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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.

Submissions

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

nytimes.com
39 points·by wglb·wczoraj·57 comments

JWST discovers a new barred spiral galaxy

phys.org
4 points·by wglb·5 dni temu·0 comments

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

medicalxpress.com
3 points·by wglb·5 dni temu·0 comments

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

phys.org
109 points·by wglb·11 dni temu·93 comments

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

phys.org
4 points·by wglb·11 dni temu·1 comments

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

nytimes.com
6 points·by wglb·11 dni temu·0 comments

Carl de Marcken: Inside Orbitz (2001)

paulgraham.com
2 points·by wglb·16 dni temu·0 comments

Vibecoding is becoming a deal-breaker test for software acquisitions

the-decoder.com
4 points·by wglb·17 dni temu·0 comments

Lithp.py (~2008)

fogus.me
40 points·by wglb·19 dni temu·5 comments

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

theregister.com
133 points·by wglb·20 dni temu·38 comments

Gravitational-wave detections double with new catalog

news.northwestern.edu
2 points·by wglb·24 dni temu·0 comments

Spin separates giant planets from 'failed stars'

news.northwestern.edu
7 points·by wglb·24 dni temu·0 comments

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

theregister.com
158 points·by wglb·26 dni temu·145 comments

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

phys.org
3 points·by wglb·30 dni temu·1 comments

Covered Models (Claude.com)

support.claude.com
3 points·by wglb·w zeszłym miesiącu·1 comments

A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions

phys.org
215 points·by wglb·w zeszłym miesiącu·40 comments

Found: Milky Way black hole's missing wind

news.northwestern.edu
5 points·by wglb·w zeszłym miesiącu·1 comments

Local 'Little Red Dots' stay eerily steady for up to 15 years

sciencex.com
5 points·by wglb·w zeszłym miesiącu·1 comments

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

spacedaily.com
8 points·by wglb·2 miesiące temu·2 comments

Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties

phys.org
30 points·by wglb·2 miesiące temu·62 comments

comments

wglb
·4 godziny temu·discuss
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
·4 godziny temu·discuss
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
·5 godzin temu·discuss
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 dni temu·discuss
Isn't it true that OED say that "cipher" is the primary, preferred spelling in modern British English?
wglb
·11 dni temu·discuss
Study published in Nature Physics: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03301-8
wglb
·11 dni temu·discuss
Paper in Current Biology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)...
wglb
·19 dni temu·discuss
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 dni temu·discuss
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
·26 dni temu·discuss
It's also used in security defense, where there is a search for how to stop the many steps of attack.
wglb
·27 dni temu·discuss
The register article is better.
wglb
·27 dni temu·discuss
But macros and s-expressions are two of my favorites parts of lisp!
wglb
·27 dni temu·discuss
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 dni temu·discuss
Agree but nowhere as easy as what we did https://ciex-software.com/coroutines.html
wglb
·28 dni temu·discuss
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 dni temu·discuss
Published in Nature Astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02887-6
wglb
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Those of you working in privacy-related fields or under retention restrictions, note

    *30-day minimum retention by default*
wglb
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Arxiv reprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16487
wglb
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae63cf
wglb
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
A paper in The Astrophysical Journal: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6b89
wglb
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
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.