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a1o··on I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip
For a more capable but still underpowered computer, I found Antix can run well in almost 20year old hardware - I use it in an EEEPC 4G Surf, but I modded it to have more storage recently.
a1o··on A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
Some other day here HN someone posted a blog post that was like a long nonsense text of claudisms like load bearing smoking gun and other things, it was beautiful. I wanted to have a link for it to show to others but it disappeared when I got back to look for it and I lost the link. :/
a1o··on A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
> What's modeled vs. measured

> Honesty section:

I wouldn’t mind an human written README

a1o··on Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
I am curious, is it the same person?

Also, I think at some point someone shared some Japanese website where someone did these high quality photos of Japanese trains with a similar technique?

a1o··on We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng
What does the ng at the end means? I have seen a few products/projects that added it and no explanation of the meaning.
a1o··on AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
Wait, how? What is the background technology? I need more explanation. Is this a tool to recompile these games?
a1o··on Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]
It looks amazing! Thanks for mentioning it!
a1o··on The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
An exception is probably cars, they are better, more expensive but uglier too.
a1o··on Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
Awesome, people in Spain are lucky to see this!
a1o··on A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
Which cat wheel is that?
a1o··on Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery
That is pretty cool and looks easy enough to do. I have never seen batteries like that original one seems to be, it looks quite malleable? Is that normal for it? Has anyone seen batteries like that in other products? Most of the other things I did replacement have been “harder” batteries.
a1o··on The AI Aesthetic
Thanks!
a1o··on The AI Aesthetic
Oh, I was meaning the pancakes
a1o··on The AI Aesthetic
Did they write anywhere about it? I noticed it - and I think it uses the system emoji, because I noticed the pancake was different between my systems.
a1o··on The AI Aesthetic
I think that if the images were replaced by human made (you can take photos of real things if you don’t want to draw or hire an actual artist) perhaps the design could be more passable
a1o··on Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem
It appears this stuff is highly guarded under NDA and not available for anyone, I read the homebrew version (https://github.com/OpenOrbis/OpenOrbis-PS4-Toolchain), the SDL2 port and the other stuff and honestly didn’t find anything much interesting, or that makes any difference. Unless you have something properly as documentation to show I don’t think it is reasonable to expect anyone in an open source engine to care about whatever this “special” thing you mention is.
a1o··on GCC steering committee announces AI policy
To people not interacting with open source projects that are stablished and popular, there are a lot of PRs and contributions where someone set an agent with a prompt like “contribute using my user to popular projects to improve my profile” or something similar and the entire PR and answers to maintainers questions and literally everything is entirely machine generated, without any human, and at the same time it is done in the cheapest way so steering the PRs in review isn’t even like “free tokens” because the model used is not good, so the output is always bad. The policies help point the agent to what is not allowed and shutdown the contribution, and so far the agents seems to respect it. Shutting down an agent without a policy to point to them make them very reactive. Note, there is no human involved in the other side! The person that set up the agent is not even aware of the specific PRs that are going.
a1o··on Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem
Looking at the example graphics in the OP post I would not think something as specific as the rtx-io matter, I thought it was something more conceptually general that could be applied everywhere without tie to a specific vendor.
a1o··on Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved
My experience is Codex is much better but less creative. I use its agent through GitHub Copilot or the agent interface from JetBrains. Try the GPT Sol 5.6 on medium, it gives me good results
a1o··on Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator
Azure DataBricks has something called Genius where you put the tables and views you want to interact with and can talk to it so it constructs a query based on the data you specified. It often does not work completely for me, it either doesn’t get it, or get things 90% there and I need to jump in, decipher the query it came up with and then figure how to change it to what I need. So not sure if the data I am playing with is just too complex/too big, but it’s not working exactly great for me.
a1o··on Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem
> We did our best job here leaning heavily on the resource system. There's stuff I want to say about the result that's platform specific so I can't. We have a thing, it works, and it could be a lot better.

Literally the only part I wanted to get more information about.

I could use a lot more information on why POSIX is bad and exactly what it means on resource management being “aware” of unified memory. I mostly didn’t get.

a1o··on Amiga Graphics Archive
If you click the color cycling animations it shows the palette being actively changed and is very interesting to observe!
a1o··on KOReader
Did anyone made a comparison across different devices for running this? I am curious on what is the best device today to run it, and also the best when accounting for cost of the device too.
a1o··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
I find it bad for generating code but alright for review, I put it as a tool to run along static analysis to catch if I missed something on a code change or merge request (being specifically about C++)
a1o··on An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
I imagine the over 1GHz in this case is the baseband that you are talking about.

ADS-B baseband is also around 1GHz, what they mean is once you down convert in the process of demodulating the signal you will get a signal that has bandwidth of 1.3MHz.

a1o··on Stolen Buttons
Are we in flat design for way too long or is this a recent idea and the collection is also very recent?
a1o··on Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds
The visual map that expands to short descriptions with the sounds, gives me nostalgic memories for Microsoft Encarta.

Is there anything as fun and interactive that is available today that could be used by kids? Wikipedia is great for adults but it’s just too much information and it’s not packaged in short and visual focus of Microsoft Encarta of the old times. The other cool thing of MS Encarta is it wasn’t too big, it was finite, you could exhaust one topic and then go explore something else, it wasn’t infinite rabbit hole.

a1o··on Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns
There’s a lot of times I see people reaching for AI instead of taking a photograph, this is super egregious when it’s meant as a reference, because the AI generated image won’t necessarily look like the real thing. I’ve seen it used in reference documents about animal management/veterinary reference meant for farmers, and the generated cows, horses and so on are just worse than the original version that was done with photos, they may look more “clean”, but farm life isn’t meant to be clean and it also lost the veterinarian that was shown in the shots manipulating the animal and properly indicating with hands where to pay attention in the animal.
a1o··on Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators
I am curious why so many people use Apple Monitors but with a regular stand instead of the VESA mount version so they could use a better support, the stand is clearly not being able to deliver the best position as people seem to use different things to rise them a little more.

Having been using different supports throughout the years, using the regular stand that come with monitors always felt like a considerable downgrade and the cost of a proper support that you attach to the desk, drill on it or drill on the wall, depending on the necessity of the space, is usually negligible.

a1o··on The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
One thing about open source is a lot of people are throwing low quality PRs that should have been an issue or even a discussion, so you can understand what was the problem the person encountered that motivated such PR. This is hard to get because usually people use LLMs to also answer questions you make about the PR. I am tending towards blocking PRs from people outside the main developers in most of my open source projects. If the person CAN discuss the problem, authoring the PR is easier if I do it myself, even if using an LLM, because reviewing a PR authored by random internet people/bots is hard because of how much the entire code tends to change after minimal questions are asked. What I am sad of this approach is that I did met a few interesting people through receiving PRs and establishing trust and some relationships in the past (eight years ago and before)
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