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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10h

I got an original 2-disc Civilization II at the store today. I am very pleased. Also there's a project Pentium I with a soldered-in dead Dallas chip I helped finish and test. Gonna help test PC joysticks now. Good day #RetroComputing

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10h

A whole bunch of Amiga peripherals coming in to FreeGeek in #Minneapolis #RetroComputing

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17h

netbsd isn’t necessarily compromised, but they absolutely aren’t your friends. you don’t know them. if we want the FOSS we all imagined, where the marginalized come together to share and contribute to a software ecosystem that can benefit humanity for many generations, it’ll involve rather more […]

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 16/10/2026

"It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? People ran out to marvel at the miles of pristine new beach that suddenly emerged, not realising that, far out at sea, a wall of water was building up […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Starting to understand the utility of putting effects in function signatures, as I try to understand if a particular complex calling chain has blocking IO for performance optimization reasons

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I feel some type of way about the fact that we now get our hard hitting political journalism prose from Esquire and Teen Vogue haha

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@pippa You can makes such cool crafts with toilet paper roll tubes. Like, uh a spectrometer, if you have a glass prism

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Ionica Smeets @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Deense onderzoekers die met steun van de VS een experiment willen doen met kinderen níet vaccineren in Guinea-Bissau. WTF??? (Sprak vandaag woedende Afrikaanse onderzoekers, en terecht.) www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oc…

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Here's an email I got today from Bnei Avraham, a group of religious Israeli Jews who work for justice in #Palestine/#Israel. Boosts welcome. --- “The thoughts of the righteous are to do true justice, to rescue the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor.” Metzudat David on Proverbs 12:5 […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

OK, I found the CD burner. I'm going to burn a utilities CD. Any recommendations? So far I have WinRAR 2.06 and the network driver. I might also get Norton Commander for DOS mode. On a related note, does anyone in #Minneapolis have a pair of 90s computer speakers they'd give away or sell? I […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

#RetroComputing help I would like to connect my brand new #Windows95 computer to the internet. My plan was to set up my laptop (running Linux) to forward the IP from the WiFi to the Ethernet adapter on the Pentium, because the router is too far away. I have two problems: 1. I am NOT an expert […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

What did the precipitously aging man do to feel young again?

A beige CRT monitor, a beige desktop computer, and a beige mechanical keyboard on a cart in an electronics thrift store

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

One of the toddlers just had to poop at the park because he didn't have a diaper on. Successful learner! Also, luckily there are a lit of dog walkers at the park.

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Does anyone here in #Minneapolis (Longfellow area) have knowledge of reasonable childcare? I've heard there are such things as nanny shares that might be more reasonable...

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

During the Greater Depression, so many people starved that the State brought in mobile crematoria. When the community destroyed those machines, it was one of the first great actions that eventually led to the independent organization of this city. The people who burned the machines and chased […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I have an absolutely strange solarpunk microfiction cooking, don't let me forget to actually write it down here later

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Feeling sad about my #GameDev project that hasn't got off the ground in 20 years. Maybe someday

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Got my new job laptop. I haven't opened it yet, I hope it's not Windows

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Not like, two days straight working 8 hours a day. I do have a life. But over the course two days, I occasionally puzzled over it

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Specifically the third parameter. Now that's what I call a calling convention!

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

So I guess I should move my function parameters before doing multiplication, or `mul` will clear the registers where they are stored... I just spent two days puzzling over this... #asm #x86_64

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@ruxotves או! עוד דבר, לבטיחות. אם יש סיכוי להתקל במשהו שיכול לגרום לזה שתעופי קדימה, צריך להשען כמה שיותר אחורה, וכאילו לדחוף את המושב עם הישבן למטה עם הידיים על הכידון ברגע שהגלגל הקדמי נתקל בזה. מצטער שזה קצת הפוך מהעצה הקודמת... בזה יצא לי להשתמש פחות.

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@ruxotves בגלל שמדובר בשלדה קלת משקל, אין שם יותר מדי אינרציה. לא אותו דבר כמו בולם זעזועים פנאומטי אבל פחות סיכוי להפצע או לשבור את האופניים מאשר אם יושבים ונשענים עם כל המשקל

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@ruxotves לא. השלדה מתנדנדת מסביב לציר של הדוושות. זה לא חלק כמו ממש בולם זעזועים, אבל אם יש כמה שפחות משקל על השלדה מחוץ לדוושות זה עדיף

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@ruxotves כן, כאילו טיפה קמה לעמידה אבל בלי להשען על הכידון

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@ruxotves מנסיון, טכניקת רכיבה יכולה לעזור עם המהמורות וכבישים משובשים. לשים כמה שיותר משקל על הדוושות, לא לשבת בכבדות ולא להישען על הכידון. זה לא קל לאורך זמן, אבל זה מאפשר לאופניים עצמן לשמש בתור בולם זעזועים. בנוסף, הצמיגים משנים די הרבה. אופני עיר עם צמיגים קצת יותר עבים עם לחץ אויר קצת יותר […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Help the Pope safeguard our humanity today, read a queer atheist woman's completely 100% handmade passion project 0xabad1dea.itch.io/glory-in-the-thu… #gloryinthethunder #fiction #lgbtq

Lord of the Rings elf and dwarf meme:

Never thought I'd be fighting side-by-side with the Pope.

How about side by side in an alliance of artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity?

Aye, my art's gonna be queer as fuck thoughb

cover image for glory in the thunder act 1: The goddess of time has made the biggest mistake in the history of the world. [lego diorama of Ravelin seeming to accidentally drop Izael into an active volcano]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Ah, looks like migadu offer plus addressing. Do you all think it's sufficiently similar to email masking? #Email #DeGoogle

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I think I can eliminate mailbox.org as having too many features, and disroot because for my personal inbox I want a commercial service that's well-funded and has commercial features, and I'll leave them the capacity to serve their activist networks. This leaves migadu and fastmail. I'm drawn to […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I am getting choice paralysis! Let's see, #DeGoogle my email: www.migadu.com : inexpensive, sensible limits, clearly run by engineers www.fastmail.com : has a calendar, email masking mailbox.org : full productivity suite, extra cost for custom domains disroot.org […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

It would be very cool to #SelfHost my email, but I heard that it's basically impossible to get anything delivered.

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Hey I am trying to #DeGoogle my email, not sure where to go. I want to use my own domain and ideally I'd like to get beyond webmail and just use imap. What are some options? I was thinking about Tuta but I am turned off by the lack of imap. I don't need super high security, it's just email; even […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Hi Team, can anyone help me debug some #GameBoy #asm code? I am following the tutorial on gbdev and memory isn't being written as I expect.

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Jorijn Schrijvershof :jorijn: @jorijn.jorijn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

New instance, and I need to test federation, so here's one of my favorite photos of Kaylan (who unfortunately passed away a few months ago). Tuning server processes, so feel free to boost to make it work a bit. #CatsOfMastodon

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026

Me: I will use "radium water" as an analogy for how horrible AI's potential subtle long-term effects are, because the general public in 2026 can easily understand this analogy. The general public in 2026 […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Just had a recollection of doing standardized tests in US public schools and getting in-class coaching on "test-taking strategies" that were completely divorced from the knowledge being tested. I was specifically told, by a teacher, that statistical analysis of past tests shows that "C" is the […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: mstdn.business/@jasongorman/1173772… Lots of interesting stuff here, but this stuck out to me: "One study found a significant correlation between confidence in AI output and belief in the paranormal. " LOL And here's the thing, I'm Jewish and although I'm not observant […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@benjamineskola yeah. I'm still having a bit of a hard time with how for certain operations you can read from memory but sometimes you have to put it in the register first. I feel like I'm just starting out again! It is SO much fun!

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Once I learn a little more #asm, (I'm learning x86_64 because there is a wealth of resources, but I'm open to something else) what's a good #CreativeCoding project to lock it in? Demos? Miniature games like for a gameboy? Something else? #programming

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I had a really interesting conversation with a local colleague the other day about political economy, the failure of 20th century socialisms, and information technology. Mass media transformed 20th century movements (just as the printing press did a couple of centuries earlier), and today's IT […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@Sharksonaplane The thing is that popular defense of elections has the potential to radicalize masses of people in a good way, while also building formidable organizing networks that will have staying power and be hard to co-opt. What radicals need to do now is take a seat and let regular folks […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Yall, this learning #asm feels like I'm just starting to code all over again. Also the LSP isn't working too well, I'm not sure if I set it up wrong or what.

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