bouncepaw 🍄 @bouncepaw@lor.sh

Last week, Devine gave a talk to my low carbon computing research group, it was really interesting!

"Salt water computers"

Here are the recording and transcript:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_848417_en.mp4
https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_848476_en.vtt

@neauoire
#permacomputing
#FrugalComputing

Please add this on your websites :

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@Draekos imagine an entire philosophy 101 class where everybody sat in these

Hey friends just that one Canadian brand having a completely normal one

The sun is an eldritch horror.

Inconceivably old, will last for an equally inconceivable amount of time.

Effectively eternal from our perspective.

Looking at it directly will destroy your eyesight.

Unapproachable, at risk of complete immolation.

Incomprehensible and alien.

Enlight

I have made a weird musical instrument. It is some kind of electronic just intonation kalimba I guess? With stars?

Once a month supplies are delivered to the flatness lonely people.
Coffee is what they always expect.
Coffee is the thing they never get.
Today they received expired tomato soup cans.

Digital color over minimal #doodle.

#scifi #spaceship #scifiart

@vidak I was trying to find the name of the owl, and was surprised to discover that it wasn't an Acorn logo at all, and it was actually from the BBC ...
https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/BBC-Computer-Literacy-Project/

Ironically the archive of the CLP has itself expired, so off to archive.org to find an archive of the archive ...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190408110157/https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/history

more computers should be powered on with keys.

A reminder that Mastodon and the Fediverse do NOT use cryptocurrency, blockchains, NFTs, tokens, coins, mining, web3 or anything like that.

Masto and the Fedi run on traditional servers and use a sustainable network federation model somewhat similar to e-mail (that's why Fediverse addresses look similar to e-mail addresses).

Also a reminder there are no venture capital firms or other investors either. No one owns the network, each server is independent. Masto and Fedi server running costs are paid by their owners, sometimes with donations from users.

No one is getting rich from the Fediverse, it is all volunteers with some getting donations and a few getting modest grants from foundations. Please remember this when you interact with admins or developers.

(There might be some individual users who post about cryptocurrency/blockchain, but the infrastructure this place runs on doesn't use it at all.)

Tl:dr - Decentralisation does NOT mean cryptocurrency/blockchain

#Fediverse

Check out the Sun 3/160 running SunOS 4.1.1 you can ssh to and login as the guest user 'lcm'.

https://wiki.livingcomputers.org/doku.php?id=sun_3_160

#sun #retrocomputing #unix

I work at a school, and yesterday I logged a job with Dell for a broken computer, but their case email never arrived so they gave me a call and asked if I had a different email address they could use.
Me: "Sure, just send it to <name>@<personal-domain>.moe"
Dell: ".moe? Oh, Ministry of Education, right?"
Me: "Er, yes..."

#meme

Enjoying working my way through @compudanzas Intro to #uxn day 1.
#uxn #uxntal #varvara

Why, yes. Yes, I am bodging a weeee little disassembler using hexdump and sed. 😅

From black beans to pigment to watercolor. Learning how to turn plants into watercolor has been so rewarding 🥰
#mastoart #pigments #wildcrafting