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#TIL Peter Zinovieff, co-founder of EMS, sold his wife’s tiara to buy a DEC PDP-8, making him the first private individual in the world to own a computer. He used it to build a revolutionary electronic music studio in his back garden. 🎹💻 https://…

The Story Behind The EMS VCS3 in the 1970s, part 1
A musical review of a great instrument from the golden era of analog synths, the EMS VCS3, featuring The Who, Hawkwind, Roxy Music and Brian Eno.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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

Democrats have accused the US House of Representatives judiciary committee of a
“baseless” and “vindictive” attack on former special prosecutor Jack Smith
after it referred him for criminal prosecution for allegedly lying to Congress over his investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Committee chair Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, wrote to acting US attorney general Todd Blanche on Wednesday night,
asserting Smith “made willfully and int…

Republican-controlled committee refers former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith for criminal investigation
Committee accused of trying to ‘weaponize’ justice system via ‘laughably weak and vindictive criminal referral’

(2020) Mihin tarvitsemme eläinkokeita? #eläimet #eläinoikeudet

Mihin tarvitsemme eläinkokeita? | Perjantai
Eläinkokeita tehdään, jotta ihmiset voisivat elää terveempää elämää. Onko niille vaihtoehtoja? Vieraina rottatutkija Tuomas Aivelo ja Eläinoikeuspuolueen Tiina Ollila. Perjantai-dokkari: Tapetaanko hiiri vai ihminen?

from my link log —
How io_uring and eBPF will revolutionize programming in Linux.
https://www.scylladb.com/2020/05/05/how-io_uring-and-ebpf-will-revolutionize-programming-in-linux/
saved 2020-11-26

How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
ScyllaDB's Glauber Costa explains how two new APIs, io_uring and eBPF, are changing the fundamental nature of Linux programming.

Er is een opvangcrisis, geen asiel/migratiecrisis,
Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020 - #opvangcrisis

Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020
Het aantal eerste asielaanvragen daalde vorig met een kwart ten opzichte van 2024.

On Website Technicals (2020-04) - Tech updates: Blue Yeti, reduced media preload, download means download, 48kHz podcast, Zencastr, mono marker, GSC soft 404s, stats. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-35.html

On Website Technicals (2020-04)
Tech updates: Blue Yeti, reduced media preload, download means download, 48kHz podcast, Zencastr, mono marker, GSC soft 404s, stats.

Hong Kong’s national security law has already crushed the territory’s once-vibrant civic and political life.
But now the city’s hard-line authorities are making the law even more repressive for anyone caught in its net.

Under updates which took effect this week,
the city’s chief executive can classify any case as a national security crime under the 2020 law,
even when the alleged offense was committed before that law took effect.

For good reasons, people cann…

Hong Kong’s nightmare gets darker
At China’s behest, the city says people can now be charged retroactively for crimes that didn’t exist when they allegedly committed them.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Killing Joke:
🎵 Requiem
#KillingJoke
https://acasa.bandcamp.com/track/requiem-killing-joke-2020
https://open.spotify.com/track/0PZXhureTA1HfRkQWn2U1E

from my link log —
SELECT WAT FROM SQL;
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/select-wat-from-sql/
saved 2020-04-17 https://

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 …

Improved Approximation Guarantees for Groupwise Maximin Share Fairness
Georgios Amanatidis, Anna Korfiati, Evangelos Markakis, Christodoulos Santorinaios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04731 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.04731 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04731
arXiv:2606.04731v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods to a set of $n$ agents with additive valuation functions. We focus on the very demanding notion of \textit{groupwise maximin share fairness} (GMMS), which requires that each agent $i$ receives value comparable to their maximin share, where the latter is computed \textit{with respect to any subset of agents that contains $i$}. We show that it is possible to compute $(\phi-1)$-approximate GMMS allocations in polynomial time, where $\phi \approx 1.618$ is the golden ratio). This improves on the previously known guarantee of $4/7$ of Chaudhury et al. [SICOMP; 2021] and Amanatidis et al. [TCS; 2020]. We propose a simple algorithm that maintains the same main properties as the Draft-and-Eliminate algorithm of Amanatidis et al. [TCS, 2020] and we improve on the approximation guarantee analysis by carefully bounding the relevant value within any subinstance induced by the restriction of our allocation to a subset of agents. Our analysis is asymptotically tight for algorithms that share these properties and has the additional benefit of giving improved guarantees for restricted settings; in particular, when the agents agree on the top $n$ goods or when the number of agents is small. To illustrate the challenges of going beyond the guarantees of our algorithm, we also present a variant with an improved approximation of $(\sqrt{10}-1)/3 \approx 0.72$ for the case of three agents. To achieve this improvement we partially characterize the maximin share guarantees of short picking sequences for a small number of goods.
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from my link log —
Tips for PostgreSQL bulk data loading.
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/7-best-practice-tips-for-postgresql-bulk-data-loading/
saved 2020-09-16

EDB Home - EDB Postgres AI
Experience EDB Postgres AI, the world's first sovereign AI & data platform. Manage, observe, and operationalize your data for optimized AI strategies.

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 —
Boost UDP transaction performance.
https://www.slideshare.net/lfevents/boost-udp-transaction-performance
saved 2020-04-19