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       title: March 2nd, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-03-02, 12:28:46 -07:00

     

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       section: journal

     

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       link: https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/02/to-embrace-gaming-apple-needs-to-level-up-its-game-porting-toolkit/

     

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         - Apple

     

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         - MacOS

     

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         - gaming

     

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       Apple released a game porting toolkit that has been improved by [Whisky](https://getwhisky.app/):

     

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       > app that wraps both Wine, the tool that translates Windows API calls to their Unix-like equivalents, and Apple’s game porting toolkit into one very friendly interface. That removes pretty much all of the work out of the process, to the point where all I had to do was download Whisky and drag it into my Applications folder.

     

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       [Dan Moren writes at Six Colors](https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/02/to-embrace-gaming-apple-needs-to-level-up-its-game-porting-toolkit/) that maybe Apple should make running PC games on MacOS great with this method.

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       title: March 4th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-03-04, 07:43:37 -08:00

     

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       link: https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/

     

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         - opensource

     

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         - e2ee

     

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         - photos

     

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       [[Ente]] just [announced open sourcing their full backend](https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/).

     

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       It’s an end-to-end encrypted “alternative to Google or Apple photos”, licensed as [[AGPL]].

     

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       Their client code had always been open source, this completes making the entire service available.

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         - app

     

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         - AGPL

     

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         - saas

     

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         - organization

     

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       ActivityPub: "@ente@mstdn.social"

     

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       link: https://ente.io

     

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       github: https://github.com/ente-io/ente

     

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       An AGPL-licensed end-to-end encrypted photo backup software. 

     

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       Has a paid SaaS service with iOS and Android apps that will sync and backup your photos. 

     

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       There is a freemium tier with 1GB of storage.

     

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