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

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

A Fediverse server that supports Gemini, Gopher, Finger, and Guppy.

This is exactly what I asked about earlier.

https://github.com/dimkr/tootik/

found out about this on the 9front mailing lists:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(programming_language)

looks pretty good to me

bad idea: A tool that takes a JPEG and turns it into a GIF that emulates how slowly it would download at 56k speeds

It turns out copying 128gb of TV shows to a tiny all-metal USB flash drive heats it up a surprising amount.

40.2°C, that's 104°F. Hot to the touch!

a FLIR image of a small USB drive. It's glowing pretty hot, with a marker on a hot point listed as 40.2°C

QBasic off a boot disk is an interesting IDE experience.
Because it has to spin up the floppy drive to read the help file, it means every time you hit F1 the whole system freezes for a couple seconds before you get any help.

it really encourages you to remember how the SCREEN statement works, since it takes a while to look it up!

Does anyone have any youtube suggestions for recreational electronic repair on laptops?

I've been watching people like My Mate Vince, Joey Does Tech, and TronicsFix, but they focus more on things like PS5s and Nintendo Switches and such, only occasionally doing laptops, and having a really bad success rate when trying to fix them.

Is there anyone who goes through fixing laptops and hopefully has more success?

Thinkin' about doin' some new art for @SDF . It's been in the back of my head for a while to do something with the Macross operators, but I had this particular idea while watching the ITS bootcamp orientation video the other day. With all the bootcamps, maybe SDF needs a recruitment poster!

But who should be on it? Misa? Claudia? Vanessa? ...?

A pencil sketch of a woman giving a military salute with her free arm resting on a DEC VT52 terminal. Text to her right says SDF Public Access UNIX System. She is dressed in the uniform of a bridge officer from the 1980s anime series Super Dimension Fortress Macross. There are also small preliminary sketches, as well as alternative heads/faces for the woman, and a small value composition of a possible background for the drawing.

trains > cars every time. give me high speed rail now!

Electronic devices
- Which you only use occasionally
- Which have internal batteries which drain if you only use them occasionally, and
- Which when the battery is drained, require being charged for 20 minutes before they become available for wired use

7.6 is out on mirrors!

If it's not available on your usual mirror, check another one :)

This one has the file https://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.6/

One of those days where you need to grep through 1TB of crap to find a file.

Relatable silly alien and robot dreams

A three-eyed alien with tentacles for arms, dreaming about the Roman Colosseum.  A robot sitting next to him is dreaming about through-hole transistors

If you're interested in breaking into music theory, I cannot recommend @bd's cheatsheet enough.
https://badd10de.dev/notes/music-theory.html

Imagine paying $3,500 for a VR headset and then needing to get permission from multiple corporations before you're allowed to run software on it https://isfeeling.social/@matt/113234358188481174

> The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey Internet Application Suite (see below). … Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.
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https://www.seamonkey-project.org

I hit View, Apply Theme, Get More, and got Metal Lion. Look at those chunky dark scroll bars!

dark mode controls, techmeme site, good old fashioned scroll bars.

"Data centers and their associated transmission networks have become a primary driver of global energy consumption. At present, this accounts for 3% of global consumption, emitting as much CO2 as Brazil."

"A rack of traditional servers in a data center runs on 7 kilowatts of electricity, while a rack of AI servers with increased processing power uses 30-100 kilowatts."

😳 Wow that's a lot more energy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2024/05/23/ai-is-pushing-the-world-towards-an-energy-crisis/

i now have in my possession, tangara with 100% production parts number one

it's a tangara! a little music playing little guy. it's got a frosted clear case! it's got a touchwheel! a display! hooray! the side of the tangara. you can see two buttons and the sd card slot it's the other side of the device! there's a switch on this side. yay. the back of the device. you can see the battery held in place with a 3d printed battery cage.

gosh i wish mozilla's browser, "fire fox" still existed. remember that thing? back in the early '10s it filled me with such optimism. tragic that it then died suddenly, and so young. at least we can reminisce about it and experience only fondness, happy memories, and hope for future projects

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