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.

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Websitehttps://scottsmall.org
GitHubhttps://github.com/smallsco
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one of the problems with being a retrocomputerist is how often I use a 2025 program and think "this program would be just as functional and 10 times as nice to use if you'd written it for windows 95"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOO DENG!!!

two blog posts in one day! I've been sitting on these MacPaint files for a few weeks to share them but haven't had the time to sort em out until today - there's so many more, I love this stuff

https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html

MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

40 years later and the art people painstaking made in MacPaint on their little Macs still amazes me.

decryption's blog
How a simple mistake ruined my new PC (and my YouTube channel)

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NEW VIDEO: How a simple mistake ruined my new PC (and my YouTube channel)
Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer to the release of the Apple QuickTake 200 digital camera than it did to Stegosaurus.

Saw someone with a profile yesterday stating they hate people who boost posts “too much”.

If you all weren’t so damned witty, interesting, and talented, I wouldn’t run afoul (🐔) of this.

Apparently Kari and Tory from Mythbusters started a podcast last month called "Mythfits". The charming first episode (worth a listen all the way through) also explains why they left the show 10 years ago, in the last 5 minutes.

And it's such a typical Hollywood screwjob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sah3Ik-iy8

Did Kari and Tory Ever Date? And Why They REALLY Left Mythbusters...

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Why are keyboards using the QWERTY layout?
Spoiler alert, it's because of morse code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFkC3F0lmjA

#qwerty #keyboard #history

Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks

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I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):

- Updated #curl to 8.14.1
- Updated #mbedTLS to 3.6.4
- Enabled HTTP 3xx redirections

Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

Screenshot is showing both, the DOS ( @DOSBox_Staging ) and the the win32 version (Win10).

#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP #DOjS

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@thomasfuchs

Okay, that's pretty damning, but "whom among us...?" as they say.

@thomasfuchs everyone doesn't read terms and conditions they don't know about https://tosdr.org/en
Terms of Service; Didn't Read

'I have read and agree to the Terms' is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.

@thomasfuchs This could be a real NYT headline.
@MisterMoo @thomasfuchs This probably is, or should be if it isn't, an Onion Headline.

@thomasfuchs

"Mamdani Farted at Tots and Dames on the A Train" - The NY Post not all that happy there is another pig in its mud

@thomasfuchs Incredible:
“Mamdani's Use of Oxford Comma Raises Questions Amid No Record of Attendance”
@thomasfuchs wait people need a website to generate these titles instead of just using the dev tools on a legit article of the new your times?
@agowa338 Yes, people make websites. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯