thinking about common lisp this morning
apart from the tamagotchi rewrite, one of my other main projects was to write a virtual reality environment for gopher
other people have done it, but not in common lisp
2024-12-09 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/12/2024-12-09-emacs-news/ #emacs
I was reading a rather disappointing blog about how TFW8b is going to be closing down EU and USA shipments because of regulatory requirements, when I found another article of interest:
https://www.tfw8b.com/the-end-of-the-sd-card-line/
Read it. It is a nice explanation of why not all SD cards are the same, and why some cards have compatibility issues.
Some people might have wondered why I made the decision to avoid using raw SD card access in my Kestrel-3 project; this is exactly why. These days, it is better to make intelligent storage devices (like how Commodore and Atari used to) than to assume the benevolence of a storage protocol will remain forever.
In fact, assume it won't. Modern SD protocols are horribly mired in all manner of hardware and encryption related bullshido that I will go out of my way to build battery-backed RAM Disks before I ever consider willfully using the SD protocols ever again.
As many users have asked for it, there is now an option to make the number of followed and following accounts public (still disabled by default). These are only the numbers; the lists themselves are never published.
Some fixes to blocked instances code (posts from them were sometimes shown).
Fixed non-appearing buttons
Approve and Discard if the account requesting a follow were being followed.https://comam.es/what-is-snac
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
#snacAnnounces
This release has been inspired by the songs All Is Lost by #KatieGarfield and All Is Not Lost by #TonyAnderson.
Often when I’m feeling kind of low, I (try to) fix a C64. Bringing one of these lovely machines back to life still makes me smile every single time and never fails to cheer me up. Another success today! #InTheLabDoingStuff #C64 #Commodore64 #Repair #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #BlueScreenOfLife
The tiniest unexpected kindness or even just meeting of expectations can make such a huge difference.
Seeking opportunities to provide these are so very worthwhile.
Remember when you could buy a program or outright, like a civilized person? Now, they want you to subscribe to everything yearly or monthly like it's some digital cheese of the month club. "Oh, you want to use the Xyz app today? That'll be $19.99, please." It makes you want to return to typewriters and carrier pigeons. But thanks to open source, we now have some alternatives available. If possible, please use and support these open-source applications. 🥰 #opensource #linux #unix #bsd
As long as we continue to equate profit with success, we’re well and truly fucked.
Itch.io is currently offline due to a ‘trash AI-powered’ phishing report https://bsky.app/profile/itch.io/post/3lcu6h465bs2n It seems back for now. But, this tells us how rubbish and gutter level are AI services causing both environment and other issues. More from press https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24316882/itch-io-offline-domain-registration-funko-report
WTF. The indie game website itch.io site has been taken down by #Funko because of some bogus #AI brand protection report. This could happen to anyone. AI is literally destroying peoples income.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entire-itch-io-site-has-been-taken-down-by-funko/
#Funkopops #itchio #gaming #gamingNews #indiegame #IndieGameDev
“Amazon appropriates up to 40% of the price of a product sold on its platform. That leaves next to no surplus for the seller to reinvest. And when you have so much rent being siphoned out of the economy, out of the circular flow of income, then the capitalist sector is starved and increasingly subordinate to the cloud rent sector.”
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/quantity-to-quality
China is such a huge car market that it makes the rest of the world looks small. About 23 million cars will be sold in China in 2024, with battery EV sales of over 6 million and plug-in hybrid EV sales of almost 5 million. Car sales in the US will come to about 16 million. Irish new car sales will be about 120,000, of which about 17,000 are battery EVs and 13,000 are plug-in hybrids.
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/1209/1485393-china-electric-cars-ireland-price-batteries-tariffs/
more info on ycombinator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364033
