 A group of Finnish settlers founded the village in 1901 after rowing north from Nanaimo. They planned to set up a utopian socialist society known as the Kalevan Kansa, and wrote to visionary Matti Kurikka in Finland to lead the new community. They were looking for a way out of the mines operated by the Dunsmuir family on Vancouver Island. SV Bosun Bird's notes on sailing through Johnstone Strait.
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Pushed a little fix to uxnasm and drifblim that corrects an issue with appending methods to previously declared uxntal objects. docs: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal_scope And in time, there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation "seraphically free from taint of personality," which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.  Have you read David Abram's _The Spell of the Sensous_? It's a really good take on the need to add the phenomenological lens to our conceptions of reality. A life-altering book.  @neauoire preparing my treatise on Devine Lu Linvega's quoting of E. M. Forster. It'll probably go a little like "Since Linvega deliberately avoided adding any commentary of his own, we must not only content ourselves with the layout of the page, the indentation of the quote and the fonts chosen, but also with the absence of any hues, a choice that starkly frames the quote in its original black-and-white, leaving us to contemplate Forster’s words as they are, unadorned and undisturbed." I found the launching of programs a bit jarring so I've added a transition effect. 🌄
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@neauoire One thing I am afraid of, is that at some moment you would decide that you have proven everything there is to prove in this area and just move on, disappearing from my bubble... Development environment, checked. A game, checked. An editor, checked. Music creation, graphics, checked. Self modifying applications, checked. I suppose that growing complexity is not your goal itself, but the challenges are... What big ideas are still in the queue?...
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 So, @rek drew a flying Potato, in the style of Afterdark, that wipes the screen for Potato OS. Resumed working on PotatoOS, a tiny 15kb operating system to help with uxn systems without a host file manager. I forgot how fun it was to customize the system's assets with the tile editor.
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I made it so Potato OS themes can be exported and customized by simply changing the pixels in an image.
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"The idea that you can’t paint because the world is ‘made of war and cruelty’ has to be the lamest and most faint-hearted excuse not to work I have ever heard, Dan. How will painting a fucking picture help?"  @neauoire i don't buy the argument equating the the artist(whatever that is) and the doctor. Nor do I believe we should reify these roles and values. As a young Canadian artist (cough) many moons ago, I soon realised I was not interested in that economy. And so, art is my private refuge, and service something that takes many forms. Rarely are service and 'work', economical, the same. And something about Adorno. The Mastodon UI takes too many clicks to go from a report to suspending the host instance 😭  @neauoire there might be some tools to help, idk I dont get these rn ( 🤞 )  @neauoire Would it help to press more bodies to this thankless work? Happy to help with button pressing. I don't know if Mastodon provides sufficiently expressive privilege management..  Drowning under spam messages, I'll have to turn off notifications from people I don't follow for a while. @neauoire I turned off notifs for folks that don't follow me, and that's cut out pretty much all the spam. @remko I was wondering if you had any insight on how I could transform the console device byte stream in uxn5, so that utf-8 characters are understood properly, so I need to fill a temporary buffer during parts of multi-byte character? @neauoire I think you’re looking for TextDecoder: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoder See my usage here: https://github.com/remko/uxn.wasm/blob/5a19a40f5e8b06a6c5f9fad9fb87fe61429fb144/src/util/index.js#L42  @neauoire Hide temporarly instances with open registration on JoinMastodon and instances social. I honestly don't know how to deal with the current onslaught of spam. Is the solution to defed from every open registration instances?
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  @neauoire I saw this recommendation here to add filters: https://meow.social/@Nomaxice/111949683722898263 that should be at least a temporary stopgap for users experiencing this  |
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@neauoire That's really fascinating.