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In which I recommend that if you’re building or upgrading a moderately serious music-listening system, you use Qobuz and include a cheap Mac Mini: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/22/Qobuz-and-Others

Qobuz and Mac

ZK-SERIES: Privacy-Preserving Authentication using Temporal Biometric Data
Daniel Reijsbergen, Eyasu Getahun Chekole, Howard Halim, Jianying Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19393 …

ZK-SERIES: Privacy-Preserving Authentication using Temporal Biometric Data
Biometric authentication relies on physiological or behavioral traits that are inherent to a user, making them difficult to lose, forge or forget. Biometric data with a temporal component enable the following authentication protocol: recent readings of the underlying biometrics are encoded as time series and compared to a set of base readings. If the distance between the new readings and the base readings falls within an acceptable threshold, then the user is successfully authenticated. Various…

Leider werden viele Leute keinen Widerspruch bei Meta eingelegt haben gegen die KI-Verwendung ihrer Facebook/Instagram-Daten, weil sie dachten "Boah, schon wieder so ein nutzloser Ich-widerspreche Post der nicht funktioniert."
Bin da wohl nicht ganz unschuldig dran, hab vor 11 Jahren einen Scherz gepostet, den viele nicht erkannten (siehe ab Zeile 10)
#Meta

More on the crisis in open-source maintenance as exemplified by libxml2: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025971/73f269ad3695186d/
Some money *has* to start flowing into this community or the foundations we all rely on will start rotting away. Given the many-bi…

Fourier minimization and imputation of time series
Will Burstein, Alex Iosevich, Azita Mayeli, Hari Sarang Nathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19226 https://…

Fourier minimization and imputation of time series
One of the most common procedures in modern data analytics is filling in missing values in times series. For a variety of reasons, the data provided by clients to obtain a forecast, or other forms of data analysis, may have missing values, and those values need to be filled in before the data set can be properly analyzed. Many freely available forecasting software packages, such as the sktime library, have built-in mechanisms for filling in missing values. The purpose of this paper is to adapt …

i'm away this evening, so the great zoe b & the source unlimited is filling in for me on @… from 9 to midnight. get in tune at wfmu.org!

Learning Approach to Efficient Vision-based Active Tracking of a Flying Target by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Jagadeswara PKV Pothuri, Aditya Bhatt, Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Manaswin Oddiraju, Souma Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18264

Learning Approach to Efficient Vision-based Active Tracking of a Flying Target by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Ground based tracking requires setting up infrastructure, could be range limited, and may not be feasible in remote areas, crowded cities or in dense vegetation areas. Vision based active tracking of aerial objects from another airborne vehicle, e.g., a chaser unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), promises to fill this important …

Turns out life doesn’t just imitate art
— sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles.
Case in point:
A Day Without a Mexican,
the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi,
in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze,
leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run …

The Outrageous 20-Year-Old Movie That Predicted Trump’s America
In 2004 ‘A Day Without a Mexican’ was intended to be a political satire. In 2025 it seems all too real. Plus, Joel Grey auctions off his old lederhosen (and some nudes!) TikTok star Khaby Lame demands $1.2 million to talk, and Chet Hanks is a no-show at his book reading.

“Following attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran… the IAEA can confirm that no increase in off-site radiation levels has been reported as of this time,”
US joins Israel in attacking Iran, strikes Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz sites | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera

US joins Israel in attacking Iran, strikes Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz sites
IAEA says it has not detected any increase in radiation levels at key nuclear sites in Iran following US air strikes.

Inference for Error-Prone Count Data: Estimation under a Binomial Convolution Framework
Yuqiu Yang, Christina Vu, Cornelis J. Potgieter, Xinlei Wang, Akihito Kamata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20596

Inference for Error-Prone Count Data: Estimation under a Binomial Convolution Framework
Measurement error in count data is common but underexplored in the literature, particularly in contexts where observed scores are bounded and arise from discrete scoring processes. Motivated by applications in oral reading fluency assessment, we propose a binomial convolution framework that extends binary misclassification models to settings where only the aggregate number of correct responses is observed, and errors may involve both overcounting and undercounting the number of events. The mode…