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uliwitness

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Forest creature living in the plains. 💕Empathy, Programming Languages, Drawing. My code parks your car. I make a HyperCard clone at https://mastodon.cloud/@stacksmith

Munich, Heidelberg, Lucerne [Any Pronouns]

#ios #mac #hypercard #retroProgramming #retroComputing #drawing #mastoArt #tv #movies #scifi #fedi22

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uliwitness, to random
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@manton Regarding stationery:

There have always been 2 ways to have a stationery:

  1. The one you saw used to be for any app that didn't support stationery: You got a copy made of the file, which was opened instead of the original the user had double-clicked.

  2. Apps that actually support stationery, where the file was opened in the app, and the app had to know to leave the contents in, but mark the file as an unsaved, new document.

AFAIR MacOS X threw out support for type 2. a few years ago.

chucker, to random
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😒

uliwitness,
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@chucker Positive thing: If you take it to an actual Apple store (not reseller), they can usually replace the battery in an hour or two. Still need to make a backup, because they expect you to reset it before the operation, but at least it's a quick replacement.

below, to random
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iOS Pros: If a UIView has NO superview, and NO window (i.e. both properties are nil), does that mean it is not on the screen, but rather held somewhere in view purgatory?

#iosdev

uliwitness,
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@below The root view in a window can of course have a NIL superview.

Beyond that, I would have said NIL window means invisible a few years ago, but I think some views hosted in private objects (like popovers and status items and such) might have a NIL window and still be visible on screen, because there's some internal CGWindow still hosting them.

Also, I think there were some views (or at least cells) that got copied for display, and therefore your original view would never be visible.

rooster, to random
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Someone at my interview asked if I kept my hair shorter in the navy and I just laughed and said much

uliwitness,
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@rooster I understand if you for any reason don't want to answer this, but I'd love to learn if you want to share:

Do you have any problems with your CV at job interviews? Like, with uninformed people going “women in the military don't exist, must be lying”, or are you circumventing that by being openly out in your job application, or are you using that as a dog whistle to have companies you wouldn't want to join self-eliminate? Or were you in a position where that doesn't come up?

uliwitness, to retrocomputing
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Hmm… when I open an Apple II disk image in Disk Jockey, it shows the folders and system files, but not any of the HyperCard stacks or the HyperCard IIGS application.

There goes my attempt at examining a IIGS stack using Hex Fiend to see if it's the same as a Mac stack.

#retroComputing

uliwitness, to random
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If there's an iPhone or iPad app in the app store that is not selected for using on M1+ Macs, is there a way to run it on the Mac anyway?

scy, to random German
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Einem Gerät, dessen Eingangsbuchse gern 7.5 VDC hätte, lag ein Netzteil bei, das mit 6 V beschriftet ist und aus dem 10 V rauskommen.

Keine weiteren Fragen.

uliwitness,
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@scy 🔥🔥

uliwitness, to random
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Weird, I thought Combine's Cancellable would guarantee that when a Cancellable is freed, it implicitly triggers cancel().

But I can't find that mentioned anywhere in the (sparse) documentation (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/combine/cancellable).

Anyone remember where that's documented? Or am I hallucinating?

#swiftlang #combine

nblr, to random German
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TIL: man muss sich nicht zwischen Eurobox und Pelicase entscheiden. Es gibt beides in einem.

https://www.auer-packaging.com/de/de/Eurobehälter-mit-Scharnierdeckel-Pro/EDP-4317-HG-2G.html

uliwitness,
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@nblr @filid Interessant! Nehme an, die kann man dann nicht ganz so nah nebeneinander stapeln, weil die Deckel-Klemmen selbst geschlossen ein wenig abstehen?

ctietze, to random
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Hot damn,

is there no decent filter/effect/fill tool for any of the good digital drawing apps that produces 1-bit dithering?

Like MacPaint 1.5 basically.

It's all either an effect to apply a dithering algorithm to a colorful image, or a gradient.

Tried Acorn, Affinity Designer and Photos, and Aseprite.

I'm too old to use a pixel tool to draw diagonal lines at 2px spacing

uliwitness,
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@ctietze I think the Decker and HyperCard Simulator web sites do dithering. Might even be Atkinson Dither (so better for photos as it maintains contrast better than Floyd-Steinberg). GraphicConverter had some dithers as well.

uliwitness,
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@Wevah @ctietze Yeah, it's moved, but it's still there:

scy, to random German
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Nerds: "Ich hasse Telefonieren. Am liebsten würde ich die Telefon-App deinstallieren. Ich geh aus Prinzip nicht ran wenn jemand anruft."

auch Nerds: [packen ihre DECT-Nummer in den Usernamen]

uliwitness,
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@scy Nächstes Projekt: DECT-SMS + Mastodon -> DECT Gateway? 😉

scy, to random German
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"Ich stell mal den Wäscheständer raus. Wobei, das sieht so aus als würde ein Gewitter aufziehen. Vielleicht schau ich erst mal auf die Wäschevorhe… die _Wetter_vorhersage."

uliwitness,
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@scy Wäschevorhersage: Nass

scy, to random German
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Wenn du mit der @wochendaemmerung auf den Ohren draußen spazieren bist und plötzlich winselt ein Hund im Feld neben dir, nur dass da gar kein Hund ist 😂

uliwitness,
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@scy This song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6T4lxP-Ho has a bell in it that sounds like a bike trying to overtake ... gets me every time.

ctietze, to random
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I don't want to start a political discussion.

I wonder, "philosophically" more or less, though, what kind of incentives are missing for so many people.

Context: There are very loud (maybe majority, maybe minority) voices that want to ban a party that is considered "right wing" in the traditional sense.

Problem: If you ban the existence of a group that many people associate with, what outlet will they look for, next?

Is there an attractive alternative so they can participate somewhere else?

uliwitness,
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@ctietze The idea behind banning these organizations is that it sends a signal that this isn’t OK. You of course will just drive the hardcore followers underground, but it also sends a signal to casual supporters who just got swept up in the movement that they're not where they think they are, and these political leanings are not OK.

It also gives the law the tools to investigate people associated with such organizations more readily.

uliwitness,
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@ctietze @daniel I’ll just say this: You can’t decide not to punish murderers because some people don't believe in being punished for murder. Some things just aren’t negotiable. Either everyone subscribes to them in the interest of living as a community, or nobody gets them.

The minimum criterion for a working society is that everyone gets to do what they want, as long as it doesn't keep someone else from exercising the same rights.

chucker, to random
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If the M4 MacBook Air were to start at 12 GiB RAM (16 strikes me as unlikely), how much of that would be a reaction to Surface? We’ll never truly know, but their pipeline with this sort of thing surely isn’t three years.

Of course, it does have impacts on component volume.

uliwitness,
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@chucker @pmdj Not sure, but I have a vague memory that German “c't Bitrauschen” podcast mentioned (in ep. 24/10 or 11?) that Turbo Boost doesn't make sense for M or ARM CPUs or something? I wish I remembered the rationale, but I think I heard something like that? If you have a few hours to waste on research, maybe they said it.

uliwitness, to random
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We should all pronounce bio pic like myopic.

uliwitness,
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@penryu I guess if you say it stands for "biography picture" it'd make sense... Dangit, I hate when I can't troll because people don't notice 😒

uliwitness, to DuckDuckGo German
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Is #DuckDuckGo broken for anyone else? My searches just lead to an empty page saying to try again.

Update: Yup, #5 trending hashtag right now, lots of people have this.

klemensstrasser, to random
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New camera 📸

uliwitness,
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@klemensstrasser Not to alarm you, but I think the hole to let the light in is missing 🤪

scy, to random German
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Eben in nem Forgejo-Diff das Wort "gevendort" gelesen und es für den Username irgendeiner Niederländerin gehalten

Nee, es ist die deutsche Übersetzung einer Markierung an Third-Party-Dateien, die im Englischen "vendored" heißt.

Gevendort halt 🤷‍♂️😬

https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/language-detection/

uliwitness,
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@scy Wenn ich jemals eine Geschichte mit einer niederländischen Figur schreibe, weiss ich jetzt, wie ich sie nenne 😜

NanoRaptor, to random
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Charging my phone so I can go outside and take a video of the Ghia as I pour five litres of mower fuel into it and light it.

uliwitness,
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@NanoRaptor As in Karmann Ghia? The VW Beetle with a sportscar body on top?

uliwitness,
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@NanoRaptor Ah, ouch. Was wondering, as Beetle parts would probably be easy to come by given how long those were manufactured in Mexico. Good luck with the Ford.

scy, to random German
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Ich habe den Isopropanol-Lappen zusammen zur restlichen Kochwäsche gegeben und dem Geruch aus der Waschmaschine nach war das nicht meine beste Idee heute.

uliwitness,
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@scy Solange nichts Feuer fängt, würde ich sagen, Du hast das bestmögliche Ergebnis erreicht. 😬

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