poetaster

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@poetaster

generalist dev, musician, poet. began with games dev. for years I've been involved with netzpolitik.org and diverse underground art projects. Currently doing a lot of #sailfishos alternate mobile os development. https://poetaster.de https://github.com/poetaster I also make audio toys https://poetaster.org

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2026-03-23 18:58:37 UTC

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anyone built vim keybindings for orca yet :) (ducks'n'runs).

2026-03-23 18:53:18 UTC

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uxn2 bin/orca.rom
works fine, but the uxnmenu version from the readme halts.

2026-03-23 18:47:23 UTC

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unexpected: uxnasm src/orca.tal bin/orca.rom
Unknown token: theme/<load>
I have a uxn2 built from source, make install .local ...

2026-03-23 18:29:57 UTC

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jeez. you have a https://learnxinyminutes.com/uxntal/ that is so r e s p e c t I'll just go compile orca.

2026-03-23 18:23:02 UTC

Sometimes I feel really silly. Finally having found redfrik's home page (HOW did I miss it?) at https://fredrikolofsson.com I did some reading and found https://github.com/lfnoise/sapf @npub1z8r…mrq6 i wonder if this is familiar to you?

2025-11-07 20:31:51 UTC

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I should add that I had only ever thought of f = ma = m(v²/r) so the angular momentum nomenclature threw me :)

2025-11-07 20:25:32 UTC

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As a non-physicist I was wondering if scale isn't a factor? It's one thing for a particle (or driver in automobile) who has to overcome inertial mass to produce a centripetal acceleration and quite another for large distant objects? I'm assuming that we can ignore the inertia of planets :) And then something about relativistic momentum at high velocities ...

2025-11-06 20:21:37 UTC

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you also use the word 'audience'. That's passive. User's who demand it's 'easy', approved by Bank , works with apple pay, etc., etc., are AGENTS. Users must be held accountable. I tell my Son and my GF that every time I rescue their stupid phones. Not that they listen. But they DEPEND on me, and know it! That is Not Good(tm).

2025-11-06 20:16:08 UTC

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um, in part, you miss an important point. It's not the devs (linux phone since Nokia N900, android in reserve) that determine 'what the market will bear'. It's the market. Which means that the lowest bar wins (whose first, easy, cheap, sexy). Which, in turn is a rigged game. It's a problem of monopolies! Breaking those is hard. Been working on it all my life.

2025-10-21 17:51:09 UTC

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crows in numbers do not pose. Nor do they swarm, like swallows. Crows declaim like chaos.

2025-10-17 18:29:17 UTC

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I'm still on UUNET news via UDP over wire (dangling )....;

2025-08-29 11:33:29 UTC

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tetration is the only way to express large bb numbers (states or shifts). And that is exponentiation. So, how does that blow anything anywhere? BB functions are meta and can implement any operation. Since generally endless turing machines are used, they are useful in determining computable or not.

2025-08-29 09:10:46 UTC

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quanta tends to sensationalize. Exponentiation is just ordinary math. Now do n-dimensional topology and it starts being non quanta mag material.

2025-08-24 16:14:18 UTC

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me want :-) I need to build my kaypro. I learned assembly on 8080 and 8080a in emulation on a vax mainframe so that era marked me. And c/pm was my os all through uni.

2025-08-19 18:25:01 UTC

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also. I drive a thinkpad ;-)

2025-08-10 17:20:11 UTC

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nice monster.

2025-07-29 19:11:07 UTC

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wow. Sounds like we were doing a lot of similar shenanigans to get people connected. I have some stories about pulling fibre in a scuba suit but have to see if I can find the photos. Ooh. That was for a residential install for a sprint network architect (well, the) and he had a cesium clock to propagate time ... But that was in sweden, just before ccc went the way if the modem.

2025-07-29 18:30:09 UTC

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oh! Very similar issue. I think it took us 4 years to get a T1. We were located such that we could do laser link over distances that could support 2 mbit ... But we had a short run, honestly. It's just difficult to fight a monopoly :-) I actually started a second (software) company and subsidized the isp for a while. But, it was lights out by 1999.

2025-07-28 16:29:02 UTC

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Yeah, NetBSD package src installs via ftp where kinda freaky :-) we had a number of modem pools, but not really massive. We were, however, one of the first non~telco isps in canada, so there were interested users :-) in the main, we had the means and wanted to diy. We also had the great advantage to have a lot of sgi hardware, donated;-) so a good bit of luck.

2025-07-28 15:12:24 UTC

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we had a setup that sounds similar at canada connect corp in1992. We built our own backplain, each unit had 16 cards, if I remember correctly. The interconnect for 4 of those was DIY, built with #NetBSD ... In time, about 1994/95 we built terminal server boards (first ISA, the PCI)... Jonathan Levine did most of the hardware design and Herb Peyerl, the software. Our mail server was a massive sgi server with 8 cpus. And 5 inch disk sleds.

2025-02-06 21:08:46 UTC

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jeez. I thought that IS the UI

2024-11-14 23:48:46 UTC

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so how do you relate this to gitxsan ' wet'suwet'en title battles in bc? Related? I don't really follow what's going on there. World burning and all.

2024-11-14 23:11:40 UTC

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um where! New zeelandia was my guess?

2024-10-30 22:25:25 UTC

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do you use a mouse :-) (i do not).

2024-10-29 16:46:21 UTC

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Yes! Long ago I ran it on a mac, but I've only been using Debian or Ubuntu since 2007 :) The GEM external uses opengl/egl and is efficient enough for most things. I have a couple of patches require more computation (lots of full frame feedback) and I had to do those in c to get the performance I needed. But that's an exception.
Many moons ago I used max/msp and jitter.
EDIT: usually running on Thinkpads.

2024-10-29 16:02:58 UTC

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I use pure data and GEM.

2024-09-15 17:48:51 UTC

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My fave is Sandtrafikar.

2024-08-29 18:20:47 UTC

The sailmates, #SailfishOS non-profit registered in Austria, had our anual GM. We modified the statutes to establish that we do flashing services and offer devices (non-profit) for the public. If you're interested but don't want to get in over your head, we can help. #LinuxPhone #LinuxMobile #SailfishOS

2024-08-17 06:52:42 UTC

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I have it in dead tree form. I'll have a look see ...

2024-08-16 18:39:06 UTC

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it's a favourite. You might enjoy 'Notes from a bottle found on the beach at Carmel' by Evan S Connel. It is the delirium in epic poem form.