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.

@briandau Let's go!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

@troberts I think GC for Melee and Sunshine... And you might happily put more hours into the original Animal Crossing than most of the NES library combined. The GC is just dramatically more modern in its game selection than the other options here.

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."

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/

#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

@jsit That whole EP rules... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPU4W6R-3Ik (or https://open.spotify.com/album/5ooWmAVLqcWvDDOid6hCC6?si=zNz8oZNbRA-0zqg09X8f-A etc.)

Shiny new @moddabletech devices. ❤️

Update: Mastodon was only pretending to be working before. That was very helpful of it. I believe it is actually working now.

Local curling.social users: after some hiccups, we are upgraded to v4.4.1. 🎉

I'm blown away by the soundtrack to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Some examples of the range:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqizXvvWnmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhWpz5zpYw

#clairobscurexpedition33

when this bubble bursts its gonna be fuckin wild

@j12t My guess is that they're trying to avoid associations with "the web is broken."

My strongest recommendation for Prince of Persia The Lost Crown. The first game I've had the desire to see all the way through in some time. 10/10. If you loved Hollow Knight, Lost Crown is a must-play.

We ended up taking home gold at the Lake Tahoe Epic Curling Spring Bonspiel! Fun to play against lots of old friends from California with new friends from Colorado. #tootspiel