Who says you need a truck to haul 2x4s?? Kei family car works fine… (ok so they’re 1x4s sosumi) #weirdcarmastodon

As part of 'Making Tax Digital' the UK will soon force people to use proprietary software to file certain types of tax return. If you disagree, think people should have control over their data, that HMRC alone should be in charge of HMRC's job, that you shouldn't have to pay random companies […]

Apple’s Developer Group was completely in charge of the WWDC in the early years before it became a lot more of a marketing event, and in 1991, I was representing DTS on the Agenda Team. The Agenda Team came up with a snarky t-shirt - one of my favorites. The […] [Original post on techhub.social]

The first visible effect of the Strait of Hormuz blockage in our little backwater of #japan - the first “crude oil conservation packaging” without colors has arrived, as the manufacturer is claiming a shortage of naphtha (the government disagrees and calls it […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

"We Care About Your Privacy” so we will share your precise geolocation with our *694* partners. FUCK OFF!!!!

I’d spotted a few “Infinite HDs” lurking in screenshots in David Pogue’s _Apple: The First 50 Years_ - it was great to see this callout at the end.

macOS Golden Gate doesn't look 'refined', it looks retro. It's honestly shocking at first launch. It's like we've slowly moving into a timeline where iOS 7 never happened

Tell me that's not Aqua

iOS 27 framework references “foldState” and “angleDegrees” but I’m sure that’s nothing

The Importance of #GlobalTalk #VintageApple #retrocomputing

Why don't we get #WWDC slides like this anymore? #VintageApple #retrocomputing

I just found the most diabolical stack to run on #globaltalk

My father-in-law is spending his last days in hospital and my mother-in-law is coping by cleaning out some of the things he has been hoarding so the house is less claustrophobic (it would be a death trap in an earthquake). My wife was helping out today and […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Managed to find where I had put my phone using my $30 Xiaomi Smart Band despite Apple really really really wanting me to spend $250 for an Apple Watch. EU/Japan/etc governments can not do enough to force them to allow interoperability. (phone was in DND mode so all the Xiaomi app was allowed […]

So I figured out why I suck so bad at soldering. All this time I’ve been using a third-party tip which has the wrong proportion of tip to sleeve length, leading to the very point always being too cold as the heating element doesn’t reach the end. D’oh!!🤦🏼‍♂️

Got some paperwork from the government to fill out, and they didn’t even have the courtesy to include a SASE to return it. Looking closer it mentions the ability to fill out the form online through Japans MyNumber portal! The lack of a QR or explanation of […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

First project as a house-owner completed. We had issues with the yard flooding and leaving big pools of water when there was a big rain. Started by going to the hardware store, picked up a ton of concrete U-drains. #mb

I need to stop watching Chris Spargo's videos because they lead me to thoughts like "I wonder if I could fit a Froggo bin in the back garden". Chris Spargo - "Why the Glasdon Jubilee bin is so common in the UK" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbt_jhIYQVo

⬅️ girl who just realized that the answer to "wait, I'm confused, is Shangri-La a real place or not?" is "it wasn't real, it was made up by a British fiction writer, but then the Chinese government imposed it as the new official name of the historically Tibetan county of Gyalthang/Zhongdian so […]

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 […]

GlobalTalk Chat https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/globaltalk-chat GlobalTalk Chat is native client/server chat application for AppleTalk networks, which runs on Classic 68k and PowerPC Macintosh computers. #macgarden #InternetCommunications #2026 #karlbaron

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 […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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 and the 2008 financial crisis and went "well all the rich people made out gangbusters in increasing amounts, if only we can top […]

GestLab https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/gestlab GestLab is a utility to browse the results from the Gestalt Manager. It is the successor to Gestalt.Appl. #macgarden #DevelopmentTools #1999 #jeanpierrecurcio

I just learned of this... What a terrible loss to the community... @stroughtonsmith https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116001402897021465

hi everyone given one #bitlocker #0day is already out there, here's my own bitlocker 0day, I added it to my repo listing bitlocker attacks. Introducing "ram leak": https://github.com/Wack0/bitlocker-attacks#ram-leak As we all know, the boot environment […] [Original post on labyrinth.zone]

When we went camping the other week I found my Moondrop Chus among the camping gear, I thought I had lost them falling out of my backpack somewhere! Took a walk this evening and was enjoying the sound, then after I got home my phone slipped out of my hand […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

My bad sector count is going up at the same rate as the price of hard disks

Testing network timeout code on a Mac IIcx with a bad clock circuit (it runs an inconsistent 3-5x slow) is certainly a thing I've decided to do #VintageApple

Rewrite of the connection status/request retry state machine in #globaltalk Chat is going well

Grabbed a newer version of the InstallShield Wizard program and THERE'S A MAC VERSION?! 𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑬'𝑺 𝑨 𝑭𝑼𝑪𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑰𝑵𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑺𝑯𝑰𝑬𝑳𝑫 𝑾𝑰𝒁𝑨𝑹𝑫 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑰𝑩𝑴 𝑨𝑺/400?!

Was recently reading about tiny fonts and was reminded of a tiny font called "Jittlov" that I ran across back in the 90’s on a BMUG CD-ROM. I looked it up and was happy to find that a screenshot of the epic ReadMe file has been posted online, it’s worth a look […]

Well, it's real.

Inspired by @fergycool and thanks to some iSight for MacOS 9 driver spelunking by @vga256 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 […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Screen Studio 2 https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/screen-studio-2 RIP Infinisys, who went out of business in March 2026. #macgarden #screensavers#macgarden#2013

It also seems that a lot of cable vendors are confused and believe the Apple double mini-din-8 (used for connecting old Macs to ImageWriter II) are supposedly straight. They are not, they are null-modem. I don't like knowing more than vendors because now I can't trust any listing unless I email […]

Happy 37th Anniversary WWDC! (for those who celebrate). I was in the Apple II Developer Technical Support group at that time, and got a t-shirt 😄

With remarkable timing, earlier this week a friend asked for help making an LED alert lamp he has in his school blink to catch the attention of the reception staff better. Luckily, I live within 15 minutes of a hardware store where I can pick up a 555 timer chip!

i bought another powerpc mac laptop all the pre-pci powerpc macs, as far as i can tell, have similar MMIO and identical cascaded interrupt controllers (inherited from the late 68k era it appears - this system uses a chipset identical to an earlier 68k […] [Original post on labyrinth.zone]

Can you spot my car? LOL #camping

My old manager at Apple sent me this video from David Pogue about screenshots on the iPhone and I have a bit more background on it to share 1/8

@peterb I don’t want slopmongers anywhere near me, their presence is actively harmful. They’re not using LLMs to “explore technology,” they’re using LLMs so they can say they’ve “done a thing” without actually doing the thing. They wind up sucking all the oxygen out. It’s the same problem as […]

This is new. For the first time in recorded history, more Americans are moving to 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇬🇧 EU+EFTA+UK countries each year than Europeans from those places are moving to the 🇺🇸 US. The ratio was 4:1 in favour of the US in the early 2000s. It crossed parity around 2022. Via @benbawan

I might have to clean up my "lab" at some point. This is getting out of hand. #retrocomputing

I hope with a new #CEO at #Apple we can return to the brilliance and insight that former Apple CEOs were known for. E.g. CEOs that knew when the OS quality strategy had gone wrong and knew how to fix it. And when they had entertaining keynote speeches with […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Apple in 2007: here’s 400 videos playing at the same time, with interactive search and real-time animations 1/2

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 running on it https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB

My watch just notified me that it's Ed Balls Day

"i hate javascript and wish it never existed" monkey's paw curls, IE's influence ensured that clientside scripting on the web is all vbscript