AI may be the ultimate tech bubble with a perfect storm of rampant speculation, novice investors, and grand narratives about superintelligence, all while key players lack any clear business model.
It's the Platonic ideal of market mania, where uncertainty only keeps growing, and everyone's betting billions on a story that has no grounding in reality. History suggests such euphoria rarely ends well.
Also been thinking about a little memex that has hyperlinks, written in Common Lisp.
I put a little time into it, and I figured I'd make a kind of line based text editor that can parse hyperlinks.
What the syntax of the links will be, I have no idea.
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.
Give ATMega88 the Boot With This Retro Front Panel
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/28/give-atmega88-the-boot-with-this-retro-front-panel/
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:
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
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.
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I love kit computers. #RC2014, 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.
