Remote
Devine Lu Linvegan
@neauoire@merveilles.town
hometown 4.2.17+hometown-1.1.2
It’s always night under the ultraviolet sun.
14862 Followers
1209 Following
50 Posts
Joined December 14, 2018
memex:
seasteading:
No Pipelines!:
You have one of these morbid friends who wear only black, write only in Forth and that modern times have all but left behind to linger undead among the coaxial cables. They're inviting you. Dead languages, dead systems, aren't these just infinitely precious, once you see how the ideas that survive are never the interesting ones, merely those with the most capital behind them.
Doesn't that just make the graveyard suddenly burst with life and reveal the modern computing landscape for what it is. A crusty gold plaque for a putrid fascist, entombing the world under highways of microplastics.
Come and revel in the living discarded ferment et delect in res qu'es mort.
https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
#occ2026
Psst! Hey, you, yes you,
here's another zine about some obscure computing paradigm.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/pocket_nets
Andrew Gibson(adventuresin9)'s talk yesterday at #iwp9 about file systems gave me so many ideas, but one thing that struck me was his highlighting BeOS' metadata.
It makes it possible to use files as contacts, recipes, playlists, anything really and view these tags in the file manager. IT'S SO COOL, I want to build that for myself now.
After making the Polycat platformer game last year, Rek and I are teaming up again and trying something a little less twitch for Catjam 2026. We're making an interactive vignette based on Rek's Spines & Pincers universe.
The intersection of #occ2026 and #Catjam2026 happening in the summer is just so perfect for us, concatenative programming languages, computers running off solar, tiny games, tiny builds, tons of drawing, walks in the wood to jam about what to put in it? The timing couldn't be better.
https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
I thought, how different it would be to be old. I had this idea in my head when I was young that I'd be going through life by moving between things, that interests would roll off of me and that which was once novel would have to make space for some other new thing.
But it's not at all what happened. I'm about 15, and I come across this list of blue monospaced links. At that moment, I have no inclination toward... anything really, I'm a teen, videogames are like my whole life, I can barely understand English; and somehow, through all that mess of folders with names I didn't understand, I find myself saving a text file made up of these large squares of capitalized letters. Translation notes of the Liber Soyga.
Among thousands of lines, my eye catches a passage where the angel Michael, addressing John Dee who puzzles over how to decipher these tables, says: "It is revealed by virtue and truth not power". I transcribe this line on the top of my school notebook in large letters, it becomes woven into everything I touch:
"Et haec revelantur in virtute et veritate non Vi."
It would take another 15 years before the 36 tables of the book were deciphered, and many more for me to even come across what they revealed, that the Liber Soyga is likely one of the earliest cellular automata. It's a coincidence, of course, but I can't help but see an inescapable inertia that runs back all the way to the start, and that nothing really rolls off of anyone after all.
Collected some notes about the Hershey fonts.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/hershey
It's #Catjam again in less month!! If you've been putting off giving Forth a try, now's your chance, come hang with others as we make little digital toys in languages that feels like weaving, looks like a braids and tastes like fenugrek.
https://itch.io/jam/catjam-2026
* If discord is not your thing, it certainly isn't mine, come hang in the #uxn room on libera, we welcome all postfix minded folks.
"Attention!", shouts a mynah.
I am not too proud to say I'm wrong when I am, so there, I was, I'll admit it. Against my most cynical reserves, television did turn out to be the university in every home that it promised, and the telephone also did end loneliness.
It worked best of all once we turned it off, went next door, and invited our neighbors over to teach us stuff. Someone always brought food. Hunger, unsurprisingly, was also just a logistics problem, and the logistics were embarrassingly simple. Nothing, not mandatory office playdays, not outlawing aloneness, no sociability programs, was even remotely as effective to bring people together as forcing people to get audio and video working in digital meetings. But first, we had to build it all so we could shut it off.
We stopped buying all of that shit and, more efficiently, started to meet. Self-obviation? Yes, it even lived up to its promise of emancipation, instead of cluttering our lives, it taught us that if we stack it all in a pile and never turn any of it on again, we'll be alright and we'll be safe.
I said it would never work, and I'm getting a lot of I told you sos.
I deserve them.
Two purple martins joined us for storytime last night, as @rek@merveilles.town was reading passages from Huxley's Island, they landed on the rope and stayed for a while, I took the photo from the bed just looking up through the window above my head.
Talk about Uxn opcodes, but you're not allowed to use natural language.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/etc/uxn.napkin.txt
Replying to
@prahou@merveilles.town Let's fucking go! I almost made it blinking, but I controlled myself.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/heol
Replying to
@gimmechocolate@bark.lgbt lemme know if you have any questions :) Here's a little playground if you want to test some nets:
https://inets.t6.dev/#0PYVwLgUGBOIKYAIC8CAUqCGCBGBKNWeuEEcAHjBgMZjJrqIBU+ADvqom8eZTXajHgJQYYkA
Replying to
@xaxalxe@sunny.garden @gdc@typo.social Making a zine entirely on a self-hosted computing stack would be huge, it would mean bypassing the browser entirely and outputting bitmap for the printer to print.
Replying to
@slava@mathstodon.xyz @andnull@social.nouveau.community @atax1a@infosec.exchange that just sounds like a bunch of tsv files but with extra steps ;)
Replying to
Replying to
@xaxalxe@sunny.garden @gdc@typo.social have you come across vector formats that map well to 16-bit unsigned?
Replying to
@gimmechocolate@bark.lgbt it does! but being linear, you'll see pretty fast how it falls short, especially if you need multiple bindings or copies of things. There's very little exploration in IN-native, not necessarily LC-brained, nets in the current literature. I'm curious to see what you find going down the homotopy road.
Replying to
@maxime_andre@mastodon.xyz Haha, je travaille justement sur un section sur la page sur l arithmetic
Replying to
@avi@cosocial.ca That sounds like the boatyard trying so hard to justify loosing your appointment.
Replying to
@pry@raru.re The literature around INs makes them look like this super complex thing, but really, there's just nothing more than the 3 cells and 4 rules :) Have fun! Let me know if something's unclear or if you find anything cool!
Replying to
@d6@merveilles.town @angelwood@merveilles.town @rek@merveilles.town @ori I realized that we can't ship to the US right now because of tarifs..
Replying to
@pomagarnet@chaos.social UVic is insanely cool, get in touch with @jdd@cosocial.ca from Kula, he knows what's up
Our ship broadcasts an open wifi network called Immortality, it serves a single html page that contains Clare Harner's poem to anyone curious enough to try connecting to it.
I've changed it a bit so that the LED lights up whenever someone connects.
https://paste.sr.ht/~rabbits/5ad277ab8760e3fd08adf5097cf64ea287c34f83
cc @leaflitter@merveilles.town
Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com
Released a firmware for the XTE INK 4, it displays text and draws pictures, and wait for it, it remembers your page. That's it, there's no other features.
http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/xte_ink
#uxn
Replying to
@Kehvarl@furry.engineer I don't, it's something we picked up on a give-away shelf in a marina in New Zealand.
Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com
This is insane. Here's a compiler that compiles to x86 using only bytes in the ascii range. It's how we bootstrap uxntal, but this is taking it to a whole new level.
https://tom7.org/abc/paper.txt
https://tom7.org/abc/paper.pdf
#permacomputing
I know I shouldn't be surprised that it just works as is, but still cool, I can build compile uxn binaries directly inside dos.
wcl -bt=dos -ml -fe=bin/uxnmol.exe src/uxnmol.c
http://wiki.xxiivv.com/etc/uxnmol.c.txt
#uxn
Replying to
@angelwood@merveilles.town @d6@merveilles.town @rek@merveilles.town I think there was two or three left yesterday, they're large size tho, but I know @ori doesn't want to travel back with the shirts, so maybe I can grab two extra ones and ship them to you?
Replying to
@andnull@social.nouveau.community you can definitely go full on Vib Ribbon and these and make cool stuff!
Replying to
@lhp@mastodon.social that's where I started off from X) there's no way in heck I'm going back
It's typical of #conlang projects to have a translation of the Lord's Prayer as a showcase template of the language. But I didn't want that, for some reason, I had in my head to do this one instead.
http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/latin_sin_flexion.html
For the past year, we've tracked all finances for Hundred Rabbits using a bespoke spreadsheet program that's only 9kb(no it's not a webapp).
I was scratching my head wondering how we could link sheets with each other so that we could jump between them, I realized that a spreadsheet itself is just fine as a file browser if you can open the strings as paths.
Obviously it looks super weird if I try to open a markdown file as a tsv..