Wed Oct 21
Today I learned that there's a version of XScreenSaver for iOS. I haven't used XScreenSaver in years; probably decades at this point. Not because I don't like it or anything; it's just because I've not had a GNU/Linux desktop machine in that long. But the chance to install the app on my phone and scroll through all...
Si tienes PHP, te estás tardando en actualizar. Llévalo a la versión 8.4.27, pues es una situación crítica de seguridad Esto es un boletín informativo de SEGURIDAD Introduccion hace poco hablabamos de un problema critico de seguridad que afectaba historicamente a versiones antiquisimas de wordpress hasta la mas...
Lots of people who are against the use of AI for all its ethical and inherent issues tell me this. Just ignore it. Don’t let big AI control us. The “slop” they refer to is anything created that involved an AI, and in our case (the curl project) it is in particular vulnerability reports. “Ignoring the slop” cannot be...
October 2026. Thaxted. Essex. I’d booked my almost traditional Sunday night in Whittlesford’s Parkway after seeing Dad (not so good) on Sunday; £63.10 (including outrageous £10 to park) at the B & B Hotel chain that’s like a more cheerful Premier Inn. But then I saw I could park the campervan, for free, in Thaxted‘s...
I reckon it's time for a poem. Here is one by Janet Lewis (wife of the eminent poet and critic Yvor Winters), who is perhaps best remembered for her classic novel The Wife of Martin Guerre, but was also an accomplished poet, active across six decades. In 'Helen Grown Old', she wonders what became of Helen of Troy,...
Can’t focus on music, rewriting Lorenz transforms and thinking about infra/ultraspace minigames instead of set n forget system travel. Probably looking at sdfs if i wanna do hypervolumes Eek I am no optozorax, might just render stuff & fakeout. Anyway zoomfull game footage: #rasdFastwalkerLeague View on Bluesky
Due to the unprecedented PHP vulnerability today, I took the blogs down until Debian pushed a fix, as advised. (And also Quimby.) They pushed a fix now, so things should be back to normalish. Except that the web server on Gmane is still down — I need to do further upgrades on that machine, so it’ll remain down for...
My social media was abuzz around the launch of the new iPhones. I have a 15 Pro Max and was thinking that the 18 might be the generation I’d make the upgrade for. I used to do every other year but I didn’t see the leaps and bounds in improvements with the 17 to tickle that FOMO gland into forking over oodles of...
I wrote about the novel earlier, on which this TV series is based on. If you have read that novel, then watching TV series is quite tasteless compared to reading. It fails to capture the depth of characters. So I will recommend the book first. However, if you do not want to read, I can only recommend it 4 stars. For...
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...
Originally my plan was to be gone a week for some “me time” to Kampot. I particularly chose the city because of our last visit there. Its a peaceful retreat, slower, different restaurants and coffee shops and its farther away. There is also this vibe to it which I really enjoyed in August. Back then, the weather was...
Last edited 6 minutes ago. So hopefully this will be a quick post. I've been a bit more active online — as in, not just quietly reading blog posts, but yapping on message boards and stuff. Because of that I also discovered a bunch of new corners that I wanted to share here and give a general update on the state of...
For the last two or three weeks, I've been discussing with a few co-workers that I'm not enjoying a few things that are happening in my workplace. These things range from the lack of quality that we are shipping, to a lot of back-and-forth, and even roadblocks that were never an issue before but are now. I was...
What’s your favorite protest song? There are many. Powerful, questioning, challenging, songs can almost be a rite of passage for some artists. From What’s Goin’ On to Going Underground, from The Times They Are A’ Changin to Clampdown, Fight the Power to Paper Planes … I could go on. And I am already pondering a new...
Over the past couple of weeks I have been experimenting with Linux Mint on two devices: a MacBook Pro and a Microsoft Surface Laptop. You don’t really notice the habits you develop over years of using macOS, so spending time with Mint in different hardware was a good opportunity to question which ones were worth...
I’ve mentioned before my interest in the history and development of nuclear weapons. Currently, I’m reading The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg (of Pentagon Papers renown). In the first chapter, Ellsberg talks about his time working at the RAND Corporation during the missile...
It is one thing to draw attention to a hiding place that can be seen, but it’s a different challenge altogether to have to point to something that’s not even on the screen. Let’s rewind to iOS 18 two years ago, and what happened when you swatted away a notification – the movement was nicely reversed, with the UI...
21 Hero | INDEX | 23 Dapper Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper.
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,”...
Heya! You might've noticed that my guestbook website, guestbooks.kamiscorner.xyz was down for about 8 or so hours today. Well, it's back up now! There was this really, really bad RCE vulnerability in PHP that got announced today (technically yesterday), for which a patch got released a couple hours ago. So, i had to...
PHP reminds me of Log4Shell in 2021. Back then the CVE even had a 10/10 rating. Interactions & Comments
I mentioned back on the very first day of this year that my friend Scott Wood and I were planning on setting up something around the “Hastings Weird”: There are some existing loose local networks/communities that I’d like to get involved with or am already getting involved with—both for the joy of being part of a...
Eu talvez não seja mais o otaku de anime que fui a uns 15-20 anos atrás. Acompanhar quase todos os lançamentos da temporada, pesquisar sobre eles antes, ir atrás de diversos mangás para ler e ficar por dentro do que pode ser ou não bom no meio de animação era a minha maior felicidade. Hoje em dia não é, talvez eu...
I'm getting tired of this. Thanks, once again, to the wonderful Fediverse (I use Mastodon), I just learned that eBay automatically opted in all of their users to training their AI with personal data without their consent. You can opt out at this link: https://accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences They're not even...
Martin Brown, who is the general manager of Nestlé’s coffee and dairy business in Australia, said cappuccino sachets have been the “fastest-growing part of the market” since 2021. We keep a few boxes of cappuccino sachets in the kitchen cupboard for days when we don’t want to walk all of five to ten minutes to a...
An interactive keyboard that helps you memorize shortcut keys from several popular apps. (I really like keyboard shortcuts!) The studio that created this site made that “it’s faster than memorizing a cheat sheet and stickier than Googling the same shortcut for the tenth time.”
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Photo_of_Astra_running_down_a_hallway_at_UCSF.jpg}}|thumb|Astra was supposed to go outside and take a running kick at a ball. She did, and then she continued on to make a run for it]] The [https://kidsdevelopment.ucsf.edu/about-gsed GSED] is a test program that is used to track...
I’ve been a tea nerd for longer than I’ve been a coffee drinker. I’ve always said that I can deal with a bad cup of coffee in exchange for the caffeine boost but I cannot cope with a bad cup of tea. I consider the “diner scenario”: at a diner, I will gladly order a cup of drip coffee from the bottom of a pot that’s...
My review of Street Fighter (2026). But first, a long-ass preamble.I didn't grow up actively playing video games. I only had sparse encounters. I remember watching other kids at my after school program play Street Fighter 2 on the small TV. I'm sure I watched my older cousins play it, and I might have given it a go...
Breath of Fire IV is an entry in the Japanese Role-Playing Game genre (spoilers below). The game was released about an aeon ago, which is also approximately how long it took me to finish it. It has lots of interesting ideas, but it ultimately has a pacing problem that disrupts the experience and, depending on one’s...
If you're running a blog that is built on PHP (for example, Pure Blog), you need to update your PHP installation right now. Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, putting any PHP application at risk. So SSH into your server, run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo reboot now and then run php...
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...
So the tone of this blog post is going to be a little bit different. And the reason why is because I’m not actually typing this blog post. I’m speaking it. I’m sitting at my desk right now with my microphone in front of my face, and I’m talking and watching as the words appear inside of Emacs. It’s really freaking...
By: Al J. Venter | Rating: 5/5An absolutely fascinating book about a Rhodesian guy who became a helicopter pilot and flew them all over the world, seeing many conflicts up close. Besides learning about his adventures I now somehow know a lot about how to fly a helicopter in all kinds of adverse conditions.
Gergely Orosz is frustrated at those that entered his explicitly “No AI” essay competition and used AI. He goes on to say: When I start to suspect some part is AI about someone I don’t know: how can I tell how much of it is? And how much time and effort do I want to invest to figure out? I fear most people do not...
Who would have thought I would capture the unicorniest of all unicorns in EKSN of all places? Spoiler: not me. And yet that's exactly what happened last weekend. Here's the story of how this came to be.
Yesterday afternoon, I went to downtown Spartanburg, to the business office of Hub City publishers, a group which also runs the charming, downtown bookstore. We had the last meeting with a student who is doing a Capstone project. We agreed that it's been a success.It was neat to be in the office space of a small...
I don't know about you, but what awes me when I watch an artisan at work is their tools and how they use them. "Use" may not even be the right word when it comes to consummate craftspeople: the tools become their appendages; they seem to disappear into them, making those people something more than people—a powerful...
“Eine Schwäche für das Schrundige, das Eigenartige, das kurz vor dem Kipppunkt in der Unzulänglichkeit Gescheiterte.” – Clementin Cerber auf Bluesky Ich teile diese Schwäche. Per E-Mail antworten
Just announced: Ironman Montana, in Great Falls, Montana, on August 15, 2027. It’s the last in the slate of new Ironman-branded races announced this week for 2027 in North America, which also includes Ironman 70.3 Lake George in Lake George, New York, on June 13, 2027; and Ironman 70.3 Utah in Orem, Utah, on August...
The people who benefit from AI the most need you to THINK that it's inevitable in order to make their money (Photos in this post are mostly unrelated. As always, I'm a highly visual creature and I have a ridiculous photo backlog so I pepper stuff in. enjoy) Here's several of the cats mistaking a sound I made in the...
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...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-93479 for the project NGINX, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a heap buffer overflow in worker script evaluation triggered by crafted requests when regex map captures are referenced...