Thom, a distro-agnostic tool

Retrocomputing is starting to drown in slop.

https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf

GitHub - mplsllc/macsurf: A modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC. Real CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, native HTTPS — built with CodeWarrior on the Carbon API.

A modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC. Real CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, native HTTPS — built with CodeWarrior on the Carbon API. - mplsllc/macsurf

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Show threadThom, a distro-agnostic toolMay 27
Basically every new retrocomputing project is slop now.
Show threadAbraxas3d W5NYVMay 27
@thomholwerda noooooooo argghhh!
Show threadF4GRX SébastienMay 27
@abraxas3d @thomholwerda CollapseOS first claude commit when?
Show threadeuroplus May 28
@thomholwerda it often feels that way, but #GlobalTalk Chat by @kalleboo isn’t 💗
Show thread𝒜dam 𝒮cheinberg // sethadam1May 27
@thomholwerda Just curious, is it “slop” because code was created with AI or are there other specific criteria?
Show threadNina KalininaMay 27
@thomholwerda what did they do to Netsurf 😭 noooo
Show threadThom, a distro-agnostic toolMay 27
@nina_kali_nina Right?? NetSurf of all things! Is nothing sacred anymore??????????????
Show threadARGVMI~1.PIFMay 27

@thomholwerda @nina_kali_nina

What happened?

Show threadNina KalininaMay 28
@argv_minus_one someone slopped Netsurf for MacOS9 and calls it a great success @thomholwerda
Show threadF4GRX SébastienMay 27
@thomholwerda I have also seen that they made an amigagpt. that was an instablock.
Show threadCursed SiliconMay 27

@thomholwerda Someone joined my Retro Discord a while back and immediately posted running the slop machine on OS 9

I had to increasingly firmly "ask" them to not post fucking slop in the server

Show threadThom, a distro-agnostic toolMay 27
@CursedSilicon *groan* I feel for the moderation you have to do with slop infesting your Discord.
Show threadCursed SiliconMay 27

@thomholwerda Most folks are really good beans! And it's a wonderful community

But then I join other communities (like CMaNGOS, a World of Warcraft server emulator)

And just...

Show threadThom, a distro-agnostic toolMay 27
@CursedSilicon 🤮
Show threadCursed SiliconMay 27

@thomholwerda I can't even be *upset* anymore. Like a candle burned down to nothing

I just feel...drained? Like any enthusiasm I have for a project just erodes out of my soul

Show threadChris Gervais 🎸🥁💻May 28
@thomholwerda And I’m over here doing it the stupid way: multiple tabs of Inside Macintosh open, like 20 header files open in CodeWarrior, building my own resources in ResEdit, painstakingly remembering how Open Transport works, and crashing my machine because I dereferenced something the Toolbox owns - like an animal
Show threadKen McLeodMay 28
@chrisgervais @thomholwerda Animal style all the way!
Show threadChris Gervais 🎸🥁💻May 28
@_the_cloud @thomholwerda Heh - I feel like if I was really going "animal style" I'd be using MPW 🤣
Show threadeuroplus May 29
@_the_cloud @chrisgervais @thomholwerda I want to code you like an animal…
Show threadJean-Michel DurandMay 29
@europlus @_the_cloud @chrisgervais @thomholwerda Nine Inch Nails reference acknowledged.
Show threadThom, a distro-agnostic toolMay 29
@onegeekarmy @europlus @_the_cloud @chrisgervais What is happening here lol
Show threadeuroplus May 29

@thomholwerda @onegeekarmy @_the_cloud @chrisgervais nothing to fear, just my brain…

Oh, wait…

Show threadeuroplus May 29
@chrisgervais @thomholwerda @_the_cloud a beautiful, flawed, squishy animal 💗