reject modernity - graphics cards
embrace tradition - BASIC games for ur teleprinter uwuuuu
you'll have to forgive me for getting incandescently furious at the whole "oh well maybe we'll get cheap GPUs again!" take on the inevitable AI bubble crash, because the reality of the situation is that tens if not hundreds of thousands of people will lose their jobs as a result of this delusional cult chasing unobtainable infinite service monopolies, and I can't imagine a more callous take than "yay I can buy a graphics card on ebay again" in the face of people losing their livelihoods & homes.
@cstanhope yay! it always takes me several months to get connected again with all the good folks, after another of my fedi servers falls over š š š
Spotted in my Victoria neighborhood. The kids are all right!
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #socialism
hello! i haven't tried to write an intro for myself in a while but here goesā
i am a poetic programmerāi am endeavouring to make tools that feel like coming to the end of a poem; websites that feel like a warm piece of paper; representations of syntax that look back like a gilded mirror š¤
my website and a couple projects i've been spending time on these days:
https://kayserifserif.place
https://coem-lang.org
https://proseplay.net
#Introduction #SoftTech #HTMLenergy #Websites #Language #Linguistics #Syntax #Poetry #DigitalPoetry #ExperimentalPoetry #CodePoetry #ElectronicLiterature
There are directory websites where you can find Fedi accounts to follow.
To follow an account listed in a directory, copy its Fediverse address into the search box on Mastodon etc and click follow.
ā”ļø https://fedi.directory - The FediFollows website
ā”ļø https://communitywiki.org/trunk - The Fediverse's first directory, focuses on people rather than orgs
ā”ļø https://fediverse.info/explore/people - Directory where accounts can list themselves
ā”ļø https://directory.owncast.online - Directory of livestreamers & streams
"If the other sideās politicians try to change the publicās views, but our side only responds to the publicās views, we are consigning ourselves to an endless rightward political drift. It is the job of political leaders to tell the truth, even when those truths are unpopular, and while it would be foolish not to run on ideas that are both popular and good (such as free healthcare), the fact that a majority support a position in a public opinion poll can never be the end of our analysis. We also have to do the hard work of thinking about what justice requires and to strike the careful balance between deference to popular preferences and upholding the principles that we think ultimately best serve humanity."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cant-just-do-whats-popular-1
maybe:
- smol word processor
- telnet client
- gopher browser...
- audio and video player (??)
steve jobs was right about this much--you're not necessarily going to convince people to use a platform by enumerating the criteria by which your puter may be superior.
somehow i have to imagine what it feels like to be fascinated and immediately pleased with the human-computer interaction.
i wonder how little RAM you could get away with for a reasonably powerful lil written document preparation system...
@unlink2 lovely! i think i will return to atari 2600 dev eventually. the stella emulator has a very powerful debugger!
just thinkin' about late 1970s, early 1980s computing... sigh...
microsoft really did destroy all that, the hobbyist scene. it is back now, despite its relatively puny size and position as a 'subculture'.
i wonder what it would take to liberate the human from the computer today. something suggests to me that it lies in simple, expressive command prompts--staying clear of modern GUIs, while not necessarily rejecting WSIWYG
if i have enough money after i pay my bills tomorrow i will try and print out some magazines and do some deep research into the era of 8 bit computing. to try and answer the question: what would a powerful but minimal computer need for the average user today?
i'd love to make lil 8 bit games again
the stock market with their souped up graphics cards can take a hike
8 bit assembly is also so easy! race the beam ~
i wonder what 6502 assembler is the community standard for atari 2600 dev now
i always used this piece of vaporware everyone swore by on the atariage forums called dasm
Laid out a little tutorial dungeon for the milestone and recorded a walking tour. The tile memory works different now and I think it looks nice.
Time to pack this baby so full of skeletons š
If you've never read Worse is Better or the history behind it, it's worth reading https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
tl;dr: Yeah you think your tech is better designed and it may be but the Zerg Rush strategy works for tech (but with long-running consequences)
Anil Dash on why you should quit Substack while you still can: every new feature they add increases lock-in, making it harder to leave while they court some of the worst people online https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/
people are so far removed from the systems that keep them alive - the internet comes out of a socket in the wall and that's basically it.
