Randomly sold some #warnerbros #discovery #stocks today. Then fueled some #HarleyDavidson. Doesn't matter what to do with the portfolio, just do something. #capitalism #stockmarket #investing #usblues

Currently at disk 54 in my #Commodore64 floppy backup effort. Getting some bad sectors so I'm coding some crude error handling/reporting in DiskSumo. If the error is on an unallocated sector according to BAM (like it often is) then I just ignore it. Also […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

Wasted some hours debugging why colors were poor and flicking on C64C, while a breadbin model works with the same cable and monitor. I even ended up soldering and replacing the motherboard CT1 trimmer capacitor, thinking it was broken as tuning didn't […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

I pushed out a new DiskSumo patch, with my new machine code routines. It's been fun to learn some 6502 instructions, and debugging the code just be reading it over and over again using Zaks' book as reference. Now a floppy disk backup takes only 40 minutes over 1200 bps Xmodem. I'll start a […]

and a very swell 40th to the grateful dead conference on The WELL, dreamed up in the balcony of the kaiser during “terrapin station” at this show simultaneously by @dgans & mary eisenhart & bennett falk, online soon thereafter, & one of the first important pre-WWW communities. [3/4]

today’s deadcast also welcomes back ned lagin to bid a sad adieu to the groundbreaking electroacoustic project seastones, whose last performance was 50 years ago this weekend, ned’s last gig anywhere. at least to me, a quiet but major turning point in the dead […] [Original post on heads.social]

Tänään opin että ennen isoja nyrkkeilymatseja pidetään kaksi punnitusta: oikea punnitus, ja sen jälkeen erikseen seremoniallinen showpunnitus. Ihmeellinen maailma.

Bought some stocks today: #at&T #stanleyblackndecker #harleydavidson #pfizer #stockmarket #investing #capitalism #usblues

"Uncharted Passages" by #SunRa. Solo piano stuff, mostly instrumental (some vocals by June Tyson on Enlightment -> Space Is The Place). The album starts with careful ambient-style but then we get some Hammill-esque rough bashing too. Sound quality is […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

"The Avant-Garde" by #JohnColtrane and #DonCherry. Early 1960s, they are playing mostly #OrnetteColeman compositions. Nothing too radical here, but it's a nice and tidy enjoyable album and playing. Typical for 60s the mix has some heavy stereo panning […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

"Ship To Shore" #RichardThompson. His latest album, I think, from 2024. Just love the music starting from the 1st song "Freeze", followed by darker "Fear Never Leaves You". Usually RT albums are a bit growers but this one hit the spot immediately. My […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

"Pink Elephants On Parade" by #sunra. These are apparently Disney film music covers, from various dates from 1980s. So there's some laid back "easily listening" feel and singing, but still with some usual Ra weirdness in there. #music #cd #pop #jazz #SunRa #recordcollecting

If you plan to upgrade #mastodon to v4.5.0 on #arm64, there will be an instant SIGILL when running Vite. The fix is trivial once you realize it. Related bug reports: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36523 https://github.com/rollup/rollup/issues/6047 This time Mastodon upgrade took […]

Two young mathematicians just broke a 330-year-old geometry riddle. Jakob Steininger, 30, and Sergey Yurkevich, 29, friends since maths-Olympiad days, have discovered the first known shape that can’t pass through a copy of itself, overturning a belief dating back to Prince Rupert’s 17th-century […]

"The Jazz Composer's Orchestra" by #MichaelMantler. This is a nice blend of "orchestral music" and free jazz soloing. The orchestral textures are similar to his later work, but what really makes this album to stand out is that free jazz chaos. And what […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

"Sweet Talker" by #richardthompson. A soundtrack album. There's a proper catchy RT start with "Put Your Trust In Me" but then it drifts into instrumental zone and gets a bit dull. Out of 11 tracks, there's only a couple of proper songs. Ends with a ballad. #music #cd #folkrock #recordcollecting

"Down In The Groove" by #BobDylan. One of the lowest-rated Dylan albums. Not so bad after all. Getting older one starts to dig everything about the 1980s... There's "Death Is Not The End" later covered by #NIckCave. Also two #RobertHunter collaborations […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

"On Parole" by #Motörhead. This was intended to be their 1st album, but got shelved and released later around "Bomber" or so. It's a bit rough and more punk/garage pop than their usual rock and roll. But it's OK. #music #cd #punk #garagerock #rock #recordcollecting

Kohti digitaalista vapautta -työryhmä järjestää Helsingissä lauantaina 22. marraskuuta klo 12–17 INSTALL PARTYN, jossa asennetaan Linux kaikille halukkaille! Meikäläinen myös mukana tarjoamassa asennusapua. Tapahtuma on ilmainen. Tapahtuma on osa End of 10 -projektia, jossa järjestetään […]

"Out To Lunch!" by #EricDolphy. A random pick today from 2nd hand bin from a local record store during a lunch walk. Not sure how I managed to miss this album as a kid when I listened to "Weasels Ripped Off My Flesh" etc. on daily basis. One of the […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

The 1999 holiday single by #REM. "Country Feedback" / "Ambulance Blues" with #NeilYoung. I've been searching this for years, so I didn't wait for holidays but opened and played it right away. One of the busiest single packagings I've seen, BTW. Neil's […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

💔 fare thee well, deej. 💔

23 hour gig from 2007 by #finnish #greypark is available in Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/gp23_01/ I remember going to this gig... Though stayed there maybe only an hour or two, but it was nice. #music #noise #drone #experimental

I rewrote 2 DiskSumo bottleneck routines in 6502 machine code (against original plan, I started to optimize sending): - read a disk sector into buffer - send buffer as #xmodem packet With 1200 bps #rs232, floppy disk dumping speed dropped from 90 minutes to 40 minutes, getting closer to line […]

I got my first trivial machine code routine working. I want to write them in hex for better maintaiability/readability, so I had to code a custom loader - under 10 lines in #basic. It took me 40 years to realize that #commodore64 BASIC supports functions! #retrocomputing #programming

I pushed out a minor patch to my DiskSumo fork, just to remind myself how the program works and verifying my C64 and 1541 hardware are still OK. Next goal for me is to rewrite the bottleneck routines in machine code in the following order: - RS232 character reception polling loop. - Xmodem […]

Did you remember to adjust your computer RTC today? #normaltime #retrocomputing #dst #europe

#nowplaying - test driving the new old turntable with an album i couldn't possibly be more familiar with at the moment. @vinylrecords

"Coastal Soundtrack" by #neilyoung. From the same 2023 acoustic tour as "Before And After" LP. Both start with a great "I'm The Ocean". Good music. I also liked the versions of "Prime Of Life" and "Throw Your Hatred Down". #music #singersongwriter #folkrock #recordcollecting #vinyl #lp

Weekends were made for programming. #commodore64 #retrocomputing

Puunkaato on aina jännää. Kesäasunnolla oli vanha pihjala kallellaan tien ja sähkölinjan päälle. Virittelin kaksi köyttä vastakkaiseen suuntaan ja sitten käsisahalla sahaamaan. No ei mennyt ihan niin kuin ajattelin, vaan puu halkesi kesken sahauksen […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

Naapurin mökki meni pimeäksi noin kello 19. #Pörssisähkö

Aamulla aurinko, illalla AIRAM. Tänään lähti toiseksi viimeinen 60W hehkulamppu varastosta tulille. #lokakuu #valo

just heard that annye anderson, robert johnson's stepsister, died earlier this year. she published the mindbending memoir "brother robert" in 2021. https://thechitlincircuit.substack.com/p/rest-mrs-annye-c-anderson #blues

"Red Headed Stranger" by #willienelson. A 1975 concept album about a fugitive on the run from the law after killing his wife and her lover? This is "outlaw" country music for sure. Great simple stuff, and also some hits of ragtime, gospel etc. A must have. #country #music #cd #recordcollecting

"Home Is Where You're Happy" by #WillieNelson. A 1990s budget compilation with 16 tracks. A pretty terse release with a short biography & liner notes printed on the back cover. But the music is good and the sound/mastering is great on this old CD […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

#perl #halloween #programming #coding #softwaredevelopment #softwareengjneering #opensource

"From The Trees" (2017) by #PeterHammill. That raw B&W sleeve with punk style graffiti suggests towards his raw early 1980s band style, even 1970s "Nadir". But the colorful back cover and the inner sleeve makes clear this "a calm" chill out album […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

Nyt on muuten tullut End of 10 -sivustolle paljon lisää #suomi paikkoja, hienoa kaikki! #linux kuuluu kaikille. #turku #Hämeenlinna #Nurmijärvi #kerava #helsinki #tampere #espoo https://endof10.org/fi/ Sinänsä monta tuttua yritystä, kuten kannettavatietokone.fi, mutta selvästi nyt on […]

"Meidät pelastaa vain rakkaus" #KaukoRöyhkä #rikumattilla. Mutta Kaukon pelastaa aina Mattila... Tämä on kaksikon kolmas levy ja kovaa kamaa edelleen. #music #cd #folkrock

#willienelson "In Concert". This is a cheapo live compilation from mid-1990s but a pretty good and entertaining one. Great stuff from ballads to bluegrass etc. #music #cd #recordcollecting #country #rock #roots

When upgrading to #mastodon v4.4.5, assets recompilation took over 3 hours on 1 GB #raspberrypi 3, once finally succeeded. The system failed twice at around 90 minutes for whatever reason and required a power cycle (it's headless and couldn't get any logs). I ended up replacing the SD card just […]

Thursday evening sunset cruise. September 25, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #sunset #photography #michigan #autumn #fall #lake #water #art #mastoart

"Earth Blue Day" by #NickHarper. Apparently recorded and produced within a day at Abbey Road by #JohnLeckie. So it's mainly Nick and acoustic guitar, with backing singers ensemble. There's heavy improvisational feel and plenty of that "stunt guitar" […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

Logged into the #amstrad #bbs tonight with my old PC1640. I must do this more often, as the hard disk was giving "not ready" during the boot and I had to do several power cycles / cold resets to get it to work, but once up it was OK. #telnet #oldschool #retrocomputing #pc #8086

"Oceanside Countryside" by #neilyoung. One more in the series of previously unreleased albums (recorded in 1977). While many of the songs are familiar and appear on other releases, these versions are unique. Great stuff as expected. #music #vinyl #recordcollecting #folk #country

Home of #radio: https://yle.fi/a/74-20182353 #nokia #finland