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Not a Wizard Apr 6

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craignicol Apr 6

@mathew @davidgerard we have a word for something that grows with no respect to the ecosystem.

Cancer.

There's things far more important than "number go up" that are completely incompatible with "number go up"

Not a Wizard Apr 6

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mathew Apr 6

@davidgerard "They stole your code and your art, they built racism into their systems, they're eliminating your job or making it worse, they're enabling criminal fraud, they're trashing the environment, they're making computer hardware unaffordable, they're taking down your web site with their crawlers, and they’re about to crash the economy. Also, their technology is being used to drown out legitimate content with spam, push fascism, generate child porn, and target bombs at hospitals. So why won't you be civil to them and their fans? They just want to talk at you about exciting new uses for the technology, and bully you into accepting it by telling you it's inevitable and you'll be left behind if you don't use it. Your gatekeeping is a tragedy, we should be welcoming them to Mastodon, otherwise number won't go up."

Not a Wizard Apr 4

gloriouscow Apr 4

For the first time in maybe - decades? Someone has a complete, high-resolution CGA light pen system for the original IBM PC.

(It's me. I'm the someone)

#retrocomputing #lightpen

Not a Wizard Apr 4

Spent yesterday playing around with #MeshCore. I've got a few cheap LoRa devices which I'd previously set up with Meshtastic and Reticulum.

I liked Reticulum and NomadNet as it let you set up a sort of BBS/web server. Attached to an IP address I could connect to other hosts around the planet.

MeshCore is more like what I want long-term though, something that doesn't depend on other infrastructure. So I've set up one as a router in my garage and ordered a few better antennae.

Not a Wizard Apr 4

diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱Apr 3

The year 2026 in one animation

I could really go for some tasty ass crackers

Couple more pics.

Well I finally have my A500 with #PiStorm & #Emu68 working. It's been a hell of a mission without a Windows machine to set the SD card up.

Happy to have set the HD up myself, not using someone else's presets, but it was incredibly frustrating.

Images show the purple PiStorm card over the CPU connected to a Raspberry Pi 3B+ which is too big but I don't have a 3A. Hijacking Denise is a Framethrower, hijacking Gary is my RAM expansion board.

My DF0 doesn't work, so booting from DF1.

#Amiga