i really want to use plan 9 but i just cannot do C
i understand well enough you can use scheme on it, but that's not the point
plan 9 has some great ideas and is indeed objectively better than UNIX, but C goes against everything i believe in
Another "blue screen of life"! #InTheLabDoingStuff #Commodore64 #Repair #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
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