social.solarpunk.au

social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar 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

gonna get my amateur radio licence for real this time

we gon do the bulletin board system on the radio thing

@mdhughes oh, it’s a fun advice. I seem to have (unknowingly) followed it at https://github.com/aartaka/ed.bas

@vidak

@brouhaha big Huey Lewis fan!

Me.

Man with a pipe acoustic couples a modem to a payphone.

@mdhughes there's this really interesting word processor for Atari BASIC called SCRIPTOR--i need to get deep into the 4000-lines in order to actually how it's doing its work

@vidak Noticed this in Bit of Basic (cool cover & cartoons, not otherwise too interesting), which leads to:

"You just bought a personal what?"
https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Programming_In_Style_1980_Radio_Shack/page/n237/mode/2up


4. The extended string handling facilities of BASIC make it possible to write word processing programs. Investigate this subject, and see if you can write a simple text editing program. Information on how to do this can be found in chapter 4 of the book You Just Bought a Personal What? (BYTE Books, Peterborough, NH 03458). After you have the editor working, investigate the subject of a text formatter. An advanced discussion of a text formatter
written in structured FORTRAN can be found in chapter 7 of Software Tools
(Addison-Wesley, Reading MA 01867).

~ THE POWER OF EMACS ~

https://git.sr.ht/~vidak/peoples-permacomputer/tree/master/item/results/phase-4.md

new documentation.

a nice big post to interest both the minimalists and the retro-computing crowd.

hardware, software, the whole shebang.

This gave me an idea for a game

discord has so many pop ups, and i never know where to go when it tells me i have mentions. and the DO YOU WANNA EXIT DISCORD warning is like ministry of love shit.

facebook makes me angry

i don't have X

google wants me to rent disk space from them

instagram is a weird treadmill of everyone screenshotting entire essays written by everyone else

linkedin is fucking scary, so much corpo circle-jerk, and the job search sucks

it's a fucking hellscape out there

but the fedi is beautiful

< 3

thank you everyone, you know who you are.

I'm not logged into Google and the default recommendations on YouTube after watching a couple of bland music videos are all neo-nazi shit

was gonna do the BASIC in Lisp,

turns out the Lisp was done in BASIC lol

https://github.com/kanaka/mal?tab=readme-ov-file#bbc-basic-v

GUS is back online

here's a cool freshly-crawled domain:

gemini://ainent.xyz

eyyy I got the website hosted on a vape to load finally now that its not trending news across the fedi.

hello ewaste.fka.wtf

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

youse know about this, right?

https://github.com/orgMINT/MINT

The Tiny BASIC Interpretive Language IL—and Onions

https://troypress.com/the-tiny-basic-interpretive-language-il-and-onions/

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