Hi all!

With things here seemingly not in good shape, I created an account over at lemmy.ml and created an Atari 8 bit group over there.

To be clear, this group isn't viewable / findable from worldwide lemmy at all :(

You can find that group here.

It's not even merely the idea that some trans dimensional being might choose to communicate with our plane, it's the manner they allegedly chose to communicate: A Ouija board.

The Ouija board is the ultimate self fulfilling prophecy. The humans who place their hands on the planchette can either consciously or subconsciously dictate the messages the purported being on the other end of the board is transmitting.

And I don't even necessarily have a problem with that, but let's be up front about it if we're all going to play a party game that amounts to recreational fiction writing with a spooky feel.

I also don't mean to take anything away from anyone who feels they have benefited from the Seth material. Inspiration can be drawn from many sources reputable and not.

I just wonder if the people in that room actually believed what they were purporting to.

Hi all!

I'm relatively new to the SDF in any meaningful sense.

I think I'd signed up for a shell account a year ago or so but didn't use it much.

A few months back I started to readlize how much more the SDF has to offer - an incredible community blending technology, art, and social aspects.

I find this incredibly inspiring.

One thing I've noticed is a ton of reports coming in that this or that doesn't work, and some sour grapes from folks frustrated that they're not seeing the action they'd like on the part of the maintainers.

Which leaves me wondering, who are the maintainers, and might there be mechanisms so that SDF members can pitch in and help keep the software ecosystem we maintain for members more healthy?

I know there's a ton of up front effort required to, say, train up a new maintainer for any given complex piece of server side software, but many hands make light work, and perhaps there are things "around the edges" that could help and give newer folks an opportunity to earn trust and train to be the co-maintainers of the future?

Ideas are like elbows and I know everyone has one, I'm just wondering if I can help, and given the general tech level required to even participate in SDF, wondering if others might be able to help as well.

Thanks for listening! -Chris feoh@SDF and everywhere else :)

I recently transitioned back to working in academia after 6.5 years at a MegaCorp, and by the end I was pretty burned out.

I got better, and I'd like to think I learned a few things along the way. that I wanted to pass on to folks in case they might help somebody.

This project really showcases the power of open source and passionate people building something for the sheer joy of it :)

It's basically an EP32 chip with a tiny smidge of custom hardware that's been programmed to speak the serial protocol of quite a number of 8 bit machines.

I have one for my 800XL and that speaks Atari's SIO protocol.

The depth and breadth of software for the thing is amazing, and overall I find the whole project incredibly inspirational.

Lately, they've been on a kick of creating a project where they've instrumented classic Atari games to post high scores on the internet, with a website 'lobby' where you can sign up to play games online with others.

Totally love mine, and which I had a bigger house so I could have an Apple II and a C64 and get the Fujinet for those platforms as well :)