Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
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3 hours ago
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netsharc
1 hour ago
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The video from the article, in case you don't want to accept cookies: https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg

It doesn't even say which type of cookies have to be accepted, I tried selecting just functional cookies, that didn't work. Funny how it's an arcane bunch of toggles in a cookie popup, on a page describing an arcane way of booting up a system.

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embedding-shape
38 minutes ago
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I've started doing:

    yt-dlp https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg -o - | mpv -
And never been happier. I hope it still counts as a view for the channel/owner though, but never investigated if that's actually the case.
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0-_-0
36 minutes ago
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Very unlikely, you need the browser for that
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petcat
29 minutes ago
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I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading)
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basilikum
10 minutes ago
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yt-dlp needs to get the stream from somewhere. It has to fetch the website for that and even execute a JavaScript challenge to retrieve the media endpoint.
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hagbard_c
1 hour ago
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I never got any cookie prompts for this site so I guess these did not make it past the content filters which keep cdn-cookieyes.com at bay. No cookies, no problem.
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thebruce87m
10 minutes ago
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Tip: turn the volume all the way down before listening to the recording.

I had an unsettling worry that I was being programmed when I listened to it - a bit like an alternative to the virus in Pluribus.

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foobarian
18 minutes ago
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> built-in “cassette interface” of the PC (that was hardly ever used)

Wait a minute, what?? How did I not know about this.

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alnwlsn
12 minutes ago
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Probably because they got rid of it when the XT came out, so it was only there for (a few months under) 2 years. But it was a good trade; removing the cassette port gave enough area on the PCB for 3 more ISA slots.
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rwmj
1 hour ago
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Nice little project.

Back in day, magazines distributed software on flexidisc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc) I remember it being very unreliable. The magazine instructed you to copy the flexidisc to a cassette tape first as you could only usually play the disc one or two times.

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forinti
15 minutes ago
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Cool. I remember getting one such disc in a music magazine in the 80s. It occured to me then that you could maybe put software on it, but I never saw this implemented.
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p0w3n3d
47 minutes ago
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In my country they used to broadcast software for Atari 800 over radio - and it worked...
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mrweasel
1 hour ago
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Old scanners where SCSI, which made me wonder if you could use them as boot devices, if you could stuff the scanner driver and OCR software into the BIOS. Might be easier now that we have uEFI.
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hackomorespacko
23 minutes ago
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*were
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guerrilla
1 hour ago
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Okay, that is very cool. I love how doable it is too if you can get hands on the media that is.
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richrichardsson
49 minutes ago
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They're fairly expensive, but on-demand vinyl is easy to get made.
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pjmlp
1 hour ago
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Sure, because why not!

Cool idea.

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