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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
Tapeworm hijacks worker ants, giving them queen-like metabolism and longer lives
phys.org
3 points·by wglb··1 comments
That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing
rachelbythebay.com
156 points·by wglb··171 comments
Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet
nytimes.com
43 points·by wglb··62 comments
JWST discovers a new barred spiral galaxy
phys.org
4 points·by wglb··0 comments
Ovaries may take on job in immune system after tenure as reproductive organs
medicalxpress.com
3 points·by wglb··0 comments
Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water
phys.org
110 points·by wglb··93 comments
Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare for a single ant species
phys.org
4 points·by wglb··1 comments
NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up
nytimes.com
6 points·by wglb··0 comments
Carl de Marcken: Inside Orbitz (2001)
paulgraham.com
2 points·by wglb··0 comments
Vibecoding is becoming a deal-breaker test for software acquisitions
the-decoder.com
4 points·by wglb··0 comments
Lithp.py (~2008)
fogus.me
40 points·by wglb··5 comments
Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
theregister.com
133 points·by wglb··38 comments
Gravitational-wave detections double with new catalog
news.northwestern.edu
2 points·by wglb··0 comments
Spin separates giant planets from 'failed stars'
news.northwestern.edu
7 points·by wglb··0 comments
AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
theregister.com
158 points·by wglb··145 comments
JWST reveals dawn-dusk atmosphere split on ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121B
phys.org
3 points·by wglb··1 comments
Covered Models (Claude.com)
support.claude.com
3 points·by wglb··1 comments
A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions
phys.org
215 points·by wglb··40 comments
Found: Milky Way black hole's missing wind
news.northwestern.edu
5 points·by wglb··1 comments
Local 'Little Red Dots' stay eerily steady for up to 15 years
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.
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
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.
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.