Why do food deserts exist? Shock and surprise, it's because of Reagan-era halting of antitrust enforcement https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/
Lots of other independent stores also died that way, but food is the one that's clearest
@csepp @permacomputer TTS is trivial, i believe! you made me think--this needs to be a device that is immediately comprehensible.
♫ There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned?
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me who I am ♫
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kln_bIndDJg
#music
#adventofcode #adventofcode2024 Day 1 #CommonLisp
#Symbolics #Genera, #SBCL and #LispWorks on the new Mac mini
You ever think about all those #J2ME games and apps on people's long forgotten phones, collecting dust in some box.
XEBOOK, an Atari 130XE computer upgraded and converted to laptop. Infos: https://southernamis.com/forum/general-discussions/xe-book-development Video: https://youtu.be/NYGtY7DnrUk #Atari8bit #atari #retrocomputer #retrocomputing
This is a ThinkPad T480S, running Libreboot. Mate Kukri did it last night for coreboot, based on his ThinkPad T480 port.
And the T480 is also supported by Libreboot!
T480 and T480S both added to Libreboot last night. This is using Mate Kukri's excellent deguard utility, to disable the Intel Boot Guard.
New Libreboot release coming soon. It's the coreboot distro that I maintain, replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmwaer.
https://browse.libreboot.org/lbmk.git/commit/?id=264928c6cdefb0b7a3c3ff01d4fe16fa4cc3cbd8
https://browse.libreboot.org/lbmk.git/commit/?id=c1b73269726a00255aa31ec02b3e55d281b397e6
https://browse.libreboot.org/lbmk.git/commit/?id=9dc3c86ae37db781b6bc4e745a57217c3511074b
when you dared to suggest anything remotely "fun" or "quality-of-life improving" on the mastodon github
This is a Raspberry Pi Pico, and it's better than your CH341A.
Much better.
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/spi.html#raspberry-pi-pico
Today, I am experimenting a bit with the original IBM mouse driver, version 1.0 from 1987. It's still working quite well with MS-DOS 6, but Windows 3 doesn't like it at all. I could even find an old article from Microsoft's knowledge base explaining the issue. Oh, well.. I guess I will need to find that version 1.1!
#RetroComputing #Microsoft #IBM #Mouse #Driver #Windows #MSDOS
Online age verification methods don’t each fit somewhere on a spectrum of 'more safe' and 'less safe,' or 'more accurate' and 'less accurate.' Rather, they each fall on a spectrum of 'dangerous in one way' to 'dangerous in a different way.’ Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/eff-new-york-age-verification-threatens-everyones-speech-and-privacy
After bringing bagels to my dad I think I've gotten all the adventure logs updated over here!
https://eli.li/december-adventure
There are so many! Don't hesitate to send me more throughout the month -- you can start whenever.
Also, to all my new followers, hello, hi, welcome, but also brace yourself for me probably posting a lot more about birds and Jane Austen than I do about rust or whatever. 
Happy #DecemberAdventure ya'll!
