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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Floppy Memes

Posts tagged with Floppy

The Four Horsemen Of Digital Extinction

Tech Engineering
1 year ago 42.7K views 0 shares
The Four Horsemen Of Digital Extinction
Nothing makes you feel like a fossil quite like watching kids stare blankly at obsolete tech icons. The floppy disk "save" button might as well be hieroglyphics to them. "Why is the save icon a weird square?" they ask, while I contemplate my own mortality. These digital relics—the floppy disk, rotary phone, alarm clock, and film reel—once revolutionary, now reduced to cryptic symbols that Gen Alpha swipes past without a second thought. The technological circle of life: today's cutting-edge innovation is tomorrow's confusing museum piece. Just wait until they learn we actually had to rewind movies before returning them!

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Back up Hugging Face models to a NAS before they vanish

Models do disappear from Hugging Face. How I keep a local copy I can verify: pinned hf download, SHA256 manifests, Ollama's blob store, and a ... Read article →

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