Miguel Arroz

Indie Mac developer. Former Apple and https://survs.com. I program my home computer, beam myself into the future. Living in 🇵🇹, missing 🇨🇦 a bit.

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2026-08-18 09:08:50 GMT

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@nprofile…d90g I should have kept so many things I threw away. 😞

2026-05-08 07:08:26 GMT

Imagine how much of a scumbag you have to be to use the word “empathy” as you fire 1100 people who, in our own words, “helped build the strong foundation” that generates profits to make you richer. https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

2026-03-29 19:37:06 GMT

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@nprofile…9q5z Gorgeous! That's really, really good! The way light hits the building on the left is just perfect.

2026-02-19 15:03:57 GMT

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@nprofile…d90g 17 Pro

2026-02-19 13:54:44 GMT

How do I know the weather has been absolutely miserable in Lisbon this winter? Because I got this iPhone by the end of December. I saw the screen under direct sunlight for the first time… today.
And wow, what a difference compared to the Xs! The screen is incredibly bright and readable even with the sun shining on it. Looks like printed material.

2026-02-19 09:53:56 GMT

I don’t get the new mastodon post quoting management. If the author of the post I’m quoting needs to approve the quote, why am I not given the option of also making my own post publishing pending on that approval? Otherwise my post is essentially published with a hole in it. It’s already public but no one can see what I’m quoting so it doesn’t make sense.
(Not sure if the web ui experience is better, I use Ivory).

2026-02-07 11:12:42 GMT

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@nprofile…d90g E se houver problemas, é agua que vem de Sintra! 😂

2026-01-29 09:28:29 GMT

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@nprofile…d90g Pois, depende de como acontece. Nesta foto de ontem há um painel que caiu limpinho no chão e se calhar ainda está inteiro e pode ser reutilizado, e outro que se desfez. Provavelmente é o que acontecer primeiro quando a estrutura da paragem cede: ou o vidro salta inteiro e com sorte safa-se ou parte antes de saltar por causa da torção a que está a ser sujeito.
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2026-01-29 07:37:34 GMT

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@nprofile…d90g Fico sempre admirado com isso. Dá-me ideia que a estrutura se torce a ponto do vidro ficar solto e cair ou da tensão ser tão grande que parte o vidro. Aqueles vidros são demasiado resistentes para se partir simplesmente com o vento.

2026-01-27 21:27:42 GMT

I’ve been working on recovering this for months! With the absolutely vital help and patience of @nprofile…yh5l, here’s something I thought I would not see ever again. A Timex FDD 3000 (developed and built in Portugal!) loading a game to my old speccy! This is ~40 years old hardware just working (after a bit of maintenance). Aside from recapping, the only chip that had to be replaced was the Speccy Z80 that developed a bad M1 line. #zxspectrum #timex #retrocomputing #sinclair
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2026-01-24 18:13:38 GMT

Super frustrated with #FreeBSD today. Spent the entire afternoon setting up networking on a jail because the documentation is vastly incomplete, and a bunch of mysterious arguments to disable checksum offloading to the Ethernet card are required (but never mentioned in the documentation) for things to work properly.
Not having to deal with BS like this is exactly the reason I use FreeBSD. So this is disappointing.

2026-01-24 13:48:08 GMT

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@nprofile…hpsq Ou seja é uma especie de simplificação. Da maneira como penso a em0 ficaria ligada à bridge (sem IP) e haveria uma segunda interface (host_if por exemplo) também ligada à bridge, com o IP. A bridge ter IP e na prática ser o host retira a necessidade disso.

2026-01-24 13:12:13 GMT

It doesn't matter how many times I look into this, I can't really wrap my head around how network bridges work in FreeBSD and Linux.
Specifically, why is the host IP on the bridge interface itself and not on the en0 (or whatever) attached to the bridge.
The bridge is a layer 2 thing. It should not have any IP. It should work like a switch. I don't get why was this modelled this way, nor exactly *how* it's modelled.

2026-01-21 21:11:00 GMT

Wow Apple removed the security options from Disk Utility's erase panel? I get people might be misusing them with SSDs, but why remove it for spinning disks?!

2026-01-18 22:51:25 GMT

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@nprofile…d90g Ele e eu. Fiquei mesmo contente por o MM se ter espalhado ao comprido.

2026-01-18 22:46:12 GMT

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@nprofile…d90g Isso é na próxima quando ele já tiver atingido o limite de mandados em Oeiras.

2026-01-16 07:18:31 GMT

We call this desenrascanço.
#nevent1q…xk32

2026-01-13 10:10:34 GMT

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@nprofile…d90g Sim, no site da carris metropolitana até andam de um lado para o outro!
Faixa de bus: todos os presidentes de câmara onde passa a A5 (Lisboa, o nosso Querido Líder, Cascais) concordam que devia haver. Fazer é que está quieto. Nenhum deles tem que viajar todos os dias na A5, claro. Por isso que se lixe.

2026-01-13 09:11:03 GMT

“But Miguel, transit is always packed and is not reliable”
I’m on a bus. Scheduled for 8.55AM. That departed at 8.55AM. It has 5 free seats in front of me. Probably a few more behind me. No one standing.
Yet I’m stuck I traffic. Because most of these people could be on a bus or a train but just don’t want to. And they get no penalty for that.
Want to fix traffic? Charge 10 euros to any driver who enters Lisbon. Problem solved. Transit magically becomes a viable option for most of them.
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2025-12-21 16:35:38 GMT

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@nprofile…qn94 Algo deste género https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Studio_Display_(1998%E2%80%932004) ou deste https://support.apple.com/pt-pt/docs/displays/125347

2025-12-21 15:44:13 GMT

Does anyone I know near Lisbon have an old Apple Studio Display with DVI or ADC plug? If so, please ping me!

2025-12-14 01:25:56 GMT

These have been a few weeks from hell to me. But I already had the tickets, and it was amazing to watch Kruder & Dorfmeister playing the K&D Sessions live in Lisbon today. ❤️ Thank you guys, I needed this.
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2025-11-30 09:34:26 GMT

I may have bought a graphics card for the G5 from eBay by a really great price, and shipped from the EU, described as tested and working, just before going to bed yesterday. Let’s see if it’s up to the claim! It’s the same model I have now, the Radeon 9600 Mac version.
I’ve read the DVI synch problems are fixed by recapping. Thankfully some caps are through hole. Sadly, some others are SMD. I’ll do it anyway but I prefer to have a backup just in case. 😅

2025-11-28 21:50:32 GMT

Os jornalistas em Portugal são uma absoluta miséria. O JAC age como se fosse um mero espectador em vez de impor as regras do debate correndo com o facho do estúdio se for preciso (e era). Este fingimento de que ficam muito incomodados com o comportamento do facho quando na realidade o promovem e adoram as audiências daí geradas é de uma hipocrisia atroz. Nojo. É o que sinto por toda esta classe profissional. Nojo absoluto.

2025-10-31 11:34:10 GMT

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@nprofile…qn94 Por um lado é chato o 1Bit não ter ainda as máquinas completas no catálogo online. Por outro, ainda bem… 💸

2025-10-31 11:33:32 GMT

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@nprofile…qn94 Para os quadras parece estar tudo esgotado em termos de logic boards, mas há muitas máquinas para as quais consegues arranjar partes essenciais como mother e daughter boards (PowerBooks da série 100, por exemplo), e ecrãs para portáteis, por preços bastante razoáveis. Foi da 1bit que veio o LCD para o meu 145. Se não houver algo que precisas no catálogo, manda um mail ao Nick para ver se há ainda por catalogar, ou na pior das hipóteses, uma máquina completa.

2025-10-31 11:28:43 GMT

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@nprofile…qn94 I would really appreciate a generic vintage Mac store like those two inside the EU, though… but AFAIK there's nothing.

2025-10-31 11:24:31 GMT

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@nprofile…qn94 For Mac stuff, no (except specific things like BlueSCSI from @nprofile…sgql).
There's also this one https://www.thebookyard.com (UK also, so import fees) but I never ordered from there. I asked them if their Pismo frames were in good condition, they checked and said they were bent and not good enough to sell, so they are honest.
For ZX Spectrum gear I tend to use https://retrocables.es/en/ Pretty good service and they tend to get stuff here the next day.

2025-10-31 10:47:12 GMT

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@nprofile…qn94 http://1bitrainbow.co.uk I already purchased stuff there and it works quite well. You will have to deal with CTT to pay import taxes, though. If the order stands still for too long, just ping Nick, he may be busy shipping his miniature Macs.

2025-10-23 06:46:59 GMT

This is the time of the year I miss Vancouver the most. The contrast between the green moss, the tree logs, the yellow, red and brown leaves 🍂 is beautiful.
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115420090035506357

2025-10-20 10:06:08 GMT

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@nprofile…qn94 Do que vejo da board do 700, isso tem ainda uma série de condensadores SMD: https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/1njuaup/my_quadra_700_has_factory_electrolytic_caps/#lightbox
Esses nunca mudei, e não quero arriscar, sobretudo numa máquina que não é minha…

2025-10-20 09:59:14 GMT

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@nprofile…qn94 Se forem SMD, não. Se forem trough-hole posso tentar ajudar. Mas tenho pouca experiência, até agora a única coisa da qual fiz um recap completo foi o ZX Spectrum.

2025-10-20 08:25:34 GMT

Seems legit. Thank you for letting me know, dear.
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2025-10-18 08:12:59 GMT

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@nprofile…qn94 @nprofile…5umk That I don’t, sadly. Have a few ADB mice but no keyboard. :(

2025-10-18 08:08:57 GMT

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@nprofile…qn94 @nprofile…5umk Do you have any other SCSI things you can try? CD-ROM? ZIP drive? If you need help let me know, I have a bunch of that stuff around and we apparently live nearby. 😄

2025-10-11 21:23:11 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 Ok, não nos encontramos então. Que corra tudo bem e obrigado pelo serviço à nossa democracia!

2025-10-11 20:09:25 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 Em que mesa vais estar?

2025-10-11 07:58:27 GMT

Anyone who has a working #ZXSpectrum 48K, PAL colour system, not a clone, not emulated, but the real thing, can you run:
10 BORDER 1
20 BORDER 2
30 GO TO 10
Film the TV screen and post it? Do you get around 5 or 6 stable colours bars moving slowly up or down? Or is it a big blinking mess? Thank you! 🙏

2025-09-11 23:08:03 GMT

Brazil justice system just did what western countries aren’t willing to do anymore. You break the most basic rules of democracy, you end up in jail. It’s simple. Parabéns, Brasil! Well done. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-guilty-coup

2025-09-04 10:16:20 GMT

Yesterday, the Gloria funicular in Lisbon suffered a catastrophic failure that caused 17 dead, so far. This "accident" and its aftermath is certainly going to reveal a lot of the shitshow resulting from the modern mindset of privatization, incompetence and private-car focused politics.
This is a funicular system with 2 electric cars, and a cable connecting both cars. The cars act as a counterweight but, unlike a traditional gondola, the cars themselves have a motor that pulls them uphill.

2025-08-30 21:33:52 GMT

I’ll be 16 years old forever! I still have the source for this thing. Look what I could build with the Toolbox APIs when I was a kid! 😃 Gotta upload this masterpiece to Macintosh Garden some day.
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2025-08-23 08:18:45 GMT

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@nprofile…nrqy Not really emulation, more like a very well integrated virtualization environment. It boots OS 9, that is ready to run in that mode. The OS 9 desktop does not show up and the OS 9 windows are integrated with the OS X windowing system. It’s pretty neat!

2025-08-20 09:08:21 GMT

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@nprofile…tne7 Wow! As a former Sony fan, I really want one of those! 😃

2025-08-15 09:36:36 GMT

I don’t think I’ll live long enough to ever see a reply to a suggestion I sent to any government-run entity saying “great idea, we’re going to do it, thank you”. Even when what I’m suggesting is the normal practice in many other cities.
It’s almost like these places are full of bureaucrats that put all their effort in making sure nothing ever changes.

2025-08-12 15:25:35 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMxXtfziAMM

2025-08-11 16:26:49 GMT

Ok time to turn all this off since it’s 29°C inside and the disk spinning rate is starting to float quite a bit (although it doesn’t seem to bother it at all). This went really well! Time to give some credit, the screen was ordered from 1-bit rainbow in UK. If you need parts for old Macs, check it out because it has a whole lot of stuff, and it’s much more trustworthy than the random eBay seller. https://www.1bitrainbow.co.uk/

2025-08-11 15:56:04 GMT

Did you ever wonder how your favourite games look in a 1-bit passive matrix display? Of course you did! #RetroApple
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2025-08-10 12:29:23 GMT

Does anyone know if there’s any place I can use (maker space, etc) in continental Portugal that has a clean bench (ideally laminar flow) I can use for a quick vintage hard drive repair? Ideally in Lisbon but anywhere else will do. #retrocomputing

2025-08-09 22:30:12 GMT

I miss how humane the Mac was. Look at that cursor from the classic MacOS installer! ❤️ #RetroApple
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2025-08-07 22:44:08 GMT

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@nprofile…23y3 O sítio mais silencioso que conheço em Portugal: o monte onde está a antiga pousada de Portugal de sousel. Só tem a pousada (que fechou há anos) e uma praça de touros que quase nunca é usada. Fica a uns 2km da vila, não vai lá ninguém que não vá de propósito. Infelizmente colocaram lá uma antena de telemóvel que tem ventilação barulhenta mas basta estar um pouco distante e já não se ouve. Nem isso nem nada. É impressionante. Só se ouve o vento quando há. Nunca vi outro sítio assim.

2025-08-07 21:28:33 GMT

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@nprofile…zn0q Como eu costumo dizer, no people, no problem. Compreendo perfeitamente. Eu tenho mais pancada pelo Alentejo mas tenho que explorar o norte por causa das paisagens e natureza. E há mais comboios!

2025-08-07 21:12:00 GMT

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@nprofile…zn0q Confesso que boa parte do tempo que ali estive foi a pensar porque raio moro num subúrbio merdoso de Lisboa em vez de num sítio como aquele. Tem comboio e tudo!

2025-08-07 21:09:12 GMT

The Tagus river, calmly flowing by Vila Nova da Barquinha, Portugal. I didn’t mute the sound, it was that quiet. The only noises are just me being clumsy holding the iPhone.
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2025-08-07 06:47:34 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 Aqui ainda não…

2025-08-06 09:20:11 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 Sim, não funciona há já alguns dias, pelo menos.

2025-08-05 17:55:52 GMT

Lisbon greenhouse. If I had ever visited, I can't recall it. Visited today and loved it. The "cold" greenhouse wasn't, the hot greenhouse felt like hell collided with the sun. 🥵 Despite the extreme temperatures, seriously recommend!
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2025-08-04 15:04:46 GMT

The end of an era! Removed the cable me and my neighbour used to play games, send messages and share stuff via AppleTalk. Haven’t been used in more than 2 decades, but was still around!
Replacing the silicone that was holding the cable to the window ledge didn’t go that well (I had never done it before) but should be good enough to avoid rain from infiltrating the walls. And it’s not in worse shape than the rest of the building. 😬
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2025-07-29 14:18:19 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 Na serra de Carnaxide houve dois fogos, ontem e hoje, do lado da Amadora. Do lado de Oeiras, tudo calmo, fora o cheiro a queimado! Nem o fogo se mete com o Isaltino! 😂

2025-07-28 10:07:51 GMT

Introducing version 2.0 of PaperVault, now available for iOS and macOS! 😁
PaperVault is my niche app you can use for secure, long term storage of data in paper, using sequences of QR Codes. Use it for information you need if you lose your digital devices, like remote backup passwords, bank account details, etc.
Why paper? Digital media stops working after a few years. Paper lasts a lifetime is stored in a proper environment like a bank safe.
Happy PaperVaulting!
https://papervault.eu

2025-07-26 19:57:24 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 Very interested in the 840V if you part ways with it! Might consider a G4 as well. Ironically I had one in the past (450 MHz bought new, was my main machine for a while through the graduation) my I was foolish to let my parents let go of it.

2025-07-26 19:14:25 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 Let me know what you’ll be letting go! Wouldn’t mind having a desktop 68K machine without an integrated screen if you happen to have one.

2025-07-24 14:59:48 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 How’s the battery?

2025-07-21 16:47:14 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 Is it already on #GlobalTalk? 😄

2025-07-10 13:23:06 GMT

I really, really, REALLY can't wait for the bubble around all this LLM nonsense to burst in flames. And put a strake through its hearth to make sure it doesn't come back.
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2025-07-07 08:34:56 GMT

Watching @nprofile…g8y8 videos and adding to my list of places in Europe to visit. This one is incredible, I spent the first few minutes thinking “I wish he hadn’t muted the ambient sound so people could realize how quiet a city without cars is”. Then I realized he didn’t! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TuGAHR78w

2025-07-06 15:07:38 GMT

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@nprofile…66kr 😂 He's right, though!

2025-07-06 14:40:44 GMT

If you're going to be the person who decides to disturb everyone in the street during a peaceful, quiet summer sunday where the only sounds are the wind and the cicadas, by trying to play electric guitar without using headphones, at the very least, play it properly. You suck, dude. You suck really hard.

2025-07-02 07:41:41 GMT

Using LLM has a search engine when I can’t find the answer on Google is already bad enough. If you are building software by letting these things go wild unattended on your code, I really don’t want your software anywhere near my devices.
Unsurprisingly all the URLs in this section, including the GitHub link to the supposed repository, fail with either 404 or non existent DNS.
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2025-07-01 09:33:11 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 I don't trust APC much. Had a rack-mounted one in our university lab. One day we got there and there was a strong chemical smell all around. It ended up being one of the batteries inside the UPS that, without any previous warning, swelled and starting leaking nasty stuff. It grew in size so much we had to force the enclosure to, huh, stretch a bit so we could remove the battery from within.

2025-07-01 09:12:30 GMT

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This is a market that really needs someone new to come and redesign these things from scratch. It always feel like you're buying a revision of something designed 20 years ago. I mean, a 2022 model comes with a CD with software. A CD. Who the hell still has a CD-ROM drive?
Ok, I do. 😆 But normal people don’t.

2025-07-01 09:09:32 GMT

On one hand, I really should buy an UPS. On the other, all the cheap stuff seems like it's going to burn down my place. I'm tempted by Eaton ECO. The PROs are better but they have a continuously running fan that people say is noisy. ECO don't have a fan, but also don't have AVR, so they are completely offline. Seeing people in Spain say <2 year old ECOs turned off immediately when the recent outage started. APC and CyberPower seem even worse.

2025-06-27 09:30:50 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 @nprofile…alvl I always loved it! Things were a bit chaotic to say the least but I love so much stuff about that period before steve coming back. Crazy hardware stuff (personality cards!), software (OpenDoc, Cybergod, the 7.5 help system, etc) and design.

2025-06-27 09:03:33 GMT

I love the Claris style cover art! 😃
https://aus.social/@decryption/114748086185792207

2025-06-21 15:12:17 GMT

Fine instruction manuals! If you only speak English, enjoy your battery fire.
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2025-06-07 18:41:48 GMT

When I was a 10 year old kid or so, living in a country that seemed so distant in every way from California where all the cool things were being made, HyperCard was the trigger that made me understand I could write my own graphical, complex, Mac-feeling apps. I never stopped since then. No other set of ones and zeros was so important for my career and life.
Thank you, Bill. Rest in peace. May you keep building cool stacks wherever you are.
https://masto.pt/@OnceUponAGoblin/114643432853682723
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2025-06-05 09:11:56 GMT

It's kind of amazing (and certainly depressing) the Portuguese President assaults a woman in the middle of an event with multiple TV cameras pointing at him and this barely makes the news. This is just one more episode in an already long list that should have made him resign or being pushed out immediately. https://expresso.pt/politica/presidente/2025-06-04-nao-me-agarre-o-pescoco-marcelo-rebelo-de-sousa-confrontado-por-mulher-na-feira-do-livro-7f70463b

2025-05-30 20:26:41 GMT

Oh wow! 😻 I fear I may spend way too much money on this website.
https://typo.social/@Luke/114597156518280262

2025-05-29 15:42:43 GMT

I've been following MacInTouch for… decades… I don't even know any more. Sad to see the site being paused. I'm hoping Ric brings it back sometime in the feature, but whatever his decision is, I'm thankful for many, many years of great content about the Macintosh and Apple. Thank you, sir, for all your work. 🙏
https://www.macintouch.com

2025-05-26 20:43:29 GMT

This gets better and better. Apparently Prince was not in the Lisbon airport. Instead he had his private jet in Tires, an airport a few km from Lisbon used by many such planes. He and the crew apparently reacted poorly to the mandatory security luggage inspection, with screaming and commotion. Airport staff says even private jet passangers must go through regular security, as legally required. A case of “I’m too rich, rules shouldn’t apply to me?” https://eco.sapo.pt/2025/05/26/ceo-da-cloudflare-tera-estado-envolvido-em-incidente-a-saida-de-tires-acusa-diretor-do-aerodromo/

2025-05-26 13:30:47 GMT

Cloudflare CEO seems to be having a meltdown about Portugal because he's stuck at the immigration line in LIS due to problems with new immigration IT systems.
Buddy, you're not wrong, but I’ve waited almost 3 hours for my parents in SFO and this was during Obama time. You're American, you can enter the US easily, you have no idea what others have to go through. Especially if they have the "wrong" skin color or religion.
If that's your criteria for stopping investing in PT, stop US as well.

2025-05-17 09:01:04 GMT

Does anyone happen to have photos of the internals of the top clamshell of a PowerBook G3 (Pismo, Lombard, etc) popped open? I'm trying to find photos of the brittle plastic tabs that keep both parts together so I know what I'm dealing with before causing a tragedy. It's surprisingly hard to find this on the intertubes. #retrocomputing #RetroApple

2025-05-16 14:25:11 GMT

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@nprofile…9gx4 @nprofile…0ua7 Menos mau, isso é fácil de resolver. Quando houve o problema do envelope não caber no outro é que foi mais "interessante”. 😅

2025-05-16 12:41:57 GMT

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@nprofile…9gx4 @nprofile…0ua7 Voltaram ao problema do segundo envelope não caber no primeiro? Ou é apenas má qualidade da cola?

2025-05-15 17:04:01 GMT

Oh wow, this site is great! Artifacts from the internet early days. How many do you remember? How many have you used? 😁 https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

2025-05-14 08:42:16 GMT

Wow YouTube out of nowhere started dubbing videos and there’s apparently no way to revert to the original audio unless I’m signed in. What a culturally clueless feature.

2025-05-07 09:35:34 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 I fail to see where the problem is. 😄 But if you ever need the space back, ping me.

2025-05-04 10:00:07 GMT

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@nprofile…23y3 Sim, a ideia é manter sempre as pilhas na caixa original ou numa caixa dedicada a pilhas, nunca dentro dos aparelhos. Vão borrar mais cedo ou mais tarde. A tecnologia dd baterias recarregáveis tem estado a melhorar, mas disse isto porque tenho cá um rádio solar que já não dá sinais de vida. O outro com que eu ainda ouvi muitas emissões da Voxx noite dentro foi só meter umas pilhas manhosas que andavam por aqui e ficou logo a dar música. 😁

2025-05-04 09:49:40 GMT

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@nprofile…23y3 Coisas com baterias recarregáveis não são necessariamente uma boa ideia. Vão ficar esquecidas durante anos e a bateria vai-se degradar bastante depressa. Um pack de pilhas que mudas de 5 em 5 anos ou seja qual for a data que vem impressa no pacote é provavelmente melhor aposta.

2025-05-03 17:50:22 GMT

First fully electric car in Portugal, 1975. Top speed 64km/h, range from 40 to 90km, could charge on any regular 230V power socket.
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2025-05-03 17:11:41 GMT

How hard was it to run a coal power plant? This hard.
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2025-04-25 21:12:19 GMT

Today was the 51th anniversary of the carnation revolution, celebrating the end of a fascist regime in Portugal. It's also the 50th anniversary of the first free elections in this country, where 91% of the registered voters did vote.
And I finally could be among the crowd, instead of watching it from across the pond. 😁 Walked down the avenue next to the left-wing Bloco de Esquerda supporters, who have a lot more energy and a lot less age than me…
25 de Abril Sempre! Fascismo Nunca Mais!
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2025-04-18 15:19:00 GMT

Hey Canadians 🇨🇦, you know the best thing you can do on this Good Friday? Go out and vote 🗳️! Advance voting starts today, and this election is really important. https://vancouversun.com/news/federal_election/federal-election-2025-advance-voting-starts-today-dates-times-locations

2025-04-11 05:22:29 GMT

Técnico >>> Columbia.
My univ and a few others in Portugal have an “American corner” that promotes the US culture and technical and scientific events (and propaganda).
That US gov is cancelling this program because the university refused to answer a US gov questionnaire asking if they had a climate agenda, connections to community and socialist parties, entities promoting mass immigration etc.
I usually have not a lot of good things to say about my univ, but well done. Fuck these fascists.

2025-04-07 17:26:07 GMT

For a bunch of years I sent my ballot via post to vote on the Portuguese elections from Vancouver.
Today I did the opposite for the first time, I just dropped the ballot for the Canadian federal elections on the mail here in Portugal.
If you are Canadian, no matter where you are, vote. These elections may very well define the very existence of Canada as an independent country.
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2025-04-02 17:47:01 GMT

Salut, Barcelona! I finally visited your superblocks! Well, two of them at least. They’re not perfect, but the difference between them and the average car-infested street here is drastic.
The noise levels go way down as soon as one walks into them, and even with bad weather and few people out, human voices are clearly perceived instead of combustion engines and tires on asphalt.
There are green spaces and people walk wherever they want. We need more, much more of these.
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2025-03-28 17:53:00 GMT

The hill is walkable again and the weather is beautiful! ☺️
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2025-03-13 14:17:00 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 The PowerMac has Ethernet and RS422 which is nice for #GlobalTalk!

2025-03-13 14:09:43 GMT

If you had to choose between an LC 475 and a Power Mac 7200/75 for similar price, what would you pick and why?
"Both" is an acceptable answer! 😛
#MARCHintosh

2025-03-11 16:23:56 GMT

Abandoned house with a pool.
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2025-03-07 00:20:53 GMT

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@nprofile…uauk On top of what @nprofile…qkwt said, it’s mostly the same as a real Mac with the difference you need to configure the emulator to either bridge the Ethernet interface and obtain an IP directly on the network or, if not possible, to configure port forwarding on UDP port 387 on the emulator’s NAT. On Basilisk II you can add a redir line to the config file: https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7782