Nostr notes by Karl Baron

The plug for the washlet toilet in the bathroom at the bar I went ...

2026-10-23T17:55:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…dmtw
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The plug for the washlet toilet in the bathroom at the bar I went to tonight

#japan #ElectricalSafety

I just spent far too much time recreating one of the greatest ...

2026-10-08T12:58:25Z

I just spent far too much time recreating one of the greatest moments in cinematic history

#mb #PDA #RetroComputing

Very glad to have this seemingly ultra-rare device put back into ...

2026-09-26T13:36:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…0t9u
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Very glad to have this seemingly ultra-rare device put back into work doing what it was built for on my network!

If anyone else has better research skills than me I’d love to find out more about it and its brethren the RefBridge and RefLaser.

Or if someone recognizes the guts of it/software if it was a rebadge of something else?

🧵15/15🔚

I could probably solve this by restarting AIR, but that would ...

2026-09-26T13:35:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…l3gq
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I could probably solve this by restarting AIR, but that would kick everyone else off of Chat so I’ll just try changing network numbers so it queries for a new zone name.

And it worked! No more ghost zone, and asking on chat it seems my LocalTalk stuff is also visible on GlobalTalk now.

I bet that this is also why the first attempt with a separate “LocalTalk” zone name failed - it was probably still using the stuck zone name and I never scrolled down enough to see it there…

🧵14/15

I asked on GlobalTalk Chat and… oh that’s weird. Not visible ...

2026-09-26T13:35:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…s9ju
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I asked on GlobalTalk Chat and… oh that’s weird. Not visible on BaroNet but there’s a vestigial “RefRouter LocalTalk” hanging around, with all my LocalTalk stuff in it. That was my original sample network!

Indeed, even my EtherTalk machines are seeing the ghost zone, but no machines on it!

Looking at my AIR machine (which is seeding EtherTalk and connects to GlobalTalk), sure enough, it picked up on the old name, and must be propagating it!

🧵13/15

2️⃣nd attempt, sharing a Zone name. Taking the previous ...

2026-09-26T13:34:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…l9h6
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2️⃣nd attempt, sharing a Zone name.

Taking the previous configuration, and just changing the LocalTalk zone to match the EtherTalk zone.

First of all now the network list looks sane.

And on my machines, all looks good now! LocalTalk machines see EtherTalk machines, and visa versa.

And this is what it looks like in Trawl, you can see the LocalTalk machines on network 2941

But, are the LocalTalk machines visible on #GlobalTalk now or is the double-routing going to cause issues, like double-NAT?

This isn’t working though, and the results are strange. My Mac ...

2026-09-26T13:34:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…vh49
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This isn’t working though, and the results are strange.

My Mac on LocalTalk finds itself on the new “BaroNet LocalTalk” zone, but it doesn’t even see the BaroNet zone or any shares on it.

My Mac on EtherTalk sees the LocalTalk devices… on BaroNet! Meanwhile it doesn’t see the new zone name… but somehow sees the devices anyway, just in the wrong zone!

And if we go back to that network list from the RefRouter and look for BaroNet, it's clearly confused!

🧵11/15

1️⃣st attempt, using a separate Zone name for LocalTalk. ...

2026-09-26T13:33:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…qw65
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1️⃣st attempt, using a separate Zone name for LocalTalk.

Starting with the previous config, I change EtherTalk to “Nonseed” so it just becomes a client on my main network ("BaroNet”) that's already beeing seeded by Apple Internet Router. The config window still shows the "RefRouter EtherTalk" name but that whole section is actually disabled.

For LocalTalk, I’m now seeding a separate Zone with the name "BaroNet LocalTalk”

And now the RefRouter now sees all of #GlobalTalk on the nonseed port!

Now we’ve used this guy to set up everything your small Mac ...

2026-09-26T13:32:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…ae20
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Now we’ve used this guy to set up everything your small Mac office would need. You got your Ethernet machines and your LocalTalk machines and printers all talking to each other, and even got the LocalTalk machines onto the Internet!

But now it's time to figure out how to put this to REAL use on my own network, which has the complication of already having a router putting it on #GlobalTalk 🌏

Right now I'm using an AsanteTalk to bridge Ethernet to LocalTalk, would love to replace that with this…

Our MacIP setup works perfectly as well with no drama, with my ...

2026-09-26T13:32:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…h2j8
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Our MacIP setup works perfectly as well with no drama, with my IIcx picking up the MacIP Gateway on the RefRouter LocalTalk Zone.

We can ping, and even load websites!

I’m not sure where it picked the IP address from though, as that did not come from my router (there is no DHCP support anywhere here). First I thought the prefix came from that “Dynamic IP Clients” option but that really *was* a limit, seems it maxes out at 20 combined.

No idea where you configure the “Static" clients?

🧵8/15

Now let’s explore that "DDP-IP Gateway" button. DDP-IP ...

2026-09-26T13:31:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…8a44
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Now let’s explore that "DDP-IP Gateway" button. DDP-IP is better known as "MacIP", and encapsulates IP (Internet Protocol) packets in AppleTalk, allowing machines on LocalTalk to use TCP/IP and access the Internet

I'm not sure what "IP Address of File Server" is for. Netbooting? Anyone have idea what "Address Gleaning" or “NBP Proxy ARP" do?

5 and 2 also seem like low limits for the number of clients, but I guess LocalTalk is too slow for many more devices…

🧵7/15

By the way, if you think that configuration UI looks familiar, ...

2026-09-26T13:31:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…t0c4
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By the way, if you think that configuration UI looks familiar, it’s basically a 1-1 copy of the Apple Internet Router interface!

🧵6/15

And sure enough, it works! The utility gives you the ...

2026-09-26T13:31:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…g2un
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And sure enough, it works!

The utility gives you the RefRouter's view of the network (adjacent networks from other routers also show here)

I disconnected this segment from GlobalTalk to avoid confusion, and we can see our zones in the utility list

In the Chooser, it's all working as it should! Machines on the LocalTalk side can see machines on the EtherTalk side, and visa-versa.

Maybe I'm imaging things (I didn’t measure) but it feels like file transfers are faster than with the AsanteTalk?

The main window lets you see some basic info and has buttons to ...

2026-09-26T13:30:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…vqnt
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The main window lets you see some basic info and has buttons to open the different configuration dialogs.

We've created one zone on EtherTalk, and one on LocalTalk. "Seed" means this router is responsible for the network.

On EtherTalk we're seeding a “RefRouter EtherTalk" zone on Network 2942. You can seed multiple zones if you wish (for multiple departments/floors/buildings in your office), similarly to Apple Internet Router.

And on LocalTalk seeding a “RefRouter LocalTalk” on 2941.

🧵4/15

Before turning it on, let's open it up to see if we can learn ...

2026-09-26T13:29:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…7wcs
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Before turning it on, let's open it up to see if we can learn anything more. We have a 1993 copyright on the PCB, 1994 copyright on the 1.0.0 ROM. It's powered by a Motorola 68k core, and uses the same Zilog SCC serial chip for LocalTalk as the Mac did.

Does it work? Yes, it does! And the utility sees it!

Let's start out by configuring a typical 1994 Mac office network 🏢🔌, an example of what this would be used for.

🧵3/15

The price on the listing was too much for me to spend right now, ...

2026-09-26T13:28:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…m693
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The price on the listing was too much for me to spend right now, but it was gratefully gifted to me as a belated birthday present by Mike Roach (npub13c4…mhv4) (who was also curious) 🙇‍♂️

The listing said the seller would burn the utility to a CD-R and include that. No idea how the seller has the utility but not the original floppy disk, but at least now I have archived it on the IA/macgarden.

Hacking open the utility with ResEdit, we also find DLOGs for devices named RefBridge, RefBridge/TCP, RefLaser, RefLaser II

The Interware RefRouter/TCP. Last week this oddity showed up on ...

2026-09-26T13:28:16Z

The Interware RefRouter/TCP. Last week this oddity showed up on Mercari.

Interware are known for their NuBus graphics cards and Mac CPU upgrades… but networking equipment?

Got ZERO web search results for this thing. Google Groups found three Usenet posts of off-hand mentions in 1999. Wayback Machine? Interware’s old homepage didn't mention it. Only found a 1994 magazine scan with a price listing for the related RefLaser and RefBridge products.

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#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

I think a lot of small instances are on https://masto.host ...

2026-09-22T16:32:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…lvjm
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I think a lot of small instances are on https://masto.host [@mastohost](https://mastodon.social/@mastohost )

I could be interested in adminning/modding, but I can't pay ...

2026-09-22T16:26:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…xh62
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I could be interested in adminning/modding, but I can't pay for it and I don't have the social constitution to beg for donations every month

bitbang really is the mastodon instance that won't quit. ...

2026-09-22T08:30:17Z

bitbang really is the mastodon instance that won't quit. Running a 2.5 year old unpatched version of Mastodon, continually throwing errors presumably to to a lack of anti-scraper bot measures, just went down completely for over a day for God knows what reason.

But it's mysteriously back now with no word on what happened and our little community here is as happy as ever

It is now official Autumn in #Japan (the fall beers are in the ...

2026-08-20T10:59:58Z

It is now official Autumn in #Japan (the fall beers are in the supermarket)

Spent today doing more clean up of my late Father-in-laws stuff. ...

2026-08-18T12:38:49Z

Spent today doing more clean up of my late Father-in-laws stuff. Found some buried photo albums with photos from his work - behold a Japanese school computer lab in the year 1993, full of NEC PC-98 machines.

#RetroComputing #Japan

macOS is so user friendly. Human Interface Guidelines and all ...

2026-08-04T19:27:35Z

macOS is so user friendly.

Human Interface Guidelines and all that

Might as well be using GNU/Linux

Anyone know what “256 format” floppies are? There are tons of ...

2026-06-22T12:59:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…hxkv
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Anyone know what “256 format” floppies are? There are tons of listings for these on Mercari.

Clues include “JIS256, “256 bytes per sector, 26 sectors”, “1.6/2.0 MB” (presumably formatted/unformatted capacity) and “not supported on Windows/MS-DOS”.

Looking at the floppy formats list on Wikipedia it doesn’t seem to match PC98 or Sharp X68000.

Is it for Japanese Word Processors maybe?

Browsing listings of floppy disks on Mercari and ran across this ...

2026-06-22T12:06:34Z

Browsing listings of floppy disks on Mercari and ran across this youth novel - “The Killer Floppy Disk”

The author is “Irina Drozd” and it’s a translation of a French novel - Les aventures de Remi Gauthier 'Le programme assassin'

#RetroComputing

Boosts are appreciated 🙇‍♂️ Hello all! I lost my steady ...

2026-05-29T14:17:11Z

Boosts are appreciated 🙇‍♂️

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

#FediHire #GetFediHired

When I uploaded this to Macintosh Garden, I had to enter the ...

2026-05-28T18:35:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…jvfx
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When I uploaded this to Macintosh Garden, I had to enter the author name and was surprised to see it auto-completed my name. Weird? So I did a search and someone had already uploaded this REALBasic application I had made way back in the early 2000’s! I wonder where the 3 votes came from! (1/3)

I am proud to present the GlobalTalk Chat 1.2, taking it from a ...

2026-05-28T13:35:57Z

I am proud to present the GlobalTalk Chat 1.2, taking it from a rushed #MARCHintosh hack-job to something I'd be proud to release as shareware 30 years ago!

The headline update is it now allows anyone to host their own room! And it works on any AppleTalk network, not just #GlobalTalk

Get it on BaroNet, or Macintosh Garden https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/globaltalk-chat

And for anyone who has been curious how it all works, documented source code is available! https://github.com/kalleboo/GlobalTalk-Chat

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

Inspired by @npub1pr9…z7hs and thanks to some iSight for MacOS ...

2026-05-13T09:22:10Z

Inspired by fergycool (npub1pr9…z7hs) and thanks to some iSight for MacOS 9 driver spelunking by vga256 (npub1hj0…aev9) 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.

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

This is kind of insane: "MacMind: A complete transformer ...

2026-04-17T02:58:29Z

This is kind of insane: "MacMind: A complete transformer neural network implemented entirely in HyperTalk, trained on a Macintosh SE/30.” https://github.com/SeanFDZ/macmind

I want a "HyperCard 2.3 plus Color drawing tools" for my ...

2026-03-28T15:53:26Z

I want a "HyperCard 2.3 plus Color drawing tools" for my kid to play with.

Basically just draw colorful cards and link between them to make an kid adventure game.

From what I've seen, SuperCard and HyperStudio both pivoted to "more advanced HyperCard for people who outgrew it" to handle things like advanced multimedia and resizable windows and might have a learning curve

Modern things are fine too as long as they're not exploitative

#VintageApple

And by 80” TV you mean a 7-foot Advent CRT projector right? ...

2026-03-21T16:59:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…zctk
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And by 80” TV you mean a 7-foot Advent CRT projector right?

The module also runs in "DarkSide of the Mac" if you want ...

2026-03-21T15:46:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…cwwv
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The module also runs in "DarkSide of the Mac" if you want a less crashy screensaver host.

I did not have time to optimize my graphics code at all, so it will be very sluggish in 68k Macs - the reduced screen size options are for them. It also helps reducing your screen to 256 colors.

And it’s time for my fourth and final #MARCHintosh project for ...

2026-03-21T15:44:54Z

And it’s time for my fourth and final #MARCHintosh project for 2026, TalkCrawler AD. It’s an After Dark Module for TalkCrawler that will let you watch #GlobalTalk leisurely scroll past in one of two different styles

There is a standalone version as well if you don't want to install After Dark

Note you will need to run a re-scan in TalkCrawler Lite 1.4 (just released) before it can show anything

Available on landisk/Blackbird on BaroNet. Video in first reply.

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

Announcing my third #MARCHintosh 2026 project - the MARCHintosh ...

2026-03-17T02:15:09Z

Announcing my third #MARCHintosh 2026 project - the MARCHintosh canvas.

If you're familiar with Reddit's /r/place, pxls space, or Wplace, you’ll know what this is - a shared canvas anyone can place pixels onto in real-time!

Only this time, it's over the venerable AppleTalk protocol, with the public server accessible to anyone on #GlobalTalk :)

Feel free to drop by and leave your mark - available in the usual places (landisk, Blackbird) on BaroNet

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

I can't believe he doesn't have this dedicated ...

2026-03-15T17:50:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…s3g7
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I can't believe he doesn't have this dedicated ImageWriter carry bag, designed for everyone who regularly commutes with their ImageWriter

Does anyone have a license key for DragThing 4.6.1? The upgrade ...

2026-03-05T15:56:51Z

Does anyone have a license key for DragThing 4.6.1? The upgrade license I can find in Surfers Serials works until I reboot when it gets unlicensed again.

#MARCHintosh #VintageApple

Pinging James Thomson (npub1yqp…8tkc) because I'm naughty like that

Debating which is more or less painful: separately compiling and ...

2026-03-05T14:19:28Z

Debating which is more or less painful: separately compiling and embedding an LDEF, or just not using the List Manager and doing everything manually.

Want to do columns with controls in them so I'm thinking the latter.

#MARCHintosh #VintageApple

Nice video from the Computer History Museum for #MARCHintosh ...

2026-03-05T12:01:08Z

Nice video from the Computer History Museum for #MARCHintosh https://youtu.be/sbCVETsmtoM

Sadly the rubber rollers are all dried up and it needs manual ...

2026-03-04T16:58:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…5ew0
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Sadly the rubber rollers are all dried up and it needs manual intervention to print or I’d put it in GlobalTalk

Haha I was just thinking to myself “is this the same mech as ...

2026-03-04T16:22:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…gra2
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Haha I was just thinking to myself “is this the same mech as the StyleWriter 2200? Looks just the right size”

After much debugging and rebooting and kicking everyone off the ...

2026-03-03T09:34:46Z

After much debugging and rebooting and kicking everyone off the server, #GlobalTalk Chat is back and better than ever.

For performance reasons ersions before 1.0.8 Rev 2 are no longer able to connect, so take this opportunity to update to version 1.1!

I'm out of the house for the night so here's praying it doesn't all collapse 5 minutes after I post this

#MARCHintosh

Introducing my first #MARCHintosh project - #GlobalTalk Chat 1.0! ...

2026-03-01T00:54:23Z

Introducing my first #MARCHintosh project - #GlobalTalk Chat 1.0! Now re-written from the ground-up as a native Mac Toolbox application in C.

You can get it NOW on “Blackbird” or “landisk” in the “BaroNet” zone on GlobalTalk.

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #mb (1/3)

My PowerBook G3 Lombard is dying :/ it crashes with random errors ...

2026-02-20T16:08:21Z

My PowerBook G3 Lombard is dying :/ it crashes with random errors within a few minutes after boot. It’s never anything specific or in any specific process (looking in MacsBug)

I ran a full TechTool Pro RAM test, it passed all the tests for an hour before the machine just froze

Also it doesn’t seem to like any of my expansion bay optical drives, makes me wonder if it’s a power supply issue (tried 2 different yoyo supplies so the external is fine)

:(

#VintageApple

Did a little classic Mac OS C coding today, struggled with severe ...

2026-02-11T09:57:12Z

Did a little classic Mac OS C coding today, struggled with severe crashes before I realized I was doing this

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

It’s obviously 青, just like the traffic lights for ...

2026-01-18T14:03:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…3at5
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It’s obviously 青, just like the traffic lights for "go" in Japan

I was having a lazy morning lie-in in bed when I heard a familiar ...

2025-12-26T05:28:27Z

I was having a lazy morning lie-in in bed when I heard a familiar sound emanating from my office, where a Christmas greeting was appearing right in front of my eyes!! Thanks LikesOldMacs (npub10ma…m2tk) !!

#GlobalTalk #VintageApple #RetroComputing

These Valve announcements are getting weirder and weirder ...

2025-11-22T06:54:47Z

These Valve announcements are getting weirder and weirder

Reading this article really makes me want to connect a classic ...

2025-09-25T12:39:46Z

Reading this article really makes me want to connect a classic AppleTalk device straight into an internet exchange https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ixp-bad-broadcast-packets-interesting

#networking #VintageApple

Japan had their big boom in earthquake-proofing after the 1995 ...

2025-09-23T15:36:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…r6l3
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Japan had their big boom in earthquake-proofing after the 1995 Hanshin earthquake after which they studied what houses survived and revised the building code.

In the era this home was made, only 10% of residential buildings ...

2025-09-23T15:24:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…sxfj
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In the era this home was made, only 10% of residential buildings (including apartment buildings!) were built out of concrete, so this was a rarity here as well. The original owner must have been rich. It's the only reason this 50-year old home is still inhabitable. If it was built out wood like most other homes, it would have been an earthquake deathtrap and torn down.

Yep! 70's reinforced concrete house.

2025-09-23T15:11:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…v5ve
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Yep! 70's reinforced concrete house.

My house is such a strong Faraday cage that even from the front ...

2025-09-23T14:51:08Z

My house is such a strong Faraday cage that even from the front yard 2 meters away from the house, the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network is not reachable (and the 5/6 GHz SSIDs are not even visible)

[in other words I want an outdoors AP so I don't need to rely on mobile 5G]

#networking

There we go, my new home office is fully set up with everything I ...

2025-09-02T07:55:31Z

There we go, my new home office is fully set up with everything I need

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

(I’m moving and that’s the day I’m having my Internet ...

2025-08-21T00:56:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…gysk
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(I’m moving and that’s the day I’m having my Internet service transferred over - the net gets shut down in the AM at the old apartment and installed in the PM at my new house. Hopefully it should work within an hour of install but the ISP says that in rare cases NTT can take several days to actually complete the transfer)

#GlobalTalk service bulletin: BaroNet will be going down for ...

2025-08-21T00:56:20Z

#GlobalTalk service bulletin:

BaroNet will be going down for scheduled maintenance 2 weeks from now (Sep 4). The outage will start from around 10 AM JST and is planned to remain for 6-8 hours, but may take up to 72 hours depending on upstream networks.

There will be no need to adjust your configuration as the static IP will remain.

We’re out camping for the long weekend and this is the first ...

2025-07-19T07:17:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…dmtw
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We’re out camping for the long weekend and this is the first time we have a camp site with power hookup, so maybe the readers of this thread would be interested in how that looks

I’ve actually had it on my gym playlist this year haha, it’s ...

2025-07-18T11:38:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…4f35
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I’ve actually had it on my gym playlist this year haha, it’s so good

I hope you’ve at least seen WinSongs 95 before, right??

Cringing at the upper-case MAC

2025-07-15T12:20:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…uk0u
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Cringing at the upper-case MAC

That sucks! The worst thing is you can’t delete the account. ...

2025-07-15T11:49:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…qq4r
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That sucks!

The worst thing is you can’t delete the account. And I’m guessing you can’t change the name either due to real name policies. So I guess your name is now forever associated with the hacker?

Going through Facebooks “I’m hacked” or “account ...

2025-07-15T11:41:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…9e6l
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Going through Facebooks “I’m hacked” or “account restore” links, they don’t accept the email or phone numbers that were associated with the account before the hack. So WTH are they good for? And WTF does the “it wasn’t me” link in the email do if it doesn’t revert the action the hacker did?

Facebook security really is a complete shitshow

So I guess the only thing she can do now is remove all her friends so they won’t get spammed and change her name to HACKED IGNOREME or something?

My wife’s Facebook account got taken over. She got an email ...

2025-07-15T11:39:25Z

My wife’s Facebook account got taken over. She got an email from “facebookmail . com” (which is apparently, the legit Facebook domain, not phishing) saying her phone number had been removed the account.

After checking it wasn’t a phishing mail, we click the “this wasn’t me” link, go through the restore procedure, and she’s logged back into Facebook in the account.

But the password and email has been changed, and the phone number is not restored, so the hacker is still in control.

Although working on this increases the urgency for me to finally ...

2025-07-13T17:27:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…e8h7
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Although working on this increases the urgency for me to finally get around to fixing one of my dead 68k Macs so I have some native machine to test this on System 7 and over LocalTalk - the AppleTalk APIs have things that each app needs to manually tune for how long you wait for replies and retry, with no useful guidance from the documentation, so what is fast on my G4 with Gigabit might miss replies on an LC III over LocalTalk…

It’s really crazy, haha! The biggest speed up is just that the ...

2025-07-13T15:42:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…4vf7
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It’s really crazy, haha!

The biggest speed up is just that the XCMD I had would just scan one zone at a time, whereas in the native code I’m scanning every zone at once!

But even after that when I’m grouping up entities into nodes… not doing everything with massive strings you’re constantly looping over by line and itemDelimiter is crazy fast… the node grouping code right now is really naive (just a full linear scan over and over again) and yet on this G4 it’s just instant

So after finally getting my framework for making tools for ...

2025-07-13T14:56:36Z

So after finally getting my framework for making tools for classic Mac OS in a usable state last weekend, this weekend my project was to start getting familiar with the AppleTalk APIs.

I'm now scanning all of #GlobalTalk in 8 seconds flat!

A wee bit faster than the HyperCard XCMD setup I was using for TalkCrawler earlier this year...

#VintageApple

History in the making!!!! 😮 #GlobalTalk #VintageApple ...

2025-07-02T12:35:08Z

History in the making!!!! 😮

#GlobalTalk #VintageApple #RetroComputing dan 💾 (npub1xq6…s6hw)

The pinout comes from this (deleted) forum post, if you want ...

2025-06-17T00:43:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…2u8e
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The pinout comes from this (deleted) forum post, if you want something better than a photo of an ImageWriter printout (not that that doesn't have it's own charm) https://web.archive.org/web/20210225063638/https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/o2-power-supply-basics.117/

Yeah I came across that one! Unfortunately I'm stuck at step ...

2025-06-16T23:19:44Z

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Yeah I came across that one! Unfortunately I'm stuck at step one 😅

So... Anyone out there have any hot tips on debugging a dead ...

2025-06-16T12:13:38Z

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So... Anyone out there have any hot tips on debugging a dead #SiliconGraphics power supply??

The label at HARD OFF said the LED turned on when powered on, but ...

2025-06-16T12:10:58Z

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The label at HARD OFF said the LED turned on when powered on, but I was getting zero life. No LED, no fanspin.

First look at the PSU... Well that's a problem.

It was easy enough to unscrew the PSU and re-seat the pin connector. It didn't fix the problem.

When I had the PSU open I also beeped out this fuse which was fine.

I was walking back from the mall and figured it couldn’t hurt ...

2025-06-16T12:05:18Z

I was walking back from the mall and figured it couldn’t hurt to drop in to HARD OFF on the way back.

Wandering through the Junk PC aisle, I had a double-take, what is that purple beauty on the bottom shelf?

A SiliconGraphics O2? In MY rural Japanese city? How did that get here? At $60 I could not leave it there!

Lugging it home in the 31+C heat, squeezing in on the tram and dashing through the rain was a slog but I got it safely back home!

#silicongraphics #sgi #RetroComputing #mb

Yeah it's odd that System 7 PICTs are messed up but MacOS 9 ...

2025-06-10T07:55:31Z

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Yeah it's odd that System 7 PICTs are messed up but MacOS 9 ones are fine. My System 7 ones are 256-color though.

PREVIEW?!?!! #WWDC EDIT WITH FORMAT EXPORT WTFFFFFFF

2025-06-09T18:21:51Z

PREVIEW?!?!! #WWDC

EDIT WITH FORMAT EXPORT WTFFFFFFF

I have no idea how much is actually filtered since I don’t have ...

2025-06-09T16:02:03Z

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I have no idea how much is actually filtered since I don’t have it showing placeholders, but not having my feed full of uspol bullshit is vital to mental health

Filters FTW

2025-06-09T15:47:47Z

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Filters FTW

Also a big reminder to everyone to mute the #WWDC and #WWDC25 ...

2025-06-09T15:13:19Z

Also a big reminder to everyone to mute the #WWDC and #WWDC25 hashtags if that's not your thing

And to everyone else to use the hashtags to let people filter it!

Yeah they’re not kidding when they call it a full renovation! ...

2025-06-08T05:55:59Z

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Yeah they’re not kidding when they call it a full renovation!

Our flat rate renovation plan lets you freely re-arrange any walls you want (but since our house is concrete most structures are load-bearing and can’t be deleted) so we’re changing the floor plan quite a bit - here’s a before and after of what we’re planning.

The green walls in the after schematic are new walls they’re building. It also involves completely moving the kitchen from the back to the front of the house!

Home renovations update: they're done raising the doorways to ...

2025-06-08T03:52:47Z

Home renovations update: they're done raising the doorways to fit me through them

I had one of those as a hand-me down as a kid! I still viscerally ...

2025-06-08T02:29:33Z

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I had one of those as a hand-me down as a kid! I still viscerally remember the beep it made when you scan too fast. And trying to figure out how to pronounce the name of the company that made the OCR software it came with.

I definitely have a few wobbly scans I made with it still lying around somewhere

I think one difference is from North America is that here ...

2025-06-07T02:15:11Z

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I think one difference is from North America is that here there’s no such thing as a “credit score” number that lenders can point to, every lender has to make an individual assessment of your creditworthiness based on their own criteria.

While this slows down anything related to credit, it also means you’re not beholden to the algos of one of 3 major companies and have more diversity of credit options.

My experience with bureaucracy in Japan is that while they like ...

2025-06-07T02:14:00Z

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My experience with bureaucracy in Japan is that while they like to move through a lot of paper, they’re still good at working around any blocks you run into so you don’t get stopped in kafkaesque situations. And stuff like immigration can be really lenient with fuckups as long as you don’t show ill intent.

There were definitely a few things that made our case a bit more ...

2025-06-06T14:32:29Z

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There were definitely a few things that made our case a bit more complicated but they DO love pushing paper around here! OTOH we didn’t need any kind of home inspection 😛

chicken dance

2025-06-06T13:30:03Z

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*chicken dance*

I got the LGBT chicken #pride ...

2025-06-06T13:11:40Z

I got the LGBT chicken #pride

So we found the house in the middle of Jan, made preliminary bank ...

2025-06-06T10:27:59Z

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So we found the house in the middle of Jan, made preliminary bank loan applications in the beginning of Feb. The realtor said I had being self-employed and a foreigner working against me. A week later the banks called me to ask some questions and kind of softly test my Japanese language skills (they don’t want people signing a contract in a language they can’t read). After an agonizing wait, I was approved by both banks I applied to. (4/11)

We found the “perfect” house pretty early on. Spacious, close ...

2025-06-06T10:27:58Z

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We found the “perfect” house pretty early on. Spacious, close to trains/trams, not too far from where we already live. Nothing else in the price range came close. (1/11)

The house was built in 1973, which is super old for a Japanese ...

2025-06-06T10:27:58Z

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The house was built in 1973, which is super old for a Japanese house. Typically, you do not want to live in a house from before 1981 (or to a lesser extent before 2001) since they are deathtraps in an earthquake. The difference is this house is not wooden, it’s reinforced concrete. At the time it was built, only 10% of homes in Japan were concrete, so whoever originally built it really splashed out! (2/11)

It was renovated 25 years ago, but the interior was still very ...

2025-06-06T10:27:58Z

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It was renovated 25 years ago, but the interior was still very dated and not suited to us (tatami flooring, futon closets, 180cm tall doorways), so we went for a flat-rate full renovation plan from the realtor, they strip the house down to the “bones”, and put in all new interior/exterior/kitchen/bath/WC/plumbing/wiring, dual-pane windows and full freedom to re-arrange (non-load-bearing) walls. So in the end we’ll get what appears to be a brand-new house. (3/11)

What the heck, it’s now a legal fact. I actually own a tiny ...

2025-06-06T10:27:26Z

What the heck, it’s now a legal fact. I actually own a tiny little portion of Japan, and the house sat on top of it!! If you asked me in December of last year, I would not have believed it…

If anyone is curious about how buying a house in Japan went down, here are a few more details. It’s a long one, so strap in.

My first CD burner was a hand-me-down from my uncle. It was ...

2025-06-05T01:42:00Z

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My first CD burner was a hand-me-down from my uncle. It was broken so I got to fix it, some plastic peg that lifts up the disc from the tray had cracked. I glued on a replacement but it was never quite aligned right ever again, it could only burn the first 300 MB of a disc reliably before it lost focus, so all my burns from that era were limited to 300 MB of data

Imagine if this was all asphalt ...

2025-05-12T10:42:11Z

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Imagine if this was all asphalt

The city I live in in Japan, a few years before I came here ...

2025-05-11T14:27:04Z

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The city I live in in Japan, a few years before I came here someone had the bright idea to rip up all the asphalt in the tram tracks and plant grass there instead.

Looking at photos from before they did that, it looks so *dreary*. Now there’s this strip of green through everything. These little things matter so much!

They even had to convert an old tram to add a huge water tank and be a watering machine for the grass. edit: apparently they also built a lawnmower

Also ZFS really does it's best to try to scare the crap out ...

2025-05-08T15:44:41Z

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Also ZFS really does it's best to try to scare the crap out of you every chance it has (this pool is fine after re-installing TrueNAS onto a new SSD and importing it there)

Rest in Piece FATTYDOVE Racing, you had an... adequate... 4 year ...

2025-05-08T15:28:44Z

Rest in Piece FATTYDOVE Racing, you had an... adequate... 4 year run

#sysadmin

This is the one the podcasters called the “MacBook Nothing” ...

2025-04-22T01:44:51Z

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This is the one the podcasters called the “MacBook Nothing” since it wasn’t a Pro and it wasn’t an Air so nobody knew how to refer to it without making it sound like you were referring to MacBooks generally

I am now controlling my versions like it's 1997! I'm ...

2025-04-16T13:21:41Z

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I am now controlling my versions like it's 1997!

I'm using the CWProjector plugin for CodeWarrior to connect to MPW SourceServer, working against a Projector project on an AppleShare share, so I can work from either my PowerMac G4 or my PowerBook G3 depending on where I want to work!

#VintageApple

I need to start tracking these changes in Projector/SourceServer ...

2025-04-15T15:50:03Z

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I need to start tracking these changes in Projector/SourceServer instead of git 🤔

I’ve never even tried Projector before, checking the web I’m not finding any information on how it works, does it just work with regular volumes and lock files? It doesn’t sound like it has any kind of central server.

- Add missing define for #geneva font family ID - Remove ...

2025-04-15T14:09:50Z

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- Add missing define for #geneva font family ID
- Remove MPW-specific boilerplate (_DataInit, QDGlobals)
- Ditch Rez file in favor of a ResEdit file

The Boolean and function pointer stuff I thought I had problems with in the first post were red herrings to other problems with my function prototypes/externs and how I was putting them in header files. Both Booleans and function pointers work exactly the same as in MPW!

(2/2)

In the end this is what I had to do: - Remove all the Mac Toolbox ...

2025-04-15T14:09:50Z

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In the end this is what I had to do:

- Remove all the Mac Toolbox header includes, CodeWarrior does it automagically
- Remove the jank “include all C files directly in the main file" method I used to avoid having to learn MPW Make. CW projects are automatic
- Add missing function prototypes (that MPW didn't need) and externs that I now need when it's not all one postprocessed file
- Fix that \r and \n are reversed in MPW
- Rename old "short" Toolbox calls to newer "long" ones… (1/2)

If anyone is curious to see the changes required: ...

2025-04-15T13:56:27Z

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If anyone is curious to see the changes required: https://github.com/kalleboo/AIRConfig/commit/ba921ee84efb666de5f5599cb9fda966dc2044f6