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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 12th-century bronze coins show role of Northern Mozambique in Swahili trade
Underyling article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2...
wglb··on Clinical trial: novel nutritional formula treats gut microbial overgrowth
Journal pre-proof (pdf) https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(25)00241-1/pdf
wglb··on Properties of supernova remnant in near galaxy explored in radio continuum study
The arxiv article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11746
wglb··on Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole
Perhaps the links in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755028 will be better.
wglb··on Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole
Astrophysical Journal article: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbe6e

Earlier article about first discovery: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac739e/...

wglb··on Ambisonics creates rich virtual soundscapes using a domed array of loudspeakers
From the Journal of Acoustical Society of America https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/157/4/2802/3344072/Foc...
wglb··on Climate change and human interventions drive greening of the Thar desert
Linked article Cell Reports Sustainability https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-sustainability/fulltext/S2...
wglb··on Cataclysmic variable ASASSN–14dx has a pulsating white dwarf
arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07071
wglb··on Transcranial magnetic stimulation shows promise in Alzheimer's treatment
Paper in Alzheimer's Research and Treatment journal: https://alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13195-025...
wglb··on A New ASN.1 API for Python
Here are some issues: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=asn.1
wglb··on New strategy may enable cancer monitoring from blood tests alone
Paper in Nature Methods: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02648-9
wglb··on Footprints of tail-clubbed armored dinosaurs found
Paper in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2...
wglb··on Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting creates submicron 'anti-crash wall'
Paper in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt6666
wglb··on Gut-brain link may affect behavior in children with autism
Nature Communications paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58459-1
wglb··on Crows can recognize geometric regularity
Science Advances paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3718
wglb··on A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs
Like Seven oh Nine?
wglb··on A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs
“Were elbow deep now” sounds like Judy Blunt’s description of helping birth a calf in “Breaking Clean”
wglb··on A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs
My own personal favorite is “Not my horse, not my monkey”
wglb··on Kīlauea volcano's ash prompted largest open ocean phytoplankton bloom
Previous eruption also caused bloom: https://phys.org/news/2019-09-k299lauea-lava-fuels-phytoplan...

AGU (Advancing Earth ans Space Sciences) journal article: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JC02...

wglb··on Scientists discover new microbes in Earth's deep soil
Who helps purify our water: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2424463122
wglb··on Scientists: Protein IL-17 fights infection, acts on the brain, inducing anxiety
Related paper on receptors: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)00279-X

Paper suggesting mood alteration: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)00278-8

wglb··on High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5M unknown space objects
Detailed paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad7fe6
wglb··on Researcher proposes model replacing dark energy/matter to explain universe
Related paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/adbed1
wglb··on Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
Interesting.

What sort of applications does your partner work on?

wglb··on Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
One example of this was the concept of virtual memory, which was invented by Burroughs, not by IBM.

> as I move into my 4th and likely last decade of working with computers

Don't despair--I am in my sixth and still program every day.

wglb··on Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
> 360 and it's successors were not that big in scientific computing

I do believe that is true.

IBM did have the Model 90 series, which was on the way to being a supercomputer.

Bur during that time CDC with the 6400/6600 etc was likely bigger in scientific computing.

wglb··on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
Both are paid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560796
wglb··on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
You can see the front page for each day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front
wglb··on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
> I can't really relate to the mindset of people who use downvoting as a 'I disagree' button.

Downvoting is a legitimate expression of disagreement according to PG.

wglb··on Shopify is Down (including Status Page)
That is what makes posts like "X is down" boring posts, contrary to the guidelines.
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