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

Reasons To Hate Capitalism #167 - Capitalism kills, but its killers never go to jail

your side project doesn't need to change the world. if it makes you happy, it's already a success. 😊

because i don't have the spoons and also nobody cares about my posts anyway

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4-panel comic. panel one shows a person using a laptop. panel two shows the page for a search engine titled goople.fart. Search text: “How do I do [X]?” Results include three large boxes that each say AD and a link titled TOPIC: Is there a way to do [x]? panel three shows two posts from the topic.

some_guy123 said: Is there a way to do [x]? I really want to do [x] but I can’t find a way how. Thanks!

i_am_so_smart said: Here I’ll walk you through it: Go to www.goople.fart, enter your question into the box, hit go, and then click on one of the many links that pop up! Gee isn’t the internet amazing? You idiot? You stupid fucking idiot? Person who doesn’t know how to use the internet fucking idoit baby stupid idiot

in the last panel, the person on the laptop looks toward the viewer with an annoyed expression

god i wish i knew someone who has experience with Wii homebrewing

Wisdom of the Ages

A picture of a comic made in 1996 by Matt Groening titled “Wisdom of the Ages”. The comic strip shows a character (who never speaks nor changes pose) with bunny ears, irrelevant to the plot. The character is being told four things throughout the centuries: in 1960 the character is being told “We had to destroy the village in order to save it”, in 1970 “Watergate is proof that the system works”, in 1980 “helping the rich is helping the poor”, in 1990 “by being the same as republican we can defeat the republicans”

The comic is a play on democratic strategy over the decades and how, despite massive losses, they never decided to change course.

Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?

i could find some cool BASIC programs and type them into the emulator in some videos?

would be fun to do a super star trek one

i found this one called runequest in the people's computer company magazine

I'm a high functioning low functioning person

Also it so pisses me off to a level I can't even express without howling like a wild beast, that fucking Intel & MS won, snuffed out all of the competing home computers*.

INTEL SUCKS SO MUCH SHIT IT MAKES SEWAGE PLANTS THROW UP IN DISGUST.

Microsoft is like if Hitler made an OS.

* (except Mac, which was objectively the least interesting of the non-PC home computers. But they made more money, and got a $150M lawsuit payout from MS, so barely escaped bankruptcy.)

ANRI - "DRIVING MY LOVE"

When you're leeching an entire series of a magazine, it quickly becomes obvious what the lifecycle was. Rainbow starts as this ratty little mimeograph with some issues on color cardstock, then a gigantic-ass 300+ page monthly tome, then shrinks again to 64, then 16 pages.

I'm a little shocked they got to have a final issue, most just ceased, maybe you got a postcard saying "your $X subscription is now ended".
https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1993-05/mode/2up

yes, yes, you don't actually stand at a standing desk as much as you think you will when you decide to get one. everybody knows this.

BUT

the real benefit of having one is being able to dial in the height of the desk when you're sitting to EXACTLY where you want it. just being able to do that has significantly reduced my mid-30's desk job back problems.

seen this in glasgow on maryhill road the other day, a C5 chassis being used as the sign for a bicycle shop.

A building with a brick facade and dark blue double doors labeled '828' and '826'. Above the doors, hangs the chassis of a Sinclair C5, a small electric vehicle, mounted on a blue metal frame. The word 'Kinetics' is visible on the chassis. Nearby, a yellow and blue ADT security alarm box is fixed to the wall, and a 'Maximum' security alarm box is visible on the upper left side of the building.

@prahou i love it 💕

For today's , I want to send my regards to all people that have contributed any piece of code to or that have sponsored me via one way or another.

You, people, are great.

maybe i can make a lil zine after all!

https://www.c64music.co.uk/books/

UPDATED: 9front system release art tier list

100%, glitchless, no commentary

it's a tierlist of 9front system release artworks

joyful coding:

just coding for one's own self. giving yourself permission to do what you find fascinating.

i try to enjoy the moment of flow i have while working through a problem. the anxieties of life have melted away, and a glittering prompt flickers in front of me, displaying a pleasing result.

BASIC really does what it was designed to do

it is certainly very easy to get going very quickly and achieve quite a bit with very little effort

i praise the creators of BASIC, kemeny and kurtz, for their vision of an accessible and yet fascinating approach to computing

something of the spirit of BASIC is not captured by the UNIX tradition. compared to the friendliness and openness of BASIC, UNIX revels in being arcane, with its greyboards--its initiates being a select few.

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