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Thursday October 22nd, 2026

Because I'm listening through Dan Lyke / comment 0

Because I'm listening through "vocalese" tracks to find things to practice with, and because it's so appropriate to today: "Four", music by Miles Davis, lyrics by Jon Hendricks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk1c4YFUywc

Wednesday October 21st, 2026

is 110 onbrand Microsoft ad in which Dan Lyke / comment 0

This is 110% on-brand: Microsoft ad in which white guy sees his Black successful coworker getting all the kudos, so uses CoPilot to steal his work: https://www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/microsoft-copilot-competitive

Still that confirms it's a deliberate rip-off: https://bsky.app/profile/ketanjoshi.co/post/3myfvjkc6vs2e

Was feeling all cocky about Flutterby Dan Lyke / comment 0

Was feeling all cocky about Flutterby being written in Perl, then realized that I've exposed .php endpoints to serve gzip bombs if people try to access them.

I don't *think* I was vulnerable, but the OOM handling thing makes me wonder...

Well Dan Lyke / comment 0

Well... The CVS test says negative for Covid and flu A/B, but whatever I've got still sucks.


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