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> ends up with a VM stack, rather than any kind of salvaged / repurposed hard tech I love reading the Hundred Rabbits blog but I view it as sort of an artistic
by accrual 1y ago
> ends up with a VM stack, rather than any kind of salvaged / repurposed hard tech
I love reading the Hundred Rabbits blog but I view it as sort of an artistic endeavor in addition to pure tech. Indeed, my idea of "low tech" would be 16-bit systems or early 32-bit stuff like 386 and 486 PCs, etc. These machines are surprisingly capable even in 2025 with the right applications. They can be repaired seemingly indefinitely with a soldering iron and spare caps.
- anthk 1y ago- gopher browser -> gopher://magical.fish as a portal - HN can be read at gopher://hngopher.com - irc -> bitlbee.org to chat with anyone, even IRC with TLS itself. Kirc will run on any potato. - a high end 486 it's needed to play MP3's. Either that or burn your favourites into CD's. - sc-im+gnuplot/emacs' ses+gnulot - srln+slrnpull - telescope/sacc can do gopher fine. gemini can be stalled. - sfeed+links to read news. Altough gmane.io and gwene.io can relay mail lists and RSS feeds as NNTP groups and then your might slrn will just read all news happily in a 486 (or less). - translate -> simply translate - Reuters -> http://neuters.de http://neuters.de
- accrual 1y agoYes 100%! Some other regular HTTP sites that run great on old hardware are: * http://theoldnet.com/ http://theoldnet.com/ * http://68k.news/ http://68k.news/ * http://weather.maniac.com/ http://weather.maniac.com/
- severak_cz 1y agoYes - this is definitely some kind of computer performance art or something like that.