kinda dunno what i'm looking at here, but it looks amazing
https://archive.org/details/micro-6502-journal-14/page/n7/mode/2up
https://bunsen.itch.io/aqualique-10-commodore-64-by-bago-zonde
https://bunsen.itch.io/sand-stormer-c16-plus4-by-roepipi
my favourites of the BASIC 10 liner competition of 2025
If for some reason you want to store something on paper and there's no native format (for example, you can just rasterize an image for printing on paper, rather than storing the png bytes), ascii85 seems to be an encoding with not bad efficiency (although you would need to add some parity with par or whatever to account for OCR inaccuracy).
Taxpayer money should benefit society! ๐ช
Public administrations rely on software to serve society. When that software is funded with public money, it should be #FreeSoftware
Public Money? Public Code!
https://publiccode.eu/
Largest Symbol Size: 177 x 177 modules
Maximum Data Capacity:
Numeric-7089 characters
Alphanumeric-4296 charactersthinkin' about that time i found out QR codes can store up to about 3KB data
3KB QR code computer programs?
potential permacomputing applications?
Oh hey, I hit my 6000th #OpenStreetMap changeset! ๐ https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/contrapunctus
What is Fascism?
Fascism is a function of capitalism. Happily, this allows us to understand the historical function of fascism. Its purpose is to rescue capitalism from itself in times of crisis.
https://spectra.video/w/13ZXYMHVLasuh5nHsj9yZ7
From a few years ago.
I made a video essay for a forum we put on at the Boorloo Activist Centre.
Seems timely given the atrocious rearing of the ugly head of fascism on the 31st.
https://spectra.video/w/13ZXYMHVLasuh5nHsj9yZ7
From a few years ago.
I made a video essay for a forum we put on at the Boorloo Activist Centre.
Seems timely given the atrocious rearing of the ugly head of fascism on the 31st.
Tiny Datasette Uses USB For the Modern Day
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/01/tiny-datasette-uses-usb-for-the-modern-day/
@petrillic but the idea of a built-in database and programming language (even if it's BASIC) is interesting
A forced update in the middle of a tooth extraction motivated this dentist to switch to Linux exclusively!
"Windows is below the standard of care when it comes to dentistry."
Invidious: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=za1kkEFU4cQ
Back in the 90/00s, youโd go for a Mac as a way to rebel against the beige box PC hegemony, youโd go for Wordperfect to protest against MS Office, and youโd get a Matrox g400 to show you had more taste than the average Quake-loving 3DFx-er.
What are some parallels today?
Sierpinski in Sunflower BASIC
https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/tiny-basic/tree/main/item/examples/sierpinski.bas
originating class โ P92
Property for associating a concept or proposition with the social class that is believed to have created or popularized it according to current Marxist understandings.
[Dimensionality:] P - Property; basic statement about Item, data table slot
[Field:] mainstream Marxism-Leninism (ML), meta-Marxism (MX)
[Data type:] Item - concept or object