TinyApps.org

Seems like we'll need to coalesce on a term for these. A microapp[0]? Or a tiny app[1][2]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microapp [1] https://tinyprojects.dev/projects [2] https://tinyapps.org/

> It's a real shame there's nothing like Wine for the late PPC/early Intel era of OS X. That entire galaxy of apps basically just no longer have anything to run on. PPC apps run great in QEMU/UTM on Apple silicon: Run Tiger, Leopard, or any Mac OS X PowerPC version on M1 https://tinyapps.org/docs/tiger-on-m1.html Intel emulation works too, but is not nearly as performant at present: Virtualizing OpenCore and x86 macOS on Apple Silicon (and even iOS!) https://khronokernel.com/apple/silicon/2021/01/17/QEMU-AS.html Emulating Windows XP x86 under M1 Mac via UTM & QEMU https://tinyapps.org/blog/202105220715_m1_mac_emulate_x86.html

I'm partial to https://tinyapps.org/ as an example of a nice curated collection of apps. I also have fond memories of the tucows repository of PocketPC applications.

Thre used to be this site called tinyapps.com. It may still exist. Edit: It exists, and is: https://tinyapps.org/

"I was using hosts file to block ads and found a significant increase in network latency" I ran in to a similar issue on Windows, which is described here: [1] After following that article's suggestion to disable the Windows "DNS Client" service name resolution returned to normal. [1] - https://tinyapps.org/blog/201809300700_large_hosts_file.html

There's a few solutions: LittleSnitch 4 can continue to work (with the kext) on Big Sur following this: [1] LittleSnitch 5 can block all protected MacOS processes by following this: [2] Murus can use PF and block IPs for Apple services: [3]. This isn't per process, and is really just a UI for the built-in PF process. If you'd like to block the notarization check, you can block trustd (/usr/libexec/trustd) access to ocsp.apple.com (on both system and user process ownership in LittleSnitch). Hope this helps. It's really not as bad as you think, there's a few solutions depending how thoroughly you want to block things. [1] - https://www.obdev.at/support/littlesnitch/245913651253917 [2] - https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it.html [3] - https://www.murusfirewall.com

> I tried it on an older macbook-pro a while back but couldn't get ethernet/wifi working. Perhaps I'll give it another try soon. Yes, you may want to try again, others have had much better success recently, e.g. https://tinyapps.org/docs/haiku/ > Also, I love how the website has that 2002 PHP-nuke cms kinda look and feel to it. Well, under the hood it's Hugo + a custom Bootstrap theme on Netlify; but we are long overdue for a redesign... :p

This reminds me of, and has me nostalgic about, TinyApps[1]. [1] https://tinyapps.org/

to be fair, most existing apps with that monika _are_ lightweight and efficient: tiny c compiler etc (https://tinyapps.org/ for more).

I'm still thankful for https://tinyapps.org even well after it has gone nearly read-only! To qualify for TinyApps, a program must: 1. Not exceed 1.44mb 2. Not be adware 3. Not require the VB/MFC/.NET runtimes. Also, preference is given to apps which are 100% self-contained, requiring no installation, registry changes, etc. 4. Preferably be free, and ideally offer source code. Shareware will only be listed if there is no freeware alternative.

For the better part of a decade there was a challenge put out on the internet and put to every recovery company on the planet for a very standard 80GB drive that contained a standard FAT32 filesystem and a few Megabytes worth of files to be recovered after it had been written with zeros from /dev/zero on linux using DD. The challenge offered $10k for recovery of the files. Once the process had been explained not a single commercial company in the entire world believed they could recover that file and no one took up the challenge and it finished up about a decade ago. People have been doing some really extreme things to clear out drives including 5+ passes and using true random sources but the fact is it is well beyond commercial means to recover data on a drive that is simply set to all zero just once. Maybe a state actor somewhere could read the edges of the data or the theoretic differences of zeroing and its state before that 0 was written but so far no one in the past 2 decades has shown it happen. If you are destroying a drive that is highly secret that another nation might want then sure be paranoid, but otherwise there is no reason for anyone to do anything but zero out a drive and that includes almost every single company. Most drives these days come with a secure wipe and that is the fastest way to clear them. Use that or just zeros, anything else is not making the (ex) data more secure its just taking…

"only around 1MB" is not particularly impressive in absolute terms... there are a few browsers which are the same or smaller, and yet more functional. https://tinyapps.org/network.html Of course, "AI-generated browser is 1MB" is neither here nor there.

Fully denying internet access for an app is actually in iOS and has been there for many years. But it's only available in China. https://tinyapps.org/blog/202209100700_ios_disable_wifi_per_app.html

>Ink?! When I was in school we wrote on clay tablets with reed styli. We had to maintain the styli with copper knives. Later, even the most reactionary teachers would let us use the new fancy bronze knives. Copper? You was lucky! In my day we had mine our own ore and smelt it down. JFYI: https://tinyapps.org/blog/200702250700_why_in_my_day.html

It's possible, I was able to use the method listed under (2) at [1] but it was a few hours of fiddling/restoring backups and even a "102% completed" message before I got it to work. I don't have my notes from the but I believe it involved a second profile at one point so probably pretty similar to method (3) in the end. [1]: https://tinyapps.org/blog/202207100700_thunderbird-mbox-to-maildir.htm…

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. Well in this case that's, uh... > An old torrent I’d guess? Wrapped in a 9-month old Reddit comment https://old.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/wwjy5j/_/ilmr5s3/ Wrapped in a 1-month old blog post https://tinyapps.org/blog/202304230700_xp_wpa.html Wrapped in this article

Duplicate. TFA credits the Register for noticing first[0] (70 pts, 62 comments, 6 hours ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36082542). And references a blog post[1] (241 pts, 151 comments, 7 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35993044). [0]: https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/26/windows_xp_activation_cracked/ [1]: https://tinyapps.org/blog/202304230700_xp_wpa.html

Yes according to this [1] there is a way to remove the whitelist entries. It doesn‘t seem practical and it‘s a big turn off for me. I was thinking about switching to an ARM Mac when the second or third generation comes out, depending on how they perform. But now I‘m thinking I probably won‘t switch. Especially with things like this and how stuff like this is enforced on other platforms. How can I know that the option to edit the whitelist won‘t be removed as fast as the default entries were added to the whitelist? 1: https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it.html

How to disable this feature: https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it.html And a humorous guide on disabling protections like code signing and notarization: https://www.naut.ca/blog/2020/11/13/forbidden-commands-to-liberate-mac…

I don’t think it’s actually just in Big Sur. At the bottom of this post describing how to stop them from hiding traffic, they mention someone did a test on Catalina and ran into an issue with the Messages app: https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it.html

This guy thinks so: https://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html

There is a hack to turn a Kindle DX into a monitor: https://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html

You might want to check out the Kindle hacks that turn e-ink kindles into displays / terminals: [1] http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/kindle-root [2] http://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html [3] http://www.ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi

Sure! It's not very well organized (and may be out of date) but here's what I have: ### Commands - Disable GateKeeper: `sudo spctl --master-disable` - Disable Library Validation: `sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.libraryvalidation.plist DisableLibraryValidation -bool true` - Remove app from quarantine: `sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine [path to the app]` https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64842819/cant-run-app-because-of-p… `sudo chmod -R 755` `codesign --force --deep --sign - /Applications/$app.app` The following commands must be executed from recovery mode: - Disable SIP: `csrutil disable` - Disable Apple Mobile File Integrity: `nvram boot-args="amfi_get_out_of_my_way=1"` ### Articles https://www.naut.ca/blog/2020/11/13/forbidden-commands-to-liberate-mac… https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it.html https://eclecticlight.co/2020/06/25/big-surs-signed-system-volume-adde… https://twitter.com/EBADTWEET/status/1275834759759818752

https://tinyapps.org/misc.html has alternatives

here you go — https://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html

For the longest while I wanted a portable e-ink display for outdoor use (just something good enough for terminal, text editing, maybe some light browsing), but sadly nothing ever really materialized. There are larger panels available [1] but require enough low level work that nothing's ever really materialized. There's one Chinese company that's shipping a 13.3" USB display ($1300 for the first gen [2] or $799 to pre-order a second-gen product [3]) and surprisingly enough, 10" Pixel Qi screens are also being sold, with some support for about $400 [4] or for about $150 from random Chinese retailers. [5] Currently, the easiest/most cost effective options for getting a large e-ink display showing content are either buying a used 9.7" Kindle DX (around $150-200) and hacking VNC onto it [6] or doing running VNC on the 13.3" Onyx BOOX MAX (~$650, in short supply, it runs Android 4.0 and has wifi, BT and a pressure sensitive touchscreen/stylus so has some potential) [7] [1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=84926 [2] http://www.solcomputer.com/sol-cvs-e-ink-monitor.html [3] http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/05/26/dasung-paperlike-e-ink-monito… [4] http://www.solcomputer.com/pixel-qi-display-2.html [5] https://www.google.com/search?q=pixel+qi+display&oq=pixel+qi+displ… [6] https://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html [7] http://www.onyx-international.com/index.php/en/boox-products/max