@psf i have many, such as the plans and documentation for the symbolics 3600 lisp machine!

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/symbolics/3600_series/

also, there is a very informative archive of a lot of dec’s minicomputers!

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/

the culture we share here is going to change the world forever.

long after the fediverse is offline, and 99% of all our data here has rotted away, people will look back and wonder how we could have shared something so beautiful.

maybe this sounds way too overblown, but as i sift through bitsavers over and over again, i am astounded every time at the (now forgotten) efforts people made at trying to extend computer science in ways which was friendly and pedagogical.

what we have now in computing is a pale, dim shadow of the likes of DEC, Smalltalk, Lisp machines…

@vari specifically

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31705239

what is all the hate for Uxn lately?

why are we not lavishing praise on what should all be inspiring us

i have only been shown friendship and careful guidance from devine.

they are a true anarchist.

what is the best R7RS implementation right now?

or, alternatively, what is your favourite implementation of scheme for systems programming?

my Unix Users Group is exploring writing a nano kernel system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_nanokernel

also see HelenOS

communists do work hard, actually

every union member i have ever met hates people who slack off, making the collective struggle harder

work is toxic, but i love it when everyone is hell upset with defectors

The complement of solarpunk, permacomputing, and minimalist computing is the ‘great brickening’.

It is when it will not just be morally necessary to use low powered, old or long-lived computers.

It is when all these new bricked PCs will be unusable, and there will be no other way, except to use permacomputers.

https://pypi.org/project/twtxt/

joining the fedi is, in many ways, the true ‘red pill’ of the internet

i know i won’t ever come back from it

Okay right

Say we implement a Lisp using Ada

This is a good idea ok

XML gang

Is there an XMPP microblogging implementation yet?

Sat down and played the following 100% pirated ROMs on Guix with all my friends today:

• ninja gaiden (nes)
• yoshi’s island (snes)
• street fighter 2 (mega drive)
• others

everyone says this all the time, but why the fuck do games take up so much disk space?

I always circle back around to wondering about discrete transistor computers.

I wonder what a minimalistic one would take to build…

The problem that was stopping me from moving forward was building a ring counter for the instruction decoding.

But I have solved that now.

How would you describe the mind, philosophically?

I feel like a lot of people in the West take the function of the mind as something that ‘represents’ the world inside itself.

What if it wasn’t this way, though? There are non- or anti-representationalist theories of the mind. They take objectivity to be not accurate representation of the world inside the mind.

Imagine: the mind is an activity which is not something which is substantial. There is no ‘stuff’ of consciousness. Perhaps the mind has something to do with neurons and brain matter, but really, if we are good empiricists, why not study the empirical effects of the mind?

The mind is, according to non-representationalist theories, a human process of asking for, and giving reasons in a community trying to solve problems.