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Do you live in Boulder County? Come out to Rock Creek Curling in Lafayette tomorrow at 10 AM to watch the gold medal mixed doubles game! We'll have experts on hand to explain the game and what's sure to be a lively atmosphere.

Andy Carle Jan 8

I'm in California this week playing in the MoPac Mixed playdowns. Sheet B is generally streamed. #tootspiel

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Andy Carle Jan 2

A bonus... in bringing all of this back up, I noticed that the streaming API probably hadn't been working for some time. That is back up and running now.

Andy Carle Jan 2

And we're back! Apologies to local curling.socal users for tonight's extended outage. (Hopefully you didn't notice!)

What started as a minor failure spiraled into a very long series of overdue Ubuntu distribution upgrades. We're now back where we should be on that and are up and running on the latest Mastodon release (v4.5.3).

This instance doesn't require a *lot* of maintenance, but I had accrued an embarrassing amount of sysadmin debt. Glad to be caught back up.

Andy Carle Dec 11

Hailey Dec 11

the g in gobject stands for glib, and the g in glib stands for gtk, and the g in gtk stands for gimp, however the g in gimp stands for gnu, so really the g in glib stands for gnu, but you shouldn't confuse it with gnulib, which is developed by the gnu project, who shouldn't be confused as the developers of glib, which is the gnome project, in which the g also stands for gnu

Andy Carle Dec 11

A quick catch-up on Team Stella/Carle's 25-26 season to date:

We qualified for and played in the Colorado Cup and Madtown DoubleDown Tier-1 Tour events. We did better than expected at the Cup and as poorly as expected in Madison.

We made the playoffs at the Tier-2 tour Chicago Double Dog Dare.... We had a rough draw in the Eveleth Open Qualifier... And now we're in Cincinnati for our last Tier-2 event of the season.

Andy Carle Sep 17, 2025

If what you were hoping for from Silksong was "more Hollow Knight," I honestly think Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown might be the better game to play. Silksong is excellent so far, but for both better and worse, it is not "more Hollow Knight."

Andy Carle Sep 7, 2025

Python Hub Sep 6, 2025

Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

Attackers can hide malicious prompts in images that become visible only after being downscaled—tricking AI systems like Gemini CLI and Vertex AI Studio into executing hidden instructions. Trail of Bits demonstrates these “image scaling” exploits and introduces Anamorpher, an open-source tool to craft and test such attacks, while also proposing defenses.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/

Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers can exploit image scaling on Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, Gemini’s web and API interfaces, Google Assistant, Genspark, and other production AI systems. We’ll also explain how to mitigate and defend against these attacks, and we’ll introduce Anamorpher, our open-source tool that lets you explore and generate these crafted images.

The Trail of Bits Blog

Andy Carle Aug 27, 2025

SETI Institute Aug 26, 2025

#PPOD: JWST has now captured images of all four gas giants in our solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. These images are the first of their kind, and they offer a new and unprecedented view of these distant worlds.

The JWST's image of Jupiter is particularly stunning. The telescope's infrared vision allows us to see through Jupiter's thick clouds, revealing the planet's swirling atmosphere and its Great Red Spot. The planet's haze and auroras steal the show.

#space #science

Andy Carle Jul 31, 2025

Shiny new @moddabletech devices. ❤️