Hello, I’m Grimmware and I like to read books on magic and occultism and then translate those systems into code for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. I try to apply a rationalist credulity to magical and archetype systems, and I’m a big fan of using divination systems as a psychological prompt for learning and growing. I like operating systems, retro computers and digital electronics.
In my work life, I do defensive systems security and visibility.
Finally put the source for TarotFS up yesterday https://git.sr.ht/~grimmware/tarotfs
environmental fatalism
How much of the engagement with environmentally responsible consumerism is (unknowingly) performative?
I’m personally of the belief that the acts of individuals (whilst worthwhile) are a drop in the ocean compared to corporate, governmental and infrastructural responsibility.
I think this, in turn, makes personal environmentalism comparable to pious asceticism.
I’ve been reading a book on the history of Kabbalah and one of the ideas is that by living a spiritually correct life you not only heal yourself but reciprocally help restore creation to its divine state.
These are just idle musings and pattern matching. It is still a very good thing to not use plastic straws - I like sea turtles.
I’ve been in Kuala Lumpur for the last few days and spent much of my downtime writing a VM for the LC3 ISA for Plan 9. I didn’t study computer science so never had to push through this as a mandatory exercise, which I’m very thankful for as I think it would have taken the joy out of it.
I’ve also patched phil9’s `vexed` hex editor to allow you to binary edit a byte (https://git.sr.ht/~grimmware/vexed) given that I haven’t implemented an assembler yet and want to verify my implementation with some machine code first, and I don’t know about other ISAs but LC3 is maddeningly very rarely on nibble boundaries. It is such a nice tool.
Finally stopped being an idiot and figured out how to use my upstream for my 9front fork so I have all of my input hacks back and it’s like being back in action again. So nice.
It’s good to have my setup on the road. I don’t think I’ll necessarily DO anything ground breaking whilst I’m travelling but it’s nice to have it there for ideas and inspiration.
@jonny hard oof. I had signed up to the queue for DALL-E but actually I’m a lapsed amateur illustrator so perhaps I’ll just write down all those “wouldn’t this be hilarious” ideas as prompts for myself and get back in it or (shock horror) actually pay an artist.
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype and possibility of the thing but if the cost is artisans then fuck that.
This is like, my third run at this book and I’ve got to say it only really begins to make sense *after* you’ve already shed some beliefs. Really appreciating it this time, and I’m coming up with some pretty bonkers adjacencies to strange attractors in chaos theory to boot (granted they’re not fully formed allegories yet but that’s creative thought, right?)
An actual cyber punks on the inter space
Hardware hacking, retrocomputer upcycling, unix bothering, Plan 9 fondling and most importantly cyber occultism.
Like a security professional but nice.