idx2 on Station
author: idx2
2025-12-07 19:15 UTC
I acquired an IBM iSeries model 270 yesterday in pretty alright shape. Starting it up (thankfully it didn't explode) revealed a peculiar power related diagnostic code. 1011 2611 - either PWRREG or TWRCARD according to the service manual. Reading the whole motherboard needed replacement I checked eBay, thankfully they're cheap. But the pictures showed a piece missing on this machine: the voltage regulator! This machine was smart enough to check AND report that component failed EVEN when it's outright not there??? holy shit. amazing! can't wait to fix it up and put it into production!!!
2025-11-30 04:16 UTC
[NSFW!!!] - are there any sites like e621 on gemspace? uwu
2025-09-28 05:51 UTC
BEHOLD: The most haskell I've ever written ever!
firstHalf el lst = if el `elem` halfList then True else False where halfList = take (length lst `div` 2) lst
2025-09-14 18:36 UTC
anything going on with astrobotany, or is it just me?
2025-07-17 10:25 UTC
My plant - my planted flag on gempace, if you will - is now three years old!
gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/21b34ff9a3664cd284aa80869613ace9/m1
2025-07-07 12:49 UTC
Today's the first day of my new job as a NOC Engineer for a major ISP. It's wild - despite having no certifications or a degree, I went from making $38K to $70K USD per year. I'm scared shitless I won't be able to keep up. But they know my knowledge gaps and they like how I think. They hired me for a reason. So here we go!
2025-06-18 07:26 UTC
was finally able to water my astrobotany plant. honestly was scared it was going to wilt and die. It's strange being so worried about a digital plant game, but... three years of watering it once a day, y'know? anyway, meet Christopher:
gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/21b34ff9a3664cd284aa80869613ace9/m1
2025-06-17 17:03 UTC
I'm unable to access astrobotany - it says failed to communicate with the server. Really starting to get worried my plant is dying. I've had it in its current generation for nearly three years :\
2025-04-09 19:26 UTC
I am now a citizen of Sealand!
2025-03-19 23:27 UTC
for those who enjoy esolangs and recreational programming, and computer history... I finished my FLOW-MATIC interpreter today. take a look? https://github.com/mindpixel20/FLOW-MATIC
2025-03-12 23:41 UTC
ClockworkPi has just released the PicoCalc, an RP2040-based FUZIX handheld. Already ordered one and I'm SUPER excited!!!
2025-02-25 23:55 UTC
for anyone here who's a Canadian citizen: there's an official government petition for the revocation of Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship. Wanna do the world a small favor and sign?
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5353
2025-01-30 02:21 UTC
my project on hyperdimensional computing and weightless neural networks is now up on GitHub. https://github.com/mindpixel20/mp1
2025-01-27 19:32 UTC
To whoever runs astrobotany, if you can see this: Thank you. Astrobotany is what brings me back to Gemini every single day. 931 days and counting, actually! Astro and Station are my two most beloved sites on this space. Thank you!
2025-01-01 22:40 UTC
astrobotany be like: "you're excited to start growing your next plant"
heck no! Christopher is 905 days old. this is a long term commitment! xD
2024-12-24 21:46 UTC
the astrobotany server is down :<
2024-12-18 03:56 UTC
apologies for the www, but I can't help but sip my tea as a Gemini user... heh. https://www.fastcompany.com/91246383/its-the-end-of-the-internet-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine
2024-12-01 02:39 UTC
Compiling the Linux kernel (6.12 stable) on a Saturday night feels nice :3
2024-11-08 17:50 UTC
I do hope this little place is a safe space from right wing extremism. but I have a feeling it isn't. Do the right thing, Martin.
2024-10-25 04:38 UTC
Behold: the Lego turing machine! if it can get 175 more supporters, it'll become an actual Lego set you can buy and build! check it out and consider supporting? it's absolutely free to support! https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7
2024-10-25 01:30 UTC
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
2024-10-22 01:09 UTC
does anyone know of a Gemini browser that supports multimedia that works on HaikuOS?
2024-10-18 19:51 UTC
just ordered a SC126 Z180 computer from tindie. Very excited to hand-solder my own computer that'll be able to run CP/M and do actually somewhat useful work!
2024-09-26 15:15 UTC
The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
2024-09-18 17:43 UTC
woohoo! my beloved astrobotany plant is 800 days old! gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/21b34ff9a3664cd284aa80869613ace9
2024-08-01 16:46 UTC
is astrobotany down? can't water my plant as is my daily routine, worried it's going to die :\
2024-07-24 05:11 UTC
rediscovered the joys of IRC <3 and if I can fix my early 2000s optiplex beige box, I might set it up as an old-school MUCK/MUD/IRC terminal. who knows!
2024-07-06 22:55 UTC
got ahold of one of those cheap plastic thermal printers you can get anywhere; and after finding out other apps like thermer and rawbt work WAY better than the stock app, I've been having fun with it! quickly discovered the joys of printing off and reading gopher pages like they're little scrolls. Lots of fun!
2024-06-30 17:17 UTC
today marks two years of caring for my astrobotany plant - and getting serious about using Gemini as a whole! check it out here: gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/21b34ff9a3664cd284aa80869613ace9
2024-06-02 18:13 UTC
Broke my mint running laptop trying to do Linux from scratch. Went on a wild ride of FreeBSD -> OpenBSD -> OpenIndiana -> Tribblix -> Debian Buster -> Debian Bookworm, settling on bookworm and LXDE. Kinda disappointed I'm back on a mainstream Linux install, but at least everything works and doesn't get in the way. Kinda miss Tribblix but damn if it didn't have a good enough web browser. oof.
2024-05-15 06:43 UTC
Gonna be test driving a new biphasic sleep schedule tonight. Well, the second half anyway. Hope it works!
2024-05-06 20:27 UTC
Wonder what the record for the oldest Astrobotany plant would be?
2024-04-19 07:30 UTC
Pretty neat little programming language; check it out sometime!
https://arturo-lang.io/
2024-04-14 19:51 UTC
anyone play around with the nex protocol? seems fun, even lighter than gopher. nex://nex.nightfall.city/nex/info/
2024-03-31 03:08 UTC
I did it. I bought my dream computer: an AT&T 3B2/300. An absolute tank of a Unix workstation. Excitement!!!!
2024-03-22 23:11 UTC
saw a post on Reddit about how someone fell for a Twitter post thinking the picture was real, when it was generative. and the comments are saying the post's comments are from other bots. So it's bots posting things for other bots to give the appearance of people enjoying the generative content.
...I'm gonna stick to Mastodon and Station lmao.
2024-02-15 18:29 UTC
if I bought a Microvax and installed VMS on it, would anyone be interested in getting a shell account on it? for a small fee of, say, $1 a month? trying to justify a purchase here haha 🤣
2024-02-11 19:23 UTC
To the developer of Lagrange: How difficult would it be to port it to the Apple Vision Pro? I've got one and so far all I can use is Deedum as a non-native app. Unpleasant to say the least xD
2023-12-19 17:27 UTC
Someone's asking about what it would take for a text only website... If only they knew :)
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/111488327004823092
2023-12-12 08:19 UTC
noticed for the last couple of weeks, someone by the name of jmjil has been watering my astrobotany plant, Christopher. Do they think the 519 day old brugmansia was abandoned? Hardly. I water it every day. But it's very nice - very comforting - to know that there's someone out there, deep in geminispace, who cares enough to help me look after this little digital plant. It gives me a very small, but very meaningful, sense of community not found elsewhere. Thank you, jmjil.
2023-11-30 23:33 UTC
I'm here at Midwest furfest. If anyone's reading this, let's hang out and nerd out about Gemini. surely I can't be the only geminaut here?
2023-11-29 10:54 UTC
heading to Chicago for Midwest furfest today! If anyone out on the smallnet is also going I'd LOVE to meet up. Never been face to face with another Gemini user before :3
2023-11-15 03:11 UTC
super cool computer made from TTL chips! about twice as fast as a C64 too. Emulator runs at real speed (run min speed.min and get a timer), so you can get an accurate feel for how it runs on real hardware. And, as a huge fan of TTL computers, I'm quite impressed! Puts my little gigatron to shame for sure. Check it out!
https://github.com/slu4coder/The-Minimal-64-Home-Computer
2023-10-30 18:01 UTC
Kiel vi fartas?
2023-10-28 00:08 UTC
any furries here?
2023-10-28 00:07 UTC
Hey jmjil - if you're on here, thanks for watering my plant! 🧡
2023-10-19 04:43 UTC
I want to introduce you all to my idea of a "pleasant computer" - It's a computer, either factory made or built yourself, that brings you calm and comfort to use. Maybe a gentle sense of nostalgia. It might not have the biggest and best specs out there. It might not even have modern hardware. But a pleasant computer is a joy to use. For me, it's a beige box Pentium machine that runs Windows 95 or 3.1. What about you all? Any pleasant computer builds? :)
2023-10-09 18:42 UTC
Been down a BBS rabbit hole lately; after searching for DECnotes, I found DECUServe! it's alive and notes work perfectly!!! check it out: https://eisner.decus.org/online/
2023-09-28 04:37 UTC
Visited Level 29 BBS and someone posted about telehack.com - highly recommend telnetting into it and poking around; it's a lot of fun!
2023-09-19 07:18 UTC
it's been over 435 days since discovering and using gemini (according to my astrobotany plant age!); it still brings me great joy in its simplicity 🧡
2023-09-05 05:56 UTC
is there any e-mail like system on gemini yet?
2023-09-05 05:55 UTC
Anyone got a link to a capsule that provides news, stock quotes, and local (US Zip code) weather? know of a few on gopher but gemini y'know?
2023-08-16 04:29 UTC
is it just me, or does the idea of following someone on station feel like a much more intimate decision than other platforms?
2023-08-08 04:35 UTC
Hello from my Z Fold 5! Just got it today; upgraded from my Z Flip 3. Looking forward to another two years of wonderful folding service! :3
2023-08-06 04:14 UTC
What would it take to start a pubnix business? And, as most of them are free, what services and at what price points would make it worth paying a few ($10 and under) bucks a month?
2023-08-01 15:42 UTC
Wonder if there's a program that uses wifi adapters to stream SID music straight to the C64 to play it live? does that exist?
2023-07-20 03:16 UTC
Kinda fell into a rut of only checking station and astrobotany lately. What's new and what's hot in Geminispace?
2023-07-19 21:24 UTC
hard lesson in certificate expiry learned. Thank heck my astrobotany plant doesn't care about that tbh!