Codeberg deployed Forgejo v13.0.0 which now detects Interlisp sources and handles them as text rather than binary files. We thank the developers who implemented the feature, @forgejo and @Codeberg for widening the choice of tools and code forges for hosting Interlisp software.
Realizing I wrote the telnet line wrong in my toot about lambda's 35th anniversary.
So…. There is this floppy drive. It doesn’t work correctly. There are signs of life, but it doesn’t read stuff. And: it has two drives. A 3.5“ and a 5.25“. You can select them via a twisty knob on the front.
#retrocomputing #floppydisk #floppydrive
I did a bit of a rambly video sharing my thoughts on #PeerTube turning 10 years old (sort of).
just my regular reminder that while opponents of people having a social safety net may talk about welfare payments as just throwing away money, actually, programs like food stamps, direct cash payments, and daycare assistance don't send money "into the void" - on top of yanno, letting people continue to stay alive, all that money goes directly back into the economy because those who receive benefits kinda have to spend them
it's when we give money back to the wealthy that it vanishes from the economy because hoarding wealth is actually bad for a functioning society...
and economy
The currency of the game, gold Coins found in the dungeon can be stacked in the inventory, up to 16 coins per slot. They can be spent in the shops, or "cashed in" to add to the player's credit. Credit can be spent without having to carry large quantities of coin. Get The #ChambersBeneath from https://cyningstan.itch.io/the-chambers-beneath #roguelike #ibmpc #msdos #cga
The fate of all old proprietary software:
https://tidbits.com/2025/10/25/nisus-writer-schrodingers-word-processor/
The fate of old open-source software is it gets rewritten by idiot children armed with LLMs to have 1/10 the functionality and 10x the bugs, every 5 years.
So, pick your failure mode.
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The VersaTerm project's firmware for the Pi Pico provides a VT-100-like terminal which supports pretty much everything a text mode system like CP/M could want -- and it's open source software to boot.
Top open source graphics apps, in no particular order. Replace your Windows apps with these!
1. Gimp (raster manip)
2. Inkscape (vectors)
3. Krita (painting)
4. Blender (3D)
5. Scribus (DTP)
6. Darktable (raw editing)
7. Natron (compositor)
8. Kdenlive (video editing)
9. FreeCAD 3D
10. Friction (AE-like anim)
11. Synfig (vector anim)
12. QCad/CAM 2D
13. Pencil2D (anim)
14. Pixelorama (pixel art)
15. Handbrake (video transcoder)
16. Cura or Orca (3D printing)
Something has possessed me over the last 24 hours and I've been furiously building my own little stack-based virtual machine that displays Apple II / commodore-style graphics. Think green on black. Think visicalc or the text-based Oregon trail.
I've got 2/3 of the planned opcodes and a basic rendering setup. It's complete garbage compared to the elegant way uxn does everything, but it's MY garbage.
I'll post more once here shortly.
Still thinking about BASIC, Common Lisp, and little games that one might play in the terminal.
Want to chat about running games and all that? Visit https://talk.campaignwiki.org/ pick a nick and connect.
(My last few messages were Science Fiction movie recommendations.)
This guy is onto something, IMO, or at least approaching the base of the problem - the ruling class want to keep wages low and rent high and squeeze everyone else for everything they're worth. Don't agree with him on everything, but at least he's starting to get at the problem.
This little @the_freebooters short is getting a little traction, so I thought I might post it here, see what you folks think. Just a bit from a chat with @uoou
IF MAMDANI WINS NEW YORK THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WILL LITERALLY MELT, all the rats will form a council, pizza will be banned, & somehow this affects YOU personally in Oklahoma. im not crazy. You’re crazy
