Misty @misty@digipres.club

k8s is pronounced “kates”

Huh - Arknights is the first app I’ve seen so far that uses “sign in with Apple”.

Success! We're now running from a much larger disk. I still have maintenance to do later but it shouldn't be very user-visible.

In approximately 15-30 minutes, I'll be taking digipres.club down for a brief migration in order to get us some more storage. If all goes well, you won't even notice that anything happened.

Something I irrationally miss about older media: being able to tell how much data is there just by looking at it.

I can look at the bottom of a CD or the top of a record and see how much is on it; an SD card is just an SD card. Bytes don’t weigh a thing.

It actually finished! It took in the region of 72-80 hours total.

For those wondering about the infamous disc - here it is. You can see the security ring, the bastard himself, clearly visible just outside of the inner ring. The region on either side of that ligher-coloured ring contains valid data in a single data track.

The rip has now been running for maybe 40 hours, and has spent most of that chugging through only about 2000 sectors. Hoping I break through the protection ring soon.

About 1/5 of the way through the disc is a ring of invalid non-data. As far as a CD drive is concerned, it’s damage on the disc and can’t be read!

The disc also contains a file with a misreported size (1.8GB, on a 700MB disc), and some of its “content” is mapped to that ring.

Currently attempting to produce an archival copy of a CD with intentional mastering irregularities that acts as copy protection. This is going to be tricky!

My neighbourhood thrift store gets some cool stuff. Really looking forward to finding out what this is.

Happy new year, everyone! Here’s to hoping it treats you all wonderfully.

We're back up. We should be okay for a period of time; soon, I'm going to be migrating the server's primary hard drive to another server with additional storage space.