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@cliffwade@allthingstech.social
2024-06-06 13:27:35

I had this Android mini figurine custom made for my dad somewhere around 12 - 13 years ago. I had it made since he was a Marine and I wanted to give home something unique. It was made by someone on Japan and then shipped over to me.
It was one of my dad's favorite gifts that I had given him and he still had it when he passed away in July 2021. It's been at my cousins house this entire time as that's where dad was living when he passed away. (cont...)

A photo of the Marine Corps custom Android mini figurine that I had made for my dad 12 - 13 years ago.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2024-06-12 13:42:02

2021 retro-link! blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2021/0 - The modern packager’s security nightmare.

The modern packager’s security nightmare
One of the most important tasks of the distribution packager is to ensure that the software shipped to our users is free of security vulnerabilities. While finding and fixing the vulnerable code is…

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2024-06-13 18:07:34

Abbas Akhavan, Curtain Call. #art
catrionajeffries.com/artists/a

Abbas Akhavan, curtain call, variations on a folly, 2021/2023 - Catriona Jeffries
Founded in 1988, Catriona Jeffries Gallery focuses on the current manifestations of post conceptual art practices in Vancouver as well as the origins of

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2024-06-12 12:20:31

A Dutch court convicts and sentences six men in connection with the murder of celebrity crime reporter Peter R. De Vries on an Amsterdam street in July 2021 (Seb Starcevic/Politico)
politico.eu/article/peter-r-de

Court convicts 6 over Dutch crime reporter’s murder
Killers ambushed and shot Peter R. de Vries with “staggering” ease.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2024-06-12 16:31:44

Agent's Take: Potential Trevor Lawrence contract compromise that could benefit Jaguars and 2021 No. 1 pick

cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

Agent's Take: Potential Trevor Lawrence contract compromise that could benefit Jaguars and 2021 No. 1 pick
A shorter deal could pave the way for Lawrence to break the bank later

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2024-06-14 09:51:03

On The Green Light Signal and Beyond (2021) - Learn how I am trying a smart lighting nudge @home to use 'leccy at grid-friendly times. #IoT #CO2Intensity -

On The Green Light Signal and Beyond (2021)
Learn how I am trying a smart lighting nudge @home to use leccy at grid-friendly times. #IoT #CO2Intensity

@arXiv_csSI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2024-06-18 09:24:57

This arxiv.org/abs/2310.10001 has been replaced.
link: scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Systematic discrepancies in the delivery of political ads on Facebook and Instagram
Political advertising on social media has become a central element in election campaigns. However, granular information about political advertising on social media was previously unavailable, thus raising concerns regarding fairness, accountability, and transparency in the electoral process. In this paper, we analyze targeted political advertising on social media via a unique, large-scale dataset of over 80000 political ads from Meta during the 2021 German federal election, with more than 1.1 b…

@kennysmith@mstdn.social
2024-06-14 22:03:25

“The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency, Reuters found – even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.”

@arXiv_csCC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2024-06-13 06:46:57

Relations between monotone complexity measures based on decision tree complexity
Farzan Byramji, Vatsal Jha, Chandrima Kayal, Rajat Mittal
arxiv.org/abs/2406.07859

Relations between monotone complexity measures based on decision tree complexity
In a recent result, Knop, Lovett, McGuire and Yuan (STOC 2021) proved the log-rank conjecture for communication complexity, up to log n factor, for any Boolean function composed with AND function as the inner gadget. One of the main tools in this result was the relationship between monotone analogues of well-studied Boolean complexity measures like block sensitivity and certificate complexity. The relationship between the standard measures has been a long line of research, with a landmark resul…

@krone@frawas.de
2024-06-13 18:58:08

„Es geht nicht anders“ - Kassasturz in NÖ: Im Budget stehen tiefrote Zahlen #News #Nachrichten

„Es geht nicht anders“ - Kassasturz in NÖ: Im Budget stehen tiefrote Zahlen
Ein ausgeglichenes Budget sollte es bereits 2021 geben. Doch die Finanzpläne sind hinfällig, das Land Niederösterreich muss in den kommenden Jahren ...

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2024-06-12 18:24:25

Pay The Man! What’s The Hold Up? yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/pa

Pay The Man! What’s The Hold Up?
Dak Prescott is playing in the last year of a four-year $160 million contract he signed in 2021. Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys have yet to reach an agreement meaning there is a possibility this could be the Last Dance. It is believed Prescott will get a contract extension but the idea of him flirting with free agency could be a nightmare for the Cowboys. Last season he was the MVP runner-up after an impressive 2023 campaign. He threw for 36 touchdowns, and nine interceptions and had career ca…

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2024-06-12 20:42:01

2021 retro-link! github.com/no-defun-allowed/wa - wasm2ps: compile a small subset of WebAssembly to PostScript. (using wasm2wat)

GitHub - no-defun-allowed/wasm2ps: ruin the sanctity of your printer with ONE WEIRD TRICK
ruin the sanctity of your printer with ONE WEIRD TRICK - no-defun-allowed/wasm2ps

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2024-06-07 20:50:48

In light of NY's awful governor torpedoing #CongestionPricing, a few facts worth noting:
1) Transportation is the largest share (28%) of the US's #CarbonEmissions by sector. The next biggest sector, electricity, has been shrinking for the past two decades:

"Total US Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector" Pie chart showing Transportation at 28%, followed by Electric Power at 25%, then Industry at 23%, then Residential & Commercial at 13%, and finally Agriculture at 10%.
"US Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector, 1990-2022" A graph ordered by most-to-least amount per sector, in million metric ton emissions over time. Transportation is on top (it's hard to tell, but either staying the same or actually growing larger since 1990). Then Electric power sector, which grows a bit between 1990 and 2000, then levels off, and finally starts shrinking to actually a size that's below 1990. Under that, Industry; it shrinks slightly from 1990 to 2022.
Table from wikipedia showing countries and their fossil fuel emissions from 1970 to 2022. China is in first place, but having 0.91 mil tons/yr back in 1970, then 2.4mil in 1990, then 6.2 in 2005, and in 2022 12.6mil. % of world, it's just under 33%. Next is the US, with 4.6mil in 1970, then 5mil in 1990, then 6.8mil in 2005, and down to 4.8mil in 2022. % of world, it's 12.6% Then India, growing from 0.213mil in 1970 up to 2.7mil in 2022, and about 7% of the world's emissions.
"Cumulative CO2 emissions (1850-2021)" A bar graph ordered by billion tonnes of CO2 for each country. The USA is in the lead, at around 425 bil (or over 500bil if you include "Land use, forestry"). Next is China, at just under 250bil (just under 300 including "Land use, forestry").

Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks | US EPA
The national greenhouse gas inventory is developed each year to track trends in U.S. emissions and removals. Find emissions by source, economic sector and greenhouse gas.

@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page
2024-06-13 07:23:48

Banal Deception Human-AI Ecosystems: A Study of People's Perceptions of LLM-generated Deceptive Behaviour
Xiao Zhan, Yifan Xu, Noura Abdi, Joe Collenette, Ruba Abu-Salma, Stefan Sarkadi
arxiv.org/abs/2406.08386

Banal Deception Human-AI Ecosystems: A Study of People's Perceptions of LLM-generated Deceptive Behaviour
Large language models (LLMs) can provide users with false, inaccurate, or misleading information, and we consider the output of this type of information as what Natale (2021) calls `banal' deceptive behaviour. Here, we investigate peoples' perceptions of ChatGPT-generated deceptive behaviour and how this affects peoples' own behaviour and trust. To do this, we use a mixed-methods approach comprising of (i) an online survey with 220 participants and (ii) semi-structured interviews with 12 partic…

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2024-06-12 18:54:33

Dak Prescott: Pay the man! What's the hold-up! yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/da

Dak Prescott: Pay the man! What's the hold-up!
Dak Prescott is playing in the last year of a four-year $160 million contract he signed in 2021. Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys have yet to reach an agreement meaning there is a possibility this could be the Last Dance. It is believed Prescott will get a contract extension but the idea of him flirting with free agency could be a nightmare for the Cowboys. Last season he was the MVP runner-up after an impressive 2023 campaign. He threw for 36 touchdowns, and nine interceptions and had career ca…