Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Focus on Retro Computing

Re:Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Foc... by chipotle_coyote on Sunday April 13, 2025 @03:37PM (#43675275)

I think you might be better off getting rid of the "AI slop" entirely. Without getting into the whole ethical debate (it's worth having, but not here), putting it front and center on the website for a new retrocomputing magazine is kind of like putting an article about new features in Microsoft Word front and center on a website for mechanical typewriter enthusiasts.

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Re:Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Foc... by hedora on Sunday April 13, 2025 @03:56PM (#43675394)

I disagree. Making high quality niche publications like this economically feasible is exactly how AI could be used to actually benefit society. I see no evidence that this site is a plagiarism mill.

All the retro computing people I know are computer nerds, and like playing with new shiny software, including llms.

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Re:Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Foc... by codr7 on Sunday April 13, 2025 @06:15PM (#43676256)

The high quality niche is exactly why AI is a bad idea.

If I desire to fill my brain with slop, there are plenty of options.

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Re:Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Foc... by trinsic2 on Monday April 14, 2025 @01:15AM (#43678289)

The idea of supporting AI for a retro mag is just a bad idea, where is there a relationship between the two? I am not getting it.

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