no more online homelessness (:
it has been quite a nomadic digital existence this last while. fedi servers rise and fall, people come and go...
and yet i am not a diogenes but an epicurus this whole time...
hi please don't forget this is a project i also maintain
"Originally, the people's permacomputer project was an attempt to physically realise a permacomputer. After thorough research into the contemporary efforts to build small, accessible and easily constructed hobbyist computers, it became clear that the task of the permacomputer project was not necessarily to adopt or replicate the efforts of the actual great numbers of others.
"Luckily, the focus of this project was always broader than just something concrete and tangible. We also suggested the development of a list of suggested social and cultural practices around computing that would assist in the continued human practice of electronic computing."
Someday someone will invent a way to let you watch video files on your TV and it'll just work and it won't do weird things like "you can't watch stand up comedy" (plex) or "only 30% of your files will play" (dlna) or "if you have a video split into two halves, it can only see the first half" (jellyfin)
That'll be a cool day.
doing some comparisons of 8/16 bit microcontrollers.
Arduino Uno and Nano
16 MHz, 32K ROM, 2K RAM, 2K EEPROM.
Arduino Mega 2560
16 MHz, 256K ROM, 8K RAM, 4K EEPROM.
ATmega1284
< 20 MHz, 128K ROM, 4K EEPROM, 16K RAM.
ATmega4809 boards
20 MHz, 48K ROM, 6K RAM, 256 bytes EEPROM (?!)
AVR DA and DB series boards
< 24 MHz, 128K ROM, and 16K RAM
This impossible triangle (only impossible when viewed from a very specific location) might have been my favourite.
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I am now actively seeking non-programmer volunteers to join the Sentinel 65X project, in the following roles:
• Web Design (HTML/CSS, no JS, no interactive stuff, think a simple brochure type thing)
• Documentation Writing (Markdown format, mostly taking info and turning it into useful technical documentation)
• Graphic Design (Logos, pixel art, icons, that sort of thing)
• Social Media (That is, keep the Facebook group up to date on the project, raise awareness, etc. Eventually maybe we spin up a mastodon server on another subdomain, too)
I am also taking proposals for your ideas for ways you think you can help the project, be they technical or no.
@RenewedRebecca is in charge of all software-related sub-projects -- you can do whatever you want on your own, but if you want it to be part of the official project, it has to go through her, and I'm not going to override her on that.
This #Atari8bit 800 runs the FujiNet #BBS (irata.online port 6502). It has an Incognito, and a #FujiNet. That's all it needs, and it has been happily running BBS Express 2.0, for a year now.
You can use Mastodon on many retro computer systems:
Apple II - https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii
Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X) - https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon
Commodore 64 - https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon
Commodore Amiga - https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon
MS-DOS - https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
MVS - https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON
Palm OS - https://github.com/knickish/heffalump
Windows 95 - https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups