Notices by Wesley Moore (wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social)

RE: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/116739974475878614

Wow those macOS examples are embarrassing. From my memories of earlier Mac OS X this stuff used to be way better.

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@cwebber I made something like this for @linkedlist, it's what posts to that account. I called it FeedParrot. I wanted to polish it a bit more before publishing the code, but moved on to other things. It's a single Rust binary to deploy... Maybe I should just make it public.

@cwebber there we go. README was written a while ago and may be somewhat aspirational. https://github.com/wezm/feed-parrot

@voltagex on the surface it seems that way, but I imagine it's hard to get just the bit you want out of OpenCV. It does feel like there might be smaller, more focussed options out there that could achieve the same thing.

Building lots of Linux packages sure makes you notice some weird things. Like why does the KDE screenshot tool spectacle depend on OpenCV (a computer vision library that also pulls in numpy)? Because its image resize function produces nicer results than Qt. https://invent.kde.org/plasma/spectacle/-/merge_requests/340 🙃

RE: https://aus.social/@decryption/116172988490704948

Makes it very clear how artificially limited modern phones are.

Continuing to enjoy the slow crumbling of things that used to work into a heap of brokenness on GitHub. This has been happening on my phone recently.

#qa #quality

wow

@nikitonsky this is hilarious 😆

@mntmn There is https://mace.home.blog/ that is like WINE for classic Mac OS apps. It lets them run "natively" on modern macOS by implementing the ROM traps.

Love it when a near complete project just appears out of nowhere.

"Brimstone is a JavaScript engine written from scratch in Rust, aiming to have full support for the JavaScript language.

Brimstone is a work in progress but already supports almost all of the JavaScript language (>97% of the ECMAScript language in test262). Not ready for use in production."

https://github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone

#Rust #JavaScript

End of an era.

The code wasn't building on modern systems for multiple reasons, so I replaced it with a static archive.

Switched from the default Google Android launcher to the open-source Fossify Launcher on my phone. The best part might be removing the Google search bar that is forced upon you in the default launcher. So far everything else seems to work pretty much the same.

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Launcher

#android

Aside: I miss when app icons were detailed, different colours, and round rects. Most of these are so flat and bland.

@prettygood For me it's this gem from 15 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs #MongoDB

I ran into a wary Kookaburra today.

#Birds #Australia #WildOz

@marioguzman @ctietze 😬 https://mastodon.decentralised.social/@wezm/114742878746149258

@ctietze @marioguzman here you go. The input latency is quite high, even with the emulation speed turned up. Not sure what is responsible for that.

#eink #macintosh #RetroComputing

Re: https://bsd.network/@rubenerd/114891571424305432

Oh no, I've just seen a software project that is using the season in their **version** number. 😠