Kernel hardening for the rest of us For years, the best runtime memory protection available for Linux was locked behind a commercial licence. grsecurity’s PaX patchset — the gold standard for mitigating memory safety vulnerabilities — went closed-source in April…
A FUSE-based virtual filesystem that presents the entire PyPI ecosystem as a Portage overlay. Mount it, and emerge dev-python/requests works — for any of the 750,000+ packages on PyPI that ship source distributions. No ebuilds to write. No pip behind Portage's back.
Python’s packaging ecosystem faces a vast and growing attack surface spanning the entire lifecycle from package publication through runtime execution. This taxonomy documents over 100 distinct attack vectors organized across 11 categories, drawn from real-world incidents (2023–2025), published CVEs, and…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes The homework is ours. But what does the homework require? The previous article argued that AI alignment is social alignment — that if we want a mirror worth looking into, we must…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes Evolution never bets on one horse. When the environment shifts, a population survives not because every member is optimally adapted, but because its members are different enough that some will make it…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes You cannot fix a reflection by polishing the glass. If AI is a mirror of civilisation — trained on what we have thought, said, written, and done — then the alignment problem…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes We built something and then pretended not to recognise it. When you talk to an AI, you are not talking to an alien mind. You are talking to a mirror — a…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes Science excels at periodic phenomena — orbits, waves, cycles. We build technology on them because we can predict them. But there are phenomena in the universe that aren’t periodic yet aren’t random…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes When I think about what AI does for me, I keep returning to a German word: Handlungsimpulsverstärker — an action-impulse amplifier. Here’s the underlying idea. We like to believe that our actions…
Pale Red Dot Dev Log #2 Three working Python scripts—NASA API access, PDS label parsing, coordinate transforms—sat in a folder. They worked. They had comments. And they were about to become a maintenance problem. The issue: standalone scripts capture what…