Old Computer Challenge 2023 - Day Six
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Display
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Today, I did have to boot the R31 four times, before I got a
readable, not-very-dark display.
The fourth time it went OK, I can now read the screen
effortless.
Text only ActivityPub
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Some weeks before the Challenge, I switched from Pleroma to
Honk as my ActivityPub server. Honk is written in Go, uses
SQLite as database and is almost Javascript-free.
Today at opening Honk I added the "-g" switch to links, so I
get a browser that display graphics. I also had Emacs running
ERC, the IRC-client that is build into Emacs. The machine
became very slow and even after closing links, it still uses
120Mb of swapspace.
So, although a lot of posts contain some graphics, I will
stick to a text only format for going through my time line
for the remainder of the Challenge.
Old Computer Challenge Community
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The Old Computer Challenge IRC-channel was opened at the time
of the first edition of the challenge. Not everybody left
after that first challenge, and over the last two years a
small (smol) community formed, and I do enjoy being part of
it.
This year there are a lot of new people joining the
IRC-channel. I hope that many will stay on the channel so the
community will grow a bit.
People come and go. Probably there is some kind of critical
size, and the number of people should a least be a bit above
that threshold, for the long term of viability of the
community.
