6502 @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

computers were a mistake not because of the computer. computers were a mistake because they attracted the worst in the worst people and hurt the normal people like me in the sidelines

reflecting on this, this goes beyond just retrocomputing as a hobby. some of these people i've known for over a decade and have had to cut ties with because of AI deepthroating unveiling red flags i should've seen years ago. a huge chunk of my social life (whatever left is of it after years of sexual harassment and DARVO targeted at me) is just gone. i am so tired

it's surprising how little the average fediverse user cares about personal boundaries

had a dream i'd gotten an implant that would let me see a hud and take pictures with my eyes and meta glassholery aside the robot part of me is sad it wasn't real because the dream felt so so affirming

people i used to respect are either using AI for their projects or praising projects that do and this is the loneliest i've felt in the retrocomputing hobby

MEEP I love your site

thank you!! i really need to add more content to it

https://alterspring.org/@maple/a/117453277912179296

if your defense of a tool is "you're just not using it right" then it's either not what the person you're arguing against needs, or it's not even a good tool

i just took down a forum i haven't posted in for like a decade because i tried to reset my password and apparently their software crashed horribly

forced dark mode is great if you hate people with astigmatism

realising also that as a professional and recreational computer toucher another one of my issues against gen/agentic AI is that it's a tool to make people touch the computer _less_. why would you want that? either touch the computer or don't, stop getting something else to do it for you and saying it's the best thing in the world

if you "know how polarising using AI for this is but it's helping bring [your] vision to life" then you have very little regard for what your vision actually is

i am also vague posting about the same thing everybody else is

oh you manually edited the config to make j-link load a bin instead? well now hang on there buckaroo i have to overwrite your config file real quick because it's automatically generated by cbuild

your project output is an axf right? righto send the axf to the j-link

what was that? the j-link exited with an error? Not my problem

i hate setting up dev environments what do you MEAN the CMSIS toolbox defaults to generating an AXF and then when you pick J-Link as a debugger it just straight up tells the J-Link to load an AXF instead of a BIN when it can't DO THAT!! i just want to have a word with whoever made the arm keil studio real quick please i promise i won't incapacitate you too permanently