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Written by Chronocide on 2025-01-14 at 21:52

Apologies if I'm showing my age here, but I've never used floppy disks so apologies if this question is missing context!

Every now and again I see people measure things in floppy disks but I have no clue what size that would amount to.

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Written by Chronocide on 2025-01-14 at 21:51

Would anybody happen to know what the storage size is for a 3½-inch floppy disk? Specifically a "common" floppy disk (like the save icon?)

They seem ubiquitous but I can't seem to get a single answer when it comes to their sizes? Wikipidia mentions 264 KB for HP single sided on this page (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk) but then also 250 KB with a citation needed on this page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats)?

Search also gives many different sizes, what gives?

[#]retrocomputing

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Written by Chronocide on 2024-11-06 at 22:44

Follow up, any resource recommendations for someone interested in developing hardware (mostly USB HID devices)? I have some familiarity with things like Arduino but I'd love to learn more about #pcb designing and such.

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Written by Chronocide on 2024-11-06 at 22:42

Would anyone have a good place to find commonly used microchips for various projects? I've heard of chips such as the #attiny85 and #STM8S001J3, but I have no clue how to search for chips. Is it a matter of going to places such as mouser or digikey and filtering until you find something you need or is there a better way to do it?

[#]hardware #chip #diy #electronics

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Written by Chronocide on 2024-09-16 at 23:56

For people who self-host their websites (or other web services), is it worth it?

I'm very interested in self-hosting a small static website from my home network but the general consensus seems to be "don't, unless you're tunneling through Cloudflare", which seems to kinda defeat the point? I feel like I'm missing something based on the amount of people I see claiming they self-host?

[#]selfhosting

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Written by Chronocide on 2024-09-11 at 09:53

If someone forks your project and removes all references to you as the original author, does that violate the GPL-3 license?

Reading the license in full, I'm none the wiser as it's quite complicated legal language, but I like to believe it's against the spirit of the license?

If not, what changes should I make where this becomes a requirement? I have no issue with people using my code, but it does annoy me when people pretend it's their own.

[#]fosstodon #foss #opensource

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Written by Chronocide on 2024-09-06 at 21:24

When creating accessible web applications using HTML, what are the recommended practices for editable elements?

Say I have a list of cards, each of which have a title which can be edited. Should all these cards be individual forms? Or should these be naked input elements with appropriate labels? Or something different altogether?

[#]a11y #wcag #webdev

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