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do what?

I wish PICO-8 was free (libre) software.

cogburnd02on The Open Book Project: open-hardware e-ink eBook reader

I mean OLED is basically shining a LED flashlight at your eyeballs, so, yeah. Of course, pretty much every other form of backlit display has the same problem. The only thing I can think of that might be better would be possibly a laptop LCD with the backlight taken out and replaced with a front surface mirror, and then that depends on the surrounding lighting, too.

cogburnd02on Aubio, a C library for analyzing songs

The LGPL was never meant for all libraries, only certain specific ones (which the FSF thought were better to more permissively license because of practical reasons.) That's one reason they renamed it from "Library GPL" to "Lesser GPL"

cogburnd02on Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020)

once you get the dictd server set up, all you need to do to get a definition is run curl. google 'curl dict' for some stuff.

cogburnd02on The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney

For SHAME! He skipped the Star Trek one! ;-)

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1977-12

cogburnd02on Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020)

I bet it'd be pretty easy to make an awk script to convert XML into something like dictfmt(1)'s -j Jargon File format text.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/dictfmt http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg447.txt

cogburnd02on X Window System on a Floppy

https://bits.p1x.in/floppinux-an-embedded-linux-on-a-single-...

uses 5.13.0-rc2.

cogburnd02on Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry

Wait there's a LEGO SET!?!?

Oh, wait, you probably meant that as a metaphor, didn't you?

cogburnd02on Alpine Linux: Proposal to move Rust to main

I'd assume it meant 'rewrite in rust.'

cogburnd02on Subscribe to RSS Feeds over Email

I am currently not set up to read RSS feeds, but I want to set up Newsboat [1] for a machine connected to a real VT terminal and RSSMii [2] for my Wii connected to my tv.

https://newsboat.org/

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/RSSMii

cogburnd02on X Window System on a Floppy

Wouldn't it work with a newer kernel though, too?

cogburnd02on Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020)

would be really really cool if someone could make a small script to convert these into a format understandable by dict://

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT

cogburnd02on Linux on the Framework Laptop

It would be great to have something like the Framework (or a special edition of one) on the FSF's RYF-certified list: https://ryf.fsf.org/

cogburnd02on A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions

I love remind. It's got its own little domain-specific language for describing dates & things, it's got its own built-in Easter calculation stuff.

cogburnd02on Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters

I have no problem donating to free software projects, but one should not be required to provide payment to access information of any kind, be it software, movies, music, or any other kind of data.

cogburnd02on Keeping a Lab Notebook [pdf] (2013)

> Most importantly, your lab notebook is not yours...You should not take it home for any reason.

Dafuq?

cogburnd02on Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux system

somewhat related: https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html

was a project to boot the Linux kernel directly from source code using a C compiler as part of the boot process.

cogburnd02on Generate ASCII-art representations of mathematical equations

Still interesting. I certainly did not know this existed.

cogburnd02on Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters

Funny, 'Zep' is also a commercially available Copper Sulfate. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Zep-Root-Kill-32-oz-Drain-Cleaner/4...

cogburnd02on Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters

Sad that Pico-8 isn't free software.

cogburnd02on Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?

What do you think about this?

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/push-copyright-aside.en.html

cogburnd02on WASM to PS Compiler

The only thing you are is too correct.

cogburnd02on ATM NFC Hack

Unless you obscured your face with e.g. a motorcycle helmet or something.

cogburnd02on A New Era for Mechanical CAD

BRL-CAD was created by the US Army Research Laboratory (then the Ballistic Research Laboratory, hence 'BRL') and was released in 1984, and became free software in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD

cogburnd02on Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file

What are your thoughts on darkhttpd?

https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/

cogburnd02on Garamond is not a good font to use in web copy (2010)

And for low-resolution displays, there's Bitmap Garamond.

https://www.all-day-breakfast.com/cannam/garamond.html

cogburnd02on Rust heads into the kernel?

From https://itsfoss.com/hyperbola-linux-bsd/

> [T]he interest in allowing Rust modules into the kernel are a problem for us, due to Rust trademark restrictions which prevent us from applying patches in our distribution without express permission. We patch to remove non-free software, unlicensed files, and enhancements to user-privacy anywhere it is applicable. We also expect our users to be able to re-use our code without any additional restrictions or permission required.

> This is also in part why we use UXP, a fully free browser engine and application toolkit without Rust, for our mail and browser applications.

cogburnd02on uLisp

Having never heard of Gambit, it looks like Gambit:Scheme::Awka:AWK

https://github.com/noyesno/awka

cogburnd02on Calibre – E-Book Management

Uh, LibGen?