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Dimly Lit Corners

#Goals2025

Moving away from the constant upgrade cycle & moving closer to the ideals of #PermaComputing #MalleableSoftware

Design and setup a redundant system of old/used, cheap, low-power devices running ia: #Guix, #Linux, #FreeBSD, #macOS, #HaikuOS, #Plan9Front, #X11, #P9, #NFS, all working together

Become an expert on #MicroControllers #ESP32 #STM32 #RP2040 #MIPS #RiscV

DIY sensors which sing like birds to communicate their status

DIY robots "drones"

Move as much as possible of my computing needs to the #Terminal, #Emacs, #Rio #CLI #TUI #P9

Get an #3DPrinter and learn to use it

Design and build my own portable 8dot #braille terminal & try out if 3x3 or 3x4 dots is also workable.

Design and build my own low-power computers, their OS, and tools

Writing more of my own tools #DIY

#SmallTalk #ObjectPascal #Prolog #Scheme #Racket #CommonLisp #Haskell #Rust #Go #ObjectiveC #Swift

Deploy #LoRa #ReticullumNetwork #RNodes #MeshCore #Meshtastic

Start an #InternetResiliencyClub

Add #Tor, #I2P support by #WebProxy

#SolarPowered #SelfHost over #I2P, #OnionService #Blog #Wiki #Repositories #GopherHole #Darcs #Mercurial

#SelfHost my own #EmailServer, which will only accept email from #KnownServers #CommunityEmail #MutualEmailAcceptance

Share files via #BitTorrent over #I2P

DIY #HomeAutomation
DIY #GardeningAutomation
DIY #GreenHouse

Get a house cat, train the cat, use voice and gestures

Start asking money for advice & technology support

Build/program my own opportunistic and strange cryptocurrency miners #BTC, #XMR, #ZEC, etc #Art

#MakeMoreArt #LearnToDraw #Learn3DModeling #LearnGenerativeArt #LearnToComposeAmbientMusic

#ReCreateJottit #ReCreateInstikiWiki

#WriteMore #PublishMore #Letters, #Essays, #Missives, #Reports, #Treatise

…

#Incomplete#Ongoing#NotFinal
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The Last Psion | Alex

#HaikuOS users with USB RS232 adapters! I need some help.

I'm trying to get an old piece of software working with Haiku that uses serial comms (see #plptools). I'm having some issues with DTR/DSR/RTS/CTS checking and setting, but it would be great if someone else can check my findings.

See this link for more information on my tests and results: discuss.haiku-os.org/t/porting

Are you able to replicate what I'm seeing?

Haiku Community · Porting plptools to HaikuSo, I’ve done a bit of testing to work out what’s going on with Haiku and RTS/CTS/DTR/DSR. This bit of C code (based on this code) checks RTS/CTS/DTR/DSR every second, toggling RTS and DTR between checks. On Linux using both the Prolific TA adapter and the FTDI FT232 adapter, I get the following output when plugged into the test Psion Series 3c which is setting DTR and CTS high: DTR:1 DSR:1 RTS:1 CTS:1 DTR:0 DSR:1 RTS:0 CTS:1 DTR:1 DSR:1 RTS:1 CTS:1 DTR:0 DSR:1 RTS:0 CTS:1 DTR:1 DSR:1 RTS:1 C...
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The Last Psion | Alex

Current main projects:

  • #plptools: Resurrecting old ports (#FreeBSD, #NetBSD) and working on a new port to #HaikuOS. It's an opportunity to get more familiar with the code and maybe find bugs along the way.

Upcoming projects:

  • #CTRAN: Still haven't started writing unit tests. Also, complete a full write-up of what it took to get the thing working.
  • Get my website running #GoHugo.
  • Rebuild of DEATH, my Microserver gen8, probably with #FreeBSD. (Yes, it's been over a year since DEATH's RAID died.)
  • Pick another SIBO SDK tool to rewrite. (Probably EMAKE or RCOMP.)
  • Add a 17V boost converter to #PsiDrive.
  • Make #fefstool create FEFS images. (I'm half-tempted to rewrite fefstool in Pascal to make it easier for me to finish.)

You'll notice that some of these projects have been sitting for a while. I've struggled to get going with things this year. I'm hoping that working though plptools will give me some mental energy to get going with other things.

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Santiago Lema :amiga:
Today I setup a public forgejo instance to host some open-source code. I will progressively be moving stuff there.

Also, as an exercise I wrote a native ChatGPT client for #HaikuOS using the new experimental APIs. Should be much lighter than anything in the browser.

https://code.lema.org/santiago/haiku-dumber

Now I need to learn how to make a proper icon (in .hvif ?) and build a .hpkg and get this into HaikuPorts at some point.
Screenshot of a simple Haiku app named "Dumber" with a question box, and answerbox and a list of models to use.
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jbz

✅ The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective

｢ One of BFS's most important and widely touted features is its support for extended attributes. An example of the importance of attributes is illustrated with an example of MP3 files. Information fields important to an MP3 file would be: song title, band, album, release date, encoding rate, length, number of times played ｣

arstechnica.com/information-te

Ars Technica · The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospectiveBy Ars Staff
#beos#bfs#haikuos
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Morgan

@david_chisnall Apparently I did miss it, I even tried searching the -current mailing list archive and phrase "rust" not found.

I'm just a user and not a dev so if there's a double secret list I don't have access to that would explain it. But really I was just poking fun at the chaos that has been going on in Linux land lately, no harm intended and I could have just as easily said "...watching from my #HaikuOS workstation" as I have one of those too. :flan_wink:

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Larvitz :fedora: :redhat:

My Thinkpad collection keeps growing and I really need to think about what to do with them all 😂

Thinkpad x60
Thinkpad x220
Thinkpad x230
Thinkpad T420 (With Libreboot)
Thinkpad T430s (My wives daily driver)
Thinkpad T480 (My second most used one)
Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen4 (With HaikuOS)
Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6
Thinkpad T14s Gen4 AMD (My daily driver)

I really need to stop buying those (beautiful) machines.

All of them are running flavors of Linux, except eh X1Gen4, which is curreltly running on HaikuOS and the T420, which is running FreeBSD.

#linux#thinkpad#collection
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trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:

Do you feel like secure boot has done anything to enhance your own personal security, keeping in mind the threat models you yourself worry about?

Or has it been more of a nuisance to you than a help?

Consumer desktop/laptop perspectives only please.

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#linux#bsd#haikuos
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The Last Psion | Alex

Moved instance, so time for a new #introduction!

I'm Alex and I have a PDA problem.

In 2018, after 16 years of using various #Psion portables, I decided to try my hand at developing hardware and software for my beloved Series 3c to help me with journalling and creative writing.

6 years and repeated sidequests later, I've ended up doing a lot of research into the SIBO/EPOC16 platform, and done my best to document it when I can. I've also nudged former developers into open sourcing their old Psion apps.

My current main projects are:

  • #PsiDrive, an #RP2040-based USB drive for SIBO SSDs.
  • Rewriting the Psion SIBO (16-bit 8086) C SDK, including updating the docs (with #AsciiDoc) and rewriting the original DOS tools as FOSS apps. I'm currently using #FreePascal to create a drop-in replacement for #CTRAN, the Psion OO C preprocessor. (I want to eventually write a new compiler targeting EPOC16. Eventually.)
  • Anything else that tickles my bouncy brain.

Outside of #retrocomputing, I'm your common-or-garden British nerd. I'm a Linux user - mostly Arch, but I dabble with others. I also like a bit of #HaikuOS and I'm planning on giving #FreeBSD a go very soon.

I used to be a senior computer monkey, specialising in on-prem SME infrastructure (I lament the loss of vSphere). Now I train others to become computer monkeys (for better or worse). As a result, sometimes you'll see me wrestling with old Cisco ASAs, Ubiquiti APs, or modded kit running #OpenWrt.

Generally, I like making things do stuff, especially if it's stuff that the thing wasn't originally designed to do.

Photo of a fully constructed PsiDrive 0.0.1, including a Raspberry Pi Pico mounted on top. There is a SIBO solid state disk (SSD) plugged into the 6 SIBO-SP pins. A microUSB cable is plugged into the Pico. To the left of the PsiDrive is 128K Flash Psion SSD.
A photo of my stand at the Festival of Portable Computing (early 2024) at the Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK. On the table is a selection of Psion devices, including various SIBO/EPOC16 devices (Series 3/3a/3c/3mx, Workabout, Siena, MC400), a few EPOC32 devices (Series 5/5mx), a few PsiDrive boards, many SIBO SSDs, some boxed software. There is also an Amstrad NC100, a Microwriter MW4, an Acer netbook and a 2009 iMac. The Acer and iMac are running Haiku. The iMac is running the MAME-based Psion SIBO emulator.
A screenshot of a KDE Plasma desktop, running on Arch Linux. The main window in the background is Konsole running an SSH session to a Haiku box, which is running tmux. In the foreground is a Remmina window, connected a VNC session on the Haiku box. On the Haiku desktop, three copies of the MAME-based Psion emulator are running - a Series 3, a Siena and a Series 3mx. The 3mx is running the game "Horace In THe Mystic Woods."
A screenshot of KDE Plasma running on Arch Linux. The background window is Kitty running tmux. In the main tmux pane is NeoVim showing some CTRAN-ng source code, written in Object Pascal. In the smaller pane on the right is CTRAN-ng's help output. In the foreground is a copy of DOSBox Staging, also showing CTRAN-ng's help output. Both have been compiled with Free Pascal.
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