Gregory's Server
Steve Troughton-Smith
Forgetting Xcode's official artificial minimum iOS target version, how far can modern versions of Swift actually back-deploy?
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Tyler A.
@stroughtonsmith Incredible to watch this game torpedo itself into oblivion. Hard to fathom that no one stepped in and stopped this. 
Kostas Karayannis
@stroughtonsmith Sony has been user-hostile since they became dominant with the PS4. Shame that Xbox has become so irrelevant. Has made this life-long console gamer (and PlayStation fan) turn to PC gaming for the first time.
Steve Troughton-Smith
🥳 AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now in the EU for a nominal <€2/yr subscription price (to cover the Core Technology Fee), which includes access to @rileytestut’s Delta (which plays NES, SNES, GB/C/A, DS, N64 and Genesis games). It’s not fully open to third party devs yet, but there's a whole lot more to come in the future. Distributing your apps will be as easy as hosting a JSON file and pointing it at your notarized IPAs
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Григорий Клюшников
I'm curious how easy it would be to bypass the "in the EU" part. Surely someone is working on this?
Steve Troughton-Smith
We're a long way from anything like this happening, but, man, seeing Threads profiles light up here conjures a potential future where you might follow Instagram, TikTok, maybe even YouTube accounts and more right from Ivory. How much better could it be to be able to repost or quote-post the /original source item/ instead of a link to some external site every time. ActivityPub all the things!
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Rowan Johnson
@stroughtonsmith surely this is part of Meta’s play with Threads? They lost a big chunk of potential users to TikTok and Snapchat, and of course lots of people have moved from Facebook to Instagram. They’ve seen social media migration patterns, and I bet they’re partly doing this to keep existing users on their apps for longer. If you can access whatever the fun new thing is from the app you’re already using, you’re not going to leave that app, right?
Martin Porcheron
@stroughtonsmith it feels like we might finally get back to (and improve upon) Google Reader
Steve Troughton-Smith
Finally tried out the iPhoneOS 1.0 qemu build, and it really is a treat. It really was so rudimentary https://devos50.github.io/blog/2022/ipod-touch-qemu-pt2/  
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Konrad Kołakowski
@stroughtonsmith I would love this emulation to evolve for the next iOS versions (probably with some emulated server components? 🤔) Emulating it under iPhone at one point would be a nice touch as well 😎🤓
Steve Troughton-Smith
OK it took me a while, but I worked out I have to manually patch SpringBoard to enable third-party app icons. I figured I’d see if Lights Off runs, based on the code @chockenberry released — but that's all iPhoneOS 2.0 code, for the SDK, and needs a ton of work to backport it to iPhoneOS 1.0 😔 
sam henri gold
@stroughtonsmith Check out stevenote mode: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/110245575176907537
Steve Troughton-Smith
♻️ Recycled thread, June 22 2022 I had an inkling it might be possible to patch AppKit in Mac OS X 10.0 to re-enable the NEXTSTEP interface style after it was removed during the Developer Previews — and I was right! So here’s the shipping, consumer Mac OS X without Aqua turned on. It’s rather broken and crashy
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MrMasterKeyboard
@stroughtonsmith That looks really cool! Looks similar to the older versions of Gnome!
Steve Troughton-Smith
⭐️ Reminder that if you see a hashtag for an event, or conference, on Mastodon, that hashtag can be followed like any other account and will be delivered to your home timeline until you unfollow it
Benno Kress
@stroughtonsmith I‘m curious how does that work technically? With federation how does your server know about posts containing that hashtag from people that are neither followed by you nor anyone else on your instance? Or does following a hashtag only give you posts from the federated and home timeline? That would make it still a nice feature but also only half as useful for events where you want to find new people to follow by first following the hastag.
Steve Troughton-Smith
At this point, I really would appreciate a tool that just parses an Xcode SceneKit .scn scene and spits out a built-in-code representation of it. Xcode's SceneKit editor has been a liability for years, and it exhausts all my energy to fix its compatibility issues every time I update my projects 😪 PaintCode, but for SceneKit scenes
Steve Troughton-Smith
Just had my mind blown: So I NSLogged a description of my SceneKit hierarchy for the luls and gave it to ChatGPT and told it to turn it into Swift code. Gibberish, right? Well it had NO PROBLEM figuring out what I meant, and it just did what I wanted 🤯  |
LC_VERSION_MIN_IPHONEOS on the embedded Swift libraries is set to iOS 7.0 👀 I should do some testing…
@stroughtonsmith last i checked it was iOS 8 but that was a while ago (2020) - in *theory* as long as they've kept support for the built-in Swift runtime i wouldn't imagine that'd have changed...? (12.2 is the minimum so if they officially support 12.0 still then that shouldn't be an issue)
i wasn't able to get anything working on iOS 7 even though they said it worked