social.solarpunk.au

social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Wadjuk people of the Nyoongar 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

@izaya my follow request to you is still pending

PSA: Yubikeys manufactured before March 2024 are to be considered broken
https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2024-03/

Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.

Meanwhile, here on Earth this is the best we can do.

A flaming hot Dorito on fire.

Well this just absolutely sparks joy. The tiny CRT I bought a while back for the works quite happily with the Pico Analog Board in composite mode.

It's just a shame the Pico misses every fifth line!

A small 9" CRT sat on top of a black acrylic box. 

Directly in front of it is a Macintosh plus keyboard and mouse.

Reading about the computer you made... On the computer you made.

How meta.

A black perspex box (the Macintosh plus clone) on a coffee table. Next to it is a large LCD panel which is displaying the apple insider article on the Macintosh plus clone. Via frogfind, via MacWeb, via the Macintosh clone itself.

OMG.
A triangle of glowing plasma.
Bigger than the Earth.
Hovering over the surface of the Sun last week.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Although the shape is unusual, the type of structure is not: it is part of an evolving solar prominence. Looping magnetic fields on the Sun channel the flow of energetic particles, sometimes holding glowing gaseous structures aloft for months. A prominence glows brightly because it contains particularly hot, dense, or opaque solar plasma. The surprising triangular structure occurred last week. Larger than our Earth, the iconic prominence was imaged by several solar photographers and documented by NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory to form and violently dissipate in about a day. The featured image was captured in a color of red light emitted strongly by hydrogen. Below, solar fibrils carpet the Sun's chromosphere, while the background sky is so faint in comparison that no stars are visible. Our Sun's surface has been quite active this year.

disk operating systems were always where it was at

i have spied the amazing apple ii expansion ports--sad to see apple no longer practices such open hardware...

Still tinkering with CP/M tools these days.

DOS has CP/M at its roots, so does MSX-DOS. Which means I can be dropped into its command prompt and have a decent idea how to move around and get basic stuff done. But then getting into nitty-gritty details feels like a rabbit hole: version 2 vs. 3, derivative systems, alternative command interpreters and batch processors, CCP, ZCPR, Z-System, MP/M... I get lost easily.

So yeah, quite the learning process.

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