Gregory's Server
I've been reading The Unsettling Of America, the cover could have been:
"Wendell is BACK, and HE'S PISSED"
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Cleaned up my notes on #permacomputing this morning. Salvage Computing: Designing for Disassembly ensures that all elements of a product can be disassembled for repair and for end of life. Collapse Computing: Designing for Descent ensures that a system is resilient to intermittent energy supply and network connectivity. https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/permacomputing.html :permacomputing: This wiki is about #permacomputing, a radically sustainable approach to computing inspired by permaculture. @neauoire I wonder if “calm computing” concepts have overlap as a principle, if it means less notifications is less things running in the background, and less complexity? Not exactly for the same purpose. Especially since I see calm computing more as not letting a machine hijack your attention or manipulate you.  @neauoire an interesting idea that would need to confront the proprietary nature of tech as well and rights to repair such tech. Open source equivalents to consumer products could be a possible route as profit motive negates open standards. Planted a few dozen sprouted lentils and mung beans on a little islet onto which nothing but short grasses and moss grows. Curious to see if they'll take. I chose this island so they don't compete with indigenous plants on the coast. I doubt birds would take them out and carry them ashore.   The increasing slicing up of time into smaller and smaller pieces, until all one is left with is a nano-second of time, not enough to ever feel informed. https://www.meta-nomad.net/the-battle-against-the-hyperpresent/ @calutron Just remembered, I'm not sure if you knew, but you can import a tga into Noodle, so you could make a 3d scene, export to tga(monochrome, no RLE compression, top-left alignment) and then paint over it in Noodle. Just thought I'd point it out :) In anchorages, there's this social phenomenon that I haven't given a name to just yet, but it goes like this: Anchorages are usually quiet places, in which any sound will be noticed by anyone sharing that echoing space. So, if you start your engine, all eyes will be on you. So people tend to be quiet, use their oars to get around. But you need just one vessel obnoxious enough to use their engine, to raise the volume enough that a second vessel will start their generator, and a third, ..
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 @neauoire When I was on a mooring down in the BVI's, we'd run our generator at night, because damned if I was going to sweat through a night with small children aboard. We shut it all down when everyone got up for breakfast, but I did feel a slight twinge of guilt through the night. It didnt' last long. I sleep hard. “I think the shift to the cloud will happen at such a rapid rate, that in just a few years I predict there will be no more code on your local computer.”, GitHub CEO yikes
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@neauoire So, now I'm wondering, how about the code to access the code that is out there in cloudland? Check out @m15o's genius Neon Kisok, it contains the definition for an HTML journal, which is an HTML article format to use on your /now page so it can be aggregated. It even automatically generates a RSS feed! kiosk: https://kiosk.nightfall.city/  In our keynote for NIME, we'll quickly show how Orca works, @rek made these hand-drawn slides that demonstrates the basics of the program.   Finished reading Watership Down. One of the best novel I've read, hard to put down, even when it's gotten so late you can't keep your eyes open. I'm sad just thinking that it's over.
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@neauoire this toot (is that what we call mastodon tweets still?) is inspiring a purchase! ive been looking for a world to get lost in  @neauoire here for you some watership down ispired post-hardcore(?) if you don't already know them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04dIyXvYnVM FALL OF EFRAFA "Owsla" (full album) I see a bunch of the Japanese-speaking MSX scene noodling around with #uxn these days, and some of them are complaining that the Google Translation of the documentation is utterly undecypherable. That's a problem.
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For your consideration, a #mos6502 disassembler in #lisp "cl-6502 is a Common Lisp emulator, assembler and disassembler for the MOS 6502 processor" https://github.com/kingcons/cl-6502#readme (Because if it's in Lisp it might be short and sweet.) We stumbled on a little lean-to, deep in the woods, where someone lived for some time, this person's books, kettle, bucket and tarps are all still there. I wonder if they've stayed over the winter, and how beautiful and scary this place must have looked covered in snow. I haven't seen a car, let alone a road in weeks.. There's hardly any planes that fly these parts, I think two or three days ago I heard a plane fly over us at night.  @neauoire The dream, truly... That sounds even more rugged than lots of Alaska - AK has a bonkers number of planes. Less so in Southeast (folks use boats there, albeit almost exclusively motorboats), but still more private/personal small planes than I've seen anywhere else. |
@neauoire do you have an epub of it per chance?
@neauoire his curmudgeony is the only kind I can tolerate