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Sex, Drugs, & Unix™.
Try democracy, not tyranny!
Be the STFU you wish to see in the world.
Block all Nazis, GOP (same thing), crypto, LLM grifts.
"I have come to tell you that you are free." —Eris

#coffee #scheme #basic #javascript  #objc
#music #technomagery #gamedev
#retrocomputing #atari
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#ttrpg #rpg #osr #d100
#scienceFiction #hardsf #fantasy
#atheism #dream #sarcasm #tabs
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2026-03-24 18:32:36 UTC

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But it's simply not true. Linux kernel's accepting slop & rust. Wayland is still & likely forever to be worse than X11 (at the job to be done: building & running applications, sometimes remotely). Systemd is slop & spyware now. Even aside from Linux's traditional incompetences, it's worse than a year ago.
Like, maybe BSD is getting better, tho I have Complaints but much less so. Or Haiku. Slow to the point of stasis.

2025-09-15 07:09:39 UTC

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I often have to search similar text in several documents, so it's useful. But when you want per-document search, there's no good solution.

2025-08-21 09:52:13 UTC

I want to vent about a thing, but if I do I know my mentions will be full of reply-guy shit and I'll have to block 17.3% of fedi. Even if I make a big Craig Maloney memorial disclaimer, maybe especially then.
Maybe I should find one-a those anonymized toot things.

2025-08-06 10:22:44 UTC

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Readline being under GPL doesn't stop some giant predator, it just annoys the little guy who wants text history without having to rewrite a giant awful curses thing. RMS is the predator here (as in other things).
And it's not new that GPL is useless, the whole v2/v3 thing was because Tivo realized they didn't have to ship their source if you can't compile & run it.

2025-07-01 21:41:16 UTC

Try not to live your life so that more people laugh when you die, than not.

2025-04-29 09:08:44 UTC

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You now see in your mind's eye:
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/114/420/463/540/837/462/original/eb4f970a6ff35b32.jpg

2025-04-29 09:08:08 UTC

UH OH
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/114/420/460/883/340/726/original/4384b48a655692c5.mp3

2025-04-14 02:45:45 UTC

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There is a release of "Xanadu" that has a hand-hacked database, no editor, is not actually useful.
I was so enthused as a yout' by the library copy of Computer Lib/Dream Machines, and a few Xanadu articles. But then I figured out it was vaporware after the magazine (Creative or Byte, I'm running a search but it's slow) article explaining & praising it by one collaborator… and then the next issue had an angry letter from Ted Nelson retracting almost everything.
#xanadu

2025-03-09 22:27:49 UTC

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Currently I'm just playing VoxeLibre (I was using Mineclonia, which is faster & smaller but has bugs).
I have another world based on Asuna with a TON of mods for adventuring and decorating. I keep meaning to write a blog post about what all, but I'm gonna update and so haven't done it yet.

2025-03-09 21:59:50 UTC

So I played some Luanti while listening to podcasts, suddenly pigs start falling from the sky, or rather animal pens 2 floors up.
Apparently lightning hit outside, pens are at ground floor, so the charge carried over 30 blocks away to change some pigs to angry pigmen and set my pens on fire!!! Which took some work to fix, lost many more pigs and some sheep, also oddly on fire.
And one of my dark oaks burned to the ground, but nothing else.
Mean goddamned game sometimes.
#luanti #minetest
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/114/134/700/072/474/258/original/2b2763df02fbcb12.jpg
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2025-03-09 09:14:22 UTC

Doing some table generation in awk, and is there an easier way to do "all fields n to NF" than this?
function combine(combn, combs) {
for (; combn<=NF; ++combn) {
combs=combs "\t" $(combn)
}
return combs
}
I could use printf on the fragments, but the annoyance is that loop, instead of
(string-join (cddr fields) "\t")
or whatever.
#awk #unix #codegolf

2025-02-17 03:24:15 UTC

https://unpretty.tumblr.com/post/775663024157704192
Indeed. Ain't see no Draculas out here. If I don't have a clove of garlic in a stir-fry I have plenty of garlic salt to put on anything else.
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2025-02-05 01:01:35 UTC

Emacs is fully customizable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc
#emacs

2025-01-25 12:57:00 UTC

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Originally from the Palladium Fantasy RPG (or Mechanoids comic/RPG?), and the table did get updated pretty soon to be a little less dark-ages, Sexual Neuroses became "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" paranoia.

2025-01-22 15:25:36 UTC

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Can't rules-lawyer if there's no rules!

2024-12-24 05:14:44 UTC

Santa came early with my Hyper Mega Tech! Super Pocket Atari. And it's *sweet*.
As usual the 2(?) paddle games, Pong and Tempest, are nearly unplayable, but everything else is good.
50 games, mix of 2600, 5200, 7800, Lynx, and arcade games. Asteroids is arcade, "vector" (in pixels). I *kinda* wish they also had the 2600, 8-bit/5200, 7800 versions with a switch.
UI is smooth, nice arcade music. Menu and you can switch to the loaded Evercade cart (but I don't have one yet).
#atari #retrogaming

2024-12-04 18:32:32 UTC

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There's very little point to it. It enables cheating. I've already finished (probably) and you don't have my artistic vision to continue it. I'm indie and doing it for fun, so "sales" aren't a big thing, but it would lower sales.
I do sometimes open source very old games, but the only results of that are a couple of ports/fixes to new OS/engine versions. For some reason several people asked for source for one game engine, but never did anything with it.
#gamedev #indiedev #opensource

2024-12-02 05:32:08 UTC

Atari presents Mario Bros.
https://www.tumblr.com/awesomerockwarrior/768689943417634816
#atari #retrogaming #mario
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2024-11-27 12:28:14 UTC

Despite reading the comics with the dinosaurs, I didn't realize Ryan North was doing Lower Decks comics. And he puts his snarky hover text in the comics.
Also has Tendi in sleek dresses drinkin' hooch, which I appreciate. I got a thing for green science chicks.
#startrek
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2024-11-24 06:23:45 UTC

FINAL FIGHTS
https://www.twitch.tv/midnightsumo
#sumo

2024-11-23 12:56:29 UTC

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Read this diatribe by Al Morgan in the voice of Emily Litella, crossed with Well Actually Guy.
#retrocomputing #coco
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https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/532/369/222/054/336/original/168287552dd68580.jpg
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2024-11-21 12:11:51 UTC

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I've come to the conclusion that computers after 1990 are not just a mistake, but do not exist.
#retrocomputing

2024-11-21 12:07:33 UTC

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Me: At least Windows is consistently ancient, I'll just work on that.
Windows:
Z:\CodeChez>bin\cavez
This version of Z:\CodeChez\bin\cavez.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information and then contact the software publisher.
Me: Fuck you, Bill Gates.
I changed nothing about my build since last time, when this worked. I just couldn't get a packaged dir to work.

2024-11-16 12:15:41 UTC

Hey, I didn't know there was a Volume II of Atari Age magazine,
https://archive.org/details/AtariAgeIssues1-7/Atari%20Age%20Issue%201%20%28May-June%201982%29/
and then a 2018 reboot:
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Atari+Age+Magazine%22
#atari #retrocomputing

2024-11-16 08:02:36 UTC

POLE POSITION
https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-pole-position_4042.html