 I read this today - https://notgull.net/announcing-dozer/ - peered into the rabbit hole that is bootstrapping, and considered my #Transputer tool chain, whose assembler is written in Scala and C compiler being written in Rust… it’s going to be hard to bootstrap. @eli_oat My read on permacomputing is that the question it implicitly poses is something like, "How do we extricate this gadget-based hobby that is so compelling to us from its complicity in burning the world, in a way that increases what makes it compelling and pleasurable to us?" That last part is at odds with a kind of austerity or post-apocalyptic thing inflecting some of the projects, but I actually think it's a great question that more creative domains (e.g. music) should pose.
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The 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO 2024) will bring together researchers and practitioners with a keen interest in low carbon and sustainable computing. The workshop will provide a forum for sharing new ideas, for presenting ongoing work and early results, as well as for bringing forward well-founded criticism.  Mmm, Bayer ("Ordered") Dither. I always preferred floyd-steinberg at the time, but now I kind of love the very even feel of it. Helps that displays are a lot higher resolution than 72ppi nowadays. Milled some flour and baked some baguettes. They're so narrow(due to the size of the evacuated vacuum tube), that it'd be more accurate to call them bread cigars, or bread spears.
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Saw a ton of forest mice today, we never seen any during the day usually, they were scurrying around carrying bits of moss and mushrooms. The temperature has dropped yesterday and today, it's like they're saying "It's going to be a cold one!"  @neauoire i've seen several little gray moles coming above ground, scuttling about the forest floor in the past few days I easily get lost in thoughts reading the Muqaddimah imagining what the life of the desert nomads might have been like  @neauoire the simplicity of dealing with the concrete and physical the complexity of having to read the wind and stars @this_xor_that just reading your alpaca paper. So interesting! The approach of linking configuration to output is very similar to what I've been doing – I just turned my configuration file format into a functional language 😀 This map is really too big to post here, but it shows our summer route through Northern BC. The southeast Alaska route is on, yet, another separate map, because it's just too damn much to show in one picture, and I've already shared it :P... (https://merveilles.town/@rek/112757706391822450) Yellow writing marks anchorages visited on the way back south. For now, the road ends at Von Donop.  @rek what a journey!! so cool to see it plotted out like this.    We're really on the tail-end of our supplies, it has been a while since we last come across a market. We had our last carrot almost two weeks ago, it's been onions, garlic and microgreens ever since. I want a pepper, I'd love a pepper. @eli_oat I read a good perspective, possibly on my timeline here, about how the best preparedness action you can make for any future disaster is to really get to know your neighbours now. It stuck with me. Also while I was messing about with LoRa depth sensors for our old water tank a neighbour used to measure with an old broom handle. Increasingly (in my more nihilistic moments I guess) I can't see much of a use for computers outside of capitalism and hobbies. My now/ page used to be no-nonsense daily events happening around me and whatnot, now it is only for the non-sense that goes through my head.  I was missing one feature, the ability to play the same song over and over and over again..
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 @neauoire Hey Devine, I've been out of the uxn loop for a while. Is there a changelog somewhere so I can update myself on language changes over the last year?  @neauoire
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