Notices by r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 (cypnk@mastodon.social), page 23

@cypnk you just reminded me of the Buddhist meditation on 'bag of bones.' Disgusting bodies, these. There are 13 vile substances of the 31/32 body part-objects of meditation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patikulamanasikara

@cypnk slime computer

@cypnk i sometimes think of it as a big sentient blob machine made out of little tiny blob machines working together

hi i'm a software engineer and i worked in the web for a good 8 years before i ever realized what the abbreviations i18n and l10n (internationalization and localization) stood for

literally i knew what they were *about*, but thought the numbers had something to do with some funky standards body or some shit

numeronyms of this form are bad so so so so bad don't
just
don't

all of them ham

more art spam: raccoons, one that is me internally rn

Queuing up my collection

How each person uses their internet connection is different, but the shared feature is text

It shouldn’t be hard to mass produce tiny wireless mesh boxes which allow anyone to transmit and receive text messages with very little power

If there’s a node in every home, conceivably, someone could send a message cross-country (albeit slowly). If anything, during a natural disaster or any emergency, they could ask for help or let loved ones know they’re alive when all other infrastructure is down

Current goal:
Sit by my window in my cabin on a snowy afternoon, sipping hot chocolate, my CNC machine churning another antenna for a distributed wireless mesh network so I can chat with other rustic cyberpunks about cabins and snow

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I still think about this

There’s no way for me to express the joy in seeing people mending their belongings in lieu of buying more things

I wish this is more of the holiday spirit. Not a large, bearded, weirdo who sneaks in through the chimney. But families full of makers and kid DIYers, building things, fixing things, enjoying their own creativity

@HereticSoul That reminds me...

https://mastodon.social/media/y3dNVeE932Hw1e-ntak

@jk That's my kind of pub! Would be perfect if they serve rootbeer

Link rot is a problem for most websites, but it's especially hard on news orgs. How are we expected to take the arbiters of information seriously in their duty to inform the public when they can't even maintain access to their archives for a few years?

More importantly, the Web Archive can't capture every news source and it's an increasingly vital role too. We're losing access to vast swaths of public knowledge almost as soon its generated

Idea I've been playing with this week:
"Minimum Viable, Programmable Computer"

Something roughly the size of an iPhone 5/SE that you can directly program in rudimentary assembly with built in keys for opcodes and data

Maybe it can have a display and a few pins to connect to hardware (acting as Yet Another Register you can write to). As a fun exercise, you can maybe set pause the program and increment each "step" in the program counter

I think it would also be a nice learning tool

https://mastodon.social/media/hqajn7VNg6RUT4Vg2Co

https://mastodon.social/media/jhedmOr3eXix99wE3g8