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

no spam here.

hello all,

sorry for the inactivity. i have been very very sick. the stomach pain i was suffering even necessitated going to the hospital emergency department.

i have recovered, and i think i have figured out what is going on. it has taken about 18 months, though.

look after yourselves, comrades.

vidak.

MoonGem is a Gemini protocol server written in C. It supports serving static files as well as Gemtext (.gmi) files with inline Lua scripting.

https://sr.ht/~panda-roux/MoonGem/

#
MoonGem
#
Introduction

MoonGem is a Gemini protocol server written in C. It supports serving static files as well as Gemtext (.gmi) files with inline Lua scripting.

An example page might look like this:

# Example 1

Lua scripts are enclosed by double curly-braces.

{{ for i = 1, 10 do mg.line(i) end }}


# Example 2

If a script returns a string, that string will be written to the page verbatim.

{{ return "Meow!" }}


# Example 3

{{
  mg.head("Script blocks may span multiple lines", 2)
  mg.line("There are several methods that modify response headers")
  mg.set_language("en-US")
}}

For my Australian folks: Hello,

I am selling a BrailleSense 6 that has recently undergone servicing and cleaning. It comes in its original box, but please note that you will need to find a charger for it. I am selling it because it no longer meets my needs and I do not use most of its functions.

I am asking for $2000 or the nearest offer. I am willing to ship Australia-wide.

Please feel free to contact me here if you have any questions.

CW: Names of Palestinians killed by Israel



Al Jazeera have uploaded a long video containing the names of killed in Israels genocide in Gaza. The list of names scrolls too fast to properly read the names and it is still over 59 minutes long. This Israeli-led, US-backed terror campaign and genocide need to stop.

https://youtu.be/poHGZW-mg_M

What is it that made Shakespeare so popular? And by that I mean, what makes him in particular so popular? He's both a prolific and good writer but I'm sure there were other people that were also prolific and good, so there has to be some sociological or economic thing that let him in particular rise to prominence

*SM64 penguin sounds*


Reisepass für Wonderland – Passport for Wonderland

Eine Hand hält einem sehr großen Eichhörnche-Beamten einn Reisepass entgegen. Das Nagetier stempelt ihn ab, während es den Einreisenden durch seinen Kneifer betrachtet. Über ihm schwebt ein von Elfen getragenes Banner mit der Aufschrift „Welcome to Wonderland!“.
A hand holds out a passport to a very tall squirrel official. The rodent stamps him while looking at the entrant through its pincers. Above him hovers a banner carried by elves with the inscription "Welcome to Wonderland!".

You: "I like Gemini, I just wish it could display tables."

Me: "What the fuck do you call this then?"

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.

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