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📮🔒 New post on the blog
No more tokens! Locking down npm Publish Workflows
https://www.zachleat.com/web/npm-security/
Includes a checklist of 8 important things you can do to improve your security footprint when using GitHub and npm.

do i know anyone who has real-world experience with POSIX advisory locking? bonus points if it involves using NFS or Ceph

As Deshaun Watson ramps up slowly, Browns prepare for another QB logjam in 2026

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/as-deshaun-watson-ramps-up-slowly-br…

“security” is not a magic word that suspends the Constitution.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-down-the-pentagon-press-is-dangerous

Locking Down the Pentagon Press Is Dangerous
Pete Hegseth’s proposed restrictions would harm the people whom both the military and the press are meant to serve.

#Walmart says rumors spread on social media that they are locking their doors on Nov 1 because of fears of large numbers of #SNAP recipients coming to steal food are not true.

'All-time Raven' Andrews secures 3-year extension https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47193922/mark-andrews-agrees-3-year-extension-ravens

🤚 Locking your front gate using a key.
👉 Locking your front gate using a tightly fit latch that gets blocked and needs a trick to open.

from my link log —
Do you really need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub.
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2021/02/04/redis-postgresql/
saved 2021-06-12

Do You Need Redis? PostgreSQL Does Queuing, Locking, & Pub/Sub
It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.

Locket: Robust Feature-Locking Technique for Language Models
Lipeng He, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12117 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Locket: Robust Feature-Locking Technique for Language Models
Chatbot providers (e.g., OpenAI) rely on tiered subscription schemes to generate revenue, offering basic models for free users, and advanced models for paying subscribers. However, a finer-grained pay-to-unlock scheme for premium features (e.g., math, coding) is thought to be more economically viable for the providers. Such a scheme requires a feature-locking technique (FLoTE) which is (i) effective in refusing locked features, (ii) utility-preserving for unlocked features, (iii) robust against…

NFL Week 6 betting: Expert backs Bills in money line favorites parlay while locking 49ers in underdog parlay

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee…