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"PHP is the lingua franca of affordable web hosting options; or, in other terms, the Toyota Corolla of programming languages: boring, solid, easy, and affordable. You can find, almost anywhere in the world, an affordable web hosting with the saint quadrinity of LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP; an OS, a web server, a database server, and a scripting language, in an inexpensive package, enabling the masses to go further. Paraphrasing George Clooney, what else?"

The Toyota Corolla Of Programming
In 1995, an otherwise unknown software developer released the first version of a new scripting language whose explicit aim was to make applications for this new platform called "The World Wide Web". After starting as a small project, and thanks to the crazy dot-com years, it grew dramatically to become one of the most widely used programming languages of all time. After some stumbling first steps, it eventually got some sort of standardization in 1997, even reluctantly including some OOP featur…

Bell died in office in 1851, but it’d take another 35 years before Parliament legislated the removal of MPs judged of unsound mind.
That particular instrument was only used once, to replace Charles Leach in 1916 after he was institutionalised for what may’ve been vascular dementia. The onset of #WW1 delayed a general election, whereupon an unfit MP would normally have been allowed to retire graceful…

The security company LayerX has found a critical vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT). A manipulated Google Calendar entry can execute arbitrary code on the computer without any user interaction. Although the vulnerability received the highest possible severity rating of 10 out of 10 on the common CVSS, Anthropic does not intend to fix the problem for the time being:

Claude Desktop Extensions Exposes Over 10,000 Users to Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - LayerX
  Summary: LayerX discovered a zero-click remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT), in which a single Google Calendar event can silently compromise a system running Claude Desktop Extensions. The flaw impacts more than 10,000 active users and 50 DXT extensions.  Unlike traditional browser extensions, Claude Desktop Extensions run unsandboxed with full […]

Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside - San Antonio Current https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-news/report-staf…

Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids’ letters and drawings detailing conditions inside
A child detained in Dilley for eight months draws a picture of home. This photo was supplied to the Current by attorney Eric Lee. It's unknown whether

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
VILA: Dayna. Dayna. [follows the path Dayna has taken. He leaves Orac and the binoculars on the ground in the snow.] Dayna.
[Planet Terminal. Exterior. Avon finds Tarrant lying face down in the snow, unconscious. Avon walks over and nudges Tarrant with his boot. Tarrant stirs.]
https://blake.torpidi…

Just finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

So I busted out an old laptop and installed headless ubuntu minimal (I like to start small) so that I can start setting up some autonomous agents. My first step was to install Claude Code so that it could setup everything else for me, but after a few hours at it, both Claude and I admit that Claude Code is broken on a headless install. We tried a bunch a different way to get it to take a damn key, but the installer insists on an OAUTH auth that requires a browser.
I have a dislike fo…

TIL Reeves and Mortimer could have been in The Lion King?

The Lion King - Wikipedia

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: The air's as fresh as ever. Do you know what that means?
KERRIL: We're going to die of exhaustion.
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Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: [Later. Flight deck. Vila is on watch, sleeping] Vila, come on, wake up Vila.
VILA: unh
BLAKE: That message, did you log it?
VILA: What message?
BLAKE: Well, I thought I heard a call sign numerative.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/112