mos_8502

@mos_8502@soc.studio8502.ca

Retrocomputing Maker and Designer in Ontario, Canada. I make stuff without promising a delivery date. I don't do crowdfunding, but I do gratefully accept Patreon and Ko-Fi support for what I do.

I am also a GNUstep contributor.

Language: English (I do speak others, but not well enough to claim fluency of any real kind)

Pronouns: He/Him

Nationality: Canadian

Politics: Hard Left, New Democratic Party, but pragmatic about it

Technology: Retro

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mos_8502, to random

I absolutely believe, based on knowledge of the subject matter, that real, sentient, artificial intelligence is not only possible, but will eventually be created.

I also do not believe for a second that current technology is anywhere close to the level needed to do the job, and even if it were, our understanding of cognition is far too low to actually pull it off except by accident.

mos_8502,

This is not to say that what popular media calls "AI" is inherently bad or useless, only that it isn't what it pretends to be. It's a tool, and it has uses, but those uses are limited, as with all tools. In the proper hands, done in accordance with proper ethics, it could be a boon to creatives, but as it stands it is mostly a tool for capitalist exploitation.

mos_8502, to random
mos_8502, to random

When doing fixed-point arithmetic on the 6502, how do you handle signedness? The integer byte is signed, but the fractional byte is unsigned?

mos_8502, to random
mos_8502, to random

Yeah, I'm liking the colour-coding of buses on the top-level diagram. Definitely more readable.

Pay no attention to the design, it's just old stuff I'm fiddling with to try stuff out in KiCAD before applying it to real designs.

mos_8502, to random

Colourizing schematic buses in a KiCAD hierarchical schematic: Readability win or waste of the minimal effort?

mos_8502, to random

Confession: I'm always a little irritated that I never got the level of interest in Turaco that I hoped. I finished the schematic, I put it up on GitHub, I announced it, and [wet fart noise].

Bright site I did finish a version of the design I believe would work, so it's always out there in case someone wants to take a shot at it. If I'd had the budget I'd have prototyped it myself, but I'm not the 8-bit guy, I don't have hundreds of people gagging to help me with whatever, I just have you.

mos_8502, to random

I haven’t heard anything about the Nabu lately.

mos_8502, to random

Abacus Super Pascal for the C64 is overall an excellent implementation of a native compiler for Pascal, while also being essentially its own operating system with its own disk format. This is both a good and bad thing - it makes disk access faster and works the way UCSD Pascal did, but makes it tricky to release what you make.

mos_8502, to random

Microscope works, both with its own LCD screen, and hooked up to a computer as a "webcam". Surprisingly good. Certainly better than it has any right to be at the price. It might work better if I put a polarizing filter over the lens aperture.

It's certainly up to the task of examining PCBs after soldering, at least.

Works as a video source in OBS as well.

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They want $30 for this. I would find it fun to turn it into a DIY retro computer CRT. But not for $30. At $10 I would consider it.

Perhaps something like a Superfo Harlequin 128K in a PET like enclosure? With a mechanical keyboard?

mos_8502,

@mmu_man Doesn’t really matter. If I did buy it, which I’m not, I would de-case it entirely to get at the CRT. Somewhere in there is a circuit that will accept a composite NTSC signal.

philpem, to food
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Tonight's #food, scratch cooked lasagne. And the first lesson is it's better to get over the feeling of "uurgh that Wusthof could take my fingers off" and just grab it. Especially for carrots. It makes the wee Kitchen Devil look like a toy.

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mos_8502,

@philpem Do you do béchamel in your lasagne?

mos_8502,

@philpem It's the best way to avoid a greasy lasagne.

mos_8502,

@philpem The cheese leaks a lot of grease too.

alda, (edited ) to random
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Which should I ask my doctor for?

mos_8502,

@alda Whichever will make you happier.

mos_8502, to random

And I’m done dealing with shit for the day. I’m going to go play Graveyard Keeper on the Switch. Got the ultimate collector edition with all the DLC for like $20.

selzero, to random
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Oh FFS are we doing this again??

@That_Damn_Frank https://toot.pizza/

mos_8502,

@selzero @That_Damn_Frank Bright side, losing the inevitable repeat war will almost certainly end his career.

mos_8502, to random

I assume the sudden spike in follow notifications is due to the migration I initiated.

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