acherion (u/acherion)

acherion commented on The Amiga games and demo scene collection amiga.vision/... · Posted by u/doener

Amiga forever! Curation first. Two follow ups:

1) An amiga museum with all the games, artwork, coding technology, music technology etc. Perhaps an AI can be tasked to produce all of this soon. Youtube videos might be an engaging delivery mechanism. A physical museum too can be considered, perhaps as part of Computer History Museum and similar.

2) AI coding might unlock mass creation of new software, games, demos, music etc. What was once conceived impossible will be very possible and likely abundant soon -- think of brand new games, and mind blowing new old-style Amiga animations with music.

Of course, this will be only possible with the dedication and efforts of enthusiasts. Thank you!!

acherion · a day ago

> An amiga museum with all the games, artwork, coding technology, music technology etc. Perhaps an AI can be tasked to produce all of this soon. Youtube videos might be an engaging delivery mechanism. A physical museum too can be considered, perhaps as part of Computer History Museum and similar.

Sounds like you haven't been in touch with the Amiga scene in quite a while, if you think the above is something new. Perhaps Amiga / retro museums haven't been set up in your location, but there are heaps of them in Europe, for example. Youtube videos are a dime a dozen, just search 'amiga' on youtube and you will find literally hundreds of channels dedicated to the Amiga and/or Commodore in general. I subscribe to many of them already, and they all provide excellent in depth content for the Amiga, from hardware, to software, to games, to demos.

> AI coding might unlock mass creation of new software, games, demos, music etc. What was once conceived impossible will be very possible and likely abundant soon

Why would game writing / music creation / demos / software be "once conceived impossible"? Kids were doing the very thing in their bedrooms in the 80s and 90s, without AI. What would AI bring to the table nowadays that couldn't be done in the 80s/90s when the Amiga was popular?

People developing for the Amiga were putting their heart and soul into their creations. AI can't replicate that, and it definitely can't improve it, in any sense of the word.

acherion commented on Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea · Posted by u/panphora

ForceBru · 7 days ago

I thought it should be extremely portable ("everything just works, it's native"), but it doesn't work on iOS 9.3.6. It doesn't even let me input text into the textarea...

A natural extension seems to be a source code editor with syntax highlighting, like those used in https://marimo.io/, Jupyter, https://plutojl.org/ and other notebook-like Web editors.

acherion · 7 days ago

I'm not sure why you are testing in iOS 9.3.6. (which was released in 2015), when the documentation says support for Safari is for versions 16 and above.

acherion commented on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras candid9.com/phone-camera/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia

marcus_holmes · a month ago

I got interested in photography during my travels, and my wife is very interested in it.

I bought a decent camera. I really enjoyed playing with it, and spent some happy hours learning about it. I even took some decent photos (well, I liked them anyway).

But in the end, carrying it became a chore and trying to take off-the-cuff photos during adventures took too long. I found that we needed to go for specific "photography adventures" with the camera, with the intent of taking photographs with the camera, in order to use it. If we were going for a trip without the specific aim of taking photographs it was just easier to use the phone cameras.

Also the camera photos were stuck on the camera, while the phone photos were instantly usable in social media, and shareable from the Google/Apple Photos. I have a portable drive folder somewhere with all the camera photos, but I never see them. The phone photos are a search away.

I think it's the difference between "being a photographer" and "taking photos". I am not a photographer, I just want to take some photos and share them with my friends. They're going to look at the photo for approximately 5 seconds max, on their phone, and never again. All the comments in the article are accurate but meaningless in this context.

On the other had, if you're a photographer and want to take a photograph that someone will hang on their wall, all the comments in the article are accurate and relevant.

acherion · a month ago

Why can't you be both? I am an amateur photographer, but it doesn't mean that I carry my camera with me everywhere that I go. I see photography as a hobby, so when I feel like I want to do "hobby things" I bring a camera with me. I prepare myself to do so. It doesn't mean that I don't use my phone camera at all (in fact I upgraded my phone purely for the "better camera").

If you are just taking snapshots to share with friends, then it makes sense to not bring the camera. But if it's your hobby, where you sit down and take time and care to take a photo, then it's a different game altogether.

I don't often print my photos out and put them on a wall, but I do have my own photography blog where I post the photos I take (with a camera). I think the article is still relevant to that kind of scenario too.

I think the purpose of this kind of page is to outline differences between taking a snapshot and taking a photo. This is to argue back at people who think that taking a photo with an iPhone is just as good _in any situation_ and think that _anyone_ with a camera is wasting their time. It also attempts to combat the prevalent myth that more megapixels = better photos. Yes that myth still exists in 2025.

acherion commented on Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong wonger.dev/posts/pronunci... · Posted by u/twapi

riffraff · 5 months ago

For a very long time I thought "cache" was pronounced with a voiced e, "cach-ay", probably cause I thought of "cachet".

acherion · 5 months ago

I'm Aussie, so I'm automatically wrong, but here in Australia it's typically pronounced "caysh". It's a uniquely Australian thing, saying cache this way outside of this country will get you looks.

acherion commented on Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers uchu.style... · Posted by u/NetOpWibby

acherion · 6 months ago

Just a heads up that this site has an animated SVG favicon. I had added it to my Firefox bookmarks bar and the favicon kept animating its color changes. Looked pretty neat, but then realised after a day or so that Firefox was chewing up 50-60% CPU on my MacBook Air. Turns out it was down to this bookmark, after I removed it, the CPU levels were much much lower.

I'm not sure if it's the same deal if I were to put the bookmark in a folder (so it's not in view all the time) but just something to note.

acherion commented on Mac(OS)talgia swallowmygraphicdesign.co... · Posted by u/mgrayson

cameldrv · 6 months ago

I get the nostalgia, but boy are computers so much better than back then. MacOS 7-8 (not sure about 9, never used it) would crash constantly. There was no protected memory, so as soon as one app started misbehaving, you'd have to reboot the computer and it would take forever and you'd lose your work. My recollection was that this would typically happen 3-4 times a day. Apple's project to make a new MacOS that didn't do this failed and so they had to buy NeXT, and the rest is history.

acherion · 6 months ago

While what you said is true (MacOS was really unstable in these tumultuous years), this link specifically celebrates the user interface of the later versions of non-OSX MacOS. This doesn't really have a relation to the stability of the OS.

acherion commented on Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar github.com/exelban/stats... · Posted by u/LeoPanthera

ainiriand · 7 months ago

That is explained in the FAQ, apparently the bt module is inefficient but you can disable it.

acherion · 7 months ago

I disabled the module but it still chews up a lot of CPU.

acherion commented on Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar github.com/exelban/stats... · Posted by u/LeoPanthera

acherion · 7 months ago

Neat little app, but it made bluetoothd go bananas on my CPU, chewing up to 40% (M2 MBA here)

acherion commented on RIP botsin.space muffinlabs.com/posts/2024... · Posted by u/edent

stavros · 10 months ago

What was it?

acherion · 10 months ago

A mastodon instance where bots were welcomed.

acherion commented on Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org wordpress.org/plugins/adv... · Posted by u/ValentineC

ankleturtle · 10 months ago

Harm of WP Engine.

acherion · 10 months ago

At the cost of also harming WP. Well done Matt. clap clap (these are sarcastic claps)