Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

The US nuclear arsenal still runs on floppy disks.

EDIT: The Air Force claimed they finished a migration from 8-inch floppy disks to solid state storage in June 2019, so my info is slightly out of date. They did use floppy disks for over 50 years though (1968-2019).

The thing with random internet replies: you never know if it's true (you could look it up, but that would make life to easy).
So this is or:
really scary
unbelievable smart cause nobody knows how to use them
not true
Probably there are some other options but I'll go for a combination of the first and second one and hoping for the third
- Doing a bit of research online, my info is slightly out of date. They used floppy disks from 1968 to 2019. In 2019, they migrated from the old 8 inch floppy to "highly secure solid-state storage". They don't specify what type of solid state storage they actually use now though.
  Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html
- It was true at one point, but has since changed. The systems are totally air-gapped and worked 100% of the time, so there was never a reason to change them.
  Also true: Boeing still uses floppies to update their 747s.
- It boils down to "never change a running system"

It's not the disks it's what's ON the disks

Supposedly on the disks. The files were saved, but did the FAT table eat itself was the question. 😂
- FAT table eat itself
  heh
And they always act as if there's no way it could have been copied and exist somewhere else.
- But my dude... Diskettes had Copy Protection! /s
- Well, often it was a game of super spy keepaway and no one ever made it to a computer or had the code or the data was to save a good guy or whatever
An embarrassing snapshot of spongebob at the Christmas party?

I remember when floppies where called floppy because they were huge and floppy (that's what she said). Before the hard shell smaller floppies became a thing.

The disk part was still floppy.
Still, hard floppys was really easy to damage - fart near it, and it's unreadable
- My favorite thing was messing with the metal slider until it broke.
- I think in the later dying days of the floppy disk, the manufacturers made them with really poor quality. It used to be in earlier years, say the 8-bit years when floppy disks were still floppy, that the disks could keep your data for years if you treated them like vinyl records and never touched the magnetic surface.
  In the late years, I've seen floppy disks that failed almost immediately.
- They weren’t that bad. Hell AOL mailed millions of those damn things in envelopes and they usually worked.
- Had a teacher one time draw a grid on her whiteboard with a space for each student, and she asked us to place our disks with our projects on the board with a magnet (so we wouldn't lose them). The school had recently gotten rid of the old dusty chalkboard, and was really enamored with her new whiteboard and showing off her fridge magnet collection.
  Luckily, someone pointed out why that was a bad idea before anyone did it, and she quickly changed her mind.

Woolsey! We need a stargate community :D
- https://lemmy.world/c/stargate
- Look it's the EMH... Err ummm. ❤️❤️❤️

The most important 1.44 MB you can imagine.

My first porn was on floppy disk

There's something poetic about using a floppy disk to get hard
- I wonder if they could now make floppy disks with the same form factor but modern tech
My first porn was probably NNTP (newsgroups) before I even had the actual WWW. Had to learn how to stitch images together from multiple posts in the early-mid '90s.
- 4chan... I rolled the fucking dice and lost I guess.
- Forté Agent was a blessing
- UUE decoding!
3.5", 5.25" or the monster 8" is the question...
- 5.25 inches but the disk was smaller
I downloaded my first porn from Kazaa, over dial-up.

what are all these old memes doing with save icons? /s

SAVING THE WORLD

Shredder had a zip disk

He would

Who said they still cant?

They can, actually... Many nuclear bases in the US use floppy disks for code to reduce the risk of a cyberattack and because upgrading that intricate of a system is prohibitively expensive for how little good it would do.
- private keys fit in a floppy disk, and their use range includes ransomware decryption and identity verification. In Mr. Robot, all 9-M could've been undone with a floppy.
- Who would win? Thirty years of US security and tech, or one magnet boi?

Well considering most code is under a megabyte it makes sense

Nowadays it's all data crystals.

Stargate did it.
- And Star Trek and Star Wars and probably Galaxy Quest
- Babylon 5 as well.

Nowadays it's microSD cards.

I mean, microSD makes for much more interesting drama. You can hide it in the lining of a suit, sew it underneath the skin, hide it in a ball point pen, in your pet. MicroSd drama is much more sneaky.
Nah. Nuclear launch sites just retired 8" floppies required for launch verification like maybe 5 years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html

I remember when movies/games first started using UBS sticks to contain important plot-macguffin data, it seemed very high-tech and expensive. Of course, now high-capacity sticks are incredibly cheap so anyone can have a whole drawer of them.

I liked when they used minidisks. It looked high tech and you could toss it around, unlike a cd. And it was bigger than a usb stick, so it was a better plot device.

Remember a Decepticon that transformed into a cassette?

Poor Soundwave, he and his minions are obsolete! Maybe they can get upgrades so he transforms into an MP3 player and they transform into SD cards.
- There is already an actual flash drive version of Ravage.
- Leading to intergalactic war accidentally started by DankPods.
Gotta be at some very specific places to fool people with that in 2023

A simple command line in AutoGPT can be enough, as proven with ChaosGPT. But I am more afraid of human stupidity than of AI, it is this that is going to destroy us.

If AI destroys us, it will be a result of human stupidity.
- Ameca think the same https://file.coffee/u/J8iIcvtKb070Z5fYiLCjY.mp4

It's a goober

Climate change increased drastically since the era of floppy disks, coincidence!?

Shredder and Usagi seem to be holding Zip discs rather than floppy discs. I have no idea what Ripster is holding.

In fact, Lexington seems to be the only one with a floppy disc here

Yeah that was the episode where shredder had some software that could create holographic clones of people. But Bebop and Rocksteady fucked up and caused the machine to make Shredder behave like Michaelangelo.
I was going to guess LS120 (a.k.a. "superdisc"), but that's not it.
Turns out after some searching that it looks like 3.5" magneto-optical.
- I've never heard of that format before. These things are neat.

They are truly iconic.

And it was microfilm before floppy disks. And after it was CDs then USB sticks.

Hack the planet!

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Still do? https://youtu.be/HkTHg9Px2Vw?feature=shared

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Let's go back to floppy disk drives but with SSD nvme hardware.

That would be awesome. I hate having to find a cable to plug my SSD into. If it was simply a card that could be inserted into a slot, that would be so much easier.
- You can get a housing that lets you pop it in and out