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For #DecemberAdventure today, I'm porting a bit of #Pascal to #Uxntal

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  • @GhostOnTheHalfShell Interesting. Would you call a situation where every city provides services to citizens a "competitive market"?

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  • web design is a CSS-pool of hacks

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  • @evan Yes, but democracy, if it has markets, also requires markets to be competitive, lest powerful actors get so powerful that democracy itself is functionally lost.

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  • @evan

    I do want to say, however, that crafts people at the very least should be able to offer their wares for sale.

    The worst aspects of the Internet come from the centralized commercial platforms. We could have a world of cities, providing Internet access, web, hosting services and online storage and processing.

    They could be organizing in the same way the fediverse is. Every resident and local business gets access.

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  • @ShaulaEvans This folding magnifying glass. It's compact and invaluable when you need to ready tiny text at the limit of your unaided sight. Especially with poor lighting, in a hurry, or under stress.

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  • It's 4PM already... I really need 90 minute hours for the rest of the month.

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  • A lot of eBay sellers are now pushing refurbished gaming PCs with Linux preinstalled. The usual suspects are Batocera, Bazzite, or Nobara.

    Why? Because Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10, and Windows 11 is… let’s say not a compelling gaming upgrade. Linux runs most PC games just fine now, and in plenty of cases it actually performs better. Awkward.

    It’s going to get more interesting once the Steam Machine shows up. A whole bunch of people are going to have the same realization at the same time:

    ā€œWait. I don’t actually need Windows. And I definitely don’t want to throw away my old PC. I’ll just put Linux on it.ā€

    Others will look at the Steam Machine price and think, ā€œOr… I could just build this myself.ā€

    And then there’s the refurbished route, which is already happening. eBay is absolutely full of mini-PCs for under $200. Slap Linux on it, call it a ā€˜console’, and suddenly that dusty office computer has a second life.

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  • Friday before the code freeze. Time to land all the breaking changes!

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  • #decemberAdventure day 16

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    #decemberAdventure day 16I started writing a very compact little monitor rom for my ilo vm. This isn't quite done yet, but is about halfway finished.Just for fun, and as a non-directly computer thing, I also sketched off a set of handwritten single stroke glyphs for the ilo instruction set, and started writing out some words using them.Full logs at http://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/
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    Day 17: A violent storm tossed us around all night and kept us up, so I'm going kick back today and take it easy.I did write a tiny bit of code after breakfast to fix a bug that has been nagging me for a while. Ever since I've decided to embrace macros in Uxntal, I never got around to reflect this change in all the tooling, and the optimizer has been complaining about tail-calls with macros eversince. For example, a macro name terminating a function fall, was read as a subroutine, so the optimizer was raising a warning. But, NO MORE!https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/#DecemberAdventure
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    #decemberAdventure day 2: I've implemented most of an ilo vm in Ada. There's two remaining things to do to finish this, but I'm holding off until tomorrow for those. Adventure log @ https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/I might do an Oberon version next.
  • Update on my DOS "game".

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    Did some more #EGA #pixelart on the this classic shot and, most importantly, coded up a fancy EGA fade out effect by first ordering all colors by perceived lightness and swapping to the next-lower during the fade out until all are black. šŸ˜ŠšŸ‘#dos #retrocomputing #programming