profoundlynerdy

profoundlynerdy, 10 months ago to retrocomputing

What is your favorite text-based game written in #BASIC?

Rules:

1. Any dialect of BASIC is valid.
2. "Text" can include extended characters in common use in the 8-bit era.
3. #interactiveficiton or #IF is valid, but the scope of the question is wider than that.
4. No sprites or graphical tiles.
5. Modern games that meet this criteria are valid.

#retroggames #retrocomputing #retrodev

profoundlynerdy, 7 months ago to python

With #Python stealing everyone else's thunder, what makes a project a good fit for a scripting language OTHER than Python?

#Perl #Raku #Lua #Ruby #PHP #powershell #bash #programming

profoundlynerdy, 11 months ago to gentoo

@devinprater I'm trying to improve the #Gentoo #Linux installation instructions so that they take blind users into account. I'm hitting a brick wall.

Right now #Gentoo boots a live ISO to a terminal. No SSH by default. No screen reader by default. Hell, if there is a problem at boot time with GRUB, you won't know.

What helps? The only thing I can think of is maybe having a serial interface an external device can "screen read" aloud. Any suggestions would be extremely helpful.

profoundlynerdy, 8 months ago to RaspberryPi

I want to replace my existing wall thermostat with something smarter but NOT connected to "the Cloud" for security reasons. The more open the #firmware the better.

My goals are to be able to deploy wireless temperature sensors in every room of the house and be able to script things from a #raspberrypi with API calls to the device. Any suggestions?

#homeautomation #askfedi #coding #bash #perl #python #rakulang

profoundlynerdy, 5 months ago to retrocomputing

Are there there any #retrocomputing friendly #digital modes for #hamradio?

That is, if I have a #C64, an #Apple2, or a #beeb, etc. are there any digital modes I can actually use with those systems given their extremely constrained system specs by modern standards?

profoundlynerdy, 7 months ago to hacking

My laptop has #UEFI firmware that vendor-locks the (buggy) WiFi card. Any attempt to replace it results in the system failing to boot with an "unauthorized network card" error.

Obviously, this is needles vendor lock-in. Are there any useful guides that would help me understand how to dump the firmware, disable the check and reflash the system with modified firmware? #Hacking

profoundlynerdy, 1 year ago to webhosting

Can anyone here recommend a good #webhosting company for my #hamradio club?

I'd like something that's reasonably priced but has cpanel and Let's Encrypt support. Any takers?

Next, I need to migrate them away from a static site that feels like it was written by a teenager in the mid 90's targeting Netscape 2.0 and towards something modern. I think I'll go with #wordpress against my better judgment, because it's reasonably old-person friendly.

profoundlynerdy, 1 year ago to random

Besides #retrocompiting and the occasional #firmware update for a #networking or #iot device, where do you see old school #ftp still being used? Not TFTP, #FTPS, or SCP but true FTP?

profoundlynerdy, 1 year ago to linux

Does anyone here actually use the sc-im spreadsheet? If so, why?

For the uninitiated, sc-im is a #vim-like spreadsheet program for the #commandline on #Linux and #bsd. There may be a windows binary but I wouldn't know.

profoundlynerdy, 10 months ago to random

Are there good terminal-based #passwordmanager programs out there, akin to #keepass, #KeePassX, etc?

profoundlynerdy, 11 months ago to firefox

https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/110630469728113305
slashdot@mastodon.cloud - Brave Aims To Curb Practice of Websites That Port Scan Visitors https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/06/29/219224/brave-aims-to-curb-practice-of-websites-that-port-scan-visitors?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

When can #Firefox get this feature? I had no idea #portscanning from the web was a thing. That's far too invasive. Is there a sane way to set this up locally #Linux with #iptables?

#cybersecurity

profoundlynerdy, 9 months ago to esperanto

It seems odd that #Esperanto is not listed in the UNESCO "Atlas of The World's Languages in Danger." The total speaker base of Esperanto approximates that of the native speaker base of #Yiddish (vulnerable).

#UNESCO's criteria is that the #language must have native speakers, which Esperanto clearly has.

Are there any good sources that document the number of native speakers? Alternatively, do any new religious movements use Esperanto as a liturgical language?

profoundlynerdy, 10 months ago to raku

@vga256 BTW, what made you think that a DSL was the correct solution to the problem you were trying to solve?

#Raku grammars are good at that kind of thing: https://raku.org/. I did not know that #PHP was DSL friendly.

profoundlynerdy, 8 months ago to Fonts

Are there any good fixed width #fonts that are especially good for representing math? Example: the over scores in 0.3̅3̅ can be functionally impossible to spot with Fira Code.

Trying to write math-y things in #vim on #Linux should not be hard.

profoundlynerdy, 11 months ago to random

@ovid Congratulations on the pending release of #Perl 5.38!

profoundlynerdy, 15 days ago to retrocomputing

Could #ICQ be reverse engineered and federated as an open protocol? #retrocomputing #internet #askfedi

profoundlynerdy, 10 months ago to fediverse

What is the best #Lemmy instance for #programming and #reverseengineering communities?

I'm into an odd mix of Perl/Raku, C/assembly language, and sometimes Kotlin.

I found an #infosec instance which is on my maybe list. #fediverse

profoundlynerdy, 10 months ago to random

@matsuzine According to your profile you're into Perl. Cool, I enjoy Perl and Raku both, myself. What sorts of #Perl stuff do you like to work on?

profoundlynerdy, 10 months ago to fediverse

#SMTP and #NNTP both allow custom headers, called X-headers. Does #ActivityPub support anything like this?

profoundlynerdy, 10 months ago to fediverse

Can someone explain #Lemmy to me? I get that it's a sort-of #Reddit clone for the #Fediverse but that's about all I know. How is it better or different? #eli5

profoundlynerdy, 6 months ago to forth

Those of you who love #Forth, do you foresee a pathway out of obscurity for the language? In an era where memory safe languages like #Rust dominate, does forth have something to offer?

It used to be that its super power was being "just enough abstraction" atop #assembly language made it the king of flexibility. But in an era where machine language institutions are themselves just really fast macros in a tiny CPU cache, I'm not sure how helpful that is.

profoundlynerdy, 11 months ago to ipv6

Serious question: my #ISP lacks #IPv6 support. Other than "call and complain" which would be fruitless -- their call center staff are not actually technical and have no idea what IPv6 is -- what reasonable steps could be taken by the ISP's users to push for adoption? Anything?

profoundlynerdy, 1 month ago to esperanto

I realize #Esperanto as a language movement is decentralized but is there anything like an "upper crust" within it?

profoundlynerdy, 19 days ago to random

@grammargirl Okay, very much in left field here, but the Freemasons had an outsized impact on both US and French history.

Have any #Freemason ritual terms or even shibboleths entered into common usage? I can think of one or two plausible examples but you know more about etymology than I do.

"Hoodwink" seems unlikely but "to give the third degree" seems plausible. That's about all I can come up with.

profoundlynerdy, 15 days ago to c64

Can anyone recommend a #roguelike for the #c64 or even the #commodorepet? Period or modern, either is fine as long as it's fun.

#retrocomputing