Been thinking.
A programmable word processor.
Something like the Canon Cat but programmable in a very terse but powerful BASIC.
Think:
- Inclusion of LINE INPUT
- A nice simple syntax of FUNCTION(ARGS,ARGS)
- Support for markdown
- Everything runs in a portable VM
- I have been inspired by @akkartik , so perhaps I will do this in Lua (or fennel) for a fantasy console? TIC-80?
I will elaborate on this over time.
I really like the idea of having something shippable within maybe 4KB ROM... Minimalism will be the main inspiration!
A deep-yet-beginner friendly dive into the code-nerd concept of Quines and the famous Thompson Hack: https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM?si=reproduce-your-own-source-code-and-terminate
Mistodon: one person's composition is another tribunal's evidence of war crimes. This #PETSCII illustration of an artfully-arranged pyramid of human skulls is the handiwork of @littlebitspace, its layout rather resonant with the deck of skeletal Tarot cards he designed. It was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection.
Thanks to the incomparable @someodd I am once again buried deep underground
gopher://gopher.someodd.zip/1/hosted/screwlisps-kitten
gopher://gopher.someodd.zip/1/hosted
Mirroring git snapshots over the #gopher protocol is an absolutely wonderful and convenient service.
Further, gopher specially works as a directory browser of text (and other) files, which is just what you want for #git in the first place !
I interviewed her at some point if someone has the link ;p
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Want to be a real threat to corporate tech shitlord profits? Learn to make games and applications for yourself. The less you need them, the less power they have.
@vidak Also you can make compatibility layers.
20000 REM CLS
20001 CLS
20009 RETURN
Atari:
20001 ?CHR$(125);
etc.
"Scriptor" is an easy-to-use, full-scrolling, character-oriented, multi-function word processor, requiring an Atari 400/800 with a minimum of 32K of memory (40K recommended), an Epson MX-80 or Atari 825 printer, and an Atari 810 disk drive. It is programmed in both BASIC and machine language.
Still thinking about BASIC.
Despite the fact that Tiny BASIC is unstructured, it is a very powerful language.
I think the entire collection of statements in Commodore BASIC V2 is about 50.
From recent experience, adapting BASIC into other flavours is quite trivial--either comment the exotic statement out, or rewrite the statement in the syntax of the other flavour.
I want to live in a world in which saying “I don't know” is considered more valuable than spewing plausible-sounding nonsense.
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Men Loving Large Language Models (MLMMLLLM)
negative democracy — Q47,76
The concept of a republic where everything decided by a representative or owner or occasionally an election is up to an anti-vote (this can be called anti-voting, negative voting or un-voting). Within negative democracy, it would actually be possible to anti-vote for the president instead of voting for another candidate, or anti-buy an iPhone rather than buying an Android phone. This concept seems to be vastly more intuitive to most people in the United States, who in practice tend to misuse existing voting systems specifically to "un-vote" for people they voted for solely to be able to take their vote back.
[Dimensionality:] S - abstract concept or motif
[Field:] meta-Liberalism (MX onto LR), "Zinovievism" (Zv)
