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  "You take the amber pill, you get immediately escorted to a sub-basement containing a RISC/6000 server, thirteen Wyse terminals, and an ancient Dynix installation."

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  I see lots of people getting interested in NetBSD recently to reduce their reliance on the Linux kernel and parts of its ecosystem they are unhappy with (e.g. systemd, glibc, flatpak, wayland, etc.) I think this is a good idea! However, I would probably avoid trying to completely divest yourself of that world right away. The BSDs (and other less mainstream operating systems) have thousands or millions of times less work put in (for both time and money) and so there will inevitably be gaps, bugs...

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  drew a bunch of icons for different uxn file types: - cartridge: *.rom - text: *.txt, *.md - binary: *.bin - font: *.uf[1-5] - picture: *.icn, *.chr - sound: *.pcm

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  been thinking about "a scanner darkly" a lot recently

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  days since minor injury sustained during bike maintenance: 0

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  re last retweet: my #uxn ROM for solitaire is 17K but that's with graphics, a font, and no attempt to minimize. i bet i could make a really tiny console version if i put my mind to it. https://git.phial.org/d6/kodiak cc @nanochess

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  created a text-based wordle clone for #uxn called "rewold" https://git.phial.org/d6/rewold playable in any terminal, and hopefully on the cardputer soon thanks to @TangentDelta

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  join our community's... 😵 discord 🤮 slack ⚰️ newgroup 🐢 phbb forum 🦀 mailing list 🐘 fediverse instance 🧙‍♀️ irc channel 🐜 nanochat server 🕸️ mesh network ⛰️ weekly hike 👩‍🌾 commune

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  ⚡ just patched @asie's uxnds to add basic socket support. [1] 😎 it works well enough to run my nanochat client! [1] we're basically emulating the behavior of netcat, which we currently run in uxn11 using the subprocess extension

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  so the cryptic chatroom project many of us have been working on (nanochat) is a bit less cryptic thanks to this article by @soxfox42 https://soxfox.me/blog/nanochat/

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  My stance on the current trend of using The Lesser Key of Solomon at work and in one's personal life: 1. There's no evidence these evil spirits really are the 72 princes mentioned in The Lesser Key (and their innumerable minions). They only started telling us their "names" after someone incorporated the text of Ars Goetia in a (poorly-worded) binding ritual. 2. There's also no evidence that anyone's binding rituals actually work. It's a...

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  upgraded the G4 cube to NetBSD 11.0-RC2. so far so good 🚩

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  Just heard that the author of xv (John Bradley) has died. I never knew John but I have fond memories of using xv back in the day. And it's worth celebrating the excellent web design of the xv homepage (last modified in 2024): https://xv.trilon.com/

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  thesis: age-verification infects all major operating systems and platforms antithesis: hackers build operating systems for microcontrollers like esp32 synthesis: you need to verify your age before you can use your thermostat

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  ⚡⚡⚡ IT'S ALIVE! ⚡⚡⚡ https://git.phial.org/d6/uxn-lfb

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  Tempted to start a bootstrapping seed library, to save software versions of everything needed to bootstrap interesting projects like duskos, uxn, tiny languages, etc