Reading blog post about new web tech. Sounds less bloated than alternatives. Interesting. And then:
Being a part of the [new web tech] Discord […]
And I'm out. Here's a nickel, web devs, get yourself a better forum.
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I'm not going to entertain opinions on the validity of retrocomputing and retrogaming from people who admit up front that they think that modern games are categorically better.
Computers peaked here. After this we should have all just packed it up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Anniversary_Macintosh
Planning has started for Guix's next release, which should happen early next year.
We're looking for volunteers to join the team. What about you?
Anyone who's proficient with Guix can join to help test the installer, packages, find bugs and help out.
https://codeberg.org/guix/release-planning/wiki/release-1.5.0-project
If you're interested, come to the weekly call. Details on the guix-devel mailing list.
Thanks to @baleine and @efraim for agreeing to be Release Managers.
The planning cultures of Australia. A brief list.
NSW planning culture is ‘you must demonstrate compliance with each and every clause in a full report’ ‘unless you know the password [wink]’. Victorian planning culture is that you commission a consultant to make you a report, which gets assessed by another consultant, and QA is undertaken by a third consultant, which is the most efficient way, according to Jeff Kennett. Western Australians and South Australians lay the explosive charges first and challenge anyone to object in court. In the Territory there are no rules of any kind, and may God and the US Marine Corps have mercy on your soul. In Queensland it seems you fill out a form and nobody reads it. I don’t know how Canberrans do things but it probably involves lanyards and classifying people in hierarchy by a hex code.
@freakazoid this is the hardware I will be targeting--
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mMq8DWZ
https://lilygo.cc/products/fabgl-vga32
So much of the graphics will depend on the commands that it will accept from the Tiny BASIC I will be using.
It does have all the BASIC graphics keywords you would expect, like PLOT, FILL, etc
@akkartik I think this Tiny BASIC that I have been using is powerful enough to do quite a few things.
I will have a think about what I want this little VM written in BASIC to do...
Not for nothing, but your current laptop will likely last a bit longer if you're comfortable opening it up and repasting it.
That and a fan swap can take care of a ton of the issues with keeping older laptops alive.
“I just saw an analog photo of a Japanese fursuiter and a cardboard cutout of Nicholas cage” sure is a sentence
Sometimes I think I'm not making much new art, but then publish two new zines in one day — one with 79 images in it!
I guess I'm more prolific than I perceive! 😅
lol I actually used the phrase “Let’s delight our customers not Deloitte them” earlier today
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/deloitte_ai_report_australia/
♫ I'm going all the way
Sooner or later gotta love somebody
I don't care how long it takes
Like a shot to the heart
I've got news for you
I may not look so smart
But I'm nobody's fool ♫
https://music.apple.com/us/song/nobodys-fool-theme-from-caddyshack-ii/1058079266
#music
When developing the original Macintosh Apple management started asking their engineers to fill out forms stating how many lines of (Assembly) code they contributed to the launch.
One Bill Atkinson had just completed a major refactor, so after a bit of deliberation he wrote down -2000. Shortly afterwords he was asked not to fill out these forms.
I doubt it'd go the same way today! Back then Apple needed someone as skilled at Computer Graphics as Atkinson, for the Mac to be affordable.
