The ActivityPub standard (by @cwebber, @tsyesika, @erincandescent, @rhiaro, @evan) is a joy to read.
Initial impression: “Like email” is actually a good initial mental image for how it works.
Some tweaks for better integration with https://bsky.brid.gy (the BlueSky bridge by brid.gy).
A corner case bug in the media proxying code has been fixed.
Hashtags can now include underscores.
The server now creates a pidfile inside the data directory.
Mastodon API: fixed a crash in the notification code, fixed autocapitalization in the OAuth login field (contributed by fkooman).
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This release has been inspired by the song Take Me To The River by #Kaleida.
as a kid, I had a floppy disc filled with text files I created where each text file represented a different type of thing and inside the file was a list of things of that type.
I was gonna teach my computer how to understand the world around me the way I understood it.
eventually, kid me realized that lists of types of things would be insufficient. I needed relationships, comparisons, differentiations, assumptions, all sorts of complexity.
I gave up.
the titans of industry are still kids.
"SeaUBoot" ROM images now available in Libreboot. This will feature in the next release.
Implemented in this patch:
https://browse.libreboot.org/lbmk.git/commit/?id=7d1fd1cc6a176d15d8a938cd0df9868cbbb86d8f
These images have SeaBIOS, GRUB and U-Boot. Boot anything you want in SeaBIOS by pressing ESC to access the menu; this includes GRUB, which is still in flash.
With SeaUBoot, a bootorder file makes SeaBIOS boot U-Boot from flash first, unless interrupted.
Same concept as SeaGRUB.
Nice UEFI-first setup.
Gonna try *UEFI* OpenBSD. Installation and booting.
I've come to the conclusion that computers after 1990 are not just a mistake, but do not exist.
#retrocomputing
Just keep trying to legislate into existence technical solutions to social problems. I'm sure it'll work eventually.
Hey web devs, not breaking links doesn’t have to be hard…
Heard of the 404 → 307 technique? (Well, now you have!)
🌲
gonna finally get my writing off substack
going back to hand written HTML probably, static site generators are cute but i'm a weird edge case where SSGs end up being more work than hand written HTML
i am on the look out for listings of interesting BASIC games. no listing is too long or short; but those that come in at around 1 or 2 printed pages are best.
i want to make a small series of zines containing BASIC listings, and then peddle them to popularise my arcane philosophy of computer minimalism.
Noticing that you can hear the guitars wailing from my headphones but not adjusting the volume because the good folks at the library are entitled to their daily Funkadelic just like everyone else 🙏🏼
always wondered how the uxn screen device worked, and after reading this i am feeling a lot more confident
i don't know why i originally dismissed writing a virtual machine in place of my usual sensibility of constructing a solution out of physical hardware--it may have had a little to do with jealousy, i was at first very startled by how clearly uxn communicates its ideas.
my thoughts right now are very jumbled, but i can imagine creating my own virtual computer as involving:
- instead of a screen device, have a nice bank of VRAM which is accessed via DMA--this i borrow from the hardware CHIP-8 machines. varvara is very nice in that it can draw 4 colours. right now i think i will merely focus on monochrome pixels.
- more system RAM than 64K, i will have to do some explorations on this
- a different instruction set architecture, i have some manuals on the xerox alto, stack machine ISAs, those of the lisp machines. i am quite besotted with BASIC right now, however, which has not much in common with the former. i wonder what a nice ISA could be...
#GreenLeft #RisingTide #AusPol #PeoplesBlockade
Major victory for rising tide as the supreme court rules the exclusion zone invalid. Check out the Green Left website for live coverage of the blockade:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/peoples-blockade-2024
Technology is an amplifier and what Big Tech amplifies is fascism.
You want to amplify the opposite? Then build, raise awareness about, and help fund the opposite:
Small Tech.
https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology
#BigTech #SmallTech #fascism #democracy #humanRights #technology
Re-reading https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html to affirm my intentions with VM/OS.
I know that VM/OS is many times more complicated than UXN. But, it is my hope that the complication can be kept minimal enough that useful and portable software can be written for it.
Plus, I'm still trying to figure out what "implementation first" means, precisely. Maybe I'm reading too far into it.