The beauty of computer games on Amber screens
Colors? Colors?! We don’t need no stinking colors! ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Action required for SIP accounts, new inbound call features, and more!
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly https://jmp.chat 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 num … ⌘ Read more

A new Amiga 1200 accelerator board has appeared
New hardware upgrade (with a 68030 CPU) for a nearly 30 year old computer ⌘ Read more

** Data Types and Variables in C **
I’ve been writing a heap of Lua lately — this has lead to my becoming interested, again, in C. Here are some ancient notes I dug up on the most basics of data types and variables in C.

All of a computer’s memory is comprised of bits. A sequence of 8 bits forms a byte. A group of bytes (typically 4 or 8) form a word. Each word is associated with a memory address. The address increases by 1 with each byte of memory.

In C, a byte is an object that is as big as t … ⌘ Read more

Worst color palette: ZX Spectrum or CGA?
The two ugliest color palettes in computer history… but which burns your eyes the most? ⌘ Read more

How to: Set up your own BBS Server on Linux
Computing of the 1980s, meet operating systems of the 2020’s. ⌘ Read more

The Linux-powered Nokia N810 from 2007 – still awesome in 2021
The N810 may be 14 years old… but it’s still a rad little handheld computer. ⌘ Read more

The 1985 online service for 48k Atari computers: Games Computers Play Network
The game-focused, 8-bit, joystick-driven, Atari-only On-Line service of the ‘80s. ⌘ Read more

Thinking abaout the great Gary Kildall
CP/M, DRI, GEM, & The Computer Chronicles. Gary Kildall accomplished so many amazing things. ⌘ Read more

If everyone on Earth drives a 1993 Toyota Corolla… nobody has an awesome car.
We’re not really talking about cars here. We’re talking about computer Operating Systems. ⌘ Read more

The challenge of sourcing ethical computer hardware
Every laptop and smartphone we can buy right now is tainted in some terrible way. ⌘ Read more

** How to install Uxn on macOS **
Uxn is an esoteric stack-machine with 32 bit instructions. It exists someplace at the intersection of a GameBoy, 6502 ASM, an Apple II, Forth, RetroForth, the z80, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and“what if Nausicaä from Studio Ghibli’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind used a computer?” It is tiny, unlike most anything else around these days, and, once you wrap your head around it, pretty fun.

I won’t go into how to develop for it … ⌘ Read more

In reply to: Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge

This, for me, points to the arbitrariness of the“desktop” as a prime metaphor in computer user interfaces.

It made sense at the birth of contemporary computing — business suits and what not — but maybe there’s a new paradigm worth explori … ⌘ Read more

Maybe I’m too hard on modern smartphones…
As I (a critic of modern computers) lay here, sick in bed, I’m sure happy I have my Android and iOS gadgets… ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame “Adventure” : Mary Ann Buckles : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: WDR paper computer - Wikipedia ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Paper Computing ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke clan is sick.
So here are some advertisements of handheld computers from the 1980s to keep you company while I recover. ⌘ Read more

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