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Limited time. #grickledoodle #frogs #pond #boat #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

from @davidgerard

> the gadget that should be an app that should be a feature that should be an option that should be default off

@gubi La bottega che non paga il pizzo rischia la propria vetrina. La banca che ignora la sezione 1(b) rischia i corrispondenti in dollari, cioè i bonifici, gli stipendi e le carte di 130 mila correntisti che non hanno firmato nessuna petizione. Le analogie non mi piacciono, ma se proprio: la bottega non è la banca, è ognuno dei suoi clienti. E il pizzo lo chiede chi scrive la lista, non chi la subisce. Il webinar del 9 è il posto giusto per chiederlo. A chi la scrive, però.

RE: https://c.im/@BBC/117230591217145100

Chancellor and "boost vibes" should never appear in the same headline, unless it's about removing VAT on vibrators...

Rappel : le meilleur moyen d'être un allié des personnes trans, c'est de leur filer de la thune et du soutien matériel.

Relayez les cagnottes, donnez si vous pouvez, et soyez là pour vos proches trans qui en ont besoin. Ça inclut de se proposer pour accompagner aux rendez-vous, pour gérer les galères administratives, pour faire les recours quand iels se font pas respecter, de les aider à prendre contact avec des assos, des syndicats.

Et puis ça inclut même des choses aussi bêtes que de filer un coup de main pour un déménagement. Ça aussi c'est du soutien matériel précieux. Parce que dites vous bien que si vous connaissez une personne trans, y'a de fortes probas qu'elle soit isolée, et que vous faites partie des rares soutiens matériels qu'elle peut compter dans la vie.

Ok, it's very 1970s, but it made me chortle.

@DaddyJew perhaps a nice porn bungalow

I've got a giant stockpot of pulpy plum juice boiling on the stove, 3 small buckets of cleaned chokecherries, and a different elderly neighbour asked for help picking his apples (and gave us most of them) so I have a couple crates of apples. (I also have many bags of frozen raspberries, but probably won't get to those today). It's absolutely pouring rain, so it's a good canning day. (Would be nice if I also have some time for writing, too. We'll see.)

Your art history post for today: by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), The Heian Poet Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight, Subduing the Bandit Yasusuke with His Music, 1883, color woodcut on three panels (triptych). As a print it appears in many collections. #art #arthistory #japaneseprints #printmaking #woodblockprints

From Sotheby’s London, July 2023: “The full title of this print, Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight, a Painting Shown at the Exhibition for the Advancement of Painting in Autumn 1882 (Meiji jugo mizunoe uma kishu Kaiga Kyoshinkai shuppinga Fujiwara no Yasumasa gekka roteki) highlights the fact that this triptych was based on a painting Yoshitoshi submitted to an exhibition of Japanese art (the Naikoku kaiga kyoshinkai) in 1882.

Both triptych and painting depict Fujiwara no Yasumasa (958-1036), the Heian period courtier, celebrated poet and flute-player. The story tells that one night while playing his flute on the Ichihara moor he was approached by Hakamadare Yasusuke (Kidomaru), a bandit, who planned to kill him. However as he was about to draw his sword and attack, Hakamadare Yasusuke was so enchanted by the music that he abandoned his plan. Widely considered Yoshitoshi’s masterpiece, this triptych is full of atmosphere and drama with these two characters captured on the windswept moor. The clouds were applied by hand and this appears to be an unrecorded example with the clouds applied horizontally.”

majesty

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Between the last German elections and the impact of the Trump policies, I don't know how to write about things happening without sounding absolutely despairing on this world.

So I will not. I can't add anything that hasn't already been said.

Because what we need now is hope (the kind of hope that makes you fight, not wait) and ideas, ideas for (small) things to do. And beauty and fun, to replenish.

And because I can't deliver of the first two, I'll try for the later.

Start with AI. Keep only what actually needs AI.

Joël Quenneville shares how he uses LLMs to explore new workflows, then pulls deterministic pieces into scripts and templates for less complexity, lower token usage, and faster results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGSXQcPAJw

@ultimike

> the nagging feeling every kid has taking off training wheels: is my own balance getting better, or am I just relying on a better bike?

This metaphor from Claude at the end is unintentionally perfect - I doubt any kid has this nagging feeling, let alone 'every kid'. Most are just thinking 'wow I can cycle without stabilisers now!'.

That kind of confident statement - that scans well, that supports the theme of the blog, but appears false - is precisely why I don't trust LLMs in critical work. If bloggers like Jacob don't notice this, how to trust they'd spot similar flaws in their LLM output that still reads well and supports the goals of the prompts?

people will tell you that your code having State is a sin, so you will rewrite it, creating all these nested functions and callbacks so that all the state, which could have been an enum or a few bools somewhere, is instead packed into the path the instruction pointer takes through the code, and can only be seen as a faint squiggle on the doppler radar trace

The LG TV network scanning story breaking today includes UDP 9999 Kasa discovery broadcasts every 25 seconds. That's the exact port I documented in CVE-2026-13230 as returning unauthenticated precise GPS coordinates from Kasa cameras with no authentication. Any LG TV + unpatched Kasa camera on the same network = GPS harvesting every 25 seconds. @briankrebs Advisory: https://github.com/BadChemical/IoT-Vulnerability-Research-Public/blob/main/TP-Link_Kasa_EC71/Kasa_EC71.md

#Iot #CVE #TPlink #LG #infosec

@maddiefuzz Not true! I really AM a divine being >:3