dog star @dogstar@merveilles.town
gay xvx it/she (nyc, recurse center)
lefty, i like 9front, god, and interspecies cooperation
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hello, i'm phoebe. i live in nyc. i dont love computers but i do love talking to friends and strangers on the internet so it is an uneasy truce.
what i wrote in my bio is "i am a weird tech loser and artist. i enjoy contrarian ways of thinking about computers. i like plan 9, apl/k, forth, minimalism in technology, and maximalism in art" which is also true.
i put some of my art and writing on www.timeflayer.com which is my website.
imagining some sort of web challenge game "lettrist art or sprite sheet" etc
at any rate i feel like it's pretty simple, eg: 2 wheels segway style, solenoid thing for actuating the pen, some solid thing to hold these parts together, maybe 3rd spinny wheel for balance, some way of communicating instructions... hm
i feel like the most important caveat to this is that i don't believe i have access to a 3d printer
making a logo "turtle" seems pretty cheap and feasible even for me who has 0 robotics experience - has anyone else done something like this? i am contemplating this for Art purposes so something extremely janky is fine and in some ways preferred
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@dogstar this answer from Andrei Tarkovsky made me instantly think of you for some reason.
i do think its quite funny that when i am trying to find research papers on tech concepts, the main SEO-optimized site that will paywall me is literally called "researchgate"
rummaging through archive.org hoping interesting things will find me, found the massive back archives of some forth magazine i didn't know existed: https://archive.org/details/forthdimension
considering that people on here are often looking for forth examples (@neauoire, @eris) i bet there is likely a lot of salvageable resources in here
i feel like this is a dumb question but: how do routers work? how does a message to a remote server end up getting sent to a device behind a router? im guessing it is some IP field but i am not sure what
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And I stood and was silent.
And he was silent.
And I stood, silent.
And he was silent.
We’re both standing and silent.
Ho-la-la!
We’re both standing and silent.
Ho-le-le!
Yes, yes, we’re both standing and silent!
kharms, 1937
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"Is there anything on earth which would have meaning
and would even change the course of events not only on
earth, but in other worlds?” I asked my teacher.
“There is,” my teacher answered me.
“Well, what is it?” I asked.
“It’s...” began my teacher and suddenly fell silent.
I stood and waited intently for his answer. But he was
silent.
what are some virtual machines or computational substrates that you find particularly compelling or at least quite unique?
thinking about:
- warren abstract machine
- dis
- fractran
- nock, other combinator machines
- movable feast machine
i think whatever 64bit work was done was some mild shit for riscv?
im not entirely convinced that inferno-64 is 64bit
it looks like a liminal state that i showed to my RE pal who says its like a fever dream
seeing rax etc in files named comp-386.c is setting off my "ok whats really going on here" sense
having trouble building 64bit inferno even on 9 so fork time i guess
https://git.sr.ht/~dog_star/starfall
nothing new yet
vague plans
- 64bit 9 fix? or document if im just dense
- osx 64bit + x11 win.c instead of outdated quicktime.h
- retheme everything
- mess around with octopus integraton
damn, no osx port for the amd64 objtype let me fiddle with some stuff here
WHAT today should become a fucking holiday https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno64-os/
i've reached the threshold where setting up a simple, nicely-organized http file library/directory and git server is much easier for me to conceive of in 9 than openbsd
how do you all get along without bind, listen(1)/tcp80, git9...
if the url goes down again, the editions are mirrored here: http://code.9front.org/hg/mit9
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let's go full speed and funky beat
i went to go download the releases and it looks like the server has fallen over, lol. let me know if anyone mirrors it somewhere.
gay xvx it/she (nyc, recurse center)
lefty, i like 9front, god, and interspecies cooperation
dog_star on freenode
nothing changes no one can change any thing i am ever changing only you can change yourself
Joined Dec 2020
