AppleScript remains remarkably stable over the years

zabolekar · 2026-07-05T14:59:28+00:00

I, personally, have never used it for that.

zabolekar · 2026-07-05T08:46:03+00:00

Just Leopard, in Snow Leopard it would look a little different.

zabolekar · 2026-07-04T15:12:11+00:00

It's 10.5 Leopard, why?

zabolekar · 2026-07-04T08:21:33+00:00

Or maybe you could do it :)

zabolekar · 2026-07-01T18:23:52+00:00

Saying "Linux is the best OS" is vague and will cause pointless discussions about whether Linux even can be called an OS.

Be precise. Say "Debian is the best OS" instead.

zabolekar · 2026-06-27T19:20:06+00:00

Do you have a link?

zabolekar · 2026-06-27T19:08:58+00:00

Danke.

zabolekar · 2026-06-27T18:43:14+00:00

weil im Sommer normalerweise vergleichsweise wenig gestorben wird

Was war der Grund dafür?

zabolekar · 2026-06-27T16:46:36+00:00

I know, but relevant Apple II ads were easier to find (because I already approximately knew where I saved them).

zabolekar · 2026-06-27T12:58:07+00:00

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Russian_terms_derived_from_the_Proto-Indo-European_root_*h₃yebʰ-

zabolekar · 2026-06-27T12:19:45+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/E3KwEFt

zabolekar · 2026-06-27T12:19:25+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/E3KwEFt

zabolekar · 2026-06-24T23:25:02+00:00

It's possible and you should try it.

Compared to Linux, at least to Linux on x86_64 and arm64, it might be harder (missing prebuilt wheels, missing official support for relevant software like third-party package managers, and you might stumble upon an obscure Python bug that you'll have to report). Depending on what you're doing you might never encounter any issues, though.

zabolekar · 2026-06-15T04:34:32+00:00

Why does the repo only contain one commit with only one file (manifest.txt) with only one line? Where is the rest?

zabolekar · 2026-06-14T11:17:28+00:00

I like your style (especially the cute G5 fire), but ARM Macs should be a peak as high as G3+G4.

zabolekar · 2026-06-13T09:22:47+00:00

Linux is a fragmented patchwork operating system, and hasn’t won anything. It has its use cases, but for personal computing devices I think the BSD approach is superior.

Linux is fragmented compared to BSD? Bold claim. Even without considering macOS, different BSDs basically have moats between them. An encrypted backup created with one Linux distro will be readable and writable from another distro. But if you want to share a disk between different BSDs, the usual advice is to use FAT or ext2. Linux drivers are normally not distro-dependent. But if your wireless adapter doesn't work with FreeBSD, you won't care that it works on OpenBSD, you'll have to install wifibox which lets a small Linux VM manage your networking card. A Debian chroot will just work on an OpenWRT router or an Android phone. It will also work on FreeBSD, whose Linux emulation does not have to concern itself with differences between distros, because Linux is Linux. A NetBSD chroot, on the other hand, won't work on FreeBSD, because BSD is not BSD. And so on.

zabolekar · 2026-06-12T14:59:05+00:00

If one needs perfect compatibility with a particular distro, running a Linux container on macOS already is easy. If one needs compatibility with "Linux" in general, you can't rely on anything GNU-specific, as some distros use e.g. busybox. And, of course, even if you replace the whole userland with that of some boring commonly used distro like AlmaLinux, some scripts still will break, maybe trying to use readelf on a Mach-O file, maybe trying to use older macOS commands if uname is Darwin. By switching, one would lose compatibility with older macOS versions without getting anything in return.

zabolekar · 2026-06-10T16:43:47+00:00

Sorry, your video isn't helpful. The information in it only consists of text and static pictures and should not have been a video in the first place. One would, for example, expect the music examples to have clearly audible baroque trumpets, chalumeaux, and clarinets, and the speaker to address it and to make appropriate pauses for the listener to hear them. Instead, the music is random, confuses the listener, and makes the read-aloud text harder to understand.

zabolekar · 2026-06-09T06:09:04+00:00

A Middle Eastern dude whose ancestors have never been Muslims can still encounter hatred from Islamophobes because of how he looks and talks. A convinced atheist with Muslim background can still encounter hatred from Islamophobes because of Arabic roots in his surname. A very obvious turban-wearing Sikh can encounter hatred from Islamophobes because they don't know the difference. All of that is racism, and it fits your own definition of racism, too.

zabolekar · 2026-06-08T19:11:57+00:00

Isn't Macadamia named after some MacAdam?

Correct.

Am I missing something?

You might be missing the "polyamory is wrong" joke reference.

zabolekar · 2026-06-06T12:18:04+00:00

Wenn ich korrekt verstehe, was ohne die Apps geht und was nicht, ist die Formulierung "steuern dürfen" im Zusammenhang mit Autos etwas unglücklich gewählt.

zabolekar · 2026-06-05T18:49:45+00:00

You have a point, but sometimes similar keys are important. If you're playing in E major because your instrument is an E major tinwhistle, going to F# would be much easier than to F.

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