On the 4th of November the Rails security team shipped 8.0.5.2 and 8.1.4.1, and it is a big one: 21 security issues in a single release. One of them is rated critical, GHSA-f3w6-w445-fwh9, “Possible arbitrary file write and read in Active Storage image analysis”, with a CVSS score of 9.8.

Long ago when getting on the internet meant tying up the phone line, images on the web were simple. You would upload a jpeg or gif and move along. Webpages took forever to load. Things were simple, but insanely slow. Later on the png appeared and compressing images server side became popular. CMS tools like […]

“...and the fungus slowly grows in the frog’s brain.” Mrs. Peach makes biology both more interesting and frightening than any class I’ve ever had. “… involuntary movement.” But I’m tired and I just want to go home. “Is it Tuesday?” she looks down at her watch, puzzling as the sirens go off. The skies are clear, no sign of a storm. She checks her phone, buzzing on her desk. Our phones are on silent, but she gets to have hers out. She looks scared. It’s not our first tornado drill, what’s the big…

Maybe it's okay that we have agents now. The interesting hard part about programming, where you'd get in a flow state and stay there, keeping the problem in your head for hours, I think that time is gone. But I think what's more interesting is that now we can be more ambitious. And really drill down on things we want to. Even things we don't know, we can use the agent to help us learn about them as we build. We can also worry about the little things, the details, the last 10% that takes 80% of…

As we approach Remembrance Sunday I am reposting this sonnet about the two minutes silence, which was first published in my book Sounding the Seasons. I’m posting it early so that any one who wishes to, can use it in services or events on this Remembrance Sunday. So here is how it came to be written. On Remembrance Day I was at home listening to the radio and when the time came for the Two Minutes Silence. Suddenly the radio itself went quiet. I had not moved to turn the dial or adjust the…

A video from Leon Massey about the community trying to figure out a secret in the 2012 videogame Fez: This was an interesting video because the secret was figured out, but it was figured out in an interesting way – with slight help from the developer, followed by brute forcing the solution. We previously talked about some similar approaches. I once used a random number generator to stumble upon a solution rather than calculating it mathematically, and just recently we talked about a Zelda game…

Barren trees at North Texas’ Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge. The post Stripped appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Here’Here's the thing about The Interpreter — the opening scene is important, but I didn’didn't understand why. I don’don't think they did a great job explaining (or hinting at) what was going on. As a result, I was a little confused throughout the filmNicole Kidman is the United Nations interpreter of the title. One night, she overheads something that sounds nefarious, and alerts the authorities. Sean Penn is a Secret Service agent assigned to the case as part of the Dignitary Protection…

What’s your favorite instrumental song? First heard of this artist via my Uncle who had a couple of his albums on CD back when CDs were still new! After playing the CD, my uncle showed me a VHS recording of a concert of Jean Michel Jarre playing a LASER HARP!! Visually and musically it was something beyond what I’d been used to. It was years later that I realised just how big an artist he was, that he wasn’t just someone my Uncle happened to have heard of. And reading up a little about his…

Everyone talks about hyper realistic graphics and the need to push their expensive GPUs to their limits but before the 3D era truly took off, we had 8-bit and 16-bit pixel art and artists with lots of creativity and a few megabytes to execute them. strafefox looked at how artists and designers did it, not only on consoles but also arcade cabinets. Featured games include Ghosts ‘n Goblins, Fantasy Zone, Mega Man, Street Fighter, Ecco the Dolphin, and Moonwalker.

Tips and reminders to self and others while learning Logic Pro to record music. Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Home = Go to start of selected region Ctrl+End = Go to end of selected region Ctrt+Opt+’ = Create marker (at precise location, without rounding) Here’s all of the Logic Pro keyboard shortcuts. Recording Click R. It will also automatically turn on input monitoring for the track. To hear what you recorded, turn off input monitoring by clicking on the I.

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Yes, a slightly bear-related post. A prompt after reading 'Biological Elegance - Unwitting the Devil' by Dr Zach Bush (which I HIGHLY recommend if you're wanting a non-polarizing and illuminating/clarifying perspective on artificial intelligences. My 'Legs from the Dregs' blog/book drafting has been utterly neglected and yet it's all about 'humming in the field' with non-humans (what brings me joy and connects me with the larger majority of life).So... I'm taking a 40 day 'chilla' (Rumi term…

Welcome to my 204th gems post. This is where I share some of the latest news, ideas and resources for maths teachers. 1. MathsPad UpdatesMathsPad has long been one of my favourite websites. It ranks in my 'top five' most used (alongside Corbett Maths, Dr Austin, Don Steward and 1st Class Maths). MathsPad's most recent updates include a new free interactive times tables quiz which is

The Worst Mistake They Ever Made? It's the story of the Worst Girl In The World, Marmalade Atkins!

You all know that I love my highlighters, but I have a special fondness for the recently discovered Zebra Mildliners and Pilot Kiri-Na, which have become my highlighters of choice. But which of the 40+ available colors do I keep on hand? Why not all of them! A huge shoutout to the team at Kaleidocraft who agreed to do a special run of their 3D-Printed “Color Vault” desktop pen holder in a special red and black swirled acrylic for T.G.S. We also have a basic black one as well, for those who…

I’ve been meaning to have Claude edit our opml_to_markdown script so that the markdown version of my daynotes is in chronological order rather than reverse chronological order, which I think make more sense when reading it as a document. You can see the result here.

Cover design by Peter Mendelsund & cover art by Nicolas De Largilliere. “Bitch, I’m here to tell you that it’s going to be all right. We’ll get through this shit, motherfucker just you wait.” page 68, You Can’t Kill the Rooster Table of ContentsWhy Me Talk Pretty One Day?The BookThe GoodThe BadThe UglyConcluding Thoughts Why Me Talk Pretty One Day? I first heard about David Sedaris and Me Talk Pretty One Day years ago from my friend Chloe. Fast forward a couple years and I was browsing the…

Robert Birming is at it again with a fun blogging challenge, Knowember. I like the idea of updating it each year. A photo My sister made this for my birthday. I love it. She showed it to her kids and asked, "Who's this?" They said, "Auntie Fran." She asked, "How did you know?" They said, "The hair." A trademark apparently. Name or nicknameFrances, mostly Fran. My wife never calls me anything even remotely resembling my actual name. Where in the world I blog fromBlogging from the UK, the middle…

Hey people! I thought today I’d share a song that’s been stuck in my brain a lot lately. You might recall that a few months ago I featured “Steady” by Olivia Reid, except the poor Olivia barely got a mention in that post, because instead, the spotlight was stolen by the producer of her song – So Wylie – or rather what I concluded must be her socionics type, i.e. ILE, which got me very excited as I really like discovering ILE musicians and ILE females as well. I now do even more, as by now I…

A pickup from Bandcamp Friday yesterday. An interesting sound, this is definitely FCP branching out a bit from past albums. This one has them experimenting with some very pop-inflected vocals and bringing in more instruments beyond their core piano/bass/drums trio, including strings on several tracks. It works! I'm excited hearing them try new things, and looking forward to where they're going from here.

Monday She said: “It’s about K. You need to know” – and then nothing. No full stop, no fade away, just the room and the morning. The room isn’t dark because time shifted an hour while I was away. Dark mornings are light again. I keep dreaming of people I know in untrue but plausible circumstances. Not premonitions obviously, but they leave an uneasy feeling it’s hard to shake. Today is the first autumn walk in wellies. A coat too, although that proves premature when I pick up the pace on the…

When I linked to the troubled New York City/Big Apple Game, at the very bottom I mentioned a web emulator of Atari I just discovered, called A8 Web. What was particularly interesting about this emulator that I haven’t seen before, is that it came equipped with a ⌘K command palette: I didn’t expect this kind of a professional UI in such a small piece of software, but I immediately embraced it – it not only gave access to various expected commands like “mute audio” or “resume emulation,” but also…

My sturdy volume of Peter Porter's Collected Poems (Oxford, 1983) – 330-plus closely packed pages – is ideal for browsing in. Last night, doing just that, I happened on this one, dedicated to a remarkable Renaissance artist who was as prolific and gifted as Porter himself, and with whom he seems to identify as an honourable 'minor' artist. For Sophonisba AnguisciolaSo much going for you, a woman painter of the sixteenth century, dying at ninety-sevenif the reference books are right, and with…

Breathing new life into an old design meme View the project Certain cultural memes cycle and resurface as discovered by new audiences. This particular photo is one such meme. It’s one I’ve always loved, but hated the poor quality with window glare and leaning perspective. It seems like it originated over 20 years ago in Helsinki, Finland, but the exact origin may now be lost. When it popped again recently, I thought it was high time to recreate it in a more fitting manner — HTML! Design &…

Sometimes deciding to do things differently turns into a lesson you wish you never had to learn. Someone (not naming names) decided she’d speed things up… and make her south Florida trip over the course of 2 weeks rather than taking a month or more to mosey her way south for the winter. I once made the trip in 2 days when my Dad was very ill and needed me. But that was 8 years and a younger body ago. This time around, I stuck to my rule of driving 3ish hours at a time… but only stopping for 1…

Mazie and I sporting our original 2021 Things 4 Good attire.

British football fans will know of Preston’s Invincibles team of 1888 and how the Football League started with a paltry 12 teams but how did it become the behemoth it is now with 92 teams and the top two leagues in the world (that’s the Premier League and the Championship)? Route None dug into the history of the expansion in just under 30 minutes and of course it features questionable owners and even more questionable admin decisions. I liked this fact in the comments: Fun fact — Coventry are…

Adventurers Character Race Class Description Aurella Elf Fighter level 1 / magic-user level 1 Exiled and chased out of her tree commune, she now wanders the Wilderlands. Bragi Twinefinger Hobbit Fighter level 3 A stout strong hobbit. As a devotee of the Great Tailor he is always smartly dressed (under his armour) and overly fond of multiple breakfasts. Castor Mitrakos Human Fighter level 1 A Ghinoran sellsword seeking gold and adventure in the Barbarian Altanis. Herbaecious Roncule Human Druid…