I think what this video taught me is that I may be tone deaf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IyBwwMkw90&feature=youtu.be

On the topic of #selfhosting - one of the first reactions I get when I show someone some small project I have hosted off my home NAS is about how fast it is to load. Even if it's some next.js monstrosity and even though my NAS has a 10W TDP Celeron from 2016 and spinning rust drives. Turns out […]

Hosting web applications in the cloud feels like being trolled. I have spent over a day getting something setup and kinda working that would have taken me probably 10 minutes with Caddy or nginx. Google Cloud has you deploy separate objects for: gateway, gateway security policies, HTTP routes […]

it’s pretty empirically observable from a distance that it was DNS from the fact that Down For Everyone Or Just Me shows the last ten detected outages on the front page, and a slow but steady stream of catastrophes has been carouseling through the last two […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Today came that day in every modern parent’s life - my daughter said she wants to become a YouTuber when she grows up Well she’s going to learn the same way we all did - with a MiniDV camcorder and iMovie. Dug out my Sony HandyCam but after putting a tape in all I got was an angry beep and “C […]

Apple "Read The Manual" Reminder https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/apple-read-the-manual-reminder This is a document of uncertain background recommending the user to actually read the manual. #macgarden #macinfoliterature #apple

@samhenrigold I’m reminded again of a change I made in Mac OS 8.1 for HFS Plus. I had to change the Start Manager code that loaded extensions so extensions would continue to load in MacRoman order. To keep Conflict Catcher working, I had to add new API it could use to control the order of […]

In 4.0.1, they changed these values to be way smoother. Mapped onto a chart, you can see that it takes a lot to drop from 5 to 0 bars. It’s harder to see 5 bars, but it’s harder to plummet bars.

Enshittificarion has reached Japan @mainichi https://famichiki.jp/@mainichi/115320088325701037

HyperCard 2.0 Manuals https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypercard-20-manuals These manuals are, I believe, those that came with a big box release of HyperCard 2.0. They are international English manuals, as is demonstrated by the Z in front of the part number […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Today in domestic work: cable management behind the TV. Some things could be cleaned up even more if I was willing to sacrifice more cable ties but this is already a massive improvement.

**you can't call it that!** omfg ​:neofox_googly_shocked:​

Thank fuck I did this. I packed my Dell Dimension XPS T450 and the mover put it on top of a pile and it fell 2m to the ground and completely shattered the entire front of the system. The DVD, CD-RW, Zip drive, and bezel are completely destroyed. The frame is probably bent too. It could have been […]

Today is moving day! I’m getting my Sun Ultra 24 nice and cosy in a suitcase and ready for the move. I’m carrying this by hand on the train to Copenhagen. No chance this goes in the moving truck.

Got a pair of the cheapest desks from IKEA so now I have a desk for my G4 and a desk to actually do hobbies on! In my apartment I just had to do everything on the floor which just let me unmotivated to do stuff like recapping old machines. Today I put some […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Definitely the best thing about moving is being able to walk 13 minutes to the hardware store just before 10pm to get an RJ11 cable to get my ImageWriter II back on #globaltalk

It will surprise nobody that they still haven't been able to generate an eSIM QR code for me, despite multiple open investigations 🤷‍♂️ I still don't have my phone number back, can't port to another carrier, and so on. It ceased being amusing when they deactivated my old SIM and disconnected me […]

Made a wiring diagram before labeling all my new fancy uniform white ethernet cables I got to replace the spaghetti of random lengths of colored wires #mb #networking

From dumb idea to completed mittens in 13 days

regular, everyday light ™️ lightstyles for lifestyles ™️ Enrich ™️

Keyswitch fidget toy #keyboards

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

We now live a 15 minute walk from the hardware store so I walked there to buy a garden hose. I was also checking if they has short (~20cm) C13 mains cables. I'm inspecting the electronics aisle I found something I never noticed in the decade I've been shopping […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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

this interview with jeff vogel has a fascinating 15-minute tour of jeff's homebuilt IDE and engine for building spiderweb software RPGs in an age where the vast majority of developers are building games using general purpose platforms like unity/godot, it's fascinating to see how jeff has […]

Day 3: I contacted support. They escalated the situation, and personally assure me that it will be fixed in the next 24–48 hours 🙃 Remember when you could just swap a SIM card between devices? Good times

How have I never seen this before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V51OJr0ee6E&feature=youtu.be #VintageApple #retrocomputing

They're 'still on it'

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but migrating eSIM from old phone to new phone went catastrophically wrong 😂 New phone now has no registered eSIMs and refuses to accept a transfer because 'that eSIM is already installed' Ordering a new eSIM via my carrier […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

you shold send ESC/POS to this printer on the open internet: oc.cozytren.ch:25565

installation wizard src

The A19 Pro in the iPhone Air is 50% faster than the M1 in my primary Mac mini in singlecore, 10% faster in multicore, and 13% faster in GPU compute. That's a lot of chip in a tiny slab of glass

⚠️ Big reminder, if you're picking up new phones today, that the old phones very soon will not be able to be flashed back to iOS 18. If you want to keep a test device on iOS 18, download the latest corresponding signed IPSW from https://ipsw.me and DFU Restore it back on there. Today 🫵

As a Swede, this song deeply, deeply pierces my psychy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCBvg071F3s&feature=youtu.be

So help me, I laughed #shitpost #meme #distractedboyfriend

After 12 days, I finally have internet again!!! Now my network shelf needs organizing! I'm also one 2.5 GbE port short. The cheapest solution is buying another 6-port cheapie and daisy-chaining it...

And now I wonder how hard it could be to patch a 68K silicon graphics IRIS 3000 to run classic mac os. I doubt I'll have time in my lifetime to look into that, but still making QuickDraw work with a bitplane graphic adapter would be interesting… #retrocomputing #68k #classicmac #silicongraphics

I don't need a rabbit hole on a Monday morning but I just noticed that in Ruby, DoCoMo, KDDI, and SoftBank have their own variants of UTF-8. I'm assuming this has to do with emoji since they didn't have fully compatible emoji codepoints back in the days when emoji was a Japan-only thing.

`sudo killall coreaudiod` #macos #iosdev

We were dum-dums and didn’t think to spec a second door intercom unit on the second floor in our house I went to Mercari and found a replacement unit with a wireless handset. It’s from 2005 and cost me ¥5000 ($33) The gamble was if this 20-year old device […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

The iOS 26 RC is in such a rough shape… Have had several resprings, and just had the menu in Photos go absolutely berzerk

To what extent do you agree or disagree that OSS is valuable to the future of your organization? non-C level: 86% agree C-level: 62% agree

Until the fiber gets installed next week, I set up a "limp mode” wireless network on a 4G modem with a low-data SIM card for all the vital devices in our home

sometimes life presents you with a choice: you can spend a sunday in the comforts of home, or you can drive 4 hours to rescue 40 issues of Wired mag from hitting the recycle bin the seller planned to toss these the next morning if someone didn’t pick them up […] [Original post on dialup.cafe]

I just published a new version of my first publicly released app, back in 1996, ResisMeasurer, for classic Mac OS (7.0 to 9.2.2, universal binary for 68K and PowerPC), and its source code! This app calculates resistor values based on their ring colours, calculates series and parallel resistor […]

If you use Linux, this is your final boss.