profoundlynerdy

profoundlynerdy, 15 days ago to retrocomputing

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

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

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, 1 month ago to forth

Is there anything like Plank #Forth but for #Smalltalk or #Lisp? By this I mean an ultra minimalist version in heavily commented #assemblylanguage for any instruction set. #programming

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, 1 month ago to raku

What are some underappreciated superpowers that #Perl and/or #rakulang has EXCLUDING #regex and #grammars?

#programming #compsci

profoundlynerdy, 3 months ago to languagelearning

Are #Zettelkasten over hyped?

#learning #memory #brain

profoundlynerdy, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

Now this is #retrocomputing: someone has ported 40 year old #RTS from some uncertain #Forth dialect from the #AppleII to gForth. It originated a Byte Magazine article.

The game is playable on #Linux in a terminal at 40 columns. Someone else modernized the game to be 80 column native and make a handful of other quality of life improvements.

https://rickcarlino.com/2021/resurrecting-a-40-year-old-forth-strategy-game.html

#apple2 #retrogaming

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, 5 months ago to mastodon

Are there any #biohacking or #neurohacking #mastodon instances? #askfedi

profoundlynerdy, 5 months ago to ReverseEngineering

There are some popular #reverseengineering projects for #retrogames whereby the binary is completely disassembled, documented, and ported to a modern compiler or assembler for maintainability.

Sometimes games get quality of life improvements. Sometimes these are bugfixes sometimes they're more than that. What kinds of QOL improvements do you like to see the most? What kinds of QOL improvements go too far?

#c64 #appleii #amiga #nes #snes #atari #assembly #c #cpp #msdos #dos #retrocomputing

profoundlynerdy, 5 months ago to Neuroscience

Is there anything like an #OSI model for #neuralnetworks, biological or artificial?

#neuroscience #ai #brain #neuralnets #networking #generativeAI

profoundlynerdy, 6 months ago to cs

#CS Teachers Panic as Replit Pulls the Plug on Educational IDE. https://m.slashdot.org/story/421727

First they said, "you no longer need to learn #assembly language." Later this expanded to include #C." Then they said the same thing about #Perl. Eventually #emacs and #vim were also forgotten in favor of the new and the novel.

Now no one can code without an IDE that holds their hand and everyone thinks this is normal.

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, 7 months ago to linux

Can anyone recommend an impact printer that still has ink ribbons that are either manufactured or are easy to DIY? I mean daisy wheel or whatever the "goofball" printers were called, not dot matrix printer. I plan on printing under #Linux, so #CUPS support would be ideal.

#retrocomputing

profoundlynerdy, 7 months ago to fediverse

@vga256

Hmm... It appears that discussion about the possibility of federating between #ActivityPub and #Usenet has begun. I'd love to see groups on #Lemmy instances share content with Usenet, thus bringing it into the #Fediverse.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/46

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, 7 months ago to programming

Is there a reasonably exhaustive list of "footguns" and undefined behavior for the #C language?

#programming #linux #openbsd #netbsd #gcc #clang

profoundlynerdy, 7 months ago to linux

Those of you who perfer #Linux #terminal applications over GUI apps, have you tried the Toot client for #Mastodon? https://toot.bezdomni.net/

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, 8 months ago to RSS

Are there preexisting libraries of filters for sites that don't support #RSS or don't support it well? I'd like to be able to import a lot more stuff into #newsboat so that I can cut down on random #web surfing.

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, 8 months ago to opensource

I'm in the early stages of writing some #opensource technical documentation. It's just some notes in #markdown right now but I'll probably pivot to #ASCIIDoc before releasing it. I need to simulate an LED display in an #SVG: basically a fancy 7 segment plus some small status icons.

I could make each SVG of the display manually, but it seems like I should be able to use a #macro of some sort to accomplish the SVG generation. Has anyone else done something like this #AskFedi

profoundlynerdy, 8 months ago to fediverse

I wonder if it would be possible to make every URL a key that leads to a #Fediverse social feed where commentary could occur independent of site's hosting platform. Is that a thing? #askfedk

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