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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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wglb··on Renewable-powered system uses calcium to reduce emissions and scale for farmers
Published in National Academy of Sciences: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2513960122
wglb··on Antarctic submillimeter telescope enables shows full view of carbon cycle
From article in Science Advances: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea9433
wglb··on Repeating fast radio burst shows diverse activity and hints at magnetar origin
From paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24978 published end of December 2025
wglb··on Jupiter's moon Europa lacks undersea activity needed to support life
Paper by study led by Paul Byrne published in https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67151-3
wglb··on Jupiter's moon Europa lacks undersea activity needed for life, study suggests
Published in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67151-3
wglb··on Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star
Article in https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16679
wglb··on Radio observations to date find no evidence of technosignature from 3I/ATLAS
Paper in arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19763
wglb··on Askap discovers an outflow in a nearby galaxy
Paper in arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15991
wglb··on 'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed
Article in Astrophysical Journal: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae247f
wglb··on Six Big Bets
I'm not convinced of the linearity of this. Consider that Ray Kroc started McDonalds when he was 50.
wglb··on Misinformation is an inevitable biological reality across nature
From the journal Interface: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article/22/233/20250...
wglb··on Ghostly solar neutrinos caught transforming carbon atoms deep underground
The research is published in Physical Review Letters.
wglb··on Searchable Bronze Age site database could help understand ancient Anatolia
Paper in Scientific Data: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06241-9
wglb··on Tumbleweed aerodynamics inspire hybrid robots for harsh terrains
Paper in Nature Communications: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66513-1
wglb··on Why mysterious structures within Earth's mantle hold clues to life here
From a paper in Nature Geoscience: https://phys.org/news/2025-11-mysterious-earth-mantle-clues-...
wglb··on Parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their queen, then takes the throne
Published in Current Biology on November 17
wglb··on A brief history of random numbers (2018)
Plus with a simulation, you may want to replicate runs.
wglb··on The illegible nature of software development talent
Its not who you know, it is who knows you.
wglb··on First complete measurement of black-hole recoil found due to gravitational waves
From journal Nature Astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02632-5
wglb··on Medications leave lasting mark on gut microbiome, even years after use
mSystems article: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00541-25
wglb··on New bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, discovered in soil
Article in Nature Biotechnology
wglb··on Acupuncture might be effective treatment for chronic low back pain older adults
Article https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... in Jama Network Open
wglb··on Mysterious 'red dots' in early universe may be 'black hole star' atmospheres
In the journal of Astronomy & Astorphysics http://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202554681
wglb··on Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging
Link at https://phys.org/news/2025-09-revive-pinhole-camera-gen-infr... from Optica Publishing Group.
wglb··on Dandelions control the dispersal of their seeds through asymmetrical attachment
Journal of the Royal Society Interface https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2025.022...
wglb··on Discovery of a new satellite or ring arc around Quaoar
Article in RNASS research notes https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adfeda
wglb··on Development speed is not a bottleneck
Disagree. My experience is that it is a measurable fact and not a created perception.

And few of us can usefully compare what we do with what amazon google Facebook or other giants do.

Good luck on flipping their script. Meanwhile I’ll be over here making book

wglb··on Development speed is not a bottleneck
Development speed has been a bottleneck in every major product development effort that I have been involved in. From a realtime medical data collection application where president and VP are drumming their fingers on the desk waiting for development to be finished.

Writing a compiler at Sycor, there were teams waiting for us to finish our development. We were successful, being about an order of magnitude faster than the effort we replaced.

And just because google cancels products doesn't suggest anything about development speed.

If I were an LLM advocate (having much fun currently with gemini), I would let the criticism roll and make book using LLMs.

wglb··on Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old
Astrophysical Journal Letters https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf6b0
wglb··on Likely places to detect signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence
Published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adf6b0
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