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

What are your favorite retro-computing YouTube channels? Iโ€™m especially interested in Atari and classic Mac (68k/PPC).

NO WARRIOR CAN FIGHT ALONE. ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT.

self-hosting a website on a server from craigslist in the basement is still kind of magic to me

I can make some html, put it on the server, wire it up to a domain, share the link around the internet in various corners, and people from all over the world can interact with the basement website

Lost dog

Lost dog poster:
"Not physically lost, just used to think of itself as AN ARTIST & not feeling it anymore"
"Answers to no one"
"If you see this dog tell it an artist is not defined by output โ€” we are all artists at the level of a heartbeat"

Hey ancient tech people: is #Lisp still worth learning? Asking for someone who needs more parentheses.

2024 summed up in a single image

Ice Cream machine saying "Anything is possible with ice cream", sporting a hand-written sign that says "no ice cream"

@mos_8502 for real. i've done a lot with discrete transistor logic and have really enjoyed following along with your researches (:

i dont want money i want many CRTs. and moss

my internship ends on dec. 20, anyone need a disorganized fool on their team?

Crash Team Racing was released on this day 25 years ago

๐Ÿข Naughty Dog
๐Ÿ“… 19/10/1999
๐Ÿ–ฅ PS1, PS3, PSP

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"The thing is hard to define because the thing has always been about resisting reason, resisting logic, resisting definitions, resisting clear concepts. Fascism is about precisely unreason. It's about emotion, it's about will, it's about will over everthing else."

So institutions, constitutions, laws don't mean anything to fascists. The only thing that matters is the person who has the strongest will, who of course is the leader.


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I have several thousand links to pages on WayBack Machine on my blog.

Is it possible to download a specific page from archive.org in such a way that it is viewable offline? As in, a self-contained HTML file with all CSS, JS, and Images inlined?

How would one go about doing that?

I'd like to decentralise my outbound links to dead sources.

(I am very happy for you to mansplain how to do this. Or to wildly speculate.)

So, I've been reading "Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World" by Mike Davis. And as he recounts famine after famine, each of which claimed millions of lives, I started thinking to myself: even granting the ludicrous assumptions of the anti-communists with the "Victims of Communism" webpage (and proposed memorial or something?), the victims of capitalism easily outnumber them. And I wasn't alone. Here, the authors of the linked article recount how British colonial policy was responsible for 100 million excess premature deaths in India alone, over the course of a half century.

@bookstodon @histodons https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians

Printing from a '84 computer to a '24 printer with the help of a cool virtual ImageWriter II implementation that comes from 2002 DOSBox code.

Thanks @DOSBox_Staging !

been playing a lot of games recently so i'm thinking of restarting an old game review blog

i feel like my taste in games has always been highly idisyncratic, and i wanna share that again--also people really enjoyed my old articles back in the 2010s, and i always remembered that

there is a man on instagram who makes 'kobold music'

it's pretty good

A couple of weeks ago, I posted some thoughts here on Mastodon about why I don't believe there's such a thing as Green AI. But I wanted to make it easier to reference, so I have now re-hosted it on my blog.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/10/green-ai.html

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