In which @suricrasia does a guest strip for SMBC:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/priors
Well, by accident I spotted a 1998 file named Greg Bear's Pep Talk.doc in Time Machine on my Mac and decided to use #Finder to find it.
Nope.
After plenty research on how-to, some Apple, some Stack Exchange etc., I've come to the conclusion that Finder #Search is broken. It won't find the file even if it is the default directory for the search, and certainly not when searching This Mac.
I found a tip to use Spotlight (I have Tahoe installed). #Spotlight actually works like a charm, finding by the time I typed the b in Greg Bear. What gives, #Apple? Are you abandoning Finder Search?
#mac #macintosh #writer #author #writersOfMastodon #writingcommunity
JWST NIRCam and MIRI image of Arp 142, also known as NGC 2936, NGC 2937, and UGC 5130, or the Penguin and the Egg.
The Penguin is a spiral galaxy whose shape has been distorted by the gravity of the elliptical Egg galaxy. The two are about 100,000 light-years apart and completed a close pass between 25 and 75 million years ago.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Source: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2024/124/01J06XYGEDEE86D1H9N5EJ9EG0
during my travels it appears I stumbled into the zilog webring.
Very relatedly (and perhaps interesting for Moving Forth readers), CamelForth is still A Thing in the modern day and has been GPL'd. https://www.camelforth.com
#forth #zilog
here i am transcribing a word processor (nb--not text editor) written in BASIC
https://spectra.video/w/hDyGs4tAuqUWiyvm7KjrhE
#retrocomputing #retro #tinybasic #basic #livecoding #live #emacs #texteditor #coding #programming
https://spectra.video/w/jvves1Y5zC7f7uZpqETm4x
come join the project for another live coding session!
we are working on transcribing a very long and complex word processor written in BASIC called SCRIPTOR.BAS
people like me that use a code forge "pages" service [to host their website] or otherwise can't execute custom webserver code
i wonder how quick i can get to the point where i might be able to offer mufos a small share of my vps's unused capacity to host faer own mostly-static websites. in faer own os container?
not charging anything (not charging very much? asking only for donations if they're able?) means i can freely tell any chuds whose words are shit to fuck off entirely, i think?
I was looking for old documents regarding sharp apl, but while I was doing that I stumbled on a product from 1993 called Sharp PT-9000.
It's a really obscure tablet running Geos that came out 4 years before the Palm Pilot. It doesn't even seem to have a Wikipedia page.
For some reason I really want one of these. But there is nothing on ebay.
Seeing their Oregon Trail box, I went looking for the version I played. It's on this giant stack of stuff:
https://archive.org/details/165_Games_oregon_trail
I got there with no real trouble!
Chat Control would make it mandatory for service providers to scan all communications & files. There’s no system that’s only for the “good guys” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/chat-control-back-menu-eu-it-still-must-be-stopped-0 #chatkontrolle
From https://mprove.de/visionreality/text/5_synopsis.html
> As a result the #Web interface was never integrated into the #desktop environment.
But nowadays, nowadays, everything is a webapp! So it’s not that Web should assimilate into the desktop—it’s that desktop had to assimilate into the Web! Which is sad, because both old experimental “desktop” #GUI had good ideas, and the earlier hypertext systems were well-designed. Imagine web apps, but with a headstart of integrated use provenance (global undo?) and extensive document format support, for example. Like Chromebooks locked to Google ecosystem, but without the need for the ecosystem.
I’m no longer sure if I’m making any sense.
going live for a bit right now
https://spectra.video/w/jvves1Y5zC7f7uZpqETm4x
don't forget we are running a campaign to raise a money for prototypes:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-people-s-permacomputer-model-1/x/35340446#/
currently, we are 30% funded.
@hkz I think it's something to do with that LDX before the whole codeblock.
Put the LDX before the commented , working code?
See if same error now?