@jwildeboer @sxa Generally I don't live by my phone and try to be away from it as much as possible. In this usage model iPhone causes me least headaches. I.e. I proactively hate any possible phone but can manage my anger with iOS :-)

@jwildeboer @sxa I agree with this one.

And I prefer iOS devices over Android because I rather pay some extras euros for extra privacy than be worried how my data will be shared. Apple and iCloud are not perfect but considering alternative ecosystems for mobile devices I consider their closed ecosystem in a way "least evil" :-) I'm least concerned of my privacy and they do pretty good job on securing the device.

@jwildeboer @sxa One nice iOS-surprise I had recently was that it was relatively easy to configure email with IMAP inbox and SMTP identity in different domains. I did not expect this would be possible thus only recently had my email configured to my phone in the first place...

If you ever find yourself saying “It’s just business” to justify an action, you should pause and recognize that the presence of that phrase is a sign capitalism has begun corroding your brain's moral center, and is alienating you from your own beautiful humanity!

@andrew @molly0xfff ya that too 🙂 that said i feel also blessed that i miss most of trump’s ”wisdom”

Let's talk about Microsoft Flight Simulator! The very first one. The OG.

This is what you see when you boot the game:

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@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