To establish an internet connection over a phone line, you must first invent the universe
9mos after leaving FB, zero regrets.
I wrote this up when I left, still holds true:"a better world doesn’t happen by default. It’s not the easiest or cheapest option: it takes effort & expense, either in money or time, but that’s how you build something better."
https://susankayequinn.com/2025/01/investing-in-better-social-media.html
Connect to a 1980s Atari BBS through the web
https://www.southernamis.com/ataribbsconnect
#HackerNews #Atari #BBS #Atari #1980s #Retro #Gaming #Web #Connectivity #Vintage #Tech
Some neat info about 70s hard drive contaminants.
From the DEC RK05 disk drive maintenance manual (DEC-00-HRK05-C-D)
Sharpsign phoning it in https://toobnix.org/w/gXLXQqxf5MYg1NDF2Ua6oA #lisp #weekly # let's say 8am UTC every Sunday morning in Europe
Edit: Sharpsign finished https://toobnix.org/w/gssynRcFdST5kKA222Bik7
There's Sunflower BASIC for uxn, but what about my own kinda BASIC?
Maybe that will scratch the itch I have for writing assembly language...?
The Speech on Palestine That the Australian Press Club Censored
"The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists"
Chris Hedges details the access-based journalism that pervades the mainstream media and has betrayed the Palestinian press.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-speech-that-the-national-press
#AusPol #pressclub #USPol #racism #Europol #PalestinianJournalists #palestine @palestine .
Hey, I've discovered this incredible new development environment!
It consists of a conversational "window", called a "shell", and a set of windows for editing, called "editors" (or `ed` for short). The windows might be rendered as separate boxes on screen, or switch in a single screen with `screen`.
When you have your source ed-ited, you `make` it into a program!
You don't have to fight with V, X, Y, or Zcode! You just manage your files in the same conversational shell!
#ed #shell #stopxcode
Hi @Tak, I'm one of the curators of fediverse.party. I just saw a SocialHub thread about Gush;
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/first-time-i-ve-heard-of-gush-an-activitypub-based/5608
Apparently that's your work? Great stuff! Is there a test instance yet that I can poke around on?
don't @ me unless you're playing Taipei Mahjongg on Breadbox Ensemble 4.x
Crimson Meridian does not exist #AIArt #midjourney
“Can you beat Super Mario 64 with a crappy third party controller that only has one functioning button left?”
🇨🇦
Hot take: corporations can’t actually innovate in software. Only hobbyists, not subject to the whims of corporate management, can create something actually new.
Ha! Found one of the #DOOM levels I created back in the mid nineties on an old backup CD and just played through it in DOSbox. It’s surprisingly good fun (and brutally hard). The timestamp on the .WAD is Dec 23rd, 1996. I should probably release it to the public for its 30th birthday next year. 😅
investigations into providing a standalone hardware system are proving difficult...
# regarding the ESP32-based LILGO TTGO VGA32 board
this board will only work with PS2 keyboards, and this is a major issue.
by the developer's own admission, only very old PS2 keyboards work with this board, which is ironic given the way the board is represented as one which will 'just work'.
USB-to-PS2 adapters do not work with any of the USB keyboards on hand.
turning off standalone mode in the code's header files deactivates the VGA output, so there is not a simple way to send commands to the board to output directly to the external VGA monitor.
# regarding the raspberry pi pico dumb terminal
this board is a pre-made RC2014 pico VGA dumb terminal.
it does not work with every kind of USB keyboard, especially cheap dollar-store models.
getting this board to work would require setting pins on a micro-controller to interface via serial with this board.
# reflections
at this point project such as uxn, collapseOS, and duskOS seem to have quite a bit of virtue in their approach.
in order to have any effect in this space, perhaps this project needs to switch to software-only development, given the headaches of attempting to move around in the space of hardware.
Been reading through some Lua manuals and tutorials, and on one intro manual there is an entire page titled "gotchas".
Apparently Lua using a different inequality operator syntax and indexing from 1 is some sort of contentious point.
I've heard the same tone used when saying "Lisp is confusing because there are too many parens".
This must be C prejudice, hey.
I've lately been quite obsessed with this app called StreetComplete. It gamifies contributing to OpenStreetMaps in a really nice way by giving you you little quests to do while you walk around. A fun way to get some steps in, to make you look closer at your environment and to do a good thing!
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.westnordost.streetcomplete
Fdroid: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/
