Walking through Brockley in South East London this morning, my eyes were drawn to the rubbish that was collecting - but not being collected - near the station. However, this wasn’t what grabbed my attention – it was the street art (graffiti, vandalism – what you will) that adorned the remnants of a piece of shelving that had been unceremoniously bound and dumped by the bins. It must have looked so forlorn that a would-be Banksy took (no more than a few seconds, in my judgement) the time to…
A Swedish word meaning ‘just the right amount’ or ’not too much, not too little’. The word can be variously translated as ‘in moderation’, ‘in balance’, ‘perfect-simple’, ‘just enough’, ‘ideal’ and ‘suitable’ (in matter of amounts). Whereas words like sufficient and average suggest some degree of abstinence, scarcity, or failure, lagom carries the connotation of appropriateness, although not necessarily perfection. The archetypical Swedish proverb “Lagom är bäst”, literally ‘The right amount is…
I’m pretty sure the best answer to every problem can be encapsulated in one simple dictum. You can use this dictum to meet all your problems, regardless of what they are, and create the best possible outcomes. You’re not going to like it. It has different forms, but here’s one: Do what has to be done, when it has to be done, and do it that way every time. This is truly infuriating advice. The mind sputters and objects. Objection 1: This doesn’t tell me anything! How do I know what has to be…
Cat portraits that are set up in low trees are destined to be the next big thing this summer, just as a challenge to novice photographers everywhere.Fake BBC news via tightly controlled social media sources: Every breakfast is of course a freakfest in this backwards freakin' country where some people actually buy and then drink tea out of cups with the image of a so-called king on it. Please grown up and out of doing these dumb things whoever you are. The markets don't need this. I know it's a…
We've seen these for Batman, Superman and the Justice League before (I posted about the latter here), and now, in this so-called "Summer of Supergirl", Superman's cousin from Krypton has got her own over-priced, magazine format collection of four comics stories available outside of comic shops, just in time for her new movie. I heard about the magazine online, and so when I found myself in a Walmart, a place I avoid ever being as much as possible, I figured I might as well see if they carried…
The latest Commando and British Weekly Comic Swap Meet took place on Saturday. June 20, at Wolstanton Methodist Church in (the clue's in the name) Wolstanton, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, although it is known amongst the organisers as the Stoke swapmeet, as Stoke-on-Trent is nearby.Last year, we took a trip into Hanley and it was a disappointment; this year we (please welcome to the stage Mr. Karl
Olive Wreath Cold Warm Green Blue Opening with layered instrumentation, Cold Warm Green Blue unfolds like a collage. Percussion and guitars are roughly assembled with overlapping edges. From this textured picture emerges Olive Wreath’s gently processed vocal. Like a forgotten photograph fluttering out of a well thumbed paperback, it lands in our laps. It feels like a memory we had forgotten, yet one that instantly puts us back in a previously forgotten emotional state. Based in London, Olive…
Greg Cello: Marriage has a way of exposing the parts of us that solitude allows us to hide, and fatherhood intensifies the exposure. The home becomes the place where a man discovers whether he is capable of giving himself without first calculating what will be returned to him; it becomes, at its best, the place where God steadily removes the illusion that a meaningful life can be built upon self-protection. The work is not glamorous, and it will not always feel triumphant, but it is the work by…
Freelance NFT staking projesi kılığında bir sosyal mühendislik saldırısı. Zip dosyasındaki typosquat npm paketi (pretie_x1), tarayıcı şifreleri, kripto cüzdanları, SSH anahtarları ve işletim sistemi parolalarını çalan çok aşamalı, AES-şifreli bir info-stealer indirip çalıştırıyor.
A social engineering attack disguised as a freelance NFT staking project. The zip file contained a typosquatted npm package (pretie_x1) that drops a multi-stage, AES-encrypted info-stealer targeting browser credentials, crypto wallets, SSH keys, and OS login passwords.
After yet another push from senior leadership, I’m finally getting around to trying to do something more interesting with our internal AI resources than just chatting with Gemini. Specifically, I’m using Antigravity and writing agent skills to query various databases, read my meeting notes, read the news, and smash it all together in the hopes of surfacing something interesting that I may otherwise have missed. The results so far are encouraging; and, the effort is making me appreciate all the…
The ACM’s proposition to redefine the software engineering profession sounds a bit like the Systems Engineer Development (SED) program of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) that hired in to in 1989. Unfortunately I don’t think such a long term vision is compatible with the U.S. short term culture, so I doubt many companies nor the industry will take this approach.
Read the full post at - Best American Short Stories 2015 I picked up The Best American Short Stories 2015 at a used bookstore sale. The price was right, the premise was appealing – a curated collection of the best short fiction published that year – and I’ve always been curious about the short story as a format. It was good. The stories were fine. But walking away from it, I had a clearer opinion about the format of the collection than the collection itself. What I Liked The short story form is…
Have you ever opened Google.com and entered site:your-domain-name to see if any of your blog posts have been indexed? Or do you look at your analytics and get a twinge of excitement when you see Google referring traffic to your blog? I'm guilty on both counts. I like the idea of the "small web" but this need to be loved by Google is probably antithetical to what the small web movement is about. Yet as a former digital analytics analyst in a past life, I have a hard time not craving organic…
It was “Bjorn,” who along with 12 others, correctly guessed that the Ohio-native mammal I was thinking of was, indeed, the Prairie Vole. As promised, I used a random number generator to pick a number between one and twelve, and Bjorn was on the lucky number. An ARC is being mailed to him forthwith. If you did not win, condolences, but also remember you can order a signed copy of the hardcover from Subterranean Press (and I will even personalize it, if you like), to arrive when the book comes…
i've signed up for the 30-day free trial for BFI. i still find it absurd how you subscribe to a streaming platform yet you have to pay for premium plus plus plus to access more films or music... anywho. i will be watching a lot of films and make most out of this free trial. since i'm basically done with uni i have time to get back to my hobbies. reading books and watching films. tried to get back to reading when i bought the novel repetition by vigdis hjorth. the cover was pretty and the first…
It appears some hosters only support docker webapps with one volume mount #til
Maybe it’s just me, or perhaps it’s the song itself, but I find that the inexpensive Czech Delicia accordion shown at the start sounds the best. It might be the high-sounding reeds (which means its sound really travels) and my history as a busker that make me think that the Delicia’s sound is the one that most evokes “sidewalk cafe on a sunny spring afternoon” for me. The post What increasingly expensive accordions sound like appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.
Monday, June 22, 2026 - 09:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project People sometimes ask me how lesbians in the past found each other, and sounded each other out about their desires. In this section, looking at Lister's socializing with the MacKenzie mother and daughter in Paris, we see a teenager's insightful observation of Lister's personality, and how she used her classical education to carefully ask that sort of question. Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #564j Orr 2006 A Sojourn in Paris -…
Welcome back! I’ve had a stress-filled month, and i just saw Disclosure Day and thought it was naff, but let’s ignore that and focus on the beautiful things of the world for a moment. Like these links i found you. Please enjoy each one equally. :-) A history of Arabic typography, and why it’s still so sucky on the web Where to find the colours your screen can’t show you. There’s some beautiful stuff out there in the world. CrankGPT: A small language model running on a hand-cranked computer.…
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We continue our study of the doctrine of assurance as it is presented in chapter 18 of the 1689 Baptist Confession.We have already made our way through the first paragraph, which shows us, first, that assurance does not belong to temporary believers and other unregenerate people. They may deceive themselves into believing they have assurance, but ultimately their hope will fail.Second, the first paragraph shows us that assurance is possible for genuine believers. We are told, “Those who truly…
CANNONBALL X-FORCE (TOY BIZ) “Sam Guthrie lived an uneventful life in a small Kentucky town, until a mining accident triggered his latent mutant powers! He found that he could propel himself through the air at fantastic speeds, and, while doing so, his “blast field” rendered him impervious to harm. Sam realized that he had to use his powers to help bring about a better world, a task he strives to accomplish in the company of X-Force as Cannonball!” Though the original cast of New Mutants are…
By Jessica Holmes The day of reckoning is upon us: the end of the serial, and the end of the 1971 Doctor Who season. It’s been a solid season, perhaps not quite reaching the heights of some of last year’s serials, but enjoyable nonetheless. As we recap and review the final chapters of The Daemons, … Continue reading June 22, 1971] Mayday, Mayday! (Doctor Who: The Daemons [Parts 4-5]) → The post June 22, 1971] Mayday, Mayday! (<i>Doctor Who</i>: The Daemons [Parts 4-5]) appeared first on…
My honest take on Steve Wilson's The Developer's Playbook for Large Language Model Security. An OWASP-flavored, practitioner-first book for people who actually ship code that calls an LLM.
Nine hotels that actually keep you cool, verified by summer guest reviews London heatwaves are no longer a novelty. The city has recorded temperatures above 35°C in recent summers, and nights above 25°C – officially a tropical night – are becoming routine. Finding a London hotel with air conditioning that actually works isn’t as straightforward as it sounds, and if you’re visiting in summer, it matters more than almost anything else about your room. The problem is that ‘air conditioning’ in a…
You want to face your fears, but they're hard to find. Fears feast on uncertainty, and the unknown is slippery. You cannot know the unknowable, nor evade the inevitable. Uncertainty forever lurks in your periphery. To study a fear is to steal its power. You cannot destroy uncertainties, but you can tame them with labels, measures, and deductions. One way to tame the unknown: experiment with its knobs. Your natural curiosity will lead you to countless knobs, most of which will be…
These are so fun to do If you've been here a while, you might remember how in March I caught covid and it absolutely fucked my life for about 2+ months. I went from "going on walks regularly and photographing stuff outside as much as possible" to "getting the mail leaves me out of breath, what the fuck" Happy to say I've been more or less better since Mid may, but I hadn't quite gotten back to doing photo walks until this weekend. What this means for you is that more moon and wildlife photos…
I used to think being mature, and being a grown up means you accept things the way they are by being understanding. No one told me being a grown up actually meant accepting how petty you are so it’s easy for you to drop someone from your contact list because they didn’t pronounce your name right. In my teenage years, if I heard someone would make something bigger than it is, I would probably tell them to “grow up.” But now, I’d laugh it off. Maybe I fight petty with petty to see how it goes.…
