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social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Wadjuk people of the Nyoongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

thinking about the C primitives in emacs all of a sudden

@xChaos this is a strategic question for me, yes--i am imagining a 'left wing' long termism, to put it quickly.

i encountered something like this while studying hegel--italian fascists also loved him, it seems.

maybe a built in EEPROM flasher--and the permacomputer will be geocached/time capsuled with a stash of EEPROMs?

i wonder what the most ubiquitous form of audio playback device is now

probably people's phones... i ask because i am trying to think of a way to help the permacomputer project store data in a format that would be used day-to-day.

the requirement of long-term data integrity is not a requirement, that will require some other medium. this question concerns more short- to medium-term storage.

ideally you would have a long term, well-engineered master copy, and then many cheaper, lossier copies made off that.

i figure something analogous to a cassette tape could work--audio data transfer is easily implemented in TTL circuitry, so it would make the permacomputer much simpler.

i wonder how one might store audio in the future? after a technological and ecological decline? maybe a lil mp3 player with a universal adaptor for any kind of drive, flash memory, smart card... old laptop hard drive?

i was originally gonna keep the 80s microcomputer/BASIC type-in noodlings separate from the people's permacomputer project.

but i may collapse parts of the 6502 hardware build i am doing into the permacomputer project.

it seems this would contradict the latest direction that the project took--the path the permacomputer project has gone down has been rather unpredictable. it often oscillates between several opposing recommendations for action, such as whether it is a good idea to actually commit to providing some specific hardware.

i do encourage you to follow along, it has been very exciting so far

@permacomputer

The amount of creativity I see here in the fediverse is staggering.

If you’ve already set up an adventure log for this year’s and you want me to include it in the big list of adventure logs drop me a link to it!

New boards that arrived today work exactly as planned. That's a huge relief having changed a lot since the last revision.

Spent a lot of time on the firmware today. Happy to report that it is making progress... bars

an under-exposed shot of a PCB which has an over-exposed oled display on it. the PCB has a small square flat chip and big DIP chip. also, micro SD card socket, small chips and a programmer sticking out of one side. similar photo to the previous one, except instead of the big black chip, there is a green PCB with 31 LEDs on them. 5 of the red LEDs are lit, although none of the white or green are. bare blue PCB on a blue ESD mat. none of the through-hole components have been attached so you can still see the RC2014 logo below where the OLED display will go. the rear of the blue PCB with a prominent RC2014 logo on it. above that it says 39SF040 Programmer. below the logo are simple instructions to program the ROM or to dump it.

! https://archives.anonradio.net/202411270000_screwtape.mp3 every Wednesday 000UTC
by @kentpitman

generally:
My and remembering

In paradise sushi!
telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888
co guest
@join screwtape

We'll look at Cat's gopher given enough time

@prahou

the music this week is the silence in between my thoughts

LISPY
GOPHER
SHOW
The gopher on top of a building reaching down to the lisp alien's extended nose.
A portrait of Erik Sandewall.

FLAME WAR IS ON! on another wall.

alright the 6502 thingo is going ahead.

i purchased the following

  • 2 x MC6847 video display generators (keeping a spare on hand)
  • 1 x T48 (TL866 compatible??) EEPROM programmer
  • large amount of 74LS00 NANDs

i already have:

  • 2 x 61256 32K SRAMs
  • 1 x AT28C256 32K EEPROM
  • 1 x ACIA
  • 1 x VIA

-*-

links:

https://pmig96.wordpress.com/2020/07/15/mc6847-test-circuit/

https://github.com/adumont/hb6502?tab=readme-ov-file#memory-map

-*-

memory map:

addresscomponent
$0000-$3FFFRAM (16KB)
$4200-$4203ACIA
$6000-$600FVIA
$8000-$FFFFROM (32KB)

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honourable mention:

https://awsh.org/homebrew-6502-computer-part-1/

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

🏢 Aspect Co. Ltd
📅 1992
🖥 3DS, Game Gear, Master System, Wii

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Screenshot Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Screenshot

As a necessary prerequisite to getting some of my VM/OS goals accomplished, I'll need something akin to a standard library for doing stuff like printing numbers and such.

In this case, my formatting library takes its inspiration directly from ANS Forth's numeric conversion primitives.

A screenshot of my text editor, editing a file called `fmt.inclib`.  The assembly listing shows the definition of the `FmtHold` function, along with its auto-documentation comment header.  The auto-documentation follows the Commodore-Amiga autodocs schema and conventions, except that the CPU registers describe RISC-V registers instead of PowerPC or 68K.

it was the becester of shires, it was the worcester of shires

Gwen McCrae - "I Can Only Think Of You"

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.65 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Added a new user option to disable automatic follow confirmations (follow requests must be manually approved from the people page).

The search box also searches for accounts (via webfinger).

New command-line action import_list, to import a Mastodon list in CSV format (so that Mastodon Follow Packs can be directly used).

New command-line action import_block_list, to import a Mastodon list of accounts to be blocked in CSV format.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/



a picture in the style of the bayeux tapestry. On it we see a 'Holy Reliquary' with one Norman pointing to it saying (a la Spinal Tap), "Verily it goeth even unto eleven."

I wonder how often people do a deep cleaning of their Emacs configs? I ran into an issue with mine over the weekend and ended up throwing out a huge amount of obsolete settings that dated from several major revisions ago.

In the process, I also tried out a new theme. It feels...different. Weirdly like a new system, just because some colors changed. So far it's nice and I will see if I stick with it.

Next step is removing obsolete packages without breaking everything.

Woohoo! Apparently it was a long drive from Cincinnati, but DHL have finally bought my boards from JLCPCB.

Should be enough stock to see me through the weekend. And I need to test and sort out the firmware on the new board.

pile of JLCPCB boxes and wrapped PCBs on a blue antistatic desktop. three single boards are in the center, but sufficiently small that you cannot make out what they are.

Played little bit with the . This picture is made by eight lines of code ... :)

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