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

@darth should you be interested, i host a forum on BASIC here -- https://basiclang.solarpunk.au !

i put little devlogs and code snippets there.

there's also the channel #basic on IRC @ libera.chat!

A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example. The thumbnail at the top left corner lets you pan and scroll the graph.

Screenshot of the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and several windows with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. The windows display a graph structure with nodes and links and other tools of a hypertext system.

@darth enjoy! in assembly or in BASIC?

after typing up--

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

--it seems appropriate to move on to some other aspect of construction.

perhaps 3D printing cases, to allow distribution of the people's permacomputer platform is a good idea?

https://www.3dmeta.com.au/blogs/news/best-eco-friendly-3d-printing-filaments

or--consider: cigar boxes?

these cigar boxes are AUD$10 each on a local marketplace website

is 3D printing cheaper than AUD$10 per unit?

🤔

perhaps of some relevance

the purpose of this site is to solve programming problems in as few bytes/characters as possible

https://code.golf/

https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/KITS/

"TERES-I Do-It-Yourself Free Open Source Hardware and Software laptop with ARM64 and x86 processors."

https://spectra.video/a/vidak/video-channels

going live doing some BASIC coding soon...

Been getting a lot of requests for donations.

I’m sorry, I’m not in a position to donate anything to anyone.

I am unemployed, work on the commons (data and software), and rely on the community’s support to live…which means I’m usually pretty broke myself.

You can help me out on Liberapay -
https://liberapay.com/contrapunctus
For alternative methods, please see -
https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/support.html

tinmop: an opinionated client for gemini, gopher, kami, mastodon and pleroma
https://www.autistici.org/interzona/tinmop.html

An idea to make the game a little more complicated --

Items collected can be converted to other items.

Users define the conversion rates upon discovering a new item that remain static for the duration of the game.

"99 oats per 3.9 blahaj".

"57 flowers to the oat".

Maybe the point of the game is to get 10 000 of something, such as oats.

joules per blahaj

@darth big fan of the Atari 2600, maybe something in BASIC that is easily portable?

If you would start programming a video game for a retro system now, which one would it be and why exactly? Give me your honest thoughts if you have them.

I was looking into new "visual bookmarking" tools (a concept now grossly overtaken by `pinterest`) and came across `cosmos` which is also centralized and vc funded but is pretty impressively good at what its suppose to do at the moment

I started a typography collection there if you want to check it out
https://cosmos.so/wakest/typo

a black background with a bunch of edgy pictures of fonts

Reformism Versus Insurrectionism

Forgive me if this text seems rather blathering, I wrote it first by hand, and this is a semi-“cleaned up” transcription. Originally transcribed 2019-04-24. Introduction I recently saw some discussion online about the change of fortune we communists seem to be experiencing in politics. One opinion put forward struck a chord with with me: we are putting a lot more effort now into electoral ventures, but how much effort or visibility do…

https://moraleconomy.au/2025/09/26/reformism-versus-insurrectionism/

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