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

a friend of mine just booted Linux on an Intel 4004! (yes, the first microprocessor)

http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35.%20Linux4004

Capitalism is stupid.

Two images, one above the other. On top is a photo of a single-serving package of pears in a plastic container. Label on the package says: "Pears grown in Argentina. Packed in Thailand." Below this is a map of the world, with arrows showing the long long long journey of pears from Argentina to Thailand and then back across the Pacific Ocean to the United States, where the single-serving package above was purchased.

Has everyone checked out @aartaka's Brainfuck enterprise empire? If you haven't you should: https://github.com/bf-enterprise-solutions

Pay particular attention to the code and documentation style guide for maintainable Brainfuck 🤯 😂 🤯 😂 🤯 😂

> UPCOMING (contact us to pre-order): State-of-art asynchronous web-server, nine nines reliable key-value store, and an industry-destroying machine learning framework---all written in Brainfuck!

I don't know if this is serious. To a large extent it doesn't matter!

Blockchain. NFTs, and now "AI".

Each one are power hungry tech monsters that have little to no market traction.

But they sure as hell do make energy companies happy.

rate my gaming setup

a tiny portable CRT tv is hooked up to a Raspberry Pi, with a keyboard and mouse. The CRT is displaying some lines of text about DietPi OS.

One small step in eradicating the Unix virus today.

2025 (The European Symposium) in Zürich has been officially announced! Book your dates, May 19th and 20th.

https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/2025/index.html

After talking with a friend about drafts of The Wrath of Khan, I decided to watch it along side the one shooting script I have for it.

Still lots to mine in here, even if it's not an early draft. I'd forgotten Saavik was originally half Romulan, which is why she has flashes of emotion in the movie:

"She's half Romulan, Jim.  The admixture makes her more volatile than...me, for example."

all these software people obsessed with “shipping” and “deliverables” and “package managers” should consider the possibility that postal work might be their true calling

Red sun! From bushfires to the east, and some very strong winds

re: ancillarily and about lisp
@screwtape

arduino zero - 32K RAM

adafruit m4 - 192K RAM

Adafruit nRF52840 boards - 256K

beeb microbit V2 - 128K, V1 - 16K

teensy boards - 1 moby

pi pico 2 - 520K

i think the chinese might even be able to offer some interesting solutions to exactly what microcontroller platform to target, this is a curated list of what ulisp supports natively.

bren thinking very deeply about @permacomputer

but have not had the time to write anything down

i have been exploring collapseOS and it is rich in ideas. it is largely complete as a project and DuskOS has taken over, it seems.

you could think of the people's permacomputer project as a lisp variation of the FORTH-based collapseOS

Okay. I'm calling it done for now.

I'll have it fabricated on the second or so. Not bad for an evening's work.

There. What do you think?

A 3D render of a PCB with various parts installed

The Windows 98 shutdown screen. Orange text on black, reading "It's now safe to turn off your computer."

TIL Sea Shepherd has a ship called Allan Kay.

Roughly laid out; just need to fine tune it and it'll be easy enough to route. 150x75mm, a bit on the larger size, but still very affordable, as a 2-layer PCB.

oh look! a cracked version of god of war ragnarok already exists! it's been 90 minutes since release! and they've already converted legit paying customers to pirate customers cuz of their stupid DRM

sony, was it really worth all the man-hours you've put into creating DRM? and worth the sales you've lost?

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