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user: wglb
created: 2008-01-13
karma: 68969

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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Gamma-ray pulsations reveal extreme 3.2-ms pulsar 3,900 light-years away
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The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4
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Tapeworm hijacks worker ants, giving them queen-like metabolism and longer lives
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That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing
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Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet
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JWST discovers a new barred spiral galaxy
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Ovaries may take on job in immune system after tenure as reproductive organs
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Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water
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Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare for a single ant species
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NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up
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Carl de Marcken: Inside Orbitz (2001)
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Vibecoding is becoming a deal-breaker test for software acquisitions
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Lithp.py (~2008)
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Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
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Gravitational-wave detections double with new catalog
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Spin separates giant planets from 'failed stars'
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AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
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