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

welcome to the fediverse! it's easy to get started, just pick one of these 30,000 nation-states you want to swear absolute allegiance and fealty to. you WILL be judged for this decision later. good luck!

been thinking a lot about my projects, but have not had much time to put into them.

in between working and activism and domestic life, i find myself frequently exhausted

what has been done so far:

  • regarding uwu.lisp, my common lisp tamagotchi: the shop menu system is working, ie you can navigate lil text menu options properly. lisp cond macros are great.

  • the people's permacomputer project has had me dwelling on it a lot. all that is needed is:

    • gopher protocol browser
    • filesystem access
    • a text editor

i think such a system will need at least 16K RAM, but luckily the pi pico is fairly beefy.

you guys it’s today

@neauoire as far as i remember the point is to be as simple as possible, up until now i always thought of something not completely simplified as full of extraneous terms!

Commando

🏢 Capcom
📅 1985
🖥 Acorn Electron, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari ST, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 16...

Commando Screenshot Commando Screenshot

@neauoire depends, you can factorise if it helps instead of simplification?

just recalling my calculus training--sometimes making a term or expression slightly more verbose leads to better cancellation of terms

System Shock was released on this day 30 years ago

🏢 Looking Glass Studios
📅 22/09/1994
🖥 DOS, Mac, PC-9800 Series

System Shock was released on this day 30 years ago Screenshot

I do weird things for fun.

Book pile:

Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom
Compilers (Dragon book) by Aho, Lam, Sethi and Ullman
Programming in Ada 2012 by John Barnes

My Wii Pointer cursor set is finally finished. It replaces all the default windows mouse cursors with nice and crisp renders of the Wii Pointer hand, and I've thrown in some extra icons too so every cursor type is updated!! (despite some cursors barely ever being used by Windows)

I'm also releasing the vector image files that I've made during the creation of this cursor, as I know a few people wanted high quality versions of the Wii Pointer hand ^^ hd_dvd_spin

Downloads and a bit of a longer writeup here:
https://primmr.dev/projects/wii-pointer-cursors/

All 52 icons that are included in the set. There are several variations of the hand cursors for each player colour, as well as other supplementary icons. High quality images of the Wii Pointer hand with its index finger up on the left and the Wii Pointer hand with all fingers up on the right

Been playing with macOS for a new opensource project I'm working on.

I only care about Linux/BSD, but the code I'm working on has Linux, Mac, Windows and Android ports, so I need to handle those.

I'm teaching myself how to build software on macOS. I don't see how anyone stays sane using it.

Windows is next. I've never used MacOS except briefly in 2007. I haven't used Windows since 2009.

I now appreciate my Debian LXDE setup much more. So much simpler and easier to use. Superior in every way.

I'm working on a fun setup to have a working air gapped laptop flan_evil

I need to find a way to transfer some files occasionally, I got NNCP to work and it's a blast but I want to use a fun communication method.

Data over sound has been disappointing, I gave a try to https://github.com/ggerganov/wave-gui but the highest speed is 240 B/s which is not good, and it doesn't even work reliably between two local computers flan_despair

let's see if I can automate data transfer over qrcode display + webcam

Update: automated qrcode works fine! https://github.com/mohankumarelec/Airgapped-QR-code-Transfer the speed isn't fast, but I was able to transfer 50 kB in less than a minute

This was the first modem I ever used - a Concord Data Systems 224. My original one is long gone so I’ve been waiting for a cheap one to show up on eBay forever and one finally showed up. This modem opened whole new worlds for me and I hope to see those RXD/TXD lights blinking again on this one! This one is actually slightly fancier than the one we had since it has autodial. Ours lacked that feature so I had to dial the phone myself and hit the DATA button when I heard the modem on the other side

A rectangular box that says CONCORD DATA SYSTEMS and 224. There are membrane buttons on the front saying things like DATA, TALK, ASY, SYN, ORG, ANS, etc. There are letters with LEDs behind them saying TXD, RXD, RTS, CTS, etc.

wow oh wow! @gingerbeardman made a pretty incredible discovery that the history of emojo dates back much much longer then was common knowledge! Pretty conclusive evidence that it dates back to at least 1988!
https://societyofsigns.com/notes/emoji-history-before-ntt

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gingerbeardman/112418645114683476

emoji from 1988!

Ever wondered about what @VeilidNetwork is and what it does? Well, cDc has you covered! veilid hackers_town

https://youtu.be/qVkk58FqXfc

Elite 40th Anniversary update from Ian Bell!

New source codes added to the archive, including a prototype Elite 2! Right On!

http://www.elitehomepage.org/fourty/index.htm

I am mad.

Medley Interlisp running on Android phone.

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!

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