come to javascript! we've got [sounds of distant screaming, lots of screaming, hundreds, thousands of souls, tormented, burning] the browser!
back at work today
not many here probably know this, but i earn a wage by working as a cold caller for a cleaning company.
you'd think i would be getting yelled at all the time, but it does not happen to me.
how to make marginalia-search.com your default search engine in firefox
- customize your toolbar and add the "search" box if it isn't already there¹
- go to https://marginalia-search.com
- a green plus will appear on the magnifying glass in the search box. click that
- click the icon in the dropdown that also has a green plus
- go to settings→search and set it as the default search engine. and give it a keyword if you like
¹ no, really, this seems to be the only way to make this go. sheesh
hey I just released my first new guile project in a long time. it's called guile-bstructs and it's meant to be a rough equivalent of chez scheme's ftypes but for guile. you can use it to efficiently manipulate binary data. useful for c ffi wrappers, gpu buffer packing, and other things. I'm using it to make sdl3 bindings and so far, so good. hope it's useful to other guilers.
https://dthompson.us/posts/guile-bstructs-0-1-0-released.html
tfw you've spent all this effort to shore up the security settings in your browser but then the shit website is like "something went wrong! sorry for the inconvenience! maybe try again later!" and deletes the three pages of address info you just typed and if you don't book the reservation you'll lose the spot, no time to troubleshoot, so you're like fuck it, chrome in, adblock off, surveil me daddy, have my entire address book too, just let the garbage site accept my money already jfc
i'll never cease to be astounded that people got serious work done with PDP-8s. i mean, there were even multiuser operating systems!
What age were you when you first learned to code and wrote your first program?
i don't know who needs to hear this, but:
don't worry.
you're gonna make it.
you are already coming into your power.
i wonder what to make of this (correct) observation that we in the hacker community are just making clones of capitalist computer products
we're all aware of this weird cultural shadow microsoft, google, apple, ..., are all casting over us but cannot seem to do anything
i think we need a deeper understanding of this paradox where we are racing to copy capitalist products, and we know it isn't changing anything, but we just keep doing it anyway.
how can we be fully aware of our behaviour, knowing it is fruitless, and yet unable to change it? what is this sort of thing?
The ruling class legitimates its rule by conditioning us through the media to aspire to the lifestyles of the wealthy.
ooh, i didn't know that someone had rescued the Rosetta Smalltalk Reference Manual and stuck it on archive.org!
"In the beginning, computers were created, this has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
#LispMachine just got support for the new Trident T-2400 and T-4800 hard drives.
They are 8, respectively 16 times bigger than a standard Trident T-300. Get them free just by multiplying your cylinder and head values.
#LispM Revolution Gone Wild.
(yes, that is bigger than what the Hurd supports)
also doing the thing where i stare at a blank text file, finding it impossible to write anything out
i feel fear and anxiety. i feel like what i want to publish will lead to being rejected and left lonely
i seem to know rationally that no friend would ever think little of me for being true to myself,
so i think the problem is being caused by my own self-conception, that i consider myself only worthy of scathing criticism and hostility
been working on installing mediawiki with wikibase
it has been horrendous
i will describe my experiences here once i am successfully done with the configuration
This is astonishing - it’s #Elite on the VIC 20! Aleksi Eeben has taken the #Commodore64 source and has ported it to the C64’s predecessor.
It’s looking pretty amazing! Huge kudos to Aleksi, this is a really impressive feat. 🫡
I don't know if it's going to be live, but my New Year's Eve is #coffee and @stokesauce@toobnix.org @stokesauce #music coming up on #aNONradio https://anonradio.net/
Hey, how has stokesauce not been on a #bonkwave compendium? He's bonking as.
(24 hours before live lispy gopher climate tomorrow at 0UTC Wednesday January 1 (New Year Eve in the Americas)...! Let's (1) ironically put mdh's mcclim game in emacs and (2) I try programming Winograd fast fourier transform butterflies inside my #lispmoo2.)
People have been transferring tape-based software of the 1970s and 1980s into .WAV files. Keep doing this!