Omg @spritely is almost over 10k on its first day of fundraising ;_;

Who's gonna push us over?!?! https://spritely.institute/donate/

#lispyGopherClimate With #guests?! If everythink works. https://archives.anonradio.net/202412040000_screwtape.mp3 #archived wonderful show everyone!

#climate #haiku by @kentpitman

Hopefully @sacha will tell us about the #emacs #emacsconf this weekend!

+ #webcomic #author, @shizamura https://sarilho.net/en/ ? emacs-people = alien-robot-people?

Also #lisp emacs, I want to talk about porting #ZWEI like Kent did ^ https://tumbleweed.nu/r/sys/dir?ci=tip @amszmidt

#unix_surrealism @prahou

#lambdaMOO too!

just draw cat

#MastoArt

i'd like to draw attention to this lil indie gameboy game by @objetdiscret https://objetdiscret.itch.io/tai-fab-museum it's a collection of nonogram (picross) puzzles framed within a breezy surreal adventure game. it's polished and quite substantial (~200 puzzles) and plays great on real hardware. highly recommended!

#TaiFab

@vidak The reason I ask is that the existing software is not targeted solely at a processor, but at a whole platform: not just a 68000, but an Amiga, or a Mac, with all the other custom chips, ROMs, memory maps, etc. that underlie the platform. I've tried to build a 6502-based computer, at first with just serial I/O, then hopefully displaying something using a 32x8 LED matrix, sort of in the CollapseOS.org cobbling tradition; that project has not finished, and that could be because I set out on my own, and tried to skip the part with a bunch of LEDs, switches and breadboards, that would make it possible to debug one piece or another of the system. The journey of https://www.youtube.com/@akohlbecker toward a 65816 computer, https://github.com/adrienkohlbecker/65C816, has been quite enlightening, firmly 16-bit, and not aimed at running preexisting software. What it hasn't been is short. :)

hey, it's giving tuesday! did you know that I work for a nonprofit? I work for @spritely which is a wonderful nonprofit that is building technology for secure peer-to-peer collaboration and healthy online communities! if you're into activitypub, the protocol that powers the fediverse, you'll definitely be into what we're cooking up to be the next generation of decentralized social media (and much more)

this is our very first supporter drive and it would be *so cool* if you supported our work with a donation!

https://spritely.institute/donate/

Made a little Fractran ruleset compiler, still working on making the output nicer, but compiling rewriting to stack languages is a piece of cake.
https://paste.sr.ht/~rabbits/c75030488a264dd9aa7d030030047e928c24418a

@jaredj @vidak after a few initial hiccups due to user error (and a lingering issue that stops some people from following me that I don't have the technical skill or mental bandwidth to figure out), I'm mostly happily settled into my self-hosted #GoToSocial instance. I'm enjoying scanning the #emacs hashtag weekly with my mastoden.el code for combining the timelines from multiple servers, I'm slowly building the habit of posting little status updates and thoughts, and I like the glimpses I get into other people's thoughts. My limitations at this point are more non-technical than technical. :) There's probably a better thing out there, but that's okay, there's still enough for me to learn from and figure out even with what I've got.

This time, I bought a dead nugg! My strong suspicion is the BIOS chip in this one has gone faulty. Luckily, one person still sells replacement flash chips. It will be a fun (and tough) soldering exercise.

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.

I love MP3 players. I love the fact they have a sole function.

Who here remembers Bluecurve icons from Fedora core or Red Hat
#Linux ? So adorable 🥰

#StarTrek

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

#macOS

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!