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Mario Guzmán<p>iChat AV walked so that FaceTime could RUN!</p><p>Ooooofff… look at those sweet, sweet animations as people enter or exit a video chat. I miss fun, whimsical Apple!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MacOSX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MacOSX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MacOSXTiger" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MacOSXTiger</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iChat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aqua" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Aqua</span></a></p>
Dave Mark<p>Just ran across this old Mac app icon.</p><p>Def took me a minute.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iChat</span></a></p>
jansegers@socialhome.network<p>Expressive Robots in Education - Varying the Degree of Social Supportive Behavior of a Robotic Tutor Martin Saerbeck1,2, Tom Schut1, Christoph Bartneck2, Maddy D. Janse1</p> <p><a href="https://www.bartneck.de/publications/2010/expressiveRobotsInEducation/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.bartneck.de/publications/2010/expressiveRobotsInEducation/</a></p> <p><a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/tokipona/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TokiPona</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/ichat/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iChat</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/kama_sona/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kama_sona</a></p>
jansegers<p>Expressive Robots in Education - Varying the Degree of Social Supportive Behavior of a Robotic Tutor<br />Martin Saerbeck1,2, Tom Schut1, Christoph Bartneck2, Maddy D. Janse1</p><p><a href="https://www.bartneck.de/publications/2010/expressiveRobotsInEducation/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bartneck.de/publications/2010/</span><span class="invisible">expressiveRobotsInEducation/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TokiPona" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TokiPona</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iChat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kama_sona" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>kama_sona</span></a></p>
Mario Guzmán<p>Remember iChat Statuses with iTunes integration!?</p><p>We need this with iMessage and Apple Music just for fun. 🤩</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iTunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iTunes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MacOSX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MacOSX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iChat</span></a></p>
Yoram Blumenberg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://disabled.social/@felyashono" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>felyashono</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@momentum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>momentum</span></a></span> </p><p>But it’s definitely a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/XML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XML</span></a> file.</p><p>Back to square one to find a solution to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/convert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>convert</span></a> some hundred (old) <a href="https://babka.social/tags/iChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iChat</span></a> files to something human readable.</p><p>Anybody?</p>
Mario Guzmán<p>OG Emoji from Mac OS X Tiger&#39;s iChat application.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mac</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MacOSX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MacOSX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iChat</span></a></p>
Mario Guzmán<p>POV: it&#39;s a Friday night in 2005 and because you&#39;re a nerd, you&#39;re at home chatting with your friend on iChat.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MacOSX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MacOSX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iChat</span></a> </p><p>(This is actually right off my iBook G4 chatting with a bestie in 2023 over iChat omfg I am geeking out so hard)</p>
杂食型蓑白(赛里斯地区的形态)<p><a href="https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/110679028352303338" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">indieweb.social/@tchambers/110</span><span class="invisible">679028352303338</span></a><br />提到#XMPP 这个协议,想起了我的#黑苹果 往事……</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>macOS</span></a>(那时候还叫#OSX)内置的#ichat 软件是支持xmpp的,但我完全找不到任何可以用来连接xmpp的服务器,更不用说用它「和朋友聊天」了<br />最后我唯一找到的是,新浪微博……<br />是的,新浪微博的私信功能,最初是基于XMPP构建的……所以,你可以使用新浪微博的账号、在支持XMPP的IM软件上登录,以#即时通讯 的方式与互关用户私信……</p><p>当然,这种用法一是不稳定(印象里sina的服务器很快就会拒绝访问,要在IM软件里重新登陆);二是sina没多久就重构了私信功能,彻底取消了XMPP的连接功能</p><p>XMPP的失败有太多原因了,但它始终没有走出#技术狂热者(<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechSavvy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TechSavvy</span></a>)所组成的#早期试用者(<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Earlyadopter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Earlyadopter</span></a>)阶段是核心原因。<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_adopter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_ad</span><span class="invisible">opter</span></a></p><p>这也是为什么我不希望任何新的开源项目重蹈它覆辙。</p>
BlackICE BBS / BBSindex.de<p>Neue News von <a href="http://BBSindex.de" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">BBSindex.de</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>! Mehr zu: -Kurz Notiert- könnt Ihr hier Lesen: <a href="http://bbsindex.de/news.php?newsid=246" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">bbsindex.de/news.php?newsid=24</span><span class="invisible">6</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Amiga38" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga38</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AUGS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AUGS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AmigaRemix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaRemix</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ichat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ichat</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/SyncroNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SyncroNet</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ChromeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChromeOS</span></a></p>
Florian<p>Finally found a tool to let me revive my old iChat files and convert them to markup. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>apps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ichat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ichat</span></a><br /><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/past-for-ichat/id1554897185" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apps.apple.com/us/app/past-for</span><span class="invisible">-ichat/id1554897185</span></a></p>
Delib<p>About XMPP universe-ality, Jingle is an extension adding peer-to-peer <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/P2P" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>P2P</span></a> signaling, such as in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VoIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VoIP</span></a> and video-conferencing. Some software using XMPP Jingle. From wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol): </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Asterisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Asterisk</span></a> PBX <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/telephony" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>telephony</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coccinella" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Coccinella</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conversations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Conversations</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Empathy</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSWITCH" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeSWITCH</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gajim" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gajim</span></a> <br />GoogleTalk for Gmail, Android<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iChat</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jitsi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jitsi</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Telepathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Telepathy</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kopete" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kopete</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Miranda" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Miranda</span></a> NG <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Monal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monal</span></a> IM-Client <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pidgin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pidgin</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Psi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Psi</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>QIP</span></a> Infium <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yate</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RemoteVNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RemoteVNC</span></a><br />-<br />Also <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DinoIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DinoIM</span></a> <a href="https://dino.im" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dino.im</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Justin Waring 🐋<p>Should Apple offer a fediverse instance and accounts, including a client? </p><p>Yes, I know, Apple can&#39;t do social, insert Ping joke here. </p><p>They host federated communication platform based on an open standard (email), giving users accounts (Apple IDs), and make desktop and mobile clients (Mail.app).</p><p>iChat was _so_ much nicer then AIM clients.</p><p>Messages.app is an amazing communication app and was so far ahead of any SMS client on phones before it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mail" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iChat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Messages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Messages</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SMS</span></a></p>
Kadin<p>For any other long-time <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> users with ancient backups out there, I recently discovered that <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> changed the format used by iChat for its conversation logs somewhere around 2004. Anything from before that are no longer readable using Messages (the new iChat replacement). It doesn't read the proprietary NeXTSTEP serialization format they used prior to switching to PLISTs.</p><p>Using some libraries from Github, I wrote a converter in <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a>:<br><a href="https://github.com/kadin2048/ichat_to_eml" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/kadin2048/ichat_to_</span><span class="invisible">eml</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/iChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iChat</span></a></p>
Kadin<p>Spent some time working on the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/iChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iChat</span></a> logfile parser today. Works on about 50-60% of my files, meaning there's still a lot of weird cases to deal with.</p><p>Biggest hurdle so far was parsing Apple's "NSFileWrapper serializedRepresentation" without using any Apple libraries.</p>
mattbk<p>Convert iChat transcripts to (useable) XMLConvert iChat transcripts to (useable) XML – Less Talk, More Do [2013] <a href="https://prismo.xyz/posts/9f22b177-d3e3-485c-9642-eecc76345059" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">prismo.xyz/posts/9f22b177-d3e3</span><span class="invisible">-485c-9642-eecc76345059</span></a></p>
benthor<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> I <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/feelgoodabout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feelgoodabout</span></a>:<br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/p2p" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>P2P</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ipv6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPv6</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/blockchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blockchain</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/osm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/openrisc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenRISC</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/coreboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coreboot</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lisp</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/lua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lua</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/go" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Go</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/xmpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a>, IRC, (Signal)<br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a>, *NIX, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/mirageos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MirageOS</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/eink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eInk</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/html5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HTML5</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/css" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CSS</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/svg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SVG</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>git</span></a></p><p>Technology I <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/dontfeelgoodabout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dontfeelgoodabout</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/nat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NAT</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ipsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPSec</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bitcoin</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Java</span></a>, .NET, <br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/x64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>x64</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/arm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARM</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/drm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DRM</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/dpi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DPI</span></a><br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/whatsapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whatsapp</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/hangouts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hangouts</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ichat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iChat</span></a>, ...<br>- <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/electron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Electron</span></a><br>- anything from <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> later than 2006</p><p>Your turn!</p><p>Disagree? Try to <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/changemymind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>changemymind</span></a>!</p><p>(It's an experiment)</p>