the issue i found is that you have to basically rebuild your basic unix network tools from the ground up, including ssl and curl and so forth, because the TLS version used by the builtins on 10.old.whatever, not to mention the certificates, no longer work with modern websites and FTP sites are slowly dying off. then you have to figure out which version of those tools are compatible with each other and with 10.version.you.are.using
there are a lot of scripts out there to mitigate this but the boot-strapping is always a bit of a bother. like the script i wrote, my first instruction was "So... you go download chrome for 10.x for PPC... you can find it here in the old forgotten wasteland of google on a deserted old site that might not exist much longer... and by the way this is not secure at all"
like, you just cannot do this securely. cellularmitosis has made leopard.sh linked below, of course the first step is to download from an http site.
its kind of one of those things that have changed about the web, the cultural shock.... nowdays basically so much is based on an account, or at the very least ssl. back then nobody gave a **.
so to actually use a g5 on the modern web, like ... can you log into a video site to watch a video? well only if you dont care about being hacked when you type in your user id and password to the video site. can you shop? only if you dont care about being hacked. same.. can you browse literally anything? google will constantly harass you into logging in. so will basically everything else. and if you dont your experience will suck.
can you... write code for a g5 and try to back port modern algorithms to it? sure just log in to .. .github... on your.. insecure machine that could easily be hacked. and lose your github account to hackers. then you can cry about it after you login to social media. on your hacked account. so maybe not. then you can post about it on hacker news... where of course your account has been hacked by a keylogger.
if your machine doesnt crash because someone installed a bitcoin miner into it, or a tor node, or bittorrent or god knows what that could get you arrested.
the modern web is just such a pile of degenerate criminality and scammers and thieves and robbers, not to mention the spy agencies of various governments, that basically that is the main thing driving old systems off of it. its not that its not possible to optimize code or write new code for old platforms. its that the basic machine running an old OS is compromised at a fundamental level, open to the world for exploitation if you dare to type anything into it that is the least bit private or confidential, and its connected online.
there are a lot of scripts out there to mitigate this but the boot-strapping is always a bit of a bother. like the script i wrote, my first instruction was "So... you go download chrome for 10.x for PPC... you can find it here in the old forgotten wasteland of google on a deserted old site that might not exist much longer... and by the way this is not secure at all"
like, you just cannot do this securely. cellularmitosis has made leopard.sh linked below, of course the first step is to download from an http site.
its kind of one of those things that have changed about the web, the cultural shock.... nowdays basically so much is based on an account, or at the very least ssl. back then nobody gave a **.
so to actually use a g5 on the modern web, like ... can you log into a video site to watch a video? well only if you dont care about being hacked when you type in your user id and password to the video site. can you shop? only if you dont care about being hacked. same.. can you browse literally anything? google will constantly harass you into logging in. so will basically everything else. and if you dont your experience will suck.
can you... write code for a g5 and try to back port modern algorithms to it? sure just log in to .. .github... on your.. insecure machine that could easily be hacked. and lose your github account to hackers. then you can cry about it after you login to social media. on your hacked account. so maybe not. then you can post about it on hacker news... where of course your account has been hacked by a keylogger.
if your machine doesnt crash because someone installed a bitcoin miner into it, or a tor node, or bittorrent or god knows what that could get you arrested.
the modern web is just such a pile of degenerate criminality and scammers and thieves and robbers, not to mention the spy agencies of various governments, that basically that is the main thing driving old systems off of it. its not that its not possible to optimize code or write new code for old platforms. its that the basic machine running an old OS is compromised at a fundamental level, open to the world for exploitation if you dare to type anything into it that is the least bit private or confidential, and its connected online.