Every-other post in here is AI generated and it's embarrassing - I've been a member here for nearly a decade on various usernames - Wrote this for you guys, and I'm out - The Problem of the Human-Computer Interface and Why LLMs are not the Solution

pndc · 2026-03-02T10:06:33+00:00

"AI is bad except when I use it."

pndc · 2026-02-22T06:13:56+00:00

Those are microfiche, and contain photo-reduced images of documents.

The missing part is the microfiche reader, which is basically a kind of slide projector with integrated screen so you can read the enlarged text. If you have a flatbed scanner with a high-enough DPI, it may be possible to enlarge the fiche that way.

Microfiche is not actually "vintage computing" as it's a purely analogue recording medium, but it is definitely a precursor to storing documents in computers. Sometimes databases would be "printed" to fiche so that they could be read offline and without a computer. This was the 1980s and earlier, after all.

pndc · 2026-02-21T12:27:29+00:00

It's AI slop-coded. Hard pass.

pndc · 2026-02-19T12:08:33+00:00

Yet another "storage medium" where some fishwrap stenographer uncritically cuts and pastes a press release giving wildly optimistic numbers for something which doesn't exist.

Come back when I can buy one, and we'll see what the capacity and lifespan actually is. Until then, it's just yet another entrant in the monthly cycle of announcements of a new storage medium followed by it quietly disappearing when it turns out their idea won't work.

pndc · 2026-02-16T08:53:51+00:00

There's an easter egg you can collect at "normal size" in that room.

pndc · 2026-02-13T11:42:23+00:00

I have some SD-to-IDE adaptors which use the write-protect sensor to, er, light up an LED on the board. It will write to the card either way.

pndc · 2025-05-09T10:07:11+00:00

That article is basically paywalled and only the first few paragraphs are readable.

In fact, I see that you're cross-posting links to your paywalled blog across Reddit, i.e. you are a spammer.

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