The PHP Foundation in a blog post titled, "Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security": This post isn't about how to update. It's about how these vulnerabilities were found and fixed, what has changed in how PHP security is handled over the past two years, and what we need from the organizations that depend on PHP to keep PHP's security work going. They provide a lot of details about the history of these vulnerabilities and the timeline leading up to exploration and…

I sneezed in an audio call with my @openai.com Dot today, and then I kept talking. It interjected with "bless you" while it continued to listen to me ramble. I mentally registered that this was a delightful little design detail, but it only just now occurred to me that it's not obvious whether this was a hard-coded feature (or system prompt), or a legitimately non-deterministic response from a multimodal model. Fascinating! 🧠

I received a pretty cool little surprise for my birthday: A Tubbz Mystery Egg. I've had a Jeep for a couple years now and while my dashboard isn't covered with ducks, I do have a few in a little tray and in a little net bag inside. I received this guy as a little extra gift probably more for my love of the classic Universal Monsters than because it's a duck. These guys are blind bagged, which I'm not a huge fan of, so I'm not sure I'll go out and attempt to snag any more, though you know I…

Something wicked this way comes in Commando issues 6003-6006 out today, Thursday 22nd October! Commando does Halloween in four spooky comics, featuring everything from haunted aircraft to Soviet cannibals! Don’t miss out!6003: H-FOR-HAUNTEDFlak, Luftwaffe Night Fighters, mechanical failures… The Lancaster crews of the 281 Pathfinder Squadron had more than enough to contend with without adding a

My friend Chris died last year. He quietly suffered from mental illness for a long time but took great care to ensure everybody around him felt good, felt happy, and never worried about him. Most people didn’t know because his first concern was always how you were feeling, not him. I spoke to Chris three or four times a week in the year leading up his passing and I could tell he was in terrible anguish sometimes, and had been for a while. I really hope and think he’s finally found relief……

Dokkoi is a family business from Japan which makes boardgame accessories. They were at TOBE 2026 in Taipei, and I got this set of component trays from Kotaro-san as a gift. He's an amazing guy. He speaks both English and Chinese, and he learned to speak Chinese by himself when in Japan. This is a set of six trays The material is a soft rubber, so the

I've really wanted to write lately. This doesn't mean I have written, but I've certainly wanted to. But I have written. Some of it goes here, some of it goes to the Rocker Step, some of it goes to a secret third place. It's the ideas that are getting stuck. Tonight, a thing that unstuck me happened while I was chatting with basketball essayist Omar Zahran. We were talking about a vaguely homophobic thing we'd seen online and within a few minutes I was typing a mile a minute about how sad it is…

My quest to identify all the decorations displayed on the Double R Diner set continues with a framed patriotic image seen throughout the first two seasons of Twin Peaks. This vintage print contains a poem first published in 1902 and later became popular during World War I. “YOUR FLAG AND MY FLAG” HALLMARK MOTTO PRINT AT... The post Twin Peaks Set Decoration – “Your Flag and My Flag” Hallmark Motto Print at the Double R Diner appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

I wrote an API Client in Rust recently for EVE-NG, a network emulator. Some of its API endpoints (that represent lists of things) return different JSON representations for the same endpoint depending on the state of the instance. As Rust is strict about types, I had to figure out how to deserialize these quirks while ensuring consistency in my program. An example of this quirk is the list of nodes in a lab. When the lab has no nodes, the data is an empty array: { "data": [], } When the lab has…

so, before i lose it again - the thread - i thought i saw something about poets not witholding - but that's nonsense - i see you all doing it - all the time - don't tell me you're not - and isn't it the point? what you hold back is what i grasp, and in that motion is the creation. now that i can think a little again, i have been catching up on my regular reads: here a descent into some thousand-bound parenthetic nightmare of hellenilispian proportion. it's ancient greek, but it's not ithkuil,…

I wanted to do these two movies back-to-back since they are more connected to each other than they are to the first movie. The original Poltergeist is not just a great horror movie; it is a great movie, full stop. Spielberg shows the promise here that will earn him the accolades he gets with ET and Shindler's list. Sadly, Poltergeist directors Brian Gibson (II) and Gary Sherman (III) don't quite live up to the bar Spielberg set, but then again, who can? But if you ignore the first movie and…

★★★★☆ Out of all the Linux distributions I use regularly, only Debian still has a dedicated Gopher client in its standard software repository. apt install gopher It took some, well, digging (sorry) to determine that the text-mode gopher client included in Debian’s apt repository is the University of Minnesota’s classic client, updated occasionally for compatibility (and apparently at some point to support gopher+). It’s really user-friendly and thorough. It’s a TUI app, like Lynx (which is…

I was reading a blogpost by AetherAnne where she spent some time manually turning a YAML file into a Jekyll collection. Doing things by hand is a wonderful thing, but well, sometimes a bash script works too! I don’t know why I hadn’t done this myself already for my books. Especially because I already had used Jekyll collections for my origami before. Check that out in case anything here is unfamiliar to you. I am assuming a bunch of terms that only make sense if you use Jekyll or YAML or…

JP Morgan Chase Tower – New York, New York Not far from where we were staying, they were putting the final touches on the JPMorgan Chase Tower in 2025. I visited a few times to check on the progress. Clearly an extravagant skyscraper, it has the look of a building where the bank spared no expense to create a shining corporate headquarters. And the constraints of the site necessitated some fancy structural work that made the tower even more dramatic. The building uses massive fan-shaped columns…

I really don’t know how we came across this movie, but… it’s a thing! Almost funny, exaggerated in several aspects… but okay! Rating: 🫢Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!

When I started re-exploring Gopher last month, I was surprised to discover that Debian still ships a terminal-based gopher client! And it’s the original University of Minnesota client, updated to keep compatible with modern Linux! And it’s surprisingly user-friendly. Debian Just install it with apt. sudo apt install gopher If you want to compile it from source, 3.0.19 builds fine on Trixie without any changes. (Obviously you need to have gcc and the ncurses dev packages and so forth.) Fedora…

I deferred to my fiancée on this one. Azzaro’s The Most Wanted EDP Intense came out in 2021, and around then I was gifted a 30 mL flacon that I never wear. Nothing is wrong with it; it’s a decent fragrance that smells good. But with its Batman bottle and ridiculous name, it is as “basic butch” as it gets. That’s right: Basic BUTCH. Clout-chaser clubbing juice. It doesn’t get more basic. Intense

On Survivor 51 episode 5, a deadlocked tie vote wasn't interesting to me because it was all

My first domain, 26 years on. I bought absenter.org in 2000. It was my first domain, after a few years on Geocities and LiveJournal. The real ones had real domains. Back then, as I’ve written before, the Blogger crew at Pyra Labs shaped my world of publishing online. The name comes from the Jawbox song “Absenter,” the last formal track on their final album, 1996’s Jawbox. I say “formal” because in the CD era hidden tracks were common, and after a long silence comes an amazing cover of Tori…

what's the point if you don't even try? Yes, I know (I know, but maybe don't fully understand). I know it may be stupid; the ill-advised, ill-defined tantrum of but a small fry leaping out of water, blind to where it'll land. I know, but don't fully understand, but do you understand? That you have to try? You have, at least once, to let yourself reach for something― well, maybe you don't have to, but I do. I'm not strong enough to stay here and make it better, I'm not clever enough to not mind.…

1. Where can I learn new spells? Who is the greatest wizard in all the land?You learn new spells not directly from other sorceresses but by finding fallen stars. If you find a fallen star for a constellation you already have, you can trade it to another sorceresses for one of her duplicates, like trading cards.Or, indirectly, if you do service to the Tower, you may be loaned fallen stars from their treasury to prepare spells from.Ostensibly, the Archantress Melice is the most powerful…

Leaving Fort Joy. 10hrs 30mins and I've made it out of Fort Joy. It's a good thing I did a run around making sure I'd got everything. I remembered that Fane needed a Face Ripper and supposedly someone in the dungeons was supposed to have it. But I already had talked to all the prisoners. I missed that the guy most likely to be ripping people's faces off is... the psycho torturer guy. Now that I have the teleport point down there I can bring the whole party in and just walked right up to the guy…

A late soccer practice left me home alone to my own devices. Redbreast 12 from a teacup. I left the Glencairns in Scotland. Mei welcomed me into the big chair with a disinterested huff. I settled in for a bit of reading. Since then the Moon has heard jackals cheeping in thyme deserts,—and eclogues in wooden shoes grumbling in the orchard. Then, in the budding purple forest, Eucharis told me that spring had come. —Well up, pond,—Foam, roll on the bridge and above the woods;—black cloths and…

“The Greatest Benefit to Mankind – A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present” by Roy Porter was published in 1999. It’s a magnificent 848-page book that I’ve now read. Many people, I’ve discovered, own a copy but have dipped into it rather than read it through. I hope that I might do medical history, the world at large, students of medicine (surely all of us), and Roy, whom I knew and who died suddenly aged 55 in 2002, a service by posting extracts of his book on my website.…

Last night I dreamt I was at a fancy restaurant, waiting for all my friends and family, past and present, dead and alive. I was hoping to get a nice booth to impress everyone, but there was only a small table left.While I waited, I watched a couple in a booth bicker. The man was old and dignified in a brown suit. The woman looked like a 1960s Hong Kong singer in a flowery chipao with a cool hairdo. Suddenly she crawled across the table and stuck a very thin needle into the man’s throat. Then…

James Folta writes at Literary Hub about what is alleged to be an unfair business practice: Translator and writer Lin King released a statement on Instagram on Tuesday laying out her claim of copyright infringement of her Booker-Prize-winning English translation of Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ, originally written in Mandarin and titled Táiwān Màn Yóu Lù (《臺灣漫遊錄》). King discovered that a European publisher was “planning to release a translation of the book that was translated from my…

A few weeks ago I was introduced to a new online space called quxnet when its creator reached out to me. I was a little skeptical at first (as any person with a website and public email address learns to be), but as I looked into it I found one of the coolest online spaces I’ve ever seen. To be clear, I wasn’t asked to write this post. I’ve just really been enjoying my time on quxnet so far and I think it’d be fun to see a few more familiar faces there. You can read more about quxnet on its…

The other night, we were driving past the South Loop Barnes & Noble and I pointed out how I once spent an entire summer working on my first book in the cafe there near the windows looking out on State St. It occurred to me later, we are now 20 years out from the release of my first full-length collection, THE FEVER ALMANAC. This seems impossible somehow, not only that that very first book was published, but that now there are many more on the shelves beside it, close to 20. This also seems…

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