"year in review"
you know, i feel like i've got enough wisdom to keep quiet when i really want to say 'i told you so'
we owe it to ourselves to ditch using mastodon as a project. honestly the fediverse ended up following the pareto principle because of mastodon. and then mastodon itself within mastodon dot social.
where is the federated, horizontal system we were promised? how is it acceptable to have one instance to rule them all?
very little of mastodon as a piece of software is praiseworthy, with its complete lack of modularity, and its wasteful use of people's computing resources.
the man himself refuses to listen to the community, and runs the show as if he is inseperable from the project.
well the thing happened where i typed out a big post and then the computer ate it
so frustrating
![Star Trek The Original Series scene. Kirk in the captains chair on the bridge of the Enterprise with Uhura siting behind, spun round in her chair looking up. Kirk is rising to stand with a "whoa" kind of look on his face. Sort of like he's watching his favorite team try a really long field goal at the end of a sporting game for a big win.
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I don't usually rewatch tech videos, but because it's just that good I'm in the middle of rewatching @gutbomb's video about the low end OG Power Macintosh, the 6100, with lots of background and speed upgrades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L1h33fUfcE. He produced almost all the music in the video too!
if you view in-browser pixel art and run macOS on a retina display, you may or may not have noticed that Safari doesn't render pixel-perfect images. by default, it anti-aliases every image which turns razor sharp pixel art into mashed potatoes
save the following code in a text file like 'sharp-pixels.css':
body > img:only-of-type, .mw-mmv-image img {
image-rendering: crisp-edges !important;
}
and then go to Safari -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Style Sheet -> Other...
and select the css file you just created.
voila. sharp pixel art whenever you view a png.
huge thank you to @gingerbeardman for the code
bad idea: write a virus to infect the DOS-stub of 32bit windows EXEs, but all it does besides spreading is changing them to print "This Program requires Microshaft Winblowz."
The #harelang mailing list is quite active recently, some breaking changes being proposed (have to scroll past the 'build failure' and 'build success' reports):
https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare-dev?page=2
I like the idea of such a minimal language that uses a smaller simpler compiler (QBE) rather than LLVM (LLVM is quite bloated and unstable these days).
Looking forward to the 1.0 version of Hare in the distant future!
State of Clojure 2024 Results
https://clojure.org/news/2024/12/02/state-of-clojure-2024
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://clojure.org/news/2024/12/02/state-of-clojure-2024
in other news, i have sat at my computer for many hours unable to find the energy to record any videos about BASIC
i have approached spectra.video for a new peertube account, as diode.zone is scaling down, so far no response--i may just email SDF and get one on toobnix
thinking about the permacomputer a lot lately
it needs some way to program PROMs and microcontrollers itself, because if it is the only computer available it needs to be able to build more computers
at this stage the only way to reduce the chip count would be to start using FPGAs, something about which i know little, and have scant experience
https://news.adlsolarpunk.net/adelaide-solarpunk-newsletter-2-december-2024/
If not #React then what? @slightlyoff has some (damned good) ideas:
https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/
anyone here on izzzzi, a "slow social media" experiment? would love to discover some people to follow
New video! Repairing a Commodore 64 "short board" that displays a black screen and doesn't start up.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ILfJ1EbKEwk
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/9hCweCZpfDCSDfKhzP7HPh
#Commodore64 #C64 #Commodore #Repair #Troubleshooting #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #DesTestMAX #DeadTest #Diagnostics
For a Linux and Open Source person such as yours truly, there is simply no point in becoming a Microsoft MVP. It is an honor and a kind of award, but after two months on the inside I can now say that absolutely nothing they offer in the program interests me.
Zero Open Source stuff. Zero about protocols. Zero about any Open technologies at all. 100% boring.
This is not a dis on other MVPs. It just describes how it works for me.