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

Perhaps I am being pedantic, but--

A lot of people in the English speaking world use the words "subjective" and "objective".

Quite often I see people map these words almost completely onto the dichotomy of "false" and "true".

I just wanna say it doesn't work like that.

I see people making really good arguments, but letting themselves down because they assume objective is good/true/reliable and subjective is the target position for attack.

Spent an annoying while making sessions persist from an untrusted JS client.

"I do this not because it was easy, but because I thought it would be easy."

Gonna try packaging and get it up on site now.

Start of Main Street
Southern end of Main Street, stretching off to the north.
To south is an abrupt brick wall with a loading dock door, with
a neon sign 'Lobby' above it.
Boarded-up storefronts line the street, potentially on the verge
of opening.

>e
You can't go that way.

>s
You exit south.
You enter from the north.

Lobby
A vast space with marble floors, pillars at the edges, light
streaming in from windows high above.
A truck-sized door to the north leads out to the street.

>quit
Bye!
You exit.

'luggable' computers are so cool

Never noticed that line at the top of the config file

The following line should contain a sharp s:
รŸ
If the above line is not correctly displayed, fix your editor first!

This looks like a really cool project! An OS that turns a computer into a dead simple console game experience. You can use SD cards or other flash storage to make "carts" that you can just insert and play.

https://kazeta.org/

Yo, this comes pretty dang close to my ideal ultra-portable computer form factor.

Small netbook with a trackpoint

The lambda gang!

I plan on streaming today 11/14 at 12pm CST/ 18:00 UTC and things.

Today's plan: making first foray into upgrading our rendering to more modern OpenGL but incrementally. (Co-working / rubber-duck debugging format)

https://twitch.tv/endparen

Xorg gang gang gang

1990s SMD electrolytic capacitorps.

Closeup of the circuit board from the SNES Iโ€™m working on. Some of the SMD capacitors have clearly leaked and corroded the traces around them.

Dire Straits - "Down To The Waterline"

flx-joyride aka IRIX OutRun is now available in the online repo:
$ tdnf install flx-joyride

IRIX desktop with outrun clone running in a window screenshot of JoyRide, outrun clone, with ferrari chasing the porsche Ferrari races along the coast, with the sea and palm trees in the background

good evening fedi! ๐ŸŒœ

what's good?

i think guix 1.5.0 is going to be ready to release soon, if i am understanding these emails correctly!!!

UDP packets per atmosphere

Nice. A sizecoded Game of Life for Commodore 8-Bit machines.

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=105285&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Okay. I think I know what I should do about this respin of Sentinel 65X:

Start a new schematic and board layout from scratch. There's something fucked up in the files, either save corruption or something I did, that makes me not trust the output. But fortunately I know for a fact that the new design is routable in a reasonable amount of time, and I've already said that it would be months before it's ready for prod.

Advantage to starting clean: I can put in JLCPCB component information to each part as it's added, and know I've got the right one.

Disadvantage: I have to do all the routing over again.

Advantage to the disadvantage: knowing that there will be a few extra parts (Op-amp for mixing, etc) I can move things around to make proper room for them.

Further advantage: I might be able to make room on the board for per-key switching diodes to gain n-key rollover.

I've popped up a compilation of videos I recorded in 2021, with @uoou, @mattpalka, and others. I go back and listen to them myself, so I compiled the playlist into a single video for . Enjoy!

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gqjraHVvYfCWAeeyfeTZTF

@amszmidt @ringtailringo @simon_brooke @vindarel I do not agree that Emacs is user hostile. I would, however, prefer an Emacs with no C primitives.

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