 Inspired from David Madore's notes on multi-quines, I wrote a program that replicates itself, but every second time, the generated program will print either ying, or yang, and vice versa. For the Handmade talk, I'm trying to compile a list of programming languages(or, just general creative computation explorations) that use conworld, conlang or various other narrative tools like music and pictures, to build a kind of universe around itself, similar to Pinnochioverse, Land Of Lisp, the Fortran Coloring book, etc.. If you know of project like this, please send it over!
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I love weird tech like uxn and stuff that's unapologetically about the love of computers. I think part of why I was not into computer touching for a while is the way business-major-flavored tech bros ruined it for me. Hacking is supposed to be weird and fun  Hey @neauoire only took us 20 months but @raphael, @nclm and myself finally launched https://symbol.fediverse.info and set up the @FediverseSymbol account for it. Would love it if you were still interested in being involved or even just using it! We caught up with friends yesterday and they had been contacting BC Parks, asking about why some of the park toilets up north were systematically being removed or boarded up, the answer they got was some bogus excuses, like a tree was close to falling on it(there is no such tree). After some back and forth they were told that the new people in charge were philosophically opposed to having anyone explore the parks altogether and that they ought to stay home in the cities where they belong. I fear a lot of people think that as the climate gets worse and more scorching where the heat domes occur, that they can escape the desertification down south by heading north, but what's going to happen is that the north will have long been clear cut down to nothing and so they'll find nothing but a worse desert than the one they're trying to escape from.  In Pinker's The Language Instinct, it talks about the made-up story of the word "Pumpernickel", which is NOT the true ethomology of the word but what some people made up while at a pub, and later published as fact. Napoleon at an inn, expecting French bread but being served hard dark bread, spat onto the ground, and said, “Bah! C'est pain pour Nicole!", which is the name of his horse. Now that's a canon expression aboard Pino, that whenever we eat dry bread, PAIN POUR NICOLE!!  @neauoire Delicious! This rung a bell with me, and I realise I only recently listened to the Something Rhymes with Purple episode about food, that they titled "Pumpernickel"! https://pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/43774/mgln.ai/e/143/traffic.megaphone.fm/SONY9919089140.mp3 Here's the whole podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/9X-YgzeG  @neauoire There are some wonderful homophonic translations. The Humpty Dumpty one is a classic: The Oulipo also published some. I think I have somewhere (though can’t find it at the moment) a short booklet of homophonic translations by Luc Etienne (though I may be confused with Perec). I need to find it!  Been working on what I’m calling “the stupidest point and shoot”. It’s a hacked up original Mamiya Press body, with the 50mm/6.3 lens, and 6x9 type 3 back. Zone focus, and sports finder for framing. Still needs leatherette and a top cap but it’s getting close!  Made a little top for it out of some scrap oak. I’ll install a couple accessory shoes and then ebonize it. We just finished reading In Cold Blood last night, it's going to take a minute to digest and recover from it, what do you even read to follow up after something like that anyways.
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@neauoire yet we are often outside that world. "[...] They couldn’t see anything that was even partly inside the world [...]" "[...] down among the walls and roofs, the roads and houses, walking on, walking on [...] never came to the end of them. That moment when your speaker's notes are all put down and you can finally get on with the fun bit: MAKING SOME SLIDES!!
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I think I'll aim to have most of the slides made in this kind of 1-bit architecture style, my only fear is that the thin hairline might be hard to read on the projection :maru: Started working on some slides for a talk, I decided to lean way deep into the conlang thing. I think I can make this all interesting. The tak() function written in the uxntal alphabet. @tak ( z y x -- res ) Landed gabber/hardtech gig in Montreal this winter with some old friends. It'll be nice to play all these new tracks I've been sitting on.
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 @neauoire let me know when you're back in montreal. i'm not too far from there, would love to come up and say "hi"  Permacomputing critics have a really hard time resisting to strawman the concept, they just can't help themselves, once they've boxed-in the whole thing into some reductive pointless hobby, then it's always, but wait! I've got a BETTER NAME for something that's exactly what permacomputing is, but I made it up, it's a word I came up for it all by myself, it's new, and it's better. It's not-permacomputing, that's yesterday, my new thing that I've conjured in a minute, that's the real deal.
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 @neauoire Yeah, naming things is hard. I always thought it was similar to “permaculture” in that both perma-* words apply to concepts of sustainability, long-termism, whole-systems thinking, and approachability from the standpoint of an individual. If I had to name it though, I’d probably call it “solarpunk computing”, which has a nice ring to it, lol  Is it just me or has there been a recent burst of life on IRC, every channel I'm in is bustling with activity these days, and most of these are usually dormant.
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 Nature is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference is nowhere. @wim_v12e Add the repo to this post! I'd love to see the dvd example now :D And what it compiles to |
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