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Lua Carousel: create little programs on desktop or mobile devices (beehaw.org)
 
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Idea: a hierarchical subreddit system (github.com)
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Finding Meaning in Christopher Alexander's "The Nature of Order" (archive.org)
 

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Question about Lemmy federation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you!

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Question about Lemmy federation (beehaw.org)
 

I noticed something today and wanted to get a gut check from people more knowledgeable than me before I file a bug, etc.

https://beehaw.org/post/579167 (A) is the same thread as https://programming.dev/post/50696 (B), but for me (account on beehaw.org) there are comments upstream that aren't in my local view. For example, searching B for 'ideas' brings up the nice comment https://programming.dev/comment/182817 by @[email protected], but nothing at A. What's more, if I try to copy the URL, https://beehaw.org/comment/182817 seems to lead to an unrelated comment.

Does this seem like expected behavior, or related to recent scaling issues, or an unrelated bug?

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Using computers more freely and safely (akkartik.name)
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Live-coding using LÖVE (spectra.video)
Liz Truss resigns - and will become shortest-serving PM in British history in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Even cooler is serving time per monarch served under/with.

Commento – Add comments to your website in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But it's not self hosted?

The Search for a Sustainable Operating System - Part 1 - Updates vs. Stability vs. Virtualisation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't know much about electronics either, unfortunately. I spent a few years building just the software side out from scratch (just machine code) without using any existing software: https://github.com/akkartik/mu. But eventually I had some doubts about this direction: https://lobste.rs/s/h4lnkn/what_are_you_doing_this_week#c_juxc6y Lately I've compromised a little bit on not using any existing software. There's lots of good stuff out there that's worth using. Lua is a small, fast programming language implemented in just 12k lines of code. And it has a game engine (https://love2d.org) that's a great sweet spot in implementation size vs features (though it's a lot more than 12k lines :) So I've been adopting it exclusively for a few months. This is the largest project I've built with it: http://akkartik.name/lines.html. The goal is a program that is useful, easy to use, easy to build and easy to change to your needs. It's not as energy-efficient as some of the other projects on that page, but hopefully it's useful in some possible futures of this world.

Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it's definitely not easy. I can attest to that. In case you haven't seen it, http://collapseos.org/skills.html has some pointers for learning the needed skills, and http://collapseos.org/why.html mentions some scenarios where they'll be useful.

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Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology (collapseos.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sort of a response to https://lemmy.ml/post/411269

The Search for a Sustainable Operating System - Part 1 - Updates vs. Stability vs. Virtualisation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What do you think of more minimalist OSs that aren't trying to replace everything in GNU/Linux/BSD? https://permacomputing.net/projects has a few, including projects by me. What I like about this approach is that it encourages building things for yourself, which feels much more in line with the Solarpunk ethos than just consuming applications created by others.

You likely won't live exclusively in these habitats for a very long time. Perhaps we should all even hope we never have to. But it might be good to build up these skills while we still have the energy to burn on things like Flatpak and Electron.