Generic iOS dev guy living in Japan. Into #VintageApple #RetroComputing. Apologies for being an extremely boring person. 🇸🇪→🇯🇵
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.
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
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!"
@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.
Some good reads for cherry blossom viewing 🌸
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!
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.
