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sj_zero
@sj_zero

Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps.

Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

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Recent Notes

d · 1w
having a CS degree doesn't make you an engineer there are very few actual engineers working in software, and there's approximately zero real engineering happening in the industry the term "software ...
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Other than the fact that some of the actual license carrying engineers I've worked with are so immensely incompetent that they should commit sudoku lest they dishonour their entire bloodline with their continued existence, the idea of saying "no you can't just call yourself an engineer" that Canada enforces is a good one.
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d · 1w
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MaleGoddess · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqm343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qyg7mjh nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxk7ypj67axkdjy53426zm7hn9clyuqch4ugm2auqnva3cu2j4rhs5dgur5 I watch two mainstream 2026 movies Backrooms - meh, could've been bett...
realcaseyrollins ✝️ · 2w
I found this group on the #FBXL instance of #Lotide called nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzurappmk732rfnuua4anwyzs3m7sajwyjpw8v620lqu6d6v3y7yqlppgm9 and noticed that it referen...
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It's my fork of rebased and soapbox. It's focused on stability and compatibility, expanding on a lot of work I did on lotide to improve compatibility there. I've also been focusing a lot on making sure all the pleroma upstream work makes it back, as well as great ideas from other platforms like misskey or mastodon proper.

One of the new features I added was groups support, with a focus on lotide, lemmy, mbin, and piefed, but we've done some friendly testing on many groups platforms including things like peertube. The messages you saw were me finally doing testing across the Internet between different platforms -- lotide, lemmy at hilariouschaos, and here.

I've followed and unfollowed different communities on a lot of group or feed platforms without issues, sent likes or removed likes, and posted comments, but this is the first time I've had those different platforms follow a group hosted on fbxl social, and so there was a lot of noise because lemmy and lotide expect much different things than pleroma/rebased initially provided. It's all activitypub, but the ways it's used are very different between the different platforms, so you have to watch your logs and figure out why something didn't federate.
alle_yoj813 · 2w
sony is cooked https://ak.kyaruc.moe/media/5a142ec9-1469-4018-b984-acdc60f02340/HMNc6QNXoAEi-5l.png https://ak.kyaruc.moe/media/d2ae2fec-14c6-4634-96e3-500782b8f45a/gamesir-is-shifting-towards-digita...
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Though it's funny, we do all have to remember that physical isn't what matters -- it's unencumbered by DRM that matters. You can have a physical disk and it won't play because it needs to talk to Sony's servers to run (And they've tried to push this). Meanwhile, a GOG game I bought 10 years ago will run as long as something exists to run it (and it's on my own storage device so even if GOG shuts down I keep my game)
Rich Nost · 2w
I didn't even realize people on the mastodon bridge could reply. What client are you using?
neopolitan · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqm343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qyg7mjh groups..
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I've been working on something really cool -- I accidentally bought a PiZero rp2350 microcontroller instead of a Raspberry Pi Zero W that I thought I was buying, and it's a much different beast -- a combination ARM/Riscv32 microcontroller with 520kb of sram, usb support, an hdmi output, and an sd card slot. I found there's a FOSS realtime operating system called NuttX that you can run on it, and I've been working on getting FreeBASIC to run on it. I also grabbed an ESP32-P4 board because it's a similar device but with 32MB of RAM and a minimal but real video chip, as well as a physical Ethernet port.

I haven't gotten USB or HDMI support working yet, but the actual programming language runs perfectly, and passes all the internal compiler tests as well as the exampleageddon test (about 600 included examples that don't use external libraries or require graphics, sound, or input), and I haven't tested it yet on physical hardware but I believe the gpio pins are working correctly with a quick and dirty library I set up. This includes contemporary features like object oriented programming and threading as well as the simple stuff like adding two numbers together, which is nuts.

Feels really bizarre having a full fat basic that runs on a 10 dollar microcontroller.