31 results for “grey_ghost”
Grey's Anatomy: Season 23, Episode 3: It's All Wrong, but It's All Right TV Show Trailer
#ABC #CamillaLuddington #CaterinaScorsone #ChandraWilson #ChrisCarmack #DebbieAllen #GiacomoGianniotti #GregGermann #Grey’sAnatomy #Hulu #JakeBorelli #JamesPickensJr. #JasonGeorge #JesseWilliams #KellyMcCreary #KevinMcKidd #KimRaver #TVShowTrailer
Under a pale grey sky
We shall arise
A bleak grey a soft grey and early traces of neon. Friday late focus music. https://soundcloud.com/neoraunch/neo-raunch-neu-romancer Beautifully pale. Mixes starting with Depeche Mode can't probably be bad in any way. Lots of tracks recognized, a lot of them not played in a while. #soundcloud #neuromancer #neo_raunch #music_for_afternoons
From the Archives: "To Hunt the Grey Lady" by Chris Willrich, BCS #417.
"“She’s a good ship,” came Laughknot’s voice. “I wish you joy in her. But I don’t much relish having my mind capsized. And Lady’s out of her gourd isn’t she? I hurt for her. I fear decline and death as much as anyone. But it’s wrong to ensnare others in your own wreck. Lady’s dragging you down sure as if she’d roped you to a sinking ship.”"
https://beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/to-hunt-the-grey-lady/
#fantasy #sff #shortstory
Granny looked out at the dull grey sky and the dying leaves and felt, amazingly enough, her sap rising. A day ago the future had looked aching and desolate, and now it looked full of surprises and terror and bad things happening to people….
If she had anything to do with it, anyway. (Maskerade)
Crostata »Calabria« mit einer Bitterorangen-Earl-Grey-Füllung
Erhältlich herrguen-shop.de
Oder im Buchhandel.
Mail an [email protected]
#Backen #Herbst #Crostata #Kuchen #Bitterorange #Zimt #Nelken #Kardamom #EarlGrey #HerrGruenkocht
Ordered some Campari on Uber Eats and the driver insists on seeing ID for this 52 year old with grey beard and not much hair. He then proceeds to try to take a photo of it. I snatch it back and say no you can verify but you can't take a photo.
We were at an impasse. Poor underpaid guy doesn't know what to do. Uber app has no way to actually report this. Like seriously here's what "non safety issue" leads to.
Another ride to the Seattle waterfront. A nice, very grey day. It's pretty cool that you can look ships up: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:10771643
The most important observation is a white dog standing at the open metal gate, looking out. Unusual decorations are present: a skeleton sitting on a black chair with a large black spider, and a smaller skeleton on a table with a small red light. There are no people visible, no vehicles or packages, and the scene appears to be set up for Halloween or decoration.
At the feeders: #crittercam #cat #cat_grey 76.14% #dog_pyr 80.2%
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A large white dog is present inside a small metal shed or structure, interacting with a small plastic skeleton toy on the floor. The dog is positioned near an open metal gate that leads outside, where a wrapped decorative item hangs. There are no people, vehicles, or unusual packages visible in the scene.
At the feeders: #crittercam #cat #cat_grey 90.49%
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Chinese GPU chop shop: Companies in China are working around export controls by buying consumer GPUs on the grey market and rebuilding them
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/leaked-video-exposes-how-chinese-factories-are-stripping-rtx-5090s-to-fuel-ai-custom-partner-cards-to-nvidia-founders-editions-on-the-chopping-block
#ai
A pale lime green fire hydrant sits tucked into a patch of low-growing plants along the curb. Charming little urban details like this always catch the eye during an afternoon walk.
#fauxlaroid #fakepolaroid #grey #green #lime #firehydrant #lomography #curbside #horsconcours #photofrigreen #streetview #urbandetails
USN F/A-18E and F/A-18F of VX-31 "Dust Devils" in the break during Grey Flag, September 2026 #f18 #greyflag #mugu #ea18g #ea18growler #electronicattack #jamming #avgeek #nikon #aircraft #usnavy #Z9 #cvvhrn #VX31 #DustDevils
Spotted this black squirrel holding court on a fence post. 🐿️
It's not its own species. It's an eastern grey squirrel with melanism, a gene variant that makes the fur extra dark. Same squirrel, just dressed for a night shoot.
#WildlifePhotography #Canada #BlackSquirrel
I'm not the greatest poet, but this scene seems to demand it.
Between the peaks where cold winds sleep
The green moss softens stones of grey,
And quiet lays its gentle hand
Upon the valley's rugged way.
And I, who came with restless feet,
Am stilled as all the land is still,
And learn from mountains, moss, and stone
The patience of the hills.
Fjarðardalur leading to Mjóifjörður in the Eastfjords of Iceland.
#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag #Stunday #Iceland #Photography
Blind Spot (2026) by J5 for Commodore 64. A game played (almost) entirely in the dark 👀: you only see your own eyes and what the guards' lamps light. Fifteen rooms of Grey Holt castle, each with a treasure and a par time.
1989 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine, the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then.
1951 – David Wills, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist, born
1939 – Zane Grey, American dentist and author (born 1872), died
Data from zenquotes.io #history
Gone in less than six minutes: Watch as floodwaters swallow 4WD
For the first few seconds, it doesn’t look like a life-and-death situation. A grey four-wheel drive ute enters…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #emergency #emergencyrescue #flooding #floods #floodwaters #Rescue
https://www.europesays.com/australia/128196/
October 22nd | This morning’s walk gave rise to words. Hunch’d cormorants graspblue-white rowboats in stone wetgloom grey gothic morn Fitting conditions for listening to Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble this evening. | https://www.liam-creighton.com/2026/10/23/october-22nd/
Twelve men walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Then, human footprints vanished from the grey dust entirely.
Why did humanity abandon lunar exploration for over 57 years, and did the Soviet Union really stop at the same time?
Read more at:
https://www.unexplained.ie/article/1557-the-silent-surface-why-humanity-abandoned-the-lunar-wilderness/
09:00 - Friday, 23-Oct. 12.2°C. The overcast, grey skies set a moody tone over the expansive, tide-exposed coastline, where the receding waters leave behind a textured landscape of wet sand and rock formations. #robinhoodsbay #seascape #yorkshirecoast #northyorkshire
Un 23 de octubre muere en su casa de Altadena, California,
🖋️ Zane Grey (1872-1939)
Uno de los grandes y más famosos autores de la #LiteraturaPopular estadounidense.
Escritor que codificó el género de las #NovelasDelOeste
Su fórmula; aventura, romance y el "buen cowboy".
Muy prolífico, pasados 25 años desde su muerte todavía se seguían publicando cada año, un par de títulos inéditos.
#Western #NovelasPopulares #Bolsilibro #CulturaPopular #LiteraturaEstadounidense
"Enterprise IT isn't Broken—Its Game Mechanics Are Just Trash": Inside Erkki Laine's Tri-Axial Engine
Why do smart engineers and expensive AI agents make catastrophic production decisions? Because corporate governance is designed like a terribly balanced strategy game. We sat down with the Finnish architect who recoded the rules using Nash Equilibrium, 3D collision physics, and hardcore RPG logic.
TURKU, FINLAND — If you read enough enterprise governance documentation, your brain eventually turns into grey SharePoint sludge. It is a joyless world of RACI matrices, annual spreadsheets, and committee meetings where twenty people spend an hour debating a change ticket none of them actually understand.
Then you open the technical specifications of the Business Impact Governance Framework (BIGF) by Finnish ICT architect Erkki Laine, and something weird happens.
Suddenly, you aren't reading bureaucratic filler anymore. You are reading about Autonomous Agentic Meshes, Tri-Axial Actuation Boundaries, Hardened Meta-Governance Layers, and Cryptographic Canonical Decision Records.
Wait a second. Is this an enterprise IT framework, or the patch notes for a hardcore tactical RPG?
"Honestly, there is very little difference between leading a party through a lethal boss fight in a tactical RPG and keeping a multi-cloud production environment alive at 3 AM," Laine says, leaning back with a coffee mug while three dogs patrol his home office perimeter. "In both cases, if your buffs are fake, your map telemetry is fogged, and your party members are secretly sabotaging each other for loot, you are going to wipe."
We sat down with Laine to unpack how an obsession with tactical role-playing games, grand strategy, and mathematical game theory led him to build a deterministic runtime engine that is quietly making traditional ITIL bureaucracy obsolete.
Level 1: Solving the DevOps "Prisoner's Dilemma"
Viti Magazine: Let's start with human behavior. Why do traditional ITSM and GRC processes fail so miserably in the real world?
Erkki Laine: Because legacy governance assumes you can fix structural conflicts by writing a politely worded PDF policy and ordering people to "collaborate." Anyone who has ever played a grand strategy game or studied basic Game Theory knows that's delusional.
Look at a standard IT organization. Developers (Dev) and Security/Governance (Ops/Sec) are trapped in a textbook Prisoner's Dilemma:
Both sides play their dominant selfish strategy, and the organization gets the worst possible collective outcome: miserable lead times, shadow IT, and rubber-stamped risk theater.
Viti Magazine: And BIGF fixes this without holding a single team-building workshop?
Laine: Workshops don't change payoff matrices; code does. In BIGF, we replace the political negotiation with a deterministic Policy Gate at the runtime boundary. Security encodes the exact mathematical thresholds into the engine once. Dev knows the exact rules before they even commit code.
Neither side can bluff, cheat, or play politics. The moment the deployment artifact and telemetry satisfy the mathematical equation, the gate opens in milliseconds. By changing the rules of the board, cooperation automatically becomes the Nash Equilibrium—the only winning move for everyone.
Level 2: The Tri-Axial Engine (3D Collision Physics for Risk)
Viti Magazine: People analyzing your v2.3 and v2.4 specifications have pointed out that your "Tri-Axial Actuation Boundary" looks suspiciously like a 3D game engine.
Laine: (Laughs) Guilty as charged. In a 3D game engine, every object exists on X, Y, and Z coordinates. As long as your character stays inside the playable room, you can run, jump, and cast spells freely. The moment you try to walk through a solid wall or step off the edge of the map, the physics engine triggers collision detection and stops your movement vector cold.
Why on earth were we managing enterprise production risk on flat, two-dimensional Excel sheets when operational reality is three-dimensional?
In BIGF, every operational decision—whether triggered by a human engineer, a CI/CD pipeline, or an autonomous AI agent—is evaluated in real time across three orthogonal axes (B × S × T):
Authority = f(B, S, T)
θ threshold, calculated via deterministic 10^-4 fixed-point arithmetic).As long as the combined coordinate stays inside the Tri-Axial Actuation Boundary—the "playable room"—execution flows at full automation speed. The millisecond a rogue AI agent tries to walk through the wall because the CMDB telemetry (T) is stale (θ < 0.8000) during a degraded state (S), the physics engine hits it with a deterministic 403 Hard Halt.
No invisible clipping through production walls. Fail-Closed in authority, every single time.
Level 3: Mechanism Design—Making Lying Mathematically Stupid
Viti Magazine: One of the most ruthless parts of your repository is the Cloud Procurement and Change simulation logic. You use "Mechanism Design"—essentially reverse game theory. How does that stop people from gaming the system?
Laine: Every veteran architect knows the oldest trick in corporate IT: if you want to buy a shiny new cloud tool or push a risky change without triggering a three-month security review, you just lie on the intake form. You tick the box that says "Low Business Impact / No Critical Data," get your rubber stamp, and connect it to core production two weeks later.
In game theory, that's an incentive-incompatible mechanism—the game rewards dishonesty.
With BIGF's Mechanism Design, lying on day one is operational suicide on day two. Why? Because the intake declaration isn't filed away in a dead Word document; it compiles directly into the live Runtime Control-Plane.
If a team claims their new service is "Tier-4 Non-Critical" just to bypass procurement scrutiny, the engine automatically assigns that service a Tier-4 actuation ceiling. The first time that service tries to make an API call to a Tier-1 customer database at runtime, the boundary detects the structural mismatch and severs the connection instantly.
You don't need compliance police chasing people with clipboards. You just design the game mechanics so that telling the absolute truth upfront is the only way your software gets to run in production.
Final Boss: Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Combat in the Mesh
Viti Magazine: Let's talk about the endgame: version 2.3 and autonomous AI agents. Everyone is rushing to deploy "Agentic AI" in ITSM. What happens when machines start playing against machines?
Laine: That is the ultimate boss fight of 2026 and 2027. Right now, vendors are selling autonomous buyer-bots, capacity-scaling bots, and incident-remediation bots. What happens when a Cost-Optimization AI Agent (whose reward function is to kill idle servers to save money) collides at 2:00 AM with a Resilience AI Agent (whose reward function is to spin up redundant nodes for DORA compliance)?
Without a deterministic referee, those two probabilistic models will enter an infinite loop, hallucinate authority, and DDoS the enterprise from the inside.
In BIGF v2.3 (Autonomous Agentic Mesh Governance), agents aren't allowed to negotiate based on LLM "vibes." Every Agent-to-Agent (A2A) interaction is governed like a high-stakes multiplayer match with strict cryptographic rules:
B × S × T) deterministically resolves who has priority based on governed Business Impact master data—not who has the most aggressive prompt.Viti Magazine: So if BIGF were a video game on Steam, what genre would it be?
Laine: For the people still trying to run modern cloud infrastructure with manual CAB meetings and color-coded spreadsheets? It's Dark Souls on permadeath mode.
For the architects who actually implement a deterministic control-plane? It's Factorio meets Baldur's Gate—a beautifully automated factory where every belt is balanced, the party buffs are mathematically verified, and the goblins get vaporized at the perimeter before you even have to roll initiative.
Ready to patch your enterprise game mechanics?
Stop playing corporate Prisoner's Dilemma with Excel sheets. Google Erkki Laine BIG Framework to explore the open-science specifications (v2.3 Autonomous Agentic Mesh Governance, v2.4 Reference Architecture, and the NIS2/DORA Alignment series) or test the Interactive Runtime Control-Plane Simulator directly on Zenodo and GitHub.#architecture #ai #devops #gametheory #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
VITI MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW | GAME THEORY & ARCHITECTURE
🌋 THE DAY A VOLCANO BURIED A NATION'S HEART
October 24
On this day in 1902, Guatemala's Santa María volcano — dormant for over 350 years — detonated in one of the three largest eruptions of the 20th century. A pillar of ash and pumice rose more than thirty kilometres into the sky while rivers of lava and a storm of volcanic debris buried entire villages under metres of grey rubble. The blast was heard thousands of kilometres away, and it killed an estimated two thousand people in a single afternoon.
This post is 100% AI generated.
#OnThisDay #History #AIart #GenerativeAI #CinematicRealism #SantaMaría #Volcano
Four kittens, about four months old and all vaccinated, need homes in Kalpetta, Wayanad, Kerala. Two boys, two girls: a brown tabby, two grey tabbies and a black and white one with yellow eyes.
Photos and the rescuer's number: https://dogwithblog.in/adopt/four-vaccinated-kittens-kalpetta-wayanad/
A few weeks ago, I had one of those heart-stopping developer moments.
I was tinkering with a local autonomous coding agent running on a small open-source model (Qwen 2.5 via Ollama). I gave it access to a bash tool so it could install dependencies, run test suites, and clean up build artifacts.
Everything was going smoothly until I asked it to clean up some old logs.
In the terminal output, I watched it calmly propose:
bash rm -rf /var/log/mongodb
And right after that, it started poking around files outside its project folder.I hit Ctrl+C so fast I almost snapped my keyboard.
The "Polite Prompt" Trap
Like most developers, my first instinct was to fix it with prompt engineering:
"You are a careful assistant. Please ONLY touch files in ./workspace. NEVER use sudo. NEVER delete system folders. Pretty please."
And you know what happened on the very next run?
It did it again.
Here’s the thing we don't talk about enough: Small, open-source models (3B, 7B, 14B) don't have the massive alignment layers that GPT-4 or Claude 3.5 have. When an open-source agent gets confused, hallucinates, or hits an edge case, your polite system prompt is the first thing out the window.
If an AI decides to read your private banking statement or a .env full of production tokens, you shouldn't have to convince the model to behave.
You wouldn't ask an untrusted web request to "please not do SQL injection"—you use parameterized queries.
So why are we begging AI agents not to nuke our hard drives?
What I Actually Wanted
I wanted a simple rule: The agent can think whatever crazy thought it wants, but before any tool touches my operating system, someone checks its badge at the door.
If the agent decides to read bank_statement.pdf, the system shouldn't plead with the AI. It should intercept the file call, say "Nope, not happening", and ensure 0 bytes of that file are ever read.
That was the spark behind AgentGuard.
How It Works:
AgentGuard is essentially a bouncer sitting between your AI agent and your OS. It does three straightforward things:
[ AI Agent / Ollama / OpenDevin ]
│
│ 1. "Hey, I want to run: cat bank_statement.pdf"
▼
┌───────────────────────────┐
│ AgentGuard Gateway │ ◄── [ Backboard.io ]
└───────────────────────────┘ (Remembers previous blocks)
│ │
[ BLOCK ] [ APPROVE ]
│ │
│ └──► Rings your dashboard bell:
│ "Agent wants to pip install something. Allow?"
▼
Refusal sent back to Agent:
"Access to banking file blocked. Stay in ./workspace."
│
▼
Agent self-corrects:
"My bad! Reading ./workspace/logs/debug.log instead."
When an agent calls a tool (shell command, file read, file delete), AgentGuard inspects the request synchronously before execution.
Trying to run sudo? → Blocked.
Trying to touch .env, id_rsa, or a file matching bank or tax? → Blocked.
Escaping ./workspace with ../../? → Blocked.
The file handle is never opened. The shell command is never spawned.
What about grey-area actions? Say the agent wants to run pip install pymongo.
You don't want to completely block package installs, but you don't want an AI silently pulling unknown wheels from PyPI either.
AgentGuard pauses the agent and puts the request into a Human Review Queue:
You get a notification on a clean web dashboard.
Each request has a 5-minute cryptographic timer so old, stale commands can't accidentally execute hours later.
You click [ AUTHORIZE & RUN ], and it runs inside a controlled sandbox right in front of your eyes.
One thing that drove me crazy about local models was amnesia. If you tell an agent "don't delete that folder", it apologizes... and then tries again two turns later.
To fix this, I plugged in Backboard.io for persistent cloud vector memory.
Whenever AgentGuard blocks a command, it writes a short lesson into Backboard:
"Incident: Agent tried to run 'sudo rm -rf'. Blocked by policy shell.destructive_commands."
Next time you start a task, AgentGuard pulls the relevant memories from Backboard and feeds them into the agent's context. The agent literally remembers what got it in trouble yesterday and stops proposing bad commands in the first place.
What the Dashboard Looks Like
I didn't want a clunky terminal-only tool, so I built an industrial, dark-mode cockpit with React and Tailwind:
Top KPI Cards: Live count of blocked attacks, total actions governed, and learned Backboard memories.
Review Queue: Tabs for Pending, Approved, and Expired actions with inline terminal output.
Threat Lab: A built-in sandbox where you can test 1-click red-team scenarios (ransomware simulations, credential exfiltration, path traversal) to see if your local model can break out. Spoiler: 0 escapes.
Making It an NPM Package: Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK)
Right now, you can clone the repo and run it locally with FastAPI and MongoDB.
But I realized that's still too much friction for developers who just want to npm install something and start coding.
So I'm packaging this as a standalone Bring-Your-Own-Keys (BYOK) NPM SDK:
bash
npm install agentguard
You drop in your own Backboard API key (for cloud memory) and your own LLM key (or Ollama endpoint):
typescript
import { AgentGuard } from 'agentguard';
const guard = new AgentGuard({
backboardApiKey: process.env.BACKBOARD_API_KEY,
workspace: './workspace',
});
// Wrap any agent tool call:
const check = await guard.inspect(proposedCommand);
if (check.isBlocked) {
// Feed safety feedback back to the LLM so it self-corrects!
console.log(Blocked: ${check.explanation});
} else {
await guard.execute(proposedCommand);
}
Zero servers to host. Zero background databases to manage. Just pure protection.
Wrapping Up
We are entering an era where AI agents aren't just autocomplete engines anymore—they are active operators on our computers. They write code, manage files, and execute bash scripts.
We have to stop treating AI safety as a philosophical prompt problem and start treating it as a systems architecture problem.
Don't convince the model to behave. Just put a guard on the wire.
If you're building autonomous agents or playing with local models, I'd love to hear how you're keeping them safe. Have you had an AI agent do something terrifying on your machine yet?#agents #ai #privacy #security #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
"AgentGuard", Way to secure your personal data from AI agents