wait, what
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/07/qualcomm-introduces-the-arduino-uno-q-linux-capable-sbc/
first off, notoriously open-hostile Qualcomm bought open-everything Arduino? that's not a good development
secondly, the Arduino Uno Q is a Linux board in an Arduino form factor, with 2GB RAM (and 16GB Flash, making it the memory equal of my Wyse 3040s) - for $44? is this good or bad... i honestly can't tell
#lispyGopherClimate
https://communitymedia.video/w/1iDniLCpYPSPjxFww6TzJ9
#climateCrisis #haiku by @kentpitman
Thinking about scarcity.
Interesting #IT notes from @AmenZwa recently
@jackdaniel 's #McCLIM #commonLisp multi-input ! (And moving towards #WECL for a few weeks)
https://functional.cafe/@jackdaniel/115334363009353916
- My #NicCLIM #gamedev and Dungeon Crawler Carl #bookReview (AMA in #lambdaMOO #live)
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha-part-iii-map-edit-macros
I'm sure there was another topic. I think now just ping me in the hour before the show if you would like to be a guest
I'm looking to build out the Free Fridge & Community Pantries in my town.
I'll continue to update this thread with my progress.
So, the idea is to have nodes throughout town that allow folks to "Give a Food, Take a Food". Similar to "Little Free Libraries" are to books. Folks who have extra food can drop it off there, folks who need food can grab it there.
The focus here is mutual aid, not charity. So, absolutely, if you are food insecure or hungry, utilize it, right. Beyond that though, this is a great piece of infrastructure to share extra food with your neighbors. I will go down to the free fridge we have in town, drop off some of my extra produce that I have grown, and then pick up a can of black beans if I need it for dinner that night. We're meant to contribute AND utilize the free fridge.
There are many ways to create and maintain free fridges, from something as simple as a small box or outdoor cabinet on up to full stand up refrigerators and freezers with an outdoor pantry.
In general, you want it to be a couple of things:
- Accessible to the public
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Unmanned
- No restrictions on who can utilize it or take food from it - it should NOT employ any means-testing
- Receive shelf stable food and/or refrigerated food and/or frozen food
Further, you can break up the different groups that are involved in the free fridge:
- The Host
- The Maintainers
- The Community
The Host - provides a location for the fridge and pantry to be installed and accessed. They also provide electricity to power the fridge/freezer
The Maintainers - this would be my group. We source, install, maintain, repair, and clean the fridge, freezer, and pantry.
The Community - contributes food to and utilizes food from the fridge and pantry. This is important. While the host provides the site and the Maintainers keep it operational, neither one has to stock food or coordinate utilization. The community does it themselves.
Having it split up like this is nice. Can folks from the Host group maintain it? Certainly. But extrapolating it allows for ease of use.
So. Keeping it stocked is up to the community. I've seen it stocked by gardeners who have extra produce (Zucchini turns folks into socialists is the joke! You just grow sooooo much you end up LOSING FRIENDS when you try to push it off on others!). I've seen it stocked through Food Rescue efforts. Some families buy extra from the grocery store and this is a great place to drop it off. I've even seen the local Food Bank drop off extra food when they had left overs from a food distribution.
Keeping it utilized is also easy. You don't want the fridge to stay stocked, right. You want it to stay in the fridge for as short a period of time as possible before someone comes and grabs it. Heck! I've seen a food rescue of fresh produce from a farmer's market vendor be dropped off at a free fridge and then claimed by several families even before it had a chance to be placed physically into the fridge! This is ideal. One fridge and pantry needs to serve the local neighborhood. That's many many families. It can only do so if its filled up and then utilized multiple times a day.
Next post, I'll put some resources on starting your own in your town.
#freeFridge #foodScarcity #foodSecurity #postScarcity #solarPunk #mutualAid
I got a "little jewel" radio.
It's a Westinghouse, manufactured in 46.
My friend @jjb who is not active on Mastodon, made a cool tool to find PBS sites that need funding the most called Keep Media Public (https://keepmediapublic.org) 1/3
(Updated with current, active account)
You either have to button mash, or solve boring times tables questions to charge up your fast travel?
Been thinking about another game to make. This time--
"Fast Travel: The Game"
Where you press F to fast travel and collect things in the locations you teleport into.
Which microcontroller VGA terminal board is gonna work??? Grrr.
Have been noodling around with Pico / AVR VGA terminals again.
The possibility of getting a hold of a TTGO VGA32 board seems distant, I honestly have had zero disposable income for the last 3 or so years.
What I do have is some arduinos and some picos -- so I find myself having to make do.
woah #Arduino was just acquired by #Qualcomm
https://chaos.social/@ishotjr/115333160605070505
To anyone who programs for the Motorola 68000, what is your favorite cross-assembler that works well on a Linux host pc?
I read this coding book once at a local library in the 90s.
It was coding C for the palm pilot, and it is still the most engaging book on C that I have ever read.
I really enjoyed the tank game that it stepped you through.
I will do some searching later today perhaps to see if I can unearth this mythical text.
This is not some sort of error it's deliberate fraud.
So what is the lesson? Well, obviously, it's don't get caught.
#gamedev #devlog #itchio #commonLisp #McCLIM #NicCLIM #programming Map editor programming alpha note part 3/3: Picking up and using host lisp lambdas inside the map editor (also, player-based ephemeral storage).
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha-part-iii-map-edit-macros/
I left this one as *just* picking up and using lambda forms around the map so as not to clutter up the example, a finished game of life game will be separate.
Also includes my thoughts after reading Dungeon Crawler Carl #bookstodon .
windows 11 says my laptop can do HDR for videos, but not for video games or apps.
how in the fuck does that work?
I wonder why so much proprietary software buries the Linux version. Like, you paid to develop and release it, why not, just, have it in the OS dropdown? And you're goddamn slicing sofware for resin 3D printing (all of which is skeezy commercial software for some reason), you're targeting the most hypernerd people ever who are probably running Linux XD