Karl Baron

Generic iOS dev guy living in Japan. Into #VintageApple #RetroComputing. Apologies for being an extremely boring person. 🇸🇪→🇯🇵

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2026-01-18 14:03:53 UTC

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It’s obviously 青, just like the traffic lights for "go" in Japan

2025-09-25 12:39:46 UTC

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

2025-09-23 15:11:35 UTC

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Yep! 70's reinforced concrete house.

2025-08-21 00:56:20 UTC

#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.

2025-07-19 07:17:13 UTC

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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
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2025-07-15 11:39:25 UTC

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.

2025-07-13 14:56:36 UTC

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
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2025-06-16 12:05:18 UTC

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
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2025-06-10 07:55:31 UTC

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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.

2025-06-09 18:21:51 UTC

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

2025-06-08 05:55:59 UTC

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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!
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2025-06-06 13:11:40 UTC

I got the LGBT chicken #pride
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2025-06-06 10:27:26 UTC

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.
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2025-04-16 13:21:41 UTC

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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
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2025-04-11 02:30:23 UTC

The post- #MARCHintosh drop on #GlobalTalk
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2025-04-02 07:39:09 UTC

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Thank you for your kind words!!

2025-04-01 16:25:51 UTC

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Yeah I left some debug code in (to limit it to the one zone that had the LQ for rapid testing), released it, then left home and on the way to the train realized exactly what I had done so I never announced it 🙈 I was hoping nobody noticed 1.3.1 since it was only out for 3 hours!!

2025-04-01 16:21:23 UTC

And my second #MARCHintosh is over! Another great year!
My stated goals were
1. Release TalkCrawler
2. Rewrite the networking in GlobalTalk Chat
3. Recap a IIvi/IIcx to replace my PB540 as router
An unstated goal was
4. To get a printer on #GlobalTalk
I completed 1 in time for March 1, and 2 by the middle of the month, 2 felt like redemption for something that felt like failure last year. Never had the time/desk space for 3, but maybe that'll be a good post-March project? #mb… (1/5)

2025-04-01 16:21:23 UTC

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4 was a mess with several false starts (Brother laser with bad rollers, crumbling LW300, rusting IW), and even my backup plan of getting the first Fax machine on GlobalTalk being a failure (more on that later), but eventually I got a working ImageWriter first using PortShare and then splurged on an ImageScribbler card and that was extremely fulfilling to start receiving printouts from all around the world! (2/5)

2025-03-31 14:48:07 UTC

With 15 minutes to go until the end of #MARCHintosh here, I present the full monthly chart of the growth of #GlobalTalk zones and machines!
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2025-03-30 17:26:59 UTC

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With a Buffalo card, can you not use the Buffalo drivers? https://kalleboo.com/retrotech/powerbook-g3-series/wifi.html

2025-03-25 23:44:16 UTC

Woke up to a friendly message form @npub10ma…m2tk, and some HyperCard small treasures!!
Thanks!! #GlobalTalk
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2025-03-23 12:42:53 UTC

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Nice, edited the post!!

2025-03-23 09:05:42 UTC

The #GlobalTalk Scavenger Hunt 2025: Behind The Scenes/Post-Mortem - https://globaltalk.network/index.php?page=The%20GlobalTalk%20Scavenger%20Hunt%202025
#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

2025-03-17 13:33:48 UTC

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Wasn't there some trick on Macs that came with OS X but also ran OS 9 where if you used that one d-link Bluetooth dongle that everyone had you could pair a keyboard/mouse in OS X and then reboot into OS 9 and it would magically work?

2025-03-06 02:13:03 UTC

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Whenever I restart my node with a refreshed list I tend to lose 3-5 zones, and it takes 30 minutes or so for them to come back. I don't know if they're slow to respond or their real addresses are missing from the spreadsheet

2025-03-05 01:22:22 UTC

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Does anyone remember what the peak was last year?

2024-12-05 11:46:22 UTC

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I always loved the mashups like https://social.erambert.me/@macthemes/113592316927337756

2023-08-08 02:50:46 UTC

Here's your periodic reminder about how cursed Japanese wiring is.
This is an official, standard Apple power cable that shipped with a MacBook.
#Japan #ElectricalSafety #mb
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