Announcement: Macstodon 0.3 is here! 🥳​

Macstodon is a Mastodon client for 68k Macintosh computers! With it, you can post plain-text toots, view your home and local timelines, and view your notifications!

System Requirements:
- A 68020/68030/68040 Macintosh
- System 7.1 through 8.1
- At least 1.5 MB of free memory
- 32-bit addressing enabled
- Internet Config installed
- an SSL-stripping proxy running on another machine

You can download the latest release from GitHub: github.com/smallsco/macstodon
(but please read the Read Me, I worked hard on it!)

And with that, I'm going to take a break from this project for a few days! But do let me know if you've successfully used it!

#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac

Love all the information #Apple provide with their #macOS software updates. 🙄

606MB update with apparently no changes I need to be aware of...

RECENZE: #Panzerglass ochrana pro #AppleWatchUltra

> infoek.cz/recenze-panzerglass-…

#Apple #Smartwatch

Just learned today there's a pendant to #FDroid for #macOS & #iOS users called "App Fair". I'm not using any #Apple device – but if you are, you might be interested to take a look. And if you're a developer and want your #FOSS #app there, I'm sure you'll want to take a look as well:

appfair.net/

And in other unsurprising news about #Apple: Apple is building an #Ads empire, using #Privacy USP to deepen their moat.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

Maybe this could help FOSS developers make something like this for Linux or Android. This is an article from Apple Machine Learning, on how they made mobile apps accessible with machine learning:

machinelearning.apple.com/rese…

#a11y #apple #ml

Making Mobile Applications Accessible with Machine Learning

At Apple we use machine learning to teach our products to understand the world more as humans do. Of course, understanding the world better…

^{Apple Machine Learning Research}

Avoiding USB-C on iPhones may get harder for Apple as Brazil considers mandate

arstechnica.com/?p=1863422

#smartphones #Policy #Brazil #iphone #apple #USB-C #Tech #USB

Avoiding USB-C on iPhones may get harder for Apple as Brazil considers mandate

Brazil joins EU and efforts from US politicians in universal charger push.

^{Ars Technica}