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

floods in spain:

when climate activists block bridges or freeways we go to prison

when the roads are blocked by huge storms, that's not climate change induced by the capitalist ruling class and their continued use of fossil fuels...

...nope!

the day that i read the gentle introduction to symbolic computation was the first day of the rest of my life

i had forced myself to learn C, python and several other languages but none of them inspired me and sparked as much transformative joy as common lisp

lisp changed my life forever for the better

Me without a wiki engine: "I have so many ideas. I should write a wiki engine so I can start capturing them!"

Me with a wiki engine: "None of my ideas are worth capturing. 😐"

@amszmidt yes!!!

New release of Libreboot, soon.

Calling all hackers! I need help in putting the onto a FPGA board. , , does not matter much. Who is up for a fun challange?

botsin.space PSA

Hey friends, it's hard to write this, but it's time to retire botsin.space. I wrote a post about it here: https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

TLDR the site will go read-only on or around December 15th.

I'm so thankful for all the support and good times here ❤️ thanks everyone

Is it just me, or are youtube comments really horrible, even when they are not outright bad?

Even when they're written in an attempt to be nice, they're incredibly uncomfortable to read? Cringy, I think the kids say.

It's not just because I'm old, is it?

do you ever have epiphanies?

like, eureka moments where you realise something?

the clarity you achieve is always bittersweet, but you know you are happier knowing than not knowing.

today is one of those days.

Press 'F' to sleep

Who up supering their 64 marios

little-known fact: jpg is short for jortable pocument gormat!!

Gemini capsule is now live! You can access it by going to gemini://terathopius.com. I also installed a proxy so if you don't have a browser that supports the Gemini protocol, you can just go to https://terathopius.com and it should also work.

Setting up my federated fleamarket with flohmarkt

Yesterday, I set up an instance of flohmarkt on a Raspberry Pi, to experiment with a self-hosted, federated "fleamarket" system, for advertising some old tech stuff that really needs a new home.

It's alpha, and has a few rough edges, so perhaps my notes will help:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/10/setting-up-my-federated-fleamarket-with-flohmarkt/

Thanks to everyone who helped test it!

western mainstream media is all lies

if you agree with it you've surrendered your capacity for independent, rational thought

capitalism is amazing! we're all so wealthy and comfortable!

and all we have to do is repeat the mantra:

"AI! blockchain! tesla! mcdonalds!"

The myth of a scientist as a purely rational thinker, a “brain in a jar” devoid of emotions and values, still exists in some scientific circles.

In fact, many of us climate scientists were astonished when a Nature essay made this very argument earlier this year!

In this response, published today after a comprehensive peer review, we dismantle the myth of the "heartless brain," disproving the claim that science should - or even can - be neutral.

Open access link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-024-00171-9

half these mastodon micro-celebrities despise the people who do the actual work making this place function

seriously the mocking a lot of foss people endure for having any principles at all is disgusting

i wanna post more but frequently i am just so busy

that and i feel like my phone is making me feel really anxious

we honestly could live without constant stimulation from the internet, and not lose a single good thing about the internet

this 'dopamine economy' or 'attention economy' is destroying us all--if you're not glued to your phone, you're missing out!!!

Love to be waiting for months to spend $300 on a specialist just to be told "Try not thinking about it!"
I'm not paying you to ignore my concerns and shuffle me out of a room!

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