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splorp, 2 hours ago to apple

Hey, Mastodon … I’m trying to track down an #AppleNewton developer named Stephen A. Cronin.

He worked at #AMD and operated a software company called TapTech based out of Austin, Texas in the late 90s. I’ve managed to contact his former software partner, Francis Preve … but Francis lost touch with Stephen years ago.

Together they released a sequencer program for #NewtonOS called NR404 and I’m hoping the source code still exists somewhere.

Boosts appreciated.

finestructure, 1 day ago to swift

“With the increased limit of the acceptance queue, and a patched version of wrk, we can now conclude that swift is a good competitor speed-wise as a web application server.

Memory wise it blows all the other technologies away, using only 2.5% of the amount of memory that the java implementation needs, and 10% of node-js.”

https://tech.phlux.us/Juice-Sucking-Servers-Part-Trois/

#swift #swiftlang

superbetsy, 1 day ago to random

siracusa, 2 days ago to random

I’m still seeing this pop-up on my iPhone a few times every week. It feels like it’s been over a year now…

timbray, 1 day ago to random

If you have enough money to have an investment account, and in particular if you have ever moved that account from one institution to another, this may both amuse and educate you:
Guys what is wrong with ACATS https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/how-acats-transfers-work/

atpfm, 1 day ago to random

588: Sync Up Your Cycle
https://atp.fm/588

We… talked about Microsoft for 90 minutes?!

kjhealy, 1 day ago to random

By the middle of July, The Rolling Stones’s first gig will be closer to the nineteenth century than to the present.

Also, incidentally, Mick Jagger’s son is younger than his great-grandson.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/arts/music/rolling-stones-live-review.html

jamesthomson, 2 days ago to random

About by PCalc for visionOS is now available!

Perhaps the most pointless app on Vision Pro, but still quite fun to play with. This is a complete remake of the original PCalc About screen in VR. It's basically me experimenting with what's possible today with RealityKit, over-engineering things as usual, and then for some inexplicable reason actually shipping it. I hope you enjoy it!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/about-by-pcalc/id1613982997?platform=vision

Hundreds of objects swirl around a PCalc icon.
A lovely view of the public transport options in the PCalc About screen.
A distant dragon watches over the city.

Nonya_Bidniss, 3 days ago to random

"More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold. But despite a focus on urban areas, fatal police violence is increasingly happening in small town America at the hands of sheriffs, the top law enforcement officials in counties nationwide." #police https://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/

Kurt, 3 days ago to random

The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.

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verge, 3 days ago to random

X is hiding likes to encourage ‘edgy’ engagement https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163155/twitter-x-likes-hide-default

RecDiffs, 3 days ago to random

235: Red Thing Get Hot https://relay.fm/rd/235

typeswitch, 3 days ago to random

C library functions are always like: "SYNOPISIS. This function converts foos into bars depending on the user locale. ARGUMENTS. src and dest pointers must be distinct; it is undefined behavior if they are not QPU-aligned. RETURN VALUE. Returns the number of foos converted. A zero value indicates failure, or that zero foos were converted. A negative value indicates that the final foo was only partially converted (function got tired). Check errno global to find out why."

kottke, 4 days ago to random

A Massachusetts “millionaire’s tax” (extra 4% tax on $1M+ incomes) has earned the state more than $1.8 billion in income for fiscal 2023. That’s about double the estimates and the funds will be spent on education and transportation. https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2024-05-21/millionaires-tax-revenue-reaches-1-8-billion-on-pace-to-double-estimates

rileytestut, 4 days ago to random

Apple’s told us many times their goal is for Notarization to take “a few hours” max, but so far every AltStore app submission (from both us and 3rd party devs) has taken multiple weeks 🙃
https://fosstodon.org/@altstore/112486085494364227

arstechnica, 5 days ago to random

How “dark money” groups help private ISPs lobby against municipal broadband

"Social welfare" groups spread industry talking points against public broadband.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/how-dark-money-groups-help-private-isps-lobby-against-municipal-broadband/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

xahteiwi, 6 days ago to random

This (from Maciej Cegłowski, who is apparently not a fedizen) is an evisceration.

https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

ole, 8 days ago to random

It’s unacceptable IMO that tvOS apparently doesn’t allows apps to use persistent storage. For instance, the new RetroArch game emulator has to store all your savegames, screenshots, ROMs in the Caches directory, which the OS may purge at any time without warning. poof

“your app can only access 500 KB of persistent storage … Outside of this limited local storage, all other data must be purgeable by the OS when space is low.” https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/General/Conceptual/AppleTV_PG/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40015241-CH12-SW1 Why even sell the 128 GB Apple TV then?

antonyjohnston, 7 days ago to random

Hard to argue with any of this. I love working in games, but the points about share-price-chasing and refusal to make small profitable games because they won’t make “enough” profit are things I’ve been banging on about for years.

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/video-games-union-zenimax-exploitation

kjhealy, 8 days ago to random

Any Irish person of sufficient age will tell you that the outlook Gillers is articulating here, and its consequences, are best understood by googling the phrase “appalling vista”.

rileytestut, 9 days ago to random

Welp, a company finally threatened to sue us…but it’s not who you’d think 👀
https://fosstodon.org/@altstore/112457898141250024

mastodonmigration, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.

"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-foia

cabel, 9 days ago to random

🌟 Last week, an intriguing auction hit eBay — the badge of Apple Employee No. 10. There was just one small problem — it was a total forgery.

Enjoy: https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/

snazzyq, 10 days ago to random

Apple’s attention to detail is INSANE. You can’t watch this and not smile.

atpfm, 10 days ago to random

587: No Dots Are Going to Help Me
https://atp.fm/587

Apple's accessibility announcements, returning to an old scanner friend, and leaping into the iPad discourse.