ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

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.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy people trying to find easier ways to do something. -- Robert Heinlein (lightly edited)

This was taken quite a while before sunrise today here in Glastonbury. Lovely lilac tones in the sky.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #lilac #lilacsky #bluehour

Today, my Pi Pico based adapter to connect IBM 3270 coax terminals to modern computers sent its first screen to my 3278. #retrocomputing #IBM #rp2040 #rpi #pico

boss: I’d like to see you in my office

me: great, when can you move out?

Source level debugging of #Commodore64 and 1541 drive code at the same time. This makes debugging a lot easier.

Cloudy in Brisbane last night so I took my shot of the Super Blue Moon tonight.
#supermoon #bluemoon #moon

Back in the 90s, when I was 11, I had a conversation on Usenet with this dude called Todd Howard, who said he wanted to make a space RPG. I am 41. Today, it arrived.

FYI, when a website erases your text that you just spent an hour writing, you can use this little trick to recover it 99% of the time:

1. find the firefox pid

$ pgrep -l firefox

2. attach gdb to firefox and dump its core

$ sudo gdb <pid>
gcore firefox.dump
<this takes awhile>
quit
<firefox dies>

3. find your lost text in the coredump

$ strings firefox.dump | grep "a unique word/sentence from ur text"

i just did this today to recover a long post i wrote, and figured i'd show others!!

Somebody today dragged an old oscilloscope into our @cccac space. Of course we did the only logical thing first :D

I can't wait what others will do with it ^^

Majorities and minorities.

My @smh cartoon.