Reminder: all Libreboot machines are currently on a heavy discount, on Minifree:
I'm the founder and lead developer of the Libreboot project. Sales fund Libreboot. Libreboot (preinstalled) is free/opensource firmware replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI on supported hardware. I did a release recently, namely Libreboot 20241008.
Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or a BSD.
I'm raising money for some planned work in November, hence price cut going for increased sales.
By the way, #lispyGopherClimate at 000UTC Wednesday on https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio will be us going through the #emacsconf2024 schedule while hanging out in #lambdaMOO. If you are on or interested in that, drop by and *chatter in Paradise Sushi in tinytown in https://lambda.moo.mud.org/ . A reminder that wrog's #mud client protocol #emacs mode is over here -> https://wrog.net/emacs/mud-mcp_2_0.el
Which will also be the textual live Q&A base for me at the conference! So you may as well get started now (tomorrow).
https://codeberg.org/tfw/moonclimb
I wrote a small informational readme about my attempt to realise running #commonLisp images as #lambdaMOO compatible realities mostly via #mcclim's command (= MOO verb) mechanism.
New #Quicklisp dist even though there's no post on the blog #CommonLisp #Lisp
every time i try and help someone it ends up in me being treated like a fool from which to parasite.
maybe i am a fool for thinking kindness is not a weakness.
feeling pretty used and invisible right now. no-one i know seems to care about me beyond what they can get out of me.
disgusting.
wow, gosh, really? it was fake the whole time? who could have guessed it! you mean a billionaire would just do that, lie for profit?
You can grab the full-quality versions (for free) here: https://ko-fi.com/i/II2I714MUJF
ENJOY!
Palm Centro
PC Mag - December 2007
https://books.google.com/books?id=8eEQChaVZDsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA32#v=twopage&q&f=false
sorry for the radio silence--
i haven't been using any kind of social media at all. reading has been taking up my spare time lately.
topics that have fascinated me include:
- scientology and the life of l. ron hubbard.
- western christian fundamentalism.
- mormonism and the "church of latter-day saints".
- the rhodesian bush war, and the eventual creation of the state of zimbabwe.
there is something about the connection between oppression and organised religion that i cannot quite put my finger on. especially in the case of religions established in the modern-day, it does not seem to matter much how nonsensical or confected the main tenets of a religion are, it seems merely sufficient that there are main principles to that religion in order for its organisation to continue to function.
this bothers me somewhat. at the risk of sounding like a snob, it seems people will follow any creed so long as they feel like they belong.
watch this space, i am hoping to put a lot of effort into unpacking all this.
hope you're all doing well, friends.
I feel like randomly promoting an excellent free software project. That project is none other than Puppy Linux:
https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/
I first used it around 2005 back when it was 50MB for an ISO (nowadays still only a couple hundred MB). Despite that small size, it packs a full desktop with just about every utility you could possibly need.
Very simple, easy to use live Linux USB distro. It's *still* my go-to live distro.
I used it recently, to blank an SSD with /dev/urandom in every block.
Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.
https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/
you have to sort of have to admire the horror of late stage capitalism: create the conditions for environmental collapse, profit from the people needing to escape the environmental collapse, profit from the clean up AND convince people that doing anything any other way is communism.
It’s Wednesday and this is a wildebeest so this must be #WildebeestWednesday. Not a thing? Alrighty then I’ll get the ball rolling.
I learned an alternative name for the wildebeest: the gnu. Of course that should be gnu/linux!
Remember, "I don't know, I lack sufficient information on this topic" is NEVER an acceptable answer.
Instead, loudly state the first opinion that pops into your head, speak with authority, and gaslight anyone who disagrees until they begin to question everything they know.
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I'm working on an expansion card for the Sharp #X68000 computer and the best technical reference for it is the book Outside X68000. It's in Japanese and while there's a site that has a translation, it's low res and doesn't show the English in the page context. After trying some translation tools the best result by far is Google Translate's image translation. It's tedious uploading every page image individually but the translation is very good. Here's the IO section: https://picog.us/docs/x68k/outside-x68000-translated/
Screenshot of a gig work app asking how you plan to get to jobs. I'm pretty sure it is illegal for employers to ask if you have a car, but tech companies can because the law doesn't apply to them?