MC @mc@mastodon.sdf.org
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Your ordinary anarchist hacker vegan buddhist synth-punk grinder.
Some important things: science fiction, retro-computing, swords, free software, operating systems, firmware, minimalist user interfaces, microbrews, and mechanical keyboards...
Not actually that picky about followers. Just don't want some bots following me. So please ask to follow if you're a real person and have some real stuff in your feed.
Don't DM me. Use e-mail, XMPP, IRC, or Signal if you know my number. See web page.
Joined Nov 2017
Why hasn't anyone told me about Lego Heroica? Perfect for introducing board games and role playing games to my biological experiments.
New blog post: Videotex and online services
https://hack.org/mc/blog/videotex.html
Triggered by the recent Bildschirmtext talk at HOPE 2020.
Gary Snyder's Buddhist Anarchism from 1961:
I added a focused border to dwl. Accepted upstreams. Still a lot to do on dwl, but it's slowly moving forward.
Leonard Cohen sings the old wobbly song Solidarity Forever! Didn't know he had made a cover.
I was recently made aware of how people on the spectrum are treated in France. Here's a 2018 article in The Guardian, for instance:
"Parents are told: ‘Forget your child, grieve for your child and accept the fact that they will be put in an institution’."
WTF!?
"France is the last bastion of psychoanalysis."
Mhmm?
dwl now has a zoom function, thst is modkey+return to make a window the master. Makes it more usable but still lots to do before it can be the daily driver Wayland compositor.
Instant messaging for introverts (2008): https://tidbits.com/2008/04/04/instant-messaging-for-introverts/
In some of my old sent mail (reading from 2002 now) I found that I hade included a Face: header with a small BASE64 PNG.
First time I've been offered money for a hack.org mail account. 250 USD for two accounts for ten minutes. Then I could delete them again.
No deal.
Just tried a video conference for a mailing list I've been on since 1992. I've known people there for a long time but never seen them or talked to them, so I guess it was time. Only three of us turned up, unfortunately. Better luck next time, perhaps.
The Unwritten Social Rules of Aspie Culture (2016):
https://theemotionalaspie.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/the-unwritten-social-rules-of-aspie-culture/
Squee! Portable VT52/VT100/VT220 with up to 15 hours of battery time on the later models! Built-in modem, typically 1200 b/s, but version with 2400 and even 9600 b/s existed. I guess the 9600 b/s version was really expensive.
Kent Pitman's version of the Maclisp manual, mostly for the PDP-10:
Anyone heard about the Common Lisp Operating Environment? Ran on a standard 386. Kent Pitman might have been involved. Jim Reith ported Flavors to it. Anyone? Is the source available somewhere?
Found some old mail archives from 1995 to 1999. Several different formats: Unix mailbox, MH folders and RMAIL's BABYL.
Unfortunately, some of the RMAIL files where corruped and some gzipped file were too.
Still, this means I now have ~120 k mail messages in Notmuch. Not bad.
DNS over TLS blocked in Iran: https://ooni.org/post/2020-iran-dot/
NODE VOL 02: MANIFESTING REALITY
"[A] 180 page handbook for the future. hardware projects like the OpenBook, The Reform 2 laptop, Librerouter
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articles and interviews covering [...] IPFS, Iris, Cabal, Secure Scuttlebutt, and lots more."
- Web page
- https://hack.org/mc/
Your ordinary anarchist hacker vegan buddhist synth-punk grinder.
Some important things: science fiction, retro-computing, swords, free software, operating systems, firmware, minimalist user interfaces, microbrews, and mechanical keyboards...
Not actually that picky about followers. Just don't want some bots following me. So please ask to follow if you're a real person and have some real stuff in your feed.
Don't DM me. Use e-mail, XMPP, IRC, or Signal if you know my number. See web page.
Joined Nov 2017
