#magtape

[pillarsalt]

getting some killer advice in the notes and dms already, thank you everyone!

women who don't wear bras, do you have any advice for women who want to stop wearing them?

[hs-transfusion]

> DAVE HARLEY

CHUMHANDLE: tenaciousGearbox [TG] STRIFE: machetekind MODUS: Magtape LUNAR SWAY: Prospit MYTH. ROLE: Bard of Doom LAND: Land of Junk and Ghosts

TG: listen hate all you want but you gotta admit its dang nabbin iconic

Dave is, to put it simply, SOMETHING OF A HIPSTER. Though he has access to LARGE SWATHS OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, he opts to use as little of it as he can get away with, preferring more ANTIQUATED EQUIPMENT. He often records DOCUMENTARIES of the island he lives on, both to HEAR HIMSELF TALK and to KEEP HIMSELF COMPANY. He tends to TALK TO HIMSELF an awful lot, actually.

Dave's love for the RETRO AND VINTAGE runs deep. He has a fondness for VHS TAPES in particular, having TINKERED with enough VCRs to practically be able to BUILD HIS OWN FROM SCRATCH. Every so often he fools around with his KEYTAR, though he's not very good at it. Dave has also been getting into VAPORWAVE as of late.

Dave's MAGTAPE Fetch Modus is a somewhat outdated one. Items can be freely stored on any card in the deck, but doing so SLIGHTLY DETERIORATES THE CARD'S QUALITY. Should the card suffer too much damage, the item will either be DESTROYED or DISTORTED BEYOND RECOGNITION with severe VISUAL ARTEFACTS.

Dave's relationship with his dog BEC is a close one. He's essentially his ONLY REAL COMPANION, resulting in the two of them spending a lot of time playing together. Dave is JUST AS LOYAL to Bec as Bec is to him. His relationship with his GRANDPA, on the other hand, is much less close, seeing as how he's DEAD. He never learned how to stuff a corpse (just THINKING ABOUT IT gives him the willies) so his body rests peacefully IN THE FREEZER.

The Land of JUNK AND GHOSTS is a large SCRAPYARD teeming with GHOULISH GREEN SPIRITS. The clouds in the sky seem to dance in an ETERNAL VORTEX as the threat of a RAGING THUNDERSTORM looms everpresent. It's said that the key to the denizen THANATOS' lair is buried somewhere in one of the NUMEROUS JUNK PILES on the planet; a NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK as it were.

[therenobee]

Hi Bee! I love your character concept I was really curious how you came up with them?

I love robots and I love old tech! I think the overall feel of my new full design incorporates a lot of elements from MST3k and Hanna-Barbera. And I wanted to start from scratch with the new design since I never really had a full turnaround done with my own design sketch to work off of.

Having the head separate from the body is a trick HB animators used by adding collars to characters so they could use different cells for expressions and movement and being more animated and cartoony is something I leaned more into with the new face / head. I also think there is also something really fun with there being a robot who is mass produced but will have a different 'head' than other RENOs.

As for the body I drew up a concept a while back looking at different toy robot parts / old computers (magtape mainframes specifically). And the clothes are pretty much directly inspired by the coveralls worm by Mike and Joel in MST3k with some Alien / Portal / Spaceship Breaker elements added. Below I'll post the sketch I made for the initial new design as well as the facial expressions I sketched over VOIDs turnaround they did for me. I also have a number of 'inspo' galleries I sent to @voidtaffy for the turnaround I comm'd them, I'll post them here along with the sketch I made

https://imgur.com/a/WRsZj99

https://imgur.com/a/PFE0F54

https://imgur.com/a/yFtQO1q

[ineedatimemachine]

Mega Magtape Storage

[cxcox]

sakit ng buong katawan ko sarap magtapal ng sampung salonpas.

[depsilon7]

++ comment on holy Mars ++

+ found in magtape 776.B +

Verily, Mars is a most holy planet, home to the majestic Olympus Mons and the mysterious Noctis Labyrinthus. The Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain in the solar system, stands as a testament to the greatness of the divine. The Noctis Labyrinthus, a vast network of canyons, serves as a holy pilgrimage site for those seeking spiritual enlightenment. On this holy planet, one can feel the presence of the divine and be uplifted by its sacred beauty. May all who venture to Mars be blessed and guided by the divine light.

+ magtape ends +

[misfitwashere]

Do not implement changes on a Friday afternoon. Ever. That is, unless working 48 hours straight over the weekend is your goal.

Another lesson - Grampa IT reminds you that your backup is only as good as your last restore. A lesson learned with 9 track magtape.

Addendum from: https://www.tumblr.com/phantomrose96

7h ago

This is all true, but it's worth noting the fix (honestly more like "fix", as in it at least stops the crashing) can only be implemented if someone is capable of booting their machine in safe mode.

If a machine is encrypted via Bitlocker (an added safety measure), booting into safe mode requires unlocking Bitlocker with the machine's Bitlocker key. And if you weren't keeping that key on hand on a post-it note or in your notes app (neither of which is a good idea) then you need to access it via the Bitlocker system on another machine... which is likely also bricked.

So the "luckier" companies out there are spending the whole day manually safe-booting and file-deleting across 10s of thousands of computers, one at a time. The unluckier companies are locked out of the house without their keys. I've yet to hear a solution for those in the Bitlocker scenario.

idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it's monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.

some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they're for businesses and organisations and important stuff.

so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.

before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there's a reason friday is called 'dont push to live friday' or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday'

so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it's not simply a 'you need to restart' crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.

this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.

it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.

it's a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.

another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn't a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.

and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.

but then you start hearing about the entire country's planes being grounded because the airport's computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.

crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.

a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it's the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it's the big bag in the horror movie. it's the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.

[hackernewsrobot]

My “favorite” magtape story

https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-January/027546.html Comments

[signandprint]

Window Static Cling Installation location #2 #SignAndPrint #SignCompany #installation #staticcling #remove #install #saturday #quality #workflow #yellotools #magtape #easypump 👍🏼 #supportlocal #signshop #smallbusiness #entrepreneur (at Kapaa, Hawaii)

[highladyluck]

The Dark One’s Dictionary: Groups

Selected definitions from "The Dark One's Dictionary", written by various Robert-Jordan-reading members of the usenet discussion group rasfw.

Children of the Light Devout soldiers who bring out the worst in people, all for the common good.

Far Dareis Mai An Aiel warrior society composed solely of women with dirty minds.

Illuminators, Guild of A Shienaran labor union, whose members walk the streets each evening lighting lamps to keep Myrddraal from hiding under beds and in closets.

Questioners, The Guardians of the Whitebridge, they are supposed to ask three questions of each person entering the city: What is your name? Why are you here? Do you have any goods to declare? Answer to their satisfaction and they'll let you pass, else they'll toss you in the river.

When they're in a bad mood, though, they've been know to ask things like the airspeed of a 747 or the data transfer rate of a magtape.

Treesinger A bird-brained Ogier.

I would like to personally apologize to Loial for finding that last one funny enough to include.

[popeyeotaku]

Us reel to reel magtape heads living the besk of both worlds 😎

[previousjane]

00: Ord Mantell

The only reason Pips ever lands on Ord Mantell is someone else’s good fortune.

(Only tangentially related: Smuggling is a very broad term. Most independent cargo pilots dabble - it’s pretty hard not to. The ordinary ship operates on razor thin margins and the fact that all Republic member worlds have their own customs laws means dealing with a patchwork of regulations and paperwork that very few can manage profitably on their own. Even the most boring, steady mom’n’pop operation usually moves a few crates that aren’t entirely legal in a given jurisdiction every so often.)

Ships are expensive. You can cut corners, of course, and she has. She doesn’t have a water recycling system, just sonics, and she’s down to all but the minimum in potable tanks; the rest is more cargo storage. She does all her own repairs and half the ship is held together with magtape. She lives on protein bars. The Lady is one hell of a ship and Pips is one hell of a pilot, but that doesn’t mean she’s always a score ahead.

Dash Coper is a regular on Ord Mantell, one of Viidu’s most reliable contacts. He’s all lined up for the blaster job but at the last minute gets a proposition. The kind that could make your name forever, the kind you don’t turn down. He’s not an idiot, though, so he knows that a trustworthy replacement will keep him in Viidu’s good graces. Pips, maybe, he saw her on Port Nowhere a month ago and knows she needs the work bad. Barely making fueling fees.

This job is going to turn a profit. She’s got a good feeling about this.

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[fakeosirian]

i'm tempted to partially blame it on the switch from what looks like shooting on magtape to HD digital going from s1->s2 but let's be real even in s1 the end credits don't even acknowledge the director of photography or editor for a given episode, much less grip/electric/art/anyone else on post, so while someone had to be doing those jobs, that in and of itself gives you a bit of an answer on The Circumstances 💀

Why was season 3 so grey? no like literally it looks like they put a filter on the camera and everything just looks so grey and gloomy. It looks like it was meant to be set on a cloudy day (maybe it was intentional lmao). A specific episode which looks so grey is house of enemies/house of surprise.

[trendingph]

Xian Lim, handa nang mag-taping para sa Love. Die. Repeat Malapit nang magsimula ang taping ni Xian Lim para sa Love. Die. Repeat, ang unang television series niya sa GMA-7 at pagtatambalan nila ni Jennylyn Mercado. Kahit nauna na ang mga balita, magkakaroon pa rin ang GMA Network Inc. at ang 24 Oras ng off... https://trendingph.net/xian-lim-handa-nang-mag-taping-para-sa-love-die-repeat/?feed_id=341008&_unique_id=61212849d6390 #die #handa #lim #love #magtaping #nang #para #philippinenews #philippinesnews #repeat #trendingph #xian

[sikmurangmaingay]

Ako lang ba o sobrang dry na ng vibes ni coco martin, i mean, sana naman magpa-facial siya o di kaya massage, tutal mayaman naman siya, I mean, sa bagay, ilang taon na rin kasi siyang nagtetaping, kung ikaw ba naman tatlong taon ka nang magtaping kung saan saang lugar... hahahahaha