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

# MAIN INFO

(current operating system) emacs
(code) https://git.sr.ht/~vidak/
(blog) https://vidak.solarpunk.au
(peertube) https://spectra.video/a/vidak/video-channels

# SMOLNET

(main) gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/1/~vidak

# CONTACT ME

(matrix) https://matrix.to/#/@vidak:matrix.solarpunk.au

An important program for CP/M users with wifi modems: QTERM.

Features:

• Capture of text files
• Send text files to remote
• Xmodem / Modem7 / Ymodem protocol transfer
• Kermit protocol transfer
• VT100 emulation
• Split screen mode to separate typed and received text
• Script mechanism for automatic dialing and automation of other operations
• Transfer of text to printer
• Full user area support

It's basically exactly what you'd want for connecting to a BBS or some other Telnet service. I suppose it could also be used to connect to a Unix machine over a serial port, if you wanted.

https://git.imzadi.de/acn/qterm

Ok, my article on porting the SBCL common implementation to the nintendo is now live:

https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/437

Boosts would be much appreciated! It's been a lot of work to get this far.

@goosey you're very correct!

So. Zork didn't fit into memory - even on RT-11 it took 500K and required a disk drive, so we demonstrate the work of Cortex-M3 with UART built into on another text game:).

i need to go on gopher and gemini more...

@goosey i know right! what sort of black magic wizardry is this????

i wonder what my dream microcomputer is

probably something of my own creation...

@mos_8502 I'm building a variation on this one that ticks all the boxes for me:
https://github.com/mecparts/RetroWiFiModem

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone pretty goated copy pasta

To the sigmas of Australia, I say that this goofy ahh government have been capping, not just now but for a long time. A few of you may remember when they said, 'There'll be no fanum tax under the government I lead.' They're capaholics. They're also yapaholics. They yap non-stop about how their cost-of-living measures are changing lives for all Australians. Just put the fries in the bag, lil bro.

They tell us that they're locked in on improving the housing situation in this country. They must have brain rot from watching too much Kai Cenat and forgot about their plans to ban social media for kids under 14. If that becomes law, you can 'forgor skull emoji' all about watching Duke Dennis or catching a dub with the bros on Fort. Chat, is this Prime Minister serious? Even though he's the Prime Minister of Australia, sometimes it feels like he's the CEO of Ohio. I would be taking an L if I did not mention the opps who want to cut WA's gyatts and services tax.

The decision voters will be making in a few months time will be between a mid government, a dog water opposition or a crossbench that will mog both of them. Though some of you cannot yet vote, I hope that, when you do, it will be in a more goated Australia for a government with more aura. Skibidi!

@ZoDoneRightNow @atlrvrse @yassie_j senator payman is a massive ally of the left and i back her on the sigmas of australia speech.

perfect execution. 10/10.

i am serious

@atlrvrse@translunar.academy @yassie_j@labyrinth.zone No it isn’t. This is Senator Fatima Payman on the Australian government attempting to ban social media for 14 and younger and trying to push that law through with creepy surveillance laws that will affect everyone. The speech was written by a 21 year old who said it was not language he would use earnestly outside of the chamber but that it was an intentionally ironic appeal to younger Australians utilising “brain rot” language. I think it was successful as it went viral and now more Australians than before know about the shit Labor and Liberals are pushing through government.

The "But will it scale" question never seems to be about scaling down to run on lower power hardware or by non-professionals, weird

Someday I want to full an IBM 5150 with expansion cards, all of which are powered by Raspberry Picos.
A pico men and pico gus are only the start

So one of my dream projects is to combine emscripten DOSBox with a multi-player server and some low-level game hacking to support it.

The basic idea is that I want a way to play DOS games in the browser, but with a hack to let it be networked pseudo-hotseat.

So you could play GORILLA.BAS in the browser with a friend. Or Scorched Earth with your discord channel.

Any other turn-based DOS games that'd be a good choice for this?

til about SymbOS

👀

Has anyone made a QBASIC to WASM cross-compiler yet?

As long as Boeing is in the news, let me remind you...

Boeing's outgoing CEO will get a "golden parachute" worth as much as $45 million.

The CEO before him got $62 million on his way out the door.

America has socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

i gotta say i am glad for this new generation of activists.

my whole life i struggled with attempting to communicate and be understood, never realising this strongly correlated with neurodivergence.

there's something at once liberating and cliched about it--there was nothing wrong with me this whole time??

it's a startling and refreshing development.

Osborne Computer was a pioneer in portable computing that talked too freely about an upcoming product, leading to a premature bankruptcy. But I felt the Osborne effect even beyond a single company's products in 1983. https://dfarq.homeip.net/osborne-computers-bankruptcy-and-the-osborne-effect/

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