ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

well, okay then

#photography

I can’t think of matching words to describe this.

@marklemley @SteveBellovin The smiley is older than that. When I was studying for my ham radio license (1967 or 1968), I commented on it when I saw it on my elmer’s teletype.

Smileys are 41 years old today

Apple discloses 2 new zero-days exploited to attack iPhones, Macs https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-discloses-2-new-zero-days-exploited-to-attack-iphones-macs/

TIL: The AWK Programming Language, by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger, has appeared as a 2nd Edition in September 2023. #awk

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-awk-programming/9780138269876/

This TUHS thread details the additions to the new edition: https://www.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tuhs@tuhs.org/thread/GQRINRQW4QCVLM2KAXCLDILIH2AJVI64/

6 thought provoking questions posed to @awaisaftab (psychiatrist) and myself (brain researcher) and we hit on so much:

The challenge of escaping reductionism. Theories of consciousness. Are mental disorders brain disorders? Why should anyone care about philosophy? Is epistemic iteration is failing? And what bits of brain research are awaiting their Copernican moment?

With nods to @summerfieldlab, @knutson_brain, @tyrell_turing, @Neurograce, @eikofried and so many more.

Read it all here (and let's discuss)!

https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/advancing-neuroscientific-understanding

Still laughing

More people need to know about the "tabular numbers" feature that modern fonts have

Use it to make numbers to line up with a UI font (or anything not monospace)

CSS: font-feature-settings: tnum
SwiftUI: .font(.body.monospacedDigit())

Just received my two #10PRINT carpets: #C64 (left) and #Atari800 (right)

#BananaForScale

Checks out.

If you are a TV exec, or know one, please, please, please make this happen.

#reality #TV #TVshow

I generally follow back, and often follow bossters.

In the next version of OpenSSH, the ssh-keygen(1) utility will generate an Ed25519 keypair by default, instead of RSA. https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/9de458a249861bdbf58a06850a7b9f6acef6b456

I try not to let one troll's behavior throw off my entire day.