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How to handle secrets on the command line.
https://smallstep.com/blog/command-line-secrets/
saved 2021-06-13 https://

How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line
How to keep secret credentials safe on the command line.

Seems worth posting this again:
#tech #ethics #DataEthics

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Source: the 60 Minutes interview with Trump on November 2 drew 13.2M viewers, according to early Nielsen data, the highest-rated episode since January 2021 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/trump-60-minutes-cbs-interview-ratings-vie…

Scoop: Trump's "60 Minutes" interview draws roughly 13M viewers
The interview itself was a huge get for CBS, considering the network's complicated history with President Trump.

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

I'm late to this, but I had a conversation last night that I'd like to recap here.
I'm not NYC resident. I'm not knowledgeable of the issues NYC faces. Thus, I didn't endorse anyone for NYC mayor.
I will comment on #Cuomo. Resigned in disgrace in 2021 — that should've ended his political career. Lost the Dem primary in June — that should've ended his mayoral ru…

📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

Trying to figure out why Gemini AI in Gmail is so very bad. It seems to not have access to all of my email and whatever RAG-like thing they are doing is very stupid.
Here's Gemini saying my oldest email matching some keywords in 2021 is from March 2021. If I explicitly tell it to look in February 2021, it finds it. There's only 11 emails that match in all of 2021, it's not like I'm blowing up the context window.

Moment-SOS hierarchies for arrow-type polynomial matrix inequalities with applications to structural optimization
Marouan Handa, Marek Tyburec, Giovanni Fantuzzi, Victor Magron, Michal Ko\v{c}vara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02849

Moment-SOS hierarchies for arrow-type polynomial matrix inequalities with applications to structural optimization
The Arrow Decomposition (AD) technique, initially introduced in [Mathematical Programming 190(1-2) (2021), pp 105-134], demonstrated superior scalability over the classical chordal decomposition in the context of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs) if the matrix in question satisfied suitable assumptions. The primary objective of this paper is to extend the AD method to address Polynomial Optimization Problems (POPs) involving large-scale Polynomial Matrix Inequalities (PMIs), with the solution f…

Ether surged 15% late Friday, rising as high as $4,885 and surpassing its November 2021 record of $4,866.01 after Fed Chair Jerome Powell hinted at rate cuts (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/crypto-market-today.html

Ether notches first new record since 2021 after Powell speech teasing rate cuts
The price of ether smashed through its 2021 record on Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted at upcoming rate cuts.

When Does Tourism Raise Land Prices? Threshold Effects, Superstar Cities, and Policy Lessons from Japan
Mingzhi Xiao, Takara Sakai, Daisuke Murakami, Yuki Takayama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04307

When Does Tourism Raise Land Prices? Threshold Effects, Superstar Cities, and Policy Lessons from Japan
While tourism is widely regarded as a catalyst for economic and urban transformation, its effects on land prices remain contested. This study examines tourism and land prices using a panel of 1,724 Japanese municipalities from 2021 to 2024, with annual tourist arrivals as a proxy for tourism activity. Using mediation analysis and panel threshold regression, we show that sizable land price increases are concentrated in a small group of "superstar" cities, specifically those in the top 5.9 percen…

A note on Wang's conjecture for harmonic functions with nonlinear boundary condition
Xiaohan Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02978 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

A note on Wang's conjecture for harmonic functions with nonlinear boundary condition
We obtain some Liouville type theorems for positive harmonic functions on compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary and partially verifies Wang's conjecture (J. Geom. Anal. 31 (2021)). For the specific manifold $\mathbb{B}^n$, we present a new proof of this conjecture, which has been resolved by Gu-Li (Math. Ann. 391 (2025)). Our proof is based on a general principle of applying the P-function method to such uniqueness results. As a further app…

Cowboys trade Micah Parsons to Packers: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6582707/2025/08/28/micah-parsons-trade-packers-cowboys-nfl-2025/

"Banking alliance aimed at limiting fossil fuel investments collapses"
#Banks #Finance #FossilFuels

Banking alliance aimed at limiting fossil fuel investments collapses
A coalition formed to align the international banking sector’s investments with global climate goals has disbanded nearly four years after it was launched. Set up in 2021, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) was a U.N.-sponsored initiative to shift bank financing away from fossil fuels — the biggest source of climate changing greenhouse gases — and […]

A lawyer who represented violent rioters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol
-- and compared their prosecutions to the Nazi genocide
-- has been hired by the Department of Justice, where he is now working with the Trump administration's 💥"Weaponization Working Group."
"These prosecutors are evil people," said attorney Jonathan Gross during a January YouTube livestream prior to joining the administration.
"They will put y…

Stoquasticity is not enough: towards a sharper diagnostic for Quantum Monte Carlo simulability
Arman Babakhani, Armen Karakashian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14382 https://

Stoquasticity is not enough: towards a sharper diagnostic for Quantum Monte Carlo simulability
Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are powerful tools for simulating quantum many-body systems, yet their applicability is limited by the infamous sign problem. We approach this challenge through the lens of Vanishing Geometric Phases (VGP) \cite{Hen_2021}, introducing it as a `geometric' criterion for diagnosing QMC simulability. We characterize the class of VGP Hamiltonians, and analyze the complexity of recognizing this class, identifying both hard and efficiently identifiable cases. We furth…

2025 Ig Nobel prize winners, including
PEACE PRIZE [THE NETHERLANDS, UK, GERMANY]
Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language.
https://improbable.com/ig/winners/?amp

Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

from my link log —
Index 1,600,000,000 keys with finite state automata and Rust.
https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/
saved 2021-08-21 https://

Cowboys Put Trevon Diggs on Active Roster, Clearing Way for Cornerback's Return https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/cowboys-put-trevon-diggs-active-roster-clearing-way-cornerbacks-return

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Australia's ACCC says Google agreed pay a ~$36M fine over deals from 2019-2021 with Telstra and Optus to pre-install only Google Search on Android phones (Himanshi Akhand/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Mean dimension and rate-distortion function revisited
Rui Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08051 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08051

Mean dimension and rate-distortion function revisited
Around the mean dimensions and rate-distortion functions, using some tools from local entropy theory this paper establishes the following main results: $(1)$ We prove that for non-ergodic measures associated with almost sure processes, the mean Rényi information dimension coincides with the information dimension rate. This answers a question posed by Gutman and Śpiewak (in Around the variational principle for metric mean dimension, \emph{Studia Math.} \textbf{261}(2021) 345-360). $(2)$ We…

Backing the Chiefs' Rashee Rice among top NFL player prop expert's best bets for Week 7

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/backi…

On the spectral theory in the Fock space with polynomial eigenfunctions
A. V. Turbiner (deceased), N. L. Vasilevski (deceased)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05924 https://

On the spectral theory in the Fock space with polynomial eigenfunctions
The notion of the eigenvalue problem in the Fock space with polynomial eigenfunctions is introduced. This problem is classified by using the finite-dimensional representations of the $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$-algebra in Fock space. In the complex representation of the 3-dimensional Heisenberg algebra, proposed by Turbiner-Vasilevski (2021) in Ref.7, this construction is reduced to the linear differential operators in $(\frac{\partial}{\partial \overline{z}}\,,\,\frac{\partial}{\partial z})$ acting on …

from my link log —
Creating a read-only PostgreSQL user.
https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/creating-a-read-only-postgres-user
saved 2021-05-12

Creating a Read-Only Postgres User | Crunchy Data Blog
Learn how to create a read only user in Postgres both now and with a look ahead to Postgres 14.

AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers "in the low thousands" in 2021 (Stevie Bonifield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ao

AOL discontinues its dial-up internet, and we're just surprised they even offered it in 2025
Dial-up's days are numbered, after 34 years of service.

from my link log —
Optimizing triangles for a full-screen shader pass.
https://wallisc.github.io/rendering/2021/04/18/Fullscreen-Pass.html
saved 2025-09-29