Sure you talk about sustainability, about how you hate LLM burning down rain forests, but then you run VS Code or Emacs, and side with the billionaires.
If you care about the planet, if you side with the people living on this planet, code in ed.
#ed #theStandardTextEditor #climatechange #guillotinesForBillionaires
Did Mao use the blockchain? Obviously not. But we believe that if blockchain technology had existed at the time, the Great Leap Forward could have gone a lot differently.
Good news, we have a new website on EU soil 🎉
And a Git web frontend (cgit) that works well with #Dillo:
https://git.dillo-browser.org/
If all goes well, we will be moving the rest of the components away from GitHub.
Many thanks to all the donors that have made this posible, hopefully we can keep the lights on for some more years:
A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet
fedi interface that prints the feed out in one long strand with a receipt printer
We are at least 60.000 people in front of the Brandenburg gate in Germany right now protesting for the freedom of Palestine, the end of Israeli occupation, ending the genocide and especially German complicity in it! Something like this would've been unthinkable, only a short time ago.
there's a liberapay you can use to contribute to the project here --
100% of contributions go towards hardware
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from the crowd supply application:
# Country: AU - Australia
# Description
# Campaign Goal
To build one or two units of the "permacomputer" as a proof-of-concept. Will involve sourcing e-waste like jewelry boxes and cigar boxes. The boxes will be drilled and cut into, and a LILYGO TTGO VGA single board computer will be put inside. Tiny BASIC will be loaded on the TTGO SBC.
# Prototype Status
This is a funding campaign to build the prototype.
# Community
https://retro.social/@permacomputer
#permacomputing on IRC
xmpp:permacomputing@conference.macaw.me?join
permacomputing.net community
# Price: 200
# Competition
https://geoffg.net/picomitevga.html
https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/RVPC/open-source-hardware
# Openness
100% (Mixture of BSD-3 clause and GNU GPL)
https://github.com/slviajero/tinybasic
https://github.com/fdivitto/FabGL
https://github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/VGA32
# Main Components
wooden box
USB to PS2 converter adapter (example: https://www.jaycar.com.au/usb-to-ps2-adaptor-usb-a-female-to-ps-2-male/p/PA0917)
e-waste PS2 and USB keyboards
LILYGO TTGO VGA32 boards https://lilygo.cc/products/fabgl-vga32?_pos=1&_sid=b8510207c&_ss=r
# Manufacturing Plan
cottage industry spec. build it in my own lab at home. think—people’s computer company, 1970s hobbyist.
# Funding Allocation
100% to parts. all tools already possessed.
# Team
Just myself.
# Schedule
6 months? perhaps 3?
# Additional Details
Today I fixed a television out of spite.
One of the most common faults with modern TVs is a backlight failing. These are cheap to replace, and the tools to test them are cheap to obtain.
But the effort to get to the backlights? Oh my!
A TV that was made to be repaired would have a separate pane for backlights you could slide out, or some other access mechanism.
But today's consumer TVs require you to disassemble practically everything to get to the backlights. That means getting to them is a huge investment in time (for self-repair) or money (if you go to a repair shop and pay for labour). TV companies know that most people will just buy a whole new TV.
So today I fixed the TV out of spite. Not because it was rewarding, or for environmental or financial concerns (although all of these are valid). I fixed it because the company that made it did not want it to be easily fixed.
I am restarting the #asciinema stream at @ https://asciinema.org/s/0ZqNJW4QhlQ5l5M1 writing about the toyW educational search engine with Chez #scheme
I had a problem with a JSON parser I I had "optimized"... then I copy-pasted SRFI-180 into binink, made it work. Now I am getting together the prose to explain what the code is doing.
Also, I am around at libera.chat /join #scheme and highlight amirouche, ping me there with you questions, comments and feedbacks, or reply to this thread.
Have a nice continuation
How to pronounce the names of the Capital Cities of Australia.
Canberra = Kam-bra
Sydney = Sid-nee
Melbourne = Mel-bin
Adelaide = Ad-laid
Perth = Perf
Brisbane = Briz-bin
Hobart = Hoe-bart
Darwin = Duh-win
First they came for
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
And I did not speak out
Forgive me
TIL 'Charlotte' and 'Caroline' are meant to be derivatives of 'Charles'
