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And I'm done for the day. You're gonna have to do without the Owlbear for like… at least six, preferably eight hours. I need to rest up so I can spend tomorrow figuring out how Trixie saves everyone… err, that is, *remember* how Trixie saves everyone… so I can write it up on Monday. (Tomorrow's #Monsterdon so I ain't doin' it then.)
Pranks are involved, I know that much.
Take care of each other. Be kind, spread love, play indie games.
Had a great time at the Rolesville Halloween Bookish Fair today, and even did a little work on a new developmental edit. Hope to get a good bit done tomorrow.
#amediting #amwriting
Apropos of a challenging stressful time, mother nature has provided a beautiful rainbow! There's suppose to be a bit more rain tomorrow, but not much. If you look closely at the base of the fall colored trees, you can see the bridge over the Animas River I talk about. The view is from the fence of the trailer park I live in. Photography tip: Use a circular polarizer, turned off, to make rainbows pop!
15/END
#Flood #Emergency #River #NewMexico #Storm #Weather #Landscape #Photography #Darktable
10 days until Election Day. We shall not be moved, we will not grow weary, and we will get out the vote!
Join me tomorrow from 12 to 4 p.m. for free food, fun for the whole family, and free rides to the polls. Souls to the polls!
#SoulsToThePolls #GetOutTheVote #VoteEarly
The Dutch art-prog band who believe more is more – including studio mistakes | #Loudersound
🔗 https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/lesoir-tomorrow-is-now-today
🔥 21 POWERFUL MIDNIGHT WARFARE PRAYERS TO OVERCOME EVERY SPIRITUAL BATTLE
Are you facing battles that leave you weary, anxious or uncertain about tomorrow? These 21 midnight warfare prayers will help you seek God's protection, resist destructive patterns, overcome fear and stand firm in the victory of Jesus Christ. Begin tonight with faith, not fear. #MidnightPrayers #MidnightWarfarePrayers #PrayerForProtection #SpiritualStrength #Ephesians6 #Psalm91…
WI #NICA state championship weekend. Today is preride, adventure and killer pump track fun, tomorrow the kids race. 22 miles preriding on Trek Bicycle's private trails today. So damn fun. #MTB #BikeTooter
New 32" Procaliber on display here too. Pretty wild!
WordCamp Sofia 2026
That was it, most of the WordCamp is over. Tomorrow is the Contributor Day, when we traditionally gather together to do small contributor tasks. For me, that’s usually translations and validation.
2 halls, 19 speakers, 300+ attendees who showed up (the exact number will remain unknown). Over 100 people stayed for the closing remarks. We had the latest check-in in the recorded history (under my watch), after 17:00. Food was good, coffee was good, snacks were plentiful. It was a lot more a web-in-the-AI-era conference than a WordPress one but this is what the speakers wanted to talk about. The team was strong and positive, true pleasure to work with.
A large amount of volunteer work was done by 3 teenagers from different schools, whose parents were organizers or speakers. I’m very thankful to have had the chance to work with them. Bright young people.
On top of being the lead of the Volunteers team, I was also responsible for a large pile of tote bags, that were Jetpack’s swag. I managed to get all of the tote bags picked up. I couldn’t do the same with our Jetpack stickers. Tote bags good, stickers – boo.
#blog #blogging #Sofia #WordCamp #WordCampSofia #WordPress
I’m going to sleep tonight with a heavy heart. Before I close my eyes, I pray that when I wake up tomorrow, I will find that someone has donated to help my children
My children need food, and I’m doing everything I can to provide for them. I go to sleep hoping that tomorrow will bring us a little kindness and relief.
Please, if you can, donate even €1 for my children. If you cannot donate, please share my fundraiser. Your kindness could change our tomorrow
https://chuffed.org/project/178829
#fediforGaza
Is #MissKitty behind far enough yet? LOL #Art does a kitty good. So will the two day late #estrogen shot tomorrow. It'll be easier to like me by tomorrow evening. 😹😹😹 #VoteBlue
BristolCon Day 1 has been/continues to be a good time. Starting to slowly flag. Here's to tomorrow.
#bristolcon #writerslife
Serbia is Europe. To the young people filling the streets of Belgrade, may your hopes become tomorrow’s reality.
Mourinho prepares a surprise for Barcelona: an unexpected gamble in Real Madrid’s line-up
Jose Mourinho is ready to shake up his Real Madrid side for tomorrow’s Clasico at the Camp Nou.…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #Madrid #Barcelona #BarcelonavsRealMadrid #E.Camavinga #LaLiga #RealMadrid
https://www.europesays.com/spain/105300/
Off to the cardiologist this morning. Hopefully they can adjust my BP meds. Then, to drop off a persimmon tree and crepe myrtle for my youngest. Might stop and order mulch, but I'll probably do that tomorrow.
At 8:26 I make a video, then finish off the hour, pack up, head home, and get ready to start my day, which includes a couple of short pieces of writing I need to complete, several students, some domestic tasks, a bit of dog-walking, some video editing, a meeting, and a rehearsal. I'm done with postcards in this final week; all that's left is phonebanking and canvassing.
See you tomorrow.
Man With Sign
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Demonstrations in Berlin in the next 24 hours:
- 18:40 - Wir pfeifen auf Stuttgart 21 (vom 13.01. bis 22.12.2026 - jeweils Di.) (https://demonstrations.org/en/events/53885--wir-pfeifen-auf-stuttgart-21--vom-13-01--bis-22-12-2026---jeweils-di--)
- 19:00 - Hilfe für die Ukraine (https://demonstrations.org/en/events/63046--hilfe-f-r-die-ukraine)
- Tomorrow 00:00 - Sitzstreik und Mahnwache für Menschenrechte im Iran, sowie für eine Neubewertung der diplomatischen (https://demonstrations.org/en/events/63157--sitzstreik-und-mahnwache-f-r-menschenrechte-im-iran--sowie-f-r-eine-neubewertung-der-diplomatischen-)
8 Field Techniques for Smart Contract Auditing — Forged by Refuting My Own Findings
I recently spent 24 focused rounds auditing a lending-and-automation codebase for a
security competition. I opened 7 attack hypotheses. I closed all 7 — six with proofs,
one by refuting my own draft finding at final review, hours before it would have gone
to judges as a "Low severity, high confidence" report.
That last one hurt, and it taught me more than the six clean refutations. Here are
the eight techniques that carried the campaign. Each is small enough to use tomorrow.
1. Rebuild the economic model before reading functions
For mechanism contracts (auctions, leases, escrows), don't read top-to-bottom. First
reconstruct the economy: who pays whom, when, for what right. Attackers fall out of
the mechanism for free — the flash-renter, the buyout-frontrunner, the donation
thief. This halves the reading time because you know which state transitions matter.
2. Follow the patch trail to find the sparse zones
Prior audit fix IDs in comments are a map of where previous reviewers massed their
forces. Dense numbering = picked clean. Sparse numbering plus heavy external
interactions = your hunting ground. Read the fix list first, then go where it isn't.
3. Ask what slice of the loss spectrum a check actually blocks
A require(shares == 0 → revert) looks like inflation protection. It blocks exactly
one point: the victim receiving nothing. Every partial-loss shape passes. For every
boundary check, ask: "which segment of the loss spectrum does this cover?" Pseudo-
protection is more dangerous than no protection because it stops you looking.
4. At every rounding site, ask "who keeps the dust?"
Round directions decide who eats sub-unit remainders. The audit question is
ownership: dust back to the fund's source = safe; to the protocol = QA note; to an
attacker = bug. Trace mulDiv vs mulDivRoundingUp against who supplied the value
being divided.
5. Track invariants by who sets, who burns, who recomputes
For state pairs that must stay ordered (escrow balance vs. reserved minimum), find
the single point where the invariant is established and check that every mutation
preserves it. My favorite case: a mutable self-assessed price that raises a burn
rate — the reserved minimum is set once at install and never recomputed on price
changes, so the ordering holds by construction. Once you see the "no recomputation"
pattern, the underflow fear evaporates.
6. Enumerate callback points as a grid, then verify CEI per cell
Contracts have fewer external callback points than you fear: NFT in, NFT out,
payout transfers, token hooks — usually under five. Enumerate them exhaustively,
then check effects-before-interactions at each. Completeness comes from the
enumeration, not from insight. This closes a reentrancy hypothesis in one sitting.
7. For consume-on-failure designs, ask "can the opponent cause the failure?"
Fail-open flows (trigger consumed, action failed, event emitted) have a griefing
surface: can an adversary deliberately trigger the failure to burn someone's
consumed state? If every failure source is environmental (stale oracle feed, lapsed
time), the design is sound. If any failure is opponent-manufacturable, you have a
DoS vector.
8. Push exact wei-level numbers through your exploit math before believing it
This is the technique that saved my credibility. I had a textbook ERC4626 inflation
finding: "attacker donates 999× the deposit, victim loses 99.9%." Plausible,
standard, wrong for that deposit profile. Pro-rata redemption is self-consistent:
the victim's fraction of the pool is A/(D+2A), and they redeem almost all of A back.
The classic attack harms only deposits that round down to zero shares — and this
contract's deposits were whole-position liquidity, large, with a zero-share check
already present. Analogies are how audit findings die in triage. Wei-level numbers,
end to end, or it didn't happen.
The meta-rule
Hypothesis-driven auditing with mandatory refutation beats bug-shaped skimming. I
submitted nothing that round — and that was the correct outcome. A self-refuted
finding costs an evening; a wrong one costs your reputation with every triager who
remembers your name.#blockchain #security #solidity #smartcontract #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
8 Field Techniques for Smart Contract Auditing — Forged by Refuting My Own Findings
#Disability #Poverty #Aging #Health
🚨 URGENT HELP NEEDED TODAY 🚨
I am a 48-year-old disabled man living in poverty, and I am struggling to survive.
Every day is a battle against constant pain, sleepless nights, hunger, declining health, worsening vision, vertigo, mobility issues, cognitive decline, and the harsh reality that my disability income does not come close to covering the cost of living.
I face impossible choices every day:
Food or hygiene.
Medication or necessities.
Survival today or survival tomorrow.
I have no safety net. No financial cushion. No family support. No meaningful support system.
I am asking for help because I genuinely do not know how much longer I can continue carrying this burden alone.
My Reality
I live solely on SSDI.
I have no health insurance.
I do not drive.
I live in a rural area with no public transportation, meaning everything I need must be delivered or depend on finding someone willing and able to help.
My housing situation is unstable. Part of my rent is paid through helping maintain the property where I live, but my disabilities and declining health are making even those responsibilities increasingly difficult.
I am aging in poverty, and every year brings new physical limitations, more pain, and greater uncertainty.
I am not getting better.
I am getting worse.
My Health Is Declining
My days are consumed by:
Chronic pain
Exhaustion
High blood pressure fluctuations
Vertigo and dizziness
Poor mobility
Knee, hip, ankle, and joint pain
Numbness and weakness in my hands
Cognitive and executive functioning decline
Vision problems and light sensitivity
Dental issues
Anxiety, PTSD, and Bipolar Disorder
Some days my vision becomes a fuzzy blur. Bright light hurts. Low light makes basic tasks difficult.
If I sit too long, my joints lock up.
If I stand too long, my legs burn and stiffen.
If I lie down, pain spreads throughout my body.
Simple daily activities that most people take for granted are becoming harder and harder to accomplish.
Why I Am Reaching Out
I am exhausted.
Physically.
Mentally.
Emotionally.
Spiritually.
I have spent years contacting organizations, charities, government agencies, advocacy programs, nonprofits, and anyone I could think of for help.
Most of the time I receive lists of resources, referrals, phone numbers, websites, and suggestions.
What I do not receive are results.
I desperately need someone willing to understand my actual circumstances and help create real, concrete solutions.
I do not need more lists.
I need advocacy.
I need a social worker or case manager who can help navigate housing, healthcare, benefits, food security, transportation, and long-term stability.
I know resources exist.
I simply cannot seem to access them on my own.
A Recent Example
A few months ago, I developed a serious dental problem.
The pain became so severe that my landlord had to take me to the emergency room simply to obtain antibiotics.
After extensive effort and repeated requests, I was able to receive an examination and X-rays, only to be referred elsewhere for additional care I could not afford and could not reliably travel to.
Multiple emails and follow-ups produced little more than apologies and delays.
This experience reflects a much larger problem:
Many disabled people are given information about help.
Far fewer are actually able to obtain that help.
What I Need Most
Immediate Needs
Food and groceries
Hygiene supplies
Clothing
Medical and dental care
Transportation assistance
Household necessities
Relief from immediate financial crisis
Long-Term Needs
Stable, permanent housing
Consistent food security
Reliable healthcare access
Advocacy and case management
A sustainable future with dignity and security
My greatest need is stability.
I need a forever home where I can live safely for the rest of my life without constantly fearing homelessness, displacement, or crisis.
This Is About Dignity
This is not a request for luxury.
It is a plea for dignity.
Poverty is expensive.
Disability is exhausting.
Hunger is cruel.
Isolation is crushing.
I am trying to survive while my body and mind continue to deteriorate.
Despite everything, I continue to fight every day.
I continue to hope.
I continue to ask for help.
Financial Needs
Today's Goal
$8,455
Annual Survival Need
$27,255
Monthly Survival Need
$1,500
Immediate Stabilization Goal
$25,000
Long-Term Housing and Security Goal
$5,000,000
A stable, accessible, permanent property would not only give me safety and security, but potentially allow me to spend the remainder of my life helping others who struggle as I have.
How You Can Help
Donate
🔗 PayPal:
paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…
💸 Cash App:
$woctxphotog
Share
If you cannot donate, please share this with others.
Every dollar helps.
Every share matters.
Every act of compassion makes a difference.
Final Words
I am tired.
I am hungry.
I am in pain.
I am scared of what tomorrow may bring.
But I am still here, still fighting, and still hoping someone will hear me.
If you have ever known hardship, loss, fear, hunger, loneliness, disability, or uncertainty, then you know that compassion can mean everything.
Please help if you can.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story.
#MutualAid #Disabled #Disability #Poverty #Housing #Health #Healthcare #DentalHealth #FoodInsecurity #ChronicIllness #MentalHealth #PTSD #Bipolar #Survival #Support #Compassion #Empathy #Aging #Help #Dignity #Rent #Groceries #Hygiene #CommunitySupport #Life
This also showed up today. A gold-plated 1915 Elgin 315. Yes, I know the crystal looks like shit. I will replace this plastic crap with a proper mineral-glass crystal. Some cheap bastard put a plastic in there years ago like some cheap drugstore watch.
It runs.
I will oil it tomorrow and maybe give the case a ride on the buffing wheel.
PS: i turned it over to photograph the back, and the shitty plastic crystal FELL OUT.
Been few weeks ran Palisades Trail along Beartooth Front near our place. Fall color mostly gone, shaded now, all day some spots so ❄️ from last Fri. still and icy. No moose, probably a good thing. Mild 8C on 11K run 1800m-2030m and back. Glad we are in cooler pattern now. A little ❄️💦 and a lot of wind tonight/tomorrow down low. This area on boundary of MOD/SVR drought. #climate #running #dogs #montana #gye #mountains
Been few weeks ran Palisades Trail along Beartooth Front near our place. Fall color mostly gone, shaded now, all day some spots so ❄️ from last Fri. still and icy. No moose, probably a good thing. Mild 8C on 11K run 1800m-2030m and back. Glad we are in cooler pattern now. A little ❄️💦 and a lot of wind tonight/tomorrow down low. This area on boundary of MOD/SVR drought. #climate #running #dogs #montana #gye #mountains
How do I tell my elderly parents that I have nothing left to give them? We are in Gaza, struggling to find food, and I can barely meet my mother’s medical needs. Every day, I fear what tomorrow will bring. Please don’t let our suffering go unnoticed. Your small donation could mean a meal, medicine, and a little hope for my family. 🙏
#Gaza #Palestine #HelpGaza #Fediforgaza https://chuffed.org/project/please-help-islam-survive-in-gaza
Help Is Urgently Needed!
#Disability #Poverty #Aging #Health
🚨 URGENT HELP NEEDED TODAY 🚨
I am a 48-year-old disabled man living in poverty, and I am struggling to survive.
Every day is a battle against constant pain, sleepless nights, hunger, declining health, worsening vision, vertigo, mobility issues, cognitive decline, and the harsh reality that my disability income does not come close to covering the cost of living.
I face impossible choices every day:
Food or hygiene.
Medication or necessities.
Survival today or survival tomorrow.
I have no safety net. No financial cushion. No family support. No meaningful support system.
I am asking for help because I genuinely do not know how much longer I can continue carrying this burden alone.
My Reality
I live solely on SSDI.
I have no health insurance.
I do not drive.
I live in a rural area with no public transportation, meaning everything I need must be delivered or depend on finding someone willing and able to help.
My housing situation is unstable. Part of my rent is paid through helping maintain the property where I live, but my disabilities and declining health are making even those responsibilities increasingly difficult.
I am aging in poverty, and every year brings new physical limitations, more pain, and greater uncertainty.
I am not getting better.
I am getting worse.
My Health Is Declining
My days are consumed by:
Chronic pain
Exhaustion
High blood pressure fluctuations
Vertigo and dizziness
Poor mobility
Knee, hip, ankle, and joint pain
Numbness and weakness in my hands
Cognitive and executive functioning decline
Vision problems and light sensitivity
Dental issues
Anxiety, PTSD, and Bipolar Disorder
Some days my vision becomes a fuzzy blur. Bright light hurts. Low light makes basic tasks difficult.
If I sit too long, my joints lock up.
If I stand too long, my legs burn and stiffen.
If I lie down, pain spreads throughout my body.
Simple daily activities that most people take for granted are becoming harder and harder to accomplish.
Why I Am Reaching Out
I am exhausted.
Physically.
Mentally.
Emotionally.
Spiritually.
I have spent years contacting organizations, charities, government agencies, advocacy programs, nonprofits, and anyone I could think of for help.
Most of the time I receive lists of resources, referrals, phone numbers, websites, and suggestions.
What I do not receive are results.
I desperately need someone willing to understand my actual circumstances and help create real, concrete solutions.
I do not need more lists.
I need advocacy.
I need a social worker or case manager who can help navigate housing, healthcare, benefits, food security, transportation, and long-term stability.
I know resources exist.
I simply cannot seem to access them on my own.
A Recent Example
A few months ago, I developed a serious dental problem.
The pain became so severe that my landlord had to take me to the emergency room simply to obtain antibiotics.
After extensive effort and repeated requests, I was able to receive an examination and X-rays, only to be referred elsewhere for additional care I could not afford and could not reliably travel to.
Multiple emails and follow-ups produced little more than apologies and delays.
This experience reflects a much larger problem:
Many disabled people are given information about help.
Far fewer are actually able to obtain that help.
What I Need Most
Immediate Needs
Food and groceries
Hygiene supplies
Clothing
Medical and dental care
Transportation assistance
Household necessities
Relief from immediate financial crisis
Long-Term Needs
Stable, permanent housing
Consistent food security
Reliable healthcare access
Advocacy and case management
A sustainable future with dignity and security
My greatest need is stability.
I need a forever home where I can live safely for the rest of my life without constantly fearing homelessness, displacement, or crisis.
This Is About Dignity
This is not a request for luxury.
It is a plea for dignity.
Poverty is expensive.
Disability is exhausting.
Hunger is cruel.
Isolation is crushing.
I am trying to survive while my body and mind continue to deteriorate.
Despite everything, I continue to fight every day.
I continue to hope.
I continue to ask for help.
Financial Needs
Today's Goal
$8,455
Annual Survival Need
$27,255
Monthly Survival Need
$1,500
Immediate Stabilization Goal
$25,000
Long-Term Housing and Security Goal
$5,000,000
A stable, accessible, permanent property would not only give me safety and security, but potentially allow me to spend the remainder of my life helping others who struggle as I have.
How You Can Help
Donate
🔗 PayPal:
paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…
💸 Cash App:
$woctxphotog
Share
If you cannot donate, please share this with others.
Every dollar helps.
Every share matters.
Every act of compassion makes a difference.
Final Words
I am tired.
I am hungry.
I am in pain.
I am scared of what tomorrow may bring.
But I am still here, still fighting, and still hoping someone will hear me.
If you have ever known hardship, loss, fear, hunger, loneliness, disability, or uncertainty, then you know that compassion can mean everything.
Please help if you can.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story.
#MutualAid #Disabled #Disability #Poverty #Housing #Health #Healthcare #DentalHealth #FoodInsecurity #ChronicIllness #MentalHealth #PTSD #Bipolar #Survival #Support #Compassion #Empathy #Aging #Help #Dignity #Rent #Groceries #Hygiene #CommunitySupport #Life
⏰ #OTRSymposium2026 opens #OpenTechWeek2026 in Barcelona.
🙏 Thank you to all our speakers, co-organisers and content partners. A brilliant start.
🔗 Haven't registered yet? There's still time: tomorrow is a full day. Sign up: https://buff.ly/52o84WB
We hope to see you there
CW: CVE-2026-111497 — Brotli sérülékenység
Kritikus (CVSS 9.2) memóriahiba a Google Brotli dekóderben (érint: Brotli 1.0.3–1.2.0). Távoli kódfuttatás, adatkiszivárgás és DoS lehetséges. Javítások: Brotli 1.2.1; Node.js 22.23.4/24.22.1/26.12.1; Bun 1.4.4; brotli/brotlicffi 1.2.1. Ha nem tudsz frissíteni: tiltsd a br dekódolást, újraindítás szükséges. #CVE #Brotli #Security #NodeJS #Python https://linuxmint.hu/hir/2026/10/http2shell-kritikus-serulekenyseg-fenyegeti-a-brotli-tomoritest-hasznalo-alkalmazasokat
Help Today Sure Would Be A True Blessing;
#Disability #Poverty #Aging #Health
🚨 URGENT HELP NEEDED TODAY 🚨
I am a 48-year-old disabled man living in poverty, and I am struggling to survive.
Every day is a battle against constant pain, sleepless nights, hunger, declining health, worsening vision, vertigo, mobility issues, cognitive decline, and the harsh reality that my disability income does not come close to covering the cost of living.
I face impossible choices every day:
Food or hygiene.
Medication or necessities.
Survival today or survival tomorrow.
I have no safety net. No financial cushion. No family support. No meaningful support system.
I am asking for help because I genuinely do not know how much longer I can continue carrying this burden alone.
My Reality
I live solely on SSDI.
I have no health insurance.
I do not drive.
I live in a rural area with no public transportation, meaning everything I need must be delivered or depend on finding someone willing and able to help.
My housing situation is unstable. Part of my rent is paid through helping maintain the property where I live, but my disabilities and declining health are making even those responsibilities increasingly difficult.
I am aging in poverty, and every year brings new physical limitations, more pain, and greater uncertainty.
I am not getting better.
I am getting worse.
My Health Is Declining
My days are consumed by:
Chronic pain
Exhaustion
High blood pressure fluctuations
Vertigo and dizziness
Poor mobility
Knee, hip, ankle, and joint pain
Numbness and weakness in my hands
Cognitive and executive functioning decline
Vision problems and light sensitivity
Dental issues
Anxiety, PTSD, and Bipolar Disorder
Some days my vision becomes a fuzzy blur. Bright light hurts. Low light makes basic tasks difficult.
If I sit too long, my joints lock up.
If I stand too long, my legs burn and stiffen.
If I lie down, pain spreads throughout my body.
Simple daily activities that most people take for granted are becoming harder and harder to accomplish.
Why I Am Reaching Out
I am exhausted.
Physically.
Mentally.
Emotionally.
Spiritually.
I have spent years contacting organizations, charities, government agencies, advocacy programs, nonprofits, and anyone I could think of for help.
Most of the time I receive lists of resources, referrals, phone numbers, websites, and suggestions.
What I do not receive are results.
I desperately need someone willing to understand my actual circumstances and help create real, concrete solutions.
I do not need more lists.
I need advocacy.
I need a social worker or case manager who can help navigate housing, healthcare, benefits, food security, transportation, and long-term stability.
I know resources exist.
I simply cannot seem to access them on my own.
A Recent Example
A few months ago, I developed a serious dental problem.
The pain became so severe that my landlord had to take me to the emergency room simply to obtain antibiotics.
After extensive effort and repeated requests, I was able to receive an examination and X-rays, only to be referred elsewhere for additional care I could not afford and could not reliably travel to.
Multiple emails and follow-ups produced little more than apologies and delays.
This experience reflects a much larger problem:
Many disabled people are given information about help.
Far fewer are actually able to obtain that help.
What I Need Most
Immediate Needs
Food and groceries
Hygiene supplies
Clothing
Medical and dental care
Transportation assistance
Household necessities
Relief from immediate financial crisis
Long-Term Needs
Stable, permanent housing
Consistent food security
Reliable healthcare access
Advocacy and case management
A sustainable future with dignity and security
My greatest need is stability.
I need a forever home where I can live safely for the rest of my life without constantly fearing homelessness, displacement, or crisis.
This Is About Dignity
This is not a request for luxury.
It is a plea for dignity.
Poverty is expensive.
Disability is exhausting.
Hunger is cruel.
Isolation is crushing.
I am trying to survive while my body and mind continue to deteriorate.
Despite everything, I continue to fight every day.
I continue to hope.
I continue to ask for help.
Financial Needs
Today's Goal
$8,455
Annual Survival Need
$27,255
Monthly Survival Need
$1,500
Immediate Stabilization Goal
$25,000
Long-Term Housing and Security Goal
$5,000,000
A stable, accessible, permanent property would not only give me safety and security, but potentially allow me to spend the remainder of my life helping others who struggle as I have.
How You Can Help
Donate
🔗 PayPal:
paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…
💸 Cash App:
$woctxphotog
Share
If you cannot donate, please share this with others.
Every dollar helps.
Every share matters.
Every act of compassion makes a difference.
Final Words
I am tired.
I am hungry.
I am in pain.
I am scared of what tomorrow may bring.
But I am still here, still fighting, and still hoping someone will hear me.
If you have ever known hardship, loss, fear, hunger, loneliness, disability, or uncertainty, then you know that compassion can mean everything.
Please help if you can.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story.
#MutualAid #Disabled #Disability #Poverty #Housing #Health #Healthcare #DentalHealth #FoodInsecurity #ChronicIllness #MentalHealth #PTSD #Bipolar #Survival #Support #Compassion #Empathy #Aging #Help #Dignity #Rent #Groceries #Hygiene #CommunitySupport #Life
Every engineer running autonomous agent loops knows the in-context reflection drill. The agent runs a bash script, fails on an obscure permission flag or an unquoted path, sees the error in stderr, reflects on what went wrong, and fixes it on the second try.
The task finishes green. You log the run, close the thread, and move on.
Tomorrow morning, the same agent hits the exact same edge case in a fresh session and makes the exact same mistake all over again.
In-context reflection is a temporary patch. It burns context tokens, bloats the prompt across long tool sessions, and evaporates the millisecond the execution context clears. The traditional alternative, full-model fine-tuning, is a non-starter for everyday errors. Nobody is spinning up a multi-GPU training run every afternoon to update base weights, and doing so risks catastrophic forgetting across existing tool workflows.
A research team from Princeton University and Meta FAIR just published a practical middle ground. In their paper, Don't Forget What You Just Learned: Self-Directed Repair Turns Agent Mistakes Into Lasting Lessons (arXiv:2610.31846), Yuval Kansal, Karen Ullrich, Polina Kirichenko, Ilia Kulikov, Niraj K. Jha, Mohammad Pezeshki, and Mark Ibrahim lay out an architecture called Self-Direction.
Instead of writing a reflection note into a scratchpad file or relying on a fragile system prompt append, the agent distills its execution mistakes directly into tiny low-rank adapter weights.
The failure of the reflection scratchpad
Modern agent setups usually address cross-session memory with one of two patterns:
Both patterns struggle in production. Text notes appended to context eat away at attention budgets. As the reflection scratchpad grows, agents suffer from prompt dilution and instruction drift. More critically, an agent reading a natural-language description of an old error frequently misapplies the lesson to unrelated tool calls.
The Princeton and Meta team tracked this failure mode across open-ended research workflows (GAIA), multi-step tool execution (Claw-Eval), and command-line environments (Terminal-Bench 2.1). When agents relied on standard in-context retries, their correction reliability plummeted when facing recurring variations of the same underlying task. The agent repeatedly fell into the same traps because the underlying policy distribution never moved.
Standard Agent Flow:
Error -> In-context reflection -> One-off fix -> Session ends -> Lesson lost
Self-Direction Flow:
Error -> Trajectory reflection -> Low-rank adapter update -> Persistent library -> Routed on demand
Distilling mistakes into 0.02% parameter budgets
The core mechanism of Self-Direction sits between ephemeral prompt engineering and heavy offline training.
When an agent fails an execution trajectory, it runs an internal critique to isolate the decision step that caused the downstream failure. Once the corrective trajectory is verified, the system does not just print the correction. It freezes the base model weights entirely and trains a micro-LoRA adapter on the self-directed repair pair.
The parameters updated during this step represent roughly 0.02% of the base model's parameter count.
Because base weights remain frozen:
The agent saves these targeted adapter checkpoints into a persistent local library. When a new prompt arrives, an automated routing layer inspects the problem context and attaches the relevant adapter before the execution loop begins.
Benchmark gains across open-ended tasks
The researchers tested Self-Direction on open-weight models from the Qwen family across three distinct agent benchmarks:
Across these environments, adding Self-Direction improved overall task completion rates by 8.9 to 17.0 percentage points compared to standard in-context reflection baselines.
More importantly, the recurrence rate of known errors dropped sharply. The authors found that Self-Direction nearly doubled the reliability of corrective actions on subsequent encounters. Instead of guessing whether the agent would notice a text hint in its system prompt, the updated adapter shifted the token sampling probabilities directly away from the faulty API syntax.
The team also evaluated out-of-distribution transfer. A small set of adapters trained on specific terminal failures generalized across dozens of unseen tasks involving related file-system permissions and process management. The agent learned the structural pattern of the fix rather than memorizing the exact shell string.
What this means for local agent runners
For developers building and hosting agent infrastructure, this work highlights an architectural transition.
Over the past two years, the industry leaned heavily on prompt stuffing to simulate agent learning. We treated context windows as infinite scratchpads, piling up few-shot examples, dynamic rules, and post-mortem notes until the prompt became brittle.
Self-Direction shows that treating execution errors as online distillation targets produces cleaner long-term behavior. When an agent trips on an environment quirk, the solution is not to explain the error back to the model in prose every time it wakes up. The solution is to let the agent compile the lesson into weights, index the adapter, and move forward.#ai #agents #python #opensource #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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