i think a big reason i spend a lot of time doing common lisp and retrocomputing as an interest is every other computer subgroup is dominated by people who worship money/silicon valley culture.
lisp and retrocomputing existed before microsoft destroyed every other computer ecosystem, making independent thinking impossible.
capitalism is a lie
reject tradition - computers for money/war
embrace modernity - computers for human flourishing
just changed my emacs font to this:
https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/c64/
looks amazing, 11/10, chef's kiss
Crazy that my calculator from 1990 can do the cross product but a TI calculator from 2013 can't
I just flew across the country and hearing people cleaning planes only get $12-19/hr is WILD when every traveler pays several hundred or thousands of dollars to be past security.
Double their pay, at least. https://apnews.com/article/charlotte-airport-workers-strike-3a00ed15aedfdd8b5e2383feab53cb5a
weird teasing thought bouncing through the back of my brain about how the concept of "protocols, not platforms" could have, and should have, been applied more widely to society as an intervention to prevent the destruction of small-business by big-box capital.
i honestly prefer being working class over middle class. in some ways you're always imprinted with the class in which you were raised, but after my disability diagnosis in 2013, i have spent years-long stretches in poverty.
Build the web better - Go Make Things:
https://gomakethings.com/build-the-web-better/
Owl Lisp – A functional Scheme for world domination
https://gitlab.com/owl-lisp/owl
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://gitlab.com/owl-lisp/owl
Libreboot recently added U-Boot as a payload option on x86_64 machines. The photos below show a ThinkPad X200 running U-Boot.
U-Boot provides a 64-bit UEFI environment. With it, I was able to successfully install and boot OpenBSD via UEFI method on a ThinkPad X200; the original vendor firmware doesn't do UEFI!
New Libreboot release coming soon. It's the free/opensource coreboot distro I maintain, replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware.
My other coreboot distro will *also* be getting U-Boot.
VEF Mikro 1025 - personal computer manufactured by the Riga Electrotechnical Plant (VEF) in 1980
#retrocomputing
ugh. picoLisp might be a small, simple system, but depending intimately on LLVM makes it virtualy impossible to compile on void :-(