social.solarpunk.au

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

@eduardoochs what do you think of
(cl-defmacro with-eepitch-target
((buffername) &body body)
(declare (indent 1))
(append
`(let ((old-buffername eepitch-buffer-name))
(setq eepitch-buffer-name ,buffername))
body
'((setq eepitch-buffer-name old-buffername))))

(defun eepitch-to (target line)
(with-eepitch-target
(target)
(setq line (eepitch-preprocess-line line))
(eepitch-prepare)
(eepitch-line line)))

(eepitch-to
"*slime-repl ECL*"
"(+ 2 9)")

https://github.com/slviajero/tinybasic/issues/81

"Hello!

Love the project. It has been really useful to me. Thank you very much for your hard work.

I have been using Stefan's BASIC to run old 70s teleprinter BASIC text editors.

There is no LINE INPUT statement in Stefan's BASIC.

How can I reconstruct LINE INPUT from other statements in Stefan's BASIC?

Thank you,

Blair Vidak."

NEW STORY: DIVINITY CALLS

# The Faithful

> There is a greater covenant than prey and predator to be had, greater than privation and profit, greater even than peace and plenty. It will take eons to comprehend the kindness at its heart, to press that knowledge into living minds and muscles; to render its absence no more than a foreboding memory.

https://blog.bovid.space/the-faithful

@permacomputer@retro.social i picked up one of these https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/picocalc and other than the screen being so fragile that they break during shipment (nevermind during installation), it's a solid BASIC handheld and worth looking in to. they do a lot of things right.

Fuck meta. Fuck AI. And above all, fuck the societal paradigmata that lead to them.

Ultima IV on the Game Gear is always a singular experience! This is obviously via the Master System compatibility.

The title screen of Ultima IV on my GameGear. Showing the famous Ultima logo and a colorful map

I think the best/worst part of social media/Activity Pub is all the beautiful people doing beautiful things which I could not hope to ever fully explore in a single lifetime.

Forgive the mystery, but 2 (two) raspberry pi picos have been acquired, along with an SD card shield.

There has been more research into the cost effectiveness of the video display module.

It seems the RC2014's picoterm project is more than adequate at providing video out for the project.

The Arduino Mega 2560 that the project had on hand before is severely limited in RAM.

It would be better to run Stefan's Tiny BASIC also on a pico, given its considerable current cost effectiveness.

@pukkamustard created (Encoding for Robust Immutable Storage);

"... an encoding of content into a set of uniformly sized, encrypted and content-addressed blocks as well as a short identifier (a URN) ... ERIS is a form of content-addressing ... defined independent of any specific protocol or application and decouples content from transport and storage layers."

https://nlnet.nl/project/ERIS/

Curious to know how it compares to prior art like .

to @liaizon for the tip.

Reasons To Hate Capitalism #293 - Capitalism is just another form of exploitation marketed as meritocracy

As with the abolition of slavery in the United  States, the future will one day recoil at Capitalism, wondering how humanity could ever have justified the exploitation of others for commerce and profit.  Then again, that's the same question, isn‘t it? “We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor — both black and white, here and abroad.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Cartoon panels showing a worker making much less money then he produces for the company, and having to buy back its product for more than he is paid for producing it.

Current status: locked in a life or death struggle to get my duvet back inside the duvet cover

I am installing the dependencies to turn a LaTeX file of mine into PDF and it's making me cry. Sooooo much stuff.

release size over time, constrained by the size of a single disk. We still have some room left.

I suspect the big increase in 3.1.0 is mostly caused by adding a screenshot in the readme (136 KiB).

A bar plot of Dillo release sizes over time. They start at 0.2 MiB and grow until 1.0 MiB for the last release, still under a floppy capacity of 1.44 MB.

I just found a quote by @deshipu on the Butlerian Jihad page of my blog:

inhumanism (n.) – discrimination against corporations, recommendation algorithms, chat bots, surveillance devices disguised as home appliances, and repositories of remixed stolen data with delusions of grandeur, that try to capitalize being treated like persons, which they pretend to be.”

I still like it!

https://alexschroeder.ch/view/Butlerian_Jihad

Enhanced on the now has 31 different ship types (compared to just 11 in the original).

Here's a little clip showing an encounter with a Krait and a Mamba on the way to the sun.

Coming soon... Thargoids!

Do not go gentle into that good sweet spot between 2AM and 4AM when you're not quite awake, but too sleepy to do anything else so you contemplate writing a book or taking up a new hobby, but then the night...

Make yourself immune to future security breaches by simply giving up having any personal information. I personally have not generated any data since 2016.

Critical error: the environment is not invented here. Invent environment to continue.

Sending 2FA codes by SMS*

* Sega Master System

a demo of Stefan's BASIC over 9600 baud serial.

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