Looking over my privacy policy for my websites and drinking coffee. The word cookies is mentioned a couple of times, and it stuck out. #JohnLennon and cookie monster come to mind. He loved cookie monster. I watched the very first Sesame Street as a kid. I was a TV kid. My first word was Batman.

That time in 2006 I compiled a 2.4 kernel to work with an old Iomega Zip drive and discovered that four years earlier I'd put a copy of ZipSlack on it ( #Slackware that fit on a Zip disk ). 2006-03-18-Subject-Old Iomega Parallel Port Disk Drive Assembly and #Linux Driver

O.R.N.G. Journal/Fiction/Documentation

Fiction and Journal entries from 1990 through 2024, including memories back to 1970, as well as web articles covering electronics, computers, codin...

Most #collapse thought leaders manage to get a #DonellaMeadows level of clarity on paradigms/culture/ideology with a firm understanding of physics constraints, but where they go from there takes two paths: they continue to cycle for relevance, or they proceed further and alienate most followers.

Tom Murphy is a curse, as I respect his work so much he takes my time. He has stayed true, has good credentials, and is honest with himself and open to new ways of seeing. I followed his #ishmael series, and read the book for the first time... and again. Now, I need to do a deep dive on his #dualism series.

Ditching Dualism #10: Determinism | Do the Math

#DanileQuinn

We pushed artisans out as primary contributors to the global supply chain in order to scale it, and allow those without craft skills to thrive. Those that thrive in the current global supply chain seek out authentic artisan production, leaving the masses with slop, convincing them they need it.

An important part of the Logical Map Technical Reference ( #lmtr ), is being able to verify Floppy PNGs and build/render maps on old systems. 32 bits is going to be tough, but I figure those systems are considered garbage, now, so if I can base #lmtr at that and go up to 64, that it will be useful.

Who remembers where they were when they accidentally played this hidden #tool song off of Undertow? I was in a shared computer/study room in an over/under duplex in the Central District in Seattle. Same room I was in when I first heard this #korn hidden track:

@3:15 "I'm going to look at the clock. The clock says 7:34." #DavidLynch #Quinoa

@ 6:07 "It's not quite as good as pure consciousness, but it's really good." ~#DavidLynch #TranscendentalMeditation #agua #water

Decades ago, I would keep my journal and go through long periods of silence... years. I would enter something like "back again after three years, merry climber", and come back again in two. I also felt the idea of "losing my words". I could feel how my conscious life derailed my inner.

I forget where I saw this, I suspect it was on a talk with #ZakStein: wisdom teachings share the concept of restraint. Restraint is needed to guide towards sustainable consumption of the biosphere vs. self-termination. Don't let horses run back to the barn. Let's do better if we get another chance.

Humans act like cellular automata. A culture based in an extractive relationship with nature devours the biosphere. We continued our simulation in comfort. It suited us. We voiced our outrage, as a minority monetized and accelerated under these cultural norms, but we all contributed. #GameOfLife

In the beginning of my GNU/Linux journey in 1995, I used information from TLDP (tldp.org/history.html) in paper form. I still have my copy of The Linux Bible, published by Yggdrasil Computing. Like many who were running GNU/Linux in the mid 90s, I got caught up in a storm, and I only tuned in to specific areas, chasing twisters. Like my focus on shared #culturalcognition , now that I have more time, I find myself running a trace backwards to figure out WTF happened.

#introduction (A new one is needed after I finished LM). My purpose moving forward is to weave 40 years of IT experience into the background tech reference for Logical Map on systemsa.net. First priority is portable reconstruction: take a handful of PNGs and continue work from anywhere for anybody.

It isn't *just* peak complexity. A related idea is opportunists and culture. An example is spam encroaching on Usenet or email. It is the reverse of #WoodyGuthrie 's "This machine kills fascists". The opportunist algo, devoid of cultural tether, kills collaboration, as well as #GameOfLife gliders.

#CharlesBabbage #AdaLovelace

Prior to civilization peak complexity, there is room for curiosity and learning. We tweak the game board and explore. After we hit peak complexity the game board is filled with folks protecting their gliders from interaction: even learning is siloed/cultivated. #JohnConway #GameOfLife #ParticleLife

I stubbornly wanted all my code to be #JavaScript, so I only needed one local run-time environment/interpreter. As part of this, I started coding up #Pandoc filters in JavaScript. It is messy, but it works, and it made the jump from 3.6 to 3.8 without breaking. Current:

Floppy PNG

Repositories of Floppy PNG based sites

Listening to #GingerBaker drumming in the '68 #Cream farewell concerts while I'm coding. Just... wow. #NowPlaying #CodingMusic

If you have a dynamically generated site, you can still use the w3 validator by: - Open fully rendered page in Inspector with Dev Tools (I'm using Firefox) - Right click on the html tag and copy Outer #HTML - Paste into editor (note VSCodium/VSCode is *fast*) - Add <!DOCTYPE html> - Upload file