Anyone using a RPI 4 with OpenBSD?
I have questions about hardware support
- does wifi work well?
- can you use full disk encryption?
- is it working well?
I have a secret project ongoing 
What do we think of December as a target time to do that group buy of Graphics Gremlin CGA/MDA/TGA 8-bit ISA graphics cards? They have one with HDMI output now!
I just want to say, Asahi Linux is great. I bought an M1 Macbook recently because I'm working on a new application that needs to work on macOS; the code that I'm forking has ports for Linux, Windows, MacOS and android, and the BSDs also patch it.
Well, I decided to install Asahi Linux (the Fedora version) on it, dual-booting with MacOS. I have to say;
Asahi Linux has the *easiest*, most simple installer i've ever used for a Linux distro installer.
Solid project.
@vidak I ran LAN cables through my roof and replaced some of my old phone ports with LAN ports. You can buy rj-45 ports from Bunnings that have a free crimper
#lispyGopherClimate Oh, the upload didn't work.
#climate #poem by @kentpitman
https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/113233003130536891
#lisp
#mcclim panes as replayable in-memory streams instead of as graphic displays. ie
(in-package :clim-user)
(defvar *tree-san* (make-instance 'standard-tree-output-history))
(defvar *inter* (make-instance 'interactor-pane :output-record *tree-san*))
(present 'foo 'string :Stream *inter*)
(map-over-output-records
(lambda (x) (present (presentation-object x)))
*tree-san*)
i'unno... guix is pretty cool, and actually ended up making me really lazy
look i'm not gonna lie to you, it will eat up your disk space, but just
$ guix gc -d
and you're all gucci (◍•ᴗ•◍)
the project still needs help and i really want to contribute to the development of its init daemon, shepherd.
funny thing is poverty isn't actually an intractable problem--it's not some quantum paradox where you cannot collect all the data you need for certainty.
there is a solution to poverty...
It has been ZERO DAYS since I opened up some random junk from ewaste and found a SIM card in it
i'd do a rework of the pdp-8, maybe have the ability to address loads zero page RAM as pseudo registers?
Can any company do miniaturization using modern technology like Sony did using 1999 technology? Like other than smartphones being thin and basic things that only need an SoC, I don't think I've seen (consumer) electronics that give an aura of “I can't believe they packed all that stuff in there” anywhere but pre-2010 Sony
Anxiously applying for jobs, I remembered another abandoned project I did: Undynamic Shop (https://undynamic.gitlab.io/shop), a dynamic shop website without JavaScript! So yes, I’ve been into Web Platform and Front-end even (checks commit log) 2 years ago. Someone, hire me to do responsive and accessible HTML-first websites 🙃
One of my favorite things to follow on Cohost was the APPARENT ABSTRACTIONS account, a glitch art series by Nick Shutter. Via @curved_ruler it turns out that you can buy the first 500 of the APPARENT ABSTRACTIONS images as a pack on Itch, taking you up to August 2023. I wonder if there will be a second edition at #1000 (I think the project is continuing on Tumblr). https://nickshutter.itch.io/apparent-abstractions-collection-1
wikipedia is wonderful
three topics have interested me lately--
- the origin of life on earth. it seems we still cannot explain it, at least not yet scientifically. the whole series of articles i read was triggered by trying to learn more about biological viruses. fascinating little particles, these obligatory parasites. they inject a payload into an otherwise healthy cell and hijacks it. the virus forces the host cell to replicate the external agent, using whatever resources it can find inside.
while deadly (smallpox), viruses are an important cause of horizontal gene transfer, a critical element of biological evolution. fascinating!
they have genetic information, but viruses are not strictly 'alive'. they cannot self-perpetuate like living organisms can.
what is alive, then? certainly there existed a time on earth before life...
- the connection between communism and totalitarianism.
for me, the 'last bastion' is lenin, and i have always considered him highly. was stalin an aberration? i think if you go down this line of thinking, the great man theory of history, you don't actually get very far. one of my mottos is 'the smallest unit of social agent is class'. this assertion goes for all methodological individualist philosophies, which, are ultimately liberalism.
- the connection and interaction between the abrahamic faiths, especially in light of what's happening because of israel.
the more i read, them more i agree with edward said--we in the west treat islam as if it was an exotic form of barbarism. it is all a function of what he calls 'orientalism'.
i am delving deep into the life of the historical mohammed, as he lived and would have thought. why? i admit with shame that all i can pull out of my library on the topic of palestine is the qu'ran and a very battered old book on the prophet mohammed...
I made the repository for my game dev experiment public https://github.com/larsen/spacepilot
It is very much a work in progress, just in case you want to follow along
Input with escape sequences in Brainfuck—done ✅
Took some 500 chars/commands. Most of which are simple constants. Can likely be shortened to ~200 chars with minor readability losses.