ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Trying to explain networking details and the conversation has become:

"So HTTP/3.... no, wait. Backup.
So, QUIC. No...
UDP is....
The thing about IP...
So you've got an 802.3 frame, right?
Alright, so the voltage potential alternates for 56 cycles to establish synchronization and exclusivity on the wire..."

BASIC Code is a new retrocomputing blog that posts refactored and adapted "40-year-old type-in listings from 80s books and microcomputing magazines".

https://basic-code.bearblog.dev

#basic #retrocomputing #blogs

My boss asked me "what new skills do you think web developers will need in two years", which gave me an opportunity to tell her about my recent efforts to learn urban foraging and how to identify edible plants in my neighborhood.

#WebDevelopment #UrbanForaging #ImpendingEconomicCollapse

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#flexibleWork #remoteWork #ReturnToOffice https://mastodon.social/@mklopez/115187361052628583

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/

As I was walking home today, I had this idea: Is it possible to turn a QR code into a Truchet tiling that's still a functioning QR code? Yep.

Someone has pointed out, quite rightly, that I really should tag @standupmaths when I mention a video that he has made.

I'm not sure appearing in a video counts as a connection for an Erdős number, much as people might hope it might.

So ... the monostable (or self-righting) tetrahedron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6S5gHjuN48

#Maths #Math #MathsChat #MathChat #MTBoS

Good evening, #mastoart #mastodon

This is #SilentSunday #fotografie #photography

#maldon #victoria #australia #ruralaustralia

#roentare #photographyisart #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #potd #stormhour #milkyway #sky #night #nightphotography #nightphoto #stars #nature #naturephotography #thephotohour #landscape #landscapephotography #ayearforart #country #heritage #astrolandscape #rural

@Roentare

Congrats Dunks! Bloody well deserved! #BrisbaneLions

Using LLMs to chat with books and documents? That's so 1978.

In the 1970s the HELPSYS facility of Interlisp-10 let you interrogate the 700+ pages Interlisp Reference Manual via an English like syntax. You could run queries on topics and system functions such as TELL ME ABOUT EVAL or TELL ME ABOUT THE 2ND ARG OF CHANGEPROP and HELPSYS would print the relevant information or section of the manual. Here's an example session from the 1978 edition of the manual:

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp/Interlisp-Oct_1978.pdf#page=474

Interlisp-10 was the Interlisp implementation for the PDP-10.

#interlisp #documentation #lisp #retrocomputing

The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, published in September 1992.
It referenced every website available at the time, mind blowing that you could visit every single site in one sitting, the golden times!

bad news ipv4 fans.

linus torvalds has announced removing ipv4 support from the linux kernel after the maintainers of the network stack got into a fight over WHAT KIND OF HRT gives the best results.

this incident will impact 5 billion people and will make 95% of all network equipment on Earth binnable.

7 days after the GitHub CEO said, “embrace AI or get out of the profession”, he is out of the profession.
https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

If the world is supplied with 100% renewable energy, 50% of the global shipping traffic will be eliminated, coal oil and gas no longer needs to be transported
#endfossilfuels
#oilkills