Alfred M. Szmidt

@amszmidt
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software freedom or bust / lisp machine revolutionary / sauerpunk gnu hacker / wizard of zymurgy / professional curmudgeon

#LispM #LispMachine #GNU

WEBSITEhttps://tumbleweed.nu/~ams/
LM-3 (MIT CADR, Lisp Machine)https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3/
Communists chanting Trump. Interesting times we live in.

Programming, coding, whatever you call it .. always had a hard time being called a craft. With Bullshit generators.. it has
ceased to be one.

Best to take up carpentry, music, actually involving your body and mind, if you wish to survive this madness.

I try these bullshit generators (supposedly they have intelligence, and artificial..) once in a while.

I’m still astounded at how bad they are. despite being in the “industry”. It is as bad as those Monte Carlo simulation bots one wrote many years ago, and feed them sometimes nonsense, sometimes something useful.

Like what the fuck do people find use for these things and can defend the power consumption?

When you have to restort to #AnnaArchives instead of #ArchiveOrg .. cause Archive.org implements DRM. Booo..

And yes, "Borrow a virtual book" is DRM.

If you don't try, or want to understand something... You're just a mechanical device.

@amszmidt @screwlisp @kentpitman I was wondering how

#-(or NIL (and Lispm MIT))

was supposed to do anything when I remembered that NIL actually was the name of 'New Implementation of Lisp'. That must have been a profoundly confusing language to talk about!

Hot take? Every editable text field should be an Emacs buffer. I don't want your semi-arsed Emacs keybindings, I want the full thing.
Does truth still exist?

This is the key difference:

In 2024, only 63 percent of US voters voted, and Trump became president.

Sunday, 80 percent of Hungarian voters turned out to vote, and Orbán was removed.

Be like the Hungarians.