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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.

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 …

On Bluesky last night
Catherine Rampell noted that in documents Trump released
there were confirmations of Russia’s work on Trump’s behalf in 2020
and that China “did not intend to “try to affect the election.”
https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/…

Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social)
one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)

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.

#USpol #elections

from my link log —
yubikey-agent: a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.
https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent
saved 2020-07-08 https://

GitHub - FiloSottile/yubikey-agent: yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.
yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys. - FiloSottile/yubikey-agent

How Maxx Crosby went from being ‘murdered by own fan base’ to Raiders fan favorite https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/how-maxx-crosby-went-from-being-murdered-by-own-fan-base-to-raiders-fan-favorite-38…

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2020) - Learn how I became active observing and recording the various local bats... - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-1.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2020)
Learn how I became active observing and recording the various local bats...

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

The first half of 2026 was the 5th warmest on record here in the central Netherlands.
Just following the forecast for the coming 2 weeks, and then the 1991-2020 average (cool by now) would already bring this year into the top-3 warmest since 1901.

from my link log —
Which emoji scissors can cut?
https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html
saved 2020-01-03 https://dotat.at…

Source: Ancestry.com pitches a risky $1.75B term loan at 4 to 4.25 percentage points above the benchmark to refinance debt from its 2020 Blackstone acquisition (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/b…

Heute vor 25 Jahren: Am 10. August 2001 wurde Reaktor 2 im #Kernkraftwerk #Philippsburg nach einer Abschaltung mit zu niedrigen Wasserständen in den Borwasser-Tanks gestartet. Trotz Alarms ignorierte das Personal die Gefahr, die Tanks wurden erst am 12. August befüllt.

All the Dictator's Men -- The assault on liberal democracy is a whole-of-government Trumpist project. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-dictators-men-trump-blanche-clayton-democracy-midterms-elections-2020
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p49#a260716p49

BZ138 Digitale Souveränität (Revisited) – https://buzzzoom.de/138/
Was bedeutet digitale Souveränität heute? Wir blicken auf unsere Folge von 2020 zurück und fragen: Was hat sich seitdem verändert, und wo stehen wir jetzt?

BZ138 Digitale Souveränität (Revisited) - BuzzZoom.de
Was bedeutet digitale Souveränität heute? Wir blicken auf unsere Folge von 2020 zurück und fragen: Was hat sich seitdem verändert, und wo stehen wir jetzt?

[Gift Article]
At first glance, the Trump administration’s deployment of more than 200 F.B.I. analysts to Georgia this week seems to be another stubborn assault on a fact that has refused to budge:
Despite the president’s baseless claims, no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election has ever surfaced there.

But critics contend that it is just one piece of a broader effort to sow doubt about the electoral process itself
and the integrity of elections to come.
And no matt…

Trump Targets Not Just Georgia’s Vote, but Also Trust in Elections
The president has sent 260 F.B.I. analysts to Georgia, repeating his baseless claims of fraud in 2020. But critics say the intention is to undermine overall confidence in the electoral process.

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 7946 nodes and 250780 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Trump to claim declassified intel reveals 2020 election interference: MS NOW (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/13/trump-2020-election-intelligence-speech.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260713/p118#a260713p118

from my link log —
Three architectures for a responsive IDE.
https://rust-analyzer.github.io//blog/2020/07/20/three-architectures-for-responsive-ide.html
saved 2020-07-20

The FBI has explored using
artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures
on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia,
-- the latest push in the Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 vote.
The effort, according to internal communications reviewed by ProPublica and an agency tech specialist familiar with the work,
focuses on comparing signatures on ballot envelopes with signatures on…

FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots
As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fulton County, Georgia, ProPublica has learned.

from my link log —
Query-based compiler architectures.
https://ollef.github.io/blog/posts/query-based-compilers.html
saved 2020-06-25 ht…

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wonder what happened in 2020/2021 that caused long term brain damage it’s a mystery we’ll never know such a puzzle
https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/s/TEakTuW5Ce

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 —
A tale of a build system bug. (ninja/gcc/Windows)
https://gist.github.com/Som1Lse/2fbb0e22cb59a158bb8e09bf6f527f7e
saved 2020-10-30

A tale of a build system bug
A tale of a build system bug. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.