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Michal Bryxí

Every time some profoundly doof website makes the decision that "copying our content is bad" and mangle with the text selection feature, I'm forced to make a screenshot and extract the text somehow. For most cases #OSX #PreviewApp works well. For everything else there's #AI.

🚲 Arno roule 🚶‍♂️🐧♻️ :bzh:

I'd never been interested in the market share of #OS vendors across all platforms.

But it's a very interesting statistic:
- #Google is close to 48% with #Android
- #Microsoft at 24.5% with #Windows
- #Apple at 22% with #iOS + #OSX + #macOS
- #Linux at 1.5%

Not at all surprised to see Google 1st in terms of the quantity of Android smartphones sold, but still, double that of Microsoft!

Another surprise: Apple is hot on its heels! Mainly thanks to iOS.

Which shows how the failure of Windows Phone/Mobile has truly changed the game in home computing.
gs.statcounter.com/os-market-s (June 2025)

Zenek73

Macie jakiegoś tools który tajniak natywne aplowe pokaże lokalizację na mapie, rozpozna itd? Mam Eagle (demo) i tak chyba jest plugin AI tylko trza mieć api wzięte od dostawcy i wtedy ponoć otagowuje zdjęcia. Immigration nie widzę czy coś takiego ma. Chciałem się uniezależnić od bigtechow trochę
#zdjecia #osx #linux #apple

Dr. Brian Callahan

I am building gcc-15.1.0 on my iMac G4 (Tiger) machine. It is on stage2, which is a good sign.

It will include C, C++, Fortran, Modula-2, Objective C, and Objective C++ compilers.

It will depend on my new PowerPC Mac OS X modernization library, libpcc: github.com/ibara/libppc

I'll write a blog post about how to use it once it is all compiled; my goal is to produce a turnkey solution that just works(TM), including assembler, linker, and other utilities, as recent as possible for PowerPC.

And libppc can be instantly extendable to incorporate more C11 and later features. Hopefully others in the retro Mac community are interested in building that up with me.

My ultimate goal is to build some flavor of WebKit some day and have a modern web experience (even if slow, and possibly using X11). But in the meantime we will probably build a lot of excellent modern software to keep these machines going.

#gcc#compiler#compilers
Bluszcz 🇵🇱 🌱🎥📷🚲👨‍💻➡️🦌

Did you try #DeerPortal 🦌💎and why don’t you like it?
It is a board game driven by a 🦌 Deer god and classical elements 🔥 💦 💨 🌍

#DeerPortal #GameDev #update #sfml #osx #linux #linuxgaming #freesoftware #FOSS #FreeGame #opensource

Most comments which I received and some reviews which I was reading were clear that nobody had a clue what is happening during the game in the context of the cards. I added a simple overlay text, will replace later with some proper graphic for UI, but for now it explains actions after taking the cards.
github.com/deerportal/deerport @sfml

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Nielso

So, continuing with #DecentSampler on #Apple. Well, the Decent Sampler runs smoothely. But this iPad MIDI thing I don't get to run.

Another option would be to use my old #MacBookPro 2017 with #OSX. Decent Sampler works out of the box on the old OS X 12.x.

I plug in my MIDI-USB source, which is a Roland GI20 guitar-to-midi system. OS X ignores it. I plug in some USB-MIDI-5pin adapter. OS X ignores it. I plug in another of these adapters/midi interfaces. Nothing.

Turns out in the end that the Roland GI20 does not work with Apple products at all. It only works out of the box with #Linux. For all other OSses it needs special drivers.

Apple offers me an update of IOS 15.something, and with one of the USB-MIDI-interfaces plugged into the oldskool MIDI port of the GI20 I can now finally use DecentSampler on an Apple machine, funnily on IOS 15, which fails with many MIDI applications such as MixingStation + fader controllers.

However, this iPad is too weak for DecentSampler.

Orion Ussner kidder

Going back and forth from #Gnome to #OSX is a trip. There was a time when OSX was the clean, intuitive, and highly functional desktop, but since Steve Jobs died, Apple's UX has gotten more and more cluttered. Jobs was a piece of shit (and that does NOT justify the next thing I'm going to say), but he did keep the UX *clean*. Gnome feels like was OSX could have evolved into. Although I does take about a dozen extensions to achieve that. :)

#Linux#FOSS#FLOSS
C.

This report about #Wacom graphics tablets is disturbing for a couple of reasons.

1. They are surveilling users of their #tablet - a human-interface device analogous to a mouse or trackball - recording every application you open, or when you switch between windows of different applications. They are collecting this data via a trip through Google Analytics, aka Spyware Central. There is no possible way to justify collection of this particular data; it is none of their damn business how long you have your drawing program focused before switching to your browser and back again. The author notes their privacy policy really doesn't describe this collection of data correctly, so there really can't be informed consent in the first place.

2. Why on earth is it possible in #Apple #OSX / #MacOS for a USB human interface device driver to capture this information in the first place? Apple shares a big slice of the blame here - this should just simply not be possible for the driver to collect in the first place. Having such a driver allowed to place outgoing HTTP requests is also a big "WTF are they thinking?" moment.

robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wa

Robert HeatonWacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open | Robert HeatonI have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one.
#google#GoogleAnalytics#spyware
Profoundly Nerdy

Could the Amiga have become a true multiuser OS, akin to Unix, or was it too tied to specific hardware and lack of memory protection for that to be possible?

Could it have taken a path similar to MacOS classic and OSX? I never had an Amiga, so forgive any obvious ignorance on my part.

#amiga#aros#linux
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