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profoundlynerdy

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My retro computing niche is source code archaeology: the art of reconstructing maintainable source code from disassembly and reverse engineering. It's harder than it sounds but also fascinating and rewarding. I also enjoy working with unpopular or niche programming languages. I very much follow the beat of a different drum.

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profoundlynerdy, to esperanto
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It seems odd that #Esperanto is not listed in the UNESCO "Atlas of The World's Languages in Danger." The total speaker base of Esperanto approximates that of the native speaker base of #Yiddish (vulnerable).

#UNESCO's criteria is that the #language must have native speakers, which Esperanto clearly has.

Are there any good sources that document the number of native speakers? Alternatively, do any new religious movements use Esperanto as a liturgical language?

profoundlynerdy,
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@riley Maybe. Do most Esperantists not teach the language to their kids? If so, why not?

masukomi, to random
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Wanna feel old? Add one of these to your amazon cart. :/

profoundlynerdy,
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@masukomi Allergies... eff'n allergies.

profoundlynerdy,
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@masukomi Yeah, I get it. I have that exact model. You're right, it makes me feel old even though that's objectively not the case.

My wife still teases me though, and that's fine. Poking fun is a cornerstone of our relationship.😀

SinclairSpeccy, to linux

Somehow my video about the 1994 version of Yggdrasil #Linux reached 1k views 🙃 .

I should really do more old OS stuff but I have been dealing with school and lack of motivation

profoundlynerdy,
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@SinclairSpeccy Was that for #PPC?

profoundlynerdy, to random
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Are there good terminal-based programs out there, akin to , , etc?

profoundlynerdy, to programming
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What is your preferred dialect of #BASIC, modern or otherwise? I like what #FreeBASIC is upto. It seems fairly popular from a user base standpoint but it seems to be lean on developers.

#programming #retrocomputing

thomasfuchs, to random
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Looks like this serial port has seen some things

profoundlynerdy,
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@thomasfuchs At least the pins are not bent!

rml, to random

Can you imagine how much better programming was for the average geek in the 70s? Rarely having to run your programs, getting all the joy of writing them without having to fuss with a computer?

profoundlynerdy,
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@toxi @rml That is a fantastic quote! I couldn't agree more.

Do you still code in ASM?

GW, to random

'Taxation without full representation': Kentucky journalist questions #McConnell’s 'mental fortitude'

"As Senate Minority Leader, McConnell is paid an annual salary of $193,400. This is fair pay for a job as demanding as representing the interests of more than 4.5 million Kentuckians," says Gibson. "But if Kentucky's senior U.S. senator can't be present, alert, lucid and healthy enough to do the job, then that arguably amounts to taxation without full representation."

https://www.alternet.org/no-shame-in-retiring-mcconnell/

profoundlynerdy,
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@GW What about representation while tripping on stuff, forgetting where you are, and wondering around lost on stage? 😃

maxleibman, to privacy
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Fingerprinting devices is immoral. Full stop.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #AdTech #privacy

profoundlynerdy,
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@maxleibman What are good fingerprinting countermeasures for #Android?

profoundlynerdy,
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@maxleibman Fair enough. Maybe someone else will chime in.

profoundlynerdy,
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@On @maxleibman Mull browser? I've never heard of it.

Crell, to programming
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It is both impressive and depressing how long nominally broken code can somehow magically continue to work. Just long enough for you to be invested in said brokenness, and fixing it to become a problem.

profoundlynerdy,
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@Crell And once you've fixed it you wonder how it ever managed to even partially work. 🤦‍♂️

Debugging duck goes quack.

Rairii, to random

so a set of interesting microsoft confidential media got dumped today

including a bunch of their anti-LAMP/anti-Linux propaganda from circa 2005

iso download: https://archive.org/download/ms-evangelism-rhythms-fy06rel01/Lamp101.iso

iso browse: https://archive.org/download/ms-evangelism-rhythms-fy06rel01/Lamp101.iso/

one of the powerpoint slides actually uses the term "Micro$oft", huh.

profoundlynerdy,
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@Rairii I remember a LOT of that FUD!

profoundlynerdy, to random
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Holy crap! A ton of #BASIC games rewritten in modern scripting languages, including #Perl. That's too cool.

The only downside in my mind is that the project is focused on memory safe languages. You kids and your memory safe languages.

I'd like to port some of this to #C.

https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games

profoundlynerdy, to retrocomputing
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What is your favorite text-based game written in #BASIC?

Rules:

  1. Any dialect of BASIC is valid.
  2. "Text" can include extended characters in common use in the 8-bit era.
  3. #interactiveficiton or #IF is valid, but the scope of the question is wider than that.
  4. No sprites or graphical tiles.
  5. Modern games that meet this criteria are valid.

#retroggames #retrocomputing #retrodev

profoundlynerdy,
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@fnordius I'm not familiar with that one.

profoundlynerdy,
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@fnordius The #BASIC source code has been posted online, with minor necessary bug fixes.

This repo has ports to many popular memory safe languages, including #Python, #Perl, and #Lua among others.

The point is to help others learn to code using these easy-to-read references. It also helps the coders sharpen their skills, because porting code between dissimilar languages is not as easy as it may seem.

profoundlynerdy,
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@cohomologyisFUN @fnordius 🤦‍♂️ yes.

Sorry about that.

profoundlynerdy,
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@cyningstan @fnordius Are encounters randomized?

internetarchive, to random
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“Fans have helped build it. Bands have supported it. And the Internet Archive has continued to scale it to be able to meet the demand.” @brewsterkahle on the Live Music Archive, now home to >250,000 recordings! https://blog.archive.org/2023/07/31/live-music-archive-collection-now-tops-250000-recordings/

profoundlynerdy,
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@internetarchive @brewsterkahle So, their music collection... whips the Llama's Ass?

For the uninitiated, see Winamp.

profoundlynerdy, to fediverse
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What is the best #Lemmy instance for #programming and #reverseengineering communities?

I'm into an odd mix of Perl/Raku, C/assembly language, and sometimes Kotlin.

I found an #infosec instance which is on my maybe list. #fediverse

profoundlynerdy,
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@mjgardner Thanks. I finally got around to signing up.

mikemathia, to bbs
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I miss #BBS

profoundlynerdy,
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@warpslide @mikemathia That also takes me back. I haven't thought about Legends of the Red Dragon in a long time. I'm sure I had a #Fidonet email address, but I don't recall using it. Echo net was something akin to #Usenet, right? It has been a few decades.

kroc, to random

The has become the clown car of microcomputers

profoundlynerdy,
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@kroc Why do you say that?

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