You don't use open source software because it's better (it usually isn't).

[theraccoonbytes@theforkiverse.com]

@mcc we should have a law/regulation that says that any discontinued/non-supported software MUST be made #opensource

[steve@social.coop]

@mcc Not to undermine your point, but this strikes me as more of an open file format issue than an issue of software as such. As long as we have open file formats, we can never be locked into a vendor.

[indigoparadox@mastodon.social]

@LordCaramac @Lenni @RogerBW @mcc I got the source to compile on my 64-bit Debian Trixie with gcc 14 with some minor tweaking: https://codeberg.org/indigoparadox/sapphire

It seems to run enough to get a REPL going, but I haven't played with it yet. There's some gnarly pointer/int math going on so who knows how it'll fare in 64-bit land? 😌

[qgustavor@urusai.social]

@mcc And that's why I'm trying to switch jobs

[rspfau@ecoevo.social]

@stib @BoloMKXXVIII @MisterWanko @mcc If only open source linux software came with better names it'd be significantly better!

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

@BoloMKXXVIII @mcc Basically the places where people are using F/OSS because it's better are the same places where people forget that they're using F/OSS. Eg, web servers. Everyone's using Apache or nginx, and it's not like they're saying "oh I'll skip MS IIS and use a free server instead", they just use nginx because it's the default option for any serious infrastructure.

Some day apps will be like that as well, but we have some walled gardens to topple first.

[fxchip@hachyderm.io]

@Jkelly @mcc Yeah, but at least in that case _someone_ can pick it up and keep going, even if only for themselves

[devolute@mastodon.social]

@mcc Asking you to export to SWF in 2026 is slightly surprising news.

[crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange]

@dbat @mcc

What does "amen", or the Jewish contraction el melekh ne’eman, translated: “God, faithful King,”

Have to do with FLOSS software?

[bunny@mk.absturztau.be]

@mcc@mastodon.social @eedly@mindly.social Back when Macromedia owned the Flash IP people actually wanted to use it but the player was crap, and they would not let people to make their own to have total control over the platform.

The result is it died.

Now you can write your own player but nobody cares anymore, we have WebGL. ​​

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@indigoparadox @Lenni @RogerBW @mcc Thanks. I think the last time I wrote any code in C was some 15 years ago; the entire number of C lines I have written in my life is probably less than 3000, and I have forgotten most of what little I used to know about GCC, and that was ages ago.
I'm much more familiar with Pascal and Python, I suck at Java, and I could probably still do a lot of silly things in GW-BASIC because that's what came with my first MS-DOS PC. I had to learn some Haskell at uni, but I never used it again and forgot almost everything. I also had to learn C++ and forgot most about it, although its similarity to Java means that I probably remember more than I think, but I stink when it comes to C++.
I mostly write single purpose command line tools in Pascal or Python for my own purposes, and most of those get called by bash scripts.

[bunny@mk.absturztau.be]

@indigoparadox@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social @LordCaramac@discordian.social @Lenni@fosstodon.org @RogerBW@discordian.social You can compile 32bit if you insist. Many distributions still support it, at least on x86.

Also the way to do the global variable is you put an extern declaration in the header, and non-extern declaration in one C file. ​​

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@wollman @mcc I still haven't even updated all of my own Python code from Python 2.x to Python 3.x yet. I'll probably do it all within a single week as soon as it becomes too much of a hassle to get Python 2 to work alongside 3.

[tsukaj@defcon.social]

@crankylinuxuser @dbat @mcc he's just agreeing with the post

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@bunny @mcc @indigoparadox @Lenni @RogerBW I'll give it a try later, but right now I'm too busy playing with my kitten Momo who had to visit the strange humans in the scary house full of strange animals and weird chemical smells who stuck her with needles earlier today. It definitely sounds nice to play with Sapphire again. It's just a completely different sort of sound design compared to my usual synths (mostly ancient digital synths from the 1980s and 1990s).

[seanking@woem.men]

@mcc@mastodon.social What Adobe is doing to Animate is like if Microsoft suddenly shot Windows in the nuts and then said it would be dead in five minutes.

[indigoparadox@mastodon.social]

@bunny @mcc @LordCaramac @Lenni @RogerBW On the first pass, I wanted to modify the original source as little as possible.

[crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange]

@tsukaj @dbat @mcc

Ah, I guess that makes sense?

[dmaonr@mastodon.online]

@LordCaramac The oldest liveCD I could find was Debian5 from 2009. there are 3 binaries in the tgz. all from 1998!. one is windows the other two are linux. I didn't try compiling. the binary src/sapphire maybe works? I don't know what I am looking at.

old debian: https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@dmaonR I might try using the .exe with Wine. I sometimes use windows binaries from around the turn of the millennium with Wine.