Hi all!
With things here seemingly not in good shape, I created an account over at lemmy.ml and created an Atari 8 bit group over there.
To be clear, this group isn't viewable / findable from worldwide lemmy at all :(
You can find that group here.
Not as of yesterday, no.
And that's fine, I certainly have no shortage of things to occupy my time, I'd just hoped to be able to help make the SDF even more awesome :)
I'm giving up on this Lemmy FWIW. I signed up over at lemmy.ml
I could be wrong but I think this is a general issue within the SDF. It's an incredible organization and I value my membership in it very highly but I wish it were easier to pitch in and volunteer to make things better.
I think I'll give lemmy.ml a shot. It's run by the Lemmy developers so seems like chances are good it'll continue to function properly :)
Ah well, we live in an imperfect world. I'm grateful for them in any case! :)
It's not even merely the idea that some trans dimensional being might choose to communicate with our plane, it's the manner they allegedly chose to communicate: A Ouija board.
The Ouija board is the ultimate self fulfilling prophecy. The humans who place their hands on the planchette can either consciously or subconsciously dictate the messages the purported being on the other end of the board is transmitting.
And I don't even necessarily have a problem with that, but let's be up front about it if we're all going to play a party game that amounts to recreational fiction writing with a spooky feel.
I also don't mean to take anything away from anyone who feels they have benefited from the Seth material. Inspiration can be drawn from many sources reputable and not.
I just wonder if the people in that room actually believed what they were purporting to.
Well, I sent an application email with my resume and the best proposal I could think of to volunteer@ a couple weeks back. We'll see what happens I guess :)
Ooh thanks for the link that's super helpful!
Hi all!
I'm relatively new to the SDF in any meaningful sense.
I think I'd signed up for a shell account a year ago or so but didn't use it much.
A few months back I started to readlize how much more the SDF has to offer - an incredible community blending technology, art, and social aspects.
I find this incredibly inspiring.
One thing I've noticed is a ton of reports coming in that this or that doesn't work, and some sour grapes from folks frustrated that they're not seeing the action they'd like on the part of the maintainers.
Which leaves me wondering, who are the maintainers, and might there be mechanisms so that SDF members can pitch in and help keep the software ecosystem we maintain for members more healthy?
I know there's a ton of up front effort required to, say, train up a new maintainer for any given complex piece of server side software, but many hands make light work, and perhaps there are things "around the edges" that could help and give newer folks an opportunity to earn trust and train to be the co-maintainers of the future?
Ideas are like elbows and I know everyone has one, I'm just wondering if I can help, and given the general tech level required to even participate in SDF, wondering if others might be able to help as well.
Thanks for listening! -Chris feoh@SDF and everywhere else :)
I don't think Pascal is clunky! I think it represents a point on the evolution of programming languages and is still well loved by a LOT of people! Just google Free Pascal or Lazarus Pascal.
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I love how much modern computing culture has its roots in the good old Amiga, and folks who didn't own one are totally clueless about it.
One could, but I would argue that this idea pre-supposed a very ascetic class of programmer, and that depending on one's goals in learning how to program, recursion can be a useful concept but saying it should be the one litmus test for any learning platforms seems highly questionable to me.
Are there any off the shelf available 68K based computers these days? I wasn't aware of one but that would be cool :)
AMIGA 2023!!! :)
Or maybe there are people who find working in low powered environments that behave a certain way, more like computers did in the 80s enjoyable.
It's not about boomers or what's powerful and what's not. Some things are just for fun and that's all the justification they need IMO.
Also, how would that 'weirdness' impact using the device in a teaching context?
What would you like to see instead? Z80? Something else?
Oh I totally agree. The Lua idioms can be confusing and the documentation ecosystem is currently in a place where if you already know Lua well it's incredibly helpful, but bridging the gap for beginners is a challenge - one worth embracing!
It's not a distribution.
It's a bag of Lua files you can use to get started.
Also, it's not for you :) Users who know enough to hold such opinions aren't the target audience.
That's not just understandable but how could it be any other way?
Heck just Vim itself is layer upon layer of powerful functionality. Now layer in the immense potential of Neovim's Lua based plugin ecosystem and client/server architecture? 🤯
Give yourself the time to learn. Focus on just the things you need to get the task you're doing RIGHT NOW done, then focus later on things that can level up your knowledge and productivity.
I've been thinking about making Neovim tutorial videos for Youtube. If I did, what kinds of things would be useful to you?
I just loved everything about this show. It was way more erudite than it had any business being, ESPECIALLY considering the vapid television offerings of its time.
Darn, now I wanna go re-watch the series :)
Hello!
I joined the SDF a number of months back but got more involved about 2 months ago when I upgraded to a MetaARPA membership.
One of the things I just adore about the SDF is that, as a new comer, it seems to emphasize the creative, artistic and social aspects of computing rather than being yet another place for entrepreneur culture mavens to try out their new side hustle :)
I have nothing against making money, but I fell in love with computers in the 80s because they were bicycles for the mind, and I want people to remember that :)
I've been stumbling around the Boston area for close to 40 years now. I adore old computers, reading anything and everything I can get my hands on including but not limited to science fiction, urban fantasy and science/history.
It's neat that MetaARPA members get PBX extensions - it would be neat to organize a voice chat every now and then if there isn't one already!
Thank you to everyone who helps make this happen. I look forward to figuring out how I can pitch in helping to continue to make this place awesome :)
Hi!
kickstart.nvim maintainer here, please don't follow the advice given in the video to just dump init.lua into place.
Please follow the instructions in the README for the repo and git clone it into your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME instead.
If you just copy pasta init.lua things will break. This is a result of converting Kickstart to lazy.nvim
Also, it's a bit frustrating. That video is out of date as it's prior to the conversion to lazy.nvim
You should rather than just dumping init.lua in place actually git clone the repo into your ~/.config directory. There are instructions for that in the README.
I appreciate your honesty about the README!
You say it didn't make sense, was it:
- Too long so you felt overwhelmed and stopped?
- Too complicated in some way? Which bit caused you to stall out?
I feel like we need to do better here, but also I'm not a writer myself so I could definitely use all the specific feedback we can get.
Please feel free to file bugs, even if it's "I don't understand what <$tech_phrase> means" or similar. I'll action ever single one of them :)
Remember Compute! magazine? :) I Lived for that thing :)
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I recently transitioned back to working in academia after 6.5 years at a MegaCorp, and by the end I was pretty burned out.
I got better, and I'd like to think I learned a few things along the way. that I wanted to pass on to folks in case they might help somebody.
This project really showcases the power of open source and passionate people building something for the sheer joy of it :)
It's basically an EP32 chip with a tiny smidge of custom hardware that's been programmed to speak the serial protocol of quite a number of 8 bit machines.
I have one for my 800XL and that speaks Atari's SIO protocol.
The depth and breadth of software for the thing is amazing, and overall I find the whole project incredibly inspirational.
Lately, they've been on a kick of creating a project where they've instrumented classic Atari games to post high scores on the internet, with a website 'lobby' where you can sign up to play games online with others.
Totally love mine, and which I had a bigger house so I could have an Apple II and a C64 and get the Fujinet for those platforms as well :)
feoh @lemmy.sdf.org I am a life long nerd who seems to be perpetually chasing the next bright shiny thing :) I will always be puttering with technology whether I'm paid for it or not :)
I love spending time with my wife and our rescue pup, playing with old computers, reading, and playing video games.