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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Ready to test the recapped board, for now with a sacrificial HD and voltmeters on all rails. This is it, folks! #RetroApple

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xssfox (crossy) @xssfox.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

> Town's only unleaded service station blames rising costs for cutting off supply If only there was a way to distribute fuel to everyone's homes or create it from the sun.

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

"The people on X are so nice and welcoming!"

A screenshot of Pierre-Louis Biojout posting on Twitter about him making a call of duty style zombie shooter of Tenderloin in San Francisco

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Ooooh wow github.com/ardiri/dev-palmos/tree/m… A historical collection of Palm OS development resources, including SDKs, technical documentation, developer conference presentations, source code, utilities, examples, and other materials accumulated during the early years of mobile […]

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Ann Annas @ananas.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Oᴜʀ ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛᴇᴅ sʏsᴛᴇᴍs ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀᴏᴜsʟʏ ᴍɪᴅ ᴛᴏᴏᴛɪɴɢ ᴀssᴏᴄɪᴀᴛᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ Pʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴇɪᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛᴏᴏᴛ ʜɪɢʜᴇʀ ǫᴜᴀʟɪᴛʏ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴏʀ ᴅᴇᴅɪᴄᴀᴛᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀsᴇʟғ ᴛᴏ ᴘʀᴏᴘᴇʀ ʙᴏᴛᴛᴏᴍ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴀʀʀᴇʟ sʜɪᴛᴘᴏsᴛɪɴɢ Tʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴛᴛᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜɪs ᴍᴀᴛᴛᴇʀ

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Finally, a CAPTCHA that doesn't require me to instantly know what American fire hydrants or school buses look like.

A grid showing 16 different Roman busts, with the rubric "Please click each image containing an emperor of the Flavian dynasty
If there are none, click skip"

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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Highly motivated to seek folks with Whistle InterJets -- late-90s 486 SOHO Internet appliance on FreeBSD 2.2.x, resold by ISPs in the US, Europe, and Asia (IBM bought and sunsetted it, and sold off the whistle.com domain). People with long ISP memories may […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A live Whistle InterJet, next to a Whistle-branded coffee cup. About the size of a large toaster, it features a green LCD screen and a blue rubbery keypad. The LED in the upper left is orange because the unit is running on its own internal UPS battery.

The case of a unit is open, showing a vertical mainboard with two 32 MB SIMMs, a 486 covered by a heat sink, and a transcend 8 GB IDE flash. The main board is plugged into a horizontal backplane on the bottom.

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

#GlobalTalk Chat has finally joined the Artificial Intelligence age! Using state-of-the-art 1980’s Markov chain technology (made famous for powering Mark V. Shaney on Usenet net.singles), we now have our very own Dr. Gilbert “Gil” Amelio to chat with when we […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

A screenshot of a chat window with kalleboo interrogating @AmelioBot who is responding with utter nonsense

The cover of the book “On the Firing Line: My 500 days at Apple”

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Putting this on my OS 9 Mac for VCF next year (and then getting dragged out into the street and beaten)

OS 9 Mac with the user shell replaced by a Windows 98-esque interface

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I just spent far too much time recreating one of the greatest moments in cinema history #mb #PDA #RetroComputing

A Casio Cassiopeia with Microsoft Pocket Excel open with the text “WHERE YOU AT? HOLLA WHEN YOU GET H” written in cell A1

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

This joke toot also brings up something interesting about Linux™. Back in the good old days when enbies were enbies and had real jobs as "webmxsters," our interfaces were named eth0, eth1, etc. These were memorable and easy to type. The problem is that it meant that the naming of your […]

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

During the big Kumamoto earthquake earlier this year, there was a field right at the fault line where you could see on a security camera how the ground went up a meter right before your eyes. Last week they harvested the field under the supervision of the local university, revealing the ground […]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Also to clarify, it's apparently been down long enough that Google has swapped it out for a vibe-slopped replacement (ironic) by some German dude. Of course this version is powered by Google and sponsored by the Homophobe Browser. In addition to being vibe-coded slop Kind of a disappointing end

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Apparently FrogFind, the search engine for vintage computers has been down for some time You know what'd be really cool? If someone made a "retro internet" service. That let #retrocomputing folk all over the world connect *their own retro gear in* […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Thanks to everyone else leaving bitbang.social I haven't had a single favorite/retoot failed error ever since The Event, before that it was happing all the time every day

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Same exact PowerPlant class, running on Mac OS 9.2.1 and System 7.1 😁 #retroApple #retroCoding

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

More going through my late Father-in-laws stuff to clean out. Interesting finds: an overhead projector transparency for teaching multimeter usage, and a book on making JIS-standard mechanical drawings.

An overhead projector transparency with a print of a multimeter dial, with the needle being punched through with a rivet that csn pivot

A blue book with a drawing of a gear on it

吉沢武男編
学博士
JIS機械製図
3訂版
Machine Drawing
森北出版株式会社
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sinza :netbsd: :openbsd: :freebsd: :omya_linux: @sinza.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Hi! I'm looking for a job or gig! I live in the US (Central Indiana), and would much much rather work remotely. I have system administration experience with #WindowsServer, #Linux, and #OpenBSD professionally. I strongly prefer the #BSD family of OSes and am willing to work with #NetBSD and […]

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The brainwashing of my kids is going well, my daughter brought this book about #HatsuneMiku home from the school library #初音ミク #VOCALOID

A book with a drawing of someone riding a bike over Hatsune mikus hair

わかし初音ミクこまっているの
たなかひたる

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

what's missing: classic macintosh style disk auto-ejection, but for sd cards

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Merlin's Wisdom Project @merlinwisdom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Before you freak out about how you are feeling right now, ask yourself how much (or how little) you're having of sleep, food, sex, water, exercise, alcohol, drugs, sunshine, human touch, family time, and probably some other stuff I don't know of but you definitely will.

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

The Interware RefRouter/TCP. Last week this oddity showed up on Mercari. Interware are known for their NuBus graphics cards and Mac CPU upgrades… but networking equipment? Got ZERO web search results for this thing. Google Groups found three Usenet posts of […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

A small black and grey box on a table. It says Ref Router/TCP and INTERWARE. There is a stick on top with IP addresses. There are LED lights for PWR, RDY, ERR, ET, LT.

Rear of the box, revealing Ethernet 10BASE-T, AAUI, LocalTalk. There is an MAC address starting with 004070, a model number BR003 and Made in Japan. Input is AC100V only.

RefLaser … ¥68,000
RefBridge/TCP … ¥133,000
RefEther ColorClassic-T … ¥42,500

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

The 1985 Ericsson Portable PC was the first computer my parents owned when I grew up. Later they got the expansion case with a 20 MB hard drive. #retrocomputing

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 22/09/2026

forever baffled by the list of social sites apple lets you use in someone's contacts

Facebook
Gadu-Gadu
Google Talk
ICQ
Jabber
MSN
QQ
Skype
Yahoo

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/11730610… Apple secretly back-ported Core Animation to the 10.4 Tiger fork used by the original ATV, so I extracted the binary, transplanted it into actual Tiger, and now we have Core Animation. A Christmas miracle. The context is that I'm trying […]

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

bitbang really is the mastodon instance that won't quit. Running a 2.5 year old unpatched version of Mastodon, continually throwing errors presumably to to a lack of anti-scraper bot measures, just went down completely for over a day for God knows what reason. But it's mysteriously back now […]

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Wow look what just popped up on Mercari, an INTERWARE Ref Router LocalTalk Bridge. Too much money for me but cool seeing rare stuff like this pop up #VintageApple #RetroComputing #GlobalTalk

A photo of a Mercari listing of a black box that says Ref Router and has RJ45, AAUI and LocalTalk ports on it, for 9800 yen buy it now

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

omg look at these cute little typeset spider eyes from a 1932 scientific paper!!!!!!!!

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I took a picture of this sign in 2022 and it’s gotten a lot less funny ever since

Attention! Pay machine. Do not pay any person

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

macOS 27 adds a command line tool `fm` that lets you run queries against the local on-device AI model. I know that it's a tiny model only meant to do language tasks like grammar checking and it doesn't have any real world-knowledge backing, but it's still […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

kalleboo@Apple-Pie ~ % fm respond "Who created HyperCard?"
Steve Jobs and John Lucas created HyperCard.
kalleboo@Apple-Pie ~ % fm respond "HyperCard was created by"
Steve Jobs.
kalleboo@Apple-Pie ~ % fm respond "What was the first Macintosh?"
The first Macintosh was the Macintosh 128K, released in 1984.
kalleboo@Apple-Pie ~ % fm respond "What was the second Macintosh?"
The second Macintosh was the Macintosh 5250.
kalleboo@Apple-Pie ~ % fm respond "What was Gil Amelio known for?"
Gil Amelio was known for his role as CEO of Apple from 1984 to 1996, where he led the company through a period of significant growth and innovation, including the introduction of the Macintosh computer.

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Updated chart showing the share of #curl vulnerabilities caused by "C mistakes" as a share of all the vulns we know existed in code over time.

C mistakes among the vulnerabilities present in code

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t3rminus @t3rminus.calamity.world · 07/09/2026

Update: IT’S ALIVE! I re-did some of the caps, did a thorough inspection, and found a broken trace where there had been some heavy corrosion. It was a tiny gap by the leg of one of the chips, so I bridged it with some solder, and it works! #retrocomputing […] [Original post on calamity.world]

A Macintosh Color Classic, booted to the desktop (that was set up by the previous owner), with an “About this Mac” page open, showing System 7.1 and 4MB RAM.

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

More cleaning up of my late Father-in-laws hoard today. Love the look of these old walkie talkies. The 9V batteries were left in; one had leaked badly, but whoever put the batteries in left it in its cellophane wrapper, saving the device from damage! The other battery was fine, and what a looker!

Two old fashioned toy walkie talkies in silver plastic

SUPER
5 TRANSISTOR TRANSCEIVER WITH VOLUME CONTROL
Frontec

Back of the box with Japanese text and a circuit diagram

Inside of the walkie talkie with a heavily corroded 9V battery but it’s in a cellophane wrapper which has contained 99% of the damage

A Fuji Electrochemical HEAVY DUTY 3600 Novel battery with a sick 70? 80s? design

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

So my #Synology NAS has started throwing Btrfs Checksum errors on some files. It's always the same files, and some of them are files that haven't changed in ages. Not a good sign. The disks aren't throwing any SMART errors, UDMA CRC or otherwise, so the […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

A screenshot of a table

User
Event
SYSTEM
Checksum mismatch on file [/volume2/Time Machin
SYSTEM
Checksum mismatch on file [/volume2/Time Machin
SYSTEM
Checksum mismatch on file [/volume2/Time Machin
SYSTEM
Checksum mismatch on file [/volume2/Time Machin
SYSTEM
Checksum mismatch on file [/volume2/Time Machin

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

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 […]

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MacintoshGarden Feed @macgarden.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Macintosh Drag and Drop for GC macintoshgarden.org/apps/macintosh-… Due to the way hardware acceleration is done on Apple's 8 * 24 GC video card, it is incompatible with Apple's drag and drop functionality which was introduced in […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 27/08/2026

This is an actual clause in an actual software contract that is currently in force with the Commonwealth of Virginia.

19. BILLING FORMAT
Magnetic tape in IBM EBCDIC is the preferred electronic format.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " […]

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