Seeing @jwildeboer talking about the appeal of a fully open hardware/software phone, without internet connectivity... With an eInk screen...
That sounds like a fun project to take part in! And I'd certainly enjoy having such a phone, if it can work reliably on my local telecoms!
Anyone keen to collaborate? Or fund me to work on it?
I'm curious how little software it'd need, & what the cell network protocols are.
I have this idea for a video game where there's a fast travel option but every time you fast travel there's a 12% chance that instead of taking you to your destination it instead drops you off an entirely different place and then there's an ultrahard on-foot section to get back to the regular map. I will call this game "the Toronto Transit Commission"
Trying to remember a game I saw a few months ago: you place leaves and vines and stuff on street signs and over pass signs so they get all over grown. I think it was on itch.io, anyone remember what I am talking about?
Update: @chipperdoodles solved my mystery. It's called Cloud Gardens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gardens_(video_game)
I keep trying to tell people about #FujiNet.
That it is a WiFi adapter for your favorite #Atari8bit, #Apple2, #ColecoAdam, #TRS80CoCo, #Commodore, #Atari2600, #AtariLynx, and #MSDOS machines, with more to come.
But word isn't getting out.
Can u help?
I talked about this back in 2022 when I first listened to it, and I want to share it again. According to the National Literary Institute, almost 70% of low-income fourth grade students cannot read at a basic level, and compared to 40% overall. “Sold a Story” is a series of articles and podcasts interviewing and discussing how children learn how to read and the political discourse that ended up leaving so many children feeling like they’d never be “good enough” to be a reader. I’m sharing it again as they are releasing some more episodes responding to the reception of their original season. I highly recommend it to anyone who has ever struggled to learn how to read or are worried about kids in their communities getting the chance to do so too.
https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
#podcast #education #literacy
https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/from_scratch/
Just to substantiate the #emacs claim, the key point is that one emacs frame split into four quadrants naturally hosts one human text / org / elisp / markdown / web (eww) or gopher input source, and three i/o eev targets (software individuals or slave repls thereof).
absolutely insane video of some people who built a typewriter that can type 90k different chinese characters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IhuFgiWNS4
LB: wanted to bring folks' attention to #postMarketOS, because it really is a very interesting and promising project. Lightweight Proper Computer operating system but for phones. Installed it on my PinePhone and it's... honestly very chill and nice?
Like, if your phone that's a computer was more, like, remembering it's a computer, and not this Sinister New Scrolling Anxiety Thing?
uspol
the protest today seemed bigger than the previous "no kings" in the summer; the main difference other than the worse weather was that this time no one was shy about throwing around the word "fascist"
Okay, I think I fixed the instance.
To say that this instance was downloading a "fire hose" of posts due to following many relays is an understatement.
I also did a nice big prune and vacuum of the database.
TIL that the Z80 was copy-protected:
Ion implantation was also used in the Z-80… to create some transistor "traps", circuits that looked like regular transistors under a microscope but received doping implants that made them non-functional. This served as copy protection since a manufacturer that tried to produce clones on the Z-80 by copying the chip with a microscope would end up with a chip that failed in multiple ways, some of them very subtle.
-- https://www.righto.com/2018/09/two-bits-per-transistor-high-density.html#fn:mostek
arguably this made sense for a small startup releasing silicon - which isn't copyrightable, a fact that Behringer has exploited to the max over the last couple of decades - but it's still a little disheartening... much like a lot else about the Z80, tbh
aside from anything else, i want to go back and shout at them: "YOU ARE PUTTING COPY PROTECTION ON THIS CHIP BUT NO LD rp,(rp') INSTRUCTION? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!"
My auto-blocking of bots hasn’t needed much intervention in recent weeks. The current average is 10,000 blocked IP ranges.
#ButlerianJihad
A description of my setup:
https://transjovian.org/view/fight-bots/index
This is a topic upon which the internet has failed me.
My brother has a PS5, which is his primary media consumption device.
Is there a good way for him to stream from any self hosted source to the PS5, or should I give me a media player in addition to a server?
He *might* also have a ps3, which I guess can do DLNA?
