social.solarpunk.au

social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

scratching my head a little

i think i am going to unlearn this Tiny BASIC that i used for a good long while,

and substitute it for BBC BASIC, which really is a lot more beautiful and suitable for my purposes.

beep returning to this in Common Lisp.

Good morning fedi! 🌞

Another Luanti channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheReignOfRaining/videos

"It's just broken enough to be enjoyable."

A truly wonderful overview of the cherished Permacomputing 101 talk given at Critical Signals, by @neauoire in August:

https://100r.co/site/permacomputing_101.html

Been thinking about simple little games that I can write in an afternoon.

Perhaps it's time to pick up the Lisp Tamagotchi again.

I did promise mini games.

FreeBSD eliminates root privileges and achieves reproducible builds

https://discoverbsd.com/p/73c944a409

It is cheaper to solve poverty (through things like basic income guaranteed) than to maintain and police it. This is a fact.

Nevertheless, the poverty will be maintained and policed because to remove it would destroy the ability of the economically advantaged to coerce those much poorer than them, a leverage on which, to date, they have relied under capitalism.

Yes, they never tell you this but COERCION is a necessary part of capitalism as they see it which is why such a society regards poverty as a moral failing it is not. To make you feel guilty for being poor as if you had done something wrong.

It's a sick and destructive ideology and it's long past time we, collectively, got over it.

Beep I am still around.

Just doing the training for this new job.

I'm sticking at it, and I'm really proud of myself.

To scroll a window on Medley Interlisp hover the mouse pointer slightly beyond the left or bottom edge to bring up a scroll bar, then left-click or right-click. Middle-clicking positions the thumb within the bar.

Screenshot of a portion of the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and one window with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. The window is a file browser with a main pane listing some files, status and input panes, and a command menu. The file list has a vertical scroll bar at the left edge. Screenshot of a portion of the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and one window with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. The window is a file browser with a main pane listing some files, status and input panes, and a command menu. The file list has a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom edge.

I love kit computers. , SC500, whatever. They're all great.

But they all share one great big annoyance: Putting them in a case. I hate how much work it is to find or fabricate a suitable enclosure. And I'm comfortable with tools.

A more computationally advanced sequel to Lunar Lander where you throw a spheroid piece of soap onto a soap holder and hope that it doesn't slip through the holes.

I've sent a message to sta.rs.

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

Peanuts cartoon.  Charlie Brown is sitting on the floor next to a radio, and Linus looks on.  That caption says "I LIKE to listen to static!"

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