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"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character."
—Willem Dafoe
#acting #coaching

New project post: AnotterKiosk
AnotterKiosk is another full-page web-browser OS for Pi's and other PCs, displays a webpage in full screen 24/7.
It has support for multi-touch input, a watchdog/heartbeat feature, local webserver, fully read-only root FS (won't kill SD cards, ever!), manual EDID overrides, configurable caching, reverse SSH tunnel support...
Can be used for signs, conference info screens, dashboards, home automation, etc.

Having a meeting going over a "IT Resource Provisioning Guidelines" document.
Feeling a very strong urge to play a gummy game. Or scream. The extent of bikeshedding is painful.
It's especially annoying how the bullet points which came from somewhere generic really do not work for a team of our scale with the sorts of systems we manage. e.g. on most systems the only network-login-capable accounts are sysadmins, most of whom rarely log in but all of whom need work…

Raiders Receive Clear Words on Chip Kelly After Losing to Chiefs https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/clear-words-chip-kelly-losing-chiefs/?adt_ei=[email]

Did John Mateer, Fernando Mendoza help NFL Draft stock? More Week 4 reactions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6647901/2025/09/21/nfl-draft-2026-mateer-fernando-mendoza/

Lecture: Yen-yi Chan, “Presence and Performance: Devotional Images of Shaka and His Sacred Body in Medieval Nara” (Kanagawa U., Wed., 24 Sept, 3:30–5pm; in-person only)
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Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
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That moment when you have to move large amounts of data and realize that by using NFS instead of SMB to move the data, you can almost max out your physical network connection. SMB only provided around 60 MB/s...

Time-optimal Asynchronous Minimal Vertex Covering by Myopic Robots
Saswata Jana, Subhajit Pramanick, Adri Bhattacharya, Partha Sarathi Mandal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14247 ht…

Time-optimal Asynchronous Minimal Vertex Covering by Myopic Robots
In a connected graph with an autonomous robot swarm with limited visibility, it is natural to ask whether the robots can be deployed to certain vertices satisfying a given property using only local knowledge. This paper affirmatively answers the question with a set of \emph{myopic} (finite visibility range) luminous robots with the aim of \emph{filling a minimal vertex cover} (MVC) of a given graph $G = (V, E)$. The graph has special vertices, called \emph{doors}, through which robots enter seq…

The lameassedness of A.I. marketing; it's not just the people on Hacker News who only know the waitlist as a marketing tactic -- it's Microsoft too
#microsoft #marketing #ai

Lecture: Yen-yi Chan, “Presence and Performance: Devotional Images of Shaka and His Sacred Body in Medieval Nara” (Kanagawa U., Wed., 24 Sept, 3:30–5pm; in-person only)
https://ift.tt/kwlQfiU
Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
via Input 4…