New Signal Check is live: Episode 207 - October 25, 2026. This episode covers a cascade of critical security issues shaking up infrastructure before most people have their morning coffee. Adrian digs into the Brotli decoder flaw hitting everything from Node.js to Python, AI agents autonomously exploiting websites at scale, and fresh PHP vulnerabilities breaking seventy percent of the web. It's a Sunday morning reminder that the stack we all… Listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/8dc1a8eb
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New Signal Check is live: Episode 206 - October 24, 2026. This episode covers AI security risks that are already playing out in real time, from easily hijacked AI assistants executing attacker commands to OpenAI training its most advanced models completely offline after "rogue hacking incidents." We also dig into an actively exploited zero-day in Arista's network orchestration platform and explain why frontier AI labs are now treating internet… Listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/629ada57
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A stationary broken clock can be right 3 times in a single day one day of the year.
But a broken clock on a plane can be wrong multiple times in a single day one day of the year.
This isn’t a toot about clocks. #AI
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A detailed breakdown of this giant jack-o-lantern spider using technical pen.
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A Scary Austin JUST VOTED BLUE! says:
I am not a perfect person, but at least my eighth grade teacher does not have to take to the streets to denounce me.
[about Ramaswamy]The nuns at my grade school, oh dear!
The one who said "MAD is not one of the magazines we should be reading"
[pretty tame, in 1967]
The one who formally rejected my report on Martin Luther:
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A few years ago, producing a convincing synthetic replica of a human voice required hours of...#ai #ethics #machinelearning #privacy #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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A Nice, onze personnes seront jugées mardi après les violences commises par l’ultradroite lors de la manifestation du 24 octobre – franceinfo
Ces « militants d’ultradroite », selon la préfecture, sont soupçonnés d’avoir voulu agresser des manifestants samedi à Nice. Ils avaient…
#Nice #FR #France #Actu #News #Europe #EU #actu #Actualités #europe #nice #Provence-Alpes-Côted'Azur #Républiquefrançaise
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A recent CNN analysis highlights a broad shift in U.S. public opinion on Israel, with chief data analyst Harry Enten emphasizing that negative sentiment spans across demographic lines rather than remaining a partisan issue.
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umamusume cartoon where a horsegirl is part of a gifted and talented athletics program in her youth but then barely makes it through high school and ends up working at a Blockbuster Video till her 30s
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A Psychiatrist Explains Why It Is Inevitable That Trump Will Attempt To Steal The Midterms
The… http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Km1nwnOTRrU https://drrussellrazzaque.wordpress.com/2026/10/27/a-psychiatrist-explains-why-it-is-inevitable-that-trump-will-attempt-to-steal-the-midtermsthe/
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A precariedade juvenil não se resolve com a exibição da autoridade nem com o medo. Exige reconstruir a confiança, a pertença e a capacidade de participar na construção do futuro. Opinião de António Teodoro
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A operação contou com a participação de 19 Estados-membros da União Europeia, incluindo Portugal, bem como da Albânia, Espanha, Kosovo, Moldávia, Montenegro, Macedónia do Norte, Sérvia e Suíça.
https://www.publico.pt/2026/10/26/sociedade/noticia/330-detidos-operacao-europeia-trafico-droga-contrabando-2192735 #notícias -
A strong earthquake caused severe damage to #Constantinople OTD in 740 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/istanbul/?s=mb #travel #history
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‘A killer cop lives here’: Brooklyn arrests raise questions about limits of free speech https://gothamist.com/news/a-killer-cop-lives-here-brooklyn-arrests-raise-questions-about-limits-of-free-speech
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the nature of hands
we are cutters, as
#daily #DailyPoem #dailyPoetry #dailyWriting #Poem #poems #poetry #read #reading #Writing
a whole, and piercers;
we
will find bones and rocks
to shape them;
we are turning forests into spears,
arrows, hafts for blades.
I look and see
the endless belching smoke
past the highway,
the tower-flame of
unscalable Cliffs; they are
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A campaign lands in your lap and the numbers are flat. The button says "Submit." The page is three paragraphs of feature copy above the fold. You have one experiment slot this sprint, one shared traffic budget, and two candidate changes that both look obviously wrong.
So which one do you ship first?
The useful answer is neither "test both" nor a coin flip. The two changes answer different questions, and one of them is usually wasted if you run it in the wrong order.
The two problems look identical in a dashboard
Both failures surface as the same line: campaign traffic arrives, signups don't happen. To separate them, split the funnel into two questions.- Does the page earn attention? Can a first-time visitor understand the offer within the first screen?
- Does the ask earn commitment? Once the value is clear, is the action obvious, specific, and low-friction?
The first question is about the landing page. The second is about the call to action. A dashboard that only tracks sessions and signups cannot tell you which one broke.
A diagnostic table before you write any code
What the data showsLikely causeWhere to startMost sessions end within a few seconds; low scroll depthThe page does not match the promise in the adLanding pageDeep scroll, pricing or docs section viewed, few form startsThe ask is vague, buried, or costlyCall to actionMany form starts, few completionsForm frictionNeither. Fix the formLow engagement and low action, traffic source unclearTargeting or message mismatch upstreamNeither. Fix the campaign
That last row matters more than it looks. If the audience arriving from the campaign was never a fit, no amount of button rewording or hero-copy polishing will rescue the page. Fixing the targeting is cheaper than any experiment.Why the order matters more than the individual change
A call to action is read in the context of the headline, the proof, the price, and the surrounding copy.That produces two ordering rules.
Rule one: a button cannot fix a page that never establishes value. If visitors leave before they understand what they are being asked to do, a sharper label has nothing to attach to. You will measure noise and conclude that labels do not matter.
Rule two: do not optimize a component you are about to replace. If a page rewrite is already on the roadmap for this quarter, running a careful label experiment on the current page is a throwaway. The result will not transfer to the new layout, because the context that produced it no longer exists.
The second rule is the one teams break most often, because label experiments are fast to ship and feel productive.
Do the math before you commit to either
A small change usually produces a small effect, and a small effect demands a large sample. A page rewrite can plausibly shift behavior by several points; a button label change often moves it by a fraction of one.A quick calculation, runnable in any Python environment, shows how steep that difference is:
import math
def sessions_needed(p_control, p_treatment, alpha=0.05, power=0.80):
z_a = 1.959963985
z_b = 0.8416212336
p_bar = (p_control + p_treatment) / 2
spread = (z_a * math.sqrt(2 * p_bar * (1 - p_bar))
+ z_b * math.sqrt(p_control * (1 - p_control) + p_treatment * (1 - p_treatment))) ** 2
print(math.ceil(spread / (p_treatment - p_control) ** 2))sessions_needed(0.04, 0.045) # a 0.5-point lift on a 4% baseline
sessions_needed(0.04, 0.06) # a 2-point lift on the same baselineOn a 4% baseline, detecting a 0.5-point improvement at 80% power takes roughly 25,000 sessions per arm. Detecting a 2-point improvement takes roughly 1,900. Same campaign, same page, a thirteen-fold difference in required traffic.
Two conclusions follow. First, if your campaign delivers a few thousand sessions a month, a micro-optimization of the button label is probably not measurable, no matter how good the label is. Second, the size of the expected effect should drive the choice of experiment far more than how easy the change is to ship.
A default order that holds up in practice
- Verify the instrumentation. One exposure event per session, assignment logged server-side rather than inferred from a query parameter, internal traffic excluded, bots filtered. Every downstream conclusion inherits the quality of this step.
- Check message match. Put the ad headline next to the page headline. If they describe different things, stop here.
- If message match fails, run the landing page experiment first. Change the hero, the offer framing, or the proof: the elements that determine whether a visitor stays long enough to be asked anything.
- If message match holds and engagement looks healthy, run the call-to-action experiment. Label, placement, and the one or two lines of supporting copy next to it.
- Re-run the call-to-action experiment after any page rewrite. Treat the old result as historical, not as a default.
Step 4 is where a lot of teams want to start, and it is a legitimate starting point, but only when the diagnostic in the table above says the page is already doing its job.
Track what happens after the action, not just the action
A call to action that increases signups while filling the pipeline with people who never come back is a net loss. Before you run either experiment, decide on guardrail events and log them alongside the primary metric:// One exposure event per session, emitted once and cached client-side
trackEvent("experiment_exposure", {
experiment_id: "cta_copy_q3",
arm: "specific-verb",
campaign_id: "launch_aug",
});// Downstream quality signals, tied to the same session
// activation_started, first_key_action, repeat_usage_7dIf the primary metric moves up and a guardrail moves down, that is a trade-off that needs a decision. Guardrails are especially important for landing page experiments, because a page that over-promises will inflate the action rate and damage downstream quality.
Do not change both at once
Running a page experiment and a call-to-action experiment simultaneously on the same traffic makes the result unreadable. You cannot tell whether the change came from the page, the ask, or the interaction between them.If you genuinely need both answers and have the traffic to support it, use a factorial design: four arms, so every page version is paired with every call to action. The interaction term is often the most interesting number in the output, because it tells you whether a strong page makes the label irrelevant. The cost is roughly four times the traffic of a two-arm experiment.
For most campaigns, sequential experiments are the practical choice: page first, then the ask, with each experiment consuming a pre-committed block of traffic. Avoid switching between them mid-run based on how the numbers look.
Link hygiene when campaign traffic is split
If you are routing campaign traffic between page builds and call-to-action experiments, the link you publish becomes part of the workflow. Campaign copy already competes for space with a headline and a button, and long parameter-heavy URLs wrap badly in chat apps and social posts. A short link such as LinkBit keeps the destination compact and readable in the creative. That is a formatting convenience. Your experiment assignment should live in your own instrumentation, not in the link.The short answer
Run the landing page experiment first when the funnel shows that visitors never engage, when message match is broken, or when a rewrite is already planned. Run the call to action first when the page is doing its job and the ask is the weak link, and only when your traffic is large enough to detect the smaller effect you are likely to see.Before either, confirm what your instrumentation measures. Most experiment programs that stall are running careful changes on a funnel they cannot see.#experimentation #conversionrate #landingpages #webanalytics #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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CW: silly quake strogg lore
Now that everything is unlocked in Quake Champions, I have the opportunity to read up on all the lore scrolls I never picked up because I only played as the Hot Lizard Mom, and the biographical entries for Strogg and Peeker are hilarious.
The strogg guy was part of a skeleton crew left behind on Stroggos to keep the lights on since most everyone else slipgated to Earth to squeeze sweet, sweet stroyent from humans, and times were tough, stroyent had to be rationed, but lo! Humans reverse-engineered slipgate tech and counter-invaded!
Now food is dropping out of the sky, references are made to the beginning of Q2 where most of the initial strike force was wiped out by an EMP save for one lucky bastard who was now prowling the outer perimeter, and since this strogg is an infiltrator class, the Makron taps him to spy on the guy
Each field report from this strogg grows increasingly desperate. At first it's like haha look at this human, what a weak little fleshbag, but then subsequent entries are like holy fuck, this dude just wiped our entire jail security force, fuck fuck he's taking out our security grid, what the fuck
Makron, let me take this guy out, he's fucking our shit up, give me permission to take this guy out, he's wrecking everything, Makron, talk to me, he's ruining everything, he's moving so fast, how is he doing this, please let me kill this guy, I can kill him, just give me the order, I'll do it
Finally he's like fuck it, I'm just gonna do it, goes in, fucking fails, then wakes up and is like wait, this isn't Stroggos, where am I
It doesn't change anything about Q2, but when I replay it now I'm gonna think about how canonically there is a panicking spy who fucking dies trying to kill me
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Aぇ! group、韓国ロケに放り出される 日本でまだ流行っていないスイーツ探しも…判定方法にツッコミ「全員おっさん!」
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A friend in the building invited me to have a couple beers to celebrate somebody who had passed away, but I falsely said I have school in the morning because I didn't want to explain that I don't drink anymore except holidays and when I take vacations in North Carolina a few times a year. Also I'm just very uncomfortable with social situations so I'd probably just sit there silent.
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For the popular state is the liberty of poor and weak persons and the servitude of rich and powerful persons; monarchy is the liberty of the great and the servitude of the small.
[Car l’état populaire est la liberté des personnes pauvres et foibles et la servitude des personnes riches et puissantes; et la monarchie est la liberté des grands et la servitude des petits.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689–1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 631 / 884, “On Political Liberty” (1720-1755) [tr. Clark (2012)]More about this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/86607/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #populargovernment #autocracy #democracy #liberty #monarchy #populace #republic #servitude #power #weakness
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A compromise with a Nazi is still a Nazi.
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A dramaturga, actriz e realizadora brasileira está em Portugal com a peça de teatro Festa e com a sua primeira longa-metragem, Nosso Segredo.
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A free stereogram puzzle every Monday at 8:00 a.m. ET. Find the hidden 3D word or shape, get timed, and climb the leaderboard. Images made by code…#stereogram #puzzle #3d #weeklypuzzle #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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A Swiss court convicts former Belarusian security officer Yuri Harauski over the 1999 abduction of businessman Anatol Krasouski, later killed, and gives him a two-year suspended sentence. He is acquitted over Yury Zacharanka's enforced disappearance.
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A court in the #UnitedKingdom penalizes American rapper Chris Brown to an 8-month suspended prison sentence for assaulting a music producer with a glass bottle at a nightclub in Mayfair, #London in February 2023.
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A Printer Printing onto Paper
https://twitter.com/macrofying/status/2112904628509528219
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50204697
#HackerNews #Printer #Technology #Innovation #Paper #Art #Creative #Printing
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A morning walk to visit the Morioka Morning Market for a treat of warming hittsumi soup, which features a comforting, savory broth and chewy, slippery noodles. Next to the stall making hittsumi was a stall that roasts coffee and sells it by the cup.
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A Queen Victoria Type B Pillar Box in Kirkdale, Liverpool City Region is now on the map. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/L5-394 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #TypeB #StandardRed #Kirkdale
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Women just can’t be trusted any more.
[Ἐπεὶ οὐκέτι πιστὰ γυναιξίν.]Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 11, l. 456 (11.456) [Agamemnon] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Lombardo (2000), l. 274]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/47181/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #Agamemnon #betrayal #distrust #misogyny #mistrust #trust #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness #women
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A intimação — redigida pela advogada Leonor Caldeira — foi admitida pelo tribunal na quinta-feira, estando a decorrer o tempo de resposta das partes invocadas.
https://www.publico.pt/2026/10/26/sociedade/noticia/juristas-intimacao-direito-manifestacao-impunha-contencao-autoridades-2192723 #notícias