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: https://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 #c #unix #linux #macos #macosx #osx #apple #powerpc #retro #retrocomputing #bsd #mac #macintosh

#mac #apple

This is interesting. CopyQ is the first FLOSS app I've seen to give instructions on how to get around the "Can't run $X. Move to Trash" frustration you usually see.

https://copyq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

Specifically it has you run:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/CopyQ.app

codesign --force --deep --sign - /Applications/CopyQ.app

Much as I find a lot of Apple's recent directions super distasteful, I still "live there" whenever I'm on my laptop, so I'd best get cozy with those commands :)

Haha, #Apple had to change the YouTube thumbnail for its Liquid Glass video because the play button was in quite an unfortunate spot #LiquidAss

https://www.theverge.com/news/684321/no-more-liquid-ass

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Screenshot of the YouTube thumbnail for the video. The play button blocks the G and L in the word Glass, which makes it look like Apple’s message is “introducing Liquid ass”

I see obvious issues from a contrast perspective, but also: "Liquid Glass" looks absolutely horrendous from an ADHD perspective. Yes, let's have the static part of the UI literally flash and draw attention as it remains still!

These Apple press demos are wildly distracting to my eye; I'm happy I don't use any Apple products, but don't look forward to everyone trying to copy the worst parts of this gaudy aesthetic.

#accessibility #a11y #LiquidGlass #apple #wwdc #wwdc25 #wwdc2025

Getting a chance to be part of the Platform State of the Union at #WWDC25 for #Apple was a huge honor and so much fun!!! And even better was spending the rest of the day chatting with so many brilliant and enthusiastic developers! 🤩

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Perspective from the second row of an open air viewing of Apple’s SOTU. I’m large on a screen gesturing with my hands wearing a green print shirt and black pants in an outdoor setting.

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A group of all the SOTU speakers gather in from of the stage at WWDC.

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Selfie: Me and Taylor, another SOTU presenter. We’re both wearing red lanyards.

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Selfie: me and Richard, another sotu presenter.

Apple introduces new Liquid Glass design language

Apple at WWDC announced iOS 26, introducing a comprehensive visual redesign built around its new "Liquid Glass" concept, alongside expanded Apple Intelligence capabilities, updates to core communication apps, and more.

Liquid Glass is a translucent material that reflects and refracts surroundings to create dynamic, responsive interface

https://www.osnews.com/story/142526/apple-introduces-new-liquid-glass-design-language/

#Apple

Hi, I'm Tim Cook and I'm going to teach you counting numbers: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,26, ...

#apple #ios #ios26

For years I have told #Siri to text “my wife” and it has worked perfectly fine. For years

This evening it suddenly breaks. On Watch and phone

How

How is Siri still this incompetently awfully wholly and astoundingly fucking broken and pathetic that something as simple as this can break. How in the goddamned fucking shit can #Apple fuck this the fuck up

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Screenshot of piece of fucking garbage Siri no longer recognizing “my wife” as a nickname which has worked perfectly fine for years because it’s fucking garbage ass dog water sewer piss software

Thanks to Bill Atkinson and QuickDraw, I got excited about writing software that created graphic output and was easy to use. And thanks to the Mac, I would soon leave architecture behind and start a new career.

#BillAtkinson #apple #macintosh

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A graph of Land Use categories, from a grad student project in late 1986.

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A 2D map of a city with primary and secondary streets, showing land usage. This was sort of like SimCity, 3 years before SimCity.

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About box for Palladio, a grad school project to programmatically draw Palladian villas.

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A dialog box for setting parameters that will generate a Palladian villa.

Thank you Bill for all you’ve done. We’re running MacPaint today at the computer museum.

#apple #macintosh #mac #billatkinson #MacPaint

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A screenshot of the MacPaint about which features a graphic of bill atkinson

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A Mac plus running MacPaint

RIP Bill Atkinson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atkinson

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606

#retrocomputing #HyperCard #apple

Just added Rocky Linux 10 (STG) to the Vagrant box collection for ARM64 systems. Have fun on your Mac, Devs! Happy coding!

Box: https://portal.cloud.hashicorp.com/services/vagrant/registries/gyptazy/boxes/rocky10.0-arm64
Collection: https://portal.cloud.hashicorp.com/services/vagrant/registries/gyptazy

#apple #mac #macbook #vmware #vmwarefusion #vmwaredesktop #rocky #rockylinux #rocky10 #rockylinux10 #vagrant

#Trump threatens to hit #Apple with 25% #tariff on #iPhones made outside #US https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-apple-25-tariff-iphones/

Former #Apple Design Guru #JonyIve to Take Expansive Role at #OpenAI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/former-apple-design-guru-jony-ive-to-take-expansive-role-at-openai-5787f7da

New #blog post!

Let's explore virtualizing the different BSDs on Apple Silicon.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250222.html

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Unix #Linux #virtualization #apple #macOS #arm #aarch64 #arm64

If you are an occasional #Signal user on your iPhone, you might want to check the app now.

#Apple seems to have further tightened the #iOS strangulation of resources to rarely used apps, so much so that Signal cannot even provide a notification there is a message waiting.

A number of friends -- even a professor of computer science at Cambridge of my acquaintance 🫣 -- have entirely missed important messages from me due to this.

The @EUCommission has ordered Apple to fix this under the #DMA 👏🏻

I've been meaning to write about the state of #accessibility support in #tech for a while now but figured it was a good time to do it now since The Register published this article.

As a #parent of a child with #disabilities, as well as being a #disability #advocate and #technology professional, I appreciate The Register's coverage of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and Apple's pursuit in improving accessibility in their OSes. Accessibility support is simultaneously necessary and perpetually a challenge. Often it seems like a clumsy afterthought or just prohibitively expensive.

As much as I am an #opensource advocate, the reality is out of all the mainstream OSes, #Microsoft #Windows has, unquestionably, the best support. #Apple has some catching up to do. The open source world trails behind with projects in various states of quality.

One of the areas needing serious improvement is eye gaze technology. Users who have serious motor impairments (spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, ALS) rely on this technology to communicate. Windows 10 supports this functionality natively yet #Linux still treats it as a #DIY project, at best. There is little coordination between desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME and #XFCE nor is there any kind of unified API.

It's 2025, we have reached the first quarter of the 21st century and accessibility support is still an afterthought. We can and must do better.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/18/apple_accessibility_features_2025/

#news #technews #technology

If you're running $CORP, you might not have noticed yet that you're a hostage, or you're one with Stockholm syndrome, but definitely part of the problem, and a liability to others.

#microsoft #google #apple #amazon

Why #Apple Still Hasn’t Cracked #AI https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-18/how-apple-intelligence-and-siri-ai-went-so-wrong

Reading this article by @stefano with great interest.

Many things can be learned here.

#Apple #iPhone #ClosedSource #OpenSource #iMac #Mach #kernel #SteveJobs

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/14/apple-devices-reliability-question-20-plus-year-user-retrospective-updated/

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The image displays a screenshot of a webpage titled "Me and Apple: The Devices and Their Problems." The background of the webpage is a dark brown color, and the text is in a lighter brown font. The article begins with a paragraph that discusses the author's experiences with Apple products, mentioning that while they are beautiful, they are not without design flaws and reliability issues. The author plans to recount their problems with Apple devices, concluding with their last device from the Cupertino company. The text also notes that Apple products are expensive and not as reliable as they should be. At the bottom of the page, there is a note indicating sections on devices 1 through 5. The webpage is displayed on a mobile device, as indicated by the status bar at the top showing the time, battery level, and signal strength. The URL in the browser's address bar is "my-notes.dragas.ne," and there are 33 notes visible. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.226 Wh

This week’s exciting instalment of Security Vulnerabilities that would be deterministically mitigated by #CHERI is a multi-part series sponsored by #Apple.

Media decoders are trivial to sandbox on a CHERI system (around four lines of code). They take an input buffer and produce an output. They can run with write access to that output buffer and nothing else. An attacker who gains arbitrary-code execution in an image decoder, for example, gains the ability to write an image to the output buffer: exactly the same rights that someone who can substitute a different image file has already.

iOS 18.5 patches many iPhone and iPad security vulnerabilties in iOS
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122404 Update your device ASAP.

#apple #security #infosec

Did not catch this when posted, but not sure how I feel.

> All of you who are big fans of using Apple default apps with their default settings, take note.

> Apple makes headlines occasionally for refusing to cooperate with government demands for access to customer data. According to their own transparency reports, though, the company gives the government what it wants in 90% of cases.

https://appaddict.app/post/mega-post-protect-yourself-like-your-freedom-depends-on-it

#apple #privacy

Xtool: cross-platform Xcode replacement for Linux, Windows, and macOS

A few months ago I shared my Swift SDK for Darwin, which allows you to build iOS Swift Packages on Linux, amongst other things. I mentioned that a lot of work still needed to be done, such as handling codesigning, packaging, and bundling.

I'm super excited to share that we've finally reached the poin

https://www.osnews.com/story/142331/xtool-cross-platform-xcode-replacement-for-linux-windows-and-macos/

#Apple

Wow you know things are bad when @siracusa is calling for new leadership.

https://hypercritical.co/2025/05/09/apple-turnover

#Apple

Even John Siracusa thinks Tim Cook should step down

John Siracusa, one third of the excellent ATP podcast, developer of several niche Mac utilities, and author of some of the best operating system reviews of all time, has called for Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, to step down. Now, countless people call for Tim Cook to stand down all the time, but when someone like Siracusa, an ardent Mac user

https://www.osnews.com/story/142325/even-john-siracusa-thinks-tim-cook-should-step-down/

#Apple

@wolf480pl @cas it's easy...

The reasons one can despise something and the reason one appreciates it can be different.

I.e. I can appreciate #macOS for it's #accessibility right from the #installer but I can #despise it for #Apple not selling it as a commercial #Unix distro for a #subscription

Same with #bash: I can appreciate it for being better than #sh (unix-#shell) , #tcsh or #csh but I despise it for not having modernized like #fish.

• And with fish I appreciate it but I despise it's not the default #shell for any #Linux distro I can use in #production.

It's called having "mixed feelings" or rather #NuancedOpinion.

• Kinda like how every #skiddie and #TechIlliterate can use #Windows but that Windows is shit and the only reason they can is because they got groomed into being #consoomers that accept #enshittification as a fact of life.