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wglb

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At home, Simple country boy wgl at ciexinc.com twitter: @wgl8 w8lvn, 7019, 3519, 1819 and occasionally 7074.000

Formerly at kCura/Relativity, security. I do application penetration testing for hire these days. Happy to chat about application security, programming, and ham radio. My conversations about agriculture are not that interesting.

Security: https://ciexinc.com/ Of particular interest are the solarwinds articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds/index.html Old very fun projects: https://ciex-software.com

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters.”


Beware the anxiety industrial complex.

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Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet

nytimes.com
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JWST discovers a new barred spiral galaxy

phys.org
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Ovaries may take on job in immune system after tenure as reproductive organs

medicalxpress.com
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Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water

phys.org
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Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare for a single ant species

phys.org
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NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

nytimes.com
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Carl de Marcken: Inside Orbitz (2001)

paulgraham.com
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Vibecoding is becoming a deal-breaker test for software acquisitions

the-decoder.com
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Lithp.py (~2008)

fogus.me
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Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)

theregister.com
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Gravitational-wave detections double with new catalog

news.northwestern.edu
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Spin separates giant planets from 'failed stars'

news.northwestern.edu
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AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

theregister.com
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JWST reveals dawn-dusk atmosphere split on ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121B

phys.org
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Covered Models (Claude.com)

support.claude.com
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A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions

phys.org
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Found: Milky Way black hole's missing wind

news.northwestern.edu
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Local 'Little Red Dots' stay eerily steady for up to 15 years

sciencex.com
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"my battery is low and it's getting dark" – were never sent from Mars

spacedaily.com
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Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties

phys.org
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コメント

wglb
·2 時間前·議論
In my youth, I openly railed against this type of thinking. I was near quitting one gig when the VP said that all work done on our Dec 10 had to be done in batch mode. Fortunately, this dictum was shortly reveresed.

To further answer why I would disobey a direct instruction is that I presume those hiring me expect me to produce solutions to problems--have a problem solving attitude. A direct instruction of that sort is contrary to that.
wglb
·2 時間前·議論
Other articles:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823719
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848899
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825942
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823719
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855370
wglb
·3 時間前·議論
The Guardian also has an article about this: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/08/telst... It seems like the US is beginning to think about how to back up GPS and be less reliant: https://www.sandboxaq.com/post/the-hidden-vulnerability-amer...

So it seems like there is a gps.gov to help with this: https://www.gps.gov/resilience-through-responsible-use-pnt#:...

A similar failure in the channel islands: https://www.jcra.je/media/598397/t-027-jt-july-2020-outage-d... (pdf).
wglb
·3 日前·議論
Isn't it true that OED say that "cipher" is the primary, preferred spelling in modern British English?
wglb
·11 日前·議論
Study published in Nature Physics: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03301-8
wglb
·11 日前·議論
Paper in Current Biology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)...
wglb
·19 日前·議論
I never got a class in compilers. When I was a senior, I wanted to take the graduate course, but the prof thought it would be too hard for me.

So my next gig was writing a compiler on a team of three of us. It was highly successful for its time.

I agree that understanding how to write a compiler is pretty essential for computering.
wglb
·25 日前·議論
Reminds me of my first exposure to Lisp. It was in a survey course in my final year. This was using punched card input and output on a line printer. You could turn on paren counting, but it was clumsy at best. This was in 1970
wglb
·25 日前·議論
It's also used in security defense, where there is a search for how to stop the many steps of attack.
wglb
·27 日前·議論
The register article is better.
wglb
·27 日前·議論
But macros and s-expressions are two of my favorites parts of lisp!
wglb
·27 日前·議論
Here is one oft-repeated quote: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/12/aoc-.... Her statement is properly interpreted by pg.
wglb
·27 日前·議論
Agree but nowhere as easy as what we did https://ciex-software.com/coroutines.html
wglb
·27 日前·議論
It is still a bit amazing to me that it was significantly easier to do coroutines in Sigma 5 assembly and likely most any assembly than in C or C++. Two languages supposedly close to the machine.
wglb
·30 日前·議論
Published in Nature Astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02887-6
wglb
·先月·議論
Those of you working in privacy-related fields or under retention restrictions, note

    *30-day minimum retention by default*
wglb
·先月·議論
Arxiv reprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16487
wglb
·先月·議論
Paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae63cf
wglb
·先月·議論
A paper in The Astrophysical Journal: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6b89
wglb
·2 か月前·議論
I was responding to the headline that says:

>NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore

I did not address the issue of the hardware documentation, just the issue raised by the headline. I fully understand the issues that the hardware and the problems of not having a full map of the hardware or a test bed to check out the code.