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

i still need to buy an EEPROM programmer...

@tapesinside Akkoma has docs specifically for *BSDs https://docs.akkoma.dev/stable-docs/installation/freebsd_en/

For webserver you can use nginx or httpd. (Or whatever else you want)

For nextcloud there's this https://www.freshports.org/www/owncloud

OpenBSD is much easier to grasp imho, same software listed here is available for either.

You'll be expected to read a lot either way. Apart for the 'Absolute *BSD' series, these two I recommend - The latter makes sense if you decide to use httpd:

https://nostarch.com/pf3
https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/httpd-and-relayd-mastery/

For the prompt stellar to Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), who discovered that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in stars & hence the universe.⁠

Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard a lecture which changed her life. She wrote, “My world had been so shaken that I experienced something very like a nervous breakdown.” 🧵

maybe the weird economy sim game i am dreaming of doesn't exist yet...

openttd and stellaris are about half way there

i just like clicky building things...

I think phones are undergoing carcinization.

- hard outer shell
- compound "eyes"
- clicking noises
- no audio jack

current projects, just taking stock--don't mind me...

  • clim gopher browser for mezzano
  • do a final proof-read of dungeon of doom, and do a release on sourcehut
  • the common lisp tamagotchi
  • the @permacomputer project also still lives

please don't also forget that

the permacomputing matrix chat still exists!

does anyone have a primer on CLIM?

i know @screwtape has been doing a lot of work on this front--?

ugh i had a working mezzano development environment before my workstation lucretics died ;0;

common lisp tamagotchi update time

okay updated the pet idle animation routine to work in common lisp

kinda weird looking at the differences between elisp and common lisp

still kinda on the fence about repl or no repl, if i have a repl i can just jump straight into evaluating functions...

anyway you can follow along here

https://sr.ht/~vidak/uwu.lisp/

@eli_oat wow this is awesome!!! i wanna get me some system 7 hardware so bad...

OH: apple ii with forth ROM instead of applesoft ROM

🤔🤔🤔



Fascists dressed in police uniform are terrorising civilians with firearms, blunt force weapons and chemical weapons. Where are the people who are supposed to serve and protect these civilians? Oh wait, they are the terrorists, and they are protecting war criminals instead of civilians. It is only fitting that they too are using weapons that would constitute a war crime had they been used in a war.

The guy removing baked lighting from Bloodborne is committing art crimes and should be tried at The Hague.
How the hell do you think the 2nd images look better just because it has dynamic lighting.

after i do the common lisp tamagotchi i will make good on my promise to make a graphical gopher browser for Mezzano

i have been meaning to do this for so long

are ELIZA or ALICE -like chatbots defunct and obsolete in this day and age?

i'd argue not--?

been thinking about the common lisp tamagotchi

maybe it is over engineering it a little to have a whole REPL in order to do the interactive commands

really all i want to be able to do is:

  • WALK
  • TALK
  • SHOP
  • PLAY
  • FEED
  • CLEAN
  • LIGHTS
  • MEDICINE

and that is more or less the finite list of things i really want it to do, i don't really need to repurpose my text adventure engine for this...

and, if so, i can just slap everything into a COND macro and perhaps be able to cycle between the options with the B button.

The hard drive amazingly works perfectly and is very quiet. It looks to be 15MB and most of the files are from 1984, with a few papers written by a high school student in 1987.

A DOS session showing the end of a directory listing and running chkdsk. The output:
A>chkdsk
Volume DCVC created Jan 21, 1983 1:36a
14475264 bytes total disk space
45056 bytes in 5 hidden files
4096 bytes in 1 directories
2297856 bytes in 147 user files
12128256 bytes available on disk
524288 bytes total memory
403360 bytes free
А>

At , I managed to get one of my grail computers: the HP-150. It has an 8088 CPU, runs MS-DOS, but isn’t IBM compatible. It has a rudimentary touchscreen and is arguably the first computer to use the 3.5” floppy disk. It’s kind of an all-in-one: the computer is in the box with the monitor. The box it’s sitting on just has the floppy and hard drives in it.

A small-ish old computer sitting on a table with a green monochrome monitor integrated into it.  The screen shows a grid of boxes that show the programs that can be run on it.

@millihertz oh yes, tactical timing is very, very key...

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