Computer Bild Spiele: Reconstructed Game List

I reconstructed a public, best-effort game list for the Computer Bild Spiele cover discs from the cbs-2000-09 Internet Archive set, and the current release is now much stricter about what counts as a game.

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How The Mind Works, v2

Turns out, Joscha Bach already has a great summary on how the mind works:

“What is consciousness, and how does it relate to reality?-is arguably among the most interesting open questions in science and philosophy.”

Which is why I’ve updated How The Mind Works as a simple summary, a simple guide answer a few evergreen questions; still source-grounded in Joscha Bach’s work.

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Takopi Is Now Encrypted: First E2EE Chat for Codex + Claude, Out of the Box

You can now use Takopi encrypted via Matrix. Out of the box Codex + Claude + more, in an end-to-end encrypted chat.

Why: Takopi is explicitly multi-engine and supports both Codex and Claude Code, and takopi-matrix is the Matrix transport plugin with E2EE and multi-room support. In practice, that pairing gives me one encrypted chat surface that can switch engines on demand.

Recent upstream PRs by p0s focused on E2EE setup and reliability (SAS verify-device helper, Megolm key sharing), plus parity features like built-in commands, session continuity, and a more reliable /reload path.

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How The Mind Works

Why do we experience? What is consciousness? In the-mind I answer these questions from the perspective of Joscha Bach, using all his public talks and content as input—synthesized through GPT.

The code turns talks, interviews, and essays into a source-grounded model with explicit citations + timecodes, aiming for “reproducibility at the level of meaning”: given the cited sources and the project spec, independent writers (human or model) should converge on the same core claims and definitions.

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