Craig Morgan

@craigmorgan
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Craig Morgan1d ago
twvd2d ago

Snow v1.0.0 is released!

It's the first release, so no changes to report. With some larger changes coming up and the FPU being mostly complete, it seemed like a good time.

v1.0.0 emulates Macintosh 128K, 512K, 512Ke, Plus, SE, Classic and Macintosh II.

Website: https://snowemu.com/
Downloads: https://github.com/twvd/snow/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Snow | Classic Macintosh emulator

Classic Macintosh emulator - About

Snow | Classic Macintosh emulator
Craig MorganAug 4
ratfactorAug 4

I have nothing to add to this. It is perfect:

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…

Random Thoughts
Craig MorganJul 30
David HoJul 30
Motherfucking wind farms…
Craig MorganJul 11
A positive use for YouTube … go keep Beau busy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YF95r_Bew #BeauMiles
Using YouTube to plant a forest

YouTube
Craig MorganJul 11
Clive ThompsonNov 9, 2022

I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it

The "Weird Old Book Finder"

Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/

Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just *start readin'*

Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are

A longer essay on how/why I developed it: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4

This was a search for "mastodon"

Craig MorganJun 16
Meredith WhittakerJun 16
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
Craig MorganJun 12
Molly WhiteJun 11

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

It matters. I care.

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

Citation Needed
Craig MorganJun 10
RetMar 24

"If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful.

So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision-making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product."

- Steve Jobs

Craig MorganJun 9
Show threadMarina EpelmanJun 9
@siracusa I said it other people: I’d like them to film an alternative version of the keynotes, where all devices have reduce motion, reduce transparency, and increase contrast turned on
Show threadCraig MorganJun 4
@cheeaun current dev release seems to give normal behaviour and reloads posts and switches to top of timeline on '.' keypress ...
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Meredith WhittakerJun 16
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
Show threadTheBooster 🚀Jun 16
@Mer__edith Not accessibility wise
Show threadNick Silkey 📻 N5ILK 🪓🪵 🪣💧Jun 18
@Techgirl1232 @Mer__edith lean in. Use it where you can. Talk about your experience on accessibility. Feedback the only way anything improves amongst us humans. It demonstrably works. It's how we have built everything together. We can do so much together. ✌️💙
Show threadShawn WebbJun 16
@Mer__edith Use Signal. Use Tor. Use Signal behind Tor. :-)
Show threadCdrik ⏚🌻Jun 16

Thanks for sharing @Mer__edith

Do you have a link ?

Show threadAlexandreJun 16
@Bristow_69 @Mer__edith Probablement ces 2 liens / These 2 links https://about.fb.com/news/2025/06/helping-you-find-more-channels-businesses-on-whatsapp/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/whatsapp-is-adding-ads-to-the-status-screen/
Helping You Find More Channels and Businesses on WhatsApp

We're introducing channel subscriptions, promoted channels and ads in Status to WhatsApp's Updates tab.

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Show threadBlue LumaJun 16
@Bristow_69 @Mer__edith probably https://noyb.eu/en/whatsapp-getting-ads-using-personal-data-instagram-and-facebook
WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook

Meta is expanding its ads business on WhatsApp using your data from Instagram and Facebook

noyb.eu
Show threadsbiJun 18
@Bristow_69 Signal's account is linked in her profile, and that has a link.
Show threadMartin RocketJun 18

@Bristow_69 There you go: https://noyb.eu/en/whatsapp-getting-ads-using-personal-data-instagram-and-facebook
The screenshot by @Mer__edith shows an article by @noybeu

https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114693494985013191

WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook

Meta is expanding its ads business on WhatsApp using your data from Instagram and Facebook

noyb.eu
Show threadaproitzJun 16

@Mer__edith

I know. #Signal is #fantastic and #adfree. Forget #Whatsapp !

Show threadCassandrichJun 16

@Mer__edith And you can also promise not being owned by nazis with VC brainworms looking for the first opportunity to sell out their users. Unlike SimpleX.

Please, if you can, try to focus on some of the selling points they're using to dupe folks onto their platform, some of which really matter (like anonymous sign-up).

Show threadaburka 🫣Jun 16
@dalias @Mer__edith The ability to use my signal account on a burner phone would be amazing (and obviously technically feasible, since the desktop app exists)
Show threadPenelope Gwen 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 17
@aburka
If you mean adding your burner phone as a linked device to your Signal account, I've been able to use the Molly client on Android to achieve this
Show threadaburka 🫣Jun 17
@pogmommy nice, hadn't heard of Molly but will look into it. Not entirely sure how to feel about unofficial signal software... witness the US govt's usage of a signal client that was MITMing all the comms. Of course they did that on purpose but a malicious client could do the same
Show threadPenelope Gwen 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 17
@aburka don't blame you at all. All I've seen about Molly seems to indicate high safety/security- it appears to be well-regarded in the grapheneos forums/community. Its selling point is being a hardened fork of the official Signal client, featuring things like at-rest encryption, ram wiping, etc. And if you install Molly-foss (the only version available in Accrescent store) it replaces proprietary blobs that Signal depends on for notifs/location services with secure, open-source alternatives.
their website is https://molly.im & the link to the project's git repo is https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
fwiw, I'm not a dev or contributor to the project, just a satisfied user. definitely look into it yourself before trusting it with your data & access to your signal account.
Molly

Molly is an improved Signal app for Android

Show threadaburka 🫣Jun 17
@pogmommy high regard by grapheneos users is a strong recommendation!
Show threadMans RJun 16
@dalias @Mer__edith I'd prefer it without the cryptocurrency bullshit too.
Show threadkhmJun 16
maybe official clients for operating systems not controlled by google or apple

CC: @dalias@hachyderm.io @Mer__edith@mastodon.world
Show thread👊🇺🇸🔥Jun 18
@mansr @dalias @Mer__edith It's just a wallet. Don't turn it on and you'll never see it.
Show threadkaiserkiwi Jun 18
@Avitus @mansr @dalias @Mer__edith Proof: I use Signal and have no idea what they're talking about. 😅
Show threadMans RJun 18
@kaiserkiwi @Avitus @dalias @Mer__edith This: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In-app-Payments
Show thread4 Strings and a PintJun 20
@kaiserkiwi @Avitus @mansr @dalias @Mer__edith exactly what I was going to say 🤷‍♂️
Show threadMans RJun 18
@Avitus @dalias @Mer__edith Any association with cryptocurrency is suspicious.
Show thread👊🇺🇸🔥Jun 19
@mansr @dalias @Mer__edith Even though it does nothing by default because it's off by default? Strange logic.
Show threadCassandrichJun 19
@Avitus @mansr @Mer__edith Yes it's sus, but I imagine it's a significant source of well-diversified donations from users. Which is much better than being dependent on just a few big funders. I don't care that it's there as long as it's easy to ignore and not trying to dupe folks into treating it like an investment rather than just a way to transfer money.
Show threadDerek MorrJun 19
@mansr @Mer__edith @Avitus @dalias it’s not a source of donations. It’s really a failed experiment,and I wish they’d remove it. Their token, MobileCoin, isn’t used anywhere. A year ago, Techlore made a video of them trying and failing to buy it. https://youtu.be/0DSGq9FQKU4
We Tried Signal's MobileCoin So You Never Have To...

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Show thread👊🇺🇸🔥Jun 20
@derekmorr @mansr @Mer__edith @dalias MobileCoin wasn't "their token". It was a partnership with the company MobileCoin. All Signal did was build an opt-in wallet compatible with it.
Show threadMans RJun 20
@Avitus @derekmorr @Mer__edith @dalias Such details are irrelevant. Any association with cryptocurrencies makes using the app feel a bit like eating at a restaurant that has good food but you know is a money laundering front for the mob.
Show threadDerek MorrJun 20
@Avitus @dalias @mansr @Mer__edith you can’t even use it. A year or so ago, Techlore made a video where he tried to purchase tokens for it and couldn’t find an exchange that worked. Really, it’s much ado about nothing at this point.
Show threadMans RJun 20
@derekmorr @Avitus @dalias @Mer__edith It's still an ugly stain on an otherwise great app/service.
Show threadBlue LumaJun 16
@dalias @Mer__edith can you share a link about this please ?
Show threadCassandrichJun 17

@blueluma @Mer__edith See the links from the post I'm replying to here: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114631010411924253

Beware: vile transphobic comments if you click thru to the birdchan link. I've intentionally linked to a point where folks can navigate to it but won't inadvertently open it up without several click-thrus.

Cassandrich (@dalias@hachyderm.io)

@Ember@blobfox.coffee Thanks for the citation. For those who don't need to actually see the vile receipts (don't click thru unless you really do), the lead dev of SimpleX posts vile shit on birdchan (of course) in favor of abuse of trans children. DO NOT USE SIMPLEX. DO NOT PROMOTE SIMPLEX. CALL FOLKS OUT WHEN THEY DO.

Hachyderm.io
Show threadAnne OminousJun 16

@Mer__edith

should i turn off push motifications for Signal to make it even more secure?

Show threadDerek MorrJun 16
@rustoleumlove @Mer__edith message content isn't included in Signal's push notifications.
Show threadAnne OminousJun 16

@derekmorr

yet, i can see that content in the notification.

Show threadMehdi KharrazJun 16
@rustoleumlove @derekmorr From my understanding, Signal's push notifications just act as a way to wake up the device. Then, the app fetches the encrypted content from Signal's server, decrypt it locally, and generate a local notification with the decrypted content.
Show threadAnne OminousJun 16

@imkh

thank you so much for that explanation.

Show threadDerek MorrJun 16
@imkh @rustoleumlove that's right. The push notification had an empty body. So all Google or Apple sees is that you got a message on Signal at a certain time.
Show thread👊🇺🇸🔥Jun 18
@rustoleumlove @derekmorr Meredith addressed this 18 months ago https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111563865413484025
Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith@mastodon.world)

PSA: We've received questions about push notifications. First: push notifications for Signal NEVER contain sensitive unencrypted data & do not reveal the contents of any Signal messages or calls–not to Apple, not to Google, not to anyone but you & the people you're talking to. 1/

Mastodon
Show threadRosbeef Andino 🐧Jun 17
@rustoleumlove @Mer__edith #molly from @fdroidorg . you can self host #ntfy and #mollysocket simply with @yunohost to get selfhosted notification service.
Show threadZwecki / Flo  Jun 16
@Mer__edith
Or better yet, use decentralized Software.
Show threadgatoJun 17
@zwecki @Mer__edith What do you recommend as a decentralized, privacy aware chat app, available on all major platforms?
Show threadflorian_aJun 17
@gatogatogato @zwecki @Mer__edith Matrix is great (@matrix). Although Signal remains the gold standard for encryption.
Show threadClaudiusJun 17
@zwecki I'd be open to suggestions as long as it's not the dumpster fire that is called Matrix/Element.
Show threadLukas Schieren Jun 17
@claudius I guess XMPP? 😅😬 @zwecki
Show threadSebastian "spaetz" SpaethJun 18
@claudius works fine here 🙂
Show thread👊🇺🇸🔥Jun 18

@zwecki @Mer__edith They did that once. It didn't go well.

"In May 2016, Moxie Marlinspike wrote that federation with the CyanogenMod servers had degraded the user experience and held back development, and that their servers will probably not federate with other servers again."

Moxie also did an entire presentation about why it's inferior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdM-XTRyC9c

36C3 - The ecosystem is moving

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Show threadFritz AdalisJun 16
@Mer__edith @Viss
While I appreciate the overall sentiment, "no surveillance ads" seems oddly specific, like something is in the pipeline that needs that wording.
Show threadMatthew SainsburyJun 16
@FritzAdalis @Mer__edith @Viss https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/659/979/108.png
Show threadFritz AdalisJun 16
@mattsains @Mer__edith @Viss
Eh, maybe. I hope it's nothing and I'm just being a jerk.
Show threadkainisenniJun 16
@FritzAdalis
I think that Signal's requests for donations can count as ads, hence the wording. If they were planning something evil they'd just lie.
@Mer__edith @Viss
Show threadFritz AdalisJun 16
@kainisenni @Mer__edith @Viss
I mean Mozilla didn't when they finished jumping the shark, they could have left in "we'll never sell your data" and claimed it was an oversight when they got caught.
Show threadMisuse CaseJun 19
@FritzAdalis @Mer__edith @Viss Almost all ads on the internet are surveillance ads, which is why it’s notable that Signal doesn’t have them.
Show threadFrancescoJun 16
@Mer__edith How’s that DMA interoperability with WhatsApp coming along? Will people ever be able to use whatever app they want without worrying about network effects?
Show threadaroomJun 16
@Mer__edith could you move the foundation outside the USA?
Show threadDerek MorrJun 16
@aroom @Mer__edith what jurisdiction would you prefer?