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Neues Feature: Whatsapp löscht automatisch Sprachnachrichten, die länger als 15 Sekunden sind| https://www.der-postillon.com/2020/06/sprachnachrichten.html

Neues Feature: Whatsapp löscht automatisch Sprachnachrichten, die länger als 15 Sekunden sind
Mountain View (dpo) - Nach diesem Feature haben sich viele User schon lange gesehnt: Der Messengerdienst WhatsApp hat heute eine neue Funk...

On Website Technicals (2020-08) - Tech updates: Review rework, CSS contain and large pages, AutoAds and floats, moar moves, reviews fixed, MODBUS et al, Brotli, FAQ droop. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-39.html

On Website Technicals (2020-08)
Tech updates: Review rework, CSS contain and large pages, AutoAds and floats, moar moves, reviews fixed, MODBUS et al, Brotli, FAQ droop.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13766 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

The Power of Extrapolation in Federated Learning
We propose and study several server-extrapolation strategies for enhancing the theoretical and empirical convergence properties of the popular federated learning optimizer FedProx [Li et al., 2020]. While it has long been known that some form of extrapolation can help in the practice of FL, only a handful of works provide any theoretical guarantees. The phenomenon seems elusive, and our current theoretical understanding remains severely incomplete. In our work, we focus on smooth convex or stro…

Several right-wing media outlets that promoted lies about the 2020 election filed for bankruptcy, issued apologies, or settled lawsuits in the past few months (Erik Ortiz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformatio

Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading 2020 election misinformation
Right-wing media that became purveyors of misinformation and amplified false claims as Donald Trump undermined the results of the 2020 election are finding themselves on the losing end of legal challenges — or facing new ones.

US prosecutors charge two men with operating Empire Market, a dark web marketplace for illicit goods and services that did $430M in sales between 2018 and 2020 (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Experten: Brauchen mehr Antworten auf neue Hyperschallwaffen
NATO-General Christian Badia hält verstärkte Anstrengungen zur Verteidigung gegen moderne Hyperschallwaffen für nötig. Für eine glaubhafte Abschreckung müsse dabei sowohl auf Verteidigung als auch die Fähigkeit zum Angriff gesetzt werden, sagte Badia in Berlin auf einer Fachkonferenz. Während es im Jahr 2020 noch viel Hoffnung auf eine Rüstungskontrolle der neuen Te…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Moskau plant Änderung seiner Atomdoktrin ++
Vor dem Hintergrund seines Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine plant Russland eine Änderung seiner Atomdoktrin. Die Ukraine reklamiert einen Drohnenangriff auf eine Ölanlage in der Region Rostow für sich. Die Entwicklungen vom Dienstag zum Nachlesen.

Federalist Society right-winger smacked with brutal fact-check for election conspiracies - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/federalist-society-2668493117/

Federalist Society right-winger smacked with brutal fact-check for election conspiracies
A key figure in the right-wing Federalist Society is out with a new article trying to legitimize "Stop the Steal" conspiracy theories — but a Washington Post analyst quickly debunked it.Steven Calabresi, who called for Trump's impeachment in 2020 for suggesting the election be delayed, pushed talkin...

May 2024 was warmer globally than any previous May in the data record: 0.65°C above the 1991-2020 average for May and 0.19°C above the previous high set in May 2020.
This is the twelfth month in a row that is the warmest on record for the respective month of the year.
#globalwarming #climate

Finally, heading to #MobileTartu2024 #MobileTartu! I was supposed to go in 2020, but we all know what happened ;) Keynotes and panel discussions available to all online at

While this news from @… is indeed good news:
https://toot.cafe/@bkardell/112585809345823330
Please do not use it for accNames unless you a…

Alternative Text for CSS Generated Content
Relying on images that come from CSS has always been risky from an accessibility perspective. CSS background images, in particular, must either be purely decorative or be described to the user in some way. The risk is no different for images coming from CSS generated content using content: url(foo.gif) (typically…

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…

If Republicans had any hope of Trump tempering his hard-line rhetoric in an effort to win back more moderate voters he lost to Joe Biden in 2020
— something more traditionalist Republicans have pushed for
— his post-conviction messaging shows that felon Trump is unwilling to do so.
“The former president is never going to get away from those components of his rhetoric,” said John Watson, a former Georgia Republican Party chair. “He has made a decision that this is how he wan…

Several right-wing media outlets that promoted lies about the 2020 election filed for bankruptcy, issued apologies, or settled lawsuits in the past few months (Erik Ortiz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformatio

Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading 2020 election misinformation
Right-wing media that became purveyors of misinformation and amplified false claims as Donald Trump undermined the results of the 2020 election are finding themselves on the losing end of legal challenges — or facing new ones.

https://taz.de/Ende-des-Klima-Hungerstreiks/!6013643/
„Was heißt das Ende des Streiks? Hungern bewirkt nichts, auf der Straße festkleben nützt nichts, Kohletagebaue besetzen nützt nichts, Klimastreiken ist sinnlos? Nein. Die Bewegung muss sich eingestehen, dass die Kriege und Krisen der aktuellen Welt dem Klimathema derzeit das Momentum genommen haben. Der Druck, den die Fridays bis 2020 auf die Klimapolitik weltweit ausübten, hat nachgelassen. Aber das wird nicht so bleiben. Die Stunde derjenigen, die die Welt vor der Überhitzung bewahren wollen, wird kommen. Vielleicht mit der nächsten Naturkatastrophe. Das ist dann schon sehr, aber hoffentlich noch nicht zu spät.“
Na, gut. Wenn das so ist. Ich bleib dann hier sitzen und warte, bis es so weit ist. Sagt dann bitte Bescheid. Ich komme wieder fotografieren.

#KeirStarmer and his people thinking Biden's 2020 strategy of being "not Trump" was brilliant a) explains so much and b) is absolutely ridiculous. They think that vagueness was a masterstroke and are trying to emulate it.
Of course Keir Starmer is the perfect candidate for not being something because he isn't really anything at all.

How 2024 pollsters are trying to avoid their 2020 mistakes (Ivana Saric/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/15/2024-election-polls-trump-biden
http://www.memeorandum.com/240615/p10#a240615p10

Scrapping the Local Loop, by the Numbers
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-663dc218-acd7676e12b25baf
Scrapping the Local Loop, by the Numbers A few years back I wrote an “Ask Hackaday” article

Ich finde es immer wieder witzig, wenn die Regierung die "Gesundheitsgefahr" für die Grenzschließung zu Frankreich anführt. Auf der frz Seite wohnen weit über 10 000 Deutsche. Die durften alle ohne Test aber mit deutschem Ausweis nach Deutschland. Dann ist aber das Gesundheitsgefahrargument die reine Heuchelei! Das war Lederhosenpolitik die eine Schneise der Verwüstung hinterlassen hat.

Bundesverwaltungsgericht verhandelt über Corona-Grenzschließungen in Saarbrücken
War die Grenzschließung zu Frankreich im Frühjahr 2020 wegen der Corona-Pandemie rechtmäßig? Darüber verhandelt heute das Bundesverwaltungsgericht. In der Vorinstanz war der französische Kläger gescheitert.

As Trump has continued to #lie that the 2020 election was “#stolen” and “#rigged” ,
the GOP Supreme Leader and his supporters have been making concrete, step-by-step progress in shaping electoral processes to his benefit.
Across…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03618 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On sharp variational inequalities for oscillatory integral operators of Stein-Wainger type
For any integer $n \geq 2$, we establish $L^p(\R^n)$ inequalities for the $r$-variations of Stein-Wainger type oscillatory integral operators with general radial phase functions. These inequalities closely related to Carleson's theorem are sharp, up to endpoints. In particular, when the phase function is chosen as $|t|^\A$ with $\A\in (0,1)$, our results provide an affirmative answer to a question posed in Guo-Roos-Yung (Anal. PDE, 2020). In pursuit of the objective, we use an approac…

Bears sign special teams stud in preparation for new kickoff rule https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/bears_sign_special_teams_stud_in_preparation_for_new_kickoff_rule/s1_14819_40482443

Bears sign special teams stud in preparation for new kickoff rule
DeAndre Carter spent some time with the Bears during the 2020 season. A new coaching staff and front office will invite the veteran wide receiver/return man back for a second go-round. After spending the 2023 season in Las Vegas, Carter is coming back to Chicago, per Bleacher Report’s Jordan Schultz. Carter has spent time with 10 NFL teams and has now completed two reunion agreements, having signed with the Raiders seven years after a short Oakland stop. The Ryan Pace-Matt Nagy regime initi…

Early School Leaving in Spain: a longitudinal analysis by gender
Mart\'in Mart\'in-Gonz\'alez, Sara M. Gonz\'alez-Betancor, Carmen P\'erez-Esparrells
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05172

Early School Leaving in Spain: a longitudinal analysis by gender
Spain is one of the eight EU-27 countries that failed to reduce early school leaving (ESL) below 10% in 2020, and now faces the challenge of achieving a rate below 9% by 2030. The determinants of this phenomenon are usually studied using cross-sectional data at the micro-level and without differentiation by gender. In this study, we analyse it for the first time for Spain using panel data (between 2002-2020), taking into account the high regional inequalities at the macroeconomic level and the …

Last week, Arizona Senatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) held a campaign event at a Trump merchandise store where the modern 💥Confederate flag 💥was both displayed behind her and for sale.
Like a broken record,
Lake claimed that she won the 2022 gubernatorial race and that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential contest,
despite repeated court decisions that should have buried those lies.
In addition, the Arizona Supreme Court suspended her lawyer today.
Chief Just…

Analysis of non-equilibrium fluctuations in a number of COVID-19 cases and deaths based on time-convolutionless projection-operator method
Michio Tokuyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05611

Analysis of non-equilibrium fluctuations in a number of COVID-19 cases and deaths based on time-convolutionless projection-operator method
The non-equilibrium fluctuations observed in a number of COVID-19 cases and deaths are analyzed from a statistical-dynamical point view. By investigating the data observed around the world which were collected from January 15, 2020 to April 28, 2023 at https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/, we first show that the dynamics of the fluctuations is described by a stochastic equation whose stochastic force is a multiplicative type. By employing the time-convolutionless projection-operator method in open syst…

Speaker Mike Johnson is under pressure to pass a bill that would support Trump and allow him to move New York state charges to federal court,
but Johnson can’t get the votes to pass the bill.
It would be career suicide for any of the moderate Republicans in districts that Biden won in 2020 to vote for a bill that would support convicted felon Trump.
There is no good reason for any of these Republicans to throw their careers away when even if the bill passed the House, it w…

Mike Johnson Faces Mega Flop As He Can’t Get Votes To Support Felon Trump
Speaker Mike Johnson is under pressure to pass a bill that would support Trump and allow him to move stage charges to federal court, but Johnson can’t get the votes to pass the bill.