Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Self-Host Weekly #146: Survey Says

#Survey results, #software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Zerobyte, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

selfh.st/weekly/2025-...

#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #privacy #development #smarthome #fediverse #results #homelab #homeserver

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

multi-scrobbler (by @foxxmd.dev) 0.10.2 has landed Teal.fm tracking support!

this scrobbling client provides support for Jellyfin, Plex, Deezer, Spotify, WebScrobbler, VLC, YouTube Music, Last.fm, ListenBrainz, AND MORE!

check it out: github.com/FoxxMD/multi...

"What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad." — Morpheus on IPv4

Self-Host Weekly #144: Memory Limit Exceeded

New #newsletter titles, #software updates and launches, a spotlight on #SyncIn, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

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#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #privacy #development #sysadmin #bluesky

Excellent writeup on "sketchy" flags to watch out for in apps that present themselves as "self-hosted" ready
danb.me/blog/os-self...

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

The curators of the Tiny Desk Concerts are holding our culture together like Spider-Man on a broken bridge

Even cooler! Near null island, there's a set of points shaped like the US (you can see Florida in the lower right.) But when you zoom out, they're off the coast of Liberia, exactly where they'd be if the latitude and longitude were both divided by 10 (eg so NYC is at 4.1, -7.4 instead of 40.7, -74).

@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com Does surfingcomplexity.blog have an rss/atom feed?

@jeffgeerling.com Whatever happened to that stolen radio tower you and your dad covered last year?

@rohandeshpande.bsky.social are you the same Rohan that was working on Project Goldscript?

@tailscale.com Has there been any progress on Android-client battery drain issues? The troubleshooting docs point to this issue which hasn't been updated since May github.com/tailscale/ta...

I recently tried to switch from WG to TS exclusively but mobile client drained 25% of my battery on idle.