Didn't enjoy Barbarian, didn't enjoy Weapons, gonna give Cregger ONE more chance with this new upcoming Resident Evil flick that admittedly looks pretty good. You got ONE more shot with me, Cregger

I'm watching Homicide: Life On The Street 1x04 "A Shot in the Dark" https://trakt.tv/shows/homicide-life-on-the-street/seasons/1/episodes/4

A Shot in the Dark
Crosetti focuses his investigation into the shooting of Officer Thormann on one suspect, while Lewis continues to investigate. Meanwhile, Pembleton and…

It's Gina Hinojosa.
A generous supporter just agreed to match up to $200,000 for one purpose:
⭐️putting our billboards up across Texas before early voting starts Oct 19.
Hit $200K and we unlock $400K to reach millions of Texans
– on highways, in small towns, in every corner of this state. 
Abbott has had 12 years and hundreds of millions to flood Texas with his message.
✅ This is our shot to reach voters with ours, before it’s too late.
Please…

Donate to Gina Hinojosa
Gina Hinojosa is the Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas to take on Greg Abbott and his corruption. Will you join me today in supporting her campaign?

Injured 235-Pound Cowboys Defender Has ‘Long Shot’ Chance to Play in Week 5 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/injured-defender-long-shot-chance-play/

🧱 Isolation per workload: process containers (AppContainer, Seatbelt, Bubblewrap), Windows-only session containers with a separate account, desktop, clipboard and input, WSL containers, and experimental hardware-backed MicroVMs.
📋 One versioned JSON schema covers containment, process, filesystem, network and UI access. The TypeScript SDK @microsoft/mxc-sdk supports one-shot runs and a provision − start − exec − stop − deprovision lifecycle.

Long shot but can anyone tell me which one of these Philips OneBlade QI 1864 charger socket pins is 5V and which is GND? Before I just YOLO it and potentially fry it? 😅 I lost the USB to proprietary cable, multimetering the socket didn't help and this info is apparently nowhere to be found. 😑
UPDATE: Might figure it out from this:

A look at the revamped 60 Minutes; Nick Bilton calls his lack of broadcast news experience an "asset" and says Trump is "one thousand percent" fair game (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.

‘60 Minutes’ Prepares for a High-Pressure Premiere After Its Turbulent Shake-Up
Nick Bilton, the new executive producer, has begun to put his stamp on the show. Up first: an exclusive interview with an officer who was aboard the F-15 fighter shot down over Iran.

The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident feels "more than 50%" of the way to a full-blown AI takeover and as AI advances rapidly we may not get another warning shot (Ajeya Cotra/Planned Obsolescence)
https://www.planned-obsolescence.org/p/the-hugging-face-attack-su…

The Hugging Face attack surprised me
It’s a major warning shot, and might be the last one we get

The Matterhorn of cauliflower cheeses, just one of the dishes we churned out in our two free hours of electricity yesterday #renewables

At the beginning of this year, when three stations were responding to me in Morse Walker at the same time, it was all I could do to get enough characters to narrow it down to one caller, let alone pull a full call out of the pileup on the first listening. I didn't see any point in going above three simultaneous calling stations, and said so on my blog.
Now in my fork of Morse Walker, you can s…

Oh yeah potus? Well, Kim Jong-il (current leader of North Korea’s dad) “‘scored 11 holes-in-one in his first-ever and only ever round’” of golf. 🤦‍♂️
Your reality distortion abilities are lacking, but your dementia isn’t. ⛳️
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/golf/golf-c

AI-based single-shot structured-light depth reconstruction for real-time laparoscopic surgical guidance
Wayne Wonseok Rodgers, Xiangyi Le, Seonghoon Jang, Shuwen Wei, Justin Opfermann, Michael Kam, Axel Krieger, Jin U. Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05109 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05109 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05109
arXiv:2608.05109v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Significance. Accurate intraoperative depth perception is important for autonomous and semi-autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery. Conventional fringe projection profilometry can achieve millimeter-scale accuracy but often requires multi-shot acquisition, digital-micromirror-device projection, and projector-camera synchronization, complicating integration into compact laparoscopic systems.
Aim. To develop a synchronization-free, single-shot depth-sensing platform using a passive LED-illuminated binary mask and a VQ-VAE prior with a custom U-Net depth head.
Approach. A compact projection module was coupled to one channel of a dual-channel laparoscope, while the second channel imaged the fringe-illuminated target. A Zivid 3D camera acquired reference depth for 722 paired phantom images. Zivid depth maps were reprojected into the SSLE image frame for supervised training and evaluation. The VQ-VAE encoded each input into a discrete latent representation, and a latent-space U-Net predicted depth without a separate mask-prediction branch.
Results. Using a fixed train/validation/test split, the proposed model achieved an MAE of 3.70 mm, AbsRel of 0.0326, delta=1.1 accuracy of 0.962, and delta=1.1^2 accuracy of 0.970. It achieved lower MAE than the dual U-Net MaskNet DepthNet baseline and outperformed off-the-shelf monocular depth models in MAE, AbsRel, and threshold accuracy. The pipeline operated at 26.0 Hz over 301 consecutive frames on an NVIDIA A100 GPU.
Conclusions. The LED-illuminated binary-pattern platform with latent-space depth reconstruction enables synchronization-free, video-rate endoscopic depth estimation. Results demonstrate Zivid-referenced phantom reconstruction without an explicit segmentation stage, while emphasizing the importance of dataset size and SSLE-Zivid calibration accuracy.
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Amazing shot by the inimitable Chuck Rubin on Glass
https://glass.photo/chuckrubin/5s9hwpahX2CBjGN6ifNSAQ

Some days, I let the postings of folks I follow trigger an image in my mind. This one is for Jennifer S. Some colour challenge I did, way back when.…
Chuck Rubin on Glass

One more report indicating that it is #ICE that should be kept in the cooler.
He was shot at by ICE, then wrongfully accused. His nightmare had only just begun
https://www.

He was shot at by ICE, then wrongfully accused. His nightmare had only just begun
After masked agents fired on his truck, Francisco Longoria was ambushed, charged and jailed – only for the case against him to fall apart. Now he and his family are seeking justice, and says the harrowing experience is part of a troubling pattern

One more report indicating that it is #ICE that should be kept in the cooler.
He was shot at by ICE, then wrongfully accused. His nightmare had only just begun
https://www.

He was shot at by ICE, then wrongfully accused. His nightmare had only just begun
After masked agents fired on his truck, Francisco Longoria was ambushed, charged and jailed – only for the case against him to fall apart. Now he and his family are seeking justice, and says the harrowing experience is part of a troubling pattern

George Pickens Spectacularly Whiffed Golf Shot and Cowboys Teammates Roasted Him For It https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/george-pickens-spectacularly-whiffed-golf-shot-cowboys-teammates-roasted-him

Sometimes, it can be enough to believe in just one thing.
#photography #graffiti

Had a great morning at the #German Museum of Technology. Must admit I spent the first hour in the special exhibition building, but found my way to the main one eventually.
Would have been cool if some of the Zuse computers were operational, but still good to see some big (if not uncomplicated) milestones in computing history

Raiders lose promising EDGE before the season even begins https://raiderramble.com/2026/08/30/raiders-lose-promising-edge-before-the-season-even-begins/

I have written a movie review of a movie I have not yet seen. I read one too many reviews of it, and figured I'd give it a shot.
Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
I hope you find it entertaining!
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/movie-re

Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
What’s with starting “into the middle of things” (Latin: in medias res)? It is crazy, right? Who would do that (except all the movies that do that)? Who would do that enough over multiple millennia so that people over centuries would have to come up with an entire phrase

Shot put thrower at Trackapalooza 2026
#photo #photography #sports #running

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
J.B. Lenoir:
🎵 Give Me One More Shot
#JBLenoir
https://tuffcity.com/track/give-me-one-more-shot-daughter
https://open.spotify.com/track/7Lq71yYO99jMqn9Ao6s2fL

An ICE agent reportedly shot and killed a person in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday,
marking the second person killed at the hands of federal immigration agents in a week.
The office of the Maine Attorney General said that agents were
“conducting an enforcement operation related to a final order of removal”
when an agent fatally shot a man on Monday morning.
The attorney general and Sen. Angus King (I-Vermont) have both said that an Immigration and Customs Enforceme…

ICE Reportedly Killed Maine Man in Second Fatal ICE Shooting in a Week
One witness said a little girl wearing pajamas, potentially the victim’s daughter, was present at the shooting.

Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot (abc7NY)
https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-mayor-mamdani-holds-hands-time-rival-curtis-sliwa-get-flu-shot-brooklyn/19901278/
http://www.memeorandum.com/261002/p91#a261002p91

Performance Evaluation of a High-Granularity LYSO-SiPM-Based Position-Sensitive Detector for a One-Shot Gamma-Scanning System with Sub-Millimeter Spatial Resolution
Katyayni Tiwari, Arzoo Sharma, J\"urgen Gerl, Ivan Kojouharov, P. Herrmann, H. Schaffner, G. Aggez, Pushpendra P. Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23371

"If you’re someone who somehow lost their inner voice along the way (maybe without even realizing it) give yourself a shot. Don’t play anything in the background, don’t turn on your favorite show. Just sit in silence for a moment and see what happens. You might actually like it."
I agree. I do this by default. I am more likely to let myself think than fill my attention with some noise.
I do also rest my mind with mindless but enjoyable streaming... at times.

Hello, me. It’s been a while. - The Mech - programming blog
Wow. It’s been over fourteen years since the last time I wrote a post on this blog. In those fourteen years, the world has changed, and so have I. So this isn't going to be a technical post, it's going to be personal. One of those subtle changes that quietly crept into my life over

🔁 One-shot entries remove themselves after successful delivery, intervals coalesce missed runs into a single wakeup, delays accept m / h / d units.
🧠 Recurring checks carry their own scope — workspace path, what to inspect, authorized follow-up actions, and an explicit stop condition. The agent yields the turn instead of burning tokens in a polling loop.

At least seven people have been shot dead in federal immigration operations since January 2025
Homan said ICE will require officers to record vehicle stops with at least one body cam
-- Too late for the seven victims
https://www.reuters.com/wo…

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/117010156110002339
Before I got shot, I was trying to figure out how to organize against Trump. I found out about the Twin Cities GDC. They had made it relatively easy to organize a GDC chapter. We were working on getting chartered when I got shot.
Twin Cities GDC sent people to help us get Greater Seattle Seattle GDC off the ground. One of their folks helped my partner make sure the house was secure. They gave all sorts of training. We used their "GDC in a box" zip file that had everything you needed to get started (dues forms, meeting notes templates, etc).
When I got out of the hospital, I ended up talking with Erik a few times. I have a *huge* amount of respect for him.
This is the real threat: support, cooperation, organizing. It's not about militancy. It's about organizing. The fascist state wants to destroy people who build. That's the whole point.
He is a threat because he has worked tirelessly, for years, against countless challenges, to make things better for people. That is the thing that cannot be.

There is no question that we are reaching peak cyber news overload, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--OpenAI’s Astra crosses the critical cyber threshold,
--Anthropic splits one model into two,
--Global crackdown sinks Sality botnet,
--AI agent swarm’s hack was a warning shot,
--Lenovo flaw opened 5,000 Dropbox accounts,
--FBI probes sale of ID scans for 170m N. Americans,
--ShinyHunters voice-phishes banking tech leader Jack Henry,
--Russian charged with infecting thousands of freelancers,
--Silver Fox hides malware behind fake downloads,
--Novocure breach exposes cancer patient records,
--Pocket Bitcoin breach links identities to transactions,
--Critical Artifactory flaw faces active attacks,
--Cyberattack disrupts Maryland health system,
--Researcher drops Kaspersky zero-day,
--SonicWall zero-days chained in attacks,
--Hackers breach Philippine nuclear and naval targets,
--Phishers weaponize Faronics to deploy ScreenConnect,
--FBI warns attackers target high-profile people and their connections,
--House extends cyber information-sharing law,
--Canadian mayor sues over data breach allegations,
--Judge questions venue for Coupang breach suit,
--AIR Security raises $50m,
--Norway takes aim at pervert glasses,
--Snap makes pervert glasses even pricier
https://www.metacurity.com/openais-astra-crosses-the-critical-cyber-threshold/

🔐 Logged-in flows use a persistent browser profile locally or Playwright storageState JSON in CI; stepshots patch amends existing bundles with manually captured steps for one-shot flows
🤖 stepshots mcp serves the recording workflow over #MCP on stdio so AI agents can call get_schema, list_tutorials, record, verify and upload

I love how the article skips the part where one of his fans shot me, then talks about the response to that shooting where folks shut his next tour stop down in Berkeley. Fucking CNN.

📝 Droning on about drones

September 29, 2026
Three years ago I got a DJI Mini 3 Pro for my birthday. Flying it around and getting aerial pictures is great fun. Lately, though, it mostly stays in its bag. This is about why.
It's tiny. The camera is decent: a 1/1.3-inch sensor behind an f/1.7 lens, which is a big sensor for something this size. It has 48 megapixels through the magic of marketing, which means it's 12 megapixels that get upscaled. It does RAW, and 4K video. It has a fancy gimbal head that is surprisingly competent at keeping the camera stable. The drone can autonomously follow a subject, circle a point, or fly preset moves. Handy if you're a narcissist or just not as comfortable with the controls yet.
DJI promises 34 minutes in the air, probably in a vacuum. Real flights, with actual air and wind resistance are around 20 minutes. Range is 8 kilometres, which sounds unrealistic, but probably refers to the antenna. Anyway in the Netherlands you are obliged to keep the drone in your line of sight. Obstacle sensors look forward, back and down, and freak out whenever I get close to Big Hard Things.
And it weighs under 249 grams, which is the whole point of the Mini line. Under 250 grams it flies in the A1 subcategory, the most relaxed one in the EU. You can fly near and even over people, as long as it isn't a crowd. No exam either, just an operator number from the RDW, the Dutch vehicle authority, stuck on the drone. On paper, it's about as free as flying gets. Except all the restrictions that apply anyway because it has a camera. 
It looks easy. It isn't. The Mini holds its position on GPS, so hovering takes no effort at all. Everything else takes practice. Two sticks: the left one handles height and turning, the right one moves you forward, back and sideways. A wheel tilts the camera. A smooth shot usually means using three of those at once, gently, while the drone drifts in the wind. At 249 grams it doesn't take much wind to destabilize it.
Then there's orientation. When the drone faces you, everything is mirrored: left is right, forward is back. At a hundred metres it's a dot, and you can't tell whether it's clearing that tree or about to hit it. The obstacle sensors don't look sideways, so sideways is your problem. And you're supposed to keep your eyes on the drone, while the shot you're making is on the screen in your hands.
Practice is exactly what I'm not getting, and the reason starts at my own front door. 
My home is squeezed in between three no-fly zones. De Horsten, the royal estate, lies in prohibited area EHP-26, the same rectangle of closed airspace that covers Huis ten Bosch, Noordeinde and the Binnenhof. It runs from the ground to about 600 metres, and no drone gets an exemption, whatever it weighs. The King moved out in 2019; the no-fly zone didn't. The other one is Valkenburg, the old naval air base. It closed back in 2006, and the province turned part of it into a test airport for professional drones, called Unmanned Valley. Whether there's still a restricted circle around it depends on which map you ask. Since at least 2022, the official aviation chart has shown one and the official drone map hasn't.
The drone map around Wassenaar. The pink rectangle is EHP-26, with De Horsten at the bottom. The dunes are on the left, and the dots mark the old airfield at Valkenburg.
That's the real problem: nobody can tell you exactly where the lines are. The government points you to two maps, and both say you can't derive any rights from them. The borders don't follow a street or a fence, either. It's a line on a map, and you're standing in a field trying to work out which side of it you're on. And where the air is free, the ground may not be: Dunea, the water company that runs the water extraction in the dunes, simply bans drones in Meijendel.
Then there's the mood. Last year drones turned up over airports and air bases across Europe. Russia is the usual suspect, though whose they are hardly matters. Do you really want to have your drone shot out of the sky and have an inspiring conversation with an arrest team?
Probably not. The police don't publish how many drone fines they hand out, and an investigation counted thousands of illegal flights over The Hague every year. Nobody patrols the Wassenaar wastelands looking for a 249-gram drone.
Then again, nobody has to. Drones under 250 grams are exempt from the EU's Remote ID. But on my generation of drones, DJI's own signal broadcasts the drone's position and the pilot's, unencrypted.
The fines themselves aren't dramatic: €250 for flying in a no-fly zone, €300 over a crowd, €350 near vital infrastructure and €500 for getting in the way of emergency services. They stack, though, and the drone usually gets seized as well.
In a village like Wassenaar, the likeliest detection system is the neighbour. Most people are uneasy about drones, mainly because of privacy. One of my colleagues, who lives in a big city, proudly claims to shoot illegal drones out of the sky with a slingshot.
Even a perfectly legal flight comes with a fair chance that someone walks over to argue about it. That's an argument I'd rather not have. It's supposed to be fun.
The obvious way out is to take it on holiday. I mostly go to Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and surely somewhere out there is a field with room for 249 grams of drone. My Dutch registration is valid everywhere in the EU, so how hard can it be?
Quite hard, it turns out. The EU only sets the basics, and every country adds its own layer on top. Zones, its own map app, its own list of special permissions. Nature parks, castles and towns add theirs. And the rules move: the Czech Republic introduced a whole new zone system only last year. 
Germany wants proof of insurance in your pocket, which I don't need in the Netherlands. The Czech Republic wants a flight plan in its app before almost any flight near a town, road or railway. Slovakia doesn't ask for insurance, but most of its mountain areas are off limits on principle, so that actually limits what there is to take pictures of in the first place.
Read all that back and you'd think I should sell it. I won't. Because when it does go up, it's still awesome. A few seconds after take-off the ground turns into a map, and places you walk past every day look like somewhere you've never been. None of my other cameras can do that. So hopefully I will be more successful at motivating myself to keep trying in the near future. 
Please feel free to add any tips for drone photography you might have, and I may use them to rekindle my interest in the hobby.
#Blog #Article #Drones #Gear #Photography #Travel #Wassenaar