ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

@SwiftOnSecurity #introduction I’m a kid of academics. dad a full professor now. Mum a mainframe op Mac and Sun salesperson on campus. I grew up on uni campuses and uni systems. As a kid dialled up to mums CDC Plato system on a 300 baud modem and played MUDs and IRC like talkomatic. Declared “gifted” did extension classes in primary school in creative writing and games programming. Studied security at uni (didn’t want to be a complete nerd) did a few computer security and software engineering units. Worked for an engineering company as their IT guy and did physical and electronic security engineering. That led me to doing designs, doco, running tenders and supervising upgrades at maximum security prisons and police lockups. I went into prisons after riots and fixed them up. We designed security for reserve banks in asia and designed for armed assault nuclear biological and chemical attack. Got whacked in the head with an M16 at one facility by accident lol. After y2k got an IT job in security operations at a state government ISP did firewall and IPS, credit card gateway, Ip accounting, EDI and supported police department web server. Did 7 years at deloitte pen testing banks. Now been running a pty ltd and acting as a security architect for 13 years.

I've pinned and reboosted my #introduction, but I thought I'd have another bash round the potted summary of hashtags as I try to reconnect with stuff lost in the past few days.

#folklore is pretty much the most important to me - I'm an #academic #folklorist, do #fieldwork, think & write about #folkloristics, and really really REALLY like hanging out with/listening to other #folklorists.

I started off with #folk, #folksong, #folkmusic, ended up doing a PhD on #ghostlore #ghosts #ghost but love/am interested in all sorts of stuff, like #cannibalism, #rats, #folkhorror

Other important things:
#surrealism #fantomas #Dowland #Classics #Berlioz

Live on #isleofwight, like at the end of Day of the Triffids.

#introduction
Hi, everyone! I am Stephen, Sr. Editor at Interesting Engineering and Product-editor at Circuit Cellar Magazine digital version. I am hunting for a place that is different from Twitter in content and the same as Twitter in format. Something that is less violent and more welcoming. Is that Mastodon?

#introduction To fill in my profile tags, a thread:

#TrakEM2 open source software mostly for #connectomics, and supports manual and automatically montaging and aligning overlapping 2D image tiles (with #SIFT features and rigid or elastic transformation models), and reconstructing by painting volumes or tracing branched neuronal arbors neurons plus synapses to map a #connectome from #vEM (volume electron microscopy).

See: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0038011

Git repository at: https://github.com/trakem2/

Saturn at Night

NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute, Mindaugas Macijauskas

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221126.html #APOD

@mattmcirvin @robinhouston - the Greek mathematicians Nicomachus (c. 100 AD) and Iamblichus (c. 250-325 AD) did not consider 2 to be a prime number, apparently because primes are obviously odd. Modern work on algebra confirms the view that the even prime is different from all the rest. Euclid earlier had said 2 was a prime... but not 1, because for him 1 was not even a number.

Here's an excellent article on this stuff:

http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/fuejum/content/2012/paper1_2012.pdf

#introduction

I'm a PhD student in #computational #NeuroScience in Barcelona studying distributed working memory and the likes. Excited for the #neuro community moving away from the bird app but still trying to find everyone on here!

I realized I never did an #introduction!

I'm Grace Lindsay. I'm a new Asst. Prof in #Psychology and #DataScience at New York University. I wrote a popular science book on how & why we use #math to study the #brain.

In my research in my lab I hope to model how #attention works in the brain. I'm also separately working on applications of #MachineLearning to #ClimateChange!

Find out more here! 👉 https://gracewlindsay.com/

"The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser / Dope Wars, Space Trader, Graffiti, memos, calculators and more: the Internet Archive’s instant Palm Pilot emulator is an app store before the App Store."

go @internetarchive ! go @textfiles !

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/25/23478396/internet-archive-palm-pilot-emulation-games-apps-dope-wars

Apparently we had an earthquake here on Vancouver island a few hours ago. I didn't realize that's what it was at the time. I just thought the dog was shaking the bed. 😀

To those putting your amateur radio callsigns in your username or bio: The station address you registered with the FCC is public information. It's in the ULS database, like any other radio license.

This is how I was originally dox'd and it's why I haven't renewed my license. #opsec

if you've ever messed up a dimension or a hole position on something you're building, don't be too hard on yourself.

at least you're not the Cisco design engineer who caused an entire product line recall by placing the mode button (which resets the switch if held) directly above an RJ45 port.

A haiku about being an adult:

I am so tired
Where did all my money go?
My back is hurting

Mt. Rainier casting a shadow upwards across the sky.

(I can't for the life of me figure out how to add alt text after posting. So instead, I'll put the text in the body of the post. I hope that's okay.)

"When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small. Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present."

Explosions of hot water (geysers) coming from under the thick ice of Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn.

@internetarchive OMG wow. It's been almost 25 years since I wrote this to manage my #diabetes on a #palmpilot. I wrote it in Metrowerks CodeWarror C, and the amount of work to draw a pie chart on a system without floating point OR math libraries was nuts. And flood fills? Good lord

Univac removable disk cartridge for Univac computer models 1004 and 1005.
Provided removable random access storage and the possibility of adding up to five slave reader devices.

Mesures: 40x40x1,6 (cm).

Searching in the web I found that it had a 2,2 MB capacity, but the brochure states one million characters (a bit less than 1 MB) and the seller text in the back of the brochure claims 16.896.000 (a bit over 16 MB).

Brochure: https://archive.org/details/TNM_Univac_1004_and_1005_computers_Unidisc_random_20171120_0007

#picture #ComputerHistory #HardwareHistory