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RSS Feed Now Available

We now have an RSS feed to which you may subscribe with any feed aggregator or reader application. I recommend Akgregator, part of the Trinity Desktop Environment, which itself is a fork of KDE 3.5.

Minor Site Facelift

This site has undergone a minor facelift, with the addition of a sidebar that should be accessible from any page. Please contact me if it misbehaves, or is missing from any page you might access.

Humor

Italian Cuisine & Trailer Parks

Q: What kind of food is preferred by Italian trailer park residents?
A: NASCARpone.

In The News

The mainstream news media is owned and financed by the same plutocrats who run the U.S. to suit their own private agenda of greed and wealth hoarding. They engineer the consent of the masses by organizing false debates between two sides that represent their party-line interests. I recommend Democracy Now! for an honest view of current events.

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg, a young environmental activist, has joined a massive climate protest outside of the United Nations building. It is truly encouraging to see young people organizing for meaningful change.

FBI Monitors Non-Violent Immigration Protesters

The FBI is apparently monitoring the social media accounts of nonviolent immigration protesters at the U.S. border, with false claims of the protesters being armed and using "lethal force".

This is just one more instance of civil liberties coming under threat by the Gold-Plated Orange Ego. This should encourage folks to get volunteering, or at least to donate to organizations that are standing up for civil rights. If enough people exert pressure on Washington, they'll have no choice but to assent to their demands.

Remember, the U.S. Consitution guarantees the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

Emergency Items

The Amazon is Burning!

As the ongoing climate crisis worsens, far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, supporter of the U.S.-backed 1964-1985 Brazilian military dictatorship, has rolled back environmental protections for the benefit of corporate interests in mass deforestation, generally achieved by immolating large swaths of rainforest.

Indigenous peoples of Brazil who live in affected areas are suffering, as per the usual U.S. foreign policy in Latin America.

I am unsure as to the best course of action for organizing against this atrocity, so if anyone has any ideas, please contact me, and I will post it to this page.

Current Projects

Retrocomputing Wishlist

Digital Equipment Corporation

For DEC stuff, I'm mostly on the lookout for a deskside form-factor VAX.

• MicroVAX II
• VAX 4000
• MicroPDP of some variety
• AlphaServer DS10L

Sun Microsystems

Here, I'm mostly looking for smaller enterprise-level servers.

• Enterprise 450
• Sun Fire 3800
• Sun Blade 2000

Silicon Graphics Inc.

Here, I'm mostly looking for any MIPS-based SGI box to run IRIX 6.5 on.

• O2
• Origin 200

Activism

• ChivaNet
• Removing myself from participation in regressive anti-social networks
• Maintaining this site

Tech Projects

• FreeM MUMPS Database and Language
• Geodigraph Hub (cooperative collaboration tool)
• The Datashed (Personal Datacenter)
• RetroNet (secure WAN for retrocomputing enthusiasts)
• CFMumps (MUMPS binding and database driver for ColdFusion)
• LorikeeM (GNU Emacs major-mode for MUMPS programming)

I am very interested in building a statement of principles for a new, community-driven Internet. Something along the lines of the GNU philosophy but for interconnected, public-access networks.

Projects I Endorse

Updated As-Needed

• NodeM (GT.M/YottaDB database driver and binding)
• The Trinity Desktop Environment (GUI environment for X11)
• NetBSD (FOSS operating system)
• YottaDB (MUMPS language compiler and database environment)
• GNU COBOL (COBOL compiler)
• Macro SNOBOL4 (SNOBOL4/SPITBOL interpreter)
• Pine Phone (an open-source GNU+Linux smartphone with privacy features)
• HECnet (DECnet WAN for retrocomputing enthusiasts)
• SimH (retrocomputing emulation suite)

Projects/Products To Avoid

Software and Hardware Platforms

• systemd
• PulseAudio
• Wayland
• Mir
• InterSystems Cache (or any InterSystems products whatsoever)
• All Google/Alphabet products (GMail, Maps, Android, etc.), noting that YouTube may be unavoidable as a platform for spreading our message
• Facebook