2026-05-14T16:03:21Z https://yabu.me Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉 https://yabu.me/npub1qe0rglv3jju0mdvvxupgxn9s3c38449u77g9xnnd88zthc0kt47q3az09g https://media.mas.to/accounts/avatars/109/343/186/833/683/222/original/048b4a974879697a.jpg https://media.mas.to/accounts/avatars/109/343/186/833/683/222/original/048b4a974879697a.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv2tdafndf8gug5mv9uehx4vwa5yeye4k3q95zcwg4c6cgl9y9kcgzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcnm6gzw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs80e4zqyk6hvdzg2jlnpctddfm9akn7237c6epa6h5s5ferljgdwgy02444'>nevent1q…2444</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You know it was made by real people if it was recorded in a dumpster. The LLMs have not mastered dumpster technology, and probably never will. 2026-05-01T21:38:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs80e4zqyk6hvdzg2jlnpctddfm9akn7237c6epa6h5s5ferljgdwgzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcpu5qm2 Oh, y&#39;all don&#39;t forget, it&#39;s Bandcamp Friday. All proceeds from sales today go to the artist, Bandcamp doesn&#39;t take a cut. I&#39;mma buy some weird thrash that sounds like it was recorded in a dumpster. <a href="https://reactorblast.bandcamp.com/album/rise-of-the-reactor">https://reactorblast.bandcamp.com/album/rise-of-the-reactor</a> 2026-05-01T21:27:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyrsghfc7s7u8e2dcmftyum9cyj2n37xjxx3dlr40xpsmq8wcnrlgzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhca4gzpr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgh57uduhd84ez47738uscrxvdn7yvmv4ea20w3lw6zwgy0p9s09gddms6h'>nevent1q…ms6h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>there&#39;s a guy on YouTube who&#39;s implemented his own imaginary virtual retro computer and is programming it with LLM assistance. I don&#39;t find that interesting to watch, so I don&#39;t know how successful it&#39;s been, but I assume it&#39;s fine.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve asked Claude for help with 6502 assembly for C64, and it&#39;s seemingly quite competent. The training probably doesn&#39;t focus on it, but the models are so big and the retro machines so small and simple, they can just do it. 2026-05-01T20:14:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy8jm7g980vt386g3hzpzrel5jqfcw7q2sl597d9r7kac2k936h4czyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhctrcw40 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrpeugu64us9z5kzkm0zxp7wsnzhhnpnftjpdldlpqfvrw0ws8xdqrfx7u0'>nevent1q…x7u0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think we&#39;re going to see a lot of shitty vibe-coded stuff cost companies a lot of money (maybe that&#39;s why git is partially down again right now), but we&#39;ll also see a lot of new software, some of it will be good. I confidently assert I&#39;m 3X more productive with Claude Code and Opus 4.7, and if I&#39;m being honest with myself, the code is probably better than I would have written myself...I just have a lot more time to exhaustively test and verify ins and outs that I never could before. 2026-05-01T20:06:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrpeugu64us9z5kzkm0zxp7wsnzhhnpnftjpdldlpqfvrw0ws8xdqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc8vwypl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfd4lntqyn5944200kz7ekf2wca5gs5hszyq7v9v8v5kc957mnnrsmn8rgg'>nevent1q…8rgg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>that&#39;s how folks who want decent software at the other end are doing it, but not how everyone is doing it. And, it&#39;s not that expensive. $100 a month is my total spend on Claude, which my employer pays. I could burn a lot more tokens, probably enough to cost a lot more, but I wouldn&#39;t get useful software out of it if I did because I wouldn&#39;t be paying close enough attention to what it&#39;s doing.<br/><br/>Github Copilot used to be a cheap way to do it ($10), but they&#39;ve changed to token billing. 2026-05-01T20:03:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstkl40xce0yzux6txhlekvm08tc7hcd0an9apyy3esgqukpmd7f6czyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcy6qtuc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr66hrue3heuwy2xvrr5lf3wlluck7dyuz6v3dz7qz8j6x0x7s5egap4wp8'>nevent1q…4wp8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>they genuinely believe that if they pay for the tokens, their will be a Cambrian explosion of great new software. And, I mean, 3x is a productivity explosion rarely seen in software development (going from punch cards to teletype to interactive terminals, those were 3x jumps, at least, compilers, too, but it&#39;s been a long time since we had one), but it&#39;s not what a lot of executive believe is happening. They&#39;re thinking 10x is conservative. I&#39;ve even seen &#34;1000x&#34; suggested. 2026-04-30T19:49:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr66hrue3heuwy2xvrr5lf3wlluck7dyuz6v3dz7qz8j6x0x7s5egzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc90z3rr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswjva5ugeqjsgcgz9quqrr75l49l2gf9gkgr66dy48a75dq9t3fcsjzw6m9'>nevent1q…w6m9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh, for sure. Guys like this (I hate linking to LinkedIn, but most of the articles about it are AI slop), genuinely believe people are vibe-coding software that works. There are enough former engineers like Yegge who also believe they&#39;re making software that works via vibe-coding, despite all the evidence to the contrary (Beads and Gas Town being the evidence that vibe coding doesn&#39;t produce useful software), that expectations are getting weird. <br/> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/naval-ravikant-apple-dead-saas-next-you-have-18-months-mustufa-khan-ibjaf/">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/naval-ravikant-apple-dead-saas-next-you-have-18-months-mustufa-khan-ibjaf/</a> 2026-04-30T19:45:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqt0ha9r0s62hgv5n8eye09nsjsyn99aeyknrgq8rt7m2vs49jknszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhczvzk60 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvnfkft47nrfmens5lyksct7wkspftelz0j5vylnycd8dn9c2sxzcx952wu'>nevent1q…52wu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t love the situation we&#39;re in, but I don&#39;t see any reason to pretend current frontier models can&#39;t accelerate development. There may be other reasons people choose not to use it. But, saying it doesn&#39;t/can&#39;t work is misrepresenting facts at this point. 2026-04-30T19:13:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvnfkft47nrfmens5lyksct7wkspftelz0j5vylnycd8dn9c2sxzczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcs0yrux In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq2mfxsrysuz7nxx5s5hgxxh25mez9mp4edywue807dtxma5l58cs2cs9m8'>nevent1q…s9m8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>and, probably costs about $100, since I&#39;m sure you can do it in a month and a Max subscription will never run out for the kind of work where a human is very in the loop. 2026-04-30T19:11:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq2mfxsrysuz7nxx5s5hgxxh25mez9mp4edywue807dtxma5l58cszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcjc9u4t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqlqdwf5wzaac62emm24ek9avak5cpyruvga98yzac8nnx58vu0ucxvt8y2'>nevent1q…t8y2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>or, if you take your time, ask it to implement one piece at a time, review its work, have it wire up the necessary stuff so it can test its own work, and perform some human QC, you&#39;ll probably have something that&#39;s quite good in about a third the time it would have taken to write it by hand.<br/><br/>Vibe coding still mostly makes slop, but AI can compress dev cycles by quite a lot if you want to treat it like a rubber duck that talks back and also writes a lot of the code. 2026-04-30T19:11:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrnku4h9n3s7s8g48xq2rx70njv3uhvltnnfzhvex272vmwu6fe6qzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc45mmdz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9zqnxs3ds4c637neh4ayz08a9wex4lg3wp7j8zywqckahqzey9msakh8fr'>nevent1q…h8fr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t see the contradiction? Clearly says he hunted elephants: &#34;Over the decades, he has hunted elephants, leopard, rhino, buffalo and lion across Africa and back home in the US, he has hunted almost every species of wild deer.&#34; 2026-04-24T20:46:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgc50m2l2jfdxgftncgnlj4yg4g80fqagqnx7745uaz9x877wnk9szyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcsjwgcs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswmh0pkcdza5xmermcec4598rd5zsr02rzyj9j46d0dgc573sx7wgq4j84e'>nevent1q…j84e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>he has hunted elephants. He wasn&#39;t hunting elephants when he was killed...but, he was an elephant hunter. 2026-04-24T20:22:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxqq73x0rsytyn3ez7jh3wcrdvjg87m7rs9lk8rs8wmmmanxwderszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhct22q78 Some wholesome, uplifting, news for a change. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/elephants-trample-millionaire-in-big-game-hunt-gone-wrong/">https://www.thedailybeast.com/elephants-trample-millionaire-in-big-game-hunt-gone-wrong/</a> 2026-04-24T18:14:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9n8w9hfqprcyhcd2d0vvj6kza8genfufaaeuw38aq360lxj0pjsczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc362nej In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspdqt6klx0tsdaxan3x9k9dfyw9eyela72srgeqcca2xa49e8ufeqs6we2f'>nevent1q…we2f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it&#39;s interesting that Apple seems to be the biggest winner from AI, so far. Their big boxes are sold out months in advance, or completely unavailable maybe until a new Mac Mini and Mac Studio release that I think has been pushed to October due to RAM prices. They&#39;ve made a fortune on selling a box that people can run big models on locally for close to the best price/performance across the board.<br/><br/>And, every Strix Halo box that comes along sells out immediately. 2026-04-22T20:35:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0r97gxk5qjd9yqjrnvkklf2ky3evu3xjqftvss3am9d0rs2rj0mqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcf85uk8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd907h8jnmeatyw8gzrkjywqzps9whq36d60grps2ffddeky06a0gdzppel'>nevent1q…ppel</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you can&#39;t really believe benchmarks, but Opus 4.5 is where it got Good Enough. It&#39;s the frontier of 9-10 months ago, but it was good enough to write pretty good code really fast. It was the point where I said, &#34;OK, this actually works, and I can&#39;t argue I&#39;m more productive, or even similarly productive, without it.&#34;<br/><br/>So, when small-ish open models really reach Opus 4.5 capability, it&#39;s a big deal. Maybe the tipping point.<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/450/217/456/809/272/original/80e696c3f40c007e.png"> <br/> 2026-04-22T20:25:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd907h8jnmeatyw8gzrkjywqzps9whq36d60grps2ffddeky06a0gzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhccca7m5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd79jqc5zk95zveqryqf940wawf65akudx4mdzv55xruwcsqrkpmc7yvq9d'>nevent1q…vq9d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>we&#39;re not quite there, but it&#39;s getting closer. Models you can run on a Strix Halo or even something with 64GB of VRAM or unified memory (a beefy Mac) are competitive with frontier models of two years ago. Gemma 4 is excellent in the two bigger versions. Qwen 3.6 27B just came out today, and from a benchmark perspective is even better. I&#39;m just starting to test it.<br/><br/>Either runs comfortably, if slowly, unquantized on 128GB or at 8-bits on 64GB (8-bits is barely lossy). 2026-04-22T20:20:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9jfrs9qch5muypvccqactyz5uydk60a2mwaheu05njnj9vrtykzqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcjjp9hk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgcjldpweragtyvmmn9ustd0sja3ndpmtlfryum8k7ndusrzypnng9hlk4r'>nevent1q…lk4r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I just think defaults should be sensible, that&#39;s all. I&#39;m trying to write software, why are you giving me an editor for children? 2026-04-21T19:39:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgcjldpweragtyvmmn9ustd0sja3ndpmtlfryum8k7ndusrzypnngzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcx9t5va I get so mad about `nano` being the default editor on Debian/Ubuntu, as it&#39;s so disorienting to not get vim (and hard to use). Now, it&#39;s the default editor on Fedora, but only if the `nano-default-editor` package is installed...which I guess is automatically installed by the installer? I sure as hell didn&#39;t install it.<br/><br/>nano is also seemingly configured in git somehow as the default editor, which is just hurtful. 2026-04-21T17:47:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8ggg0h900dnl3r2qpnvmg535xgv022qvz593e9pqm7789ek6qdpgzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhce6ypmn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8h09ut0vca5ua3qzm7pzhrs5tyv45nvqqd00s3yfdz34hvuhhzeqsv0u6y'>nevent1q…0u6y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I needed to buy some kind of Mac, so I can make iOS apps in addition to Android, since iOS is so much more popular in the tablet market and I&#39;m working on a couple of apps that suit a tablet best. So, since it was either wait for the new Mac Minis to arrive and spend $1200-$1400 on a 32GB Mini, or buy a Macbook Pro now for a little under $2000, and I don&#39;t need to get another laptop (the Framework is just too small for comfort), here we are... 2026-04-17T00:00:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8h09ut0vca5ua3qzm7pzhrs5tyv45nvqqd00s3yfdz34hvuhhzeqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcwd8cce The mid-range iPad I bought has a faster CPU than the top-of-the-line Ryzen I have in my desktop on single-core performance. This is absurd. The Ryzen CPU alone cost more than the tablet. A tablet&#39;s got no business being fast.<br/><br/>In other news, I ordered a refurb Macbook Pro M5. I&#39;m mad about how much it costs to get 32GB of RAM, but the performance advantage is crazy. Nobody has cheap RAM now, so the Apple tax is maybe as small as it&#39;s ever been, because everybody else is charging a big RAM tax.<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/417/066/204/034/058/original/5ba96ab373967bb0.png"> <br/> 2026-04-16T23:57:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8tr7409r7s4hmzgnm6xrc4cah2q8ckrj8ecpt8kqmm25p2muw27szyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc4tw27n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2xkhpwwh3sl6p3y7gfeqvld8du5a4rrk79ptvyr2v9lwnmmj0aacxdwyvm'>nevent1q…wyvm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I still often wish I&#39;d told my younger self, &#34;You know what, maybe don&#39;t be so forthcoming online. There&#39;s going to come a time when the richest and most dangerous people in the world have a database of everything you&#39;ve ever said online, instantly searchable and indexed against your purchase and credit history.&#34; 2026-04-13T06:51:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs07ew890er0z6zwceyswecnej4rsd4arm8ene4zsw80py74tts3lczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcsuek0q I&#39;ve always gone by my middle name (I have the same name as my dad, my parents didn&#39;t want me to be a &#34;Junior&#34;), which was annoying growing up. Every year having to explain to every teacher, &#34;I go by Joe&#34;. But, now, in the age of the internet with weirdos being weird, it&#39;s nice to have a level of pseudonymity without trying too hard...it would be pretty challenging for someone who only knows me from social media to figure out where I live, politicians I&#39;ve donated to, my voting record, etc. 2026-04-13T06:39:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstrklnjfq72h5ymcpu5axl59lu3zfksu49na0hr5fvzymk59qf6fszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc7g98ll &#34;Opinionated&#34; software sounds great until you find out the author has the stupidest opinions you&#39;ve ever heard in your life. 2026-04-10T20:34:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq88wkrtay0qumj5glytmc5luw38f4khd5shk57pyrs2pxk24ur4czyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcqyefkp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyuj96hzecv02r9mddn7t7df8hsxqjcacevskxs748z97rrdrqwvg9nq9r0'>nevent1q…q9r0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I thought they&#39;d EOLed the Z80? Plenty left in the pipeline for current needs, I assume...but, maybe not great to start fresh on it. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/after-48-years-zilog-is-killing-the-classic-standalone-z80-microprocessor-chip/">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/after-48-years-zilog-is-killing-the-classic-standalone-z80-microprocessor-chip/</a> 2026-04-05T22:12:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs86pnxaqtw44vset0ysxly0ax0fgeqylk5y40g3f8z5cwustcuhuqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcc296cy Even SSDs are stupid expensive now. Shit&#39;s ridiculous. 2026-03-22T20:36:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsth8eh7amuh4qgpn2p9egxcxa35sd5ggm40pwegzw6rqpxf7kkrxczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhch830vv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy9jmnfdjz34x6vuem76afjrjujmzjhcvcuarnerrysqgf592m6ucl9r2fk'>nevent1q…r2fk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah, the machines are now better than me several categories of problem, and I&#39;m using them a bunch...but, I&#39;m still keeping a gun by the computer in case it makes any weird noises. 2026-02-25T17:54:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgtwq3h456nkjv9srdelrv8n0mxg5jrgr445wmufc3qmez72clhcgzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcr02ptp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrrpguu7e82cs2wxhg6ls2cv8vdcuc5dmmdqt434hz4xajkczz68gas8hax'>nevent1q…8hax</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the funniest thing is that it can find common bugs if you tell it specifically what to look for. It&#39;ll even find those bugs in code it just wrote, if told to do so. The horror is that most vibe coders don&#39;t understand that the common bugs, including common security bugs, are gonna creep in and you&#39;re going to have to hunt them and protect against them.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve come to the conclusion that the job of a vibe coders is policing the AI via overwhelming use of verification tools. 2026-02-25T17:31:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsru04wjm9hqlkhp8c539jw5kemqtpatzrve26ltx6dxglys0ps6pqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc750nf4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswkm26ww9c9jj8d66app4plh87pwm0xazka7alfn9l7h4n94yeucg36tncv'>nevent1q…tncv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>hell yeah, start a band. 2026-02-22T09:57:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdstpqtedvflfm4vpmzmntq339vdzfn945tkff4zslut2se9j8xlczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhch670t7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszh8umv0umq9dmmys2mw56n75d5wr6j7sjxamhd2n4ljc6lj2jpucteszd3'>nevent1q…szd3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>snap is particularly deranged, though. It goes out of its way to be a toxic system citizen. 2026-02-02T19:52:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0nw37r0rv3eev75yfd0sjk63j55dsu0n842gnusnkgfh0gxheauqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcuhw86a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2z5nsh0rhy7hmard92z89u0njgzwz866tp3q8u74lvk9yvq7p9lsvgtylt'>nevent1q…tylt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Why wouldn&#39;t you chew up all the disk space every day, especially when you can also destroy the SSD because lifespan of an SSD is write-limited? 2026-02-02T19:50:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2z5nsh0rhy7hmard92z89u0njgzwz866tp3q8u74lvk9yvq7p9lszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhczsucqc Very normal, snap. #Ubuntu<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/002/748/718/663/877/original/1d4f0d2f26457a00.png"> <br/> 2026-02-02T19:45:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspqgxyv8zm09580zqdqhm8hy4nvgg3uqpajsjqgss0dcw4s5c6gvqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc8tgqsk Source: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/usili.bsky.social/post/3mdh5wp7dwk2w">https://bsky.app/profile/usili.bsky.social/post/3mdh5wp7dwk2w</a><br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/970/892/715/182/883/original/5ef5727e4813733d.jpg"> <br/> 2026-01-28T04:47:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx43wlmm5sk6aqv9jnm7na4d474435fx8nal02l38huqyqmj3jd9szyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcd4drk6 Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence. From /r/nursing. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/1qnomyy/alex_prettis_coworkers_take_a_moment_of_silence/">https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/1qnomyy/alex_prettis_coworkers_take_a_moment_of_silence/</a><br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/963/876/952/768/660/original/00d9ea0cf8ac2b2d.jpeg"> <br/> 2026-01-26T23:01:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszvrgzv8s4lgt6h6xe37grrf3a8tus6y8w6f3hm64rzwwtknsnyyszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcq3cr8z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspn4w26w002ad5z8pt9ujf94e00xmy3lgyzqfskq375u49dr3e98gvcvx5l'>nevent1q…vx5l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Unironically, Graham Granger eating the ChatGPT slop is better art than the art he ate. The ChatGPT slop producer should thank him for elevating his work to actual art. 2026-01-18T23:41:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspn4w26w002ad5z8pt9ujf94e00xmy3lgyzqfskq375u49dr3e98gzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhczhphfx lol. lmao. Legend. <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/alaska-art-student-arrested-eating-ai-generated-art-protest-1234770081/">https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/alaska-art-student-arrested-eating-ai-generated-art-protest-1234770081/</a> 2026-01-18T23:02:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstzcelxspqwqsp8f7p2jkgkv5tmpmxsal5yzaa5g3tv7mfe8kqhuszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcqv3yj4 They&#39;re the same picture.<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/918/250/057/778/808/original/ed18fb68d83b292f.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/918/250/275/246/099/original/44320c5a8a0281d7.jpg"> <br/> 2026-01-18T21:38:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfenqntwf3ngrtnpdvrla86yj773xx4nx9gzna6n8khhls4jpm9qczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcwvhw0f Maybe useful if you want to excise the AI from your browser. It is somewhat ironic that this project (or its website, anyway) was almost certainly made with AI. <a href="https://justthebrowser.com/">https://justthebrowser.com/</a> 2026-01-16T20:07:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0f8f0zgwn7cw70479hfg08p0nhf3rd5jxmggqpup03rr3jmm2ejszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc5wae24 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxsfd565adp3nspcayc5u4aq4unyusz384v2tw379yvcj0yv79yccmrhyhx'>nevent1q…hyhx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>$2100. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/AIFUT-LPDDR5X-Performance-Training-Rendering/dp/B0FJQDRZFZ">https://www.amazon.com/AIFUT-LPDDR5X-Performance-Training-Rendering/dp/B0FJQDRZFZ</a> 2026-01-15T04:02:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszkw2wp906ke46l6amfr5t0tdx5qwxh5nzr59elmyytyg5h3m09zszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcm6snvd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszq0l7nqvd5f28yxuqla5gtdth0jlwmq8xvja34x08hcxtz0296jg5y4n4m'>nevent1q…4n4m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ChatGPT is always blowing smoke. A ChatGPT user is a super genius, and also insightful, and probably also smells nice if only machines could smell. (Though, in this case it&#39;s right. Technical people are able to prod the machine into making working code of pretty high quality a lot more often than non-technical people.) 2026-01-14T20:16:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr3caalht4vau3zc48c28yqsrztngadhpgxlygjq9jqpx0gqewuwqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhclvswvd I wish I loved anything as much as the Python community loves breaking backward compatibility. 2026-01-13T04:58:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxxm377y7et6daa7e26uuqftr9mf9v5hs368r5269npvf53v5fhdczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc03da8s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx7anelnedysgqueve5w20wvuenyxkujj4v94w7anxs0hfdlu0zlcvn3yxm'>nevent1q…3yxm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the vibe-coder answer to that is, &#34;I don&#39;t need to understand it, I just ask Claude to maintain it, too.&#34; And...I scoffed at that idea in the past. But, it&#39;s gotten really good.<br/><br/>I think it&#39;s still very dangerous in the hands of non-technical folks. And, I think most of the models are still flailing a lot (the frontier models are all pretty good, but Opus 4.5 is the one that Just Works, but all the lower end models are stupid a lot).<br/><br/>I dunno. The ground shifted beneath my feet. 2026-01-12T23:06:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8rsgn9vt6xkprdug2rursr9yvr0l6heudkr7pe4xg5psh589kn6gzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc95ts7p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszm2ltn0zvsqpgp5jql5pzgn4xtck9xtlm53nj447wwsxeghzvyysfqv6h7'>nevent1q…v6h7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wasn&#39;t enthusiastic about AI for coding, but Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is remarkable. I can&#39;t really say I&#39;m happy about it, but given a competent operator, it produces quite good, if a little verbose, code that works the first time most of the time. It writes better and more tests than I&#39;ve found most human coders do, it often includes accessibility markup without being asked (another thing human coders simply don&#39;t do), and it documents its work. 2026-01-12T23:01:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9sgs96uy6z464gd4h6y6ckhrv982xtarqsusfgmw6qnam7egr08qzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhch48u8a The more I think about, &#34;I&#39;m not mad at you&#34; the more heartbroken I am. How can this go on? How can we let this go on? 2026-01-10T03:01:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspls4ttv5qvu5jllv87798a042axl0fyr0n8wdjhcc9exzj3f52uczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcjmx9aq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspzkel25v0yhk9yujcrt4v7390gdtzfk6xalzkdke8s948g83m57qcj2ffz'>nevent1q…2ffz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>taking advantage of that would make it exclusive to the C64 Ultimate, I think? VICE has settable CPU speed, but it can&#39;t go that anywhere near fast, even on my desktop, which I just recently put roughly the fastest desktop CPU available in (9950X3D). But, I guess if you&#39;re careful about how you handle timing, maybe you can make things work on both. I know most games choke or are unplayable on an accelerated C64 because they don&#39;t run at a human friendly speed. 2025-12-24T03:29:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsygcc37va8ypdn59rltyye9hgc2l9esgwt5utvxtyuzc0rv4t0wsczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcxufwc3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2tu5eaav8ntqfvlyu0x8lpv29g3fwrqd63k9ddfg048z3uap55ngky87dm'>nevent1q…87dm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>this post finally convinced me to pull the trigger on a beige C64 Ultimate. It&#39;s been in my cart for weeks. But, I really like the idea of making games and tools that take advantage of a big REU (which I guess VICE and TheC64 can also have, so it&#39;s not unique to C64U, and folks who make software that uses it can expect a sort of broad set of possible users). It&#39;s almost entirely unmapped territory. This demo was another contributor to the decision. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8U_sS5ld4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8U_sS5ld4</a> 2025-12-24T01:18:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx9a2s0075x66dtcgy6uunv9l9y6vl2ccc4cmlnl5v202ahfhzgxqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc0s8tzm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfzjna8rt4dvk7jwwu2qzrw4mcunqapjap2q3j06f93cdvpzg4sqcv0ldsv'>nevent1q…ldsv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ANY two numbers?<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/720/557/346/997/423/original/d77e6047415f49a4.png"> <br/> 2025-12-14T23:40:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgznc5a5q3qwkn2hrssuljyvnss2sg0nm8klden804jd8p9x7ppdgzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcyppuu6 Miami elected a Democratic mayor. Miami is a weird as hell political place, so I don&#39;t want to read too much into it. But, there have been 28 years of Republican mayors, and the Republican candidate got the off-year election he wanted and sued to get, and still lost. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/09/miami-elects-first-woman-mayor-ends-gops-28-year-control-of-city-hall-00683878">https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/09/miami-elects-first-woman-mayor-ends-gops-28-year-control-of-city-hall-00683878</a> 2025-12-10T01:41:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswyz6vzpc0zme5msm7aq3n9dk76vhgfsl85shaanrmq95zpk3f0wszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcjxrttf Important message from the brands this holiday season.<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/631/840/781/437/463/original/2452a8eed14a8d50.jpg"> <br/> 2025-11-29T07:38:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdalntkt8g4w5weu0920gpj93fzpt4vfvxvcmfjc2sfl46uxj3g9szyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcye2wre I didn&#39;t even know Microsoft owned Zork. But, I&#39;m glad they&#39;ve open-sourced it. <a href="https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source">https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source</a> 2025-11-20T18:27:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdqy4dswsa5n3765a4sjutjedgwald9ffv6p65zl5yu99q2avzz7czyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcvgycwf Just learned Commodore Plus/4 fans call it the Plussy, and I was not ready for that information. 2025-11-18T03:01:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2xkfrjudz6y07kyr5zce8uzdr9ey0el595xxgvfnlw38zruen8mczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc85crrj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqrepxvl35hmw4zp3ws4akz3satd2phmqlmrfptcs28pycfd9h03qy2meeh'>nevent1q…meeh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>and the vibes are kinda bad and getting worse. I hate selling because then I have to deal with it on my taxes, but I don&#39;t see how there&#39;s anywhere for it to go but down. 2025-11-18T02:25:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz0dfx23yuzlvuhgumnl845vypj33mue2qwyg72l3cpazrk60tfzszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc2knrwx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstsjpxqh3s8hcazncr6n03mm2c6xkhzx9xenp7amvcjerkl6tnrcs93cup8'>nevent1q…cup8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Is a dual grid system possible on a C64? Since I&#39;m using sprites for the little guys, it seems like it would be, as they have pixel-precise movement. How to maintain the world map (not the visual one, the one that determines behaviors) is breaking my brain, though. Much to think about. 2025-11-16T17:02:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstsjpxqh3s8hcazncr6n03mm2c6xkhzx9xenp7amvcjerkl6tnrcszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc0z3nlx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr07zc7jqd3jmm3f5kharc4dq5j3df73hlwhrs9qgtyv6x4earumqmz0xcs'>nevent1q…0xcs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>He can&#39;t keep getting away with it. (Not going to bed, writing 6502 assembly, things of that nature.) #retrocomputing<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/558/958/558/748/845/original/1fcdaef61693daf1.png"> <br/> 2025-11-16T10:44:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr07zc7jqd3jmm3f5kharc4dq5j3df73hlwhrs9qgtyv6x4earumqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcw8gv3t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqrs4a7aswnt29f38yv8rkd2h25n6ysqmq5u52prlf4x9hzmtf8rq55y59a'>nevent1q…y59a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Good ol&#39; GNU Image Manipulation Program to the rescue. But, now I&#39;m tired of fucking around, so I just bought some tiles off of Itch.io to start with. I think somebody here on Mastodon posted them a while back. They&#39;re cute. Still need to get them into a format I can convert automatically to a charset... <a href="https://algernon3000.itch.io/minimal-8">https://algernon3000.itch.io/minimal-8</a> 2025-11-16T06:58:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqrs4a7aswnt29f38yv8rkd2h25n6ysqmq5u52prlf4x9hzmtf8rqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcfmmznr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsttcus6sh80pzpqdnvwj35kxuk29znt9k9x6edaxzm3xym7fpvarc0td6ra'>nevent1q…d6ra</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Do I have to build everything from scratch to make a game for C64? I just want to draw some tiles to turn into a charset and Krita is just broke?<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/557/978/197/019/469/original/b1dbb893d4eacd92.png"> <br/> 2025-11-16T06:33:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsttcus6sh80pzpqdnvwj35kxuk29znt9k9x6edaxzm3xym7fpvarczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhclgsdjn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0ul7hnqpeg8fu8297unf57yvmfwng9nxjth6k9486jnwv2lxhqus9y4q8q'>nevent1q…4q8q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m getting cooked in the `clang-tidy` comments.<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/556/845/560/229/360/original/cc568951d98e02e7.png"> <br/> 2025-11-16T01:46:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0ul7hnqpeg8fu8297unf57yvmfwng9nxjth6k9486jnwv2lxhquszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc0crpy2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspryatlqmfsgzp5gnsmcxxqpwygdwlwwj2fqtjxywlz9du0g34e9ggmc3p4'>nevent1q…c3p4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I opened up Steam to see if any games were calling out to be played, and realized I bought AseSprite at some point, and it also became available on Linux (via Proton, I assume, as it&#39;s wrapped in a Windows looking window). But, I can&#39;t figure it out? It&#39;s complicated and clearly not designed for retro machine targets, though I&#39;ve seen people talk about using it for making C64 sprites, I just can&#39;t see how. I reckon I&#39;ll keep plodding along with my editor that does only/exactly what I want.<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/556/570/815/959/373/original/7a7b8c169172f485.png"> <br/> 2025-11-16T00:38:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspryatlqmfsgzp5gnsmcxxqpwygdwlwwj2fqtjxywlz9du0g34e9gzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcptz9yj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs95jhpfgmmqzc05vlw9chfcpj8u2rnc55afe7mnlpkasupym89p0qplrxyp'>nevent1q…rxyp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Now there&#39;s a little guy.<br/><br/>Multicolor sprite support is working (I think I understand the specs and limitations anyway), PNG export is working, switched to a palette that is closer to a real C64, cleaned up the UI. I&#39;m trying to decide if I want to tackle animation or just make it export to KickAssembler byte strings next.<br/><br/>I should also probably give it the ability to save and reload in a native format so I don&#39;t lose my little guys when I exit.<br/><br/>#retrocomputing<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/556/079/415/468/678/original/c00da660602822c3.png"> <br/> 2025-11-15T22:37:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs95jhpfgmmqzc05vlw9chfcpj8u2rnc55afe7mnlpkasupym89p0qzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcu03f4z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp9lsj9hmwmmc80cg22l64qulfff444x5feje4ln4n65a43qam9kqerph8x'>nevent1q…ph8x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And, it&#39;s 169k without putting any effort into shrinking it. It&#39;d fit on a floppy, even a Commodore 1541 floppy (though only barely, and probably not actually, as there&#39;s probably some overhead). I was a little worried about Qt Quick, because they apparently added JavaScript and something like HTML to Qt to make QML work, and I was concerned that would lead to bloat, and I&#39;m sure it did, but not much. 2025-11-15T01:58:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp9lsj9hmwmmc80cg22l64qulfff444x5feje4ln4n65a43qam9kqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc0c5f6u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstq84d26pqyrh208fzhyzhr9mj2glrwnklj9m84re5yz4dsf4expq555xqw'>nevent1q…5xqw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The dubs keep coming. It&#39;s almost not terrible. At this rate, I&#39;ll have a reasonably functional sprite editor sometime this weekend. (Yes, I should just use Spritemate or one of the several other existing sprite editors, but I&#39;ve been hankering to learn some modern C++ and also make small/fast/compact desktop apps and this is a fun way to do so, while building something I might actually use.)<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/550/955/698/563/252/original/5953a69e4a2bd684.png"> <br/> 2025-11-15T00:51:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstq84d26pqyrh208fzhyzhr9mj2glrwnklj9m84re5yz4dsf4expqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc7ehutn OK, I gotta hand it to CoPilot. It helped me figure out how to get a Qt Quick QML-defined GUI working. Kind of.<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/549/645/249/477/372/original/18a6914a5107de90.png"> <br/> 2025-11-14T19:16:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrm6gaspxd0nugvhjl8zp7scsc4pstug0ytzhmhykyzlwgty36q6gzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcrggsrp I&#39;m at the Bell Riots. I&#39;m at the Butlerian Jihad. I&#39;m at the combination Bell Riots and Butlerian Jihad. 2025-11-08T04:10:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszk6e466t0dd6kjer53nuv00rrdj0pxdt7uunnelgjtumjjwp5p5szyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc9srv9s I have been right but too early many times.<br/><br/>e.g. I divested from crypto in 2018, for many reasons, but for the point of this toot, bc it was obvious it was all a scam, siphoning money from retail investors to the folks controlling the exchanges (and thus the trading prices, since wash trading was and is rampant). But, that was way too early. The bottom still hasn&#39;t fallen out, and the scam is still not obvious to everyone.<br/><br/>Is it too early to sell all index funds that predominantly hold tech? 2025-11-06T22:42:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszv26hdh6dr4zy0lsg7nsvd9en87wx359kzhv6lhyfx7dycy4ruzqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcjgn3l9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvuc5q4geaxck0pmaslae7hpjnqhfq93f5zxe5nczfes60r22mvmcnca2gp'>nevent1q…a2gp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it&#39;s so embarrassing for everybody in major news media that we&#39;re looking at the closure of Teen Vogue as a serious blow to effective political journalism. 2025-11-03T23:57:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd2a48xvx6sfk8jqtd07l8dnnf6txxqf9scmzep2v3nu06hv5qgnqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhczm7eup I feel like I&#39;m taking crazy pills. Every recent text editor sets up tab as the auto-complete key, by default, and that is simply deranged behavior. And, pretty much all the Neovim plugin starter bundles also do it that way.<br/><br/>How the fuck are you supposed to tab? Guessed completions are wrong 90% of the time, why would I ever want it to be the thing that always happens when I hit &#34;tab&#34;? I&#39;ve never hated a default key binding more than this one. 2025-11-01T20:01:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2gx9n8lymk6pxs5jyq7q4pw9t8ylha9vyvh8fzqwr87wf3q2jf9qzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcufd3qp PC GEOS or GeoWorks could run on 8088, right? I wonder if it runs on PCjr... I was always curious about it, but didn&#39;t own a PC when it was relevant. My first PC was Windows 95 era, and soon got Red Hat Linux.<br/><br/>That&#39;s also part of why it failed, I think? They wrote much of it in assembler and going to 32-bit architecture while competing with a much better funded Microsoft and Apple was a challenge maybe? 2025-10-29T21:41:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspycrdz7ww3qheeeqnu3f975l3nerrqjyc5fyk268sjghhxz4pklqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhchw03us Hey, fellow retro nerds, I have an Apple II+, disk drive II, and Monitor III I bought a few years ago and never got around to doing anything with. I need to downsize and reduce the number of projects I&#39;m thinking about.<br/><br/>What&#39;s a fair price for this bunch of stuff in only kinda working condition? It boots, some keys don&#39;t work, disk drive doesn&#39;t spin up, though it did when I bought it three years ago. It also has a Prometheus Mem-1 memory card and a printer card. #retrocomputing<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/437/419/937/245/196/original/e35500335f499681.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/437/428/631/564/502/original/f6e470f82c5533d1.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/437/431/789/487/407/original/b8c153dfa23fdc49.jpg"> <br/> 2025-10-25T23:38:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxa96gwfm5a5vuktyrmf4atdfwlxqmvrcrxhfjvuqpght4tmvqr2szyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcky7gjq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs22683dmm40weh30tnhughlukx9j66xcnap3wn5xmqcp97uy7wv6g3cnkvj'>nevent1q…nkvj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>OK, so, I guess they&#39;ve been doing exactly that. Apparently, there used to be a lot fewer biomes, more sameness, etc. And, it is an amazing game, and I do love it. And, I love that they&#39;re still adding stuff without nickel and diming users with various monetization strategies...it&#39;s still a game worth buying after nine years. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmU3_6BK-Ro">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmU3_6BK-Ro</a> 2025-09-18T15:05:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs22683dmm40weh30tnhughlukx9j66xcnap3wn5xmqcp97uy7wv6gzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcvftyf9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstm7dvcpmxl66xqvta47ddvuqkx2hcc9zed6j66f79d9jqqck0g3c82ktha'>nevent1q…ktha</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But, it doesn&#39;t have to be a gimmick. Apparently they&#39;re working on a new game, Light No Fire, and maybe they&#39;re thinking the same way, and maybe the system that spits out worlds will spit out better worlds nine years later. Our computers are bigger, everything is cheaper, maybe they had technical limitations.<br/><br/>But, it&#39;s neat. And, I may like thinking about &#34;how do you make billions of worlds that can be visited by any player, without storing billions of worlds&#34; as much as playing the game.<br/><br/>7/7 2025-09-18T01:31:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstm7dvcpmxl66xqvta47ddvuqkx2hcc9zed6j66f79d9jqqck0g3czyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcmth8tz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2ar2pvwrtt0j5w7h0f6r2n8cr26d8tpxxua9c7qcs77emhmdx24qzeuw6m'>nevent1q…uw6m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>They currently have seemingly about two(?) surface biomes, one cave, and two water (deep and shallow). That&#39;s cool and all, but it feels really samey when you spend any notable time on a single planet, like for bases and settlements. It doesn&#39;t really feel like &#34;exploring&#34;.<br/><br/>So, I think what I&#39;m getting at is that the the billions of worlds thing is a bit. A gimmick. They made a great game, but you&#39;re not going to spend time looking at each world...you&#39;re not gonna find a lot of surprises. 6/? 2025-09-18T01:26:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2ar2pvwrtt0j5w7h0f6r2n8cr26d8tpxxua9c7qcs77emhmdx24qzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcqq3p4r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszrh4sxk467p3zxnrkhnyn4p7p9kv793v3vqy0rpy76csafapqglsdkw3w4'>nevent1q…w3w4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;d like each planet to have distinct biomes, as we have on earth. They created a creature engine that works remarkably well to make weird but mostly realistic creatures (I mean, there are an unusual amount of big-butted creatures in No Mans Sky sashaying around, but they mostly seem like realistic evolutionary paths, given how bizarrely varied earth creatures are).<br/><br/>That creature engine could make dozens of distinct biomes for a planet, instead of the seemingly half dozen or less. 5/? 2025-09-18T01:21:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszrh4sxk467p3zxnrkhnyn4p7p9kv793v3vqy0rpy76csafapqglszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcc96zym In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy4fd02qrnxq4j7ejqf7ehjpk5hzhheenrwqlj0dzc6qea7vlqnnsj5s8ky'>nevent1q…s8ky</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And, that&#39;s not a different set of problems from the ones they already solved. They could have made each planet far more interesting without having to store any more data. 32 bits defines the planet, no matter the complexity.<br/><br/>I get the game decision to have a variety of worlds you have to visit to get various resources...it&#39;d be a different game if you never needed to travel into space, but there&#39;s already a lot of ways to play the game, maybe a landlubber play style would also be fun. 4/? 2025-09-18T01:16:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy4fd02qrnxq4j7ejqf7ehjpk5hzhheenrwqlj0dzc6qea7vlqnnszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcj49hpc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9u0zmapaw355jx92a624su7vcrfqyuy4gdz5526gg4unqdnv9j8svxruca'>nevent1q…ruca</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The idea is you build a system that takes as input a seed, and for each unique seed, you get a unique world. The key being every time you input that seed, you get the same world. So, random, but repeatable. Given this, if you want two billion worlds, you need a 32-bit number for the seed. Everything else is boring implementation details.<br/><br/>But, my wish is that the system knew how to build more variety and realism on the planet. Why aren&#39;t there poles that are colder? 3/? 2025-09-18T01:10:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9u0zmapaw355jx92a624su7vcrfqyuy4gdz5526gg4unqdnv9j8szyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcygsjvj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspxaucqhj95qjej3mg8h6txcayl6n7fdpc8jkjgg846lwkpq96eyct26rd5'>nevent1q…6rd5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So, you know how the pitch here is that there are billions of different worlds in No Mans Sky? You could play forever and never see them all. OK, fine, neat trick, but there&#39;s a remarkable amount of &#34;sameness&#34; to every planet.<br/><br/>I have done literally no research on how NMS, specifically, works, but I think I understand how they make a game with billions of worlds, based on my understanding of procedural generation in games (an area I like to read about, but never actually do anything with). 2/? 2025-09-18T01:06:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspxaucqhj95qjej3mg8h6txcayl6n7fdpc8jkjgg846lwkpq96eyczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc472df2 I know y&#39;all come to me for hot takes about the latest games, so I&#39;ve got some opinions about No Mans Sky (only 9 years old, it&#39;s practically brand new).<br/><br/>It&#39;s a remarkable game, very fun, very engaging. Love it. But, also, I can&#39;t help thinking all the time about how it could be better...I mean, yes, it still has a surprising number of bugs for a nine year old project still in active development and still selling OK. But, also... 1/? 2025-09-18T01:03:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqjq869tussjhl8a9zsagwxy4v8x0hulm2ld97xhnd8czfh97w5dqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc09acqg “We need to be very clear, you are not going to get gun deaths to zero” - Charlie Kirk<br/><br/>Gotta hand it to him. When he&#39;s right, he&#39;s right. 2025-09-10T21:28:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszv67dp53h3lmstesprhnd0mkqgaffvhjqr2cjjmskgw8jnd8yshgzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcz0n06u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy4xguz7gmq38l73mhgr0jlprf7hd3pex3zqvencyecrxgdwda0as20hhfc'>nevent1q…hhfc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>lol. The previous owner had one of these monstrosities on the fridge plug for reasons I can&#39;t fathom (the house is wired with three-prong grounded outlets everywhere). It was ancient and melted. I removed that adapter (non-trivial, as it was melted/corroded on) and the fridge fired right up. I mean, the compressor started, it didn&#39;t ignite.<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/115/007/593/885/503/original/7b3b0d481d34acc8.jpg"> <br/> 2025-08-30T01:02:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy4xguz7gmq38l73mhgr0jlprf7hd3pex3zqvencyecrxgdwda0aszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcfzgfdh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2u64nlq0uljpu6glxs4wq0qtfm2fawr6mt9v4alk4v3jnjm8x96ssxwhlr'>nevent1q…whlr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Past me has once again fucked me over, because the fridge in the back is completely surrounded by junk. I&#39;ve been using the back house for storage. 2025-08-29T23:23:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2u64nlq0uljpu6glxs4wq0qtfm2fawr6mt9v4alk4v3jnjm8x96szyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhchhqp6j When I bought this house, it had three refrigerators (one in the back house). All varying degrees of old, all cheap, but all working. I unplugged all but one, since it&#39;s just me and the dogs/cat. The one I was using died today. So, I plugged in the other one in the front house...also now seemingly dead. No sound and not getting cooler. So, now I&#39;ve got to hope the one in the back house isn&#39;t also dead and figure out how to move it to the front. And, quickly, since all my food is thawing. 2025-08-29T23:22:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf62gqemp09fr0lm3kued3yv0d7pkkfk5ymt5d0dtxy0gcd7gnkuszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcfmyhhr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9eezppk0ytt3lwfhwsluwh2lgk96kacngsqrtlzlcrns0xczum2gkjf7zg'>nevent1q…f7zg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>as someone who&#39;s been helping non-technical folks manage websites for decades (I work on an OSS web hosting control panel), I assure you web server choice literally doesn&#39;t matter. Whichever one your app of choice has the best docs for is the right one. They&#39;re both plenty fast and efficient given modern hardware, they&#39;re both plenty secure in a default configuration, well-maintained, plenty of features, etc. You&#39;ve already spent more time on web server choice than you need to. 2025-08-24T01:51:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0y277cw0sylceyj6d3k02xhze33lywqqu233qndczj0s7h33trmqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc72w7cr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx80z2r7getfuxdrsxm3ummhqcphuq2tuz8cpdkxf5ja7cc8ryupgd4jwsa'>nevent1q…jwsa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My pal who refuses to let TLS work is back, and he still won&#39;t understand how TLS and certificates work, how X.509 works, and in what circumstances one should use ones own certificate authority and under which circumstances one should just get a free cert from Let&#39;s Encrypt and forget about it.<br/><br/>Once again, we are in the &#34;this is impossible&#34; stage of his process, while he fights through the same misunderstandings he had last year. He really wants it to be one way, but it&#39;s the other way. 2025-08-15T01:38:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsptvejtuzzmzrz2xsaasu5harg3lumtkwslq4x6yzs04hpzp43uyczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcrkkk38 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrupq40ug9w685z366nzuq0wuv86ctmxg30dh9ga5uch9gvsud2fqmlpqdh'>nevent1q…pqdh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>there is no &#34;47&#34; category. Now, I really need to know what that was. <a href="https://radioshackcatalogs.com/part_numbers-all_products.htm">https://radioshackcatalogs.com/part_numbers-all_products.htm</a> 2025-07-27T02:01:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrupq40ug9w685z366nzuq0wuv86ctmxg30dh9ga5uch9gvsud2fqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc0dzsur In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsylvp9pu0r47ums0rjwdusq5d5xddkamyn5gvx075hg6hd7aw3qjsd9e6ev'>nevent1q…e6ev</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>or, maybe not. In a quick skim, I can&#39;t find any items starting with &#34;47&#34;. The first bit of the number seems to be some sort of category, and there are items with &#34;42&#34;, but if there are &#34;47&#34;s I missed it. I did, however, find this gem of the times.<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/922/708/405/522/268/original/741407c19a67a662.png"> <br/> 2025-07-27T02:00:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsylvp9pu0r47ums0rjwdusq5d5xddkamyn5gvx075hg6hd7aw3qjszyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcexwkt5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqy6sj9h75al9kecsf5hqz7a4u2p8d2s9eph6ltqnfu6mna783u9sx0fnr9'>nevent1q…fnr9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>because Radio Shack is beloved of a certain sort of nerd, I bet you can find out. <a href="https://radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1976_radioshack_catalog.html">https://radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1976_radioshack_catalog.html</a> 2025-07-27T01:45:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs06p6tpux9d2c48l6eyy5xzem4panp5zuhncn8hqe9hu084w80vzczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcmamdf7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgfhfg69ud98jxzxejr6hdl5mj2p04ps4hjjc90c9x5qj89d8untgamtahf'>nevent1q…tahf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>there&#39;s a reason Valve doesn&#39;t really make games, anymore. Being the middleman sitting between every gamer and every game developer is far more profitable. 2025-07-26T20:18:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqnvx5wqj7ce5r5d80423543nsajak08gxykq2m7atcmav3lmjmrqzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcg622ct In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9xze0h5wsqekkpkvvc9lqssghv9u42v6rexultaz3jvq9mvqs33sre3wtg'>nevent1q…3wtg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For the youngsters who didn&#39;t grow up with Bloom County, it&#39;s worth knowing that Bill The Cat hosted Donald Trump&#39;s brain for a time in the 80s. 2025-07-18T20:19:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9xze0h5wsqekkpkvvc9lqssghv9u42v6rexultaz3jvq9mvqs33szyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcyj4qsh <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/876/070/861/670/587/original/9478aa91924125d0.png"> <br/> 2025-07-18T20:18:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvwhu29p6s7y6hr6xfaerj34yj0hcslqfne0lawv0vv5re2z0e4agzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc0e9qzg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp7psdaqk8u8dgdp78r7wjkdvhv25mmsz6vezzxtffa4lmtzmv4rcryxq32'>nevent1q…xq32</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have a keyboard that defaults to the most distracting possible RGB fireworks when it&#39;s first turned on, and you have to cycle through every possible option (a couple dozen of them) to get to a simple backlight, which is obviously what a sane person wants from a keyboard most of the time. That&#39;s why I&#39;m afraid of the C64 Ultimate in the clear case, because they describe a lot of light features that sound really annoying. 2025-07-17T22:05:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp7psdaqk8u8dgdp78r7wjkdvhv25mmsz6vezzxtffa4lmtzmv4rczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcqmhpc9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz54aa220j2xhu2t8n0kaxjv5pza7rge44pwk0g8qa0ph3hgvpv3qpyrtls'>nevent1q…rtls</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah, the gold is obviously the worst. And, a clear case for electronics is cool, IMHO, but of a different time. It&#39;s very 90s/00s, like a Gameboy or something. It doesn&#39;t feel era appropriate, to me, even though I like clear cases. Still kinda considering it, if the RGB lightshow bullshit can be turned off in a way that leaves it off until turned back on. 2025-07-17T22:03:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxv263j5zkqfugzp9mwqutdmnze9yd7qmt2zms0vs838sgn5gv4jgzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc7687qq They&#39;ve got two special editions of the Commodore 64 Ultimate, and they&#39;re both remarkably uglier than the standard brown one, at least in the pictures. I like transparent cases, but only if they don&#39;t have crazy RGB LED fireworks flashing all the time. I wonder if that can be disabled? Keyboards should not flash, throb, sparkle, etc. it&#39;s way too distracting to have that happening just out of my visual periphery. #Commodore 2025-07-17T21:36:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2mzehp32de05qur2vatx9llvhgqymlnr70mswwlgklpjy9wpxmaczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcx3dtrt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszgy9u7jv5vkgw2ee2n77jsze995wjs83xq53dejfzu3x7h2e7j3sz9vkl7'>nevent1q…vkl7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I know it looks like I&#39;m dunking on TheC64 (and I am), but TheC64 Maxi is a fun little toy, worth having if you want the nostalgia without the pain of keeping a cranky old computer running after 40+ years or the cost of an FPGA-based thing. Though, it looks like they&#39;re sold out everywhere and now cost as much as an FPGA thing or more, so nevermind. 2025-07-15T21:41:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszgy9u7jv5vkgw2ee2n77jsze995wjs83xq53dejfzu3x7h2e7j3szyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc56lnlq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxl3xsg54y5c0nxmpqqet4aje84wclj5ch6l2fxkwtg5vjy392q4gg97e53'>nevent1q…7e53</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Mom, can we have a new C64?&#34;<br/><br/>&#34;We have a new C64 at home.&#34;<br/> <img src="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/858/909/416/802/775/original/5bd6a26c99be4272.jpg"> <br/> 2025-07-15T19:32:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw30v5vxp5mrg08fvg2llqtwp9qe4wc74s8pmvxyng4gvwmcg0mtgzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhccta3jm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0cdhy3prcmqjejjuhdf3sw342kgmnupy7mq2lhflf5cnwlxc4n5gv5mf50'>nevent1q…mf50</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>so, maybe they ought to work something out with the MEGA65 folks. I&#39;d like it to have a slightly better case (it&#39;s not as sturdy as I&#39;d like), and a new version with all the fixes. And, having Commodore branding and a legitimate claim to the original OS (with fixes) would be great. If volume could bring the price down that&#39;d also be good. 2025-07-13T19:04:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0cdhy3prcmqjejjuhdf3sw342kgmnupy7mq2lhflf5cnwlxc4n5gzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc2z8x2y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspax38jxkptetm7z48j2es2am2cxs4tz0hrml9c6d6ug4mv8zg5vgc2wzds'>nevent1q…wzds</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah, I&#39;m not informed enough to make any recommendations. I love the Commodore 64, but I feel like it&#39;s not quite enough computer to spend a lot of time with. I want 80 columns, stereo sound, and a wee bit more color and pixels. Not a lot, mind you. Just a little more. A Commodore 128 would almost scratch the itch (the 80-column graphics chip has too many limitations to really do the job). The C65 definitely does scratch the itch, but I don&#39;t know how broad that nostalgia is. 2025-07-13T19:02:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsragjwyppgredh0usjn2y57cqv2g8az2hjq5eqnekhrlf4lt2dmvczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc8uwv3l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyuvvacf2f2l9qmslm7ensdzmpxwq5wmxhpd6avzp9uraa9wx23pgygfygd'>nevent1q…fygd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>these are some messy bitches. Look at all the lawsuits. Jebus. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%2C_Inc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%2C_Inc</a>. 2025-07-13T18:57:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq08eh22ajmx0yynzp4nfqg9x0vgpqw3ap6gfxhedjkgdel5ckumczyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcysral8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8j6fw5nqgvqw96eut38cuth0zeu2m07395l52937mcysuj4qcm4qucgvlp'>nevent1q…gvlp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh, I haven&#39;t followed closely enough to know about where all the IP ended up. Does Cloanto own the Amiga IP or do they license it from someone? 2025-07-13T18:54:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstgw9y275wcr6kqqj3m839mkeeqewu7wldysnkfj32rvjmchd7u7czyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcuwzh6k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx54f7l7m7kmzegvcd5vq9mj75lck67rdv9yl303j66pqxpednejqaapj7p'>nevent1q…pj7p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah, I think the folks behind it are making very reasonable choices. They&#39;re not slapping the brand on bullshit (e.g. cheap PC clones with a dumb-ass Linux version that looks like it&#39;s made by/for children), which is a great start. They&#39;re embracing all the folks who are already working in the space...the people who have implemented Commodore computers and accessories and software from scratch in various ways.<br/><br/>I&#39;d love to see a ~$400 Amiga 1200. Fingers crossed that comes to pass. 2025-07-13T18:49:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspwhp0nmv7g4qpvwg7uta8dp2naze0qc0wadzz2z70j08u7ccnj7gzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc2y4m2e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswznydxe6ccczwma9qhd0dc4qaj232jvuw3uyxg3tfd9ngd7g39sg7mmus0'>nevent1q…mus0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>but, folks who want Commodore to return as a colossus that ships world-record numbers of units and ushers in a new era of personal computing are going to be disappointed. Nobody can do that because the world has changed.<br/><br/>It&#39;s dumb to hate on this stuff because it&#39;s a realistic plan meant for hobbyists, not for the masses. If they can increase production runs by tapping into a broader market with effective branding and marketing, they can drive prices down some, but that&#39;s about it. 2025-07-13T18:44:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswznydxe6ccczwma9qhd0dc4qaj232jvuw3uyxg3tfd9ngd7g39sgzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhc38tg8a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqmr44ss0dmukywyaqv6l7lx60upjktvjucl6exqc286hrj8yla8qsz2gdp'>nevent1q…2gdp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not, like, super excited about all this, but I think it&#39;s neat.<br/><br/>The things that will be shipping with the Commodore name are things that already exist, and could exist without this having happened. They&#39;re cool things, and they don&#39;t need a Commodore name to be cool, but having the Commodore name may bring in new people who didn&#39;t know how to tap into the retro Commodore community.<br/><br/>It&#39;s fun for the fans, and that&#39;s enough. 2025-07-13T18:41:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqmr44ss0dmukywyaqv6l7lx60upjktvjucl6exqc286hrj8yla8qzyqr9udrajx2t3ld43sms9q6vkz8zy7k5hnmeq56wd5uufwlp7ewhcen8jzp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdpmm45vvpa28udy2jzny6y8a7946tdjmarnfa5pyzj7tavjae9ac9gq6mp'>nevent1q…q6mp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the internet is the greatest hate amplification system ever conceived.<br/><br/>I can understand how someone might hope Commodore might become a real competitor in computing again with cutting edge tech comparable to the Amiga back then, but that&#39;s just not realistic. The biggest companies in the world can&#39;t even figure out how to make cool new tech, they&#39;re just flailing putting out dumb shit. There&#39;s no revolutionary improvement left. Computers are cheap enough and good enough for anything. 2025-07-13T18:38:49Z