europlus

@europlus@europlus.zone

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

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thomasfuchs, to random
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why is everyone using "pfp", is "avatar" too long to write

europlus,

@thomasfuchs @kariboka @onyxraven unsolicited disk pic!

europlus, to random

Had a blast taking @mwichary with @Jongleur around Sydney’s Lower North Shore before a visit to the Australian Computer Museum Society HQ! Please visit again, Marcin!

ctb31, to random
@ctb31@mastodon.social avatar

Mission Accomplished.

PowerPC Challenge 2024 - A tiny G3 PowerBook on Holidays

https://vintage-computer-garage.com/2024/01/09/powerpc-challenge-2024-a-tiny-g3-powerbook-on-holidays/

#powerpcchallenge
#PPCChallenge
@ActionRetro

europlus,

@ctb31 Noice!

Fury, to random
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Hanging out in Sydney for a few days. The change in scenery is working wonders for my critical thinking while I re-write my literature review #PhDLife

europlus,

@Fury 👋🏻 from the Lower North Shore!

europlus,

@Fury sorry about the weather :)

davidaugust, to books
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I didn’t think the “leopards eating people’s faces” party would ever eat my face. 🤦‍♂️

https://news.yahoo.com/bill-o-reilly-furious-own-181240858.html

#BookBans #BookBanning #books #law #justice #FLpol

europlus,

@davidaugust @brouhaha such a bully. Fucker.

nixCraft, to random
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Do you have a favorite vintage computer?

europlus,

@nixCraft umm… 🤔🤣

tubetime, to random
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ahh yes, the DB-15 connector.

europlus, (edited )

@kentborg @tubetime they look like 1s and 0s?

Maxton, to cooking

Love this online recipe hack!
...

If you add “cooked.wiki/“ to beginning of ANY recipe url (before the https:/) it strips away everything but the recipe and organizes the ingredients and method into separate columns.

Also adds a dictation option too!

#cooking #recipe

The same baked oatmeal recipe but run through cooked.wiki. It is now cleaned up and organized like a cookbook with ingredients in a column to the left and the method in a column to the right. Everything else is stripped away.

europlus,

@Maxton been using this for a while and even shared it in person with a friend over the weekend!

garthbeagle, to random
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Goodbye Apple Company Store 👋

europlus,

@garthbeagle @MuseumJoe oh, I so want a copy of that logo in vector format!

admin, to random

2024 is shaping up to be a busy one for retro computing. There are more VCF shows than ever, each one expanding and growing.

There are also some interesting Livestreams coming up. Jeff Brace has been organizing and putting these together on all sorts of interesting topics.

We'll be posting info for each of them so please watch for and promote them in your circles!

Thanks!

europlus,

@admin why are you not using real art?

thomasfuchs, to random
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Finally we know how typical computer users look like

europlus,

@thomasfuchs I feel unseen.

keyboards, to random
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europlus,

@keyboards @smallsco europlus!

loresjoberg, to random
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Don’t you think it’s suspicious that ducks sound EXACTLY like ducks?

europlus,

@loresjoberg they even fucking walk like ducks!

xot, to random
@xot@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

Criminy, AutoHotKey! Why do your varied hotkey behaviors (and general execution) have to be so damn inscrutable? I'm just trying to emulate a NumPad on a TenKeyLess in a way that also works with Alt/Unicode input. I got there in the end but Jeez Louise what a battle.

europlus,

@xot I so, so, so miss KeyboardMaestro when I’m stuck on Windows.

burgerbecky, to random
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To paraphrase Dr Seuss: Don't cry because Jennell is gone. Smile because she touched your life. I wish that one day, she may touch my life again.

europlus,

@burgerbecky 😔🫂💗

w7voa, to random
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At least eight prominent X (Twitter) accounts belonging to journalists, a podcast host and leftist posters were suspended Tuesday in what platform head Elon Musk suggested was an accident.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-temporary-ban-journalist-accounts-raises-alarm-rcna133084

europlus,

@w7voa @ne1for23 yeah, it was meant to be next January, during the coup!

Tijn, to random
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"Gouda" is not a type of cheese. It is a town in the Netherlands, but "Gouda cheese" isn't even cheese from the Gouda area necessarily.

In medieval times Gouda had a big & important cheese market. They wouldn't let just anyone sell their cheese there though, in order to ensure a certain quality the cheese had to adhere to a strict set of qualifications.

Cheese that's allowed to be sold at the Gouda market, that's what Gouda cheese is.

europlus,

@Tijn in other words, it has to be “Gouda ’nough” for that market, right?

SteveBologna, to random
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Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans - Slate https://apple.news/A0gfBaFO5SEWipCxvujzr9A This is just my opinion but Qpublicans are really fucked up.

europlus,

@SteveBologna @cstross fuckers.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Please like and subscribe to this toot and don’t forget to hit the bell button

europlus,

@thomasfuchs ^G

thomasfuchs, (edited ) to retrocomputing
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Do you have a favorite computer-related book from the 1970s or 80s?

Looking for interesting things to read. Can be technical but it should be at least leaning towards cultural and the people and ideas behind things or be otherwise interesting.

Update: I have a few of the suggestions already, but ordered a few more that I haven't read! Please feel free to keep adding to it; gonna bookmark this and will come back to it occasionally.

#retrocomputing

europlus,

@thomasfuchs @billgoats Thirded! 🙋🏼‍♂️

BE, to Cybersecurity
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I'm hoping someone can ease my mind here and tell me if I'm being a paranoid weirdo, or if this is legitimately strange.

My wife works from home with a company issued laptop. She's a teacher and she's on Zoom with students for hours a day. We've never had any issues with our network over the last three years that she's been a virtual teacher.

There's a new tech support guy at her company who's issued new rules. She had a "tech check up" with him yesterday in which he said he's going to need:

Pictures of our cable modem and routers including serial numbers and MAC addresses.

Pictures of any hardware between the cable modem and routers, including serial numbers and MAC addresses.

Pictures of any hardware between router and company issued laptop, including serial numbers and MAC addresses. This is to include any other personal computers that may be on the same segment of the network.

Is this just good, preemptive tech support and I'm overthinking it?

My first thought was that I am not sending him the info on my own, personally owned cable modem, routers and hardware firewall, so he's getting photos of the old Spectrum equipment they dropped off that's been sitting in the closet for a decade, and we'll just tell him it's a VLAN all to itself(which it is). But after sleeping on it I thought that maybe I'm overreacting.

#CyberSecurity #WorkFromHome

europlus,

@BE I wouldn’t provide very much detail at all, frankly.

xot, to random
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This is deeply upsetting.

europlus,

@xot

season 13 GIF

verge, to random
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OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030283/openai-nyt-lawsuit-fair-use-ai-copyright?utm_content=buffer2b609&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

europlus,

@verge @ne1for23 Sam Altman said in the official OpenAI statement, “The New York Times has engaged in a consistent campaign lasting literally decades to create what is effectively an AI training honeypot – generating millions of words of what they describe as ‘journalism’ covering history, world and local events, sport, culture and the arts, and then placing it online to be consumed not only by people, but AIs as well. I call it plain and simple entrAIpment, and we should face no penalties.”

kjg, to apple
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Seeing an absurd number of messages in my iCloud backup lead me to investigate the internals of the Apple Messages local database. I documented my attempts to clean up some bad records.

https://kevin.glowacz.info/2023/12/20/hacking-the-messages-database.html

If anyone has any insight here please reach out!

#Apple #Messages #iCloud #SQLite #iOS #macOS

europlus,

@kjg @smallsco wow, I’ve pretty well kept them all and only have 130k!

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