Amy @PinkCathodeCat@cybre.space

Installing #Emacs in a #Prius:
https://nqnstudios.github.io/2019/11/19/emacs-fury-road.html

#Tesla 🚗

the deligitimization of derivative works as "fanfiction" is a result of the late-capitalistic institution of extremely long copyright terms. In this essay I will

like everywhere i turn there's some new-ass app trying to sell me stocks or some old-ass app trying to find new ways to sell me stocks and i'm like, binch, i lived through 2008, i know stocks are magical fairy money that melt away with the morning dew

I need help finding hardware to image 9 track tape.My pdp11 drive is non operational right now. In desperare need of a 9 track drive. If anyone here knows where i can get a drive, please contact me. I have hundreds of tapes taking up space in my living room i need to image and put on archive.org.

A CS researcher and source code archaeologist disassembles #Atari 2600 game, gets more than they bargained for:

Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1811/1811.02035.pdf

My guess is the "buggy" code takes advantage of a hardware quirk. What do you 6502 old-timers think?

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #6502 #assembly #AtariVCS #Atari2600 #ARXIV

I just copied and pasted 836 lines of Emacs Lisp code from a pdf file and I just noticed that the pdf file used ’ instead of ' , so that means I have to replace all the ’s with 's in those 836 lines of code.
Does anyone know if I could do this with an Emacs macro? Otherwise I'll blow my fucking brains out...

Just a little #Emacs link roundup for beginners like myself, if you're interested:
- GNU's "A Guided Tour of Emacs": https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
- Keith Waclena's (University of Chicago) "A Tutorial Introduction to GNU Emacs": https://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs-tutorial.html
- Jessica Hamrick's "Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs": http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-guide-to-emacs/

Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job, and was told to leave, on top of this i was told by the CTO that they need to get legal involved, how screwed am i?
https://np.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/accidentally_destroyed_production_database_on/

when i was a kid i told my folks, "I think maybe marihuana shouldn't be illegal." they said, "you'll get more conservative once you're older." well it's twenty years later and i'm endlessly entertained at how wrong they were

there is nothing inevitable about conservativism and sucks to anyone who says it is

Lol I feel like my head is full of all this early internet Bush administration stuff that nobody but me remembers but it was a big deal at the time

Somewhere there are a frickload of cockatrices roaming about, terrorizing the countryside (or just suburbia).

DOOM is merely a continuation in a long western tradition of artistic depictions of hell, but with a distinctly American twist. in Dantes inferno Dante goes to hell to learn about it. in DOOM you go to hell to kick its ass. in this essay i will