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Brain dump, February 2023
As a software archaeologist I often find myself trying out old software that I hadn’t used myself in my own career. I think this can be very instructive, since old software can often have some good...
View ArticleArtificial stupidity
As we observe the meteoric rise of LLMs (large language models) and GPTs (generative pre-trained transformers), I’m feeling two distinct emotions: annoyance and depression. I’m annoyed because even the...
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Homeowner’s log, March 2023
I finally installed an outdoor spigot on the far side of the house for watering the garden, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for months, and needed to finish before the start of this year’s...
View ArticleBrain dump, April 2023
Did you know: If you want to buy SD cards that have enhanced longevity (e.g. for use in a dash cam or any device with a lot of write cycles), do not purchase plain old SD cards that are readily...
View ArticleThoughts on UFOs
Seeing the congressional hearing about UAPs was a fun diversion. I prefer to use the original name “UFO”, because switching to “UAP” is clearly an attempt to dodge the stigma that “UFO” has...
View ArticleLK-99: an unintentional social experiment
Whether they intended it or not, the South Korean team that published a preprint describing a room-temperature superconductor kicked off a social experiment that was fun to observe. In hindsight, the...
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Brain dump, September 2023
I finally did something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time: get the final version of the ftape driver to work on a Linux distro that I can use in my data recovery workstations. This is for the...
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Updates to DiskDigger and FileSystemAnalyzer, October 2023
Usually I post updates about DiskDigger on its own website, but my most recent round of updates merits a slight technical digression. Previous versions of DiskDigger and FileSystemAnalyzer have already...
View ArticleBrain dump, October 2023
Here’s something that grinds my gears: waiters/waitresses at restaurants who insist on memorizing your order instead of writing it on a notepad. Why do they do this? Does the restaurant require them to...
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More huge updates to DiskDigger and FileSystemAnalyzer
I’ve finished some major updates to DiskDigger, as well as its companion tool FileSystemAnalyzer, to support a few more filesystems, some more obscure than others! ReFS support One of these filesystems...
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