I made my fitness/smart watch tracking not tell on me to 3rd party servers. I bought an #Amazfit Bip 6 watch, synced and updated the watch via the official #Zepp app, got the connection keys via a #python script, deleted the proprietary Zepp app, installed the open source, privacy respecting #GadgetBridge app from #FDroid and used the connection key to sync to the watch.
#SmartWatch
Making feel-good forward progress on rendering #McCLIM INDEX-PATTERNs using DRAW-RECTANGLES but at the cost of some new tech debt. Next week I must follow through on my promise to myself to pay it down.
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A number-like object which is not a positive or negative integer, somehow simultaneously both between 0 and 1 and between 0 and -1. It cancels itself out when added to itself, but unlike zero it can have multiples. (The first whole multiple is called *1.)
[Dimensionality:] S1 - motif or phenomenological description of concept
[Field:] combinatorial game theory (STM)
Reading issue 2:
https://www.computesgazette.com
That sure looks a lot like one of my computer classes, ca. 1984.
I'm designing my off-grid earth cabin SketchUp 8 (which can be found on archive.org ๐) running under Wine. Graphical performance under Wine is way better than under real Windows. I was getting low frame rates when turning on x-ray, but smooth as butter under Linux. My lucky day. ๐ง โ
I'm the owner of Minifree Ltd: https://minifree.org/
Minifree sells Libreboot computers to fund development of Libreboot; I'm Libreboot's founder and lead developer.
#libreboot is a free software project, replacing the proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware on supported computers. It offers many security and performance benefits compared to most proprietary firmware, and it's highly configurable.
Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or BSD.
tl;dr I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories.
@vidak Forth's Bible is Starting Forth by Leo Brodie. It introduces everything needed to understand the language. Note that standards differ, and the best way to understand the differences of modern popular implementations -- pForth and gForth -- is to read their manuals.
To understand how to implement a Forth, which is a good insight to have, check out the source listing of JonesForth, and take a look at historic standards, like FIG Forth or Forth-83.
Jupiter Ace was a microcomputer that ran Forth instead of Basic, worth a look too.
I'd like to know what you would take away from Forth and what ideas you'd have for making Forth's quirky issues with type safety less painful for a Basic person.
Currently in the activist centre of my political party, socialist alliance, getting ready to put on a film night ๐ ๐ฝ๏ธ
@kapunta would love a hand. When I say I do not know FORTH, I merely mean I am an "expert beginner" at it ๐คฃ
@akkartik I am gonna have to learn FORTH in order to have an attempt at making a BASIC interpreter for uxn!
Thank you!!
@vidak This is for you: a text editor in 26 (narrow!) lines for the ZX Spectrum.
The catch: it's in Forth.
Video showing it off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6w-hjkCi3U
Kind of daunted about writing my own BASIC interpreter for uxn, but I have some good resources.
This will be a long term project.
It would be very good to have an idiomatic Tiny BASIC for uxn.
It has been on my mind, because uxn is very portable, and would make a good complement to the physical hardware route the permacomputer project has taken previously.
Havin' a think about:
Quinti-maze rewrite for non-graphical teleprinter BASIC
The filer utility for the people's permacomputer
Exciting: have been wiring up the VGA terminal for the permacomputer physical build
Found a lil tron-style game that could be rewritten from Commodore BASIC for the teleprinter
