@colin_mcmillen @dec_hl @BenCollver @andypiper I love the QR code idea, provided that I can find a library to generate them that I can easily backport to Python 1.5.2 But while that solves the problem in one direction, it doesn’t help with getting the login code back to the retro machine.

I’m not a fan of the screen scraping approach, given its fragility - my concern is that it won’t work for instances running older versions of Mastodon, or for instances with customized or themed login screens. But that may be the only option which involves completing the login process entirely on the retro machine, without additional dev support.

@dec_hl @BenCollver Yeah, the password grant type is being removed in Mastodon 4.4 (it’s already gone if your instance is running a nightly build). I wrote a bit about it here: https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/113348186283238574

I thought it wouldn’t affect me since I’ve always used the OAuth authorization_code grant type in Macstodon - but Mastodon 4.3 did something with the CSRF implementation that stops the login page from working on vintage browsers, even with an HTTPS proxy in place.

So I’m going to have to rewrite the whole auth/login mechanism to use screen scraping (which is what the Apple II client is doing - https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/blob/master/src/mastodon/api/oauth.c#L14) - haven’t had the time to do so yet unfortunately.

This most recent update and the next one aren’t great for clients for vintage computers

Finally deleted my Twitter account after leaving it locked for the last two years. Goodbye and good riddance

Update on my Netatalk 4 migration issues:

One of the Netatalk developers reached out to me over email, and said the following:

“I have a feeling you are running into a "bug" with older AppleShare clients. I noticed with System 7.1 and the stock (?) AppleShare 3.5 client that it could not connect to a Netatalk share if the size of a FPGetSrvrInfo packet exceeded 512 bytes (payload minus DDP header). This can easily happen with Netatalk 4 if you have all the UAMs enabled and have things like a specific listening port set or a really long host name.

I plan on fixing this problem, but for now, disable any UAMs that you are not using to shorten the string.”

So, I removed “uams_clrtxt.so” from my UAM list in afp.conf (I didn’t have that one enabled in my Netatalk 2 container), and after restarting the container, it worked just fine, and I was able to connect from my QEMU installation running System 7.1.

(I didn’t test from the IIfx, SE, or IIgs because I didn’t want to boot them up, but I suspect that they’re now working just fine as well).

Anyway, I’m back on 2.x for the moment which has the most up-to-date files from my shares, but I’ll try the migration again this weekend.

#RetroComputing #GlobalTalk #Netatalk #VintageMac #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/113308273677709443

@octothorpe @CactuarJoe Darn, I have Amazon Prime Video but I guess they don’t carry Buck Rogers in Canada

Guess it’s time to sail the high seas…

@octothorpe @CactuarJoe This looks AMAZING. The perfect amount of 70’s campy sci-fi. Is the full episode available anywhere that you know of? (I did a quick YouTube search, with no luck)

Woah, looks like oldbytes.space increased the character limit of posts from 1000 to 5000 characters.

Guess this means you’ll be getting less threads from me, and more “this should have been a blog post”-sized toots

@chris I voted on Sunday and one of the workers there said that there had been around 1300-1500 people showing up each day! I was surprised to see the lines so long on an advance polling day, but it sure is great for democracy to see a turnout like this!

There were lots of first time voters too, every time someone said it was their first time, the poll workers would loudly announce it and everyone in line would start cheering and applauding