How many seemingly trivial 70s and 80s games, all centred around high scores, do I love more than any modern one?
So many.
@akkartik I think this idea has legs, and can be written in Tiny BASIC...
Opcodes would look like --
Insert line, append line, search string, replace line...
The VM would be modular, ie, it would be accessed through a 'client' that would be displaying the text.
It's probably going to be slow and complicated, but I am really enjoying this thought experiment!
...and then after I would do what I always do, and rewrite it all in Common Lisp 😇
Did you know you can get PRINT ISSUES of @theonion.com ??
Would make a great gift! https://membership.theonion.com/
"Another solution is to convert your computer to a different operating system, such as Linux ..."
Guardian doesn't say how, so this link gives guidance.
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/linux-mint.html
Millions in UK at risk of cyber-attacks as Windows 10 ends updates, Which? finds | Cybercrime | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/08/millions-in-uk-at-risk-of-cyber-attacks-as-windows-10-ends-updates-which-finds
Best #Linux campaign ever
🎉
'About 5 million British computer users risk becoming vulnerable to #cyberattacks and #scams after #Microsoft next week stops updating its decade-old #Windows10 system, consumer campaigners have warned.'
After having spent some time transcribing and coding in a few BASICs, I think Atari 8-bit BASIC has an advantage over Commodore BASIC V2.
I felt quite a bit of nostalgia for Commodore BASIC, having learned it as a child, but it would be fair to say Atari 8-bit BASIC is more powerful.
Time to find a good Atari emulator for Debian 13...!
OK, I fixed the character remapping in my little Atari 8-bit adventure, but it's assigned to all the wrong characters.
#retrocomputing #atari
did you know that 100 years ago there were *electromechanical* radio transmitters?
these things are so crazy, you just have to read this
(photo from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimeton_Radio_Station#/media/File:Alexanderson_Alternator.jpg)
👋 Hello! GNU Guix is on @hachyderm - yay!
If you haven't heard of #gnu #guix we're a free software project that's created a hosted package manager (think homebrew or flatpak) and a GNU/Linux distribution.
GNU Guix uses the functional packaging approach pioneered by #nix and adds a user-experience and system configuration system. It uses a DSL that's based on Guile Scheme. You can use it configure your home environment, dev environments or the entire system using a declarative and transactional definition.
We hope to tell people about the project and our latest news. We'd love to engage with people around #freesoftware #guile #scheme and more general #linux topics!
The work begins. I'm adding *****every***** chromebook, to Libreboot.
MrChromebox coreboot distro already supports all of these, on x86. I'm writing a script that converts his project, adapting everything so that it can build under the Libreboot build system.
The script, when ready, will generate a single patch file for lbmk.git - and the idea is I will then tweak this over time, to keep importing new MrChromebox changes. And work with him, as Libreboot's upstream provider for x86 Chromebooks.
🇨🇦
Tomorrow I’m going to sit down and divide up the 6502 opcodes into groups. Load/store, jumps and branches, arithmetic, logical, stack. Those are the categories I can think of in under a minute. I’m thinking one category per video, covering each instruction and its addressing modes.
With the help of a friend and his #Applesauce #Floppy extraction tool I was able to reconstruct 4 more damaged version of the #C64 #BASIC #game "Schanze" I am going to examine for its step-by-step creation. I am able now to compare 13 version (incl. 2 fragments from damaged files)!
ok racket2nix kind of works and i can generate nix packages for some test packages from the racket catalog :3
(unfortunately not a lot of catalog packages actually declare their license correctly, so that needs to be manually overridden or racket2nix assumes it's unfree)
Let’s try this again.
Server A users are not posting or boosting anything that is objectionable to Server B.
But Server A is federating with servers Server B does not like. [1]
How does this affect Server B in any way? Or, why would Server B cite this as a reason to defederate from Server A?
Is it merely a case of association fallacy? (“Server A federates with Bad Servers, therefore Server A must be a Bad Server.”)
Or are there any legitimate problems Server A is causing for Server B?
[1] Usually because they find defederating to be too extreme for most situations, with too much collateral damage to innocent bystanders…so they use other means to block bad users.
EDIT: removed FediBlock hashtag