Sir Clive Sinclair & British Computer Revolution - Computerphile ⌘ Read more

Yup, and my answer’s the same: very little. But it’s fun! Have fun with computers!

mathematics is the science of the infinite, computer science is the science of the finite

In reply to: 1980s computer controls GRPS heat and AC

A Kentwood High School student programmed it when it was installed in the 1980s. Whenever the district has a problem with it, they go back to the original programmer who still lives in the area. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Blog, New Registration, New Billing, New App!
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers … ⌘ Read more

Rendering arbitrary images on the 256-color Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106671394323266954

Proof of Work is in fact a firewall against ancestor simulations: By doing lots and lots of preimage-resistant computation and generally increasing local entropy, you make reversing your timeline by computational means just that much harder

Calm-computing tip: While ⌥⌘H may clear off a lot of clutter, sometimes you want just one non-full-screened window. Consider making a new Space, moving that window into it, and enjoying its unclutteredness. Spaces are easy to create, re-order, and destroy.

pcd quito 2021: we had a talk on compudanzas and a workshop on coloring computers. | gemini://compudanzas.net/talks_and_workshops.gmi

I used a computer today. I think that may have been a mistake.

Live-coding Fizzbuzz on the Mu computer’s prototyping environment: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-06-09

How to Generate the Free Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate on Your Own (Windows) Computer ⌘ Read more…

My computer now prints a call stack when it crashes: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106239831225295745

Lisp macros in the Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106195814023586904

probably similar to solomonoff, just in the number of variables, and without the computability aspect (since we know that prop-formulas can be evaluated in exponential time)

How computer sandboxing models have evolved over time: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106185773783459627

Prototyping on the Mu computer, and nudging people to throw the first one away: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106112499040193446

Programs and Equipment I Use
After many requests, here are the programs I use for everything. I’m only putting here programs I consider tried and true and have used for a while.

I’m about getting things done quickly and having as little space between my thoughts and actions on the computer.

I like having vim-like bindings and prefer running programs in the terminal for simplicity’s sake. That said, I’m very much against the cringey meme that things … ⌘ Read more

Only Use Old Computers! ⌘ Read more…

Only Use Old Computers!

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If there is a single point of advice I can offer novice computer users, it is stop using modern computers.

If you look at “technology YouTube,” part of my neighborhood, but I more mean the massive multi-million subscriber channels, nearly all of it is devoted to constantly reviewing and comparing every new computer, processor, graphics card and product. There’s big money in it be … ⌘ Read more

Should computers run the world? ⌘ Read more…

s̶p̶a̶c̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ hiding my ambitions behind a video game / sim program ⌘ Read more

Vegyn – B4 the Computer Crash ⌘ Read more…

@(frogorbits.com) @niplav@niplav.github.io “I sign a lot less stuff these days now that my phone can pretend to be a credit card. Also: an impostor with a quantum computer can’t pretend to sign documents on my behalf…” -> It’s good that pen signatures are completely unfakeable. They’re unbelievably reliable. We can’t just copy & photoshop around the edges. Better worry about those definitely-soon-to-exist quantum computers that might crack cryptography.

@niplav@niplav.github.io I sign a lot less stuff these days now that my phone can pretend to be a credit card. Also: an impostor with a quantum computer can’t pretend to sign documents on my behalf…

Drilling into computations in the shell for the Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105790894303047592

Comp Lit: computational literature

Several levels: Achievable with: • Current computing power \ • Engineering-realistic computing power \ • Physically possible computing power \ • Unlimited but finite computing power \ • Infinite computing power \ • (?) Hypercomputation

On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Ultimate Computer https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/21/ultimate.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

baetyl - extend cloud computing, data and service seamlessly to edge devices. ⌘ https://github.com/baetyl/baetyl

There are two types of computer programmers: Those who think that computers are the problem, and those who think that programmers are the problem.

Setting up txtnish on the Linux side of one of my computers that runs CloudReady. #twtxt #txtnish #chromeos

Setting up txtnish on the Linux side of one of my computers that runs CloudReady. #twtxt #txtnish #chromeos

Computers page looks like garbage, but at least I’ve finally gotten around to making it an official part of my site.

smoothstep is a stateless smoother function commonly used in computer graphics. could be interesting in the audio domain as well (parameter smoothing, phase warping/distortion synthesis, etc): [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothstep]] #links #halfbaked

thinking of computer interfaces as being hypertypewriters #halfbakedideas

gyo is an imaginary 4-bit computer [[https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/gyo]] #links

A live-updating postfix shell for the Mu computer: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105108305362341204

Coop Exchange | One of the world’s most cited computer scientists wants cooperatives to be the future of how data is owned (Oct 2020) ⌘ https://coop.exchange/blog/e1803df3-0e40-11eb-b74d-06ceb0bf34bd/one-of-the-world-s-most-cited-computer-scientists-wants-cooperatives-to-be-the-future-of-how-data-is-owned

LC is a new music programming language that is prototype-based, strongly timed, and designed with microsound synthesis in mind: [[https://www.hnishino.com/2019/05/09/lc-a-new-computer-music-programming-language-with-three-core-features/]] #links #composition

a western music theory textbook, but reimagined to actually make sense for computers instead of humans. #halfbakedideas

while eventually I hope to get all of literate org parts of !monolith posted online as a self contained !weewiki, I’ve decided to post little pieces as self-contained documents. here is a copy of !trigvm, the toy VM used to power a rhythmic computer-sequencer controlled entirely from the !monome_grid

The computers page on https://mckinley.cc/ kills Lynx compatibility, and I’m stumped on how to fix it without the looks tanking for everyone

Just added a new page on mckinley.cc with some of the computers I have and their specs. https://mckinley.cc/computers.html

Migrated to Plan9 | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/computer

the idea would be to build and share tiny 6.5 bit programs encoded as printable ascii characters. this could then in turn be read by a virtual computer to do things like paint a picture or compose a piece of music. #halfbakedideas

a 6.5 bit fantasy computer, whose bytecode representation can be represented entirely as printable ascii characters. The first 6 contain standard data space, with the 7th bit used to represent one of 32 values. #halfbakedideas

How to mount and access Android phones on Linux computers ⌘

Bletchley Park & The National History of Computing Museum ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/bletchley.html

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