Oh no, are they vibe coding macOS now?

Happy Pride month, from VGAPride and my 60mhz Pentium running MS-DOS.

Bank Teller: "So just to confirm, your email is [email protected]..." My 40y/o ass: "Yep that's me!" Bank Teller: "....." Me: "...." Bank Teller: "I'm sorry sir, your house loan has been denied."

hey aspiring youtube video creators you should aim for your videos to go live at the start of the month. because in the last 2-3 days of the month a ton of videos from established channels go out to meet sponsorship obligations so there's fewer videos to compete with at the start of the next! :D

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

Half off my games for the month of June! itch.io/s/187289/jun... #gamedev #c64 #retrogaming

making a programming language is hard but it might be easier than being on an email thread for 3 years discussing what form sum types should take

The best time to buy my games is when they come out. The second best time is now. studio8502.itch.io/mazes-of-mal... studio8502.itch.io/gridlocker #gamedev #c64 #retrogaming

I don’t need an AI to write code I don’t understand. I just let my own code sit idle for six months and boom, I can’t understand it at all.

Maybe I should focus on my micro8088 build. That’d be fun. Anyone got a 5150 or 5160 style case to get rid of?

The real bitch about 7400-series level computers is memory. You can't really make your own core memory, and modern stuff feels like cheating -- if you're going to use a modern SRAM why not just build an RCBus system and run CP/M on it?

One of my longest-held dreams has been to design and build a real working computer out of 7400-series logic. Maybe I should focus on that, and put the C64U away for a while. Ain't no AI going to take that level of engineering away from me.

AI bollocks makes me think of this book by Larry Niven: World of Ptavvs. It's about a race of beings who are not particularly smart, but who have the ability to enslave smarter beings and make them work for them. It doesn't end well for anyone.

I gotta tell you, it's hard to maintain my enthusiasm for programming for the C64 and other retro systems when I'm seeing people in retro *proud* to be using AI to vibe code their shit. It honestly is making me want to hang up my proverbial spurs.

Power is the only thing that matters in politics. Without it, you’re irrelevant. With it, you must wield it without hesitation.

its called west wing brain, and it has been one of the most destructive forces in the democratic party for the last 30 years. even for people who have never watched the show, theyre pushing its stupid behaviors.

In my experience anyone who says "you should keep politics out of *insert your subject of choice here*" really means "you should keep politics I don't agree with out of *insert your subject of choice here*" and this is a bad thing 100% of the time. Your values and ethics should be non-negotiable.

Something I think I may need to be explicit about in regards to my politics is that "yes, we're in a shitty system where you are being oppressed, but you can still make poor choices within this system if you're not aware of how anything works. So learn as much as you can to fight back"

Everything is shit now and life is way too expensive, you'll get no argument from me about that! But I really, really don't like that people would rather not engage with the actual content being presented. People are responding to the title and thumbnail and not the argument I'm making. Seems bad.

difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

Assmongold? What is that, some kind of Pokémon?

back in the late 90s you’d just be like: “anyone got a lighter?” and dozen people were ready to go. nowadays kids barely ever start fires for fun

"BEHOLD! I HAVE CREATED AI!" "No you haven't, you've ruined a perfectly good silicon wafer is what you've done! Look at it, it's got anxiety!"

Fuck capitalism for a million reasons, but fuck it most of all for making me miss MS BASIC being the whole OS.

I don't hate Wayland and SystemD because they're bad. I mean, they are, and I can prove it mathematically, but even if they were fucking brilliant and perfect, they would still be evil.

If I could make one change to Haiku, it would be doing something to the app_server that permanently breaks QT. Make native apps or get out of fuck town.

God I'm so sick of computer. Not *good* computer, I still love my C64s and such. I mean the evil computer I have to use for everything else.

Reject heterosexuality, become crab.

Generally speaking I liked A24 better before they had enough hits to have a "theme." BACKROOMS is more on brand for where they were back then, whereas now they're lurching toward being the new Miramax "minimajor that tries to collect trophies and good reviews" factory model.

Right now "SCARY MOVIE 6" is probably throwing a whole new ending together that's just a 'BACKROOMS' joke and it's probably just the most unfunny thing ever

Reality continues to never gonna beat the “nothing would ever have been good enough” allegations.

Home day. Installed a new toilet seat. Took the opportunity to clean the toilet and sink. Which were dusty as hell. I should clean more often.

I see they haven't learnt the lessons of tumblr dot com

there were signs before, but the Charlie Kirk bans should have been a loud and clear message to anyone previously not paying attention - that’s who the people running this site are.

Am I bored? Tired? Hungry? Or some lethal combination thereof?

Private industry is hilariously bad at replicating what NASA already had in the 1960s, and I laugh every time one of their stupid rockets blow up.

I have had… a day.

Not too shabby for a prototype.

“I don't know any better way to put this…” says one Facebook Marketplace seller. “But I've never had more beautiful women show up at my door than the first week I started selling small CRTs."

First test rendering of a maze for that Rat Burglar thing I was working on before.

Well, there's a thing. As of today I am no longer a poor excuse for a network engineer, I just have to work out what kind of poor excuse of a human I want to/can be now.

The surveillance state wants to extract value, but there's almost no value left to extract. People don't have any more money to spend. There's no "there" there.

For the C64 Ultimate especially, I think `.crt` cartridge images are the Right Choice™ for releasing a game. The machine natively supports booting from the cartridge image directly, you don't even need the physical cartridge, it's faster by miles than a floppy, and requires no fastload bollocks.

Okie dokie. That's all I can do until I get some proper inspiration -- I have a working cartridge framework, with support for loading character sets, tilesets, sprite sheets, and music from banked ROM into RAM on demand. #gamedev #c64 #retrogaming

The memory map for my cartridge framework has grown a bit. But in a good way, with space reserved more accurately for handling sound effects and music.

Well, that was easy. Got it storing songs in ROM, loading the current one into RAM at 0xE400, using the SFX Anywhere driver at 0xE000 to filter for sound effects. So now I can have as many SID tracks as fit into ROM, so long as any one track fits in 3KB of RAM, and sound effects on top.

I know what I can work on. Integrating "sfx anywhere" into my cartridge framework for managing SID music and sound effects.

Young MC also dropped out of the National Mall event. Who’s next? LOL.

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.