social.solarpunk.au

social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

Three-panel comic of a person riding a bicycle.
In the first panel, they ride while holding a stick angled toward the front wheel.
In the second panel, they push the stick into the wheel’s spokes, but the stick passes through harmlessly instead of causing a crash.
In the third panel, they look calm again, with the caption “Forgot to add a collider to the stick.”

I love Daniel Radcliffe.

Daniel Radcliffe has
pledged to only accept
acting roles that will
confuse and upset Harry
Potter fans.

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.

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/milestone/21377

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.

A PC floppy drive with actually two drives stacked on top of each other.

I did a bit of a rambly video sharing my thoughts on turning 10 years old (sort of).

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/d3MRwLA3qX4baAckTwqpZo

Good morning fedi! 🌞

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 from https://cyningstan.itch.io/the-chambers-beneath

Brittina the Mage starts her adventure with twenty coins in her inventory. Some items in The Chambers Beneath can be stacked, and stacks of items have a number superimposed to show how many items are in the stack. Coins can be stacked up to 16, but Brittina starts with two stacks of ten. One stack is enlarged in the inset.

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0WQIBf5qBQ

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

Computer pseudo science

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