Karl Baron

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

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2026-06-22 12:59:03 UTC

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Anyone know what “256 format” floppies are? There are tons of listings for these on Mercari.
Clues include “JIS256, “256 bytes per sector, 26 sectors”, “1.6/2.0 MB” (presumably formatted/unformatted capacity) and “not supported on Windows/MS-DOS”.
Looking at the floppy formats list on Wikipedia it doesn’t seem to match PC98 or Sharp X68000.
Is it for Japanese Word Processors maybe?
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2026-06-22 12:06:34 UTC

Browsing listings of floppy disks on Mercari and ran across this youth novel - “The Killer Floppy Disk”
The author is “Irina Drozd” and it’s a translation of a French novel - Les aventures de Remi Gauthier 'Le programme assassin'
#RetroComputing
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2026-05-29 14:17:11 UTC

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 TypeScript/next.js, PHP/WordPress, whatever fits the job!
I can work remote globally or locally in Japan (have PR)
Resume, Portfolio, LinkedIn etc are all at https://kalleboo.com/me
#FediHire #GetFediHired

2026-05-28 18:35:59 UTC

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When I uploaded this to Macintosh Garden, I had to enter the author name and was surprised to see it auto-completed my name. Weird? So I did a search and someone had already uploaded this REALBasic application I had made way back in the early 2000’s! I wonder where the 3 votes came from! (1/3)
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2026-05-28 13:35:57 UTC

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 network, not just #GlobalTalk
Get it on BaroNet, or Macintosh Garden https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/globaltalk-chat
And for anyone who has been curious how it all works, documented source code is available! https://github.com/kalleboo/GlobalTalk-Chat
#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb
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2026-05-13 09:22:10 UTC

Inspired by @npub1pr9…z7hs and thanks to some iSight for MacOS 9 driver spelunking by @npub1hj0…aev9 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.
#VintageApple #RetroComputing
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2026-04-17 02:58:29 UTC

This is kind of insane: "MacMind: A complete transformer neural network implemented entirely in HyperTalk, trained on a Macintosh SE/30.” https://github.com/SeanFDZ/macmind

2026-03-28 15:53:26 UTC

I want a "HyperCard 2.3 plus Color drawing tools" for my kid to play with.
Basically just draw colorful cards and link between them to make an kid adventure game.
From what I've seen, SuperCard and HyperStudio both pivoted to "more advanced HyperCard for people who outgrew it" to handle things like advanced multimedia and resizable windows and might have a learning curve
Modern things are fine too as long as they're not exploitative
#VintageApple

2026-03-21 16:59:50 UTC

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And by 80” TV you mean a 7-foot Advent CRT projector right?
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2026-03-21 15:46:46 UTC

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The module also runs in "DarkSide of the Mac" if you want a less crashy screensaver host.
I did not have time to optimize my graphics code at all, so it will be very sluggish in 68k Macs - the reduced screen size options are for them. It also helps reducing your screen to 256 colors.
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2026-03-21 15:44:54 UTC

And it’s time for my fourth and final #MARCHintosh project for 2026, TalkCrawler AD. It’s an After Dark Module for TalkCrawler that will let you watch #GlobalTalk leisurely scroll past in one of two different styles
There is a standalone version as well if you don't want to install After Dark
Note you will need to run a re-scan in TalkCrawler Lite 1.4 (just released) before it can show anything
Available on landisk/Blackbird on BaroNet. Video in first reply.
#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb
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2026-03-17 02:15:09 UTC

Announcing my third #MARCHintosh 2026 project - the MARCHintosh canvas.
If you're familiar with Reddit's /r/place, pxls space, or Wplace, you’ll know what this is - a shared canvas anyone can place pixels onto in real-time!
Only this time, it's over the venerable AppleTalk protocol, with the public server accessible to anyone on #GlobalTalk :)
Feel free to drop by and leave your mark - available in the usual places (landisk, Blackbird) on BaroNet
#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb
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2026-03-15 17:50:08 UTC

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I can't believe he doesn't have this dedicated ImageWriter carry bag, designed for everyone who regularly commutes with their ImageWriter
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2026-03-05 15:56:51 UTC

Does anyone have a license key for DragThing 4.6.1? The upgrade license I can find in Surfers Serials works until I reboot when it gets unlicensed again.
#MARCHintosh #VintageApple
Pinging @npub1yqp…8tkc because I'm naughty like that

2026-03-05 14:19:28 UTC

Debating which is more or less painful: separately compiling and embedding an LDEF, or just not using the List Manager and doing everything manually.
Want to do columns with controls in them so I'm thinking the latter.
#MARCHintosh #VintageApple

2026-03-05 12:01:08 UTC

Nice video from the Computer History Museum for #MARCHintosh https://youtu.be/sbCVETsmtoM

2026-03-04 16:58:39 UTC

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Sadly the rubber rollers are all dried up and it needs manual intervention to print or I’d put it in GlobalTalk

2026-03-04 16:22:58 UTC

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Haha I was just thinking to myself “is this the same mech as the StyleWriter 2200? Looks just the right size”
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2026-03-03 09:34:46 UTC

After much debugging and rebooting and kicking everyone off the server, #GlobalTalk Chat is back and better than ever.
For performance reasons ersions before 1.0.8 Rev 2 are no longer able to connect, so take this opportunity to update to version 1.1!
I'm out of the house for the night so here's praying it doesn't all collapse 5 minutes after I post this
#MARCHintosh

2026-03-01 00:54:23 UTC

Introducing my first #MARCHintosh project - #GlobalTalk Chat 1.0! Now re-written from the ground-up as a native Mac Toolbox application in C.
You can get it NOW on “Blackbird” or “landisk” in the “BaroNet” zone on GlobalTalk.
#RetroComputing #VintageApple #mb (1/3)
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2026-02-20 16:08:21 UTC

My PowerBook G3 Lombard is dying :/ it crashes with random errors within a few minutes after boot. It’s never anything specific or in any specific process (looking in MacsBug)
I ran a full TechTool Pro RAM test, it passed all the tests for an hour before the machine just froze
Also it doesn’t seem to like any of my expansion bay optical drives, makes me wonder if it’s a power supply issue (tried 2 different yoyo supplies so the external is fine)
:(
#VintageApple

2026-02-11 09:57:12 UTC

Did a little classic Mac OS C coding today, struggled with severe crashes before I realized I was doing this
#VintageApple #RetroComputing
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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

2025-12-26 05:28:27 UTC

I was having a lazy morning lie-in in bed when I heard a familiar sound emanating from my office, where a Christmas greeting was appearing right in front of my eyes!! Thanks @npub10ma…m2tk !!
#GlobalTalk #VintageApple #RetroComputing
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2025-11-22 06:54:47 UTC

These Valve announcements are getting weirder and weirder
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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 15:36:11 UTC

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Japan had their big boom in earthquake-proofing after the 1995 Hanshin earthquake after which they studied what houses survived and revised the building code.

2025-09-23 15:24:42 UTC

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In the era this home was made, only 10% of residential buildings (including apartment buildings!) were built out of concrete, so this was a rarity here as well. The original owner must have been rich. It's the only reason this 50-year old home is still inhabitable. If it was built out wood like most other homes, it would have been an earthquake deathtrap and torn down.
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2025-09-23 15:11:35 UTC

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Yep! 70's reinforced concrete house.

2025-09-23 14:51:08 UTC

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

2025-09-02 07:55:31 UTC

There we go, my new home office is fully set up with everything I need
#VintageApple #RetroComputing
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2025-08-21 00:56:38 UTC

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(I’m moving and that’s the day I’m having my Internet service transferred over - the net gets shut down in the AM at the old apartment and installed in the PM at my new house. Hopefully it should work within an hour of install but the ISP says that in rare cases NTT can take several days to actually complete the transfer)

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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2025-07-18 11:38:21 UTC

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I’ve actually had it on my gym playlist this year haha, it’s so good
I hope you’ve at least seen WinSongs 95 before, right??

2025-07-15 12:20:21 UTC

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Cringing at the upper-case MAC

2025-07-15 11:49:28 UTC

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That sucks!
The worst thing is you can’t delete the account. And I’m guessing you can’t change the name either due to real name policies. So I guess your name is now forever associated with the hacker?

2025-07-15 11:41:59 UTC

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Going through Facebooks “I’m hacked” or “account restore” links, they don’t accept the email or phone numbers that were associated with the account before the hack. So WTH are they good for? And WTF does the “it wasn’t me” link in the email do if it doesn’t revert the action the hacker did?
Facebook security really is a complete shitshow
So I guess the only thing she can do now is remove all her friends so they won’t get spammed and change her name to HACKED IGNOREME or something?

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 17:27:12 UTC

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Although working on this increases the urgency for me to finally get around to fixing one of my dead 68k Macs so I have some native machine to test this on System 7 and over LocalTalk - the AppleTalk APIs have things that each app needs to manually tune for how long you wait for replies and retry, with no useful guidance from the documentation, so what is fast on my G4 with Gigabit might miss replies on an LC III over LocalTalk…

2025-07-13 15:42:23 UTC

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It’s really crazy, haha!
The biggest speed up is just that the XCMD I had would just scan one zone at a time, whereas in the native code I’m scanning every zone at once!
But even after that when I’m grouping up entities into nodes… not doing everything with massive strings you’re constantly looping over by line and itemDelimiter is crazy fast… the node grouping code right now is really naive (just a full linear scan over and over again) and yet on this G4 it’s just instant

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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2025-07-02 12:35:08 UTC

History in the making!!!! 😮
#GlobalTalk #VintageApple #RetroComputing @npub1xq6…s6hw
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2025-06-17 00:43:54 UTC

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The pinout comes from this (deleted) forum post, if you want something better than a photo of an ImageWriter printout (not that that doesn't have it's own charm) https://web.archive.org/web/20210225063638/https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/o2-power-supply-basics.117/

2025-06-16 23:19:44 UTC

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Yeah I came across that one! Unfortunately I'm stuck at step one 😅

2025-06-16 12:13:38 UTC

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So... Anyone out there have any hot tips on debugging a dead #SiliconGraphics power supply??

2025-06-16 12:10:58 UTC

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The label at HARD OFF said the LED turned on when powered on, but I was getting zero life. No LED, no fanspin.
First look at the PSU... Well that's a problem.
It was easy enough to unscrew the PSU and re-seat the pin connector. It didn't fix the problem.
When I had the PSU open I also beeped out this fuse which was fine.
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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

2025-06-09 16:02:03 UTC

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I have no idea how much is actually filtered since I don’t have it showing placeholders, but not having my feed full of uspol bullshit is vital to mental health

2025-06-09 15:47:47 UTC

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Filters FTW

2025-06-09 15:13:19 UTC

Also a big reminder to everyone to mute the #WWDC and #WWDC25 hashtags if that's not your thing
And to everyone else to use the hashtags to let people filter it!

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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2025-06-08 03:52:47 UTC

Home renovations update: they're done raising the doorways to fit me through them
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2025-06-08 02:29:33 UTC

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I had one of those as a hand-me down as a kid! I still viscerally remember the beep it made when you scan too fast. And trying to figure out how to pronounce the name of the company that made the OCR software it came with.
I definitely have a few wobbly scans I made with it still lying around somewhere

2025-06-07 02:15:11 UTC

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I think one difference is from North America is that here there’s no such thing as a “credit score” number that lenders can point to, every lender has to make an individual assessment of your creditworthiness based on their own criteria.
While this slows down anything related to credit, it also means you’re not beholden to the algos of one of 3 major companies and have more diversity of credit options.

2025-06-07 02:14:00 UTC

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My experience with bureaucracy in Japan is that while they like to move through a lot of paper, they’re still good at working around any blocks you run into so you don’t get stopped in kafkaesque situations. And stuff like immigration can be really lenient with fuckups as long as you don’t show ill intent.

2025-06-06 14:32:29 UTC

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There were definitely a few things that made our case a bit more complicated but they DO love pushing paper around here! OTOH we didn’t need any kind of home inspection 😛

2025-06-06 13:30:03 UTC

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*chicken dance*

2025-06-06 13:11:40 UTC

I got the LGBT chicken #pride
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2025-06-06 10:27:59 UTC

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So we found the house in the middle of Jan, made preliminary bank loan applications in the beginning of Feb. The realtor said I had being self-employed and a foreigner working against me. A week later the banks called me to ask some questions and kind of softly test my Japanese language skills (they don’t want people signing a contract in a language they can’t read). After an agonizing wait, I was approved by both banks I applied to. (4/11)

2025-06-06 10:27:58 UTC

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We found the “perfect” house pretty early on. Spacious, close to trains/trams, not too far from where we already live. Nothing else in the price range came close. (1/11)

2025-06-06 10:27:58 UTC

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The house was built in 1973, which is super old for a Japanese house. Typically, you do not want to live in a house from before 1981 (or to a lesser extent before 2001) since they are deathtraps in an earthquake. The difference is this house is not wooden, it’s reinforced concrete. At the time it was built, only 10% of homes in Japan were concrete, so whoever originally built it really splashed out! (2/11)

2025-06-06 10:27:58 UTC

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It was renovated 25 years ago, but the interior was still very dated and not suited to us (tatami flooring, futon closets, 180cm tall doorways), so we went for a flat-rate full renovation plan from the realtor, they strip the house down to the “bones”, and put in all new interior/exterior/kitchen/bath/WC/plumbing/wiring, dual-pane windows and full freedom to re-arrange (non-load-bearing) walls. So in the end we’ll get what appears to be a brand-new house. (3/11)

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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2025-06-05 01:42:00 UTC

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My first CD burner was a hand-me-down from my uncle. It was broken so I got to fix it, some plastic peg that lifts up the disc from the tray had cracked. I glued on a replacement but it was never quite aligned right ever again, it could only burn the first 300 MB of a disc reliably before it lost focus, so all my burns from that era were limited to 300 MB of data

2025-05-12 10:42:11 UTC

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Imagine if this was all asphalt
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2025-05-11 14:27:04 UTC

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The city I live in in Japan, a few years before I came here someone had the bright idea to rip up all the asphalt in the tram tracks and plant grass there instead.
Looking at photos from before they did that, it looks so *dreary*. Now there’s this strip of green through everything. These little things matter so much!
They even had to convert an old tram to add a huge water tank and be a watering machine for the grass. edit: apparently they also built a lawnmower
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2025-05-08 15:44:41 UTC

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Also ZFS really does it's best to try to scare the crap out of you every chance it has (this pool is fine after re-installing TrueNAS onto a new SSD and importing it there)
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2025-05-08 15:28:44 UTC

Rest in Piece FATTYDOVE Racing, you had an... adequate... 4 year run
#sysadmin
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2025-04-22 01:44:51 UTC

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This is the one the podcasters called the “MacBook Nothing” since it wasn’t a Pro and it wasn’t an Air so nobody knew how to refer to it without making it sound like you were referring to MacBooks generally

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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2025-04-15 15:50:03 UTC

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I need to start tracking these changes in Projector/SourceServer instead of git 🤔
I’ve never even tried Projector before, checking the web I’m not finding any information on how it works, does it just work with regular volumes and lock files? It doesn’t sound like it has any kind of central server.

2025-04-15 14:09:50 UTC

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- Add missing define for #geneva font family ID
- Remove MPW-specific boilerplate (_DataInit, QDGlobals)
- Ditch Rez file in favor of a ResEdit file
The Boolean and function pointer stuff I thought I had problems with in the first post were red herrings to other problems with my function prototypes/externs and how I was putting them in header files. Both Booleans and function pointers work exactly the same as in MPW!
(2/2)

2025-04-15 14:09:50 UTC

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In the end this is what I had to do:
- Remove all the Mac Toolbox header includes, CodeWarrior does it automagically
- Remove the jank “include all C files directly in the main file" method I used to avoid having to learn MPW Make. CW projects are automatic
- Add missing function prototypes (that MPW didn't need) and externs that I now need when it's not all one postprocessed file
- Fix that \r and \n are reversed in MPW
- Rename old "short" Toolbox calls to newer "long" ones… (1/2)

2025-04-15 13:56:27 UTC

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If anyone is curious to see the changes required: https://github.com/kalleboo/AIRConfig/commit/ba921ee84efb666de5f5599cb9fda966dc2044f6

2025-04-15 10:09:47 UTC

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I did a quick web search to see if anyone had discussed the history of this MPW feature, but instead found a Stack Overflow thread with everyone confidently incorrecting each other that it's impossible and never happened, so those are the "facts" your LLMs are going to be trained on.

2025-04-15 09:49:57 UTC

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And it’s fixed!
The problem was due to MPW having a backwards interpretation of \n and \r that I was using, and CodeWarrior uses the standard one! They even have an option in the compiler settings to use the MPW mode.
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2025-04-15 09:42:25 UTC

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An excuse to try out the CodeWarrior debugger! This thing looks awesome!
From this I can see that the problem seems to be that the request isn’t being built/sent properly and the server is sending a 400 Bad Request error, which is why it can’t find a result and fails.
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2025-04-15 09:35:40 UTC

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Files seem to work fine but it doesn’t like the HTTP parsing code - loading a URL results in this error (that it can’t find the end of the HTTP headers)
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2025-04-15 09:33:16 UTC

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Yay, I successfully got it to build under CodeWarrior!
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2025-04-13 20:01:18 UTC

So in my process of porting my MPW C program to CodeWarrior I'm now past the easy part of "need to make missing header files and rename old function calls" and into the need-to-read-a-book parts of "C doesn't have a concept of booleans so what does this compiler expect" and how to make pointers to function kind of stuff...
#RetroComputing #VintageApple #CodeWarrior
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2025-04-11 02:31:27 UTC

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50 zones still online isn't bad though, that's up 20 since before march!
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2025-04-11 02:30:23 UTC

The post- #MARCHintosh drop on #GlobalTalk
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2025-04-06 22:21:40 UTC

He can make both ImageScribblers and Churros, @npub168z…pl86 is a multitalented man!
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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 16:21:25 UTC

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Right now is an extremely stressful and uncertain period of my life, and #MARCHintosh has meant so much to keep me sane right now I don't have the words to express it. I truly mean it when I thank everyone who just has tried out something I built for #GlobalTalk, left a message or printout, sent me mail(!!!) or even just liked one of my toots. This has all made March my absolute favorite time of the year that I look forward to more than Xmas. Lots of love to you all! :apple_inc: (5/5)

2025-04-01 16:21:25 UTC

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My #GlobalTalk Zone will stay online year round as before.
I'll leave the ImageWriter on for another week I guess before shutting it off, if the AsanteTalk lasts that long.
If the new networking means the GlobalTalk Chat server is less CPU-intensive I'll move it to Blackbird to keep it running, otherwise that will go offline with the ImageWriter when I reclaim that space. (4/5)

2025-04-01 16:21:24 UTC

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Then there was the scavenger hunt which come out of the left field, a random idea I had one night and slapped together in a day but turned out to be really fun to watch people struggle with!
I have a growing list of ideas for things I want to built for GlobalTalk, March felt far too short!
Thanks to everyone who participated! Scott Small did a way better job of highlighting some of the things people did than I could ever do so I'll just link to him! https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/114260246707261676… (3/5)

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)

2025-04-01 15:32:09 UTC

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In no way would I categorize the kiki as "very little" of a contribution! I'm looking forward to adding more information as time allows to make a great resource to link to

2025-04-01 07:16:12 UTC

A last minute update to TalkCrawler has been released, adding support for detecting ImageWriter LQ printers as printers as we just got one of those added to the network!
#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh
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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

2025-03-30 14:16:30 UTC

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I just connected as a guest!

2025-03-27 22:25:46 UTC

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I’ve power cycled the AsanteTalk it’s plugged into as well, see if that helps!

2025-03-27 22:06:33 UTC

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It looks like my ImageWriter has been continuing its double-spacing shenanigans for these next prints from @npub1xv5…v634 and @npub14wk…508e . I wonder if it’s a setting left over in memory on the IW from @npub1kmd…3fq6 's ASCII art? I’ve power-cycled so everyone please try to re-print these 🙇
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