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Typical #Mastodon (Fediverse?) moment:

• a supportive video on the #Fediverse is referenced in a post. In this case the video is on YouTube...
• one person in the comments saying that the video should really be on PeerTube instead
• @…

Buy it Now, Track Me Later: Attacking User Privacy via Wi-Fi AP Online Auctions
Steven Su, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, Dave Levin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13052

Buy it Now, Track Me Later: Attacking User Privacy via Wi-Fi AP Online Auctions
Static and hard-coded layer-two network identifiers are well known to present security vulnerabilities and endanger user privacy. In this work, we introduce a new privacy attack against Wi-Fi access points listed on secondhand marketplaces. Specifically, we demonstrate the ability to remotely gather a large quantity of layer-two Wi-Fi identifiers by programmatically querying the eBay marketplace and applying state-of-the-art computer vision techniques to extract IEEE 802.11 BSSIDs from the sell…

A Compact Dynamic Omnidirectional Antenna
Sheng Huang, Jacob R. Randall, Cory Hilton, Jeffrey A. Nanzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11351 https://

A Compact Dynamic Omnidirectional Antenna
We propose a novel omnidirectional antenna design incorporating directional modulation for secure narrow planar information transmission. The proposed antenna features a compact size and stable omnidirectional radiation performance by employing two tightly spaced, printed meander line monopole antennas, acting as a single radiating element. To achieve a narrow information secure region, the proposed antenna is fed by differential power excitation of two ports with real-time dynamic switching. T…

Not a whisper about this on DR's news site so thanks 🙏 @… for sharing the original briefing.
Looking forward to better IT support on our Linux machines now...
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114655674138180496
randahl@mastodon.social - In Denmark, The Ministry of Digitalization now removes all Microsoft software from ministry computers and switches to open source in a strategy that has been agreed with all five regions of Denmark.
The more Trump threatens Europe, the more US companies will get the Tesla treatment.
I will not be surprised if the Parliament member iPhones are next.
https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/politik/digitaliseringsminister-vil-udfase-microsoft-i-sit-eget-ministerium/5616096

11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture (Batman University, Çankaya University, Prešov University, Toruń Nicolaus Copernicus University) Keynote Speakers: Prof. Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University and Prof. Adelheid Rundholz, JCSU
https://ift.tt/yAuKC08
updated: Monday, June 16, 20…

HUD is working on work requirements and time limits for help. These may be unlawful - HUD's put caps on benefits before
Should federal rental aid come with a time limit? Here's how it works in one place : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/07/nx-s1-5425500/federal-rental-aid-time-limit-hud-delaware-housing-authority

Entretanto, em Portugal, o governo de vigaristas que temos vai buscar um gajo Š... Google.
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114655674138180496

I don’t agree in one respect:
Neither OOP nor FP (nor 4GLs nor IDEs nor SOAs nor any of the other new hotnesses past) had anything remotely resembling the current money behind them. None led to companies speculatively laying off tens of thousands of employees for imagined productivity boosts that had not actually arrived yet. None shaped whole election cycles, or led to national proposals for preemptive deregulation. None led to the construction of nuclear power plants or the draining of rivers. None sent oligarchs or fascists into spasmodic wet dreams of world domination. None started quasi-religious cults like EA.
All •that• is the part that feels like blockchain — but even worse, if such a thing is possible.
@…
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God, Randall, you sound like a fucking bitch.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12674 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Can spacetime fluctuations generate entanglement between co-moving accelerated detectors?
Recent studies [Class. Quant. Grav. 42, 03LT01 (2025); Phys. Rev. D 111, 045023 (2025)] indicate that in a nested sequence of Rindler wedges, vacuum of former Rindler frame appears to be thermally populated for an observer in shifted Rindler frame. Interestingly, this thermality is independent of shift parameter as long as it is non-zero and therefore arises even if the shift parameter is as small as Planck length. Building on this insight, we propose a set-up involving two atoms accelerating w…