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I just spent far too much time recreating one of the greatest moments in cinematic history
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Generic iOS dev guy living in Japan. Into #VintageApple #RetroComputing. Apologies for being an extremely boring person. 🇸🇪→🇯🇵
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Inspired by @fergycool@mastodon.social and thanks to some iSight for MacOS 9 driver spelunking by @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net I am currently broadcasting a live feed of the Sakurajima volcano erupting on #GlobalTalk via QuickTime Conferencing.
If I’m going to do this again I’m gonna need a longer FireWire cable… the driver is also in trial mode and quits after 30 minutes.
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@webjac@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu When you have a duopoly, it's very clearly not a free market.
This is pretty cool. Apple's old Time Capsule devices run NetBSD, so in anticipation of their deprecation of AFP in the next version of macOS this guy got samba 4 running on it
TIL that Apple actually released the source code to SimpleText! I don't know how I missed this for so long...
Rewrite of the connection status/request retry/error handling state machine in #GlobalTalk Chat is going well
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The next study topic to get the hard copy treatment - 68000 Assembly. Finally time to figure out what those parentheses mean!
Was just chatting with my sister and had this realization about the current obviously incestuous AI investment cycle:
It's like the rich people all saw the dotcom bust, the 2008 financial crisis, and the COVID bust and went "well all the rich people made out gangbusters in increasing amounts, if only we can top that!"
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I've uploaded a video of the full TalkCrawler AD screensaver showing all the zones I saw on #GlobalTalk during #MARCHintosh this year, in case anyone was not able to check it out themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik-sJPcIqY0
TalkCrawler After Dark visualization of #GlobalTalk for #MARCHintosh 2026
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Also.... Uh... The perforation is suddenly missing on the left side of the paper... It was there 10 pages ago...
Can I get a refund on this paper 😝
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Why does printing suck still… spent like 2 hours fighting CUPS trying to understand how page sizes/margins work
If I have the margins in the PPD, it always adds on a left margin and pushes the right hand off the page.
If I set the page size to the printable area, the left side is right, but the right side cuts off before the printable area ends???
If it set the page size to printable area+1cm, I can print the whole width, but now I have a no-go zone on the right
Still dunno what's going on.
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@drj@typo.social I have fond memories of editing Macintosh NFNT resources using ResEdit as a kid!
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@billgoats@bitbang.social @mroach@ublog.mroach.com @arroz@mastodon.social @europlus@social.europlus.zone Obviously all those were your fault you didn't read 3 years of release notes for 250 different packages before upgrading
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@mroach @caseyliss My secret guilty pleasure is to once in a while go to the YouTube comments and switch from "Top" to “New" to see the absolute worst takes in the history of mankind.
One guy on the RCR video replied (paraphrased) “I’ve been watching for years but I'm unfollowing because your “Car Review" channel is taken over by emotionally driven opinions”
Brother, the whole THESIS of this channel is that cars are all about philosophy, emotions and society. That's what makes it so great!
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@Baa I especially like the "nobody uses IPv6, it's failed” comments on the post that's literally about how over half the Internet now uses IPv6.
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@ecschwarz Definitely recommended!
It's a case they used to sell here, it's shaped like the X68000, a legendary Japanese computer from the 80s
https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1133844.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X68000
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@paulrickards The only thing that tripped me up was that installing foomatic-filters now uninstalls cups and breaks everything. But with iwhi that's introduced further down on the post, foomatic-filters isn't needed so I just stuck with that.
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@TechTangents@dialup.space It reminds me of Technology Connections video on solar power where pretty much every single “anti” comment strangely had to specifically mention nuclear power. Like overwhelmingly
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@shiawase@mastodon.social I bought one case of tractor feed paper last year, have been printing like there's no tomorrow, and it's like maybe 10% down haha
Still on the first ribbon too! It's noticeably thin now, it I want to do a fancy printout I put in the fresher ribbon, but I can keep this one for prints where fidelity is less import...
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@Migueldeicaza I switched to Safari with the first Retina MacBook Pro (2012?) since Chrome was so laggy with the high res screen. Tried to go back a year later and it was still noticeably laggy. Never bothered since.
I do have to use chrome occasionally to test/fix compatibility for stuff I make for work.
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@drj@typo.social Yeah ResEdit can edit them, although "these days" (I was doing this in like System 6/7, "these days" would be MacOS 9) the sample text is broken (shows in some other font) and it complains that it may corrupt the font
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@fergycool@mastodon.social @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net Back when macOS still supported these (Intel IIRC) I had it duct taped to the top of my monitor
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@billgoats@bitbang.social Yeah had a lot of errors off and on earlier today. Wasn’t sure if it was bitbang being bitbang or just the public WiFi I was on
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@BlueSCSI Looked it up and sadly it turns out the only LaserWriters supported by GrayShare are the Personal LaserWriter LS, Personal LaserWriter 300 and LaserWriter Select 300 (the ones supported by the LaserWriter 300 extension) 🙁
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@paulrickards Yeah it seems that now foomatic-filters and cups-filters are exclusive, and cups requires cups-filters. But foomatic-rip is part of cups and iwhi just needs foomatic-rip.
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@shiawase@mastodon.social @danieltufvesson@mastodon.social You need an impact printer when you really need to make an impact with your report
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Went to my daughters elementary school entrance ceremony today, and in her grade there are also twins named リン and レン. Katakana and all.
Never let anyone tell you living in Japan isn't like living in an anime...
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Hello all! I lost my steady gig a year ago, projects from my network are running out, and I need a job.
I’ve worked as an iOS dev for 15 years on cool apps like Camera+, but also building and running web and backend systems. Objective-C/Swift, but also TypeScript/next.js, PHP/WordPress, whatever fits the job!
I can work remote globally or locally in Japan (have PR)
Resume, Portfolio, LinkedIn etc are all at https://kalleboo.com/me
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@jbrownesq@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org China still makes 60% of their power from coal so for this metric they don’t come close to comparing
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@JulianOliver@mastodon.social I pay $5/mo for a static IPv4 (disabling CGNAT)
The IPv6 prefix has no static guarantee but it hasn't changed in a year so...
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macOS 27 adds a command line tool fm (Foundation Models) that lets you run queries against the local on-device AI model.
I know that it's a tiny model only meant to do language tasks like grammar checking and it doesn't have any real world-knowledge backing, but it's still funny to see what it thinks of #Apple corporate history.
macOS is so user friendly.
Human Interface Guidelines and all that
Might as well be using GNU/Linux
Some good reads for cherry blossom viewing 🌸
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@ahihi@anticapitalist.party Yeah honestly as bad as this error is its 100x better than the typical "an error occurred" (or worse, errors that are just ignored) non message you get from Apple
One thing I've learned is that Inside Macintosh is just the primer. It may look like all you need - it lists all the Toolbox functions and how they work, and walks you through how things ought to fit together!
But in reality to make anything beyond TeachText you need to read: every Technote, every Q&A, skim every relevant sample code, every Snippet, and also read every issue of develop.
Then you can start to approach being able to attempt to do something!