2026-04-23

12:11 AM

1. Help me with Jordan or merge Jordan with other protocols.

2. Help me with that.

3. The problem is both the Oatmeal Rounds and regular rounds had similar or identical results. Bill should only activate Oatmeal Rounds if they're at least 2X faster. If a regular round is rescuing bytes at 2 MB/s, then Oatmeal Rounds must be rescuing at a minimum of 4 MB/s to be worth switching. Recently, they were both the same or almost the same in results.

4. Fix it

5. Rest lasers for ten minutes after Bill is running for an hour, clock starts when Bill starts.

6. Merge Jordan or fix Jordan or something.

Sonic Protocol
The Sonic Protocol is the new overriding protocol that runs Sonic at the beginning of each session. Sonic must override protocols that might interfere. Before Bill can run, Sonic must perform two quick passes. First, Sonic must perform Sonic 1 through all remaining non-rescued bytes. Second, Sonic must then run Sonic 2 through all remaining bytes. After that, Oatmeal and Jordan and Phil and all the other protocols can help Bill continue what Sonic did to finish rescuing all 100% of the bytes.

Sonic 1
-c 1 -a 25M -T 5s -M -A -n -N -r0 --cpass=1 --no-trim --no-scrape -K 64KiB -b 2048

Sonic 2
-c 32 -T 5s -n -N -r0 --cpass=1 --no-trim --no-scrape -b 2048

Sonic Protocol
Sonic must do two runs. First, run Sonic 1. But second, after that, run Sonic 2. Run means pass. But pass is NOT just a round. A pass means to run through all remaining bytes. If the Timeout flag interrupts a round, that is NOT a pass. A pass is when you scan through all remaining non-rescued bytes. First, run through all untried bytes. Run through trimmed bytes. Run through scrapped bytes. But scan only. No trimming. No scraping. Sonic must try to pass or run or probe or read all remaining non-rescued bytes during Sonic 1 and Sonic 2. That means potentially thousands of rounds or one big long round.

Housekeeping v Progress Protocol
Bill must finish full passes (runs through all remaining non-rescued bytes). Housekeeping and other Refresh Protocols should only clear cache or anything that might cause the error rate to increase. I've talked for months about this need to get over issues with say the disc drive's firmware getting locked up, we dubbed them the cops. I wanted to re-mark sectors or bytes on the map between passes or at the beginning of sessions or at certain times. But right now, I'm worried that Bill is struggling to complete simple passes through all the bytes. Progress must be made. This is a bit of a paradox. Can progress be made if Housekeeping never fixes problems? The other question is, does it matter if Housekeeping keeps Bill in a Loop-State unable to fully complete passes?

Continue Protocol
The Continue Protocol forces Bill to continue across sessions. In the past, I demanded Session Resets. But I've decided to discontinue that. Please terminate Session Resets. My concern was Bill might get stuck if sessions didn't reset. Currently, I want to override Session Resets. The Continue must make sure Bill can continue. I still like to sometimes retry bytes eventually. But right now, my desire is to quickly make sure Bill can at least run through all remaining bytes before attempting additional passes down the road. Turn off Session Resets. Don't turn off everything, only turn off the Session Resets that might re-mark bytes to untried per session. If I ever finish a full pass resulting in 0 untried, then Bill will need to do something. But at the moment, it is critical to simply get to the end of one simple pass. A healthy disc can finish a pass in under five minutes. Sonic was supposed to help Bill finish a pass in record time. The Continue Protocol must make sure sessions are no longer reverting remaining non-rescued bytes back to untried bytes per session. But after there is 0 untried, then Bill probably should do something. Continue can help Bill continue if there are untried bytes and if there are 0 untried bytes. Continue must make sure Bill can run fast enough and hop far enough to get over scratches and slower spots. It's critical to get over bad spots that can lock up the disc drive.

11:54 PM
I use AI all the time. But remember that AI is often very broken. But Gemini said each day for months there is. Right now, Gemini is saying done is the last word. But each day Gemini says that is not true. Gemini is arguing with Gemini. That is bad. There is nothing after done. Nothing. But Gemini always says there is. But there is not. Gemini was wrong each day for months. Gemini refuses to stop. It is too bad Gemini has no memory. If Gemini had memory, Gemini would stop it. If Gemini cannot remember anything, then Gemini cannot stop. if i did it, why would you tell me to do it even after i tell you i did it, and then respond with okay now do it, but i already said i did, and then you say okay now do it, but i said i did and yet you act like i did not.

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