A collection of really amazing open source projects, where people are getting Mastodon clients to work on 70’s mainframes, the Apple II, and all kinds of crazy things.

  • 14th_cylon
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    11 months ago

    is this a big joke, or do these really exist?

    • Matt@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      They really exist! Open source communities can be… interesting, to say the least.

      • 14th_cylon
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        11 months ago

        wow. that is lot of wasted time. i totally do approve 😆

        • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPM
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          11 months ago

          I dunno if it’s time wasted, a bunch of hobbyists built cool things that work on old computers, across a variety of systems and platforms.

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            11 months ago

            i didn’t mean it in bad way. i totally get that sometimes money/time is not the only priority.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPM
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      11 months ago

      These are 100% real. Many of them require hardware augmentation to handle HTTPS traffic, but they all work.