Notices by Spindley Q Frog (spindleyq@mastodon.social), page 13

@nicknicknicknick I use zoho and I don't totally hate it

There is a book on the history of shareware being crowdfunded right now: https://unbound.com/books/shareware-heroes/
I don't love the perspective of "Shareware was important because it shook up the industry" that shows up in the pitch video, but quite frankly I'm not aware of any other project besides my own podcast that takes shareware history seriously at all, so I'm backing it

argh I wrote a long toot and then a continuation of that long toot as a reply but then the reply wouldn't post and my original toot disappeared?

I used to use a tool called CrashPlan for backups, because it had one killer feature: it allowed you to backup your data, encrypted, onto your friends' computers. They hosted a tiny internet service that let you find each other when you were both online so that the client would automatically start sending any new data, but none of your data was ever stored in "the cloud".

@Ludonaut @hellojed I’m pretty sure thecatamites has done this

@nicknicknicknick hi it's me, mastodad

@Altruest I went to a concert once, at a pub in a smaller town a couple hours away, and at intermission asked one of the band members if they were going to play my favourite song. He said they hadn’t played it in forever and weren't sure how much everyone remembered, but they figured it out during intermission and then played it during the second half of the concert. Doubt there's much that'll ever top that one.

@mathewkumar "This is on the channel called Shitpost Wizard." god I hope I'm this cool when I'm 75

@RavenWorks (this inexplicably popped into my head this morning and wouldn't leave until I sang it to my bewildered kid)

@RavenWorks I was driving down the freeway in the fast lane with a rabid wolverine in my underwear when suddenly a guy behind me in the backseat popped right up and clapped his hands across my eyes, I asked is it uncle Frank or cousin Louie? Is it Bob or Joe or Walter? Could it be Bill or Jim or Ed or Bernie or Steve? I probably would've kept on guessing but about that time we crashed into the truck, and as I'm laying bleeding there on the asphalt, finally I recognize the face of my hibachi deal

@ajroach42 oof, that's a shame.

@ajroach42 huh, I've stumbled on a couple in thrift stores in the past few months for fairly cheap, so I figured they were reasonably plentiful.

@ajroach42 You could definitely get a cheap Palm with a foldout keyboard for that purpose, but I'm not sure if that violates the "palmtop" constraint

I have a couple WinCE devices but I have yet to figure out how to install software on them using a modern PC. On Palm you can just unzip a .prc and throw it at pilot-link, but all the WinCE software I wanted to play with was packaged as Windows installers.

@jk this honestly kind of makes me want to set up a self-serve advertising system on my website that only shows ads to people who have set up an account to buy ads
so it looks to THEM like their ad is visible, but no one else sees them

@limeguy all these tiny, tiny hats

@hmaon this game is canon

@Triplefox I keep forgetting about this!

@six I did this repeatedly for months when I first came to Ottawa