Posts by acodrst@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Atxqc4jVff63Lv9jn6 by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-05-10T22:05:46Z
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@tomjennings
(DIR) Post #Au3EDg8Uq7cao4Xhce by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-05-13T12:23:51Z
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@rms Respect to you. I've been known to sing "join us now" occasionally. I always preface the kernel when referencing the OS. You built much of my world (and Bill Joy saved my fingers, not you, alas). I do approve of "I don't know" vs. just making stuff up (like an LLM). I'd like to see more of that from him. I can't read the article, because it is linked to a site that wants my email to read. I'd toss in more disclaimers about defending Trump, but social media makes me *so tired*, mostly.
(DIR) Post #AuZdW6gCkAbp0CN7dg by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-05-28T15:55:54Z
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There was a time in my life when I ate from the Tree of Life, and Eden was driving and wrenching on a 63 Rambler (mine was a 63 100" wheelbase, not 65, just like @tomjennings ). This vid captures Eden well. Then, I ate from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and was kicked right out of the garden. Wrenching became encumbered by awareness of biosphere degradation and cause. I still wrench a bit on a '67 Econoline. I'm indulging in a bit of weedeater repair today.https://youtu.be/h45s7PsWreU
(DIR) Post #AuZdW7TTmy1ZT1QTRY by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-05-28T20:18:59Z
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@tomjennings Wish me luck, Tom.Note that I have kept all of my Ikea tools, mainly Allen wrenches. All the bolts on this take the same wrench and match half of the Allen wrenches I've saved from Ikea. Makes sense, right?
(DIR) Post #AueY2ZKrZhPnCETHAO by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-05-31T12:30:15Z
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@tomjennings I was scratching my head a bit at first about using the ARM, but then I saw what was happening with the I/O. To be completely authentic in your design, you'd end up being 10X complicated, which creates an ugly thing, and most the time people would be interfacing with something more complicated anyway. I have an old Kaypro II. A friend got it for me, because I wrote my first C program on a machine like it. Many bolt on ARM-based boards to replace the floppy disk. Respect.
(DIR) Post #Auer5RSnCKEemNGPB2 by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-05-31T16:03:41Z
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@tomjennings For the longest time I had Don Lancaster's TV Typewriter cookbook in my collection of books (not sure if I still have it hidden around somewhere or not). ... Back in those early days when a terminal itself was financially unobtainable for folks like myself breadboarding that first Z-80 circuit w/ a static RAM. (like you say)
(DIR) Post #AufR11eonaOrw159Oa by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-05-31T22:46:15Z
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@tomjennings I missed the experience of realigning 8" floppy drives. I *did* have the experience of it being common to have to load printer codes for superscript and subscript into the Wordstar binary. Find the codes in the printed manual. Look back and forth manually entering the hex. Not something I need to be authentic. It is more like how a director revisits a movie when they have better tech??I have an old Wollensak that is absolutely pure nostalgia for me. The smells, sound, and feel.
(DIR) Post #AufU8eVh2jGIKA8sNs by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-05-31T23:21:16Z
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@tomjennings :-)
(DIR) Post #AufUMJGOpnIiU0V7dg by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-05-31T23:11:15Z
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My nostalgia for my Wollensak reel-to-reel:Writing | Memory📝 💠Sunn’s Wollensak📅 2018-01-06 https://orng.org/#by3
(DIR) Post #AumFyrSI1IdOKDhsJM by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-06-04T00:55:52Z
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Enough progress; I can relax a bit. I spent an hour watching square flies in the sun, drinking a beer (Ninkasi Megalodom). Do you know them? They fly in patterns. They don't land. They will converge and do a chaos spread/murmuration, but go back to square. They will do this for hours.
(DIR) Post #Aup3SWT7tbUxzhn7Eu by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-06-05T14:09:25Z
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@tomjennings Sometimes the truth of things messes us humans up going forward. What used to be a silent David Lynch rock opera mystery that I sneaked glimpses at has become "life thrives life". Now, if somebody interrupts my mystery, I'll likely say it's a fly group orgy, sure, but inside I'll be pleading for some middle ground truce.
(DIR) Post #AupFgHFOU6nmI1h1vs by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-06-05T16:25:28Z
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@tomjennings Ah yes.
(DIR) Post #AurccBOL06YEERoSi8 by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-06-06T19:52:45Z
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@tomjennings You're in luck.
(DIR) Post #AutUW3SPB2MwZMCbHk by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-06-07T17:31:26Z
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@tomjennings I suspect your permacomputing and mine might differ in definition; however, I would contact Virgil Dupras, and ask where he meets in person and use that to seed future meets. https://duskos.org/discuss.html
(DIR) Post #AuvDE8oPDeqZ3mHjhA by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-06-08T13:27:08Z
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@tomjennings As a child my parents sent me on a Hughes Airwest flight from Seattle to Chico in the early 1970s. That jet stopped at every runway between the two cities. It took forever to get there.
(DIR) Post #AuvSttysFZ7cXLYKAa by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-06-08T13:22:44Z
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@timoj @tomjennings For my entire life I believed the story that we killed Bison exactly like this and almost made them extinct. It made me sad. I often shared the infamous picture of the pyramid of skulls. A couple of years ago, I ran across this article. Try and find that through normal search terms. It is difficult to find. I'm not forgiving our behavior in the US. It was still horrendous. But, consider this:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190052818300087
(DIR) Post #Av04QInryBjFj2YeVk by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-06-10T21:41:57Z
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@tomjennings I was thinking about her just this morning. I learned about "language is a virus" from seeing Home of the Brave when it came out (I knew her before I knew Burroughs).
(DIR) Post #Av0W0tGFzT6ZnvENzU by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-06-11T02:51:12Z
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@tomjennings Lighter- I often listen to this one when coding:https://archive.org/details/AnasaziKahaTimeDive
(DIR) Post #Av1hSTglxF6hFsx0RE by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-06-11T16:33:44Z
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@tomjennings I'm listening to it now. The samples are great (this DJ injects good ones in his mixes). I've sourced many of them, as I've listened to this particular mix close to 100 times. (Jackie Brown+) I've never met an Anasazi Kaha mix I didn't like. RR Feela has some good mixes as well. The arc of Time Dive fits well with coding sessions. I have a rule where if I don't focus, I have to restart the mix (which means I have to restart it now). I'll be interested to see if you groove as well.
(DIR) Post #Av3GmWQn9xX96bjGee by acodrst@mastodon.social
2025-06-12T10:44:39Z
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@tomjennings In the comments:"That was a magical time where there were no rules to go by.we just figured it out as we went."That was pretty much our entire lives. That was a lot of fun, and extremely interesting. I want to say that's over, but for me, actually, it isn't. I'm not sure people get how much of the original need is satisfied by pure HTML/JavaScript/CSS/SVG standards, and how many open/free options there still are. Corporations have tried to obscure/segement that to monetize.