A.P.P.L.E.Apple II Desktop 1.5 Released https://www.callapple.org/software/apple-ii-desktop-1-5-released/
"That's a lot of old computers."
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Ken McLeod
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"That's a lot of old computers."
"That's a lot of old computers."
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Minor update: support for LZW compression has been added, so those StuffIt archives now take up less space on disk.
dmarkDo you have a very old computer hooked up to the internet, and want to browse the web like it's 1996 again? Normally this is practically impossible, because a 1996 browser will choke on modern html, css, and javascript. And because most everything is encrypted with TLS 1.3.
Enter the http proxy server that solves both problems: Macproxy Classic
Well, this is in fact no news. The original Macproxy was created by Tyler Hicks-Wright in 2013. I created my fork in 2021. Another super cool fork, Macproxy Plus, emerged in 2024.
What is new today is that I combined the best of all forks, touched it up with some bug fixes and improvements, and polished it to a shine.
It's good stuff, I promise!
tarball: https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy_classic/releases/tag/v25.11.1
container image: https://hub.docker.com/r/rdmark/macproxy
ElissaLike, the sense of dread I have that at SOME point I am going to have to 'upgrade' away from the current macOS to a fisher-price bath-soap toybox version that breaks a pile of shit I rely on is just... exhausting.
I hate that capitalism has made constant change a thing companies are obliged to do.
Crazy Eddie's Used ComputersI declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working (later optimized) implementation was devised on the Xerox Alto by members of the Smalltalk team. It made it easy to arbitrarily copy and move arbitrary rectangles of bits in a graphical bitmap. It was this routine that made Smalltalk's graphical interface possible. Below is part of a PARC-internal memo detailing it:
Relevant to our interests, it's possible to proxy TLS connections to iCloud Mail (IMAP/SMTP) in order to access it from Mac OS 9. (Cyberdog, here boi!)
https://old.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/1oz2j5i/got_my_icloud_mail_working_on_mac_os_9_and/
Eugen RochkoToday I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
