The Man of MATA pt3 - The first MATA_BOT
previously: https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/the_man_of_mata/
We just released the first release candidate for #PeerTube v8.0.0! 🚀
PeerTube admins who want to help us can test it right now and report us any issues they find.
⚠️ Be sure to read the important notes before upgrading!
👉 https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v8.0.0-rc.1
🐙 We just published the 8th version of #PeerTube !
New video player, collaborative channel management, improved import system…
With each update, PeerTube improves to better meet your needs!
In a new blog post, we review these new features, as well as the past year and our plans for the future.
Check it out on Framablog!
👉 https://framablog.org/2025/12/09/peertube-v8-manage-your-videos-with-your-team/
🌌 🔭 📷
Resultados de la noche...
El plato fuerte fueron los asteroides, pero... Entre uno y otro, objetos diversos...
Muy bonito nuestro universo.
La idea de los asteroides por aquí:
https://youtu.be/VtP1j9sZb5Y
M83 Star Streams
Credits: ARI-ZAH,Univ. Heidelberg, D. Malin(AAO), NAOJ, ESO, HLA, Robert Gendler
#nature #space #astrophotography
I ran @geoffl's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=dghxj #bbcbasic
I managed to squeeze #FreeBSD +ZFS +full disk encryption onto a machine with 512M of memory and a 5G hard drive.😜
As usual, ARC didn't give a damn about the maximum memory limit of 128M.🤣
I'm still not getting over the fact that my employer thinks 64 GB is what code monkeys ought to have on their company laptops. I still remember the C64 with 64 KB. A factor of a million! Then the 640kB on my dad's 1MB personal computer. A factor of a hundred thousand! Then my own 4 MB personal computer. A factor of sixteen thousand.
“CatWorld” by Chris Lyons (1993)
[CATWORLD.ZZT] - “Military Base”
View World: https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/catworld/?file=CATWORLD.ZZT&board=3
Play Online: https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/catworld/ #bot
Remember when ...
... horizontal scaling your service meant buying more PCs and modems?
@vidak You still need something you can write & ship applications in, and BASIC is very terse compared to most languages. A similar program is often half the length of a (more readable) Python or C program.
A VM doesn't help anyone but language implementers.
The down side of BASIC is every dialect is different & opinionated. Maybe that's good, diversity is immunity to viruses & AI slop.
#basic
Got a new XBox wireless controller (Carbon Black) so my wife could play Powerwash Simulator on the new Linux box. My god that took some fuckery to not only get Bluetooth to connect but also for there to be a driver.
So: if you are trying to connect an XBox Wireless Controller using Bluetooth on Linux, here is the git repo with the magic updated driver you will need in order for it to work:
https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo
The 'xpad' driver in the stock kernel distribution won't work with it, and the 'xone' driver which aaaaaaall the posts that searches will mention does not support Bluetooth, only USB *or* the wireless dongle.
🕹️ Terminal Walker — a game by drmortalwombat for the Commodore 64!
👉 drmortalwombat.itch.io/terminal-walker
Been thinking about software preservation.
BASIC is not really the most ideal application for software preservation, it just so happens that many magazines with type in code have been archived.
I wonder what a software preservation language would require.
The people on the retro computing forum seem to think it would be a very simple to implement virtual machine.
been alternately busy and kinda brain-dead these last few days.
been copying out the ECMA-55 Minimal BASIC standard in a low-effort attempt to keep my BASIC skills sharp...
There's an Apple /// promo VHS on OldTimeyComputerShow
https://otcs.minuspoint.com/
"Most programs are written in Pascal. But this requires tools! We can't be sure if you have Business BASIC. So instead we'll use the Apple ][ emulation and Applesoft" (which NOBODY WOULD USE ON AN APPLE ///)
No wonder this thing bombed, even Apple couldn't market it at all.
#apple #retrocomputing
After some time off the console I have been looking for some games for my RC2014 to enjoy over the holidays.
Surprised and delighted to find a game by @kianryan, "In the dark", released roughly three years ago.
It's a rogue like dungeon-crawler not unlinke NetHack. Maybe you'd like to give it a try?
My regular reminder to you, that there is @MakerTube which hosts a number of interesting videos by loads of different producers:
And of course it makes sense to check out the whole of PeerTube regularly, if you want to get rid of things like YouTube.