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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Nature's Divine:
🎵 I Never Felt This Way Before
#NaturesDivine
https://thediscoexpress.bandcamp.com/track/natures-divine-i-never-felt-this-way-before-mark-whites-2021-re-groove
https://open.spotify.com/track/5oEhhy9zyP8Zd1xfaVwUyP

The AI frenzy has divided the VC market, as the gap between top and bottom performers has more than doubled for 2024 funds compared to funds from 2017 to 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-04/big…

Bill McKibben - at length
"This newsletter turns five years old this month, which means that more than 300 times I’ve tried to assemble the latest news from the world of climate and energy and figure out what it means. I started it in 2021, intending to run through the decade, because I thought then, and think still, that this is the crucial stretch in humanity’s attempt to navigate the climate crisis."

Take Five
Halfway through the Crucial Years

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Donald Trump’s legal team is making an 11th-hour attempt to block a court order
that would grant the BBC access to the president’s financial records,
as part of his multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the British broadcaster.
Trump claims that the BBC’s 2024 documentary on the January 6 attacks have damaged the president’s business interests.
In July, a Miami-based judge ruled that the president would have to start handing over detailed financial records to the BBC b…

Trump team pushes to block court order giving BBC access to financial records
President has sued the broadcaster for $10bn, claiming a documentary on 2021 Capitol attack led to financial harm

Interview mit Sigrid Schulze aus dem #mittemuseum in #Berlin #Gesundbrunnen:

from my link log —
What SRE is not.
https://blog.relyabilit.ie/what-sre-is-not/
saved 2021-11-29 https://dotat.at/:/T0UG8.html

What SRE is not
We used to have a difficulty in our community - thankfully less prevalent now - with rootless questions of identity. Of course, it's not wrong to ask who we are, what we're here for, and what should we be doing: every profession benefits from regular reflection. But too much of

On Website Technicals (2021-02) - Tech updates: image preview tweak for dark mode, DNS secondary fun. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-45.html

On Website Technicals (2021-02)
Tech updates: image preview tweak for dark mode, DNS secondary fun.

Wenn ich höre, dass Innenminister #Dobrindt Abschiebungen nach #Afghanistan erweitern will, muss ich an diese Doku denken:

die story - Frauen in Afghanistan: Leben unter den Taliban - hier anschauen
Seit August 2021, seitdem in Afghanistan wieder die Taliban an der Macht sind, hat sich das Leben von Frauen, von Müttern, Töchtern und Schwestern, dramatisch verändert.

Capital One Financial hit back on Friday against a lawsuit over its ⁠decision to close the Trump ⁠Organization’s bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after a review by anti-money-laundering experts.
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump’s family business.
Capital One is seeking to dismiss the case by casting doubt on claims of illegally debanking – or denying services on religious or political grounds – t…

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review
Disclosure from 2021 investigation marks first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump

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 #MorningShow
KMFDM:
🎵 Juke Joint Jezebel
#KMFDM
https://kmfdm.bandcamp.com/track/juke-joint-jezebel-2021
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zHRHotgEcUcQzheUld3n9

#LB "Lennon would play Gollum, Paul McCartney would play Frodo, George Harrison would be Gandalf and Ringo Starr would play Sam." Imagina a bizarrice que teria sido um Senhor dos Anéis com os Beatles rs.
https://…

from my link log —
Smooth voxel terrain: isosurface extraction with marching cubes and surface nets.
https://0fps.net/2012/07/12/smooth-voxel-terrain-part-2/
saved 2021-01-08

Smooth Voxel Terrain (Part 2)
Last time we formulated the problem of isosurface extraction and discussed some general approaches at a high level.  Today, we’re going to get very specific and look at meshing in particular.…

Ladies & gentlemen of #GenX, take a moment to listen to Russell & Hitchcock harmonize at 72yo back in 2021.
▶️ Air Supply - All Out of Love (Tour Concert - The Florida Theatre, Jacksonville)
https://

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1347447 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

(2021) Kaikki irti eläimistä: Näkymätön lehmä. Lehmien jalostus on muuttanut paitsi niiden ulkomuotoa ja rakennetta, myös luonnetta. Ihanteellinen tuotantoeläin on säyseä ja passiivinen. https://areena.yle.fi/1-50660190

Näkymätön lehmä | Kaikki irti eläimistä
Lehmien jalostus on muuttanut paitsi niiden ulkomuotoa ja rakennetta, myös luonnetta. Ihanteellinen tuotantoeläin on säyseä ja passiivinen. O: Riikka Kaihovaara

from my link log —
Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK?
http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2023/02/where-is-most-densely-populated-square.html
saved 2023-02-05

Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK?
After the recent release of England and Wales Census data for 2021 I decided to take a quick look at which areas have the highest population...

Bewerbung als Chefin - Lisa Totzauer: „Der ORF muss gerettet werden!“ #News #Nachrichten

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

from my link log —
DART: the Disability Attitude Re-adjustment Tool.
https://www.kingqueen.org.uk/dart/
saved 2021-09-15 https://dotat.at/:/XV51Q.htm…

DART – the Disability Attitude Re-adjustment Tool
I’ve written a Guide for Disabled People to Sue Service Providers for Disability Discrimination, as Unrepresented Litigants in Person in England. (Otherwise known as DART – the Disabili…

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 —
Benchmarking symmetric encryption (AEAD) in Rust.
https://kerkour.com/rust-symmetric-encryption-aead-benchmark/
saved 2021-11-11

Benchmarking symmetric encryption (AEAD) in Rust
As we saw last week, when performing symmetric encryption you should use Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data (AEAD) which provides stronger guarantees than block ciphers.

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

A Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to the US pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

from my link log —
Encoding of immediate values on AArch64.
https://dinfuehr.github.io/blog/encoding-of-immediate-values-on-aarch64/
saved 2021-08-20

from my link log —
Tvix: we are rewriting Nix.
https://tvl.fyi/blog/rewriting-nix
saved 2021-12-02 https://dotat.at/:/4DHF7.html

from my link log —
Cryptographic key length recommendations.
https://www.keylength.com/en/
saved 2021-01-05 https://dotat.at/:/9C8XW.html

from my link log —
Phase-in codes.
https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/phase-in-codes/
saved 2021-07-03 https://dotat.at…

Phase-in Codes
Once in a while, we have to encode a series of values to memory or file, of which we know either very little about, distribution-wise, or are very close to being drawn from an uniform random variab…

from my link log —
Async Rust: futures, tasks, wakers; oh my!
https://msarmi9.github.io/posts/async-rust/
saved 2021-06-22 https://d…

from my link log —
New Ansible data validation module(s).
https://blog.ipspace.net/2021/03/ansible-validation.html
saved 2021-03-05 https://

New Ansible Data Validation Module(s) « ipSpace.net blog
A few months ago I described how you could use JSON Schema to validate your automation data models, host/group variable files, or even Ansible inventory file. I had to use a weird toolchain to get it done – either ansible-inventory to build a complete data model from various inventory sources, or yq to convert YAML to JSON… and just for the giggles jsonschema CLI command requires the JSON input to reside in a file, so you have to use a temporary file to get the job done.

from my link log —
An exploration of JSON interoperability vulnerabilities.
https://labs.bishopfox.com/tech-blog/an-exploration-of-json-interoperability-vulnerabilities
saved 2021-02-25

An Exploration & Remediation of JSON Interoperability Vulnerabilities
Learn more about how the same JSON document can be parsed with different values across microservices, leading to a variety of potential security risks.

from my link log —
Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?
https://dusted.codes/can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source
saved 2021-10-23

Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?
Programming, Coffee and Indie Hacking

from my link log —
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC.
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html
saved 2021-09-05

from my link log —
Async cancellation in Rust.
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/async-cancellation-1/
saved 2021-12-05 https://do…