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Oh yes, this is that universe where Roy Orbison, Cyndi Lauper and Celine Dion all performed "I drove all night".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5N9IHqqGcA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y1TZXc5DiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvz_gW5C2cY

@dansup @pixelfed That background is just waaaay too bright.

@foone So... he saw the correct side of your laptop?

Here's the XTA card, I couldn't find any reference on it on the Internet at all. My best guess is that it comes out of a Twinhead XT clone, since similar riser cards were found in later Twinheads with similar serial numbers. The jumpers can select at which address the ROM should be available. I happened to read a doc that mentioned that XTA disk roms should be loaded at C800. I wouldn't even thought of trying to adjust for that, and the original AMIBIOS doesn't display this address like GLaBIOS!

Today I had the day off and played a bit with an XT build I've been working on. I found an XTA (like ATA but for an XT) controller in a friend's dumpster, and even found a compatible drive in my garage.

Impressively, GLaBIOS (the open source XT BIOS) even lists the drive while it boots (I don't think there are many people at all that uses this configuration out there).

Here's a little video of it booting up. Next it will get FreeDOS, then I'll have an XT with a free BIOS and free OS!

@rbo_ne Not this year, hopefully another time!

Today I finished my term as Debian Project Leader. It feels almost as surreal as having become DPL in the first place. Thanks to everyone who has shown their confidence, support and assistance over the last four years, and more than that, thank you to everyone who has made Debian better, not only as a Linux distribution, but as a global project that we can be proud of!

I wonder if I would also be blocked if I tried to enter Germany (the thought did come up when I considered going to MiniDebConf there). The extreme anti-semitism from the German government and the German police is disturbing as well as their reaction to anyone who criticise it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1si1pzTszE

@polpo Amazing! How did you recreate an ne2000 card? Did you have to reverse engineer it or are the specs available somewhere?

I just booted my XT using a free BIOS. (now I just need to find a working keyboard for this thing urrrgghg)

@cks that sounds like a bug, what's the actual error message?

Dear @highvoltage. It really is ok to think something and not also say it out loud.

South African general elections are coming up later this month... and there's absolutely no one worth voting for. Really depressing.

@LALegault Realistically, he's unlikely to survive the start of any legal proceedings, and he probably knows it, it also makes him a convenient scapegoat for everyone who backs him

@foone @konstantinosd If you learn one thing from history, it's that we're doomed to repeat it.

@slcw Why not just fly whichever flag you want and let others do whatever they like? Let people be individuals and stop making them conform to whatever your idea of what normal should look like.

@Ganneff There's good reasons why Incus exists!

If you support Israel's genocide in Gaza, you are no different than a Nazi. Absolutely no different at all, you're a scumbag and deserve anything bad that comes your way.

@mjg59 I think the answer has proven itself. Free software is the solution. If xz-utils were a piece of proprietary software, it would take much, much longer to have found this. Also, I shudder to think how much crap is shipped along with seemingly legit android apps out there, also why I refuse to log in to things like Debian's gitlab instance from my phone

@chu @LALegault yeah star trek had a huge influence on me and who I am as a person.