Post #2379528
2026-05-11 02:59 UTC
Replies (11)
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social 2026-05-11 03:24
@thomasareed@infosec.exchange Whoa, when did they switch to 1024x1024 icons? For years and years, I had a Palm OS screenshot inside of a Mac SE screenshot inside of a Windows 95 screenshot, just to see the progress.
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@chrisvest@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 03:29
@thomasareed@infosec.exchange why is the red tip off center of the dial marker? 😫
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@wiert@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 03:35
@thomasareed@infosec.exchange the days when even the absence of every pixel counted.
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@Mahura@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 04:37
@thomasareed@infosec.exchange it reminds me of rebound effect where processors and memory are getting better but systems are still slow
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@Yuki@xantronix.social 2026-05-11 05:22
@thomasareed@infosec.exchange its even wilder to think that safari icon is probably bigger than the original 400KB floppy that system 1.0 shipped on
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@elithebearded@fed.qaz.red 2026-05-11 05:48
@thomasareed@infosec.exchange I remember this from when those new icon sixes were announced. And I remember when those Macs had such as impressively crisp and clear screens. (After, say, an Apple ][e, the pixels were basically invisible.)
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@rotnroll666@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 07:36
@thomasareed@infosec.exchange And yet the icon has less information density than the old icons. @isotopp@infosec.exchange
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@lx@mas.to 2026-05-11 07:43
@thomasareed@infosec.exchange I was surprised at the time that they went to so much trouble making raster images to imitate simplistic vector graphics. With the subtlest of deviations to entertain pixel peepers.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-11 08:07
@thomasareed@infosec.exchange I'm…really not sure why they don't just use SVG for icons at this point. Earlier versions of Mac OS X had beautiful photorealistic icons that would have been difficult to make in SVG, but this is not that. This could be vectorized easily.
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@flower@pony.social 2026-05-11 08:16
@thomasareed@infosec.exchange Guess future proof. Surprised not SVG at that point though.
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@a_fine_day@todon.eu 2026-05-14 23:21
@thomasareed@infosec.exchange How did we survive?