Stop Theming My Apps was created by GNOME devs who got paid off by Microsoft because Microsoft knows that, if left unchecked, Hannah Montana Linux would create the Year of the Linux Desktop
if you're gonna actually try and be logically consistent with your arguments about what does and does not count as 'safe' or 'powerful' technology, i think you are forced to accept that:
- the contemporary www and smartphone ecosystem needs to be rejected
- all CPU platforms with out-of-order execution need to be rejected
- ideally, we should be prioritising HAM radio from now on for the backbone of our hacker comms
- UNIX is approaching the status of a dead technology and is now thoroughly outmoded
- in my considered opinion, all mainstream 'memory safe' languages have failed and should be rejected
this sounds very proscriptive, and may to some seem overly strict, but after doing my own research and analysis, this is where we're at.
any relaxation of the above is a concession on pragmatic grounds. the lay technology user now uses their smartphone for virtually everything. in my opinion, we're not ever going to reach the mainstream user.
so i agree with the few of you who say, burn it all down and start again. whatever the industry is doing is completely evil and cannot be tolerated or connected with one bit
I am working on a PAC-MAN for the Commodore Amiga that uses nothing but operating system calls for its graphics, sound, and scheduling. This is the first video in a series showing its development using the earliest C Compiler (Lattice C 3.03).
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #gamedev
This is being done as an example of how to use the routines inside every Amiga in the context of their intended use to write software, such as games, that can cooperate in its multitasking environment.
I am writing each piece of the code as an autonomous unit, with testing harnesses, with the goal of breaking each of code out into its own Exec task, communicating with each other via MessagePorts.
I am uploading each piece to GitHub on a regular basis:
https://github.com/tschak909/amiga-pac-man
What are your favorite retro-computing YouTube channels? I’m especially interested in Atari and classic Mac (68k/PPC).
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
Hey ancient tech people: is #Lisp still worth learning? Asking for someone who needs more parentheses.
tonic my internship ends on dec. 20, anyone need a disorganized fool on their team? #getfedihired
Crash Team Racing was released on this day 25 years ago
🏢 Naughty Dog
📅 19/10/1999
🖥 PS1, PS3, PSP
"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.
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.
#Capitalism #Colonialism #Communism #VictimsOfCommunism #VictimsOfCapitalism #books #NonFiction #History @bookstodon @histodons https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians