ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

@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/

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.