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gael, 3 months ago to random French

This year, MURENA is likely going to open up its capital. 🤫

We want to allow everyone who wishes to fully participate in our incredible adventure to free the smartphone, and offer a credible solution for individuals and businesses to protect their data 🔐 📱

We're looking at our options now, like equity crowdfunding.

Ready to change for good the mobile industry with us? ☘

Anyone interested in being kept informed about the process car register at: https://murena.com/investors/

Keep in touch!

realsimon, 3 months ago to random German

Are there any projects that systematically collect and archive grey literature? I wanna help :)

vga256, 3 months ago to history

did some game preservation research today.

a few years ago i was able to get my hands on one of the only surviving copies (in the world) of the interactive book Portal, for the Macintosh Plus.

no, not that Portal. the original one, from 1986, by novelist Rob Swigart.

thank the gods the ~40 year old diskettes were still viable, and I was able to image it on my Color Classic.

but, no matter how much I tried, I couldn't get the damned thing to run properly. my CC hated it. mini vMac hated it. System 7 hated it. System 6 hated it. everything caused the game to lock up after a few seconds, or get hung playing random music.

that was until today. in a moment of utter insanity, i realized that the creators of Portal did something very special for the Macintosh Plus: they made the game a f'ing BOOTER. it was never meant to be run from within the OS. you just inserted the diskette, turned on your Plus. the entire game is an operating system of its own, executing instructions from the CPU and ROM. this isn't anything new for C64 or Apple // users, but for the Macintosh it was practically unheard of. they replicated the Macintosh System 2 gui perfectly, just for the game.

the Macintosh port is still gorgeous today: a mouse-driven point'n'click UI with high-res 1-bit icons, and high-res text. it feels good in a way that none of the other versions (C64, DOS, Amiga) do.

but what stands out to me, nearly 40 years after its release, is that this is a hypertext game through and through. the story unfolds as you click around, wandering from computer network to computer network, reading documents and piecing together how the Earth became abandoned hundreds of year ago.

as far as I know, Portal's creators (Rob Swigart and Brad Fregger) were never credited for producing a very early Hypertext game. Portal predates Hypercard by an entire year.

recorded some gameplay in mini vMac for posterity. as far as I know, this is the only footage of Portal for the Macintosh that has ever existed on the web.

http://macintoshgarden.org/games/portal

#macintosh #gamePreservation #vintageApple #history #hyperText

The user boots a copy of Portal (disk 1) on the mini vMac macintosh emulator. The game boots, showing a login screen. The user types in vga256 as his username, and the game loads black and white graphics. The splash screen for Portal shows, and credits the designers and writer. The player then begins playing the game. The game consists of a series of icons on the screen that can be clicked on, which yield text windows that tell the story. As the player clicks through text, certain desktop icons unlock which allow the player to progress through the storyline.

realsimon, 4 months ago to random German

Who are all these people in my contacts? Who are you, 'Paul'? Where am I supposed to know you from? Explain yourself.

realsimon, 4 months ago to random German

Is there an easy way to find out how long an old piece of hardware will still be supported by the linux kernel?

tg9541, 4 months ago to cycling

A fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra): I met this little guy while #cycling on forest roads in the Swabian-Franconian forest.
#winter #nature #amphibian

A fire salamander, black stripes and spots on a mostly bright yellow body, striding between low plants, stones, grass and fallen leaves.

thelinuxEXP, 4 months ago to random

I got excited for a minute, seeing a seemingly legitimate email from @inkscape wanting to sponsor the channel, but then the sender sent me a link to a password protected PDF in a Dropbox, offering unreasonable sums of money (if I could charge 2500 USD per video, I’d be extremely rich by now), and a shady request for my payment details (which would be sent through an invoice normally).

Yep, it was a scam. Sad face. Fortunately I noticed it early!

realsimon, 4 months ago to japanese German

I don't understand the #japanese language! All people who learn it talk about it like it's some kind of mysical art. Does it have conjugations? Well, kinda, but they're different. Does it have genders? Yes and no, it depends. Does it have tenses? That's a matter of perspective. WTF?

realsimon, 4 months ago to random German

Normies use 🙂

Classy people use :)

Prime specimens use Ü

Gigachads use ت

Gods simply write 'I am happy'

realsimon, 4 months ago to Youtube German

If a video is removed from #youtube for violating the term of service, does youtube still archive it somewhere? I mean, it could still be important for future historians.

realsimon, 4 months ago to StarTrek German

#StarTrek could still make a Miles O'Brien spin-off series, Colm Meaney is alive. What are they waiting for??

randint, 4 months ago to random

Just spent the whole day setting up a Pi-Hole and an Immich server on my old laptop.

delta, 4 months ago to random

When you are interacting with this account here you are actually interacting with a bunch of folks involved in various ways in project happenings, who are often following interactions via a deltachat mastodon bot that relays messages into a chat group from where the reply is triggered. Many of the @delta members have an #offlinefirst approach to networking so mostly use the chat group to interact. #didyouknowdepartment

realsimon, 4 months ago to Sociology German

I'm thinking about how to experimentally test potential effects of social media on populations. Has anybody ever made a non-federating mastodon server, invited some volunteers as users and then experimentally tested if their opinions on topics change if you push or suppress corresponding hastags? With control groups and everything. I couldn't find any papers on that so far.

And then the next question would be the ethics of the whole thing lol

#sociology #socialscience

murena, 4 months ago to opensource French

🎉 Exciting News!

📱 We're thrilled to introduce Murena Mobile service in the USA 🇺🇸

Welcome to a world of carrier-grade connectivity, easy plan upgrades, 1-month cancellation periods, safety features, and more.

Discover the freedom to control and protect your mobile experience with Murena Mobile. 🚀

Learn more 👉 https://murena.com/mobile

@gael @e_mydata #choosefreedom #opensource #usa

realsimon, 4 months ago to random German

I have finally done it. I haven't used windows for so many years that I can't help people fix it any more. Sorry grandpa, I'm just as confused as you lol.

realsimon, 4 months ago to Sociology German

I would like to do a study on whether affiliation to sociopolitical ideologies actually correlates with behaviour. For example, do people who score high on an anti-consumerism questionnaire actually buy less stuff? I suspect yes but the effect is much smaller than most people would expect. #sociology

e_mydata, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to privacy French

🎊 We're thrilled to announce the arrival of /e/OS 1.19, bringing a host of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

📱Check the ‘System updates’ in your phone settings menu. Make sure your have the latest version running on your phone.

Read the release notes 👉 https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/releases/-/releases

#yourdataisYOURdata #privacy #opensource @gael @murena

dansup, 4 months ago to random

Omg bruh, I just looked over and realized how THICC mr tuk is.

Like wow, he looks likes he about to shake me down for some spare kibble.

My partner thinks he's underfed since I got a new automatic feeder but damn, maybe I should limit it a bit more.

How do you tell a delusional cat owner their cat is fat???

You can see my dogs ribs, he's a healthy weight (like me 😎), but I swear the meows every time I try to put him on a diet always get to me.

#fatCatAdviceNeeded

realsimon, 4 months ago to Minecraft German

I don't know who needs to hear this, but playing #minecraft with gamerule keepInventory true doesn't make you week. The goal is to have fun.

TEG, 4 months ago to ai

Fundamentally cool, net-positive stuff I think: Hologram lecturers thrill students at trailblazing UK university

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/21/hologram-lecturers-thrill-students-at-trailblazing-uk-university

"An AI Stephen Hawking would look like him, sound like him and interact like it was him."

"[...]reducing the need to fly in guest speakers[...]"

#AI #education #he