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@Gammitin Pretty cool. Here's his writeup: https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
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Ethan Black
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mastodon 4.7.3Hello there!
My interests here are primarily low-level computer #programming and interacting with people :)
I'm working on a minimalistic computing environment. It provides a 16-instruction, 32-bit VM, a low-level language called Slang, + more. #SubSky [Details on my website.]
#Golang #HaikuOS #Linux #Commodore #FOSS #gamedev #RightToRepair
#Jesus #Christianity
#AnimatorVsAnimation #SmashBros #SSBU #SSBUSheik
#fedi22 
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@frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org We need more companies supportive of FOSS like this, thank you!
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@kagihq I am in love with the "Regular version" link at the bottom which, appropriately, works by adding a ?fun=no arg.
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@evan@cosocial.ca Question -- now that I'm following + being followed by the bot, I get a boost notification for each post with hashtags.
That's going to get annoying pretty quickly... is the intention for me to mute the bot after I follow it? Would that work OK, or does the bot ever need to e.g. private-mention me something I need to not miss?
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Instead, they often implement platform-specific APIs, with a narrow range of functionality. Mastodon, for example, implements the Mastodon API, which focuses primarily on microblogging. Threads implements the Threads API. Many other ActivityPub implementers have APIs that clone the Mastodon API, to make it easier for users to adapt third-party Mastodon clients to their platforms.
That's really cool. Thank you so much for working on stuff like this, it makes a difference (you know :)
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A pretty clean keyboard layout... but having Return and Enter separate is quite interesting. Does pressing one or the other guarantee a newline in fields where pressing Return "submits"? #ClassicMacOS #retrocomputing
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social I really think that caps lock should have been a top-row key. (Although I get the historical reasons, involving and the original shift lock key placement. It physically held down shift, right? [Anyone on the #typewriters tag know?] )
I LOVE what Apple did to the Esc key, making it the size of Tab. I think if the Esc key were this large, putting it at the top-left feels right for the semantics of a 'back'/'cancel' button.
I get Vim/Vi users might not like that though 😀
#keyboards
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The Ctrl key where it belongs, I see....
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social That said, Esc is a tad far away... I'd take a keyboard where Esc is where the grave/tilde key is... dunno where best to relocate that though. Where Esc was? lol
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@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org On the bright side, there's the MacBook Neo. There's improvement there....
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Imagine lugging this to your #college class and casually taking notes in, like, a Web development class :)
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@Gammitin Nice trackball. And ThinkPad, of course. And nice virtual desktop wallpaper, and physical desktop mat, ....
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@82mhz Huh, OK, mainly just pointing that out just in case you did some unusual processing to the video. It could just be my system; maybe my browser is using GPU-accelerated video decoding, and it's not working right over Nouveau + Nvidia? IDK.
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Current work: https://gitlab.com/golemwire/subsky/-/commits/itemsys
There's a lot of out-of-band development happening, particularly with Itemsys. That remains unpublished (and unfinished).
Gonna give #TheAmazingDigitalCircus a try! #TV #YouTube
I hear it's a psychological horror in some ways.
I was one of those people who questioned reality when I they were young. Horrible times, but it's part of what made me who I am, and I wouldn't want it any other way.
PAGE 2: TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page 17: device numbers
Page 28: functions
Page 39: recursion
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@82mhz The video plays partway through, and then my browser shows an error about the file being corrupt. (I tried an Ctrl+Shift+R on the video, and it didn't help.)
Opening the video on the original page, it works, albeit getting hung up periodically through the video.
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Ah yes, the Lisa, an inspiration.
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#SmashBros for computer programmers :D
Gonna type out a combo
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This scene is so much more interesting after reading this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Chinese_room_thought_experiment
Seeing the AI of the story doing this is really interesting. It is like it is wondering at the idea of its own (non)life.
#ChineseRoom #ChineseRoomThoughtExperiment
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This is the puzzle of the digital age. We can’t—or don’t want to—avoid creating data, but that data, once created, becomes available for legal ends. The power to track every person is the perfect tool for authoritarianism. For every wondrous story about catching a criminal, there will be a terrifying story of tracking a political enemy or suppressing dissent. Such immense power can and will be abused.
I see the point now, it just looked wrong at first. Good point.
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@mcc@mastodon.social A personal block is your preference... suggesting that Mastodon in general should be exclusive of people who use AI is pretty wild though.
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@pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net @nicoco@pouet.pas.la I think a lot of us probably keep a smartphone as our unfortunately often-needed platform-decayed device....
Once you get deep into the world of logic and computer science, you wonder how existence works. When does something in a simulator program really *exist*?
https://voxelmanip.se/2024/12/14/sdl-lean-and-mean/
An article on a mostly-undocumented #libSDL option.
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@waddlesplash@mastodon.social The Chinese Room thought experiment shows that so long as an algorithm for intelligence exists, it is possible to have intelligence without consciousness.
That's a common interpretation of the #ChineseRoomThoughtExperiment , at any rate. People disagree. But I think you're conflating intelligence with consciousness.
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Moving Caps lock away from its modern location and replacing it with Ctrl is always a #based move. And I like how having the function keys on the left balances out a little the usual imbalance the #numpad introduces.
As usual, I love the huge enter key (deserving!) but the tiny backspace is probably a deal-breaker.
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@golemwire/116444607177916368
@Gina@fosstodon.org That's awful. They're trying to get people to use the LinkedIn mobile app for identity verification, which is really annoying as they're trying to take me from my open browser to a locked-down platform. ( #remoteAttestation , anyone?)