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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
It is a real, functioning emulator of the Macintosh Plus from 1986. See the webpage[1] of the James Friend, who ported the emulator to JavaScript, as well has his posts[2][3] explaining more detail behind the project. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
The Internet Archive has a large collection[1] (3,500+) of HyperCard stacks that can be run directly in the browser (using in-browser emulation of an old Mac Plus). I've been "maintaining" this collection of stacks for around
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
It was in the renewal of the Applesoft Basic license that Apple gave Microsoft a perpetual license to the Mac interface: > Apple's original deal with Microsoft for licensing Applesoft Basic had a term of eight years, and it was due
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Make sure you're not blocking cookies - if you have cookies blocked, you'll get that error. (Not that I agree that you should need to allow cookies to watch a video, but that seems to be the reality of the internet right now).
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Another major advantage (for me) of NewPipe over any official app is that it supports other services (such as SoundCloud). I find the ability to seamlessly switch between services, and create playlists containing both YouTube videos and Sou
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
YouTuber Techmoan covered the issues with the UK's implementation of DAB / DAB+ back in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27w3quNTP84
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
As the Readme notes, a similar project is the Web Rendering Proxy (WRP) - https://github.com/tenox7/wrp , however the two projects differ in their use (or lack of) JavaScript: > This idea of using a proxy to render t
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Nice to see that the HyperCard stacks collection (that I maintain) on archive.org got a mention: > In our software collections, we have brought back thousands of hypercard stacks[1] that used to be easily available for Macintosh computer
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
> IA's emergency library can't become the norm I don't think the plan is to "become the norm". It's an 'emergency library', and it exists currently because the pandemic has forced regular libraries
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Every item on archive.org has a bit-torrent file, I believe. This doesn't solve the problem of working out which items are the most popular, but if you can figure out that then you would be able to manage storage and bandwidth. I suppo
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
I second the thought that for a lot of folks, the hassle of setting up and maintaining their own mailing list server has driven them to use commercial, hosted solutions such as groups.io. The major disadvantage that comes with hosted soluti
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
From the site: > If you've got some old disks that have files you never did anything with, please consider sending them or a copy of them to me. That stuff is precious; and it is rare; and it is finite. That's what matters. I&#
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
If you're on Android, there's NewPipe, a fantastic YouTube client that brings all the benefits of YouTube Premium: no ads, downloads, listen with screen off, and picture in picture. NewPipe also supports other services such as S
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
> I have to check I sill might have some cds from that era... I know that the Internet Archive ( https://archive.org/ ) are always willing to host CD images for their software collection. They accept uploads from anyone, b
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris (Project-Centered Course) https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer and then part 2: https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tet
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
Note that Yahoo! Japan is separate from Yahoo. When Verizon bough Yahoo, certain patents, holdings and investments were not part of the sale and were spun off into a new business called Altaba. The (minority) stake in Yahoo! Japan that was
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
Youtuber 'TechAltar' made a video[1] on March 11 giving his perspective on this. While I wouldn't normally link to a YouTube video in this context, KaiOS Technologies specifically reached out to TechAltar to provide him with
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
I find it fascinating that prior to the Copyright Act of 1976, any work without the correct copyright notice would automatically enter the public domain. In this case, it's interesting to see how the incentives for preventing such a mi
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Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain(blog.archive.org)
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
I was born at the tail-end of the 90s, so never experienced the original 90s IRC "vibe". However, I'm part of ArchiveTeam, and we use IRC pretty much exclusively for all our projects. Sure, we have a wiki for permanent notes,
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
I'd be interested to know more about both your Eliza stack and the Gopher Server hosted on HyperCard. In the 'HyperCard Online' collection of stacks[0] (which I maintain), there is one Eliza-like stack[1], but I'd love t
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
I maintain the 'HyperCard Online' collection[1] at the Internet Archive, where over 3,500 stacks are able to be run directly within the browser. We're always looking for more stacks, and have an upload form[2] for stacks to b
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
I don't want to say something I can't substantiate, however in 2013 Yahoo rolled out the "Neo" interface to Groups that was vastly unpopular with existing users [0], and many groups chose that point to switch away. [0]
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
Going into this, we did understand that this could be a concern. We are committed to working with group moderators as we work to make what we've saved available, and will be honoring valid take-down requests for content that people tha
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
I completely agree, but the way they handled this was appalling: (a) The "We're deleting all your content" message was only visible on group home pages, not when viewing messages, meaning a lot of the people who used the web-
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
I've always wondered about whether the AGPL is a good fit for software that isn't accessed over the network. At first glance this would appear to offer the exact same rights as the GPL in this scenario, however you then have the p
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
Using more permissive licenses for smaller programs is what the FSF recommend: "It is not worth the trouble to use copyleft for most small programs. We use 300 lines as our benchmark: when a software package's source code is short
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
That's because it's not 100% clear, even to us. Think of it a bit like a bunch of people pulling stuff out of a burning building. [0] We know there's more to be saved, because we can see more boxes in the building, but we hav
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
A member of ArchiveTeam did a fairly comprehensive crawl of the messages of public groups between 2015 and 2018. And there had been discussion about how to archive Yahoo Groups for a few years prior to that as well. The reality is that in o
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by betamaxthetape 7y ago
We (ArchiveTeam) are still trying to archive portions of Yahoo Groups (our methods have changed a bit since Yahoo turned off the web archive in December, but the data isn't deleted until Jan 31). What's the name of the group?

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