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[This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, a transformation so profound that it is not too much to call it a second birth of the subject—its first birth having occurred among the ancient Greeks…” Howard Stein, in “Logos, Logic, and Logistiké: Some Philosophical Remarks on Nineteenth-Century Transformation of Mathematics” “The report of my death was an…

Remember the good old days of the sixth generation of consoles? The Dreamcast, GameCube, Xbox, and PS2? Those were the days. The glory days of couch co-op, insane peripherals, out-of-the-box gameplay, and the sweet, sweet save file screens. Remember those? Remember memory cards? Back in those days (unless you had an Xbox) you had to have a separate accessory in order to save your game. If you wanted to delete a save file, copy a save file, or whatever other excuse you had for it, you'd go the…

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…” Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots. The horror, of course, isn’t in the two sentences at all; it’s in the ellipsis, the implication: what knocked at the door? Faced with the unknown, the human mind supplies something vaguely horrible. But it wasn’t horrible, really. The last man on Earth – or in the universe, for that matter – sat alone in a…

Images from the 1st Cohort showcase event Only x2 places remain for the 2nd Cohort which takes place Feb / Mar 2027! REGISTER NOW As part of the 2nd Cohort (read / see 1st Presenting Wisdom Cohort Showcase Event Completed | The Day After), you will guided via the speaker / storytelling coaching to craft an impressive 15minute presentation and then deliver it to an audience of peers at an exclusive-invite-only event, produced specifically to create the following content: the full talk, which…

Mage AI'ın add_host_to_known_hosts fonksiyonunda command injection. Nisan 2024'te raporladım, 26 ay sessizlikten sonra Haziran 2026'da düzeltildi.

Command injection in mage-ai's add_host_to_known_hosts via unvalidated git URL parsing. Reported April 2024, patched June 2026 after 26 months of silence.

Local inference lets me run agentic workflows on sensitive data (e.g., financial or health records) while keeping both the computation and the data offline. That’s my number one reason for it: confidentiality. Ensuring that (rogue) agents don’t wander around is a hot topic. My setup pairs: Sandboxed inference on macOS, which uses seatbelt to harden the runtime and prevent remote connections. An offline Apple container that bundles pi and a few useful tools in a NixOS image. Zebra stripes…

Sitting in a “cheap” motel type establishment. In the restaurant. There was nothing vegetarian on the menu so I ordered the omlette. The omlette is €18 and I ordered large blonde beer for €12.50. I hope the omlette is sufficient. As usual with these budget hotels its a good walk away from the town, but perhaps I should’ve investigated more before comitting myself in coversation with the waiter here. The beer cost €12.50 for 75cl and it’s only 4.5%. x

PENNY RIMBAUD AND Gee Vaucher discuss the origins, ambitions and decades-long history of Dial House–the Epping farmhouse from which Crass emerged–in the Homes section of The Observer (4 October). As Rimbaud describes it, the current incarnation of Dial House emerged in 1967 to play host to “a revolving cast of visitors, some friends and artistic collaborators, many of them strangers who simply asked to stay.” The article, illustrated with full-colour photographs of the Dial House interior by…

My local branch of what used to be WH Smith is shortly closing after being made to wait months to hear it is on the list of closures drawn pup by Modella, the company who `rescued` the firm. Modella’s past record is of making such deals then downsizing the estate before ultimately winding up the physical business leaving either an online presence only or nothing but empty units. There is no reason to believe the same will not happen to the business latterly known as TG Jones. Yet for each shop…

Has anyone seen Bill around? Or his wife, for that matter? Seen his silver truck? Gotten an email from him in the last week? I certainly haven't. I drove past Treasure Island last week, on Thursday morning, I think. There was an OPP cruiser parked out front, but no sign of people. On the way home, I saw three men outside (but not Bill, as far as I could tell). Drove by on the weekend and the place looked dark, though I'm sure there are tenants on the property. A lot of what follows is…

So I was chatting with Amy Chase (writer of Fixation, first issue currently available at your better comic shops, and at mine as well!) as I was ringing up her comic book purchase, when she pointed out the bagged copies of the Not Safe for Work cover of Gastronomique #2 that I had at the front counter. Why are they at the front counter? Because I’ve had problems with these particular types of variants…walking out the door without my knowledge, if you get my drift. Thus, I just keep them…

This is hyperspecific to my use case but maybe others will find this useful. I have several iPods that I sync from a Windows VM on my main Linux PC. My music library lives on the Linux host, managed with beets and mpd . Mpd playlists are standard .m3u files, i.e. a list of file paths, which iTunes can import, but the file paths are Linux file paths and are relative. I needed a way to convert each line from a relative Linux file path to an absolute Windows file path. My music library…

Enable an available site sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/your_site.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ Test config sudo nginx -t Reload nginx sudo systemctl reload nginx

Configure connections Configure listen addresses in /etc/postgresql/17/main/postgresql.conf Configure what addresses can access which databases with which users in /etc/postgresql/17/main/pg_hba.conf Create a user and a database owned by them psql CREATE USER username WITH PASSWORD 'password'; CREATE DATABASE dbname OWNER owneruser; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE dbname TO username; \c dbname GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA public TO username; # for Discourse CREATE EXTENSION hstore; CREATE EXTENSION…

These are the first steps I do to setup a brand new server TODO: Provide explanations for what all this actually does and why you should do it. Add user useradd -m yequari passwd yequari usermod -aG sudo yequari Copy SSH key Assuming you are currently root, trying to set up SSH on your new user mkdir /home/yequari/.ssh echo <pubkey> >> /home/yequari/.ssh/authorized_keys chown -R yequari:yequari /home/yequari/.ssh chmod 0700 /home/yequari/.ssh chmod 0600 /home/yequari/.ssh/authorized_keys…

Fun, freaky, and very filthy. I read Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman on a recommendation from the Book Domme. Books I ReadAbout I My Book | Consulting I X I Instagram I LinkedIn I Email

Newly-wed investigative journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson witness unearthly fireballs plunging into the sea from their cruise ship and embark on a years-long mission to uncover the truth with the aid of a madcap scientist and the military. Although Wyndham is generally considered to be rather left wing in his ideas, he is also a man of his time; and a very middle class white man of his time at that. Progressive though the lofty ideas of the plot may be, some of those 1950s attitudes are writ…

That’s our three-toed box turtle (Terrapene carolina triunguis), Easty, munching on a chihuahua turd in the summer of 2023. For Easty’s earlier adventure eating part of a rat skull, see this post. Happy Monday.

I've been working on this for some time and with the release of the first three Cairn CAS adventures in Markdown, I thought this was as good a time as any to make a few announcements. First, A Familiar Tower and Puzzle Dungeon: The Seers Sanctum are now available in Markdown and are playable in browser, complete with image support! The Markdown versions are free and licensed under CC BY NC 4.0. The artwork presented is property of the original artist and is used with permission. There you'll…

A while back I wrote about mobile photography and ever since I have been thinking about various options for something I can easily slip into my pocket. There aren't many options, but then I remembered we recently "recovered" an old Sony camera that we gave my father-in-law when we upgraded our camera. Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-H55 The cool thing this camera has going for it is that it's a Sony, which is what we use for our primary DSLR (an Alpha 5000). The base settings and functions are all similar…

A long-time concern in the US K-12 schooling system is that local property taxes within each school district are a primary source of funding. As a result, school districts in high-income areas with higher property values will tend to have more money to spend per student. While this was indeed a pattern 40-50 years ago, school finance issues are no longer that simple. Sarah Reber, Beyond Deng, and Gabriela Goodman explain in “School Spending and Equity since 1976″ (Center for Economic Security…

The other evening I dropped back on the Bourne with a view to keeping my momentum going on a river I think could throw up what I want. Dotting around spots every 40-45mins and dropping in source boilies in every spot with the view to fishing all those. With so little rain the river was not flowing too well, but still carrying a little colour which gave me a little confidence something would happen. About an hour after sunset I got my first touch of the evening as the tip shuddered, most likely…

Eating places for hippies could be found in cities across the country beginning in 1968. They mostly had a short life, but they introduced Americans to a different approach to meals that were not built around meat, emphasizing instead grains and fresh vegetables. They were often places to hear live music as well and to simply hang out. Foods introduced by the hippie restaurants included brown rice, lentils, tofu, tahini, yogurt, and pita bread, among others. According to Warren Belasco in his…

Uma das coisas mais desorientadoras de se acompanhar resultados eleitorais é ler uma miríade de opiniões e análises distintas, cada uma apontando para algum motivo pelo qual tal resultado foi concebido. "A esquerda fez errado", "Haddad não fez campanha", "Lula não capitalizou sobre X e Y", "esquerda está rachada", "desinformação", "redes sociais", "mercado isso e aquilo" etc.São muitas direções diferentes, e várias delas fazem bastante sentido. Eu concordo com muita coisa que eu li e ouvi (eu…

TIL macOS ships with the networkQuality command line utility that tests your network performance. No more going to random speed test websites for me! 💽

Just to mention the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics will take place tomorrow (Tuesday, October 6th,2026). I must remember to make sure my mobile phone is fully charged so I can be easily reached, although I am likely to be lecturing when the announcement is made. I do, of course, already have a Nobel Prize Medal of my own already, dating from 2006, when I was lucky enough to attend the prize-giving ceremony and banquet. I was, however, a guest of the Nobel Foundation rather…

As you might have seen I've been playing a bit of Wardogs lately. I've spent 155 hours in the game since September 10th. Yes, if you do the calculations, that's a lot. I've had some.. um.. free time. 🤔 There's a lot of things I like about the game, it's basically the Battlefield that I remember, that I wished for since BF4. It's a more engaging game than #Squad, but it could also use some more pointers from Squad itself. I'll just start with a list of things I like. Because the other list will…

I recently attended a celebration of life event for Om Malik, who died back in June, and whom I got to know a bit over the decades. We first met in 2005 at what was, I believe, the first WordPress meetup, and had dinner a few years back with mutual friends just as the pandemic was beginning to get under control. He would occasionally mention disquiet.com on his long-running blog, om.co, and it was always appreciated. There were stacks of his books at the memorial event, books he’d owned and…