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amoroso, 2 hours ago to random

Rate my Lisp Machine setup and share yours.

Medley Online session on an Intel i7 1.8 GHz ASUS Chromebox 3 with 16 GB RAM and 256 GB storage.

#interlisp #LispMachine #ChromeOS

A wooden desk with a black keyboard, a black mouse, and a flat LCD monitor with a black webcam on top, The screen shows the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and some windows with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. At the left of the desk can be partly seen a wooden bookcase with two shelves. On the bottom shelf are a black computer with a mini PC form factor and a white and gray smart speaker.

bagder, 3 days ago to random

In the #curl project, being written in C, we always work on simplifying the code. One way is to use more internal helper functions and avoid direct use of some functions that are often involved in C mistakes/vulnerabilities.

To measure how this develops, we count number of these function calls used per every thousand lines of code. Over time.
In a graph.

rogersm, 8 days ago to random

I really liked this post from @reidrac on Corporate Open Source:

More GPL and less CLAs

https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/more-gpl-and-less-clas/

jpmens, 8 days ago to random

@iscdotorg is the authors[] array in bin/named/builtin.c actually maintained / up-to-date? 🙂

grumpygamer, 9 days ago to random

AI has uses in games, generating mindless lazy content is not one of them.

/cc @simon

https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slop/

jpmens, 13 days ago to random

"The content of this PR has been created entirely using a custom fine-tuned AI model."

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/39754

amoroso, 14 days ago to Lisp

Are you going to European Lisp Symposium 2024?

I have a favor to ask you. Please tell the Lispers there if any of them writes a Common Lisp book I'll be more than happy to buy it, back a kickstarter, spread the voice, and support the author any way I can.

This is just one data point but my hunch is many Lispers are like me.

#els2024 #els #CommonLisp #lisp

jpmens, 15 days ago to random

"My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the practices and security processes that use and recommend sudo, the reasons for using it are mostly bullshit."

https://dotat.at/@/2024-05-02-sudo.html

glennf, 18 days ago (edited 13 hours ago) to random

I am down to just over 30 copies (as of May 17) of Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a letterpress-printed book in an edition of 425. The book traces printing with type before Gutenberg through the present day across all technological developments. Typeset in hot metal in North Yorkshire, printed in London, bound in Germany, the hardcover book is covered in green cloth and comes in a slipcase of the same fabric. https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress Some copies remain with Tiny Type Museum slipcase stamping.

wingo, 25 days ago to random

fascinating look into the guts of the publishing industry https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

burgerbecky, 28 days ago to random

Time for the Z80 CPU to be released as open source

jackdaniel, 1 month ago to random

Very well-put rationale against LLM

[gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg99042.html

jpmens, 1 month ago to random

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vga256, 1 month ago to gamedev

for years i've dreamt of having my own tile-based RPG engine that would make lo-fi win95/macOS 9 spiderweb software style games like Realmz or Exile or Avernum

after so much hand-wringing about being unsure about the feasibility of building one from the ground up (the ground in this case being the love2d framework), i started yesterday. a couple hours later i've got the beginnings of a 2d tile editor. scrolling tiles, random terrain generation, drag and drop all work.

this is something that took me months to mould AGS into doing using a bunch of hacks and various script modules. there is no doubt now that i was trying to build a house by swinging a screwdriver at nails.

there's this theme in game development i've heard over and over: "if you want to make a game, never ever build your own engine." i've even given people that advice over the years. and after 12+ years of doing this stuff, i realize that i gave some terrible advice.

#indieGameDev #gameDev

amoroso, 1 month ago to retrocomputing

In a retrocomputing newsletter I subscribe to I read this announcement of a new community resource:

"I’ve created a new FaceBook group ..."

My heart sank at the thought of freely shared knowledge buried in increasingly locked silos. I prefer resources like Retrocomputing Forum which I recently joined:

https://retrocomputingforum.com

It's on the open web and runs an open source platform. But aside from the tech stack it's a great community with great discussions.

#retrocomputing #community

dfeldman, 1 month ago to random

If there were another binary backdoor similar to the xz attack that was found today... how would you find it?

(The xz attack was found by chance and some trivial issues that caused performance degradation)

cdamian, 1 month ago to random

That will make some people unhappy.

"China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers, FT reports"

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-blocks-use-intel-amd-chips-government-computers-ft-reports-2024-03-24/

jpmens, 1 month ago to random

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