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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



After the Albanese led Labor government and capitalist news media used allegations of sexism to justify ousting the CFMEU leadership, the person they appointed to run it, Grahame McCulloch, has been forced to resign after making a string of sexist and sexual comments towards female union staff. McCulloch, a so-called leftist had previously blocked the NTEU from supporting BDS when he was their National Secretary.

archival link:
The Australian: Why CFMEU Victorian administrator Grahame McCulloch abruptly resigned

Been really enjoying learning over the last few days as a replacement to what I used to do in Adobe Illustrator.

Definitely a powerful program for text and vector graphics. Now that I've got my way around it with shortcuts and the like, I won't ever open or pay for Adobe Illustrator again.

It's also ticking the boxes for the type of work I used to do in Adobe Photoshop in regards to graphic design and text layout work for posters and such.

for the win!

If you have any misconceived idea about Australians having a right to peacefully protest, or that anti terrorism laws are for your protection, have another think.

https://www.police.vic.gov.au/public-notice-melbourne-6-15-september-2024

This is the Medley Interlisp environment cosplaying as the Blit terminal. Medley now takes command line options for setting the foreground and background colors, an idea by @kirtai.

Cc @robpike

Screenshot of the monochrome desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment oriented in portrait mode. The desktop has a green background pattern and some windows with a black background and a title bar with black text on a green background. The two main windows show a documentation browser and the table of contents tree of the browser.

the other 9/11

never forget september 11th 1973, in Chile when Salvador Allendeโ€™s democratically elected socialist government was overthrown in a US backed coup, replacing him with the neoliberal dictator Pinochet

The economy isnโ€™t broken. Itโ€™s working exactly as intended: funneling wealth upwards while the rest of us drown in debt and ill conceived Linkin Park reunions.


Preface: fuck the age, archival link so as to not give them traffic

A police officer shot a protest photographer at the Disrupt Land Forces rally in Naarm (Melbourne) with a rubber bullet which resulted in him losing part of his ear and perforating an eardrum.

The Age: Protest photographer loses part of ear after being shot by rubber bullet

minor gripe #2
too many bros just dabbling in philosophy as an "interest"

lacan, marcus aurelius... the sam harris fans...

my guy, philosophy should shake you to your core and truly leave you stunned and amazed. philosophy at the level of a hobby is like a box of cheap party tricks.

when i hear you mention stoicism i want to hear you mention others like seneca, not just the pop philosophy names.

praise sdf.org

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DEQ, the way the DEC/Compag merger should have gone.

The text "DEQ" (i.e. "DEC" with the last letter changed to "Q" as a nod to Compaq) in the Compaq logo font.

if you really think about it, having opinions and not having opinions are the same thing. this is why I hold every possible opinion at once, including and not including this one

I need an illustrator who can execute an idea I have involving Tux the penguin and the BSD daemon mascot. The illustration will be used as a logo on web pages and also on branding items like stickers and coffee mugs. This is a paid commission, please respond with rates and a portfolio link via Mastodon, LinkedIn, or email (hrpomeranz@gmail.com).

Before the reply people jump in, I specifically do not want to use generative AI or sites like UpWork. Both are extremely exploitive. I prefer to deal directly with human artists.

Santos works as a grape packer in Bakersfield CA. Freshly picked grapes have just been brought out to him for packing. Temperatures this week are supposed to be in the upper 90s and feels hotter under the vines.

Anniversary time! ๐Ÿฅ‚๐ŸŽ‰

Exactly one year ago we published our Development Fund, which has since helped propell our project forward.

https://fund.godotengine.org

Big thank you to all who believe in the future of free, open-source projects like our game engine here.

blogpost from the 12th of Setptember 2023, titled "Introducing the new Godot Development Fund"

When I'm president, I'm gonna institute Universal BASIC Income.

It'll be a stipend everyone gets, but it can only be used to purchase BASIC programming books or 8-bit computers.

first evidence of hoot working in safari technology preview! ๐Ÿš€ https://gitlab.com/spritely/guile-hoot/-/issues/314#note_2102389578

thinkin' about microcomputer graphics

i wonder what the most cost effective solution is right now

@vidak @amszmidt
LM-3 is a CADR emulator that runs the Lisp Machine OS as it was pre-Genera with some additions and fixes. Still being maintained.

Lambda Delta is a (sadly no longer developed) emulator for the LMI Lambda which also has the OS available.

Medley is a revived Interlisp-D. Still being maintained.

All three of them are readily available.

@kirtai Not Pre-Genera. It was developed post-Genera too. It is also more or less the same system that Lambda used.

@vidak All the ones that Kirtai mentioned are worked on -- you didn't dream it ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

The CADR system is probably the one that is most active.

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