I published an update to my Smol.pub {B|Gem|Ph}log about some of the tools I used during the #OldComputerChallenge: https://ddlyh.smol.pub/occ23-tools-update

Running #netbsd on my refurbished thinkpad x61. With #ctwm, #emacs, #elfeed. #runbsd I've tried to participarte on #oldcomputerchallenge... I tried at least :awesome: @solene

@galdor
and I'm a little more performance constrained! #OldComputerChallenge
@louis @lispegistus @Ardubal @svetlyak40wt

@roxy
Same (I'm currently holidaying in a rural location with little internet). It was also great when I was doing the #OldComputerChallenge as, while I could display images, I had to download and view them separately, so it had to be worth the extra effort...

Finally got a chance to upload my #oldcomputerchallenge epiphlogue:

gopher://booji.mutated.net/1/phlog/2023/20230716_occ_epiphlogue

#occ #gopher

Here is an idea for say next year.

"I miss my shell", use an old shell. For example, on OpenBSD, use for example /bin/csh. Or find another old shell to use similar to what existed in UNIX in the 80s. Or maybe a shell you never used or heard of.

#oldcomputerchallenge

@fstateaudio @nutilius @surabax @pkw @kentpitman @prahou @SDF @chris @simon_brooke

https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
#livenow (pretty much)
I'm adding @lispi314 's thread with @rml @strypey on unions
https://mastodon.top/@lispi314/110733650658422737

and @alexshendi 's I think yet unlisted #OldComputerChallenge series of Mastodon toots.
https://rollenspiel.social/@alexshendi/110690280793315700
; also @happy about hydrogen cars
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@happy/110737127227450689

#OCC23 otherwise:
https://occ.deadnet.se

Attached: @prahou 's surrealism is quite realistic, isn't it?

Today I started with the old computer challenge. I know, that I'm late, but I want to test it myself. #oldcomputerchallenge

I want to build a simple gui with a preview for the resulting spritesheet for my 'emote2ss' utility. Tried to use GTK4 because of how widespread it is and seemingly easy and relatively lightweight, or so I thought.

A simple empty window consumes 84 megabytes of memory. There are 70 different libraries dynamically linked to that binary. I would probably not notice it on my main rig - it became apparent only when I was building and trying it during the #oldcomputerchallenge week.

Nuklear it is.

#lisp y #gopher #climate
#aNONradio #SDF

#climate
@kentpitman #haiku
I yell (toot) at an NZ Climate justice thinktank
LLM suggests we encrypt everything and "honeypot" it with junk content

#gopher #gemini #OldComputerChallenge final phosts
(ironically) https://occ.deadnet.se
Anyone remember who did old computer synth #music ?

#lisp
@nutilius #occ followup #PlusTwoHoursLispPerDay
@surabax is launching https://lisp.ie
@pkw , me, sort've @JackDaniel #McCLIM #ECL projects !

#OldComputerChallenge Summary & pictures: gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/schroeder/phlog.20

#OldComputerChallenge Day 7 -Last Day- gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/schroeder/phlog.19

#OldComputerChallenge #finalTransmission
#gopher
gopher://tilde.club/0/~screwtape/2023-17th-July-1-still-16th-in-some-TZ-lisp-docs.txt
gopher://tilde.club/0/~screwtape/2023-17th-July-2-final-transmission.txt
gopher://tilde.club/1/~screwtape/
It's now 000UTC 17th - 30 minutes.
back to
gopher://gopher.club/1/users/screwtape/
gopher://tilde.institute/1/~screwtape/
https://archives.aNONradio.net/#screwtape

Next up, @nutilius ' #TwoHoursLispPerDay challenge !
#interlisp #zetalisp #EmbeddableCommonLisp #MCCLIM for me !
(That's + two hours, I'm not cutting down ;p)

#OldComputerChallenge #finalTransmission
#gopher
gopher://tilde.club/0/~screwtape/2023-17th-July-1-still-16th-in-some-TZ-lisp-docs.txt
gopher://tilde.club/0/~screwtape/2023-17th-July-2-final-transmission.txt
gopher://tilde.club/1/~screwtape/
It's now 000UTC 17th - 30 minutes.
back to
gopher://gopher.club/1/users/screwtape/
gopher://tilde.institute/1/~screwtape/
https://archives.aNONradio.net/#screwtape

Next up, @nutilius ' #TwoHoursLispPerDay challenge !
#interlisp #zetalisp #EmbeddableCommonLisp #MCCLIM for me !
(That's + two hours, I'm not cutting down ;p)

#OldComputerChallenge #finalTransmission
#gopher
gopher://tilde.club/0/~screwtape/2023-17th-July-1-still-16th-in-some-TZ-lisp-docs.txt
gopher://tilde.club/0/~screwtape/2023-17th-July-2-final-transmission.txt
gopher://tilde.club/1/~screwtape/
It's now 000UTC 17th - 30 minutes.
back to
gopher://gopher.club/1/users/screwtape/
gopher://tilde.institute/1/~screwtape/
https://archives.aNONradio.net/#screwtape

Next up, @nutilius ' #TwoHoursLispPerDay challenge !
#interlisp #zetalisp #EmbeddableCommonLisp #MCCLIM for me !
(That's + two hours, I'm not cutting down ;p)

The #oldcomputerchallenge #3 ended up (for my timezone), it was an insightful week. Thanks @solene !

Wrapped up my thoughts here: https://bsandro.tech/posts/old-computer-challenge-3-2023/#day-7-and-conclusions

#oldcomputerchallenge Day 7

Ladies and Gentlemen - the OCC is mostly over, but ...

The game is just beginning .. so many things to learn, so many systems to understand, so many lines to write .. and all this thing to just have a fun.

Greetings from 512MB Gopherhole

gopher://sdf.org/0/users/nutilius/occ-2023/2023-07-16

#oldcomputerchallenge DAY VI
***EOL, yes!***

NOTE: The occ lab will be offline and unavailable on Sunday, July 16th, which is the last day of the Old Computer Challenge. Participation will conclude on Saturday, July 15th.

gopher://booji.mutated.net/1/phlog/2023/20230715_occ_day6

#occ #gopher

@masinter I forgot the link- the page https://occ.deadnet.se collects many links to peoples' logs for #OldComputerChallenge

@masinter
Lots of people have just spent a week using a mixture of old hardware or modern hardware with "old" performance constraints (512M ram, 1 processor).

Many of us have discovered that old fashioned computing contained very powerful techniques they will bring to their modern day-to-day life.

If you would share some experience - good, bad, interesting about similarities, differences or forgotten insights and tag #OldComputerChallenge many of us will be very grateful. blog, toot, phlog