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social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Wadjuk people of the Nyoongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

comrades Riley Breen and Isaac Nellist conducting yet another fascinating and pertinent interview.

the green left show is worth the attention of every radical leftist in so-called australia.


Matilda Lane-Rose, a young climate activist and member of Disrupt Burrup Hub, was fined $2000 and charged with unlawful damage and trespass for protesting gas giant Woodside.

Lane-Rose joins the Green Left Show to discuss her court case, building the climate movement and why we must disrupt Burrup Hub.

Find our more about Disrupt Burrup Hub: https://www.disruptburruphub.com/ Donate to help pay fines: https://chuffed.org/project/zyvlzgmp9oky

We acknowledge that this video was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QURj39GvHfk

good morning, fedi!

digital preservation and archivist friends: it came to my attention recently that mobygames was bought by some trashy atari holding corporation a few years ago. all of the scans and item entries that many of us slaved over for the past 25 years were sold off. anyone submitting mobygames entries/updates are effectively working for free now.

i can't say i'm unhappy to see it going downhill with the new owners. updates to entries went from taking 1 day for approval from moderators, to 4-6 months.

it also had a frustrating limitation of declaring any software outside of its very traditional definition of game as out-of-scope.

that being said, it's a critical service for those researching and writing about games.

i'd like to know if there are any publicly-owned database initiatives in development to replace and/or subsume mobygames.

and if not, let's build one.

My PinePhone Pro arrived today

the idea of having a phone with a removable battery and an SD card slot seems so retro yet so delightful

The default Sailfish OS isn't going to work for me, will be trying out postmarketOS later.

I hate Unity

Hey does anyone here know of or offer community-style hosting for a instance. I don't have any objection to supporting write.as per se, except that $6/mo for hosting a personal blog with very basic features is outrageous. I'm willing to pay 20-25USD/yr for something like this, otherwise I'll just end up sticking it on a VPS somewhere and self-hosting.

/ locations, semi-companion to the weekly show.

You can do me one better and respond with you own insights.

Also, what were the names of funkwhale but for writing fediverse apps?

Boost for a broad opinion if you don't mind.

@screwtape i was actually going to suggest write.as -- i could spin up an instance for you on my hardware. that way, no fees?

that half hour of extra sleep between 6am and 6.30am made today possible

jesus said to peter, build your church on a solid foundation

my entire woken existence today is built on that thirty minutes of dozing

🕊

“I dug deep and found the most advanced VHS archiving project around: VHS-Decode. The short version is you solder wires into a VCR to extract as close to the raw tape signal as possible. From there, you are doing the decoding of the image in software. If you wanna see what a freakishly clean encode upscaled to 4K looks like on a tape from 1987 of The Cure on the BBC, check this shit out.

From there, I would just compulsively buy stuff that had no good encode.”

https://aftermath.site/ricky-jay-defector-archive-preservation

🐴 Surely computers crashing is a bad thing
🐇 it says here I've got to overwrite this device driver with farting noises, haha that's a little odd but nobody's objecting so I guess it's ok~

recall that hitler failed to conquer the world. there is hope.

hey let's say i wanted to download wikipedia and put it on an e-reader how would i want to do that

Good morning.

A patch of lichen on tree bark. Lichen on a green background at the base of a tree. Lichen on a small twig (still on the tree). A little mushroom in wood chip mulch.

@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.

my airport situation is getting........ complicated

A continental and international airport in OpenTTD labeled as terminals 1 and 2. The intercontinental terminal is fed by maglev trains and a large bus and truck station, and a metro line carries passengers and goods between terminals 1 and 2.

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