europlus :autisminf:

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I collect Apple ][ europluses and host WOzFest, single day gatherings of Apple ][ enthusiasts, five times a year.

I run the Applesauce Fluxes image bot here – it's amazing how we can find beauty in just about anything.

I am on the spectrum and learning how to manage my life better than I did when I didn't know I was.

I lean heavily left/progressive.

I love my past Bichoodles (Poochons) – Poppy, Lily (RIP) and Daisy (RIP) 💗

I wish people were more like dogs – or I just wish there were more dogs.

#WOzFest #retrocomputing #AppleII #Apple2 #AppleIIForever #Apple2Forever #AusPol #bichoodles #poochons #dogs #DogsOfMastodon

Living on: Cammeraygal Land :abflag:
Actually: Autistic :autisminf:
Blog: https://europlus.zone :alogo6:
Host of WOzFest: https://europlus.zone/WOzFest
europluses: 10
j-pluses: 1
//e's: 1
Cubic 88s (Creative Labs A2 clone): 1

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Last Notes

2026-03-22 03:16:44 UTC

#GlobalTalk admins and users!
[Boost please!]
This is an “Apple Internet Router Administrator’s Guide—Addendum (Second Edition) – RFI”
It’s finally time to turn my attention to updating the Addendum to the AIR manual I released last year (along with the scanned and OCRed original manual).
This is a GlobalTalk-specific “request for input” on modifications and additions people might like to see, pretty well in line with the sections already present. Please DM me here with suggestions.
I’ll then work on what I can include and release near the end of the month.
Alongside this work, I’ll be releasing some updates to my emulation-based setup files (disk images can be used on real hardware).
These will remain 7.1-focussed (there are 7.6 images elsewhere).
Currently all these files are on Google Drive, but in parallel to the release of the next edition of the Addendum and setup files, they will all move to my (Unofficial) GlobalTalk Wiki at https://globaltalk.wiki (feel free to sign up for a sub-wiki there if you run a GlobalTalk node/network/zone – it works via http in Classical, too).
There’s been lots of exciting changes and announcements since last year (including my Wiki!), so I’m really looking forward to documenting the continued development of GlobalTalk, which doesn’t stop on 31 March each year.
Hope you’re all having fun on the network!
#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

2026-03-12 11:51:06 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/116211032504634390
Can all us normal people agree that if we see someone with them we point at them while loudly shouting “PERVERT!” and then turn away from them, and the rest of the normal people nearby do the same thing?
#note1je9…w7zt

2026-03-12 11:06:35 UTC

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these are solved fucking problems O_o

2026-03-07 05:41:22 UTC

So I’ve setup the basic DokuWiki structure at https://globaltalk.wiki – other admins can request a [subdomain].globaltalk.wiki by private messaging me here and I will set up a sub-wiki at that subdomain. See the QuickStart section on the home page for what to send with your request (an onsite form will be there soonish).
For now, I’ll need to verify admins against the official spreadsheet somehow.
If you message me here from the Mastodon account you have listed on the spreadsheet, verification will be done at the same time as the request.
All are welcome to sign up to this **entirely unofficial** wiki for #GlobalTalk admins.
#MARCHintosh

2026-03-06 06:50:46 UTC

#GlobalTalk Admins!
I’m considering setting up a DokuWiki “Farm” (see below) at globaltalk.network to host my GlobalTalk resources, info about my zones, and, if anyone else is interested, info on their zones under a subdomain relevant to their zone (and likely matched, if they’ve taken the offer of DNS hosting, to their zone subdomain at globaltalk.zone).
I’m interested in people’s thoughts – this will be easier than giving each user their own subdomain/subdirectory to host whatever hosting platform they might desire, make updates and management easier, etc.
I will create a user per interested GlobalTalk admin (and/or zone, perhaps, for people like me) and they can populate as they see fit - I’m then not a publisher, just a hoster, blah, blah, blah, lawyer speak.
I’ll consider adding relevant DokuWiki plugins as suggested to me, too.
I’ve set up a DokuWiki recently for my apartment block, and it’s straightforward enough and supports this sort of functionality with the Farmer Plugin (probably the only way I’ll ever be able to become a farmer!).
I’m probably going to start setting it up this weekend – let me know if you’re interested, and please boost.
It’s important to note that these “services” and sites are *not* #MARCHintosh-official GlobalTalk services and sites.
I am running these independently of the running of #MARCHintosh, firstly for my own use and zones, but also, as it’s easy to leverage, for others.
https://www.dokuwiki.org/farms

2026-03-06 04:43:28 UTC

Creeping up...
#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh
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2026-03-04 11:03:38 UTC

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I’ve started playing with Simple Spooler and can use MacGS 5.5’s ps2pdf component to make a PDF in 7.1.1 thanks to IWem.
MacGS is AppleScriptable, which means I can drive it in Frontier, which I already use as an online monitor between zones (well, between AIR nodes’ host OSes).
Hoping I can figure out automating spool-file-to-PDF-in-7.1.1 before month’s end so I can continue my “mostly virtual” setup (Brother From Another Router is the only “real” piece of #GlobalTal kit I’m running).
Oh, I guess netatalk in Ubuntu on the NUC should also count, shouldn’t it?

2026-03-03 02:49:36 UTC

#GlobalTalk PSA:
If anyone is unsure on network ranges, network numbering, and zones, be sure to reach out and I’m happy to discuss.
Each network segment will require a unique network number, and an EtherTalk segment only needs a one-number range to support up to 253 EtherTalk devices.
(Assigning any more if you have 253 or less devices is a waste.)
Modem and Printer ports (if using both) will need a number each.
Network numbers across segments do not need to be contiguous, and you can assign the same AppleTalk zone names to multiple segments/networks to simplify navigation – or have them different to highlight interesting segments.
You can also assign multiple zones per segment, and choose which zone a device is on through its settings.
So, you can go crazy on zones, but please be conservative on network number use!
Don’t forget my original Apple Internet Router Administrator’s Guide (scanned and OCRed) and the Addendum I created (which goes into this [and *so* much more] in more detail) are available at https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1ZCZok5wRWGB3eLsRRyJrf3mRyHMmPrpV and the setup files I created are available at https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/19in_OMjMh9i_SRrCSHpNcykTIHtgqTuq
#MARCHintosh

2026-03-02 22:06:36 UTC

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huzzah! 🎉 It’s a #MARCHintosh miracle!

2026-03-02 06:14:45 UTC

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the AIR machine needs to be *on* the LocalTalk network to share the LocalTalk network – so if you don’t have a LocalTalk network between the LC and the AIR node, it won’t share the printer.

2026-03-01 21:56:28 UTC

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there were also Letraset (rub-on) style fill patterns, too, I believe.

2026-02-28 23:42:48 UTC

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and don’t forget my Apple Internet Router Administrator’s Guide—Addendum (including scan or original manual) and emulator setup files! https://blog.europlus.zone/resources/air-admins-guide-addendum-and-globaltalk-setup-files-v1-0-4-released-for-marchintosh-2025/

2026-02-25 13:00:43 UTC

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I get prompted in Sequoia to use Passwords/Keychain passwords in Chrine (although I do seem to have to keep typing a six digit number in [shown on the same monitor as Chrome!] to authorise this).

2026-02-14 08:33:39 UTC

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if you go to the linked piece by the project maintainer, the quoted text at the end of the Ars article does not appear.

2025-10-24 22:11:26 UTC

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a windfarm or solar panel might do it, too.
Or Greta! I bet that’d make the piss themselves.

2025-08-13 07:36:54 UTC

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speak to a dentist – they have two-part mouldable silicon with a “use by date” 🤣
This tip brought to you by a paediatric dental surgeon who happens to be a (semi)-local (to me here in Aus) Apple ][ enthusiast :)
(He often hosts QFest in Brisbane when I have #WOzFests in Sydney.)

2025-06-08 04:19:53 UTC

Just a reminder that the original Myst was developed using HyperCard, one of Bill Atkinson’s many masterpieces.
But I’ll always remember how he thought overlapping windows (or perhaps the smooth movement of windows over each other) was a solveable problem because he recalled seeing that Xerox had solved it (they hadn’t), so he just worked it out because he then thought it could be.
An amazing mind, now lost to us.
RIP Bill, and thank you!

2025-05-17 13:36:11 UTC

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strong disagree that many of those examples qualify as equivalent to vibe coding.
To me, this is an elitist view of what qualifies as “real” coding being equated with getting a computer to make shit up.
Of the tools listed which I have used, *none* are the same as LLM or vibe coding.
We should do better, and stop gatekeeping on real people solving real issues with the tools that allow them to code.
ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. do not teach *any* coding principles in the way those tools do, and it’s beneath any sensible person to suggest there is an equivalence here.
0/10 (rating, not thread post count)

2025-05-10 13:24:05 UTC

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Thoughts and prayers 🫂

2025-04-16 01:43:59 UTC

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pinging @npub1syn…vzh9

2025-03-31 06:54:36 UTC

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Alan, I’m happy to unofficially get you further connected - I know #MARCHintosh is about to end, but #GlobalTalk does live throughout the year, and I’d love to send you some prints, and I’m sure others would, too.
Remember, the admins are volunteers, and perhaps something just got overlooked, or sent to SPAM, or something. Let me know if you’d like to try further.

2025-03-30 09:26:30 UTC

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my preferred life partner, frankly.

2025-03-28 07:07:46 UTC

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Huzzah! I just did my first Macintosh Garden uploads - the original AIR manuals, scanned, tidied up and OCRed.
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/apple-internet-router
I might work on that page a bit more over the weekend, and will be adding the v3.0.1 disk images once imaged.

2025-03-28 06:47:01 UTC

My #GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh goals for this last weekend of March:
• Image the disks from the orig AIR pkg I have – just looked and confirmed they are v3.0.1, not the previously archived 3.0
• Scan the other print material from said AIR pkg
• Upload all to Macintosh Garden and archive.org
• Release v1.0.5 of my setup files packages
• Release latest version of my Addendum to the AIR manual
• Try and print and drop more greets
• Hang the prints I’ve received on the Blind of Honour™
• Maybe more?

2025-03-24 01:39:50 UTC

Sigh. Intermittent connection issues all day yesterday, check cables, swap routers, etc.
Call ISP tech support today, they say “we’ll give you new credentials”. Sure, why not?
I tell them I have a static IP address, and he looks it up and says, “Oh, yes you do, it’s blah blah blah”. “That’s the one,” I said, “I’d like to keep it”. “Sure!” he says.
Guess whose connection reverted to CGNAT after the router restarted with new credentials? Guess whose old IP address is no longer available?
🙋🏼‍♂️

2025-03-21 22:12:19 UTC

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👋🏻
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2025-03-18 08:40:06 UTC

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A blog post is forthcoming on the why, and the final how, of the heartbeat. #GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

2025-03-18 05:57:27 UTC

AIR heartbeat system is now set up.
Curl in host OS checks every 2 mins if the basic AppleScript web server is running on the Airaga AIR guest OS.
[Why 2 mins? Because it takes >1min to restart everything to checkable state.]
If it doesn’t respond within 10s, qemu-system-m68k is killall’ed, then QEMU .command file is rerun and the reload is logged (logging is a new addition).
It’s restarted at least twice today.
Added back external check.
#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh
https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus/114176518907324528

2025-03-18 03:10:39 UTC

::snort, shudder:: Oh shoot! I was dreaming of pots and rainbows – I looked in one, it was a Finder folder with greets in it! I woke with a start at my #WOzFest HQ #GlobalTalk Print Shop desk, realised I hadn’t checked the DropBox since yesterday, andI woke what elves I could – they report two items in our DropBox…
First, an application from @npub1gga…8u8y! And a very pretty and mesmerising one – I almost dozed back to sleep! Thank you!
And remember, trans rights are human rights!
#MARCHintosh
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2025-03-18 00:55:46 UTC

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh
MDN is now being delivered automatically to the MARCHintosh Daily News folder in the WOzFest HQ Files share – thanks for your efforts on this, @npub10ml…h8v7!*
At the moment it has a prefix in the name of “<jobnumber>-“ – I’m hoping to stop that (currently removing manually), but it’s pretty obvious which is that latest issue.
Feel free to grab a copy of the latest issue, I won’t keep announcing daily, but will post occasional reminders!
*thanks for the DTP shoutout, too!
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2025-03-17 23:38:14 UTC

I’ve emptied the whiskey that was spilled into my keyboard at my main #WOzFest HQ #GlobalTalk Print Shop workstation, and was able to vavigate the file server and found some PDFs sent yesterday afternoon.
First, we have the PDF version of the MacPaint help sheet and source code @npub185e…v2u3 sent to the printer.
#MARCHintosh
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2025-03-17 07:10:17 UTC

First stage in my migration of checking online status of my AIR node running for Airaga – I now have an AppleScript running in the guest OS which responds to a simple curl HTTP request from the host OS.
If an error, it saves “0” in a status file on my Home Assistant server, if online is saves “1” in the same file, this acts as a simple sensor in HA and notifies me when that server is offline.
Next step is to make it a two-parter for different fail states.
1/2
#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

2025-03-15 05:10:16 UTC

Issue 6 is now in the #MARCHintosh Daily News folder on WOzFest HQ Files share.
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2025-03-14 05:15:22 UTC

The elves have been consulted and the missed Issue 4 is now in the #MARCHintosh Daily News folder of the WOzFest HQ Files share.
Moving forward, this will be even easier for @npub10ml…h8v7 as I work out how to script PM4.2 without any documentation.
#1337
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2025-03-14 01:23:20 UTC

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh callout re: PageMaker 4.2...
Does anyone with physical copies of PM4.2 and manuals/books have the 4.2 version of the Aldus PageMaker Script Language Guide?
It might solve a problem for me (and @npub10ml…h8v7).
Thanks!
#ClassicMacs #DTP #PageMaker

2025-03-13 23:33:48 UTC

Issue 5 is in the #MARCHintosh Daily News folder of the WOzFest HQ Files share.
First one to successfully go directly to the PDF without manual intervention – thanks for sticking with it, @npub10ml…h8v7 – If possible, could you reverse print order for future issues? If it helps, I’m happy for you to double the current subscription fee for that!
Oh, and please send Issue 4, it seems to have been lost in the æther(net). You gotta keep an eye on those elves!
Thanks!
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2025-03-13 03:45:27 UTC

I’d love participants to share _their_ #GlobalTalk stories on @npub1yqw…ywz8’s new https://globaltalk.network/ wiki!
A wiki’s only as good as its community, and I know the #GlobalTalk community is _phenomenal_!
Whether it’s reminiscences of ’24, overcoming technical challenges, funny greets received, or one of a hundred other smile/nostalgia triggers, the sheer joy I’ve seen from participants in this wildly useless network…sorry, *internetwork*…has helped me immensely in the most trying 12mo of my life.

2025-03-11 12:03:20 UTC

OMFG! #T00t! It’s been a struggle recently, what with all the #MARCHintosh and #GlobalTalk chatter, to keep on top of my timeline.
I wonder how long I’ll be able to maintain it…

2025-03-11 03:05:49 UTC

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The Info window was useful in Preview, but I was like 🤐

2025-03-11 02:50:46 UTC

OMG EVERYBODY...
IT’S A LAMP PARTY!!!!
#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh DropBox
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2025-03-10 23:06:57 UTC

#MARCHintosh Daily News Issue 2 is now at your favourite newsstand (or might even be in your printer’s output tray) – now with Mastodon content! Huzzah!
You can also download a pre-rendered PDF from the MARCHintosh Daily News folder in the #WOzFest HQ Files share.
Thanks @npub10ml…h8v7 and [@atariorbit_56jpwq](https://www.atariorbit.org/author/atariorbit_56jpwq/ )! Maybe we can get #GlobalTalk in there, too?
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2025-03-10 07:40:59 UTC

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Let me know if there’s anything from the AIR Admin’s Guide Addendum you’d like me to port across - it’ll be too hard to do the whole thing!
If there’s anything in any of my resources (Addendum, setup files ReadMes, blog posts) which you think I should link to, you’d like me to port over, or which I “leave as an exercise to the reader” and can maybe expand on (like how I went through the whole rationale of how I configure MacTCP on the new page today).
I’ll work on those as I get time.

2025-03-10 03:50:44 UTC

#WOzFest HQ #GlobalTalk Print Shop Mystery Solved!
The Print to PDF file was an earlier version of this, the MARCHintosh Daily News, which lists #MARCHintosh-related posts over a 24 hour period from BlueSky, published by @dillera and [@atariorbit_56jpwq](https://www.atariorbit.org/author/atariorbit_56jpwq/ ).
Had to do some PostScript file jiggery pokery, but it came out OK!
PDFs will be placed in the MARCHintosh Daily News folder in the WOzFest HQ Files share.
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2025-03-09 07:02:39 UTC

#GlobalTalk admins, friends, adventurers!
@npub1yqw…ywz8 has created https://globaltalk.network/ for this most wonderful of internets—it beats “the" Internet hands down!
Tell your stories, describe your zones, tears, & triumphs…& celebrate with us all!
I’ve added my short history about the origins of GlobalTalk, but I can only tell so much—come & tell your own stories of how GlobalTalk (&/or your journey on it) began, & help the site become the most interesting guide to it!
https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/114129755072327352

2025-03-09 06:40:29 UTC

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History of GlobalTalk from my Addendum is up.
That takes care of (at least some of) 2024.

2025-03-09 06:30:39 UTC

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and I’m second!

2025-03-08 05:14:20 UTC

jrouter (from @npub1y5w…hdve) is online in the Labs today (on a new OCI instance).
Netatalk 4 installed, checking shares now, maybe I need to do more than the minimal amount I have to get them playing together.
#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh
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2025-03-07 04:00:08 UTC

First #GlobalTalk PDF print of the year (printing out for the Roller Blind of Glory™) from @npub10ma…m2tk – thanks, Lyle!
#MARCHintosh
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2025-03-06 04:47:31 UTC

Using this article as a guide, I have changed my share permissions and sorted out some issues I was having - DropBox is now not a separate share, but a folder in my main WOzFest HQ Files share.
https://bitbang.social/@dillera/114100317000879027
#GlobalTalk

2025-03-06 02:16:52 UTC

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Yeah, I sometimes see that, too, but this is a consistent set of zones which my “new” node doesn’t see, and I think it’s because they haven’t updated since before late February, when I put that node online, and have the “Use only the Host IDs listed” option turned on, so they won’t accept connections from new nodes without listing those new nodes themselves.

2025-03-06 01:00:11 UTC

As #MARCHintosh approached, @npub1c38…v622 dropped by to leave a badge.
#GlobalTalk
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2025-03-06 00:57:39 UTC

Next, a veritable cornucopia of material from YouTuber and #MARCHintosh admin, @npub1nhq…n6g8 - what a grab bag!
And thanks for the Stamp of Approval, Ron!
#GlobalTalk
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2025-03-05 07:31:42 UTC

#GlobalTalk stats poll...
Answer with what you’re seeing, no use having it go for too long.
Old node is >1mo old
New node is <1mo old

2025-03-05 03:01:09 UTC

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this is the last one I recorded, I think https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus/112137177459620827

2025-03-05 02:50:21 UTC

The elves at #WOzFest HQ Printshop have reported this arrived during the midnight shift.
Thanks @npub1j4d…ftz8!
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2025-03-05 02:45:54 UTC

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there are reports going back quite some time on the MFC-L3770CDW refusing some OEM toners. Hasn’t impacted me yet, and the firmware hasn’t been updated since I bought, but I’ve turned off auto updates anyway.

2025-02-28 21:23:05 UTC

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as mentioned elsewhere, the material from my AIR Admin’s Guide addendum will go straight in (if that’s acceptable).

2025-02-26 23:01:22 UTC

Happy first birthday to the little internetwork which could…#GlobalTalk! 🎂
One year ago, right about now, proud parents @npub1kmd…3fq6 and @npub1xq6…s6hw were announcing the successful arrival of a global AppleTalk network into their homes!
Shortly thereafter, @npub1yqw…ywz8 named this fledgling network “GlobalTalk” and the rest is history.
What a year it’s been!
I wish GlobalTalk a long life with many friends, and I hope GlobalTalk admins, new and old, have a great #MARCHintosh!
https://bitbang.social/@billgoats/112000276820204623

2025-02-25 10:54:38 UTC

Apple Internet Router Administrator’s Guide—Addendum and GlobalTalk Setup Files v1.0.4 released for MARCHintosh 2025!
A massive haul of Apple Internet Router- and GlobalTalk-related resources has just dropped.
https://blog.europlus.zone/resources/air-admins-guide-addendum-and-globaltalk-setup-files-v1-0-4-released-for-marchintosh-2025/

2025-02-20 01:34:02 UTC

MARCHintosh 2025 Approaches!
Well, time certainly flies whether you’re having fun or not, and here we are in February 2025, only a week or so from MARCHintosh 2025. While now coordinated by the MARCHintosh organisers, GlobalTalk, which launched at the end of February 2024, has continued on with a life of its own, with several tens of nodes (including my own) continuing to operate past the end of March 2024.
https://blog.europlus.zone/resources/marchintosh-2025-approaches/

2025-02-13 10:35:11 UTC

Any Affinity Publisher gurus know why my 1-bit screenshot images are exporting to PDF blurrily like on the left, when they look super sharp in the app (as on the right)?
And why when printing from the app to my printer the black text isn’t full black (so has a very dark, but obviously grey, line screen on it when viewed through a loupe), when the PDF prints the black text solid (but the images are blurry and have a line screen)?
Image dots are integer squares of printer dots.
1/2
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2025-02-05 03:55:51 UTC

#GlobalTalk admins with BlueSCSI or expansion card Ethernet - request…
Can I get a screen shot of the Network Control Panel for each type of non-built-in Ethernet, please? Posting here in replies is best way for others to know I have them.
You’ll be credited in my AIR manual addendum - thanks!

2025-01-31 20:52:52 UTC

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whaaaa?! Did the Files share work?

2024-12-25 05:00:05 UTC

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it’s a HRISTSMAAS MIRRCALLEC!

2024-11-27 02:56:01 UTC

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this is relevant to @npub12tz…v7g0’ interests…

2024-11-16 05:49:12 UTC

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🫂💗 glad you’re here, I’m not on any other socials.

2024-11-02 05:48:45 UTC

Has anyone around here switched to ClassicPress?
If so, any thoughts?
Please boost!
https://www.classicpress.net/

2024-10-03 02:11:26 UTC

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I seem to leak all the time…but I am 56yo, so not overly surprising.
Maybe I should change my name to VARTA…

2024-09-26 06:57:29 UTC

✊🏻 :alogo6:
https://mastodon.social/@verge/113198825563504904

2024-08-16 02:42:53 UTC

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at first blush, this is not related to the original video social media abuse scare campaign.
Digital ID only, unrelated to social media (although social media may in the future require ID, of course, but that’s underrated to whether it’s digital), only the ID info may be subject to a warrant (social media accounts are already subject to warrants).
So not the scare story of the original, but something which will no doubt have its own challenges.

2024-08-16 02:37:20 UTC

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This is different to the video one, I believe. They’re about to trial this, it’s a while away from being fully implemented, and the article doesn’t have details regarding police powers the original video did. Will look into it if I find the time today. The proposed system is good from the perspective of not needing to give copies of sensitive ID docs to third parties, like telcos.
I was only exposed in the Optus breach because I had to verify my identity for work accounts, not my own.

2024-08-15 23:53:19 UTC

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there is no longer a Morrison government (as of two years ago), so old, old news.

2024-08-09 23:31:00 UTC

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the disks in mine were for v3.1.

2024-08-05 23:33:30 UTC

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was it a JS Bach fan?