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This article tells part of the general story of Dungeons & Dragons on the tabletop and on computers, which includes the more specific one of the Infinity Engine games. My power fantasy when playing a role-playing game is to confront a villain, explain point by point why his master plan is flawed, and then get […]

Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.

A survey of unused-dependency detectors

FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox Media Group were caught trying to sell advertisers packages based on "active listening", ...

A chance Discord message, two missing pieces, and one hour before the window closed: From info leak to RCE on Google Cloud. Three months later, it happened again.

Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months. KrebsOnSecurity publicly named the suspect in February 2026 after the accused launched a volley of DDoS, doxing and swatting campaigns against this author and a security researcher. He now faces criminal hacking charges in both Canada and the United States.

In the hours following the news that art-template fell victim to a supply chain attack via NPM, developers and systems administrators scrambled ensure all of their projects were unaffected from a supply chain attack where attackers have controlled the reposit...

We just announced the first release of Datasette Agent, a new extensible AI assistant for Datasette. I've been working on my LLM Python library for just over three years now, and Datasette Agent represents the moment that LLM and Datasette finally come together. I'm really e...

Release: datasette-agent-sprites 0.1a0

A Datasette Agent plugin for running commands in a Fly Sprites sandbox.

Tags: sandboxing, datasette, fly, datasette-agent

Release: datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2

• "View SQL query" buttons below rendered charts.

Tags: datasette, datasette-agent

Release: datasette-agent 0.1a3

• "View SQL query" buttons for both visible tables and collapsed SQL result tool calls.
• Don't display empty reasoning chunks
• Improved handling of truncated responses - table still displays to the user even if the SQL results were truncated when showing the agent.

See Datasette Agent, an extensible AI assistant for Datasette.

Tags: datasette, datasette-agent

Release: datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1

• More color! Bar and waffle charts without a color column are shaded by magnitude with a sequential color scheme; color columns holding text values use the observable10 categorical scheme. #2
• Now checks execute-sql permission before running the query to find the column names.
• Charts now display interactive tooltips.
• Fixed a bug where waffleY charts were not described to the agent.

Tags: datasette, datasette-agent

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-45250 for the project FreeBSD, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a kernel stack overflow when validating permissions of the setcred(2) ...

Today's links Shopping isn't politics: The personal isn't political. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Neither arphid nor RFID; Gor novel sex slave cult; Violent economist sex criminals; Vade et caca in pilleum et ipse traheatur super aures tuo; "We ...

I’ve been slowly listening to Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. I like his practicality. He’s never trying to be overly academic, as if he needs to prove how smart he is. He says Berkshire’s success doesn’t come from them solving har...

Plex sends a message to the self-hosting community with a massive upcharge targeted at the very people who hate monthly fees.

Intended status: Best Current Practice.

A major shift in the housing market in the last several years is the rapidly increasing popularity of “build-to-rent” homes — single-family homes that are built specifically for the purpose of being rented out.

De zorgen over digitale autonomie nemen toe, en steeds vaker krijg ik van (grote) organisaties de vraag: wat kunnen we NU doen? Nou heb ik wel een lijstje, maar voor we beginnen, besef dat we 15 jaar lang alles naar Amerika hebben geschoffeld. Of, we hebben het uitbesteed, en DIE mensen stuurden het naar Amerika. 15 jaar is een lange tijd, en we zijn niet 1 2 3 weer “in vorm” om de zaken weer anders aan te pakken.

In April last year, Kelsey Piper discovered that OpenAI’s o3 model was surprisingly good at figuring out where a photo was taken from. Like human “geoguessr” pros, o3 could sometimes take a nondescript photo of a beach and tell you exactly where it is. Here’s the example Kel...