Looks pretty good
e: Wait a minute, that one's the Z87 Pro. But the Z87-K looks like it has the same setup
Controlling my A/C with a Gameboy · jg
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