From IRC: Apparently $someone intercepted XMPP traffic to jabber.ru (hosted by Hetzner and Linode in Germany) with a middlebox, and this was detected only because the Let's Encrypt certificates used for the interception ran out: https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/
This kind of attack is not usually possible without cooperation from the hosting provider, quote: "We believe this is lawful interception Hetzner and Linode were forced to setup."
@darrenmoffat@kalleboo Yeah, might be in the wrong age for that one, according to the IE5 for UNIX release notes: "Internet Explorer is not supported on Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier."
I've seen mentioned that it's kind of possible to hack up OpenStep for Solaris to run on 2.6, but it's brittle even on the version it was released for...
@darrenmoffat@kalleboo (...though I see now that there was also a IE 4.01 release that was compatible with Solaris 2.5 and up. Might try that one at some point.)
Hrm, I completely forgot about LuBu OpenMagic, which was a redistribution of the OpenStep 1.1 files with some changes and alleged optimizations, and I seem to remember it should work on newer Solaris versions.
Someone uploaded that to github at some point (https://github.com/itomato/lubu), and archive.org also has the original .tar file.
Some of the archived comments talk about the Lighthouse apps...
For a long time I thought that the Lighthouse Office Suite would be unobtainium forever, but it seems someone uploaded them to nextcomputers.org in 2016, and I missed it? (www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Lighthouse_Design/)
Not sure if any of those run on non-m68k hardware though (the FrameMaker in that directory seems to be NeXT/Intel/HPPA according to the package name - not quad-fat for OPENSTEP/Sparc).
Hrm, so according to fbinfo I have a 1MB TGX in this system, but Xsun claims it can only do depth 8 nevertheless...
So I tried switching to GrayScale mode, and while Xsun then starts in grayscale, the Openstep desktop will still be in colour, and there's flickering when touching window titles or the background?
Huh. I was lazy and put the card into the one SBus slot that didn't have a cover anyway (Slot 0) - which seems to run only at 20MHz in the SS10, whereas all the others are 40MHz...
Weeeellll, according to the old hardware FAQ, 32MB SIMMs supposedly don't even work on an SS10 (SS20 only). Great. Now the question is - why didn't I run into problems up to now?
Rearranging RAM modules because the SS10 would only blink the capslock LED after powering on ... until I remembered I had done an setenv diag-switch? true to do a full RAM test, and then it takes bloody ages for the screen to come up, and I was too impatient...
Fighting the RasterFlex card after reseating it into a different SBus slot - until I read the FAQ, which said that the drivers need to be uninstalled and reinstalled after a reboot -- -r so the internals get rearranged appropriately.
Now back to where I was this afternoon (except the RasterFlex does not seem all to spiffy in TrueColor mode after all, and also the screen blanks occasionally for some reason)...
So since someone mentioned this abomination further up in the thread: Here's a screenshot of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and the accompanying Outlook Express running on Solaris 2.5.1, with the desktop provided by Solaris Openstep instead of OpenWindows.
Peak Solaris: SparcStation 10 running Solaris 5.5.1, with Solaris OPENSTEP as window manager, and Wabi (Windows 3.1 environment) plus Macintosh Application Environment as applications.
Unfortunately the colours in Wabi and MAE are off, as I only have a cgsix...
Uuugh. Took me until today to understand that pulling a window down on the Android 12 app switcher locks it so it can't be closed - and pulling down again unlocks...
For some reason this has only occasionally happened by accident up to now, and while I usually managed to do the unlock, I thought it was by tapping the small lock icon (in reality I probably happened to do enough of a swipe to trigger the change)...