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Watched Mad Monster Party? from 1967 with wifey in honor of the season. Super weird, wild, funny, kinda corny and odd movie done by Rankin Bass (known for the Rudolph and Frosty flicks). Swear the Misfits guys we're inspired by some of this. Dr. Frankenstein even says he's going to give up this 'horror business'. https://boxd.it/1ITg

Mad Monster Party? (1967)
When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein's title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands!

So, are all the people angry at #Google #maps for predictably renaming #LakeOntario actually going to stop using it, or just complain and make excuses, just like they've done with basically every other

Still on the Nail: The Farmers’ Almanac in the Age of Digital Knowing
The 210th edition of the Farmers' Almanac reaches the checkout racks this month, which means a locked box in Lewiston, Maine, has already done its work....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/0…

All 20 mortises are done. I forgot about the slots for the z-clips to hold the top on. So, I cut those real quick. All the 1" mortises made the 1/4" slots feel like nothing.
All the pieces are sanded to 220 grit and the legs have been rounded off with a router.
Tomorrow is dry-fit and hopefully glue up.
Then, I just have to do the top.
26 days left.
#woodworking

We've just been to see #Pressure, which is a bloody excellent film. Can I be the first to say it's not a documentary and yes, it's unfair that Sverre Petterssen doesn't get a mention, but it's still brilliantly done and effectively brings home the horrors of war. Andrew Scott is top notch as always. #DDay

I held this ten-chair spot for hours today in the TPAC lobby, as people came and went throughout the day. It was all hallway conversations, compressed, in one place, in parallel and in series. Got quite a lot done. Met a few folks I had missed.
Social battery gave out just as the last few folks left for flights or dinner.

“While in Korea, Linebarger masterminded the surrender of thousands of Chinese troops
who considered it shameful to give up their arms. He drafted leaflets explaining how
the soldiers could surrender by shouting the Chinese words for “love,” “duty” “humanity”
and “virtue”—words that happened, when pronounced in that order, to sound like “I
surrender” in English. He considered this act to be the single most worthwhile thing he
had done in his life.”
--from …

I've done it again: held on to a bike computer long enough to fill up the screen. 9,999.9km.
Downside: it's stuck on 9999.9 and the 2nd button no longer works so I can't reset it.

My wife voted early today. So we’re done with the election here

With apologies to those with red/blue colour blindness here is a scatter #plot showing the age of commits mentioned by the Fixes: tag in #qemu's #git My initial takeaways are we've been getting better at…

Had to time shift, but have FINALLY seen the Bournemouth match. Really difficult opposition, who were up for it. Very impressed by Bournemouth's energy and physicality. It helps to have Michael Oliver on the whistle, but what can be done?
Jacquet deservedly the MOTM, but a solid case could be made for Alisson -- the fingertip save itself was a work of art. Having to come back against balance and gravity and still get a strong hand down? Clean sheet, again? God, yes.

If you are on ActivityPub, and you have bridged your account with Bluesky, and if you haven't done this yet, please consider asking Bridgy Fed to invite parisreview.bsky.social and stephenking.bsky.social !
Tell me if I could return the favour with other landlocked Bluesky accounts.

I survived the two-talks experience after a long time off stage. Funny what things go wrong when you're out of practice but it is done! Slides for both talks are at #APIDays / #FOST then stop me and say hi :)

@… It has done for years and years.
It is actually what @… tracks to get security upstream updates without having to follow such a fast schedule.

Dak Prescott details how finding rhythm in run game can help spark Cowboys offense https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-details-how-finding-rhythm-in-run-game-can-help-spark-cowboys-offense

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117480486889964027
It’s missing the part where Kyle feels like he has done a lot of hard work, he absolutely owns it and whoever is copying him is an asshole

Worked out, double voted, double vaxxed, shopping done. A good Saturday.

Just back from traveling in Scotland for a couple of weeks, and this time I went without a computer - Just Lightroom Mobile on iPad. I encountered a bunch of caveats and ended up writing this guide at Framespotting for people who want to try the same - you'll want to plan and practice to make this work well! Sorry about the dorky Gemini illustration.

ok...
- device drivers should be sandboxed, not privileged
- device drivers should have some type of fuzz/property testing, especially incomplete initialization and teardown
- hardware people are bad at device drivers because their design methodology relies heavily on property testing, which isn't done much in software
- software people are bad at device drivers because their design methodology relies heavily on reasoning, which you can't with hardware

Looking up hermaphroditic tendencies in frogs, as one does, and I found this fascinating paper via Wikipedia:
https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/opus4-wuerzburg/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/3146/file/Linsenmair_Protogynous.pdf
The most interesting part to me is just speculation, but one idea for why females might change into males after laying some eggs is that although males enjoy more reproductive success overall, because they defend territories and attract females using vocal calls, they're potentially more vulnerable to predation by animals that hunt based on sound.
So basically, first ensure you have *some* offspring by being female and laying eggs, then once you've done that try to have *many* offspring by changing into a male, vocalizing to attract females, and fertilizing their eggs (unless the vocalizing gets you killed or other males out-compete you).
Sadly this is pure conjecture and the sex changes were only observed in the laboratory, not the wild.

For those Magic the Gathering box collectors out there, I'm selling some more of my collection of Play & Draft Boosters boxes that I've done art for.
The following boxes are listed over on my seller page: https://www.ebay.ie/usr/denmanrooke

Wednesday morning. Third day out of five. That’s 3 5.30 alarm calls done out of five, only two to do. Thing is, when I’m not at work, I’m often awake by 5.30 am anyway, but 5.30 am on a day off can be pleasant!

Jaguars LT Anton Harrison done for season with torn ACL, per report: options for Jaguars at the trade deadline

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/anton-harrison-injury-jagua…

6 mortises down 14 to go. Both front legs are done.
38 days left.
#woodworking
#wip

Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the the Republican Party's FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE9LrGpNk
James Talarico is a very good candidate that would help our country heal the damage being done. It is insane that the country is not o…

The Michigan Libertarian Party is a hoot.
Michigan Public’s Stateside today ran interviews with their Governor and Senator candidates.
They must have done those separately because there would’ve been a fight if they were in the same room.
Governor candidate previously ran for house seats as a R, failed miserably. Led an islamophobic “Crusade March” in Dearborn. LPMI has disavowed him.
Senate candidate is focused on Native treaty rights, “opt-in” medicaid-for-all, protecting water.

Feeling this post all week 😪
https://theonion.com/overambitious-man-wants-to-get-2-things-done-today/

In einem Interview erklärte US-Präsident Donald Trump: „Wir haben der Ukraine viel gegeben. Sie haben uns nichts gegeben!“
Sollten wir als EU vielleicht auch unsere Beziehung zu den USA auf den Prüfstand stellen?
Aber so ignorant dieses Argument ist, so wenig stimmt es.
https://mickryan.substack.com/p/what-has-ukraine-done-for-us

Late to the party, but TIL about
#Docker containers all over the place and with Colima you have a free, no-gui, no-ai, no-auto-update-prompts container runtime that's drop-in for the official docker.
brew uninstall docker, done aaaaaand done.

My part is done. Everyone else get out and do yours! And if you already did...Thank You!
#ivoted
#election2026

Monday evening 6pm. That’s one day done, 4 to go before I have a long weekend off.

RE: https://stodon.swhack.com/@dpk/117495463314150312
Unless of course it was AI companies knowing that their tooling would probably be used to upgrade ancient vulnerable php installations in a hurry due to threat of *imminent global disaster* otherwise?
In which case, I'd say - nicely done, but please don't do it again.

Baron Cohen writes: “I made this latest film for the same reason I’ve always done this work. Not only to make people laugh, but also to bring them face-to-face with the danger of fanaticism and conspiracy theories.”

Not to start a bar brawl¹ but is there any case where privatization caused prices to go down and then kept doing so? #TorontoElection
¹ in #SaubleBeach this can be done uttering one word: sewer.

Something new Claude Code taught me today:
GNU xargs raises its parallelism by one each time it receives SIGUSR1, so the running batch can be sped up without restarting it. Please run this:
! for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do pkill -USR1 -x xargs; sleep 0.2; done

NEUERSCHEINUNG: INDIGENE KÄMPFE IN DEN AMERICAS/ NEW RELEASE: INDIGENOUS STRUGGLES ALL OVER THE AMERICAS
https://www.leonardpeltier.de/17204-neuerscheinung-indigene-kaempfe-in-den-amerikas
In Hamburg u.a. im Infoladen Schwarzmarkt erhältlich: 
https://schwarzmarkt.noblogs.org/post/2026/08/24/weiteres-neues-buch-im-laden-indigene-kaempfe-in-den-americas/
DEUTSCH/ENGLISH
It is done, nach Monaten kooperativer Zusammenarbeit zwischen uns von TOKATA-LPSG RheinMain e. V. als Herausgeber*i

So how's that tunnel-shooter game coming along then Pre?
I have successfully made it run as a standalone Frame VR game.
Completely failed when trying to do so by compiling it for windows/proton. I suspect because of some of the ImGUI stuff failing.
And failed for different reasons when trying to build it for ARM/linux native on the thing. But that time definitely because of the ImGUI stuff I'd lazily included because interface options menu programming is tedious.
So instead I did the tedious thing for a week to build the godot-native UI, rip out the ImGUI stuff, and build enough settings menus to reduce graphics and physics settings.
There's a steam app Steam Devkit Client or some such name. You use that to upload the project-directory over to the Steam Frame as a Steam App.
And it works!
Feels pretty nice already really, but really quite frame-droppy at the most hectic times.
I think this is mostly the Godot physics system which is nice to use but apparently quite CPU costly compared to what I need really.
I just got the two collision cases really: Proximity, and tunnel-wall.
Godot's physics can build a platformer game in 3d and model the roughness of the friction in a bouncing ball.
But it's not particularly good for a tunnel in space where almost none of that matters and only our special-case of bouncing from the tunnel-wall needs to be done, and we can take advantage of the tunnel-segmentation to reduce physics combination explosions.
So the next thing to rip out and replace already is the everything that uses Godot's physics engine and replace it with simpler faster bouncier tunnel-physics.
#godot #gamedev #vr

I might join @… in being done with this game. It's an exercise in running in loops until you have enough HP to weather an attack and it gets really tedious.
#Rogule 2026-10-19
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My max streak stands at 176.
I did enjoy the game, @…

"My experience as a teacher felt like learning to play basketball by being subbed into an NBA game, and then being told I should have done better."
"There is an entrenched bureaucracy at the district level that has the deeply-held belief that teachers are the problem."
https://jason722.substack.com/p/leaving-teaching

AI may eventually kill us all, but first it will make us miserable.
You have probably heard of the security weakness in the PHP programming language. If not, it is urgent that you become informed on this issue. It affects a massive number of websites and internal applications. Hackers can bypass security credentials and get full access to servers. Patches are available and should be applied as soon as possible.
Because we have entered a heavy activity period before the December holidays, many companies are in lock-down mode. No one wants to risk upgrades during the most busy season of the year. But this is an exception. A five-alarm fire, if you will. The patches are easier than the Year-2000 event, but much more critical to get done now.
Best wishes to my IT colleagues, and my sympathies.

Some days are too much meeting and not enough making but I did get a few good things done. We'll try again tomorrow!

If you don't know those words, go let the young soldiers who used them explain them to you. If you just saw the videos of what was done by them, go to understand how it happened. Either way, go to try to comprehend how all this can be packaged as a work, as a job, as a duty.

my next video script is done but at what price

Well that’s the quarterly outing to Costco done. Three and a half hours by the time we’d got home and got it all portioned up into freezer bags and put away. The bank is £441 lighter…

After months of getting things done w/ Claude Code, I've spent ~5 days programming by hand in Lean and a liquid typed language and it's…SO GREAT? I love living in a world where I can get 1000s of mindless LOC in a minute, but also spend an hour on 10 gorgeous handcrafted lines.

Here are several screenshots of Siri interacting with OmniFocus on an iPhone:
1. Siri using Visual Intelligence to scan a hand-written list from a sheet of paper and add the remaining items to OmniFocus.
2. Siri reviewing the remaining tasks in OmniFocus that need to get done today, and suggesting some other high priority tasks to consider.
3. Siri adding some book club suggestions to the note on an OmniFocus task.
4. Siri marking complete the tasks that are currently selected in OmniFocus.

Xe pì fadiga tasére che parlare.
Tenpo, done e siuri i fŠ come che i vole luri.
#Veneto

Since we're on the topic of “disk almost full":
tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates / |grep 20|while read f; do tmutil deletelocalsnapshots $f; done
Deletes lokal time machine snapshots
Another good candidate may be iChat History at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat
All messages including pictures and movies of the last like 10 years are stored there. So if you use iChat (aka Messages) a lot this is BIG.

My LG TV has finally been shame-banned to be on the IoT VLAN instead of the normal LAN. It meant some additional (now very specific) firewall rules, although my #OPNsense UDP Broadcast Relay config already takes care of mDNS/Chromecast/etc.
It is now also explicitly banned from bypassing my #PiHole DNS filter, which has particular LG badness block lists installed...
Well done, #LG, you have officially moved into the malicious devices category on my home network.

Just finished reading Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi. The novel was translated into English by Jonathan Wright.
It's quite a read. It makes you think. Yes, about what we, US taxpayers, have wrought on other people around the world and how now it's coming home. About the nature of people and communities and what is evil and who is responsible for the harm done among ourselves.
It's also just a good story. I highly recommend it. I listened to the Libro.fm audiobook, which was read by Edoardo Ballerini & Kaleo Griffith quite effectively.
#Bookstodon #horror
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781524778613

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@ciaranmak/117438698166365017
I'm not questioning that this app is doing all these shitty things but is the term "reverse engineering" really what he has done? I am not an IT professional but I thought to reverse engineer something, you look at it and then try to recreate the same thing without knowing very well how it works. The code he shows would be meaningless if he didn't figure out somehow that this is how it MUST work. It probably comes from a decompiler but is using a decompiler considered "reverse engineering"?

I remember this illegal single-funder PAC House Speaker Mike Schultz in Hooper created and funded in 2024 to try to mess with my Millcreek Utah House Representative election. We voted in Sahara Hayes and have never regretted it.
Now, the Utah Republican Party is reusing those same tired ads. These men and women don't care about women and girls sports. They care about disenfranchising and bullying a minority they think they can get away with harming, because they know they can't win on their record.
What have they done but fund billionaires and pollute our state?
#Utah #utpol #UtahGOP #trans #LGBTQ
https://utahpolitics.news/utah-gop-recycles-2024-anti-trans-mailers/

Arguably the main purpose of the new Steam Machine really is to be the screen and keyboard on the treadmil desk.
Finally, that thing isn't running of the portable games console, and is capable of doing actual work.
Haven't spent much time with Arch or KDE before, let alone this SteamOS variant in particular.
Weird and funny that's it's username is 'deck' and it's hostname is 'steamdeck'
Half an hour at a potentially-keep-it-up-all-day sedate pace.
The work I got done is entirely just configuring this machine though 😆
Here's the bash script I now have which I can copy to a new steam machine, and maybe any Arch / KDE machine, to install Vim and set up keyboard shortcuts so you can move the windows around with ctrl-alt-J and the keys around that on the keyboard. Nine shortcuts for nine sides/corners/center.
#arch #kde #steamos #steamMachine

The crisis of software development comes from two contradictory rules:
- Up-front thinking is Waterfall; we must only learn by shipping
- There's no time for rework, so everything needs to be done right the first time
Bosses thought #AI could break this contradiction. But synthetic insights and vibe code don't actually enable faster discovery & delivery. They are a (poor) alternative to doing these things AT ALL.
#tech #softwareDevelopment #UX #UXDesign #llm

I just watched the #BlackHat #OpenAI #HuggingFace talk (#OpenAI understands it themselves. However, emergence is still no indication of actual intelligence, and the talk is again ripe with anthropomorphism.
3. Yes, it is surprising and somewhat terrifying how good these LLM agent loops have become in finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. We are seeing a much stronger version of the earlier next-generation fuzzing leap in tool capabilities.
4. The comparison with fuzzing and other tools is important for another reason: #OpenAI conducted their experiments on the live Internet. No, forcing internal test runs to go through a proxy server is *not the same as running in an isolated environment*. If there is a connection to a live production system, it is by definition not an effective sandbox. What happened to people letting their cool new fuzzers run live on non-consenting production targets on the Internet back then? They were criminally liable. Why should #OpenAI not be held liable for any damages caused by their systems?
Just because you don't understand the complexity that you built doesn't mean you aren't responsible for what it does!
5. The agent loops first successfully started exploited their proxy server on May 26th, discovered July 4th-6th as active exploitation and takeover. Credentials were revoked and the proxy server patched. "At this point, AI training and evaluations resume."
WHAT THE ACTUAL F...? You discovered emergent behavior in your overly complex system that you didn't understand, saw active exploitation of your internal systems to an extent that they were owned with admin privileges, and your response was to patch the uppermost surface holes, and then continue letting the out-of-control complex system run and continue on the same course? You didn't think to, let's see, maybe stop or at least pause the highly irresponsible experiment while figuring out - in detail - what went wrong, why, and how to avoid the same thing happening again on a systematic level?
6. On July 8th, completely unsurprisingly, the LLM agent loops continue to do the same thing and find another surface hole that hasn't been patched yet to take over again. Why should this have stopped? You haven't done any root cause analysis on the system level. Why do you expect that the problem should have stopped?
7. It takes another 11 days to discover that this is happening again. So you turned the system that had broken something back on again without a detailed root cause analysis and then didn't even watch carefully? I can't even...
8. And no, the response is not to fight fire with fire. Complexity on the attacker side (#OpenAI is the attacker, not the defender - they are the guilty perpetrator, not the innocent victim of circumstance) should be fought with *reduced* attack surface on the defender systems. Adding LLM agent loops that the "frontier" companies themselves quite obviously have no control over to already brittle systems with the hope of auto-patching your way out of vulnerabilities does not seem like a wise course of action. You don't mitigate complexity with even more complexity. The next 2 years will be ... exciting - and your best bet is going to be to disable all dependencies and complex interactions that your production systems don't absolutely require.