210 IQ Is Not Enough
Going as Former Gifted Child for Halloween and the whole costume is just gonna be people asking “What are you supposed to be?” And me saying “I was supposed to be a lot of things.” — @leahtriss 2019/10/26 Christopher Langan Chris Langan became famous when television networks interviewed him for allegedly scoring ~170 on an […]
Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification
A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox. The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification around where files should be positioned within Linux users’ home directory. The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application data files, configuration files, cached assets, […]
Judgement on Dr Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) vs. Dr Roy Schestowitz (Techrights.org)
1. This is a dispute between prominent ‘free software movement’ activists. The free software movement advances a philosophy and practice which values the freedom of users to create and share software enabling internet access, and challenges the dominance of ‘big tech’ software and systems over the online experience. That includes a preference for internet relay […]
Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite
At the core of every DE engine there’s some form of persistent durable execution log. You can think of this a bit like the write-ahead log of a database. It captures the intent to execute a given flow step, which makes it possible to retry that step should it fail, using the same parameter values. […]
Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on
Expansion ensures business continuity without forcing major upgrades Today, Canonical announced the expansion of the Legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro, extending total coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years. Starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), this extension brings the full benefits of Ubuntu Pro – including continuous security patching, compliance tooling and support […]
Red Alert 2 in web browser
About Chrono Divide is a fan-made project which aims to recreate the original ”Red Alert 2” from the ”Command & Conquer” series using web technologies. The result is a game client that runs in your web browser, with no additional plugins or applications installed. The project initially started out as an experiment and was meant […]
40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes’ burst onto the page
40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes’ raucous adventures burst onto the comics page
By Renee Montagne Tuesday, November 18, 2025 • 9:29 AM EST 40 years ago — on November 18, 1985 — a new comic strip appeared in the newspaper: Calvin and Hobbes. Hobbes was a stuffed tiger, but in the mind of 6-year-old Calvin he was a wryly observant companion for his day-to-day challenges and wildly […]
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in LLMs
Abstract:We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%. Mapping prompts to MLCommons and EU CoP risk taxonomies shows that poetic attacks transfer across CBRN, manipulation, […]
Show HN: Awesome J2ME
An awesome list about Java platform Micro edition(J2ME). Documentation, academic papers, tutorials, communities, IDEs, SDKs, emulators, apps, video games. J2ME is a Java specification designed for old keypad phones and PDAs. MIDP, which is built upon CLDC, is used to create Midlets, which have .jad or .jar extension, and run on platforms like old keypad […]