just purchased this--
https://www.ebay.com/itm/167635879732
and this--
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/136018976639
for the permacomputer project
Petition EN8047 – Expel the Israeli ambassador from Australia
Petition Reason The state of Israel is continuing to commit appalling crimes in Gaza where more than 50,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been murdered and children are starving to death. Israel also targets and murders journalists. Israel must receive a strong message that this is unacceptable and that the mass killings must stop immediately. Petition Request We therefore ask the House to send…
https://moraleconomy.au/2025/10/08/petition-en8047-expel-the-israeli-ambassador-from-australia/
NATIONWIDE MARCH FOR PALESTINE – SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER
This Sunday marks the two-year anniversary of occupation, oppression and genocide in Gaza. The continuing humanitarian crisis has seen devastating events in recent weeks. A double airstrike on a major hospital resulted in the deaths of 20 people, including journalists and healthcare workers, and the United Nations has officially declared a famine within the Gaza Strip. Unions have a long and proud history of standing…
https://moraleconomy.au/2025/10/08/nationwide-march-for-palestine-sunday-12-october/
@vidak Most of these aren't IF, but like little cryptography or minigames, that fill in the end of each chapter.
But there's a bunch of other "type in text adventures" books in the folksonomy group.
The news about the acquisition of the Arduino platform by Qualcomm is a disturbing development.
Much of the project's exploration into microcontroller platforms depends on Arduino and its ecosystem.
This project prides itself on its free software credentials, and it has always sought out open hardware and software wherever possible.
If you've been working in the #Arduino ecosystem, it's probably time to check out #Zephyr OS. Under the banner of the Linux foundation, Zephyr is a free platform that won't be bought out from underneath you. (It's so good, that even Arduino announced they were adopting it, after their previous high-end-device platform choice died of Capitalism).
HMU if you want some pointers, Here's me a few years back talking about Zephyr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxsLPh5dF_s
@mdhughes gonna take a look soon, maybe the permacomputer project could have some amazing interactive fiction???
Mentioned in today's #lispygopher show, adventure books with computer programming puzzles:
https://archive.org/details/RetroGamingBooksFiction/MicroAdventureNo.1-SpaceAttack1984.pdf
You want all the Micro Adventure, Arcade Explorer, "A Magic Micro Adventure", and Time Lost books. The rest are mostly pick-a-path in videogame worlds with no coding.
#retrocomputing #books
THE DEPARTURE https://www.yellow5.com/pokey/
Bob Ross art from his 1983-94 TV show will be auctioned to support PBS.
30 paintings will be sold. Two were auctioned earlier this year for a combined $210K.
"I can’t think of a more meaningful way to share his works of art than by supporting public television"
https://apnews.com/article/bob-ross-auction-public-television-1029c1e91ac55d8030e6847310cebc59
Honestly I think it's really fucking awesome that more uni students are getting diagnosed and given accommodations and supports they need, because they deserve what I didn't get and will have a better post-secondary education for it. They will thrive more than I have and I want that for other people.
Doing an ##introduction post for our new fedi friends! Rainbow Rodeo is a #zine and #blog that is proud to feature #CountryMusic #Americana #FolkMusic and more by #lgbtq artists!
@wyatt ok. I boosted it. I have some more experienced common lispers following me on this account
Trying to write some common lisp to do associative list lookups (like, I enter in coodinates of stars in Star Control 2, and it returns the string of the constellation it is in). For instance, if I type
(assoc '(9 5) alist), I want to be given "sirius" or maybe a list containing "sirius".
Does anyone know why defining and then fetching from a list like this:
(setq alist '(( '(9 5) . "sirius"))) (assoc '(9 5) alist :test #'equal)is returning nil?
I've done something like this before successfully but haven't touched common lisp in *years* now and i've seemingly forgotten everything.
putting on a button shirt, tie, and deodorant to do commerce at you
tech to help a bunch of small businesses in the same industry and geographic region collaborate (to an extent) to compete against big tech / big national chains
what exists?
what's needed?