And here's the fourth and final FOSDEM 2025 talk of mine, the keynote:
https://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDEM/video/2025/janson/fosdem-2025-6648-14-years-of-systemd.av1.webm
The slides are here:
In this one I am ramble over the past 14 years of systemd, and the next.
Enjoy!
TIL about Irdabama, a powerful Ancient Persian (Iranian) businesswoman who, ~2500 years ago, controlled vast estates, traded across the Achaemenid Empire, managing hundreds of workers whilst travelling around Iran and Mesopotamia with her own entourage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irdabama
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1j4l7dx/til_about_irdabama_a_powerful_ancient_persian/
I always felt like this screen was judging me for answering "no"
General Electrix (a.k.a. Olli Koponen & Santtu XL) - Year of the Dragon EP (SOFYI-01, Secret Order, 27 January 2025).
https://soundcloud.com/secretorderfyi/year-of-the-dragon
#GeneralElectrix #techno #breakbeat #bassmusic #electronic #SecretOrder #OlliKoponen #SanttuXL #Finland
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!
Let's talk about Microsoft Flight Simulator! The very first one. The OG.
This is what you see when you boot the game:
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