VM/OS update -- Tasks waiting and alarms signaling works! See attached GIF.
Debugging #LispM memory management ... ()()()())))(((()()()()())()
Customs official who sits at the border of dreams and decides which ideas you're allowed to bring back out to the waking world
With my rough idea I explored yesterday of what collapse-era computing might look like, what sort of OS would fit?
Most places who care should be able to build 1970s if not 1980s-era chips, maybe even 2000-era. If we can continue obtaining wafers, not guaranteed!
The biggest challenge would be designing large RAM, & other datastorage.
Keyboard input & audio output would probably be the most feasible I/O, with mice & vector-monitors being secondary.
1/2?
i get the sense that back in the 70s that there was a real urgency to designing solutions to problems.
nowadays tech just feels like a grift through and through. the link between the following two has been severed: money that comes along with tech, and tangible benefits to broader society.
iirc computers may have issued from the military in the boom period, but it took some decades for computers to fully transition from research novelty to money making machine.
everything is rented now, everything has a price. how can i spark people's interest in what kant might have called a "critical" approach to tech?
xmas, so much xmas.
Xmaspocalypse has come early this year. And every year. She has become the Queen of Christmas, Destroyer of Worlds.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mariah-carey-christmas-pop-up-bars_n_673a32a2e4b0520a467758d3
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there's a common misconception among many hackers that lispers are these arcane wizards who deal in cryptic black magicks.
for the most part i find this mildly derogatory view quite charming.
but after having learned lisp, used guix, emacs, etc., i think it would be closer to the truth that lisp abstracts away much of what is rightly unnecessary about C, python, imperative languages in total.
lisp makes you view the C 'system programmers' of the contemporary ilk as a hoard of locusts with an insatiable appetite for memory. just circling, swarming, gobbling, stripping every branch of useful memory dry.
remember, it's 'evaluation', not 'execution'--and yes we lispers have the humility to say we did not create our language, it is innate to mathematics. it was discovered.
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 😅😅😅
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 goes—
i am a poetic programmer—i 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 🤍
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.
➡️ https://fedi.directory - The FediFollows website
➡️ https://communitywiki.org/trunk - The Fediverse's first directory, focuses on people rather than orgs
➡️ https://fediverse.info/explore/people - Directory where accounts can list themselves
➡️ https://directory.owncast.online - Directory of livestreamers & streams
"If the other side’s politicians try to change the public’s views, but our side only responds to the public’s 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!