@danslerush@floss.social
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2d ago
DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ
@danslerush@floss.social
Part-time Coder. Graphic designer. FLOSS lover. Lousy webmaster. Gamer. Father. No order. French dude writing in poor English 
… and Franck IRL › Maintainer of @zemarmot › Pixelfed on @DansLeRuSH ℹ️ Lonely toots deleted after 2 years
floss.social
#GentleOS, A hobby operating system (#OS) for 16/32-bit vintage #PC
🔸16-bit Version
Minimum requirement :
· 8086+ CPU
· 192 KB RAM
· CGA display supporting 320x200x4 mode
› https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos
🔸32-bit Version
Minimum requirement :
· i386 CPU
· 4MB RAM
· VGA display supporting 640x480x16 mode
› https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32
#RetroComputing #PermaComputing
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5000th toot! #introduction time.
I'm originally from London, UK, now based in Alt Empordà. I make #CreativeCoding #MathArt. I use Linux since 2004 or so, currently happy with Debian though I need to find something else to keep my remaining 32bit hardware up to date #permacomputing. Most of my code is published under #copyleft licenses.
I started making music on classic #Amiga, using #OctaMED SoundStudio until 2003. Then I used #PureData until 2011, but mousing patch cables was increasingly not fun so I wrote pdlua to embed Lua in Pd and later fixed some things to let libpd be compiled with emscripten to run in web browsers. In 2012 I started #LiveCoding music in the #C programming language, which I still do.
Always interested in #fractals, I wrote some libraries to support my investigation of the #MandelbrotSet. I took over maintenance of Kalle's Fraktaler 2, but eventually I was fed up with its code and wrote Fraktaler-3 from scratch, to support deep zooming into hybrid escape time fractals. A companion program Zoomasm is for video output.
I have a lot of projects, most sleeping until I feel inspired to work on them some more. Currently working on Mandeltron, a thing that combines live-coding with the Mandelbrot set.
More on my website, including blog going back to 2005: https://mathr.co.uk
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With Amazon killing off all the old kindles, they’re super-cheap right now. And it turns out that jailbreaking is a minor faff, but not too difficult, really. This one was £10 and is going to somebody who was pondering getting an expensive eink ebook reader just a couple of weeks ago. :D
#permacomputing
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@bugwhisperer@blahaj.zone
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May 06, 2026
Katie 
@bugwhisperer@blahaj.zone
Katie, is a quiet soul, who enjoys biology, poking computers and tinkering with code. She specializes in awkwardly written software, tangled breadboard wiring, and starting yet another side-project that will never be completed. When not larping as a computer toucher, to make monies in this capitalism ravaged timeline, they can be found with their head in a book or cooking tasty things for people they care about. Loves to travel and see new places, but hates flying. Train travel is the superior way to travel. #reading #manga #nonbinary #transgender #deaf #nuerodivergent #anarchism #punk Profile: Person with green eyes, mid-length hair, wearing a black shirt and a mint green jacket smiles faintly. Drawn for us by @mondori_art@delen.2ezelf.net Banner: Biochemical pathways, themed in trans flag colors, showing various steroids pathways. The testosterone to estradiol-17B path is shown in the center.
blahaj.zone
Where do you see yourself in five years?
Ideally, riding my bicycle drawn electronics repair cart full of ancient hardware chips, from before the AI-FOSS Wars. I help communities repair their tech in exchange for a room and meal at the local inn, swapping stories and learning from one another.
#monkandrobot #permacomputing
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@moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org
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Feb 21, 2026
Moses Izumi
@moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org
A man whose mind is a haze of swedish punk rock, fantasies about musclegirls, and strong opinions on portable electronics: and slightly less stubborn views on software. Child of the Home Theater PC-era. ("inside of every set-top box is a Computer waiting to break free") Strongly believe that the decline of keyboard phones may have been bigger blow to the concept of general-purpose computing than any DRM/vendor lock-in: and that the snakeoil salesmen powering the "generative AI" industry can only thrive in a world where OS vendors don't ship software development toolchains as part of the base install. My main barometer for Software Bloat is the presence of a splash screen to cover up loading times. Inadvertently nerdsniped @rose@snac.pinkro.se into making a Gentoo LiveCD. (see https://gardenhouse.pinkro.se/news/bouquet_of_isos.html ) Named myself as a play on anime cop Noah Izumi, because she's a friendly technooptimistic dumbass (can relate) and dismantled a supply chain botnet decades before NPM and Wordpress made those mainstream. She also managed to conquer the Griffon because her last-gen exoskeleton didn't have the "neural network enhanced" movement system: a refreshing contrast to every other mecha anime absolutely salivating over equipment upgrades. [sometimes I think Patlabor 2 should've been about her becoming a Quaker or something] (see https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B3kS7d2BeERz3WC5Wi for more) _ _ _ _ == Interests == - Making simple gameplay mods for ZDoom (weapons, player movement, jetpacks) - Hacker conferences, i.e CCC (never been to one, but the talks eviscerate 99% of tech Youtube) - Reading: tech blogs, manga, religious works (TechTipsy, @domi@donotsta.re 's blog, even Hackaday if I'm desperate) (Patlabor, Rayearth, anything by Shirow Masamune) (New Testament, The Religion of the Samurai) - Permacomputing (mainly interested in the "my laptop from 2003 works fine, get off my lawn Microsoft"-part of their philosophy) - Videogames (Jackal and Millipede are the best 2D shooters, because you don't need a speed powerup to have a fighting chance) (Quake has worse guns than doom, but the verticality makes up for it) (Doom is more interesting when you don't keep weapons between levels) (got highly addicted to F-Zero for a while) (Kung Fu for NES is the only beat-em up I really got into, it isn't a slugfest: also appreciate Mazinger Z for SNES because of the immense enemy variety) - Birds (kinda want to scratch a Golden Eagle under the chin, I find them oddly cute) (don't get why Netscape's grandson is called Seamonkey instead of Albatross or something) Profile picture is Ishikawa from Ghost in the Shell (1995 movie) _ _ _ _ As of 27 April 2026 I only repost/quote posts that I've replied to. I don't wish to have a profile full of reruns, but I still see the value in signal-boosting the work of others.
fe.disroot.org
I've heard of people putting Linux on their thermostats: but a Pentium 4 PC will always be a mighty spaceheater no matter what Operating System you're running.
#permacomputing
#retrocomputing
#unixsurrealism
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@danslerush@floss.social
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Feb 19, 2026
DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ
@danslerush@floss.social
Part-time Coder. Graphic designer. FLOSS lover. Lousy webmaster. Gamer. Father. No order. French dude writing in poor English … and Franck IRL › Maintainer of @zemarmot › Pixelfed on @DansLeRuSH ℹ️ Lonely toots deleted after 2 years
floss.social
I missed this but it's brilliant :
« We Need To Rewild The Internet - The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. » by @mariafarrell@mastodon.social & @robin@mastodon.social Berjon
« Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments … that madden the creatures trapped within. »
› https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
#Internet #Web #SmallWeb #Smolweb #Permacomputing
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