@rvr looks delicious!

Adding a WiringPi module to TIC-80's Python interpreter https://rvr.typepad.com/wind/2025/03/adding-wiringpi-module-to-tic-80-python-interpreter.html

This is a project that I worked on last weekend. TIC-80 is one of the most popular open source "fantasy consoles", imaginary retro-console emulators with IDE for code, sprites, maps and music. I show how to extend TIC-80's Python interpreter, pocketpy, to add GPIO access for the Raspberry Pi.

Edit: Just uploaded the code to github.

#gamedev #tic80 #python #pocketpy #retrocomputing #raspberrypi

A classic!

#Trump #politics #economics #finance #StockMarket #Markets

https://bsky.app/profile/godpod.bsky.social/post/3ljm3qdvam22s

One area where I think AI is quite nice: I like to tell roughly how a sequence should look like and ask AI to do me a snippet of Mermaid.

It's far from truth but then I can continue editing the snippet manually. My biggest difficulty with Mermaid is that I use it so rarely that I forget the syntax so this will help me to recall all of that. That's actually gist of this whole exercise.

It does not even require powerful AI: I use a local Ollama running llama 3.2 on my RTX 4090. The sequence does not need to be correct as long as it has about the right lanes and some stuff going back and forth.

This makes me wonder tho what is the value of paying Mermaid Charts, which does this on a paid subscription (that's where I got the inspiration in the first place).

This makes me wonder also all of the paid stuff. If you are smart software engineer in the first place you can get 90% of the "efficiency benefit" with a local 2k-4k GPU, which mostly recalling syntax of e.g., Mermaid.

And if you understand anything about micro-architectures even without knowing anything about SGX, one's internal AI has already a "taste" what is most likely a wrong answer.

@andrew @molly0xfff It's not just not my bad English, it's also my bad Finnish :-) I really have to focus sometimes to understand the sentences (have diagnosed dyslexia)...

I thought that this would be the single useful application for AI, check up quickly details like this without having to go through PDF references.

Interesting, I thought that I'd save time on looking Intel SDM just to check up the size of PCMD, one of the data structures in Intel SGX.

I tried Google Gemini and two different AI flavors it has and got three wrong answers.

So eventually I went to Intel SDM and got the answer that I wanted :-)

If this is AGI, it will suck...

TinyGo 0.36 is released & we've got what you need right now: initial Go 1.24 support, many WASM/WASI improvements & fixes, RP2040/RP2350 enhancements, LLVM 19, & so much more! Full changelog here:

https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/releases/tag/v0.36.0

#tinygo #golang #wasm #wasi #embedded

It is with great sorrow that we share the news that Hannu 'Haa' Aronsson, a regular at the Alt Party, and winner of the latest Most Obscure Computer Competition (with a Canon Cat) has passed away. He also created the world's first ever demo for that machine. Haa was an amazing force of positive energy who never forgot the joy that we have all experienced from tinkering with some new computer gadget or technology. He will be very greatly missed.

#demoscene

@andrew @molly0xfff i really had to focus on open coding the sentences but yeah, it as you say it is :-) now i know that don knows difference between bitcoin and btc, what a relief...

@andrew @molly0xfff ah got it ;-) you're right

@andrew @molly0xfff So how interpreted this was that Donald loves Bitcoin and Ethereum, and in addition those assets, he also loves BTC and ETH :-)

@molly0xfff Hmm... I wonder whether Donald thinks that Bitcoin and BTC are different entities, or is it just bad English.

Eric Trump plainly admits that his father’s Sunday social media post about the “crypto strategic reserve” was intended to manipulate the crypto markets

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

@1ace ”standing on the shoulders of giants” -anyone not respecting his work and contributions should pay some attention where they stand on

@Foxboron what would be the time window to give feedback? would need to first get familiar with the tool

Currently shopping for ideas and opinons on how `sbctl` should approach the revocation list in Secure Boot (`dbx`).

https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/issues/23

Feel free to come with ideas but trying to keep things simple is the goal here.

#sbctl #SecureBoot #Security

The latest cover of French magazine "Le Point":

Reads:

"The Man from Moscow"
"Putin & Trump, an alliance of predators."