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from my link log —
Modelling BBR's interactions with traditional TCP loss-based congestion control.
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/01/24/modelling-bbrs-interactions-with-loss-based-congestion-control/
saved 2020-01-25 …

Modelling BBR’s interactions with loss-based congestion control | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: While BBR is supposed to be a rate-based algorithm, when competing with other flows, BBR is window-limited.

The DoJ civil rights division has seen dramatic changes since Trump came back into office last year and installed Harmeet Dhillon, a former Republican Party operative in California, to lead it.
Dhillon has fired employees in droves,
pushed out others through separation incentives tied to pressure campaigns,
reassigned staff
and rewritten the mission statements for each section in the division.
She has vastly reshaped the types of cases the office pursues
…

How Trump Transformed the DOJ’s Civil Rights Office
New, permanent hires include an attorney sanctioned for attempting to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss.

Schwarzer Rabe 2020

from my link log —
Weighted round robin / weighted random integers with the golden ratio low discrepancy sequence.
https://blog.demofox.org/2020/06/23/weighted-round-robin-using-the-golden-ratio-low-discrepancy-sequence/

Weighted Round Robin (Weighted Random Integers) Using The Golden Ratio Low Discrepancy Sequence
UPDATE 6/25/2020: The bottom of the post now has a section about using 2D low discrepancy sequences with an alias table and compares results vs the 1D methods. The code has been updated as well to …

The BBC reports license fee payers fell 539K YoY to 23.3M in 2025-26, the biggest fall since 2020-21; license fee income rose £36M to £3.9B after the fee uplift (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/bbc-licence-fee-payers-plummet-c…

BBC License Fee Payers Plummet By Half A Million
The number of BBC licence fee payers fell by 539,000 last year as charter renewal negotiations enter a new stage, according to the annual report.

Energy Sec Glumly Admits Biden Won 2020 Election - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/07/energy-sec-glumly-admits-biden-won-2020-election/

Kraken Technology, which designs and builds autonomous maritime platforms, such as uncrewed subsurface vessels, raised a $175M Series B at a $1B valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/07/09/maritime-defence-startup-kraken-technology-…

Maritime defence startup Kraken Technology hits unicorn status
British-founded maritime defence startup Kraken Technology today said it had achieved unicorn status. The startup, founded in 2020 by former speedboat racer Mal Crease, said it had raised $175m in a Series B funding round at a $1bn valuation, according to a press release. The funding round was led by Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP), with support from the British Business Bank, NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), Rheinmetall, Inocea group as well as VC firms Hico Ventures, Thesiger Capita…

from my link log —
cproc: a C11 compiler using QBE as a backend.
https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc
saved 2020-08-06 https://dotat.at/:/3GNQW…

GitHub - michaelforney/cproc: C compiler (mirror)
C compiler (mirror). Contribute to michaelforney/cproc development by creating an account on GitHub.

Jay Clayton, the US attorney for the southern district of New York,
refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election during his Wednesday confirmation hearing to become the country’s next intelligence chief.
Clayton opted instead to say that Biden was “certified” as president.
Clayton also skirted questions about his previous election integrity claims and whether or not a White House official asked him to subpoena a group of New York Times journalists as part of an alleg…

Trump intelligence pick Jay Clayton refuses to say Biden won 2020 election
Clayton, if confirmed, would replace Bill Pulte, and is facing senators for confirmation as the US’s top spy

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

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 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

16WW Coronalog - Timeline - A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown - https://www.earth.org.uk/coronalog.html…

16WW Coronalog - Timeline
A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown

NFL's most overrated quarterbacks revealed, plus ranking every first-round draft pick since 2020

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfls-most-ove…

Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI agents that work across different customer contact points, raised a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/omilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-c…

Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform | TechCrunch
The Series B is the company's second fundraise since it last raised capital in 2020. In that time, it has increased its ARR by 10x to $60 million.

@… I use this for cabbage slaws. I adjust the spices for different tastes.
https://grandmaingrids.com/frommykitch

2010's tech bros: here's how I use chemicals so I never need to sleep again
2020's tech bros: here's how I use applied statistics so I never have to be awake again

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Trump plans primetime speech on voting machines and foreign influence in elections (MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-speech-thursday-election-2020-interference
http://www.memeorandum.com/260714/p146#a260714p146

Sony Pictures Entertainment plans to restore the Cinerama Dome and adjacent 14-screen theater in Los Angeles, reopening in 2028 and operated by Alamo Drafthouse (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/business/media/ciner…

Sony Revives Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles as Box Office Sales Rebound
The iconic Cinerama Dome and adjacent 14-screen theater complex will reopen in 2028 after a renovation. The venue closed in 2020 because of the pandemic.

A Florida lawyer who describes himself as Donald Trump’s boyhood “best friend”
is pushing the president to declare a national emergency
to enable him to take control of November’s midterms, according to a report.
Peter Ticktin, 80, is a long-time believer in the claim that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from Trump by a vast voter fraud conspiracy
told CNN in a new interview that the threat remains real

Trump’s childhood pal is pushing him to declare national emergency and seize control of midterms: report
Lawyer Peter Ticktin claims Democrats are conspiring to steal November’s vote, this time with a view to removing Trump and JD Vance from power and installing Hakeem Jeffries in their place

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 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

US GAO study: Amazon workers on federal aid tripled from February 2020 to September 2025; ride-hailing and delivery apps topped employers with workers on aid (Washington Post)

Amazon, gig companies see spike in workers on SNAP and Medicaid, study shows
Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025, while ride-hailing and food delivery app drivers shot up on lists compiled by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Las Vegas Raiders Mailbag: Fans Buy Into Klint Kubiak's Staff https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-mailbag-fans-buy-into-klint-kubiak-staff

#Java records & compact constructors
https://mikemybytes.com/2022/02/16/java-records-and-compact-constructors/

from my link log —
Journeying into XDP implementing DNS RRL.
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/tom_carpay/journeying-into-xdp-part-1-augmenting-dns
saved 2020-10-23

Journeying into XDP Part 1: Augmenting DNS
In this post, we at NLnet Labs look at how eXpress Data Path (XDP) can augment existing DNS software. We share our experiences of implementing Response Rate Limiting in XDP.

Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops "long-horizon" agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sierra-acquires…

Sierra Acquires Agent Startup ‘Takeoff’ to Diversify Its Business
In 2020, 22-year-old Aakash Thumaty was a product manager at Salesforce when he wrote an essay, “Value Driven Innovation at Shopify and the Incumbency Trap at Salesforce,” which argued against Salesforce’s subscription-based business model. He sent it to Bret Taylor, who at the time was ...

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…

Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025,
including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
https://www.wired.com/story/diarrhea-outbr

Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.

#Speicherkapazität der #Batteriespeicher nach #Marktakteur in #Deutschland

Judge Quashes Justice Dept. Subpoena in 2020 Election Inquiry (Alan Feuer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/us/politics/2020-election-inquiry-trump-georgia.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260707/p131#a260707p131

FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all "treasury.gov" email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020 (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg)

from my link log —
New features in gnuplot 5.4.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/826456/2ea90dd464e104d5/
saved 2020-07-23 https://

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’

from my link log —
Flix: a functional / logic programming language for the JVM.
https://flix.dev/
saved 2020-12-23 https://dotat.at/:/7PXN5.html

from my link log —
StrictYAML.
https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/
saved 2020-10-23 https://dotat.at/:/2EB48.html

from my link log —
A floating point bit twiddling toy.
http://evanw.github.io/float-toy/
saved 2020-01-23 https://dotat.at/:/G639G.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Failure:
🎵 Enjoy the Silence
#Failure
https://failureband.bandcamp.com/track/enjoy-the-silence-2020

White House highlights 2020 Arizona voter roll hack in an attempt to back up election integrity claims (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/white-house-highlights-2020-arizona-voter-roll-hack-rcna591170
http://www.memeorandum.com/260806/p136#a260806p136