Mike 🥑 @mike@chinwag.org

It's amazing how fast you can get back up to speed on something when you have an internet and search engines and emulators to test things in.

Having to reboot your development environment to try something out was a real pain in the 80s. You kids don't know how good you've got it ...

I'd like to point out here that if you're not familiar with the restrictions of the #C64 that stripe across the middle probably doesn't look like much of an achievement. Trust me, it's cool.

#retrocomputing

As for me, I'm running this because communication technology interests me and I've been chatting to people around the world using 1s and 0s since about 1989.

I'm a professional #sysadmin. I've been working in the field for nearly 25 years and I've been reasonably competent at it for about 10.

I'm a big fan of the old SAGE code of #ethics and operate by it all the time when working, including my hobby projects like this one: https://www.usenix.org/system-administrators-code-ethics

I hope we can all make some new friends here!

Hey, I just wanted to say a quick #welcome to the recent Chinwag arrivals!

Chinwag's reason for existing is to provide communication tools for people, which is something I've always been interested in. I kind of target #Australian users, but welcome anyone from anywhere.

Please read our rules: https://social.chinwag.org/about/more

And our privacy policy: https://social.chinwag.org/terms

There's a basic guide to using Chinwag Social here: https://chinwag.im/social/

If you have any questions or concerns hit me up!

I guess a new #introduction post is in order!

I'm Mike, I run lots of little services on the big, bad internet and they're mostly centered around #communication, which I find is a pretty neat area.

Aside from that I'm into #cooking, #hiking, #camping and #comedy - I run some open mic rooms in #Melbourne and dabble a little in standup myself.

Attached is a picture of my first ever #TV appearance.

https://social.chinwag.org/media/DbqibJ7pObMCgp7zp1s

#introductions #bio #about #hashtags #sotrue #blessed

Here is a good article for Americans about what voting is like in Australia. We have a lot of fucked up things over here, but I think our voting system is definitely not one of them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/world/australia/compulsory-voting.html

#auspol

Hey, #C64 and #retrocomputing peeps - back in the day I remember doing my programming using the "Melbourne House Macro Assembler" which I believed to be a copy of MH's in-house tool. I can't find any sign now that it ever existed. Did it? Maybe a rebrand of something else?

I notice with the latest updates to the Wordpress Ostatus plugins, things are a lot more readable when following via Mastodon now - and will probably benefit hugely from the 2.6 "Read more" updates when they land.

So I'm now confidently going to mention that you can actually follow my blog here: @mike

It's not the ideal format but hey, whatever works for you.

I haven't been to a roleplaying convention in many, many years. My first, like many gamers in Melbourne, was Arcanacon. I think '86 or '87 was my entry point.

The con folded in 2015, but it looks like it's back from the dead for 2019!

https://www.arcanacon.org/

So, it seems an American school served their students kangaroo meat, and now is frantically apologising.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-19/kangaroo-meat-chilli-us-school-apologises/10395500

I guess thoughts and prayers are in order? Poor dears.

How Many Computers is Enough?

https://bremensaki.com/2018/10/21/how-many-computers/

#c64 #retrocomputing

I've been fighting against shoulder pain for the last couple of weeks that makes it difficult to sit and type for extended periods. Despite that, I reached about 90% done on my next #C64 blog post tonight and hope I can push the publish button tomorrow. 😁

also I don't know what's bugging me more on the ABC coverage - ScoMo's face or the headline about the fuckwit hiding in the embassy that keeps popping up at the bottom

Hey while you're CWing your #auspol posts, don't forget to hashtag them too so they're discoverable without scrolling forever through Federated, thanks. I want to giggle more.

Projects I've thought about that I know I'll never get around to:

Fugeddit - a site that scrapes all links posted to Reddit, and presents them with a simplified view and easy buttons to share and offers no voting, comments or interaction of any kind.

Please contribute to the "Mike has spent too much money on old computers" fund by removing one of my old computers from my collection.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Apple-iBook-G3-366-M6411-Blue-and-White-128MB-RAM/223196265922