i think GNU/hurd is like this zen master yogi thing maybe
you kinda get started on it and you realise you don't actually have to finish anything or show anyone lol
The Tiny BASIC Interpretive Language IL—and Onions
https://troypress.com/the-tiny-basic-interpretive-language-il-and-onions/
okay i had this idea just then
what if you made a social media platform that is one big chronological timeline, and the main idea would be to apply whitelists and blacklists to token words, tags, categories in posts as a first class citizen
ie. you do not follow accounts, you apply filters
i dunno if this is a good idea or not, but it is a very interesting one
@opfez i guess i take it back, my comrade showed me the document scanner function on their ipad and it was really intuitive
I can see my timeline is just gonna be (mac|i)os 26 disasters, or Sneakers, all day.
My favorite Redfords are All the President's Men, or Three Days of the Condor. He had a real talent for looking confused as people tried to kill him!
In april I exchanged my #THAT #AnalogComputer for a Leybold-Heraeus teaching analog computer from the 1980s. Then I found out anabrid had sold-out THAT. I spoke to Bernd Ulmann (from anabrid) and he did not know if there would be another batch of THAT computers. This sunday he anounced a new batch, I ordered a THAT and a few moments ago it arrived!
I've never used one, so can someone tell me how the Sinclair
ZX81 keyboard works?
Because I'm seeing like 5 options per key, and only one shift key.
Like the "S" key: It's Save, ARCCOS,. "S", LPRINT, and that graphical symbol. How do you select between those?
celebrity death
Robert Redford is dead. My first thought was about the celebration of the movie #Hackers yesterday. I know, I know -- Redford isn't in that.
No, Redford was in the vastly superior hacking movie Sneakers, which is by far my favorite movie depicting #socialEngineering. If you haven't seen it, I wrote a post a few years ago about a great moment here:
René Bauer from @chludens and colleagues wrote a #BASIC #game which should run on all common #homecomputer platforms:
https://research.swissdigitization.ch/?p=1260
I will try and test/extend it for more systems and find out a routine that auto-detects on which platform it runs.
“dumbphones” aren’t really dumb! - wanna change my mind ?
Behind those buttons lies KaiOS a
web-based ecosystem powering millions of devices worldwide.
At #IndiaFOSS2025 Badri Sunderarajan will show why you shouldn’t underestimate the dumbphone and how you can build apps for it using just HTML, CSS & JS
If you want to explore a whole new (old?) world of devices,
this one’s for you 👇
🎟️ Grab your tickets now: https://fossunited.org/dashboard/buy-tickets?event=qvn4nr1b28
https://archive.org/details/@_vidak/lists/1/basic-listings
a collection of my favourite magazine issues with BASIC listings
#TIL that Ghost can be used for podcasts as well as blogs;
https://ghost.org/tutorials/custom-rss-feed/
Making a potential alternative to CastoPod or FunkWhale for hosting fediverse-enabled podcasts. I haven't tried hosting audio on any of these yet, TBH, but I have a couple of podcast projects in the pipeline, so ...
@vidak So happy to see someone else checking this out! My foremost tool every day.
looking through this rn!!
https://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps
amazing software from @akkartik .
this project in particular looks fascinating - https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/pensieve.love !