amszmidt

amszmidt, 6 months ago to random

I'm considering blocking fosstodon, the admins seem to not really care about violations of their own rules. 😞 Are there any other FLOSS friendly instances?

amszmidt, 6 months ago to random

People complain about daylight savings time, and quote mythical "suicide rates go" up "research" .. As someone living around the 60 parallel .. I can tell that the five minutes a year to set your watch to get a bit more sunlight is absolutely worth it.

I spend more time changing to winter/summer tires each year, and getting the car checked. Whiners is what I think...

#SaveDaylightSavings #DaylightSavingsIsAwesome

amszmidt, 7 months ago to random

Added bunch of data sheets, should make life slightly easier to navigate. #LispMachine CADR4 hacking.

amszmidt, 7 months ago to random

Hey old dusty book! #LispMachine

amszmidt, 7 months ago to random

https://github.com/ams/cadr4

Lets hack #CADR #LispM #LispMachine

@screwtape see you in a few! ;)

amszmidt, 7 months ago to VHDL

Calling on all able bodied #VHDL / HDL hackers to help me with getting the #CADR working on some half modern #FPGA! #LispM #LispMachine

I have no strong opinions, the previous design worked on Spartan 6. The Arty looks nice. ICE40 might be too small, I dunno...

amszmidt, 7 months ago to random

And those people that complain about projects being "hostile", "toxic" ... probably should try to be kinder.

amszmidt, 7 months ago to random

How is your weekend? Mine is two #LispM side by side, and talking to another #LispM hacker over Converse.

Who wants to make a Mastodon client for #LispM so I can toot things? (I would suggest, a Chaosnet service, where you configure most of the stuff, and you send a too in the payload)".

#LispMachine revolution is nigh!

(There have been more releases of the #LispM this half century than Hurd releases .. gets you thinking).

amszmidt, 7 months ago to random

If #LispM had release music, then for System 300 it would be Cat Stevens' Can't keep it in .. #LispMachine revolution is nigh!

Oh .. I can't keep it in, I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out .. I've got to show the world, world's gotta know

Know of the love, love that lies low.

amszmidt, 7 months ago to random

Finishing of System 300 for the #LispM … hopefully one can concentrate on making the FPGA after that. #LispMachine #LispM

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

I have a dark secret to tell ... I do not split expressions or statement in C, no matter how long they are.

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

Veganism is beyond silly -- one calls on ethical treatment for animals .. only from humans. But not call on ethical treatment from animals towards animals. If veganism was ethical, the foxes would stop eating chickens.

The ethical choice is to be aware of why one eats something .. where your food comes from -- to try and make a smaller imprint on this little water ball. That is something that has been lost, and perverted by corporations.

Eat local, eat seasonal, eat wild.

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

With #GNU turning 40, and the @fsf turning ?? (pop quiz! https://hostux.social/@fsf/111177276677774798); my hope for is that we will take back control of the hardware we use, so that we can get rid of DRM, non-free blobware, magical boxes and make our computers respect the freedoms that all users deserve.

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

Weird thread on HN about "working offline" ... the weirdest recommendation is to setup a Bullshit Generator locally. I think I saw one that said essentially that you cannot do modern programming without Internet ... then again, this is HN. 😜

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

Do people still use #GnuPG?

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

Rust exemplifies everything that is wrong with modern computing. For whatever reason, was upgrading my GNU/Linux system, and rust needs to be compiled/installed. On a modern machine, it is eating up all my 8 cores and all my memory and so far has been compiling for half an hour!

There is literally no reason why a compiler should eat this many resources to compile. #RustIsCrust #UnixVirus

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

#GNU 40 years ... what a trip, and what a future awaits!

I remember first stumbling over the GNU manifesto so many years ago, logging in as rms on the (pre-!)GNU machines, a different, kinder time.

#SoftwareFreedom #GNU #FSF

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

Did you know that there is a BUG-LISPM chat? https://tumbleweed.nu/r/bug-lispm/chat it has low traffic since the #LispM is perfect. #LispMachine revolution near you!

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

The count down has started! #GNU40! Happy hacking! #SoftwareFreedom or Bust.

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

Reproducible builds do not help Software Freedom. 'nuff said.

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

Soon the most important software project turns 40! To think one has seen GNU grow from the earliest days to today! For 40 more years! Join us now and share the software!

#GNU @fsf

https://www.fsf.org/news/forty-years-of-gnu-and-the-free-software-movement

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

Just a random shout out to the #GNU project, one of the kindest and most fun projects ever fighting software injustice all over the world! :heart_fire:

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

Chaosnet will have a wider spread than IPv6 by 2036. #LispM #LispMachine and #PDP-10 revolution is nigh.

amszmidt, 8 months ago to unity

So this #Unity thing ... the issue isn't really that they change their ToS. The issue is that people fell for non-free software, on top of that ... that people are fuming over the price change is not really relevant.

People are upset over the wrong thing because they have not learned about the freedoms that they should have when it comes to their own computers.

Had they known, they would never had used Unity ... #SoftwareFreedom

amszmidt, 9 months ago to random

Oh ok ok .. so counting the total system source code isn't fair, since "UNIX" is just a kernel (it's not ...). The Lisp Machine "kernel" is just 30k lines. #LispM revolution is nigh. looks for a door