Post by @neauoire@merveilles.town

2026-07-05 16:33 UTC

You have one of these morbid friends who wear only black, write only in Forth and that modern times have all but left behind to linger undead among the coaxial cables. They're inviting you. Dead languages, dead systems, aren't these just infinitely precious, once you see how the ideas that survive are never the interesting ones, merely those with the most capital behind them. Doesn't that just make the graveyard suddenly burst with life and reveal the modern computing landscape for what it is. A crusty gold plaque for a putrid fascist, entombing the world under highways of microplastics. Come and revel in the living discarded ferment et delect in res qu'es mort. https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/ #occ2026

Replies (9)

@theartlav@anarres.family 2026-07-05 16:39

@neauoire@merveilles.town Figures. I like playing with old computers, where hardware is actual hardware, and not three layers of software in a trench coat playing pretend.

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@rene@wolfen-nord.social 2026-07-05 16:36

@neauoire@merveilles.town I'm the one who programs in Forth (and in PL/M-80 by the way!)

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@Pixoshiru@merveilles.town 2026-07-05 17:17

@neauoire@merveilles.town I've been toying with the concept of "Noostalgia" (as in "noosphere") for the past decade in project called Mori. I wish I had more time to go through with the idea behind it. Maybe one day.

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@renardboy@mastodon.social 2026-07-05 18:30

@neauoire@merveilles.town Yo that's fucking beautiful

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@jfroehlich@mastodon.social 2026-07-05 19:16

@neauoire@merveilles.town cool! I could share some insights into fluid dynamics of 700 year old rowing technology and technique. Sounds interesting?

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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-07-05 21:51

@neauoire@merveilles.town i unearthed datalog, la langue de l'amour

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@j3rn@fosstodon.org 2026-07-05 22:37

@neauoire@merveilles.town Tangentially related, but I recently discovered MoCA, effectively "ethernet over coax", and it's shockingly high bandwidth. Especially useful if your house is wired with coax and not with Ethernet and you don't aspire to change that (e.g. the drywall contains asbestos).

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@M0CUV@mastodon.radio 2026-07-06 10:08

@neauoire@merveilles.town exactly why I’m into Transputers :)

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@manifoldslug@merveilles.town 2026-07-13 20:27

@neauoire@merveilles.town "to linger undead among the coaxial cables" thank you for putting this into words. these days it feels like haunting dead systems would probably be best.

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