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@serapath @catsalad You can find some of them on opencores.org. Most of what they have recreates fairly basic old machines, but in among them are several RISC-V and ARM-like implementations which could run modern operating systems and applications. It would take community efforts to build working computing devices around cores burned into FPGAs, but once there is motivation, I'm confident it will happen.

@serapath @catsalad Laptops, yes, and from a technical standpoint, phones should also be possible. Probably not phones that use existing phone networks, unfortunately, given the tight corporate and government control on what can connect to those networks. If some of the current mesh network projects continue to progress and spread, though, that might be less of an issue.

@serapath @catsalad Time for the FPGA Underground?

@softspeak @catsalad This, but certain BSDs, 9Front, XV6, V7x86, Movitz, Native Oberon, UCSD p-System, and eventually, that rewrite of XV6 in SPARK Ada.

@catsalad If you're wondering why I just went through 19 hours of your toots, retooting multiple posts, mostly cat-related, it wasn't for any of the usual creepy reasons. I was determined to find and retoot this toot, after seeing it in a browser window just before said browser window dumped core.

@dougiec3 Is a "limited combat operation" kinda like a "special military operation"? Put another way, did the shitclown just tell Putin to hold his beer?

@ariadne I have had a lot of trouble with bad or marginal cables, in the last few years. Almost recycled a perfectly good external Bluray writer because of a dodgy cable, not long ago.

@mattblaze I understand that a lot of the metal in an AM broadcast antenna array is underground, in the form of buried radials.

@LianaBrooks The Fediverse is my only remaining social medium. It's the only tolerable one left.

@shriramk One was in a dusty corner of a little used book shop that somehow survives to this day, a block from the campus of the University of Washington. Another was presented to me by a mentor after I finished The Little Schemer, along with a pink paperback edition of George Polya's _How to Solve It_, and a well-worn copy of _The Annotated Alice_ containing a bookmark from the same used bookstore. Another two, both 25th anniversary editions, were regifted to me on the grounds that I'm "one of those Lisp people.", nearly a decade apart. The fifth, I have no recollection, at all. I've been meaning to find new homes for at least 3 of them. My first copy is falling apart, and I'd to keep the one given to me by my mentor.

@shriramk Somehow, I've ended-up with five copies of that book,