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amoroso

@amoroso@fosstodon.org

Astronomy, space, Android, retrocomputing, Lisp, coding.

No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests.

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amoroso, to Lisp
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Alex Schroeder @alex checked out Medley Interlisp and shared his first impressions and goals:

https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-05-11-distractions

By the way, Medley does run on the Raspberry Pi but as a Linux application, not on the bare metal as Alex probably means:

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/paoloamoroso/early-experience-with-medley-on-the-raspberry-pi-400

alex, to random EN
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Oh no, I installed the Medley Interlisp system on my laptop because I've been following @amoroso for too long! 😅

The first goal is to have a retro-computing environment that can be useful. As far as I can tell, the documentation buttons open links in the browser outside (!) the Medley Interlisp system, i.e. I can read the documentation on my default browser.

The second goal is to have a Lisp machine where everything is Lisp. I mean, I guess I usually treat Emacs as a Lisp machine.

I feel a bit of that Plan 9 energy, but from a different planet.

amoroso,
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@alex Welcome to the dark shade side, if you have any questions feel free to ask.

The browser mostly opens for PDF documents or HyperSpec entries. For everything else you can get documentation inside Medley, try these commands at an Exec:

MAN DEFINEQ

or:

MAN PACMAN

amoroso,
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@alex By the way, evaluate (LOGOUT) to end the session.

amoroso, to retrocomputing
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An overview and brief history of POSIX from the angle of software portability on Unix.

https://vorakl.com/articles/posix

#posix #unix #retrocomputing

amoroso, to Lisp
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A sneak peek at a Common Lisp program I'm writing on Medley. Figuring what the program does is left as an exercise.

amoroso,
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@lispm It's a great exercise.

amoroso,
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👆 I posted the initial code and some notes on Insphex, a new hex dump tool in Common Lisp I'm writing under the Medley Interlisp environment. The program is similar to the Linux command hexdump.

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/insphex-a-hex-dump-tool-in-medley-common-lisp

https://github.com/pamoroso/insphex

mike, to random
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I wonder how much more of this type of thing it's going to take before people just raise the Jolly Roger instead.

https://www.androidpolice.com/new-amazon-prime-video-ad-format-incoming/

amoroso,
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@mike As Amazon and other big tech companies are realizing, they can get away with pretty much anything as most customers will tolerate nearly any amount of abuse.

rzeta0, to emacs
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lots of discussion about #emacs and #lisp on mastodon

is this representative of real world trends or just a bubble on mastodon?

amoroso,
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@rzeta0 I don't know. But what matters to me is I'm having lots of fun with Lisp, even if it's not representative of real world trends.

CWSmith, to retrocomputing
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To the folks, I got a question.

I am trying to remember a service from the late 90s that allowed you to download news from selected channels and read offline, which was sort of a big thing back in the days of dial up.

I remember seeing it on Cnet when that was a show on Scifi and a decent website.

amoroso,
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@CWSmith Marimba Castanet?

https://web.mit.edu/outland/share/lib/castanet/tuner/lib/doc/introducing/introducing.html

amoroso, to retrocomputing
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It's now available the paper of the Medley talk Andrew Sengul gave at the European Lisp Symposium 2024. It outlines the history of Interlisp, introduces the Medley revival project, and presents the main features and facilities of the environment.

The Medley Interlisp Revival
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11090093

amoroso,
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@lispm Glad you like the paper, Andrew worked a lot on it.

zyd, to Lisp
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I have to ask: why are all the Lispers European

amoroso,
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@zyd At least these US Lispers are on Mastodon:

@kentpitman

@masinter

@nhbriggs

jackdaniel, to random
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All good things end eventually -- good by !

amoroso,
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@jackdaniel I guess you had (de)fun.

amoroso,
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@jackdaniel LOL.

xinayder, to Astronomy

Is there a way I can make a separate feed or timeline in Mastodon with toots from specific hashtags? Like, can I make a timeline that only tracks toots with the hashtag?

amoroso,
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@xinayder Yes, you can do this:

  1. turn on the advanced web interface in the Mastodon settings
  2. search for a hashtag
  3. click the feed settings icon at the top of the column with the hashtag results
  4. click the pin icon
amoroso, to emacs
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The rootwork v0.2 blog posted about the author's journey through text editors, from classics such as vi(m) and Emacs to tools I've never heard of. They explain what they use the editors for and why.

https://write.as/hobbsc/wandering-words-on-text-editors

cnes, to random French
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Vous êtes nombreux à nous rejoindre suite à l'appel de @amoroso, merci beaucoup ! L'occasion de refaire une courte 🥳

Bienvenue sur le compte de l'Agence spatiale française 🇫🇷 Vous trouverez ici notre actualité, des infos sur les grandes missions spatiales, de la vulgarisation scientifique, un peu de veille et des liens pour aller plus loin 🚀

Thanks to @amoroso you're now 1337 following us. We do mostly speak le funny language, but please stay for the memes!

amoroso,
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@cnes You're welcome, keep up the excellent job. And please say bonjour to this fine astronaut you might be familiar with.

amoroso,
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@grb090423 Me too!

muzej, to Slovenia
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📻 We are broadcasting a ZX Spectrum game over the air in collaboration with Radio Student! This week marks Radio Student's 55th anniversary, and they were among the European stations broadcasting computer programs over the radio in the 1980s, a tradition we are reviving. The game being aired is Kontrabant 2, originally released by Radio Student in 1984. 🎮

amoroso, (edited )
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@muzej Congrats, you made it to the home page of Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40296926

dev_ric, to random
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Admittedly, my code isn't always perfect...

amoroso,
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@dev_ric Well, at least you got the planet right.

amoroso, (edited ) to space
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These unofficial Mastodon accounts of space agencies are bots that merely share news items the agencies publish elsewhere, yet the accounts have quite a lot of followers:

  • NASA: @nasa 71K followers
  • ESA: @esa 1.4K followers

There's an unfulfilled demand for public institutions to communicate on open and independent platforms.

amoroso,
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@cnes Let's try, the sky is the limit.

amoroso,
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@cnes After all Mastodon has boosts.

@shalien @futuresprog

amoroso,
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@grb090423 The fediverse is a space these agencies definitely need to explore.

amoroso,
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@knud Their being aware is a step in the right direction.

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