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Gemini Links 10/07/2023: More on Old Computer Challenge



  • Personal/Opinions

    • Rye Results

      About 100 grams of sourdough starter (roughly 100% hydration, or about 50 grams of flour) plus enough rye flour and water to make for a 80% hydration dough with 500 grams of flour. And some salt. Actually I ran out of rye flour so had to pad the loaf with bread flour, whoops. Thirty minutes at 445F got the bread to about 160F internal temperature; another 15 minutes got it a little above 200F inside.

    • 🔤SpellBinding: BCILMUS Wordo: BROOM
    • Mental Paralysis

      I am paralyzed mentally; not physically, and I don't mean to amplify what I'm talking about to the level of someone who actually does suffer from that. I just don't really know how to describe what I feel in any other concise way.

      In a lot of ways, I feel like I cannot move and I can't tell if it's my fault or the fault of something else. I went to therapy for the first time last week, and I have my next appointment tomorrow - yay!

  • Politics and World Events

    • The London Congress of 1881

      This article seeks to correct all too common generalisations and distortions about the London Congress of 1881. It indicates how looking solely at the resolutions – as most non-anarchists do – gives a distinctly false impression of both the Congress itself and anarchist ideas and strategy. This is an expanded version of the original which appeared in the blog of **An Anarchist FAQ** and then in **Black Flag Anarchist Review** (Spring 2023). This expanded version will appear in **Anarcho-Syndicalist Review**.

  • Technology and Free Software

    • Old Computer Challenge 2023 day 1

      Today I'm starting Solene's Old Computer Challenge V3. This is the 3rd year she's run it, but the first time I'm participating. The main idea the first year was to use an actual old computer, and she gave some specs. The second year she limited her internet. This year she suggested if you use a modern computer to limit the cores, speed, etc.

    • I got STOIC running under CP/M using the RunCPM emulator!

      Ok, I've got STOIC.COM built with the basic and miscellaneous words loaded. To do this, I assembled KERNEL.ASM to produce KERNEL.COM, ran KERNEL.COM, loaded the STOICBAS.STC and STOICMIS.STC files for the basic and miscellaneous words, used the SZSTOIC command to find out the number of 256 byte pages used by STOIC, exited STOIC with the RETCPM command, and then used the CP/M SAVE command to save the memory that STOIC was using to STOIC.COM, and then ran STOIC.COM to issue some STOIC commands. The "[" and "]" words are from the miscellaneous words from STOICMIS.STC, and count the number of items that are pushed on the stack between them.

    • Old Computer Challenge v3: day 1

      Hi! Today, I started the 3rd edition of the Old Computer Challenge. And it's not going well, I didn't prepare a computer before, because I wanted to see how easy it would be.

    • Internet/Gemini

      • 2023-W28: Capsule Of Yoshiyahu

        “Capsule Of Yoshiyahu” is a creative capsule with an interesting mix of content. It has both a Gemlog and a Microlog, which means that if you like occasional polished posts you can follow just the Gemlog, but if you want more frequent posts you can follow both the Gemlog and the Microlog.

      • gemcast Episode 50

        * 2001: A Space Odyssey / Kids and Technology * Korean Corn Dogs and Cultural Authenticity

    • Programming

      • Programming for Palm Pilot

        Thanks to a fellow Gemini user (~kelbot), I rediscovered my love for Palm OS devices. Today I fired up an old IDE and started coding for them.

        As a kid, I somehow came into possession of a Palm Pilot m150 (at least I think that was the model number). I also had a folding Palm keyboard, that communicated with the device via infrared. I of course used the device for games (Kyle's Quest and DragonBane II were amazing), but I also found numerous on-device IDEs that utilized the BASIC and C programming languages.


* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.



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