hey let's say i wanted to download wikipedia and put it on an e-reader how would i want to do that
@screwtape i like the magazine title
i would not necessarily choose medium as the newsletter/magazine platform--but building a publication with a large following is a good idea right now
is there some other way to reach you online? other than lambdamoo or here on the fedi?
A good workaround finally allows me to use the Cardputer uLisp Machine, a lovely card-sized microcontroller system that runs uLisp. If any Emacs wizard has any advice on how to fix the remaining minor echo issue mentioned in the post, I'm interested.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/paoloamoroso/making-ulisp-more-usable-on-the-cardputer
Prices have been reduced once again, for Libreboot T480 and Libreboot 3050 Micro sold on https://minifree.org/
I previously increased prices earlier in February 2025, because sales went insane in December/January, causing backlog.
My backlog has been clear lately. Reduced -£200 on 3050, -£100 on T480.
Libreboot replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI, offering better security and more power to the user; your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or a BSD.
I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories.
Wrote the second in my series of "goodbyes" that I'm putting on tilde.town -- to Ulysses by Joyce: https://tilde.town/~insom/#ulysses
reverse monsterdon where monsters get together and talk about the people watching movies
Where's the virus that wipes your EFI entries and replaces it with a payload that just plays nyan cat when you need it
Hey everyone. I must admit, I don't believe I have ever seen someone enter #utf8 #unicode characters on a #computer in a natural way. Which seems weird, because a bunch of languages use them.
I wrote a #commonLisp #asdf package that just looks up a list of symbols in a file that has every non-surrogate unicode codepoint in it, and an #emacs #elisp function that just calls the #lisp one.
https://codeberg.org/tfw/unicode-chars
Multilingual people, what can you tell me about doing this at all?
tonic 
The next part of the things i got this week.
An intel #SDK-85 with a NEC CPU.
Last year, Ian Bell released the source disk for Elite on the Apple II.
My latest guide shows how you can assemble the source in your browser and see exactly what Bell and Braben's build process looked like back in 1985.
https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/building_apple_ii_elite_from_the_source_disk.html
#riverwm #tilingwm #tilingwaylandcompositor #linux
I have been using river as my window manager for a while now so thought I would share my thoughts.
I am really enjoying it, it feels much closer to xmonad than hyprland did which I like and it runs mostly smoothly. I love the way that it handles multi-headed setups for the most part and the way it is configured is refreshing for a window manager.
On my desktop, I have 2 monitors and river lets each monitor have its own set of tags which is nice.
I have yet to make good use of the tag feature and for the most part have been treating the tags like workspaces. This doesn't cause too many issues but tags come with some extra restrictions that make it less ideal if you are only using them the way you would workspaces. Maybe these can be ironed out but I don't know a solution.
I have been using the tag system more on my laptop than on my desktop probably because it only has 1 screen. On my desktop, if I want to have 1 program open and rotate between 1 or 2 programs open next to it, I can have the main program open in my main monitor and my second monitor can be used to rotate between the other programs that I want to have open next to it.
On the laptop this isn't possible but I have found the tag system to be useful for this. I can have tag 1 focused, say on emacs, and when I want I can focus a second or third tag with lecture slides, a browser or something else. I can also put a floating window with a video on one of my tags and then focus that tag with whatever other tag I am currently using so that I can keep the floating window with me as I move around my system.
As for using the tags like workspaces, it works for the most part but I have noticed some quirks. I am unable to jump to a window using rofi. This is likely hard to implement as a window could be on multiple tags and there is no good way to decide which tag to focus. Maybe a way it could be implemented is to instead have the currently focused tag/s added to the window.
When using multiple monitors, you can't drag a floating window onto another monitor and so you have to use the keyboard shortcut which isn't too much of an issue. When you move a window to another monitor, instead of moving it to the currently focused tags on that monitor, it moves it to the tags matching the ones it occupied on the previous monitor. This isn't an issue per se, just something that was counterintuitive to how I thought it should work.
There have been 1 or 2 minor issues with hidpi support for some apps but I don't think they are necessarily rivers fault. One example is with element messenger. When I enabled 2x scaling, instead of scaling the app, it instead shrunk the size of the window. River seemed to think it was normal size though as other windows moved around it as if it was taking up the normal space and I had to click where UI elements would have been if it was taking up the normal space.
Overall I have been enjoying it a lot, and will continue using it for at least a few more months
looking for some feedback from video game achievement hunters 
a group with which i'm involved is working on a modernization patch for an early 2000s fps game. one of the community requests has been an achievement system for single player. this is easy enough to implement on a technical level but we are hung up on one particular thing...
we do not believe we can release with a fully complete set of achievements. it is almost certainly going to be the case that we want to add more achievements after the initial patch release. after all this is a community effort, so we may find that counter-based achievements are too easy or too hard, or we may think of entire new categories of achievements to add. we don't have a focus group or a big pool of playtesters or anything, so it's probably impossible to get it 100% right on the first try.
so here's the question. of course if we display someone's total achievement completion as a percentage, adding more achievements would knock their completion percentage down. i am told that achievement hunter types hate this. how would you personally like to see this scenario be handled?
two things to note
1. when i say add more achievements, i mean more achievements only. the content in the game is static and there will be no new content added. it would be literally just more achievements to unlock.
2. this is going to be a completely custom system by necessity, so we are not bound by the constraints of steam's achievement system. although of course it's a familiar reference for a lot of people, so our design probably will not stray too far from that.
