iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jonathan Horst @horstpower.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I remember dabbling with Linux back in high school. But it's changed a lot since then; and so I reached out to @eayoung.net to get in on the action. Check out how the journey went here: youtu.be/UIN2Q2u1A8o

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komm64 | COMMS CLOSED @komm64.com · 10/07/2026

📺 pixtube (beta) is open — try it while it's up! A tiny pixel art editor with my CRT shader built in: draw or drop in an image and watch it on a simulated CRT in real time. Things may change or disappear as I tinker. pixtube.komm64.com

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Pixel art editor with a CRT / NTSC signal preview.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 08/06/2026

This is an 8 hour documentary. I've been putting off watching it. You'd think it must be all filler. You'd be wrong. This is hugely impressive work by @pandamonium.bsky.social I always saw FMV games as filler. Not so the people who made them. Not so me anymore. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM-I...

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 14/04/2026

I had no idea there was a place you could go and just grab microcontrollers/SBCs and electronics supplies

A photograph of an aisle at an electronics store, showing hinged racks filled with electronics supplies like microcontrollers, camera/wifi/LCD modules, capacitors, resistors, etc.

The sign reads:
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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 03/04/2026

A strange hypothetical, I know, but I've been thinking: I love planes - Wouldn't it be awesome to own a private jet? Maybe even one with gold fixtures! It'd cost so much to operate though... That's "multiple homes" money. Not to mention the environmental impact! I could never.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 27/03/2026

I had the dumb idea to hook up a Koryuu composite-to-component transcoder to the RetroTINK-4K to see what it'd look like. While the RT4K has more robust filtering, the result of being able to dial in the sample rate over component is even composite video pixels get really sharp!

A screenshot depicting the main menu of the 240p Test Suite for NES, ported by Damian Yerrick. The "Sharpness" option has an arrow next to it. This screenshot was taken with a real NES connected to a Koryuu transcoder over composite, connected to a RetroTINK-4K via component cables. The sample rate per line was set to a multiple of 341 (240p). The text is very sharp, but has subtle colour splotches around each letter. In addition, the screen has subtle diagonal lines across the green/brown background, and there are sawtooth-like artifacts on the character graphic and text box's border, a consequence of the fixed-function comb filter used by the Koryuu transcoder.

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240p Test Suite Menu

PLUGE
Gradient color bars
SMPTE color bars
Color bars on gray
Color bleed
Monoscope
Convergence
Gray ramp
Solid color screen
IRE
Sharpness
Chroma crosstalk
Overscan
Safe areas
CPU clock speed

←1/2→ | ↑↓A: Select | NTSC

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 17/03/2026

I feel like I need to explain some things. Clear facial distortion aside, some people like the DLSS 5 image because it's high-contrast and looks like film looks like. But that's not what reality looks like. Cameras need a whole lot of light to not look like a fuzzy mess.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 17/03/2026

"Character rendering is transformed."

A screenshot from Nvidia's DLSS5 announcement, showing a character from Starfield with "DLSS ON". The face appears to be replaced by a diffusion-generated one, with differently shaped and coloured eyes (the right eye, viewer left, is substantially larger than the other), and apparently incorrect perspective. Next to the "DLSS OFF" shot, it looks as though the face has been lasso selected in Photoshop and rotated/moved. The chin appears broader than the original.

A still from Nvidia's DLSS5 announcement demo reel, showing the "DLSS OFF" version of the same character. The face is generally symmetrical.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 15/03/2026

Addressed to Twitter but: I worry for the people who rely on LLMs to fact-check; They aren't all-knowing, nor even especially clever. At best, they go by the information available to the public, same as anyone else, no more - Usually with a delay. They also have access to the same misinformation.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 12/03/2026

TIL that the NES "blacker than black" palette entry 0d is not just blacker than black, but imitates a sync pulse that can cause TVs and scalers/capture devices to lose sync. What's more, The Immortal on NES used it to gain 1 more shade of grey. I've yet to be able to run it.

A screenshot of The Immortal for NES; It is largely scrambled and illegible due to the capture device (a RetroTINK-4K) detecting the game's use of "blacker than black" palette entry 0d, which mimics the usual voltage for a horizontal sync pulse and causes each line of the image to end prematurely and disrupts the normal timing for horizontal sync.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 04/03/2026

Apparently there are rumours that Windows 12 is coming this year and will not only double down on Copilot, but introduce a subscription model for it, despite requiring an NPU. I refuse to believe Microsoft is stupid enough to try the heated seats DRM trick.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 26/02/2026

Messing with the RetroTINK-4K's latest experimental firmware, shrugged at the new high-pass filter until I tried it on my 2-chip SNES... RT5x's pre-emph did similar, but the RT4K seems to have finer control. A 2.00 MHz HPF (3.00 for hi-res modes) very nearly fixes the smear for me.

A screenshot of Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo Entertainment system, cropped to the upper left corner to show the lives counter (x 5) and red text reading "MARIO". This screenshot was captured using a "2-Chip" SNES, unfiltered but otherwise captured at the highest quality possible. This screenshot displays the characteristic heavy blur this hardware is notorious for.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 05/02/2026

Well this is a pleasant surprise. Believe it or not, I have a video written about this game's "sequel", F-22 Total Air War. Not many people remember these games now, but this has excellent damage modeling+wingman control+stealth, and an AWACS mode that makes the game into an RTS/"sim-medium" hybrid.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 28/01/2026

A retro tech question that should be trivia, but may in fact be a riddle: How many watts does a PlayStation 2 Slim 7700x draw?

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 18/01/2026

I really wish we could get a secure replacement for email already, one that’s incompatible and not just bolting on and becoming an optional feature by necessity. And SMS. And phone networks. And credit card networks. And

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 08/01/2026

I’m not at CES but I feel it’s appropriate to say: AI will not save us. AI is a great tool, good at plenty of things. But it is a tool; It matters who uses it, & for what. It’s unprofitable, so ask who benefits, how; & whether that’s OK to you. AI will not save us.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 02/01/2026

Something very normal I think about a lot is that still using GIFs in current year is weird. It was a very limited format to begin with, albeit by design. I admit dithering does have a certain retro charm…

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 20/12/2025

What's all this about ModRetro? Ah. I see.

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels. Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 15/12/2025

Kaze Emanuar did a video on the Analogue 3D that sums up pretty much exactly what I take issue with from Analogue's marketing direction. FPGA doesn't mean accurate; It's an emulator running in hardware. Doesn't mean it's not good though! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrby...

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Analogue Lied

YouTube video by Kaze Emanuar

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 12/12/2025

Huh, Ace Combat 8 was announced? From the description, it looks like it's going to have squad bonding and a protagonist that exists outside the plane. Bold move after Assault Horizon, but maybe it'll work this time. I should do an Ace Combat video someday. www.bandainamcoent.com/games/ace-co...

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ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE | Official Site

Engage in intense aerial combat to dominate the battlefield with powerful weapons. Experience a breathtaking campaign filled with high-stakes missions, hard choices, and deep squad connections.

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Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

This is it. I nearly suffocated by using the reetroom. I’m asking my doctors agreeing on a short cure. Only really sure painful prolonged angona is hereafter the grim reaps me. Please donate on the funeral fund me now.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 15/11/2025

Maybe it’s a little over optimistic, but I legitimately feel like the fabled Year Of the Linux Desktop™ is really coming.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 23/10/2025

I cannot begin to describe how little interest I have in an AI web browser.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 05/10/2025

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 07/10/2025

Rebecca Heineman is probably best known for coding 3DO Doom from zero in 10 weeks after being told it just needed "polish" - the licensee didn't understand what porting involved. Since hearing that story, she's someone I've looked up to a lot. Now, she's got a different struggle...

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 26/09/2025

Feels like I'm seeing a lot of Lumafield stuff showing up on YouTube and socials lately. I'm guessing they're running a campaign? I mean, obviously, but like, is there something going on?

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 22/09/2025

... Why do I feel called out by this

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 16/09/2025

Every time I open a newly installed browser and a search ends up on Google, I'm like "I'm sure I can still find what I'm looking for..." ... I honestly have no idea how anyone uses Google anymore without tearing their hair out. It's so bad.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 11/09/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY00... And so, one of the longest-running, most well-known mysteries in the history of video games, has been solved. ... All because of an argument between a mom and her adult son.

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Chris Houlihan Is Real

YouTube video by Kevin Hainline

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 10/09/2025

hey siri how do I stop living in interesting times

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 17/08/2025

Randomly looking around wplace, and lo and behold there's a trans flag near where I grew up?? I want to be their friend

A screenshot of wplace showing the region around Topsail Beach in Newfoundland, Canada. Pixel art includes Ramona Flowers from the Scott Pilgrim video game, Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil, Night in the Woods headshots, Kingdra from Pokémon, Misako from Retro City Girls, a transgender flag, a bisexual flag, one each of a brown, green, and purple heart, and some incomplete artwork. Visible text reads "I NEED FRIENDS", "I AM FRIEND", "YURI", "Hi", "Leon", and "UwU"

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 01/08/2025

I'm dangerously close to 100k subs???

A screenshot of the YouTube dashboard, cropped to the current number of subscribers to Emily Young's channel. The number reads 99,982. Transcript:
Channel analytics
Current subscribers
99,982

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 30/07/2025

I had a whole thing written up about the Collective Shout thing but TL;DR people like this have been around since forever and that they're only now gaining global influence is weird and frankly alarming. Platforms have their hands tied because the alternative is to not be able to do business.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 27/07/2025

I think this is interesting for a different reason: A lot of the same people who are pushing what we call AI are the people who were big on NFTs and crypto. I think there's a difference in how media influences people's perceptions more than we like to think. But there is yet another angle to it.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 12/07/2025

NEW VIDEO: How a simple mistake ruined my new PC (and my YouTube channel)

A close-up photograph of a CPU socket, showing the LGA pins. The pins appear straight and normal. Just above them is pixelated white text with a red shadow, reading "Please no..."

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 02/07/2025

Today was Canada Day, but in Newfoundland it was Memorial Day. At Beaumont-Hamel in WWI, the Royal NL Regiment were ordered to follow up a failed attack presumed successful. Left in clear view of German guns, they were decimated. At school, I recall more WWI history than WWII.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 22/06/2025

Today in pointless knowledge: Via 86box, Windows 95 can achieve very high refresh rates, but at least in this configuration it taps out at 1,238 Hz. I can specify higher, but it won't actually switch to it.

A screenshot of a plain Windows 95 desktop, showing the Advanced Display Properties dialog window. The refresh rate list is expanded, with "1238 Hz" highlighted by the mouse. The display adapter is listed as a Voodoo3 PCI.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 06/06/2025

Watching the Switch 2 launch is interesting. I don't really feel a great need to have one, but some people are going nuts for it. From my perspective, it's eerily like a WiiU situation where they launched without any software to back it up.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 02/06/2025

Happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈 Pride is about not just persisting, but taking life back from the fringes of society, thriving in spite of adversity. It isn't vanity; It's solidarity and defiance. Sometimes protest, sometimes celebration, however the political pendulum swings, we remain.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 29/04/2025

Honestly the most amazing thing about the Canadian election is that non-Canadians actually lost sleep waiting to see if PP would lose his seat. Which he then did.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 01/04/2025

I'm here. And so are you. Happy #TDOV2025! Hope you all had a good one, all things considered!

A photo of Emily Young with shelves of retro consoles and computers in the background. A screwdriver in the blue, pink, and white transgender flag motif is being held up next to her.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 27/03/2025

So... This is what's been going on the past little bit. If you're in the Discord, you know that it's pretty much been resolved now, but I've had to adjust plans for the new workstation build video, and also a video about the things that led me to this tragedy.

A magnification photo of an AMD LGA socket, showing many uniform metallic triangular shaped pins in a grid. In the centre of the image is a large number of pins that are no longer uniform, and some are folded in on themselves.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 28/01/2025

NEW VIDEO: I Left Linus Media Group - What do I do now? youtu.be/ELnX3gEHuHI

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 20/01/2025

Still screaming about this branding

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