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

i keep looking at listings for commodore 64 computers

and then a silly little text adventure using commodore LOGO? πŸ‘€

test post

This is how all you nerds telecompute, too, right?

November 1984
RAINBOW
The Color Computer Monthly
TELECOMPUTING
Our 'Reach Out' Issue
A Complete Smart Terminal Program
A Comprehensive CoCo BBS List
<nerd at CoCo, camera, mic, headphones, giant wall of monitors with pixelated face, stereo gear, corkboard with codes>

Many sad stories recently about long-running Twitter accounts being deleted by their owners due to Musk's disturbing behaviour. If one person/company owns an entire network, it eventually starts exploiting its users.

The Fediverse (which Mastodon is part of) breaks this cycle by being on many independent but connected servers, empowering the user:

➑️ https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers

It lets communities and people directly own the social networks they depend on.

Threads and now BlueSky have tried to co-opt this concept by "Fediwashing" their centralised corporate networks. If people fall for this, the cycle of exploitation will continue 😩

Just realised Scheme was made by someone named Guy L. Steele, and then someone came along and wrote an extension language that implements scheme called Guile with in classic gnu fashion is a backronym but also happens to sound like Guy's name. Guile is also a word meaning intelligent but deceitful so is a loose synonym for scheme. I love programmers...

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

would like to get in on this bluesky v mastodon argument

the left example is only possible thanks to @carcosa and their project, which makes mastodon usable in pretty much any browser out there.

https://brutaldon.org

thank you for your attention

disclaimer: does not endorse mastodon or its subsidiaries. is just happy to be able to use mastodon.

two instances of links2 running side-by-side

one displays a mastodon timeline through brutaldon.

the other with bluesky just says: "Javascript required etc etc"

A rare copy for sale of "Lisp Style and Design" by Molly Miller and Eric Benson (Digital Press, 1990), a great book cited by Paul Graham in On Lisp that covers often overlooked topics. All the proceeds will be donated to the Medley Interlisp Project.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296823376425

Which of the following would you say is more representative of your views? (asking for a politician)

Boost for reach, please.

It's not just the I develop for. Part of my stand at RetroFest2024 showcased my peripherals for & Compatibles.

- Graphic OLED Interface
- SID Soundchip Interface
- ZXTT (ZX True Tone)
- Bus interface to use RC peripherals on

https://ebay.co.uk/usr/quazar-sam-coupe-sales

https://www.tindie.com/stores/quazar/

https://2014.samcoupe.com

How do Force Ghosts get around? Do they travel instantaneously or are they limited to light speed? Do they have to take ships? How did Obi Wan find Luke on Hoth, did he take five years to toodle along from Alderaan at the speed of light? Could you use force ghosts to corner the market in Frozen Jogan Fruit Juice concentrate futures? Could a force ghost help you clean out Lechiffre the Hutt at Sabacc?

Nix is great until you accidentally uninstall your text editor

still not quite happy with it, maybe bags can be a dark blue colour?

oh yeah, it's slooooww

getting baba is you vibes, weirdly

hold on a few minutes, i am going to correct the colours to make them look a bit more familiar to what the symbols represent...

why won't it print the colours? hmmm

ho hum just coding BASIC rn

been having thoughts about bag quest

i think it would be particularly onerous to require the user to have to define each bag. i would like to prioritise actually playing the game.

to this end i may just RNG different distributions of the various items among the 10 different bags that you can have.

the problem with this particular course of action is that it leads to undefined behaviour--you simply won't know which bag you will be able to go into from which previous bag

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