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Nice, I'd like to follow this. I tried browsing there with EWW, but I'm blocked by an "Enable JavaScript" message. This seems to be a Mastodon 4.x thing; 3.5.x servers work great i…

The Talos II is blob-free. At launch, proprietary binary-only firmware was required for the network interface, but Raptor Computing Systems offered a bounty to reverse engineer and…

Typing on the keyboard is surprisingly fun. For larger programs you can interact with the Lisp Badge via a serial console. Here's a setup for using Emacs's built-in serial support.…

Sort of meta, but why does plopdown.video require JavaScript? Without JavaScript enabled it renders as a blank page. The actual post is just text and images. Why put that behind a …

I recently built three of these. There's no kit, so to build one you have acquire all the parts and learn TQFP soldering. The result is a really neat little computer. I did a write…