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Once had the early Matrons run
To greet her of a lovely son,
And now with second hope she goes,
And calls Lucina to her throws;
But whether by mischance or blame
Atropos for Lucina came
vanishedcomforts.org/2022/11…
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Rosslyn (Roslin) Castle & Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up. A Sinclair family stronghold. #RoslinCastle #RosslynChapel
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‘My dear, my dear,’ said Kate, but to herself. ‘I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.’ - The Disorderly Knights, Dorothy Dunnett.
That is what this painting always makes me think of -albeit a century too late...
@DunnettCentral
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Happy Halloween 🎃! I'm recreating another Barbara Villiers portrait. I had to do a few shots as my daughter said, "you need to look haughty, not smiley" 😅 #KeepItStuart – at Bolsover, England
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Smailholm Tower, Borders (Scotland) @UndisScot image & reconstruction. A Pringle (Hoppringle) family stronghold. #SmailholmTower #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt
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Today’s look is a bit Tudor as I’m going as a sexy Tudor courtier to a Halloween party. My corset & ruff are downstairs. Oh I was also just on LBC talking on Feltz show about how Scotland owes reparations & needs to stop claiming ‘it wisnea us’ when it comes to empire & slavery.
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Postiz is now fully deployed on AWS.
We will have some downtime over the weekend as we migrate everyone from Railway.
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In 2027, many websites will be hacked (maybe even Postiz). You can't stop it.
It's not even because you have security leaks in your code; it's because you have partners that might get hacked, or you can literally get hacked with binary code- things you can't control.
The AI will find a way to access your CPU / GPU, etc.
Try to stay protected as much as possible.
- No more unupdated packages
- No more I didn't rotate all my api keys because I think that nobody accessed them
- No more PaaS
- Harden every possible thing so that, even if you are hacked, there won't be any information to take from your customers
- Run LLM security (the ones that let you) on your code all the time.
And prepare for an impact.
If you are an AI company and use tons of AI credits, or you store other people's keys, prepare to be first.
It starts with AI distillation.
Trumps Farrow & Ball, relates Colefax & Fowler, Valencia Lancaster, at Kelmarsh, long story life well-lived
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Overheard at Gauntlet AI:
“Before Gauntlet I was rejected by a recruiter for not having enough SwiftUI experience.
I was literally on the team at Apple that got the first demo builds of SwiftUI.
It is impossible to have more experience with it than I have.”
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“What did you build with it, and what was hard?” would be a much more useful follow-up than another check of years on a résumé. It gives someone with deep experience room to show it, and someone newer a fair chance too.
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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As Halloween draws near, James Garry, a PhD candidate at the UHI INS, delves into the rich tapestry of ghost stories he has discovered in his ongoing research on 'Spectral Scotland: A Cultural History of Ghosts and the Supernatural 1870-present.'
tinyurl.com/mrx233ae
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> need new machine quickly
> call the manufacturer, no answer
> email sales team
> next day they ask where we’re located
> Texas
> that’s X’s territory, here is his email
> email X
> auto responder, traveling and won’t be responding to emails
> call manufacturer, say I want to talk to different sales guy, they say I have to talk to X
> call X and he answers
> says he has machine in stock, great!
> says in stock means 4 week lead time
> how can in stock mean 4 week lead time I ask
> he says that’s the standard lead time
> I say any chance to make it faster?
> he says might be able to get it down to 2 weeks to ship out a machine that’s in stock