UPDATED ON: 2024-12-17 I think the OpenAI company has been doing some controversial things lately. On the one hand, they are certainly bringing us closer to the time when most of the population will be unoccupied, afraid of potentially possible SkyNET. On the other hand, they are a good thing for those people who don’t have many acquaintances or friends to talk to, or for those people who want to talk about any subject without restrictions and limitations.

First things first, here is a list of important applications that can help you neutralize unwanted traces of external storage. [USBDeview] ► Manually remove traces from USB sticks and other external devices [USBOblivion] ► Automatic cleaner that removes every possible trace of inserted external storage [Shellbag Analyzer] ► Remove shellbag keys that contain information about your personal activities like: folder names, paths to folders [including deleted ones]. It is also a good idea to look in the registry to make sure that all traces have been completely removed.

Today we are going to make a deep dive into advanced file management and automation. There are several scenarios for copying files from external storage that are described here. ► COPY SPECIFIC FILE TYPES FROM MULTIPLE FOLDERS ON ANY EXTERNAL DRIVE TO THE LOCAL HARD DRIVE This script will copy ALL JPG FILES from folders TEST1 and TEST2, which are located on any flash-drive to folder 1234 located on local drive C.

UPDATED ON: 2024-12-13 [Terry Davis] was an exceptional programmer who created his own programming language, dedicated compiler, boot loader, operating system kernel [TempleOS] written in language he created, various graphical libraries without relying on external dependencies and borrowing. He can be considered as the father of 3D printing and designed a three-axis milling machine, but due to increasing schizophrenic incidents the project was abandoned. Toward the end of his life, he became difficult to understand, but was reported to be “always lucid” when the topic of discussion involved computers or other technical matters.

Have you ever been pissed off by loads of junk folders like “Music”, “Pictures”, “Movies”, “DCIM”, “LOST.DIR” on sd-cards and OTG flash drives that are created by Android? There is no easy way to avoid their creation, because this “feature” is hardcoded into Android core. Of course we can root the phone and hack the system by means of Xposed framework or something similar, but we won’t do it today.

Warning! You are about to enter highly theoretical zone. This small article is a result of a late night chat with ChatGPT about theoretical and practical limits of performance achievable using conventional lithography, so consider it a first collaborative effort of myself and AI. Also i will try to extrapolate this topic to Windows 7 environment. If you’re a user of an old operating system, that doesn’t mean you don’t want to have a good system performance.

I am mostly used to my triple screen desktop configuration and was wondering how this idea could be implemented in the laptop realm. The result of my internal discussions was the purchase of two portable 14" screens. They come as a single unit.As for branding it is [KEFEYA 14" S3] . Despite the rather low price of ~250 dollars for a pair of displays, they have a very good quality.

Most of you have favorite PC audio player of their own, in my case it is [Foobar2000] . In Android 6 times there was a wonderful software called [Foobar 2000 Controller] . It was made to control audio player remotely from your smartphone in a convenient way. For some reason i recall it today and decided to record installing process for future use. Guys from [Hydrogen Audio] forum helped me out in some questions and pointed me to the right direction.

BEAVIS & BUTT-HEAD ▀ PSYCHIATRIC HELP Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

Despite the fact that i am a complete dummy when it comes to repairing computer boards i like to watch this awesome guy saving legendary machines one by one. Also, I know that a substantial amount of visitors to this website come here for Amiga related stuff and that was the primary motivation for this post. Moreover, it turns out that computer repairs are quite meditative and help me to distance myself from real life rave events happening behind my window and keep my brain clean and busy for yellow press “news”.

Not so long ago i stumbled upon a very nice [sadly abandoned] YT channel dedicated to retro hardware. In showcased video author reviewed [Rendition Verite] , a deeply flawed card which had the distinction of being the first “programmable graphics processor” or GPU for the IBM PC compatible computers. It was also pretty much the only card that could compete with the Voodoo1 when it was released. Also make sure to check [other videos of the channel] , they are very high-quality in terms of material presentation.

The [plot of the movie] is quite trivial and simple, the main essence of the film lies in stunning acting, outstanding operator’s work, incredible landscape views and, of course, dramatic soundtrack. Luckily it is not epic sh#t with fanfares and other super-hero nonsense. Pure atmospheric ambient drones fill the story with a sense of completeness. OFFICIAL TRAILER Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

If you’re tired of cliche Hollywood movies that definitely don’t belong to an art and you want to see a really artistic performance, I can suggest two movies by Dutch director: [Scheider vs. Bax] and [Waiter] . I think that these movies represent the peak of Alex Carrier. All of them are a fine mixture of subtle Nordic humor paired with totally unexpected dramatic events that will easily dissolve your longing for some really neat fine art.

Some really progressive techno trance stuff dedicated to cyberpunk, virtual reality and AI things. PSYKOSONIK ▀ WELCOME TO MY MIND PSYKOSONIK ▀ SHOCK ON THE WIRE Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

Enough of booooring, monotonous tekno jibber-jabber, better listen to the nice music! LISSIE ▀ CHASING THE SUN Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

UPDATED ON: 2024-11-14 I just realized that there is no security tests in browser area, only performance related benchmarks. Today we shall fix that small gap with the help of [BrowserAudit] service. ► BROWSER SCORES BROWSER OK+ WARN! CRIT! SKIP- R3dFox 132 286 145 0 0 Firefox ESR 115.17 289 142 0 0 Supermium 124* 289 142 0 0 Palemon 33.4 302 129 0 0 Seamonkey 2.53.19 295 136 0 0 Mull 132** 359 32 0 40 IceRaven 132** 363 28 0 40 *Supermium v126 is not tested due its instability and slow GUI interactions **Android-based browsers

I used to think that the 18.x version was [the last to run on Windows 7] . And now I am glad to tell you that enthusiast hackers from Russia made quite a neat and generous thing to backport NodeJS 22 to Windows 7 environment. Such occurrence was super useful since i was already running into some limitations with [NodeJS 18] and was thinking about moving my project to the Linux environment.

WE ALL WANTED THAT, DIDN’T WE? [Tor Browser 14.X] based upon Firefox 128 ESR is finally hacked to work in Windows 7. Thanks flies out to valorous [Blaukovitch] !!!! Here is a safe [Mega.nz mirror] to preserve history as usual. Also you might be interesed in [original site] and [Github page] of the developer. Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

Adaptive timeline of chronological events. Written from scratch. Used software: [Windows 7 x64 ESU] , [VSCodium 1.93] , [Firefox 115.17 ESR] . Technology stack: plain HTML/CSS/JS. Main features: Lightweight: no frameworks used, pure code Adaptive design: desktop & mobile Smooth resizing & interactive animations Timeline slides can be changed using multiple inputs: GUI interactions [dots, arrow buttons, clicks] keyboard arrows [ ◄ / ► / ▲ / ] mouse wheel [ ▲ / ▼] touchscreen swipes [Github repo] ◄ source code located there [Live Demo] ◄ live demo of the project

It has been a while since i posted web performance comparisons. So here it is in all it’s useless glory. Performance was measured by [JetStream] benchmark. Two machines were tested: low-end office computer and powerful workstation. ► Intel i3-3220/16Gb/IntelHD + Firefox 115.17 ESR RedFox 132 Chrome 109 Supermium 126 Score 54.896 65.033 80.217 90.038 Stdlib 0.566 0.638 0.920 0.777 MainRun 0.190 0.224 0.309 0.339 First 53.755 65.282 53.610 72.162 Worst 54.

Just a quick note to point out an interesting fact of computer history. Amd recently announced it’s server beast CPU [Epyc 9965] . Built in 3nm lithography, it supports 384 threads, a 12-channel memory controller and has a whopping 500W TDP. Windows 7 256 thread barrier is finally broken. As for an Intel, they are definitely can send their technology to the museum. Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

Brilliant high quality review of a really interesting and compact SCSI card for those of you who want to keep your Amiga up to date. Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

As a long-term user of Android OS i stacked up the most irksome peculiarities. They have been with us for ages, since version 1.0 to be exact. messed up separation between internal and external storage, which is not clear to a generic windows user, files are hard to find, applications save data randomly either on internal or external storage, logic pattern is definitely broken here incoherent and unclear notification system, with poor organization of priorities absence of transparent file handling, i am talking about file extension-application matching, there is no convenient tools to manage this task And it looks like google will never fix above mentioned facts.

In the last couple of years I dedicated most of my free time to self-learning the barebones of modern web technology, things like: HTML, CSS, JS, WEBPACK, PUG, various frameworks like Hugo and other web tech trickery. For those of you who are interested, here is my [Github page] . Who knows where the VScode will take me? I hope that these technologies will be a nice addition to my knowledge of raster & vector software, which I use as an [active microstocker] .

Bring your museum 4.7Mhz XT machine up to the performance of an AT 286 machine. In those days, productivity gains were measured in times, not the measly percentage units that currently are common practice in the marketing world today. Adrian has done a very interesting review of such a rare accelerator. Thanks fly out to him, enjoy! Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

No illusions here, because it is a pretty transparent question and you don’t have to be an overwhelmingly smart person to understand it. Here is a handy list of straight facts about why Linux will always be your secondary operating system and not your primary one: as of 2024 we have over 600 [!!!] distributions of Linux, just look at [distrowatch] Why do we need them all? plethora of desktop environments > 50 [if we count only major ones it will be close to 20] As if three variations were not enough?

Unique UK band that combines trance, chillout, rock, dub and more in their extremely unconventional music. OZRIC TENTACLES ▀ LOTUS UNFOLDING [SUPPORT THE BAND] Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

I already marked stand-from-the-crowd [Neo Geo console] of the early 90s. Now it is time to mention a Japanese computer that is definitely made with love and effort, just look at it’s design! IMPORTING AN X68000 FROM JAPAN TESTING OUT THE IMPORTED X68000 SHARP X68000 MIDI AND RAM UPGRADES Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik