```
f = FREEFILE
OPEN test.gfx FOR BINARY AS #f
```
QBasic:
"Type Mismatch: 'AS #f'"

this is literally 1:1 example code with the filename changed, wtf

Been up all night with the screaming shits and chest pains (acid reflux), my dad's told me either i pay off his car in full (i'm unemployed and need $100k or so) by the end of the month or i'm homeless, and my computer's beginning to have issues as my GPU's warping under its own weight (and I can't afford another R9 380.)

Turns out MD5 collisions are hard to iterate through. Max combinations of bytes in a 100,000 byte file is (as calculated by Python:)

413502433742660544726868172195767861427618658445205343992065892230166930397146583182005172845204489533665188550385797247605830027690030912310887164176364954875069038057666590769687571726193148717652368418744731692453987107907857683242360451588862381980796040785447771748097295949966591258383632274557701138287596503423452399232536933583768184114874795654760979888748015241761933209111943015224044366005903481415990946152075730054176507652408593662525624208010788644701872255643844493769499469673271219048262961476704374776988472648537308308011235412742501908803475102336862442166237905095612511941476299337727729022024118389323121828087330601048095646801171259973845170877342411799823272475101891307296782554819753985119403152255745494789644397312746702721825997945525576

i'm getting 1227.97 iterations a second. (Note: no, not using C, i don't know enough to do it in C. If someone wants to take my script, redo it in C, and send it to me for comparison, that'd be great.)

beginning to learn QBASIC as i'm looking to port my demoscene stuff from TI-BASIC (based on QB) to MS-DOS. Graphics are weird here and i can't just drop in Assembly snippets so scrollers are gonna be a bitch. However...

Screen mode 13's kinda nice, ngl.

Forgot FAT32 had a file count limit.

Turns out Linux won't stop you from writing too many files to a FAT32 drive.

Turns out this makes FAT32 do *really weird shit.*

Idea: Corruption as a service.

RESTful API where you send a URL to a file, an intensity and a method, and if the file's under some size, we return a URL to the now-corrupted file on the server, which is removed after like 5 minutes of inactivity or something.

Depending on method and intensity, corruption amount varies from one byte to every byte being either replaced or added to/subtracted from by a certain amount.

Unique error message layouts on my college's site thus far?: 2
Time since entering site?: 30 minutes
Trying?: False

https://imgur.com/a/3sbJgep

trying to rewrite a ti-8x calculator sound driver to be actually decent but i can't make music with it as i have no artistic cells in my body

my body has trillions of cells and not a one can figure out more than oscillation or transposing a song using shitty online guitar tabs

OoT's fucking ded.

https://youtu.be/RoEmGCNsbno

@dfox keybase proof integration when? :P

KALI FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAN YOU NOT BREAK YOUR BOOT PACKAGE FOR 24 FUCKING HOURS

the initrd isn't at all valid and the vmlinuz package is 0 bytes.

Tried to boot ReactOS on real hardware.

ALL the driver issues, and no way to fix them (USB had drivers assigned but only had power, not even my mouse worked.)

God I wish ReactOS was laughed at less. There's so much here that could grow into a full Windows replacement, but people are too busy laughing to help.

It's like comparing Windows 2.x to Windows 7 or 10. There's something there, it's just not progressed far enough to get up to where it could be. (Not literally ofc, metaphorically)

Dude let his sister play a game for an hour, and his performance went to shit afterwards. Turns out she had somehow installed a new rogue AV going around and it did this shit to scare him into buying.
Edit: forgot to add that it's called "Segurazo"

ffs normal people still making 404 jokes
gimme a 410 Gone at the very least, goddammit!

Malware: "HAHAHAHAHA I HAVE HOSED YOUR PC AND REPLACED THE MBR! ONLY I REMAIN!"
me, loading my VM's clean slate snapshot:

Was trying to see why a (luckily) wiped drive wasn't reading out of nowhere, got to feel it try to read from the platters, arm flailing to try and read anything, and suddenly it just... gave up, arm parked, platters spun down... It still had power, it just stopped and didn't start back up, except for a moment or two of spin when power is applied.

I felt a HDD give up and die and it made me kinda sad.

AT&T: "there is an excessive use cap on your unlimited mobile data plan but you'll never hit it"

Me: BEGIN TRANSMISSION

Did the Kali repos get pwned? Updated to kernel 5.3.0 and rebooted to this. File is 8 bytes, contains just "fuck you".

NO ONE'S GIFFED THIS YET?

ok how does ffmpeg work

*takes 3 hours to figure out crop window was invalid since it never tells you*

and it's even applicable. Wonderful.

EDIT: wow devrant makes this look like shit, it's not even at 60FPS anymore

unpopular opinion: maybe updates would take under <super long time that's overblown> if you did it more often. Also defrag your standard HDDs like every month (weekly if you really want the performance boost)

just had a 3AM fucking brain blast

On the TI-8x line of calculators, you can do link port shit to essentially blit music to the barrel link port. However, the only library for this sounds like dick and is a superslow piece of shit.

I've just had a thought:
The library this dude wrote spaces the note out, waits for it to end and then resets the port.

If you're blitting music to the port rapid-fire, you don't need to reset it except either after the music or during rests. I can push a note with a waveform of 0hz to the link port to reset it, so...

The dude posted his source, so I could theoretically have it set the link port to whatever note and immediately return.

This would make the time between notes upwards of like 8x faster, bringing my sample rate from like 25 to 200 or so. That's almost fast enough for barely-recognizable voice synth! A little fiddling would be needed to get me the rest of the way there, but there's probably optimizations I can do to push the envelope some.

why does xscreensaver do this shit when it dies and why isn't it auto-restarted?

my fucking PS1 card died halfway through reading its contents

installed xscreensaver on my phone and suddenly haven't had to reboot it in like a week due to unrelated issues

suspicious

https://devever.net/~hl/cloudflare/

why is this allowed

usually it installs in a bootloader env

MY FUCKING COLLEGE PISSED VOC REHAB OFF SO MUCH THEY DROPPED MY FUNDING.

i got to waste 6 hours doing unnecessary work to learn this.

Thanks, Columbia College. Eat shit.

thank you, Pearson, for this opportunity

someone posted this saying "tor isn't effective". Tore them a new one and explained how each failure point is only worst-case.

My college apparently needs their hand held and be gently guided through everything they're being paid to do to get me ready for classes:

First attempt to get registered: Never got my student ID. Missed 1/3 of the semester since they completely forgot to process me.

Second attempt (current):
Took 3 weeks to get ahold of the college at all, took another week to get in to see an academic advisor (had to come in and wait 6 hours for that day, without leaving, to see one. They weren't busy, they went DND all day and 6 hours later one was caught doing nothing but playing games for 6 hours.) Vocational Rehabilitation was supposed to pay all but $86 of what grants wouldn't cover (not bad, not bad) but even though Voc Rehab sent it, and got receipt of deposit, they "never got the money". 3 days before classes, found out I have textbooks online I must claim and they never told me about them, however I can't access them as I need them to give me claim codes. They're closed at that point in the day.

It's currently Sunday and classes start tomorrow. What other surprises will I have tomorrow? Who the fuck knows?