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
Using Windows these days feels like I'm walking through a major airport. Its bright and glossy, there's ads everywhere, there's random noises and shit getting in your way, the signage is confusing and sometimes the pictorials make no sense, random announcements you can't understand, some of the design aesthetics are new, and some still stuck in the 00s.
Amazonian scorpion molecule wipes out breast-cancer cells in lab tests. Brazilian scientists isolated a peptide from Brotheas amazonicus venom and, using yeast ‘factories’, mass-produced it to screen against tumour lines. In vitro, the compound triggered necrosis in breast-cancer cells within 24 hours, achieving effects comparable to chemotherapy without damaging surrounding tissue. https://www.sciencealert.com/amazonian-scorpion-venom-can-kill-breast-cancer-cells-scientists-say?ref=fixthenews.com
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Amazonian Scorpion Venom Can Kill Breast Cancer Cells, Scientists Say

Preliminary results presented at the FAPESP Week France health conference suggest the venom from an Amazon rainforest scorpion (Brotheas amazonicus) might be able to help treat breast cancer.

ScienceAlert
"America has been vaccinating people for fifty years. If vaccines caused autism, America would have trains, okay? We would have so many trains." - Jon Allen

If you're up for it: I just uploaded the complete "Jill of the Jungle" trilogy for MS-DOS to the Internet Archive. This one comes on a single 5.25" 1.2MB HD diskette.

https://archive.org/details/jill_trilogy

#RetroComputing #MSDOS #Trilogy #JilloftheJungle #PCGaming #RetroGaming #RetroGames #DOSGames #DOSGaming

this is such a petty thing but I almost relish calling companies that pay for linkspam on Mastodon.

"Hi there! So I run a server for queer BDSM enthusiasts, and I wanted to ask about your recent posting on our site..."
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Well, we had this account join, claiming to be into gay BDSM, and it's posting links to your content--oh, of course you wouldn't do that directly, but your SEO subcontractors..."
"Ah, er, yes, we'll get to the bottom of this"

World Builder was many folks introduction to game design - and Bill created it!

Let's Chat with Macintosh game development legend William "Bill" Appleton!
https://youtu.be/y0FZIoF07Ow

Let's Chat with Macintosh game development legend William "Bill" Appleton!

YouTube

My wife told me to share this everywhere.

#USPol #Democrats #Trump #RollOverAndShowTheirBellies

⚠️trade offer⚠️
i receive:
pineapple

you receive:
whooping cough, grapes

Some people talk about minimizing social media time and the associated doomscrolling, but every day Mastodon reminds me of how many kind, caring people there are. And how many I'm privileged to know on here. (And how many have adorable cats. Or dogs. Or goats.) People who appreciate the beauty around us; people who want to save the environment; people who want a good life for everyone.

It lifts me up, even when the news is horrific. Thank you all.

#Mastodon #SocialMedia

logitech MouseMan Sensa (1994)
🥵

#retroComputing

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What if your printer cart matched the Snow White design of the LaserWriter II.

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac

@paulrickards I.... don't know how I feel about that 😜
@billgoats @paulrickards Yes, but were the wheels included?
@arroz @billgoats @paulrickards Yes, caster wheels were included at no extra charge!

@paulrickards That CoStar printer cart is actually pretty awesome. I've had mine since the '90s. Please excuse the HP printer occupying it at the moment. Also, feel free to print to the Brother that you can see in the upper right ("What's Happening Brother" on GlobalTalk.)

#MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk

@_the_cloud Oh my goodness, I thought we'd never see one in the wild! That's truly wonderful-- thanks for sharing that!
@_the_cloud If you ever choose the jettison that cart, please let me know! 😀
@_the_cloud @paulrickards Best name for a printer!
@octothorpe @_the_cloud @paulrickards Brother printers are quite common on #Globaltalk, and most have creative names. Mine is Brother From Another Router 😉
@paulrickards It'd be neat if someone has modified an ImageWriter II to have some kind of extended printer ribbon multiplexer where the color ribbons were spooled in a wheeled cart underneath it, and the printer could select the color like a modern day multi-filament 3d printer