RETRO COMPUTING GROUP
Hello to the RetroComputing group: @retrocomputing@a.gup.pe
I believe this is the current group which natively you can search in Mastodon by searching for:
@ retrocomputing
(without the space otherwise you get the web page / hyperlink)
You can read the old posts since the change over to new in before ~April 2022 - so old posts are here:
@retrocomputing@gup.pe
(or search @ retrocomputing without the space to see in Mastodon natively)
So if you're reading this in either group I'd like to say hi and add my own interest / experience via this pictur.
I made in an Atari homage and nostalgia anim and welcome anyone to "ping pong" about it :)
#RETRO #ART #OF #FIGHTING #FREESCHOOL #SF2 #SURVIVAL #LIFE #Gaming #Dos #PC #80s #90s #retrocomputing #homebrewcomputer #computing
PERSON RECOMMENDED: ALAN WATTS
A story from https://alanwatts.org/
mailing list: news@alanwatts.org
(Extra info at the end)
A Summer Story of Alan
Written by Mark Watts (son)
In the summer of 1973 I was staying on my father’s ferryboat the Vallejo in Sausalito, and he was living at Druid Heights up on Mount Tamalpais high above San Francisco Bay. Each weekday he would either come down to the boat to get the mail, or I would drive it up the hill to the redwood water-tank library that had been converted into a comfortable place for him to work and write.
One day he thought he’d come down the hill but he still hadn’t shown up by 11, and so I gave a call to see if I should bring the mail up. He said: “Oh yes, please— I became caught up in painting out on the deck, you must see!” Very curious now, I headed up the hill.
When I arrived he was sitting outside on the deck surrounded by long strips of rice paper weighted down with round stones, painting kanji characters with a coarse brush and black ink. With smooth strokes characters would appear, but the brush was also picking up the wood grain from the deck below, mapping its textures in what he described in his book on the Tao as li, or organic pattern.
He offered me the brush and I tried a few strokes, and then he did some more, and I’d never seen him happier or more engaged in the moment. After a while we hung the gorgeous strips with *those* textured characters
from the shelves in the library to fully dry, and he made us good green tea.
A few weeks later my father left on what would be his final lecture tour, and as he passed through more than twenty airports over the next two months I could see that day stayed with him reflected in the recurrent Taoist themes of li and tzu jan - organic pattern and nature: of itself so- heard by his audiences along the way.
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EXTRA BITS
1 - I also recommend his audio which is like a podcast available on TORRENT <--- if not sure how to download then let me know!)
2- My fan page also here:
http://freeschool.0id.org/alan-watts/
METHODOLOGY - EASY WHEN YOU TRY OR ADAPT YOUR OWN WAY
Video says to me / sends the message :
"When one breaks free - The rest can follow"
The idea with this video is:
- something unlikely is possible
(once you know how or just try)
- others can follow good methodology
- people (and dogs!) can do it in a different way but can achieve the same result
( like the second dog who jumps on fence in different way, both get the result done according to their own speed and ability)
You get the idea - we can find good ways. And not just escaping but working together after escaping or after the first phase think about the next / pre-plan.
OCR via Mastodon! (Images to Text)
Use OCRbot in Mastodon by mentioning that user name +language, for example:
@OCRbot eng
And you get a reply with text from your image (don't forget to attach)!
Handy for longer quotes.
Language List (add after bot name):
🇬🇧 eng 🇯🇵 jpn 🇩🇪 deu
Full names also usually work:
🇵🇱 polish
🇱🇻 latvia
Question:
Do two letter codes like en and ja work too or just the three letter ones?
Answer:
Depends on whether or not they're included in this list: https://github.com/haliaeetus/iso-639/
Technology without culture doesn't work.
or Tech-heavy culture doesn't work.
#crisis without #culture
#technology heavy #gaming
#games #addicts #globalwarming #climate #ClimateJustice
LIVING LIFE IS... (Approximately)
- Exercise / Sport / Challenge,
- Gardening,
- House Work,
- Reading,
- Food,
I also like the traditional-sounding music.
(This video might have different context but for this part and above I like it it's short representation / montage.)
GARDEN & FOOD - APPLE PUREE
- SEND ME A PICTURE ALSO?
(in picture order)
1 Apples -> gatehr / cut best -> (bad goes to compost -> wheelbarrow to field for bees / wasps / wildlife)
2 Apple pieces -> tall jar for mixer
3 Apple = Puree (goes to funnel)
4 Apple = Put in juice bottles and the fridge (add water before otherwise too thick, even some honey for sweetening.)
Q. I don't have bottles!
A. I reused and got empty containers from supermarket bin / asking someone on ground level
#Garden #Gardening
#Food #Winter #Preparing #Apples #Nature #DIY #Compost
#Recycle #Plastic #Bottles
FOOD = SEEDS TO PLANT FOR NEXT YEAR!
Take seeds from your food and just put in some soil anywhere! (worth a try and see what happens!)
- Save Your Seeds (don't eat the seeds... plant them!)
- Seeds go in jar (cut then eat the rest)
#Paprika #Seed #SaveYourSeeds
#CapsicumAnnuumGrossum #Garden #Gardening #Growing #People #KeepBusy
PORTABLE ELECTRICITY - MULTI-USE
Maybe a bit of electricity during scarcity / emergency?
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MY QUESTIONS
? Depends on how much it cost / strength etc... but from advert looks doable / simple / not to toxic for planet?
? As always I'd like anyone who has used to let me know will ya ! ? ! ?
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INFORMATION FOLLOWS
From advert (comments welcome)
- while on a motorboat
- while on a boat / canoe (no engine)
- put in river
- hand-powered
- using stand as wind turbine
- connect to various handhelds (phones, speakers, cameras, battery banks, 12V battery)
-------^ Seems doable but more audacious as list goes on!
- Works in rain, snow, other harsh conditins
- "Up to" 23watts power
Constant Power - In an average flow, WaterLily charges most small electronics as fast as your wall outlet at home.
24/7 Charging - The sun doesn't always shine, but rivers flow 24/7, so WaterLily can generate 8x more power in one day than 14W solar panels.
Power Without Maintenance - Solar panels require re-positioning as the sun moves across the sky, but WaterLily can run for days without maintenance.
Spectacular Value - WaterLily can generate up to 360 Watt hours of power in a day. A 14W solar panel will generate 42 Watt hours on a good day. A 100W panel? 300!
Power Overnight - Instead of fussing with your solar panel during the day, setup WaterLily for overnight charging and wake up to full batteries in the morning.
Maybe a bit big individual but for a team of campers yeah maybe...
" Harvest #EnergyAnywhere! " ?
"TRANSLATE" on MASTODON!
Currently testing on mastodon.online... screenshot attached
Many of us have found DEEPL essential and never wanted to pipe any of our data and speech through Google.
I had my initial worries about "no google translate..." and well it uses DEEPL so that's sorted it seems!
Check website also if your server doesn't currently have translate:
https://deepl.com/
Source: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/109052944924566141
#Mastodon #MastoDev #Translation #Language
#Unity #Understanding
#Language #DEEPL #API
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BEING JUDGED (ADVICE + TIPS):
- Remember it takes skill to judge someone. Not everyone has it.
- Judging purely on someone else's advice is inaccurate / unreliable / limited
- First sight is always wrong (not enough information)
- If you ask only certain questions then you mostly get those types if answers back (this is can be inhibiting like tunnel vision
- Judging people by the job isn't always what they wanted to do... people perhaps couldn't really choose or customise their job.
- It takes time, quick-judgement is always limited and things have many more contexts... although do keep it mind and do expect more time to show more angles.
- Everyone swims well depending on the waters and people they swim with... your questions or the environment is also unavoidably part of that.
- One way could be to judge and keep judging in small parts but relaxing as you go along!
- Ask people what they prefer to talk about if things are not working out.
If you want practice being asked but not judged then let me know.
Things like this are good practice and I used to stick things like this on the wall to encourage testing the ideas with people or talk about different situations.
It's my way when I shared a flat to see people say "that's interesting... strange to me...etc",
I'd wait till people asked a bit :]
- More than meets the eye with each fish! (see picture also about expectations)
FOOD AS A MANIPULATION
Food is a TOOL for catching people as well as mice... CATCHING PEOPLE
(WHETHER IGNORANT / UNTRAINED OR INNOCENT MICE)
Anyone that goes only for the food (or money for food) only is not realising how important the "WHO" is feeding us"
Because people are sure to be manipulated and eventually trapped. There is more than just taking and even while you might not avoid banks or supermarkets or anyone in between- do realise this simplified mechanism:
FOOD / MONEY = MANIPULATION = TRAP
Shocking perhaps but NO LESS REALITY - MONEY IS USED TO HUNT PEOPLE else give them incentives (which is quite the same).
I personally wouldn't want myself or children to be in this position or 'dancing for their dinner' so that's why I show you.
CHALLENGE / HOMEWORK:
I'll take suggestions how to let mice live (but also how to let people live too, because people above you see people as mice who are only good if they build empires / profit structures for them. It's a hard one both as mice around my house or as people in the world! Yes let them live or have some kind of kinder death / kinder options!
I advise you talk endlessly the rest of your life about letting people live otherwise always someone is going to be chasing another person.
Hope you get the right message even after initial emotional thoughts - it's about the long-term consideration not the "i-only-follow" and "money is ok" mentality which 100% will get you in trouble and traps. So that solution quite solves many others or you can solve it another way but must come back to this and the picture.
Thank you for your attention / Letting others live... not hunting / profit-infused relationships.
Gardening / Food Picture
...Garden Apples (loads still left) blended and funneled into juice bottles.
I see this as the right kind of ammunition against accelerating effects of supermarkets and price wars on us (or simply maximizing each of our habits purely for profit).
Bottles go for a good few days minimum (I can drink 1 in a day) and last a few weeks if add sugar or honey.
Needs releasing of extra air once in a week at least. ^_^
And even when 'bad' / oxygenated at top, is still bearable / mixable / eatable with rest!
#Garden #Gardening #Apples #Food #Winter #Preparing #Nature #DIY
Gardening / Food Picture
...Hazel Nuts un-shelled from working in semi-darkness
WELCOME TO THE QOTO SERVER!
Question Others to Teach Ourselves... https://qoto.org/
SYSTEM - WHAT IS A SYSTEM
A system is patterns of a mentality...
(In the political sense...)
and through that all is iterated / carried out within it.
A lot like a binary system also which people can't see when PEOPLE control computers.
It's many more things than just that and more about people + system that makes it so powerful and magnifies the will of any small group... but when people say money is not political and can't see who it comes from but at the same time don't trust BANKS and GOV it's dis-empowering to them to say that in one sentence... "money is ok" ?? <--- It's a paradox somewhat unless you agree banks and gov are ok!
To continue to use for "change" is like the hamster running in a wheel thinking it's getting further.
Most people don't see how something is pushed IS POLITICAL or biased.. WHO CAN BLAME THEM THEY / WE ALSO SIMPLY DON'T SEE IT behind closed doors, UN-transparent mini-systems, full of mumbo-jumbo and middle-men etc..
No wonder - they didn't see that so it's probably ok / not manipulated at all... right? !
Any system is political or had some ideas behind it and MUCH of what people can't see is like a central place doing it's things while people are busy working!
It's all ' hidden ' until they read Wikipedia or someone says what things really are and how it started, what it's really for...
believe me when I say peaceful work hasn't been on agenda for years (because it wouldn't pay!)
Anyone and everyone being more peaceful people would do less work / less productivity according to Goverment's and their GDP view of it's people and their own thoughts would come to the surface politically (if they had time peacefully). And less tax for less work etc is 'not good'.
You see the circle and what a certain mentality wants, and that's the baseline.
It's about changing / opening our minds...
I give people time and I thnk that's the difference to others online who really don't have or give time and give up on people really easy... (don't mean to be competitive, no put-downs, just I more dedicate time to others and weave us together).
So you don't even have to read any of this because EVERYTHING needs time + communication and without that a lot is broken and even less human even if it's for good...
Just follow and put notifications on to TEST MY FEED.... the rest below is just over-info for most poeple.
Open Learning School or Freedom University...
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A lot you might be at length and depth, but if you're easy about it, you can take the best and even take me along to understand life with others!
To learn and do everything practically! (this is a practical living (and gets stuff done as much as we can).
Fan of Fediverse!
Quick Look - peace-loving work / services:
█ Mini-Podcast (few mins each, examples below)
█ Picture remixes / video remixes
█ Lessons without being too 'teacher' about it. Teacher has teeth for eliminating doubt.
█ Food for thought as gentle soul also.
█ Unique ideas - often impossible for professionals (they are burdened by financial repsonsibility and therefore associational risk in saying things). I'm more diverse and occasionally direct (with respect, though I don't shy away from reminding people).
█ Not too embarrassing to say "I don't know" but can still chase things.
█ More responsive than casual users usually because people think having 'job' is enough in life. I say it's not! And even faimily is of no use if it's only getting worse (in everything!).
Podcast Examples:
1. Gary Ackerman's thoughts on AI
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111867522723922385
2. The Little Prince book
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111845561003150354
3. Fantasy genre from a fan's perspective
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111845709367492677
I help people create audio / edit educational audio / podcast / music / visual short videos / transcript text
+ I like to add a bit humour while being quite strict in my own politics (opinions) but open / inviting for others to tell me what I should do if they can explain more than just a short comment (I don't mind it's healthy for me at least if you have logic and can stand yourself explaining).
FreeSchool is about Learning towards Freedom (which is about Uniting everyone slowly, even "1 by 1"... Easy with The Fediverse!
Not virtue signalling here only, but practise of EVERYTHING as we go. Judged by getting in contact (many have) and having courage to communicate (or seeking it from others is ok, EVERYONE needs a bit of courage or hand-holding to make big personal changes). Who else is there for example if family doesn't understand?
Learning and watching can be good and staying out of people's way, BUT better is doing something every day and helping each other with some tough decisions / lessons... and then being bold enough to do them. 1... 2... 3 that is all that's needed.
Let my posts do most of the talking.
Put me on notification (click bell that appears after follow ia accepted) and if it's not interesting switch off after and tick me off the list of potential people to follow daily!
Media version of my posts here... open link for later... good for visual scrolling version and judge me on that I don't mind...
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/media
I'm usually impressed with my media gallery as I work on posts a lot usually or hit the "Aha!" moments and capture it (other people may forget it for years, not me!).
Freedom is about *making it work together* better like using #Mastodon on the #Fediverse daily for better platforms with more #bestpractices and 'best' people to help us which I kind of collect here and
when it's #1 comment!
I am measurably better because I reply and stick to everything to the end(!)
No cancelling friendship suddenly without saying why or being moody!
Freedom is to Learn, Respect and Love eventually and ️to Unite!
Practically it's also like Tetris - add yourself to the puzzle and watch it all happen...
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talk more on Mastodon and the Fediverse and puzzle it all out using better ways to less use the other bad commercial / extractive people...
L£$$ of the less caring people like the ggl's / ytb / gmail / mainstream communication points etc who are offering lots of space 'free' and it's not free of peace there.
We GIVE to real people (TIME NOT JUST MONEY).
There's no buy-in solution - we have to make it with selotape or whatever we have - it's not shameful to bring whatever you have.
FreeSchool is terminology put together from many good things from past (coined in 1950's/60's. I / we become it eventually through being.
It's a movement for Freedom via Learning it all (learning self included and less active stuff) and doing the learning *together* --> https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeschool.
I encourage you warmly to participate with me as a I have time and then spiral out naturally to others (we are part of humanity and so naturally a sort of evangelism or ecological pyramid of life as we choose to spread lesser suffering while accepting consuming is part of it).
Less-commercial in orientation (in everything) and happy to think / work for free.
Naturally you will hesitate if someone is sure of themself or ok standing on shoulders what we copy do the best from humbly but not too sterile either.
Based on just emotions ruins almost everything, which seems very common - very ungraceful - so don't disconnect... do it gracefully at least!
A "school" of thought is here you can interact / ask and make best together as free/low cost as possible.
Even a bad answer you can take best from (of course I won't know all your situation when I suggest something but I don't need to answer 100% - you also need to help me!).
Leave perfectionism, we are all imperfect humans! Let's do it... Choose something ANYTHING and keep the thoughts rolling together...!
All content under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA-NC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1 Thereby, ideally, only using tools and resources that are #FLOSS #OpenSource. #nobot