Yes, I can *somtimes* use reader mode, but 1/ I shouldn’t have to, and 2/ that means all the trouble you went to to design your site was for nothing wasn’t it?

#accessibility

Ah mais tellement !

Je suis astigmate et ça me flingue la vue.

D’ailleurs, sur mes sites et RS favoris, j’ai souvent une surcouche CSS même en clair pour limiter les contrastes trop durs (Genre, noir-noir sur fond blanc-blanc, c’est pas terrible) et les typo pas assez grasses.

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A few month ago, I noticed I had hard times reading code on my screen, its was blurry. And I stumble upon someone saying it can happen if you have astigmatism or other troubles.

I've read a bit about that, and I switched all my tools, terminal, IDE, database GUI etc on light themes, just to give a try.
It felt a bit strange strange the first days but I read really better.

I will no longer fall into the Dark Side.

When I encounter a dark mode site without that option I go straight to reader mode, losing all the author's formatting changes but, hey, it's readable.

If reader mode doesn't work, I close the tab and move on.

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
…
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
…
}

/* Done */

I’m starting to think that some designers are just assholes.

“Yea let’s do 50% gray on an off-white background with a hairline font! Oh it’s hard for people to read? Tough shit LMAO.”

Just a few lines of CSS if you layed out your CSS in the correct way. If not it's a refactoring.

I don't say, don't do it. But sometimes it's much more work than just changing some lines of code.

Especially if your CSS is older than a year.

I made the mistake in one of my projects back then not thinking of light mode (and wasn't aware of the accessibility implications) and now it's a big refactoring. Yes the code is rushed and it's entirely my fault.

But the time needed to fix this properly I was able to add light mode (or dark mode respectively) to 6 other sites.

@adiz

and Fedi's cum sock

I enjoy using the original machines I have and I also love emulation.

For example, I have a MZ-80K and a couple of MZ-700s, but I don't have room for a MZ-80A. I wrote an emulator for it (and the 80K) on the Pi Pico instead. The emulator is just as much fun and the finished item fits into my pocket ...

I'm also lucky enough to own a UK101, but Grant Searle's FPGA recreation of it is far less temperamental and much more practical to use on a whim. I can also easily run the emulator with 40K of RAM if I want to!

FPGA and emulation are great ways to share the things we love with people who do not have the resources or knowhow to obtain and work with vintage tech. You aren't keeping a platform alive by pushing people away from it, all you're doing is guaranteeing it's slide into obscurity.

You have generations of young, enthusiastic nerds, eager and willing to build on the shoulders of giants, bring new perspectives and do cool new things which we never thought possible way back when, clone systems and emulators open the door for them to do so.

Oh, not this gatekeeping crap again.

The clue is in the title: "#retrocomputing". You can do new shit with old stuff, or old shit with new stuff.

It's not "historically accurate computing", in which you can only use games you've personally bought in Woolworths for 1.99, after a weeks long paper round job, (or copied from school friends on tape) where even using the modern internet for resources and software is technically cheating.

I'm agreeing with @janbeta. It's your hobby so do what you want!

Indeed. The only way the things we're using now will be able to be preserved for future generations is literally through some form of simulation, be it by the execution of program instructions in an emulator, or via the replication of logic gates in a programmable logic array (or some combination of both).

That, and, oh yeah, PIRACY. 😀

I don't like it either. It's the same logic, just running on a different piece of silicon. Often with an outboard CPU exactly the same as the one in the original machine. Many of them are built from reverse-engineered ASICs or original schematics. They're better than software emulators.

And with the price of original hardware and software, they make the space accessible to newcomers. Which might be why people are upset...

Also, that's a too-narrow interpretation of 'retro' itself to say it's only about hardware. Is a person whose hobby is playing retro games not 'retro'? It's the playing of the game that is their hobby. Not which pile of fused sand is used to play it on.

For many people, things like emulators or FPGA-based systems are what allow them to access that part of the hobby.

Gatekeeping is for people who want to feel special and exclusive. They need to get over it.