waspentalive

https://gitlab.com/waspentalive/labelbasic

Label Basic is to be a simple basic interpreter that uses labels instead of line numbers. I have a design document in the project at GitLab. I have some C coding experience but I am really weak in pointers. All of my experience is small C programs for my own curiosity, I have published very little, see the other items in my GitLab.

I have a stack of SATA hard drives that I need to erase.

I have a USB drive dock, a box that a drive can be set into that connects to my computer via USB-3.

I am using DD to write zeros to the raw device, in this case, /dev/sdf.

No matter the actual size of the drive dd stops at about 3 to 7 gb. These are 300 gb to 3 TB drives.

I am not mounting the drives, but I do ensure they are visible to the system with lsblk. To change drives I turn off the dock. The drive then disappears from lsblk. When I insert a different drive and turn the dock back on again /dev/sdf re-appears.

Are all my drives bad? If they are I will need to have them "professionally" destroyed at about $25 a drive.

All I want is: A Klien Bottle on a rough wood table with a fireplace in the background. A fire in the fireplace. Photorealistic.

Dall-e keeps coming up with other bottles - mostly wine bottles.

I am zeroing out some old drive - some may not have secure erase. If I issue the command:

hpparm --security-erase-enhanced

Against a drive that does not have this feature, will it error? Man does not tell me.

[[[ Solved - Using FreeTube for now ]]]

It seems youtube is breaking into the middle of long-form video much more often. And most of the ads are for snake oil - Fear mongering "Tinnitus will KILL your brain in three years" baloney.

Is there a Fediverse equivalent to YouTube? Can the Fediverse be applied to this? Will it solve the above complaint?

I have been to Odysee but with very few exceptions none of the content I want is there (They have Veritasium, and minute Physics, but not Vsause, Technology Connections, or Stand Up Maths)

I tried it once a long time ago. Does anyone here currently use it? What do you like about it? What do you hate?

https://esolangs.org/wiki/tiny

Tiny is a small integer RPN based language created by User:Ron.hudson. It is a console/character type interpretive programming language, in which all statements are either assignments or those that print quoted strings.

#Solved

Our microwave has just begun to show a failure mode. With no settings on the timer/modes when we close the door we hear a 60-cycle hum.

We put a coffee cup with water in and closed the door but did not push any button and noted the hum. The water got warm, for the exposure of 20 to 30 seconds, the water got the expected level of warmth we think.

Is there any danger if we leave the door open? (No hum with the door open)

Could the Magnatron be running at a higher output than it is supposed to when the door is closed but the microwave is not under the control of its built-in circuitry?

Of course, there is no danger of the microwave doing anything other than heating stuff (No mad science going on)? We know that microwave ovens work by making the water molecules vibrate faster.

Why are some of my subscriptions pending after 3 or 4 days? Has lemmy.ml somehow fallen out of favor?

Hi, I am WasPentalive and I use C to create small programs to explore randomness and other interesting subjects. For example, I had heard that the chances of winning the CA lottery was the same as flipping a coin Heads or Tails 25 times in a row. I wrote a C program to flip coins until that streak was accomplished.