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While listening to a WebSDR yesterday, I managed to catch a numbers station transmitting a message.

This was recorded at around 19:03:00 UTC, on 7317.0kHz

Looking around, this station seems to be named E11 “Oblique” and is apparently one of the most active. It is operated by an unknown agency, broadcasting from Warsaw.

I didn’t manage to record the whole message, but a good part is there, you can hear a group of numbers being started using the word “ATTENTION”, repeated multiple times.

From the documentation available on Priyom, this is the second part of the message, the first part being a three-digit ID, the word “oblique”, then a count, all of this happening over the course of around three minutes.

The full transcription of what I got (this may contain some errors):

ATTENTION 67438 67438 67860 67860 04039 04039 69177 69177 63054 63054 46049 46049 02736 02736 94777 94777 36055 36055 73069 73069 20594 20594 96622 96622 83251 83251 12182 12182 51324 51324 51379 51379 59126 59126 61168 61168 03718 03718 28981 28981 77820 77820 66222 66222 41823 41823 62573 62573 19825 19825 58059 58059 57872 57872 80128 80128 50473 50473 20071 20071 01721 01721 32356 32356 88691 88691 54694 54694 77204 77204 28423 28423 98119 98119 02337 02337 ATTENTION 67438 67860 04039 69177 63054 46049 02736 94777 36055 73069 20594 96622 83251 12182 51324 51379 59126 61168 03718 28981 77820 66222 41823 62573 19825 58059 57872 80128 50473 20071 01721 32356 88691 54694 77204 28423 98119 02337 OUT

The message, of course, ending at the “OUT”.

Someone out there probably has a better recording (with the full thing), well hopefully. That was just an interesting thing I wanted to share.

Back a few years ago, my personal ID number changed. Just to sum up for people who don’t know, in Finland, the personal ID number is used for everything. It basically identifies you to government and banking services.

Given the data debacle I talked about previously, I decided it would probably be good to request my own Posti data, as GDPR allows me to do so.

You can imagine my surprise when clicking the request link and hurting a wall saying I don’t exist:

After talking to some people, it turns out the way of fixing this is quite easy. You just need to log into the Moving Notification site of Posti (muuttoilmoitus.fi) with your bank details.

After doing so, I can finally access the data request page, as simple as that!

I previously enabled comments again on this blog, and it seems to have attracted the attention of bots trying to sell drugs through the comment section.

As a result, I ended up implementing FriendlyCaptcha, a small Open-Source PoW (Proof-of-Work) captcha solution made in Germany.

Fear not for your data, it is using a self-hosted instance as well, and ActivityPub is exempt from this restriction.

Next on the list is modifying the captcha itself to include all creatures, and not just humans.

About half an hour ago, Servo re-affirmed their ban of LLM tools laid out in their contribution policies:

Contributions must not include content generated by large language models or other probabilistic tools, including but not limited to Copilot or ChatGPT. This policy covers code, documentation, pull requests, issues, comments, and any other contributions to the Servo project.

This is honestly great to hear, as it cements the longevity of the project, avoiding the many headaches associated with AI code generation amongst others.

A little known feature of Git is that you can have conditions, for instance, to have a work and personal name and email.

First, the ~/.gitconfig file:

[includeIf "gitdir:~/src/personal/"]
  path = ~/.gitconfig.personal

[includeIf "gitdir:~/src/work/"]
  path = ~/.gitconfig.work
Code language: PHP (php)

After specifying this, you can then create two files, ~/.gitconfig.personal and ~/.gitconfig.work, containing:

[user]
    email = email@something.com
    name = MyName

and

[user]
    email = jae@consoso.com
    name = Very serious business person

Now, when you are in ~/src/personal/, the personal email and name will be used, and when in ~/src/work/, the work one will be.

As I previously mentioned, I’m currently playing through Yakuza Kiwami 2 again.

There’s a different way to experience the game with the Silly Mod.

This mod basically adds/replaces a ton of animations, models, etc to make the game… as you might have guessed, more silly.

I can definitely recommend giving it a try as it’s a really different experience from the base game. The modder really did a good job on that one.

Previously, I’ve shared about EUVD, the European Vulnerability Database.

Turns out in the wake of the whole CVE debacle, a bunch of other initiatives were also announced!

• OWASP’s unified framework, this one aims to be a bit more decentralized from what I’ve seen in the article
• GCVE (Global CVE Allocation System), this one as well seems to be a bit more decentralized than before

As more alternatives pile up, this paints a good outlook for the future, shall CVE go definitely down the drain.

The motto of “vibe” coders really is “let the thing do it, don’t check anything ever” because the whole cohort of Cursor users (an IDE with built-in LLMs) really believed a support bot that came up with a fake policy.

Shortly afterward, several users publicly announced their subscription cancellations on Reddit, citing the non-existent policy as their reason. “I literally just cancelled my sub,” wrote the original Reddit poster, adding that their workplace was now “purging it completely.” Others joined in: “Yep, I’m canceling as well, this is asinine.” Soon after, moderators locked the Reddit thread and removed the original post.

This is maybe too much on the nose when talking about LLM users. Vibes-based support is apparently a thing nowadays as well.

You can find the full article on ArsTechnica: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/cursor-ai-support-bot-invents-fake-policy-and-triggers-user-uproar/

Being currently assigned to the issue about ARM support for Resonite headlesses (GH-2555), time for an update since there hasn’t been one in some time.

First off, everything is looking great, current status being:

• 6 PRs are currently open (FreeImage, Opus, Crunch, Assimp, MSDFGen, RNNoise)
• 1 PR has been merged 🎉 (Brotli)
• 1 repo is missing (Freetype)

This marks the first ARM-related PR being reviewed and merged into an official repository, being the PR #1 on the Brotli repo, which bundled Windows, Linux x64 and Linux ARM CI/CD builds.

As a reminder, I am currently providing a complete package of all libraries built directly for ARM on my website.

Next steps would be to:

• Get an official fork of the Freetype repository (requested on 2025/04/09)
• Create a container image bundling my libraries and a way to download the headless easily on ARM machines
• Get all the current PRs reviewed and merged

The second one is more important as distribution is probably the biggest issue for complete ARM support of the headless, SteamCMD not supporting this architecture.

I am very confident to say that we will reach official support very soon, given how well this has been going so far.

My plans after this feature is shipped is to work on the macOS support (GH-1412) as it’s also marked as “community help wanted”.

This month, I bought a bunch of music on Bandcamp, here are some recommendations:

• Selected Works : Jørgen Bryde by Xerxes: an album I wanted to buy a long time ago, but that I forgot to get. Generally really calm and nice music, especially the tracks “Picture of Her” and “Blessed”, which are my personal favourites of this album.
• Feed Me Weird Things (Remastered) by Squarepusher: this is actually a really fresh recommendation, being shared with me today by a friend. The first track “Squarepusher Theme” was an instant hit for me, and the rest of the album itself is quite strong.
• ZeroRanger FM Arrangement Project by +TEK: I just love how that stuff sounds, I was following this artist for a while now, and this latest release is not disappointing as usual.
• WAVESTATION-FM by Lordsun and CubeNatural: this one has been sitting on my wishlist for a while, and I finally got it today. The album itself strikes a good balance of dynamic and chill sounds which I can definitely recommend.

That’s all for this month’s recommendations. This might become a more recurring thing, but wait until the next Bandcamp Friday, I’ll have plenty of those after it.