kalleboo

kalleboo, 10 months ago to Japan

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

kalleboo, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Japan Japanese

I found the network rack gacha! Assumed it was so niche it would only be found in like Tokyo but there was one around my neck of the woods as well.

This is the cutest thing ever! Look at the little cables and cable management hoops, the PDU, all of it is so well-done!

#japan #gacha #networking #sysadmin #mb

nixCraft, 2 months ago to random

This is going to help scammers a lot. Imagine getting a call from your loved ones, and they explain they are in trouble and need immediate financial assistance. This is going to affect so many elderly and innocent people. OpenAI is developing these tools again from publicly scrapping of your voice samples.

Viss, 5 months ago to random

spotted on imgur.
something i figured @foone might appreciate

kalleboo, 7 months ago to blahaj Japanese

IKEA is doing a pop-up store here tomorrow and I did a web image search in order to see what to expect them to carry, and ran across this cute photo from the IKEA pop-up in Shizuoka

#ikea #blåhaj

kalleboo, 8 months ago to random

Went to the bar that uses floppy disks as coasters yesterday and winced all night

kalleboo, 2 months ago to random

Jon Stewart: “[Apple] wouldn't let us do even that dumb thing we just did in the first act on AI. Like, what is that sensitivity? Why are they so afraid to even have these conversations out in the public sphere?"

Tech giants should not be producing content. We need the 1948 breakup of the Studio System again. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112200019732650765

kalleboo, 3 months ago to random

The GlobalTalk Chat Stack 0.2.0 is released! The preferred HyperCard-based multi-user chat system for the #MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk network.

I've added text escaping courtesy of @uliwitness so you can now type quotation marks without breaking it!

I've also made usernames bold in the chat log, and added a "emoji" feature where you can tack a single character from Susan Kare's classic Taliesin or Cairo fonts to a message.

#mb

kalleboo, 1 year ago to retrocomputing

My HARD OFF Megathread!

HARD OFF is my favorite store ever. It’s a Japanese chain of tech thrift stores that will buy your junk and resell it. There’s also OFF HOUSE (clothes/household items), the confusingly unrelated BOOK OFF (used books, games and other media), LIQUOR OFF, etc

I’ll start off by posting some overview photos of what kind of stuff you can find there, and then start following up whenever I find something interesting

Let’s go!

#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Thrifting #mb

kalleboo, 9 months ago to random

My wife got our kids the Blu-ray of the Studio Ghibli anime 耳をすませば/Whisper of the Heart, which heavily features the Japanese version of "Take Me Home, Country Road", which of course the kids instantly latched onto.

I've been slowly trying to ween them onto the proper version of the song (not much luck so far) https://youtu.be/H4JWxOWWsvs

#brogrens #bonnavägar #skåne #mb

kalleboo, 8 months ago to apple

I bought the #Apple #USB-C to #Lightning adapter that they claim provides support for "charging, data and audio” on iPhone and iPads with USB-C.

Awaiting the new #iPhone, meanwhile put it to the test on a #MacBook Pro M1 to see if I could get anything to work!

Works:
• Audio accessories
• Charging (albeit really slowly…)

Doesn't work:
• USB drives or SD card adapters
• Ethernet devices (these work on iPhone!)
• Video adapters (did not expect this to work!)

#USBC

A MacBook connected to an adapter connected to an adapter connected to a USB Ethernet device A MacBook connected to an adapter connected to an adapter with a SD card inside it A MacBook connected to an adapter connected to an adapter connected to an HDMI cable

kalleboo, 7 months ago to retrocomputing Japanese

#HyperCard #StackStories 2: The Email System

Been seeing some talk about AppleTalk email on fedi lately so I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring

MacMail, a client/server AppleTalk email system written in HyperCard. It has no gateway to internet email, it's purely LAN

There is a server that you leave running on a Mac which stores incoming email for the clients to fetch when they go online. And a remote app which is required to admin that server

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #HyperCard #mb

Two windows, MacMail Server and MacMail Remote, each with a list of users, but Remote has actions like Add and Remove.

kalleboo, 7 months ago to macos

#Sonoma is now officially the buggiest version of #macOS/X I’ve ever installed I think, worse than Mavericks (which had to be rebooted weekly) and El Cap (which bricked my install on update and needed a clean install)

I just opened my bag to a burning hot machine with the screen lit full brightness on the Lock Screen with that video animation playing, and no response trying to unlock it in any way

In over a decade I have not once experienced “hot laptop in bag” syndrome with a Mac, until now

kalleboo, 6 months ago to random

Send an email to anywhere in Australia for just 25 cents https://youtu.be/FIwXZmJXBJA

kalleboo, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

I managed to get the #MARCHintosh global AppleTalk network working! Neato!!

If anyone wants to add me, “kalleboo.com” as a Host ID. But I will be shutting it down later when I go to bed, don’t quite trust leaving this old machine on 24/7

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

Trawl running on a PowerBook 145B showing multiple AppleTalk zones and devices

kalleboo, 19 days ago to random

Time to study some of this new-fangled AI stuff so I don’t fall behind https://youtu.be/7Uz3HYfCIGc

kalleboo, 16 days ago to random

It must be a tiny minority of iPhone users who have any idea what this “Q” logo is that shows up when they open an audio file on the web or in full screen

kalleboo, 2 months ago to random

Muting the word "eclipse" now since according to a calculator I checked I'll never see one in my life so it is irrelevant to me.

But not before leaving my favorite bash.org joke (paraphrased):

A> When does the eclipse start?
B> Three minutes after your launch it, fucking Java

kalleboo, 2 months ago to random

AIRConfig for #GlobalTalk version 0.4 is now released! #MARCHintosh

Version 0.4 adds:

• A redesigned GUI that resembles the familiar Font/DA Mover
• It remembers your last used files so you don't have to re-select them each time. (via aliases so AppleTalk shares will be auto-mounted)
• A “Headless Mode” that will do the conversion on launch and then instantly quit

So point it at the auto-updated Host ID list on PurrTopia, set it to Headless mode, and use QuicKeys or something to automate it!

AIRConfig 0.4 demo

kalleboo, 2 months ago to random

👀 ciscoRouter??! @foo8ar

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

kalleboo, 2 months ago to retrocomputing

Ran across this old pro-Mac comic called “Hey, Stuff This!”. Downloaded all the strips from 1995-1998 that the wayback machine had and put on Blackbird in BaroNet on #GlobalTalk so you can get your yuks on 1996-style

#MARCHintosh #VintageApple #RetroComputing

DEAD MAN WALKING! WHAT'S GOING ON? ARE THEY TAKING JIMMY TO JAIL? NO. THE COMPANY IS PHASING OUT ALL MACS. SECURITY IS ESCORTING HIM FROM HIS MAC TO A WINDOWS 95 MACHINE.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY THE LAST BATCH OF MACS HAD SO MANY PROBLEMS? IT'S SIMPLE... REALLY. MAC USERS HAVE HAD IT GOOD FOR SO LONG- WE SIMPLY NANTED THEM TO SEE WHAT ITWAS LIKE USING A WINDOWS MACHINE.
HEY, JIM...MY ARTICLE ABOUT THE IMMINENT DOWNEALL OF APPLE IS DUE IN ONE HOUR, BUT MY DARN WINDOWS MACHINE IS DOWN AGAIN. MIND IF I BORROW VOUR COMPUTER? POWER MAC 9500

hsbt, 25 days ago to ruby

Unfortunately, #ruby is dead again this year.

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kalleboo, 23 days ago to random

It’s not something I’m buying but the design is damn cute #VintageApple

kalleboo, 2 months ago to random

AIRConfig for #GlobalTalk 0.1 is now available for testing by the few brave pioneers among you!

Please tell me if it works or not! The way I detect which config is the IPTunnel one is kind of guesswork and it might end up clobbering other configs instead.

Source code is also provided if anyone is curious (this is the first Mac Toolbox program I've written so it's not going to be exemplary code…)

#MARCHintosh

kalleboo, 1 month ago to retrocomputing Japanese

So this #Newton MessagePad 130 showed up on PayPay Fleamarket for $45. Never seen a Newton go for this cheap in Japan (even with massive a black screen burn spot), and they're rare to show up to begin with.

The photos didn't show the screen, but revealed some bad battery leakage (which was also disclosed in the description), but I figured at least it could be used for parts (my pen on my 120 has lost it's end cap!)

It arrived today so let's see what we got!

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

Yahoo Fleamarket ad showing a newton messagepad 130 rear with battery leakage
A newton messagepad and keyboard wrapped in bubble wrap on a tatami floor