The Mozilla foundation has an open survey about how they should approach the future, if you care feel free to fill it out. Especially so if you've been unhappy about the organization for years https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/101

What are some interesting programming languages that have multiple usable (full-fledged, not "micro") implementations? Preferably with good standards.

Right now that would seem to apply to C, Scheme and Javascript (barely).

It used to apply to some Wirthian languages, but I don't really see that many Modula-2 compilers I can run on modern systems anymore.

I enjoyed reading this article about the completion of much needed #Colossus building repairs at The National Museum of Computing.

#tnmoc

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/the_national_museum_of_computing/

This is what we do 😍

@foone a while ago i attempted to crush the movie "hot fuzz" down into a single floppy. i never ended up properly succeeding. oddly enough it was the audio that was the biggest hurdle, since no codecs supported a bitrate low enough to fit alongside the video. i did manage to get just the video portion in, it was practically unwatchable, but you could just about make out what was going on. in the end i had to settle for splitting it across 3 disks to be able to include heavily crushed audio

Despite ample evidence to the contrary, #Ilive (hmm, if I were also #evil, that would be a pallindrome as well as a visual collision)
Fascinating (if I do say so) #lispgames #gamejam #gamedev #retrospective on #itch_io
https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo2/devlog/834615/princess-revisited
I am enormously happy with the
{ verb [ dobj [ prep iobj ] ] } x
language dynamic, and how it shares your #lisp #repl, and their concerns are just... Different so they don't collide.
I guess I get my #languageDesign friends a little better now.
Thoughts?

i've noticed i often need to buy some specific thing nowadays and i can't find anywhere physically that sells it anymore other than online. like the specialist stores just don't exist anymore, they're all online-only, and the giant general superstores haven't necessarily picked up the slack, even if they have stuff they'll only have one, and it'll be the worst one imaginable. i think peak "being able to buy a big selection of things in person" was about 20 years ago now

if i go into town to buy a radio. can i? just a radio. just something anyone has been able to go and buy for the last 70 years. can you still just buy "a radio"? a lot of the general home department store type thing has been shutting down lately. the tech type places just sell computer stuff and phone chargers. big supermarkets with a large electronics section probably have a cheapest-of-the-cheap shower radio in the shape of a seahorse hopefully. a seahorse for your earthquake/hurricane go-bag

@ajroach42 there was some of this culture of publishing and curation in the early pre web2.0. I ran a weekly online magazine for indie film and we had clear defined issues - 99 of them - with a curated mix of interviews, news, reviews and editorial. We made no money but after that I worked for shootingpeople.org - an email newsletter that 10,000+ people paid to receive and every night was curated from submissions from those same paying readers. It worked online but Web2.0 killed it.

#links2gang #links2 #unix_surrealism

Great podcast chat for anybody that loves retro computing, #Forth, #BBS systems or #RC2014
https://straypointers.com/e/s2e18.htm

Featuring @Wintermute_BBS

Kirby's Dream Land

🏢 HAL Laboratory
📅 1992
🖥 3DS, Game Boy

#videogames

Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky | by Aidan Raymond | Nov, 2024 | Medium https://aidanraymond.medium.com/why-bluesky-isnt-the-alternative-to-x-formerly-twitter-you-re-looking-for-and-why-mastodon-is-46c8901f2748