Simplifier

Similar guy (though a more mysterious persona), and another noteworthy low-key web page: https://simplifier.neocities.org/

In order to experience the upper tiers of relaxation and life enjoyment capitalism offers (pure free time with no external pressures to sell your labor), you have to be successful by capitalistic metrics. You aren't going to be a billionaire so power under capitalism isn't available to you, so instead you'll need to sell your labor until you have enough money to exploit and sell someone else's labor at little cost to you. If the word "exploit" makes you feel icky, think of it more positively, like the way one might exploit a gold mine: by mining it. At 4 million in the bank (and various assets) you should be good to "escape," if by escape you mean "not need to sell your labor to live" anymore. 4 million gives you more than enough residuals to live off until death. Less if some of that is in property so you don't have to pay rent. Less if you retire to southeast Asia and engage in geographic arbitrage. You spent years paying for carrier groups and precision missiles, why not reap the rewards? So far as I can judge, this is the only way the system permits escape. If you're interested in permitless escape, one of my favorite introductions to the subject is "Walkaway" by Cory Doctorow, a wonderful amalgamation of hacker culture, anarchism, sustainability, anti capitalism, and communism. Even if you think some of those are dirty words, if you're at all interested in EV tech, 3d printing, batteries, solar, zero trust ID, or transhumanism, you'll probably enjoy that book. He…

This would fit in some ways with the Simplifier site. If you’re not familiar with it, the author posts about making everything from olive oil soap to solar cells from scratch. https://simplifier.neocities.org/

There's lots more to enjoy on the front page! https://simplifier.neocities.org/

Sure: https://simplifier.neocities.org/ https://2bit.neocities.org/ https://town.neocities.org/

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This is also a nice website that has DIY electronics: https://simplifier.neocities.org/

Unifont seems very useful. Not pretty but definitely legible. - - - - FWIW, I ran across this the other day: "4x4 ASCII Font" > Small fonts have always been fascinating to me, so I decided to make the smallest font possible, which turned out to be 4x4 pixels per character. The font covers the entire range of visible ASCII characters, and most are immediately recognizable. https://simplifier.neocities.org/4x4.html - - - - For display from small machines I keep going back and forth between simple memory-mapped raster screens vs. emitting a stream of, say, SVG to an external "display processor" (following the "Wheel of Reincarnation": "On the Design of Display Processors" http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland-design-of… )

More info on homemade raw sources and processes: https://simplifier.neocities.org/

This is an interesting little website showcasing this kind of "tech tree" idea :) - https://simplifier.neocities.org/

Just opening now; this looks amazing. I can't wait to read through it all! https://simplifier.neocities.org/fluxset.html is very interesting, for example.

not sure if the thermal expansion of pyrex is much different from just borosilicate glass, but https://simplifier.neocities.org/diode3 seems to have worked something out with tungsten

simplifier has a 4x4 version : https://simplifier.neocities.org/4x4

I have not tried it, but this person has claimed to have improved his formulation of iron gall ink to no longer eat away at paper: https://simplifier.neocities.org/irongall

It seems you can get oak gall powder if you're not up to the task of foraging and crushing the galls yourself https://simplifier.neocities.org/irongall

I think this is a more elaborate approach. https://simplifier.neocities.org/4x4

Found the index on my tiny screen: https://simplifier.neocities.org/index.html Interesting! I read the about section. Does the author say who he actually is anywhere?

Hope a website will work, assuming your trip is not too imminent :) https://simplifier.neocities.org/index.html

Be sure to check the About and Materials pages before you dismiss the site. Fascinating! https://simplifier.neocities.org/about.html https://simplifier.neocities.org/materials.html

this is actually 4×4 if you're counting pixels needed on the output device instead of rom space needed; another, more comprehensive font of the same size is https://simplifier.neocities.org/4x4 the same problem happens with the public-domain 'tom thumb' font pushfoo linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38800409. it is actually 4×6 (24 output pixels) but claims to be 3×5 it can be accessed despite tls problems at http://web.archive.org/web/20230828193815/https://robey.lag.net/2010/0… but says 'Please do not post this article to Hacker News.' my own 4×6 font is demonstrated at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dofonts-1k.html, where it fits into a 1024-byte web page along with all the logic needed to render ascii text with it; but the proportional font i used in http://canonical.org/~kragen/bible-columns (rendered with http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/netbook-misc-devel/propfontrender.py) is at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/netbook-misc-devel/6-pixel-1-bit-propo… and is slightly smaller; it averages 21.5 pixels per character. this is more than anders de flon's so-called 3×3, which is 16 pixels per character, but it supports the full character set, if you think ascii is the full character set anyway. so does simplifier's 4×4 font i think you could do better by using grayscale for antialiasing, and as rafabulsing pointed out, matt sarnoff's millitext http://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/ uses subpixel antialiasing to get…