A lot of blog engineering today, mostly doing smart #ed hacks and dealing with the consequences.
But! I came up with a way to include arbitrary files with #ed, so it's almost as powerful as #C #Preprocessor for my purposes! (Taking file name from buffer, modifying it into a reading command and then running another ed instance over this same file with this command. And using E command to read it back from modified file.)
Next: moving all the stuff I churned out to my HTML-ish format (that I should write about someday) and then to Server Side Includes (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes) for the sake of portability?
Who invented the #Unix operating system?
a) Joe Ossanna.
b) Brian Kernighan.
c) Ken Thompson.
d) AT&T employees at Bell Labs.
e) All of the above
ok, so i've just scraped 1972 ebooks out of Kindle for Android's data directory (4.3GB's worth!) - now how do i deDRM them? (also, can i deDRM them?)
The good news is that current events are making it obvious who around you is truly brave and who is just a coward.
This is also the bad news
Well I just spent three hours tromping around in frigid darkness trying to get people to go out and vote against Doug Ford so
If you are an Ontario voter
Pls vote for whoever in your riding is not a conservative!
You can vote early FRIDAY FEB 21 and SATURDAY FEB 22 from 10 AM to 8 PM using the "voter information card" that was theoretically mailed to you OR the identification described at OntarioNDP.ca/vote
I cannot vote I can only ask you to do this
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.
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.
There is a new #MSX book that I definetely have to buy:
Hey does anyone here know of or offer community-style hosting for a #WriteFreely 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.
#commonLisp / #lisp #writing 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~
