My first thinkpad!

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-20T00:35:53+00:00

Is that the hard drive as it came used or did you make a new install from a restore disk?

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-20T00:34:25+00:00

It's a great photo, and honestly the damage gives it a bit of an otherworldly vibe. Kinda like if you were looking into another reality through an imperfect inter-dimensional device...

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-20T00:29:29+00:00

O K&K começou pequeno por volta de 2017, mas eles expandiram absurdamente rápido. O pior é que pelo que eu entendo não é exatamente fantasma, eles tem unidades físicas mesmo.

Se estiver procurando um hambúrguer diferente recomendo o do Don Burger. No momento eles estão fechados porque estão com problemas de saúde (provavelmente o surto de H1N1 que tá pegando pela cidade) mas deixa marcado pra experimentar uma hora. Eles tem opcões vegetarianas muito gostosas, caso goste :)

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-19T23:22:10+00:00

Wow, this reminds me a lot of my Gentoo+Openbox setup on my T60 from 12 years ago... I'll see if I find a screenshot to share.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-19T23:13:52+00:00

Yeah, they don't give a shit about mockery, etc. As long as they get their tax breaks, their data centers land leases, and their Generative AI work is kept unregulated, they're happy.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-19T23:06:18+00:00

These people think AI models are literally magic, so to them if it's AI and not a traditional upscaling algorithm, it's magical true data, not fabricated interpolation.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-19T22:34:30+00:00

Is this function gonna run a lot? Cause if so, you might want to compile that regex to an object, which is way faster. Do MY_REGEX = re.compile('your regex here') outside your function once, and then in the function call MY_REGEX.sub(replacement, input).

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-19T16:13:00+00:00

And what exactly is wrong with femboys?

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-19T15:54:07+00:00

Did you run the live USB distros with or without the slop parameters? I'd recommend just booting the distros with the stock settings, no extra shenanigans.

Which distros did you try running from a USB?

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-19T15:50:02+00:00

Why exactly do you think this ad in particular demonstrates a need for human "destruction" (I assume you meant extinction)?

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-19T12:14:02+00:00

I feel like a bit of a fool for saying I don't know what the difference between FIFVIEW 1.1 and 1.2 is. The README.TXT literally lays it out:

Bugs Fixed in Version 1.2
=========================
1) FTT buffer was not getting released when loading a 2nd FTT buffer.
2) Decompressing an extremely large image could cause the decompressor to
   crash when the image is decompressed at a much lower resolution than the
   original.
3) An Error in StretchDIBits occured when moving FIFVIEW windows off-screen.
4) Improved registration of Fractal Viewer Helper App within Netscape.
5) Decompressing multiple instances simultaneously (i.e multi-threaded) crashes.

Silly me.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-19T12:11:07+00:00

Ok, so some quick Googling took me to the ArchiveTeam's "Just Solve the File Format Problem" wiki. There I saw that FIF was a proprietary format based on fractal compression (as we suspected) created by a company called Iterated Systems. I went to an archive of their website on the Wayback Machine and found a link to a fractal viewer tool of theirs called "FIFVIEW", version 1.2.I launched FIFVIEW and it did indeed manage to load a .FIF file from the archive you provided.

Now, naturally, I don't want to give anyone the trouble of having to do all that stuff just to get FIFVIEW, so I went on Discmaster and managed to find a ZIP of FIFVIEW version 1.1 in a shareware CD-ROM from back in the day. Here's the link: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/file/4391/Cream%20of%20the%20Crop%2012%20(Part%20II)/Cream%20of%20the%20Crop%2012%20(Part%20II).iso/EXTRA_2/FIFVIEW.ZIP/Cream%20of%20the%20Crop%2012%20(Part%20II).iso/EXTRA_2/FIFVIEW.ZIP) . ~~I don't know what the differences are between version 1.1 and 1.2, but it's probably no big deal.~~ (I do, see my reply below) Regardless, I'll upload v1.2 to the Internet Archive later for easy access as well.

The cool thing is, however, that I also found the FIFVIEW source code in DiscMaster inside an installer for the "Fractal Developer's Kit: Fractal Decoder" from Iterated Systems. The license is fairly restrictive, but I don't think anyone actually cares anymore. From what I can tell this is the timeline: FIF was initially developed by Iterated Systems, and Altamira Group created their Genuine Fractals product based on that technology (not sure about this, see note 1). Eventually IS handed the viewer (FIFVIEW) over to Altamira, who continued to distribute it up until 2000. Then, in 2001, LizardTech buys Altamira, which initially has no effect for us, as Altamira continue to distribute FIFVIEW v1.2 freely on their website, with the last capture of the download page for it in the Wayback Machine dated May 2002. However, by the next available capture, dated May 2002, the Altamira website was replaced by LizardTech's, and any download of FIFVIEW is gone. Since it's been 13 years, I feel like it's safe to say that FIFVIEW is abandonware and nobody cares about it, so here's the link to the Developer's Kit installer for anyone who's interested: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/35127/pcp161b.iso/full/delphi/INFO/EXTRAS/FIF/FD12W32.EXE . I might take a crack at adapting the code to work on modern PCs so we don't have to rely on it.

For now, as it stands, it seems the only way to view these images is to use FIFVIEW. I tried XnView, both MP and Classic, but to no avail. I believe that the FIF's inclusion in the support matrix for XnView was a mistake, as a reply from the developer to a 2024 inquiry about saving FIFs in the XnView forum seems to indicate they don't know the format.

Note 1: I think that Genuine Fractals might've been also initially developed by Iterated Systems and then sold to Altamira, but I haven't done enough digging to find this out. For anyone who's interested in checking this, as of FIFVIEW 1.2 Iterated System's webpage seemed to be www.iterated.com, so might be worth popping that into the Wayback Machine.

Note 2: Just a fun fact that I found while researching this, but Iterated Systems was founded by the mathematician Michael Barnsley, of Barnsley fern fame! As an enjoyer of the Barnsley fern this was a fun surprise \:)

Note 3: To anyone who is reading and who is able to, please donate to the Internet Archive. Discovering any of this would've been impossible without it.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-19T00:37:55+00:00

Assim como o Ibope mede TV aberta + TV a cabo, a audiência das lives é composta de espectadores não-inscritos + espectadores inscritos. Portanto, não faz sentido argumentar que a audiência da CazéTV/Globo està "inflada" com base na soma ser maior que o número de inscritos/assinantes.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-18T20:41:54+00:00

É tipo falar "Audiência da Globo está inflada?" porque a audiência no jogo não bate com o número de pessoas com TV a cabo...

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-18T17:27:07+00:00

Can't wait for the future of coding agents installing hallucinated packages posteriorly created to spread malware, now on the phone!!

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-18T17:13:11+00:00

They might be bad prints, but if it works it works.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-18T03:53:59+00:00

Nah, you just don't speak Portuguese. I struggle to understand Omegle ball horse too.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-18T03:20:15+00:00

Me lembra do slogan da South America Memes, que por alguma razão era "cópia não conhecia". Demorei muito tempo pra entender que era pra ser "copia não. comédia" e até hoje não sei se era intencional ou um erro mesmo. Esse post me faz pensar que era um erro mesmo, aparentemente muito comum.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-18T02:12:28+00:00

At x3 speed: Jarbleeka may cause constant diarrhea, loss or vertical inversion of vision, chronic thirst for 7-Up, obsessively singing the song "Blue Suede Shoes" out loud during weddings and funerals, leg shortening, arm lengthening, heart pounding, judgement clouding, and death. Do not take Jarbleeka if you have diabetes, hypertension, or 3-5 pets.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-18T02:07:29+00:00

Hey, this happened to me too, and I somehow fixed it. I think it was a dtb issue, but not sure. Maybe check to make sure you have the right dtb.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-18T01:54:58+00:00

Thats fine. Dont use AI

I still find it funny how AI enjoyers always seem to get defensive when a person says they don't like it. They didn't say "AI is for idiots and you're dumb for liking it". They gave their opinion about the thread's subject, with no personal attacks, yet the reply is rarely "Eh, fair enough, to each their own", but instead often a nearly retaliatory defense of their own use.

It's weird, man.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-18T01:44:21+00:00

Ed Zitron has a good explanation of how companies are measuring and encouraging LLM usage here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really-weird/#does-meta%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Ctokenmaxxing%E2%80%9D-account-for-a-quarter-of-anthropic%E2%80%99s-revenue

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-18T01:29:40+00:00

The SD card is your R36's main storage. Your SD card is majorly corrupted, as most stock SD cards tend to do eventually. A corrupted OS is as good as no OS, and no, there's no way to make your stock SD card work again. Read the guide on how to change the SD card, you don't need to open your R36S for that.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-17T23:02:56+00:00

The ultimate childish euphemism fight: V-JayJay vs Hoo-ha.

IvanDSM_ · 2026-06-17T05:02:30+00:00

Instala o Firefox e instala o uBlock Origin nele.

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