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reviewed The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach (The Endsong, #1)

Sascha Stronach: The Dawnhounds (EBook, 2022, Saga Press)

The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. But, …

Very original, raw and queer

The Dawnhounds is full of things: magic, pirates, flawed characters, strange gods, mysterious voices, a good measure of horror, priests and cops, political intrigue... it does feel a bit much at times, yet it works and hopefully, more is explained in the #2 of the trilogy.

Luis Miguel Rocha: The Papal Decree (Paperback, 2011, Michael Joseph)

Kill, kill, kill, kill!

Content warning some plot points

reviewed Taking Wing by Andy Mangels (Star Trek: Titan, #1)

Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin: Taking Wing (Paperback, 2005, Pocket Books)

THE BEGINNING OF A NEW STAR TREK ODYSSEY

After almost a decade of strife …

Taking Wing wasn't the best Star Trek book out there.

If you want to read this I highly recommend [re]watching Star Trek Nemesis. So much of what goes on in this story is related to that practically immediate predator in the Star Trek universe. The book focuses on the beginning of Riker's next part of his life journey after TNG as the captain of a new starship Titan. Much of the story is focused on his relationship with one Admiral Akaar and his judgment of Riker's new role with more than one person upset that he made his wife part of the senior officers.

I didn't realize how much say a Star Fleet captain gets a say in the makeup of his crew, but there was much emphasis about Titan, at Rikers' request, having the most diverse crew in star fleet history. About 30 characters are brand new to the universe, and many of them belong too species never …

Callum Roberts, Belén Urrutia: Océano de vida (Paperback, Alianza Editorial, Alianza)

¿Océano de muerte?

Podéis leer cómodamente esta RESEÑA también aquí laquimeradegupta.tumblr.com/post/754071288490999808/oc%C3%A9ano-de-muerte

La vida está irremediablemente imbricada con el soporte físico que la cobija: el planeta Tierra. Solamente esta estrecha unión puede explicar cómo cosas (petróleo, metales y otros recursos naturales) y seres vivos (madera, pescado, etc.) se comporten ante nuestra voracidad de forma similar. En realidad lo que hay detrás es mucho más simple: I) en el caso aquellos recursos o seres vivos que son capaces de renovarse así mismos (bien completando su ciclo biogeoquímico y quedando otra vez disponibles para su uso; bien por que se reproducen y se renuevan las poblaciones), si se excede su capacidad de renovación, éstos se agotan. II) En el caso de los no renovable, simplemente su cantidad económicamente rentable se agotará en uno u otro momento. image

En esta obra Callum Roberts nos va a hablar fundamentalmente de organismos marinos y cómo hemos afectado …

reviewed Rogue protocol by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

Martha Wells: Rogue protocol (2018, TOR)

"Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayChris …

more murderbot mayhem, good times

Confusingly, I read this third murderbot installment in a book including #3 and #4 but titled volume 2 so, I missed the actual #2 and I'm already reading this series out of order. But still, this is fun, and there are more bots, lots and lots of bots.

just linux things

$ diff -u a/file b/file > file.diff
$ cd a
$ patch -p1 < ../file.diff
Hunk FAILED at 73.
Hunk FAILED at 99.
$

definitely a real operating system that adult professionals should be using for importat work

Destroying Autocracy – May 15, 2025 Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.

It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.

DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.

finished reading The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club, #1)

Richard Osman: The Thursday Murder Club (Paperback, 2020, Penguin Books, Limited)

Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends …

Really fun! The premise is pretty cute, the characters are highly engaging, and the mystery kept me guessing all the way to the end (hard to do, I'm such a mystery fiend). I have a whole stack of these on loan from my MIL, so will be onto #2 soon!

@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange All of Murderbot's emotions might be difficult to properly translate. Or will they just do "SF + action"? Will start reading #2 & #3, so will be better prepared when it's aired ;-)

finished reading The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #3)

John Scalzi: The Last Emperox (EBook, 2020, Tom Doherty Associates)

Entire star systems, and billions of people, are about to be stranded. The pathways that …

Read the 3 books in this trilogy this week. Really enjoyed them. As others have stated, the 1st one is better than #2 & #3, but at some point you want to know how it all ends...

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' OpenSSH to 9.9p2 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27712

GitHub Continuous Integration checks are running. Hopefully they will be OK (Update 2 out of 3 have completed successfully, which is a good sign).

I tested locally without issues, but I also build against LibreSSL locally, whereas GitHub CI and MacPorts' Build Bots I think default to OpenSSL.

This release is to address some vulnerabilities identified by Qualys and other less critical bugs.

More details from upstream here:

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#9.9p2

Of particular note:

" Fix CVE-2025-26465 - ssh(1) in OpenSSH versions 6.8p1 to 9.9p1
(inclusive) contained a logic error that allowed an on-path
attacker (a.k.a MITM) to impersonate any server when the
VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. This option is off by default.

* Fix CVE-2025-26466 - sshd(8) in OpenSSH versions 9.5p1 to 9.9p1
(inclusive) is vulnerable to a memory/CPU denial-of-service related
to the handling of SSH2MSGPING …

Margaret Killjoy: The Barrow Will Send What it May (EBook, 2018, Tor.com Publishing)

Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits traveling anarchist Danielle …

Loved as a standalone book

Did not realize this was #2 in a series and the first book was checked out at the library. Still worked not having read the first one. This had everything, I wish there was a sequel!