@neauoire I have some notes for ideas for compression in embedded contexts that I have been wanting to write out properly but haven't found the time for. Would you be interested? Maybe that bit of extra motivation is all I need

@neauoire I’m not very familiar with uxn, but maybe something like ROM banking in Game Boy - part of the address space can refer to one of a couple switchable memories.

@neauoire Curious about this scheme 🤔

@neauoire the sales pitch: each box covered in a slight film of salt upon arrival

@neauoire if there's any of those slide rules left I'd love a delivery once I'm in Vic! ^__^

@neauoire It takes a while sometimes to find one's true vocation...

@neauoire It's always strange to me when people talk seriously about paying for things with gold coins. A 1 oz gold coin is almost $2000 right now, it's probably not something that would be convenient to trade for groceries.

@neauoire Something about African warlords. Maybe start with Zales.

@neauoire you put up a big sign that says "CASH 4 GOLD"

@neauoire Got it sorted now 😊 The patch had all our tabs converted to spaces, so once I had converted it back I was able to apply it.

@neauoire I wonder if that version is captured here:

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo

@neauoire @akkartik Wow, a pre-C revision of Unix.

This is really something.

@neauoire @akkartik one of my best friends that knew my parents worked at DEC back then. I'll see if she can find any old docs

@neauoire that's so gorgeous, wow! would be such a nice hike :)

I love wandering through the forest an finding these trees struck by lightning.

@neauoire #shinrinyoku 「森林浴」。
nice hashtag.

@neauoire this is a rich hickey quote right?

he's a smart person but i find a lot of his arguments to be misleading and sort of self-serving to be honest

@neauoire oh is this THAT post ?

@neauoire I'm guessing this author isn't counting the complexity of the language and run-time their preferred technology is built on. Building on 1M+ lines of highly tested language and standard library is a great way to make user code appear simple, but at the cost of pulling in a bunch of irrelevant generality, nice-to-have features, and astonishing security holes that your user code didn't want or need.

Ergo, checkmate 1M+ line programming ecosystems. But I'm preaching to the choir, here.

@neauoire What's the song playing? The artist sounds familiar to me.

@neauoire Oh nice! This is great practice!

@neauoire I managed to hang onto my Alphavetist install on my iPhone until last year when I had to replace it.

I'll have to see if I can host a browser uxn instance to use this portably again.

@neauoire I recently acquired some unglazed clay saucers, to try another sprouting method I saw recommended for flax. I can let you know how it goes.

@neauoire Now that I'm doing tech documentation work it's so funny to see how you're applying similar principles but to a much more worthwhile form of knowledge sharing

@neauoire i imagine you’re not too much into buying new things and i’m not too much into plugging products, but given the importance of sprouting in your lifestyle, you’d really appreciate a multi-tier sprouter. they don’t look as pretty as your jars. but you’ll get a higher and - if you organise it - perpetual yield. also since it’s acrylic, it’s boat friendly? mine is 8 years old and has been through 3 different climate zones. i’d want it with me to survive the apocalypse.

@neauoire Yes, nice!

It makes me think of Java's old slogan, "write once, run anywhere", which, of course, failed to be realized.

@neauoire Thanks, I’ve been trying to be more active and work on stuff again. 2019/20 threw me out of the groove in a big way, moving house twice in the middle of a pandemic when you are a creature of habit messes with balance in a way I was not expecting and I’ve found it hard to pick up where I left off.

Feels like the journaling out in public will help me get back some of what I was.

@neauoire nice!

@neauoire he who controls the stack controls the universe

@neauoire but not overflow?

@neauoire _why ?

@neauoire thats really cool, have you been planting out there in the wilderness?

@neauoire this is the kind of thing i love to read about and to know it can be done, but it also terrifies me and stops me from doing what you’re doing (that and also living with a 6 year old cat who would hate living on a boat). do you have a schedule on how often you have fresh food stops on land or do you go by the flow of your cravings? or something else?

@neauoire as far as sprouting goes, what plants would create the most seed to re-sprout. When I grew tobacco each plant made thousands of seed, now if they were edible that would be quite a nice producer of seed. But a lot of seed I use to sprout wouldn't create a lot of seeds back, like legumes for instance...

I may not be able to have two tabs open at once on this fucking computer, but I can have ad infinitum of uxn instances!

@neauoire this article is kinda alarmist trash though. Link rot exists with or without drm. Link rot is a huge problem in our generation. I backup websites I would rather have access to with `wget -mk`, so does archive.org.

Re: rest — historians don't know *a lot* of things as it stands about other eras, the climate collapse era will be well-studied, there's plenty of data getting preserved.

@neauoire I can offer no meaningful commentary on digital decay, but.. please, dearest internet writers, understand that whenever you use the term "Dark Ages", or claim that we have a "lack of written records" for said "Dark Ages", a historian somewhere has a fatal aneurysm.

@neauoire can we acknowledge that hopefully future historians will have more interesting questions to ponder?