Tootfinder

It's amusing (and annoying) that a browser pops up a new tab when you restart it to update it, like I'm not doing it just to get rid of the nag button, like I even give a fuck what they changed

"In Memoriam: Platinum Curidas, 2020-2026"
#fountainpens

Mike Lindell’s ‘MyPillow’ is latest target of ransomware attack
https://san.com/cc/mike-lindells-mypillow-is-latest-target-of-ransomware-attack/

Mike Lindell’s ‘MyPillow’ is latest target of ransomware attack
A ransomware gang says it hacked MyPillow, the company founded by 2020 election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/116635660928832452
this core flow change is interesting but it doesn’t correspond to any significant change in LoD
it happened about 10 years before the LoD abruptly dropped in about 2020
(and ther…

Four Decades of the Meat Puppets' 'Up on the Sun' - a cool history and retrospective piece by The Self Portrait Gospel: https://www.theselfportraitgospel.com/reviews-premiers/four-decades-of-meat-puppets-up-on-the-sun

The Self Portrait Gospel
Nearly half a decade after the Atomic Bomb Club first formed in the late 1970s, what would eventually become the beloved Phoenix-based band of brothers, Meat Puppets , soon settled on their iconic name in the summer of 1980, and would go on to release their third album, “Up On The Sun” , after

How Theia, a satellite imaging startup that raised $250M by 2020, collapsed after the founder and four other execs were indicted on federal fraud charges (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-25/sat…

from my link log —
New amd64 micro-architecture levels.
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-July/116135.html
saved 2020-11-08

Und es geht weiter mit unseren Kulturtips zum Pfingstwochenende.
Seit 1970 ist der #Tatort auf der Höhe der Zeit - oder auch des #Zeitgeist. Das gilt in ganz besonderem Maße für diese außergewöhnliche Folge des Göttinger Teams von 2020 -

Seeing Inside the Storm: Improving Nowcasting by Integrating Meteorological Drivers
Minghui Qiu, Jun Chen, Lin Chen, Weifeng Chen, Shuxin Zhong, Zhidan Liu, Yu Zhang, Kaishun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24067 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.24067 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.24067
arXiv:2605.24067v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Most nowcasting systems, built on radar reflectivity, focus on current precipitation, ignoring the atmospheric precursors -- such as low-level convergence, turbulent eddies, and latent heating -- that offer a fleeting window to foresee storm birth. We introduce MeteoLogist, a physics-inspired radar intelligence framework that models the full life cycle of convection -- from its precursors to organized storm evolution. However, exploiting these precursors is non-trivial: they originate from multiple meteorological drivers -- thermodynamic, kinematic, and microphysical -- that evolve asynchronously (C1) and remain spatially fragmented (C2). To this end, MeteoLogist designs three tightly integrated components. The Physics-Tailored Encoders process radar echoes according to their intrinsic physical scales and semantics, forming thermodynamic, kinematic, and microphysical streams that capture distinct dynamical regimes. The Temporal-Phase Aligner addresses C1 by leveraging causal temporal attention to capture when and how different drivers interact and activate. The Cross-Field Spatial Aggregator addresses C2 through cross-regional fusion, aligning weak and scattered precursors across neighboring cells to expose upstream triggers and enforce spatial coherence. Evaluated on 3D-NEXRAD (2020--2022, US-wide), MeteoLogist boosts high-impact detection (CSI40) by 9.7% over strong baselines, and achieves a remarkable 37.67% gain during the storm-developing stage -- demonstrating true foresight in sensing storms before they appear. The code can be found in the supplementary material.
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Saving Electricity and Gas (2020) - Meter readings at home. - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2020.html

Saving Electricity and Gas (2020)
Meter readings at home.

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

from my link log —
ELF statifier: create a static executable from a binary and its libraries.
http://statifier.sourceforge.net/
saved 2020-07-13 https://

ELF statifier
Download ELF statifier for free. Tool for creating portable self-containing Linux executable. Statifier is a tool for creating portable self-containing Linux executable. Statifier create from dynamically linked executable and all it's libraries (and all LD_PRELOAD libraries, if any) one file.

Good morning cuties

from my link log —
GPU architecture resources.
https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/gpu-architecture-resources/
saved 2020-05-15

GPU architecture resources
I am often get asked in DMs about how GPUs work. There is a lot of information on GPU architectures online, one can start with these: Render Hell 2.0: Easy to follow and thorough introduction with …

Forschende der Universität #Stuttgart haben ein „optisches Sieb“ zur Detektion von #Nanoplastik entwickelt.
Der Teststreifen macht winzige Partikel durch Farbveränderungen unter dem Lichtmikroskop sichtbar. So lassen sich Anzahl, Größe und Größenverteilung bestimmen. Das Verfahren ist k…

Neues, einfaches Nachweisverfahren für Nanoplastik | News | 08.09.2025 | Universität Stuttgart
Forschende der Universität Stuttgart haben ein „optisches Sieb“ zur Detektion winziger Nanopartikel entwickelt. Es funktioniert wie ein Teststreifen und soll als neues Analysewerkzeug in der Umwelt- und Gesundheitsforschung dienen.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/116428634675811022
Western US has been almost 3°C warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average so far this year! Combined with low snow pack on the mountains, this leads to a big risk of drought and wildfires.

The problems with efficiency, by @…
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/07/05/Too-Efficient

Just Too Efficient

My web site's GenAI/LLM policy:
#NoAI

About
Updated: Summer 2020 Greetings. My name is Pete Prodoehl. I am the publisher behind RasterWeb! which started in August of 1997. RasterWeb! is one of the longest running continually updated weblogs. I give some credit to Dave Winer for getting me involved in all of this. His work in web publishing in the mid-1990s, as [...]

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Ex-49ers WR Jauan Jennings agrees to free-agent deal with Vikings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7088706/2026/05/07/jauan-jennings-vikings-nfl-free-agency-2026/

Solutocapillary instability in slipping falling films
Sanghasri Mukhopadhyay, S\'everine Millet, Bastien Di Pierro, Asim Mukhopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17519
arXiv:2605.17519v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a comprehensive framework for gravity-driven, surfactant-laden thin films flowing over slippery substrates, elucidating how wall slip modifies the coupled hydrodynamics and interfacial transport. A long-wave model is formulated with a conservative bulk-surface mass balance and a Navier slip condition. The Orr-Sommerfeld eigenvalue problem governs the linear regime, while a weighted-residual model captures the nonlinear evolution over a range of equilibrium surfactant coverages, Marangoni strengths, and adsorption kinetics. The analysis predicts a non-monotonic variation of the critical Reynolds number with equilibrium coverage, exhibiting a maximum at intermediate $\Gamma_e$, and a slip-induced transition from single- to double-hump solitary structures with increasing Marangoni number, accompanied by attenuated capillary ripples. Under fast adsorption kinetics, the surface field homogenizes, preserving the mean film shape and flux while flattening both the surface concentration $\Gamma$ and the bulk inventory $\chi h\phi$. A spurious interfacial mass growth reported by Pascal et al.(PRF, 2019) and D'Alessio et al.(JFM, 2020) is resolved through a revised surface balance ensuring strict conservation. Wall slip thus emerges as a key control parameter, reducing viscous resistance and mitigating Marangoni back-stress. The slip parameter $\beta$ is a useful control knob for surfactant-laden films. Slip prevents fragile multi-hump bound states, promoting a single broad crest or an almost flat, uniform sheet by carefully bonding $\beta$ to wave selection, ripple damping, and the bulk-surface surfactant balance.
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Justice Department can keep 2020 election ballots seized from Georgia's Fulton County, judge rules (Kate Brumback/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-2020-election-fulton-county-fbi-ballots-1c425a1d1d04bf4ea2178c2a5443f2e9
http://www.memeorandum.com/260506/p104#a260506p104

[Bill/David Carradine:]
What Kent wears, the glasses, the business suit... that's the costume that Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak, he's unsure of himself, he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.
--Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004). Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino.
(From "The New Yale Book of Quotations”, Fred R. Shapiro, 2020)

Ik krijg wel weer een beetje #AuraTimenVibes van het RIVM momenteel.
Weten jullie het nog? #geenredentotzorg #hanta

Filing: Lime files for an IPO, reporting 2025 revenue of $886.7M, up from $686.6M YoY, and a net loss of $59.3M, up from $33.9M; it was valued at $510M in 2020 (Jordan Fitzgerald/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

from my link log —
Code smell: concrete abstraction.
https://matklad.github.io/2020/08/15/concrete-abstraction.html
saved 2020-08-20 ht…

Was just made aware of this pretty good but entirely predictable study:
#LLMs

Warmest 3 months of April on record, globally:
1. April 2024
2. April 2025
3. April 2026, 1.43°C above the estimated pre-industrial level (together with 2016 and 2020)
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-april-2026

In 2020, during the George Floyd uprising, hearing the national and international news coverage of the neighborhood where I live, I saw with painful personal clarity something I already knew:
The feel of news coverage — its content, its voice, its perspective — is far more the feel of the org doing the reporting than it is the feel of the reality they are covering.
2/

Under normal conditions, American police can legally murder practically anyone for almost any reason. This is not hyperbole, the understanding of this fact was one of the reasons for the George Floyd uprising. Police regularly get away with murder unless there are mass uprisings. That is how America worked *before Trump*.
We have seen federal paramilitary execute multiple people in the street. Federal paramilitary were kidnaping people, putting black bags over the heads, interrogating them, and dropping them off in other places *in 2020*. The level of state terror has escalated wildly.
Against anyone but an officer, Song's response to the radical escalation of drawing a gun on non-violent protectors would be legally recognized as self-defense. Officers are trained to only draw a gun if they intend to shoot. The officer clearly intended to execute unarmed people. It is extremely unlikely the officer would have been charged even if someone had been killed.
But the criminalization of legitimate self-defense has been standard in the US for decades. What is new here is the ciriminalization and suppression of entirely non-violent protest.

Post updates (a bit behind):
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html#Update03 linking to Donnie D’Amato and Den Odell.
•

You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters
This is an unplanned part two for Barriers from Links with ARIA. The title reflects my exasperation because this isn’t new, I’ve simply failed to be explicit about it over the last decade or so. In 2012 I vented about TypeButter using for each letter. In 2020…

Visibility nowcasting in South Korea: a machine learning approach to class imbalance and distribution shift
Bong Gyun Shin, Chan Sik Lee, Hyesun Suh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21507 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.21507 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.21507
arXiv:2605.21507v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Atmospheric visibility is a critical variable for transportation safety and air quality management, however, accurate prediction remains challenging due to the complex interactions between meteorological conditions and air pollutants, as well as the rarity of low-visibility events. This study introduces a machine learning framework to nowcast visibility in six major South Korean cities. To handle the imbalance in the 2018-2020 training data, we applied the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique with Nominal and Continuous (SMOTENC) and Conditional Tabular Generative Adversarial Network (CTGAN). An ensemble approach combining machine learning and deep learning models was then used and evaluated on a 2021 test dataset. The results revealed a marked decline in predictive performance in the test set compared to the cross-validation phase. This degradation was attributed to a distributional shift between training and testing periods, which was quantitatively confirmed by measuring the Wasserstein distance of the most influential feature identified by SHAP analysis. In general, this study presents a methodology that aims to simultaneously address the dual challenges of data imbalance and temporal distributional shifts, and emphasizes the necessity of accounting for evolving external environmental factors when implementing nowcasting models on time-series data.
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from my link log —
Updating the PostgreSQL root.crt file for TLS client auth.
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/updating-the-postgresql-root-crt-file/
saved 2020-08-25

EDB Home - EDB Postgres AI
Join the era of Sovereign AI with EDB Postgres. Simplify your hybrid architecture, gain insights, and access training from leading Postgres experts.

More of John Beltran, Detroit's finest... This time one of my fave tracks from his 2020 album The Season Series (the entire album is absolutely stunning and true soul food):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS1HMzVVkS8&list=PLOJds0V…

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 33399 nodes and 2028834 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

from my link log —
Reducing tail latencies with automatic yielding in Tokio on Rust.
https://tokio.rs/blog/2020-04-preemption/
saved 2020-04-03 https://

From Licensing to Open Access: Designing a Sustainable Transition in Operational Weather Data
Emma Pidduck, Umberto Modigliani, Victoria L. Bennett, Fabio Venuti, Florian Pappenberger, Florence Rabier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21673 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.21673 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.21673
arXiv:2605.21673v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This translational article documents the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) transition from a restricted data licensing model to open access under CC BY 4.0, completed in October 2025. The policy context included EU open data requirements and alignment with international data exchange frameworks. The transition was implemented through a tiered service model that kept core forecast data open while offering operationally supported delivery as a cost-recovered service. Between 2020 and 2025, ECMWF executed an iterative planning cycle: setting an annual target for revenue reduction, specifying additions to the open tier under that target, provisioning infrastructure, and assessing outcomes to update assumptions. Drawing on internal administrative records (2014 - 2025), we describe design choices, operational constraints, and early outcomes. In the six months following the end of the transition, more than 93% of previously paying organisations retained a Service Agreement, while open endpoint download volumes increased substantially. We discuss trade-offs in defining the open tier (resolution, parameters, schedule), the reduction of compliance overheads formerly associated with redistribution restrictions, and the scalability implications of global distribution. We note an emerging sustainability question as AI-based forecast products become freely available. The early evidence is consistent with the view that a tiered service model can be designed to reconcile open-access obligations with operational sustainability, subject to monitoring over longer contract renewal cycles (typically annual).
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Phobos ransomware leader facing 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to hacking charges https://therecord.media/phobos-ransomware-leader-facing-20-years

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

from my link log —
What is FETCH FIRST WITH TIES in PostgreSQL 13?
http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2020/05/postgresql-adds-fetch-first-with-ties.html
saved 2020-05-27

PostgreSQL adds FETCH FIRST WITH TIES.. just like TOP n WITH TIES in SQL Server
PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 was released yesterday, you can read the release notes here https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/2040/ One thing t...

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„#Plastik ist ein sicherer und unbedenklicher Werkstoff“.
#Plastik ist das dominierende Material für

Die größten Mythen über Plastikmüll - oft nur Ausreden
Was ist dran an den Mythen rund um Plastikmüll? Erfahre, warum viele Aussagen zum Thema Plastik täuschen.

I tested the Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech, the Aion Mosquito Barrier, and the Tougher Than Tom Mosquito TNT in my Pennsylvania yard. tl/dr: they don't kill mosquitoes but plenty of Americans are still buying them. #mosquitoes #grifting #pesticides #nature #biology #insects #diptera #carbondioxide #co2 https://colinpurrington.com/2020/08/yeast-based-mosquito-control-devices/?nocache=1

from my link log —
Write tracking for Nim.
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/09/01/write-tracking.html
saved 2020-09-02 https://

Write Tracking for Nim (Part 2)
7 years ago I wrote how Nim would get “write tracking” as an alternative to adding const to Nim’s type system. This year it finally made it into Nim nightly! Since then the feature was reimplemented and all the details how it works did change.

from my link log —
Dorking: how to find anything on the web.
https://www.alec.fyi/dorking-how-to-find-anything-on-the-internet.html
saved 2020-08-11

from my link log —
A few more reasons Rust compiles slowly.
https://pingcap.com/blog/reasons-rust-compiles-slowly
saved 2020-06-29 https://

A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly | TiDB
Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly" here.

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

How much household stuff can you move across 8 states, 1600 miles, in a Chevy Sonic? 🚗
A lot as my wife and I established in Nov. 2020 at the height of COVID. 🗓️ #throwback
Anyway, sad to say goodbye to that car today. 🎁 #donation
#tbt #throwbackThursday #accomplishment

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„#Plastik ist klimafreundlich“.
#Kunststoffe lassen sich durchaus als

Die größten Mythen über Plastikmüll - oft nur Ausreden
Was ist dran an den Mythen rund um Plastikmüll? Erfahre, warum viele Aussagen zum Thema Plastik täuschen.

from my link log —
A guide to contiguous data in Rust.
https://github.com/paulkernfeld/contiguous-data-in-rust
saved 2020-08-13 https://

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

from my link log —
ip2unix: turn IP sockets into Unix domain sockets.
https://github.com/nixcloud/ip2unix
saved 2020-07-08 https://dotat.at/:/5A9WC.…

from my link log —
6 things Markdown got wrong.
https://www.swyx.io/writing/markdown-mistakes/
saved 2020-04-04 https://dotat.at/…

#Steady #Klimacrew
Nach #KI-Entlassungen: Unternehmen stellen heimlich wieder ein
Nach #Personlabbau

Nach KI-Entlassungen: Unternehmen stellen heimlich wieder ein
Unternehmen stellen nach KI-Entlassungen wieder heimlich Personal ein – oft schlechter bezahlt oder im Ausland.

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

from my link log —
Kill the newsletter!
https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/
saved 2020-03-03 https://dotat.at/:/L7RVB.html

from my link log —
Maximizing DNS qname minimization.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200916-maximizing-qname-minimization-new-chapter-dns-protocol-evolution/
saved 2020-09-17

Maximizing Qname Minimization: A New Chapter in DNS Protocol Evolution
Data privacy and security experts tell us that applying the "need to know" principle enhances privacy and security, because it reduces the amount of information potentially disclosed to a service provider -- or to other parties -- to the minimum the service provider requires to perform a service. This principle is at the heart of qname minimization, a technique described in RFC 7816 that has now achieved significant adoption in the DNS.

from my link log —
GNU Recutils: a database management system using human-readable text files.
https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/
saved 2020-01-26 https://

GNU Recutils
Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while. It’s no surprise that some of the most sophisticated tools are focused on it. One such package is GNU Recutils, a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles.

from my link log —
Packaging a Rust project for Debian.
https://blog.hackeriet.no/packaging-a-rust-project-for-debian/
saved 2020-02-01

from my link log —
The design and implementation of the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) servers.
https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1984/5962.html
saved 2020-08-27

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

from my link log —
The Odin programming language.
https://odin-lang.org/
saved 2020-03-02 https://dotat.at/:/AZP95.html…

Odin Programming Language

from my link log —
A project to restore Interlisp-D to usability on modern OSes.
http://interlisp.org/
saved 2020-08-06 https://dotat.at/:/5KGKE.html

from my link log —
outflank-mailman: stop Mailman from breaking DKIM signatures.
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/6947.html
saved 2020-10-01 https://

Mailman vs DKIM - a novel solution

tl;dr: Do not configure Mailman to replace the mail domains in From: headers. Instead, try out my small new program which can make your Mailman transparent, so that DKIM signatures survive.

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