this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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I found this searching for information on how to program for the old Commodore Amiga’s HAM (Hold And Modify) video mode and you gotta touch and feel this one to sneer at it, cause I haven’t seen a website this aggressively shitty since Flash died. the content isn’t even worth quoting as it’s just LLM-generated bullshit meant to SEO this shit site into the top result for an existing term (which worked), but just clicking around and scrolling on this site will expose you to an incredible density of laggy, broken full screen animations that take way too long to complete and block reading content until they’re done, alongside a long list of other good design sense violations (find your favorites!)

bonus sneer arguably I’m finally taking up Amiga programming as an escape from all this AI bullshit. well fuck me I guess cause here’s one of the vultures in the retrocomputing space selling an enshittified (and very ugly) version of AmigaOS with a ChatGPT app and an AI art generator, cause not even operating on a 30 year old computer will spare me this bullshit:

like fuck man, all I want to do is trick a video chipset from 1985 into making pretty colors. am I seriously gonna have to barge screaming into another German demoscene IRC channel?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the experience between mobile and desktop was remarkably consistent for me. somehow the bad ideas port over perfectly, they’re just larger

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On desktop you do see the weird mouse effects. Which remind me of the sticky keys windows thing.

The site is also written by AI I think (the 8 vital strategies for online security has several tips which have little to do with online security ('have secure backups!' it is also the blandest of bland content).