Scott Small 🇨🇦

@smallsco@oldbytes.space
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Just a 30something Canadian dude from #VancouverIsland who's into #RetroComputing (mainly old #Apple / #Mac stuff), #Programming, and general #Technology enthusiast. Also love to #Travel!

I wrote a Mastodon client for vintage Mac computers, #Macstodon, which you can get from here: https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

Occasionally I’ll post about #Anime and #Gaming, especially #ZenlessZoneZero and #HonkaiStarRail.

I boost a lot. Boosts are not endorsements.

DMs from non-followers are blocked due to spam.

Pronounshe/him
Websitehttps://scottsmall.org
GitHubhttps://github.com/smallsco
Blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottsmall.org
Scott Small 🇨🇦5h ago
vga2565h ago

i'm not sure if anyone noticed this since it didn't make the news, but a month after McBarge sank, its former owner Howard Meakin passed away.

if you're unfamiliar with McBarge, it was a fascinating relic of canadian history: a floating mcdonald's from Expo '86 (vancouver).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McBarge

the mcbarge sank in march of this year, and no one was able to get ahold of the last known owner. it's likely because he was in the hospital.

howard's obit:
https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/nsnews/name/howard-meakin-obituary?id=58340159

#canada

Scott Small 🇨🇦5h ago
decryption6h ago

There's a guy on TinkerDifferent that got their hands on an early prototype of the Finder from 1982 and some other early demo apps - including the Bouncing Pepsi Caps (made to impress mike scully) app.

MacPaint 0.1, the IconEditor and a few others. This is all stuff the Mac team was using to build the Mac. Pretty cool! I don't think any of these apps were outside Apple until now?

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/early-demos-finder-soundlab-sbardemo-windowmanager-iconeditor.4498/

Scott Small 🇨🇦6h ago
Kabootie computey!11h ago
@mihaip just enabled #InfiniteMac virtual machines to be embedded directly onto a website, and it works so well! I turned this on across https://www.classicmacdemos.com/ and it's a nice improvement to be able to play a game demo or explore a magazine cover CD without even leaving the page.
Classic Macintosh Game Demos

A collection of game demos for vintage Macintosh computers with operating systems through Mac OS 9, especially games from the mid-1990s and early 2000s.

Scott Small 🇨🇦6h ago
Logan 5 and 999 others15h ago
Just a reminder to the people who have been on Mastodon or the Fediverse awhile: remember to follow some new people every once in a while, especially someone with few followers who would just like to connect and be heard by someone. It’s easy to get caught in our routines, but there are new, kind, interesting people joining everyday.
Scott Small 🇨🇦6h ago
Jeff Sikes14h ago

How many parked (unused) domains do you own? I have an idea and want to know if my assumption is correct.

Boost generously, please.

None
1-5
6-10
Over 10
Poll ends at .
Scott Small 🇨🇦6h ago
Daniel17h ago

In early 2024, Robert Smith used his DaynaPORT driver to create a SANA II driver for the Amiga based on Lukas F. Hartmann's MNT ZZ9000 network driver and using the BlueScsi v2 WIFI version to enable the Amiga to access the Internet.

Now, with version 1.0 of BlueSCSIUI, he has released a user interface for BlueSCSI for AmigaOS 2.0 and higher that supports configuration and diagnosis of the DynaPORT driver.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-07-00058-EN.html

#Amiga #driver #Wifi

amiga-news.de - User interface for BlueSCSI on Amiga: BlueSCSIUI V1.0

Scott Small 🇨🇦6h ago
Natasha Jay23h ago

Nature moment 📷 by Gukraiz Ghouri

The Golden Pheasants or Chinese Pheasants (Chrysolophus pictus) are native to forests in mountainous areas of western China.

#Photography #Birds

Scott Small 🇨🇦6h ago
SuperIlu18h ago

Nobody leaves the room! #DOjS just reached 900 stars on #GitHub! 😱

https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS

#Javascript #MSDOS #RetroComputing #CreativeCoding #p5js #RetroDev

Scott Small 🇨🇦12h ago
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸20h ago

IMO: It just goes to show how needed this was and how many people were putting off or simply not getting dental work done because of the cost.

Dental Care should be included in our Public Healthcare system. No separate system.. just part of healthcare.
Period.
#CanPoli #Healthcare #BCPoli #CdnPoli #Dentalcare
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dental-care-expansion-growing-pains-1.7583230

Half of requests for complex dental work are being rejected under national insurance plan | CBC News

The Canadian Dental Care Plan requires extra paperwork for complex procedures like crowns or dentures. Providers say the process has been overly complicated and slow.

CBC
Scott Small 🇨🇦12h ago
Chris Heilmann1d ago
"I am in this image and I don't like it"
via @twonkcomics
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Perfect Butterfly AngelJul 2

Dude What

https://bsky.app/profile/aeon.bsky.social/post/3lsxzlxnzzk2v

Show threadGwyn 😈Jul 2
@junebug somebody DEFINITELY asked chatgpt what -1^2 does
Show threadNikoJul 3
@lunalapin @junebug i lost all hope when you said this because i know this is what happened
Show threadCaoimheJul 2

@junebug how. what.

Like I guess surely the answer somewhere involves them letting an LLM change stuff but like

fucking hell the software industry is just like completely self-destructing at the moment in its quest to deskill and destroy the idea of expertise isn’t it

Show threadDeltaWyeJul 2
@junebug
V I B E
C O D I N G
Show thread⏚ Antoine Chambert-LoirJul 2

@DeltaWye @junebug That's apparently not a joke, OMG!

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/117233

C# Math.Pow(-1, 2) doesn't output correct value on Windows 11 Insider Preview, Canary channel (27881.1000) · Issue #117233 · dotnet/runtime

Description The following is copied with extra bits from https://aka.ms/AAwwjwl (Feedback Hub) to raise awareness of this issue: Hello, I'm a contributor to osu! (https://github.com/ppy/osu). A use...

GitHub
Show threadFrédéric GrosshansJul 2
@antoinechambertloir @DeltaWye @junebug
I love the “for some odd reason” on the bug report!
Show threadDrYakJul 2

@antoinechambertloir @DeltaWye @junebug
Of course, it's not.

This is Microsoft we're talking about. The company known for its very high standards of QA and for being behind marvels such as WinME. If anything, we should be impressed that it's not BSOD-ing randomly when you try to call `std::pow(-1,2);`

Show threadDamonHDJul 2
@dryak @antoinechambertloir @DeltaWye @junebug While working in banking for a decade or two, and looking after the quant (pricing) libraries, I can tell you that I formed very low opinions of M$'s ability (~NT4 times) to count up on its fingers and toes. We had to write our own versions of common key maths functions to be able to price and trade...
Show thread42STENOnglesJul 2

@antoinechambertloir @DeltaWye @junebug
In the linked issue:

If you need to contact us better, joining the osu! Discord server would be best (https://discord.gg/ppy).
Just to underscore the absurdity

Join the osu! Discord Server!

The only official osu! server. Focused on developing and improving the game and community. | 52318 members

Discord
Show threaderi Jul 2
@junebug yeah it was definitely AI
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Jul 2
@junebug am i the only one to question these labels
Show threadthree tigers in a trench coatJul 2
@junebug Mandela Effect in 3...2...
Show threadDavid NashJul 2

@junebug (-1)^2 = -1
By definition, i^2 = -1
Therefore, i = -1

That'll make a lot of complex analysis a lot easier, right?

Show threadSteve LoughranJul 2
@junebug surprised that std:: doesn't have a public test suite, and that std::pow(-1, 2) isn't one of the obvious operations to assert on
Show threadNentuabyJul 2
@junebug "Why were they messing with pow()" really is the sharp edge of that question set. Like. Forget how they messed up doing it, WHY WERE THEY IN THERE? Did the team at Multiplication push a new major version?
Show threadDer TeilweiseJul 2

Wasn’t it Microsoft that recently tried to use vibe coding on .NET runtime? Well, they seem to actually use it as extensive as they said.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/117233

/cc @fefe_interim

C# Math.Pow(-1, 2) doesn't output correct value on Windows 11 Insider Preview, Canary channel (27881.1000) · Issue #117233 · dotnet/runtime

Description The following is copied with extra bits from https://aka.ms/AAwwjwl (Feedback Hub) to raise awareness of this issue: Hello, I'm a contributor to osu! (https://github.com/ppy/osu). A use...

GitHub
Show threadAndrewJul 2
@teilweise @fefe_interim though as said in that thread, the root issue is in the C runtime, not the .NET runtime
Show threadDer TeilweiseJul 3

@cinebox As I said: They seem to actually use it as extensive as they said. (They said “maybe 20 to 30 percent of the code that is inside of our repos today in some of our projects are probably all written by software”)

Seems like they went all in, no longer using it for some projects but everywhere: .NET runtime, base frameworks written in C, drivers, Windows kernel, …

Show threadTed MielczarekJul 2
@junebug the root cause appears to have been a codegen bug in MSVC: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Incorrect-x64-code-generation-with-VS-17/10917792
Show threadultracompetentJul 2
@tedmielczarek @junebug my god, this time it really was the compiler
Show thread💭 (🤫)Jul 3

@tedmielczarek @junebug

🎯👆

🙏

Show threadHazelnootJul 3
@junebug how the fuck do you break something as basic as pow ​​
Show threadowlboy Jul 3
@junebug @squid https://youtu.be/hzzQ7hXQ7qk
Pow Pow

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