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Apple's Rare Concession: When Critical Vulnerabilities Meet the 'Update Refusal' Wave - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #130

For iOS users, recent news about the Coruna and DarkSword vulnerabilities has become unavoidable. Both exploit chains use watering hole attacks, requiring no user interaction — simply visiting a le...

Aimery versus Ralph

The King of Jerusalem, Aimery of Lusignan, had a problem with his seneschal, Ralph of Saint-Omer: he accused the seneschal (who had hopes of becoming King of Jerusalem before the election went to A...

Actually overflowing

So we are preparing the plants that we are going to have in our garden in this season (cucumbers, courgettes and tomatoes), but we are going on holidays when we need to take care of the little plan...

Killing Open Source

NOTE: As usual, this blog expresses my opinions and not those of my employer I first got exposed to modern open source in the late 1990s, and I think it was via Red Hat Linux version 5, or perhaps ...

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 6] - Monday, with Government Weather

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 6]Day Six Well, if it’s got to be Monday, at least it’s a Monday during Na/GloPoWriMo, so the work-week can start off with a bountiful crop of poems! Our featured participant ...

Uma’s first proper trail walk at Bidjigal Reserve

It wasn’t planned that she would walk all the way. I was ready to carry her at least three-fourths of the way. I would have been more than happy if she had walked a kilometer. But it so happened th...

Alice Kilpatrick and the Richmond Hotel

In the first decades of the twentieth century, when segregation narrowed opportunity and Black mobility was constrained by law, custom, and violence, African American women quietly built institutio...

Weeknotes 2026-04-05 Easter Sunday

It is a new month! Yesterday was Easter Sunday. These weeknotes are a day late because I was busy yesterday. The World And yet, the Iran conflict is still ongoing. Trump has made his Nth ultimatum ...

Definitions of Model

There are a lot of meanings of the term “model” in machine learning and machine learning-adjacent fields. Depending on the context, “model” can mean: a general architecture/configuration for weight...

The Uncanny Valley

Or, why almost-human is worse than not-human at all.

🌱 shadow of the leviathan - a book review

I listened to the audiobooks for the first two books, highly recommend! I enjoyed them both! I tried to write a short story once with an element of “what if instead of mineral-based technology, it ...

Grammar

Nourishment

Palm Sunday was good yesterday, thanks for asking. Getting through the Divine Liturgies has been easier. My feet still hurt, but not as much. I'm usually quite drained afterward, and instead of cha...

196 Years

It’s been a while, I know. I sit here writing today because I feel trapped; a prisonless prisoner who laid bricks until one day he woke up in a cell of his own creation. Am I overconstrained, overb...

Building a Vise Stand with Pen-Like Retracting Wheels

Old shop tools have a reputation for resilience and sturdiness, and though some of this is due to survivorship bias, some of it certainly comes down to an abundance of …read more

Cracking The System

Read Cracking The System Customer: "Are any of these going to be discounted today?" Me: "No, madam. The easter eggs are usually discounted on the Monday after Easter Sunday, or sometimes even Tuesd...

Weekly Robotics #355

The other day, I sat down with Adar Hay, the CEO of Jiga, to talk about supply chains and moving projects from prototyping to production. The outcome of this chat is this article, which also restar...

Trump Crashes Out At Supreme Court — See Generally

Born Loser: Donald Trump took the unprecedented step of sitting in as the Supreme Court heard oral argument on the challenge to the administration's executive order purporting to end birthright cit...

April 6, 2026: More rot, more longing to disappear.

April 6, 2026, Around 2 or 3AM.Sorry. Forgive me but I am not done with my rant of last night, so before the week starts, let me hold onto the leftover Sunday night and finish taking this dump of r...

Mailed: Newsletter Leaf Journal 274

I mailed issue 274 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal yesterday. Fun fact: I originally mailed the newsletter on Sundays. One reason I switched to Saturday was to avoid Sunday holidays, notably Easter....