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@… Why have you branded your "Edinburgh" account with the union flag instead of the Saltire?

Die zweite und letzte Ernte von Rote Bete.
Dieses Jahr sind die Knollen größer gewachsen als 2024. Das wird nochmal ein großer Topf #Borschtsch. Es gibt immer noch keinen #Weißkohl im Handel, also muss wieder

from my link log —
Nontransitive comparison functions lead to out-of-bounds read and write in glibc's qsort().
https://www.qualys.com/2024/01/30/qsort.txt
saved 2025-09-06

Apple responds to the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit from March 2024, saying it sets "a dangerous precedent" and "threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart" (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/29/apple-doj-lawsuit-answer-iphone/

Apple slams DOJ lawsuit: ’threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart’ - 9to5Mac
The US Department of Justice formally sued Apple in March 2024, accusing the company of having a “smartphone monopoly.” Apple...

An Eclipse of Another Kind – Standing Down #eclipse #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/an-eclipse-of

An Eclipse of Another Kind - Standing Down
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Approximating Graphic Multi-Path TSP and Graphic Ordered TSP
Morteza Alimi, Niklas Dahlmeier, Tobias M\"omke, Philipp Pabst, Laura Vargas Koch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00448

Approximating Graphic Multi-Path TSP and Graphic Ordered TSP
The path version of the Traveling Salesman Problem is one of the most well-studied variants of the ubiquitous TSP. Its generalization, the Multi-Path TSP, has recently been used in the best known algorithm for path TSP by Traub and Vygen [Cambridge University Press, 2024]. The best known approximation factor for this problem is $2.214$ by Böhm, Friggstad, Mömke and Spoerhase [SODA 2025]. In this paper we show that for the case of graphic metrics, a significantly better approximation guarantee…

A look at LA's shrinking entertainment economy; ProdPro: 30% fewer $40M films and shows began shooting in the US in 2024 vs 2022, down 13% more in 2025 so far (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/los-a…

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07226 https://…

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Generative Artificial Intelligence is reshaping online communication by enabling large-scale production of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) at low cost. While its presence is rapidly growing across the Web, little is known about how MGT integrates into social media environments. In this paper, we present the first large-scale characterization of MGT on Reddit. Using a state-of-the-art statistical method for detection of MGT, we analyze over two years of activity (2022-2024) across 51 subreddits rep…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Raiders Urged to Move on From Disgruntled Star as Nightmare Season Continues https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-urged-to-move-on-from-disgruntled-star/?adt_ei=[email]

Der #BUND-Jahresbericht 2024 ist da. https://www.bund.net/service/publikationen/detail/publication/bund-jahresbericht-2024/

BUND-Jahresbericht 2024
Mit dem Jahresbericht legen wir Jahr für Jahr unsere Finanzen offen. Denn Transparenz ist für uns zentral. Ihre Mitgliedsbeiträge und Spenden sichern die Unabhängigkeit des BUND. Zugleich lädt dieser Bericht dazu ein, innezuhalten und wertzuschätzen, was wir 2024 gemeinsam für den Schutz von Natur...

When Hallucination Costs Millions: Benchmarking AI Agents in High-Stakes Adversarial Financial Markets
Zeshi Dai, Zimo Peng, Zerui Cheng, Ryan Yihe Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00332

When Hallucination Costs Millions: Benchmarking AI Agents in High-Stakes Adversarial Financial Markets
We present CAIA, a benchmark exposing a critical blind spot in AI evaluation: the inability of state-of-the-art models to operate in adversarial, high-stakes environments where misinformation is weaponized and errors are irreversible. While existing benchmarks measure task completion in controlled settings, real-world deployment demands resilience against active deception. Using crypto markets as a testbed where $30 billion was lost to exploits in 2024, we evaluate 17 models on 178 time-anchore…

52 responses.
Numbers of participants:
— 13 in the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey
— 12 in the 2025 Laptop and Desktop Workgroup survey
— 20 in the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey.
36 of 52 found the poll in Reddit.(I inadvertently created a fourth choice by changing "The" to "the".)

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Mahler's Fifth Symphony
The entire Hallé family of orchestra and choirs celebrate Sir Mark Elder’s last season as Music Director after 25 years in the role.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ggcj

This is so weird, I literally had to look this up.
✅ Emmys 2024: Why Is ‘The Bear’ Counted As A Comedy?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2024/09/15/emmys-2024-why-is-the-bear-counted-as-a-comedy/

Emmys 2024: Why Is ‘The Bear’ Counted As A Comedy?
The 2023 Emmy winner for Best Comedy is up for that category again at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards. But why is a show with so many dramatic moments called a comedy?

Simultaneous observations of multiple ELVES and SPRITES at the Pierre #Auger Observatory: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11641 -> "the Pierre Auger Observatory has exploited a dedicated trigger and its very high time resolution to study ELVES and harvest record samples of multiple ELVES using the Fluorescence Detector (FD). In 2017, after extending the readout of trace lengths to 0.9 ms, we started observing other types of light transients from the base of the ionosphere, such as HALOS, which deserved further investigation. In December 2023 and April 2024, we installed two additional cameras (TLECAMs), which allow us to perform simultaneous detection of these transients with higher space resolution and longer integration times. Here, we present our first simultaneous observations of SPRITES and ELVES by both TLECAMs and FD."

Hitting Geodesic Intervals in Structurally Restricted Graphs
Tatsuya Gima, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Yuto Okada, Yota Otachi, Hayato Takaike
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01413 https://…

Hitting Geodesic Intervals in Structurally Restricted Graphs
Given a graph $G = (V,E)$, a set $T$ of vertex pairs, and an integer $k$, Hitting Geodesic Intervals asks whether there is a set $S \subseteq V$ of size at most $k$ such that for each terminal pair $\{u,v\} \in T$, the set $S$ intersects at least one shortest $u$-$v$ path. Aravind and Saxena [WALCOM 2024] introduced this problem and showed several parameterized complexity results. In this paper, we extend the known results in both negative and positive directions and present sharp complexity co…

Liveblog vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.
🔗 https://www.

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

With Elon Musk news at a low ebb, here’s a blast from the past.
Remember last year when Elon Musk set up a $1m daily sweepstakes for swing state voters who signed a petition, creating a controversy over vote-buying?
Do you remember the part where the sweepstakes turned out to be a scam with handpicked winners, as freely admitted by his own lawyers?
Promptly leading to a class action for fraud?
Well, that class action has now survived a motion to dismiss.

Skydance TV President Matt Thunell will run a merged division with Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, reviving Paramount TV Studios which was shut down in 2024 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/skydance-tv-matt-thunell-paramount…

Skydance TV's Matt Thunell to Oversee Paramount Studios
Skydance Television president Matt Thunell is set to add oversight of Paramount TV Studios to his duties amid the pending closure of the deal.

Alles Gute den Weddinger Schüler:innen und schöne Ferien

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Ferdinand Thein, Hendrik Ranocha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21427

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
The ultra--relativistic Euler equations describe gases in the relativistic case when the thermal energy dominates. These equations for an ideal gas are given in terms of the pressure, the spatial part of the dimensionless four-velocity, and the particle density. Kunik et al.\ (2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113330) proposed genuine multi--dimensional benchmark problems for the ultra--relativistic Euler equations. In particular, they compared full two-dimensional discontinuous Galerkin…

Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Brahms Symphony No 3 at the BBC Proms
A BBC Proms performance from 2024 that includes Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with Alice Coote.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hn0c

Wanna lose your money? Here's the #1 suckers & losers bets in Las Vegas:
❌ 6:5 Blackjack
❌ Triple-zero Roulette
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❌ Big Wheel anything
❌ Capped odds bets in craps
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The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
L. Ferrari, G. Folatelli, K. Ertini, H. Kuncarayakti, T. Regna, M. C. Bersten, C. Ashall, E. Baron, C. R. Burns, L. Galbany, W. B. Hoogendam, K. Maeda, K. Medler, N. I. Morrel, B. Shapee, M. D. Stritzinger, H. Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22794

The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
Context: SN 2024ggi is a Type II supernova (SN) discovered in the nearby galaxy NGC 3621 (D $\approx6.7\pm0.d$ Mpc) on 2024 April 03.21 UT. Its proximity enabled a detailed investigation of the SN's properties and its progenitor star. This work focuses on the optical evolution of SN 2024ggi at the nebular phase. Aims: We investigate the progenitor properties and possible asymmetries in the ejecta by studying the nebular phase evolution between days 287 and 400 after the explosion. Methods: We p…

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

from my link log —
Hacking Kia: remotely controlling cars with just a license plate.
https://samcurry.net/hacking-kia
saved 2024-09-27 https://

Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate
On June 11th, 2024, we discovered a set of vulnerabilities in Kia vehicles that allowed remote control over key functions using only a license plate. These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in about 30 seconds, regardless of whether it had an active Kia Connect subscription.

Gap Inhomogeneity in Cuprates: a view from Two-Dimensional Josephson Echo Spectroscopy
Alex G\'omez Salvador, Ivan Morera, Marios H. Michael, Pavel E. Dolgirev, Danica Pavicevic, Albert Liu, Andrea Cavalleri, Eugene Demler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23856

Gap Inhomogeneity in Cuprates: a view from Two-Dimensional Josephson Echo Spectroscopy
Novel theoretical developments have allowed to connect microscopic disorder in bosonic collective excitations to the signatures in two-dimensional terahertz spectroscopy (Gómez Salvador et al. 2025). Here, we employ this framework to analyze the recently measured Josepshon echoes in optimally doped La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ (Liu et al. 2024). We consider the spatial gap inhomogeneities -observed in scanning tunneling microscopy- as input for the disorder in the superfluid density, and compute th…

There's a 2024 ZX Spectrum documentary on Prime Video.
https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/the-rubber-keyed-wonder

The Rubber-Keyed Wonder - watch streaming online
How and where to watch "The Rubber-Keyed Wonder" online on Netflix and Prime Video – including free options.

WBD Chair Emeritus John Malone says he discussed WBD-Fox merger with Rupert Murdoch in July 2024; sources say a possible deal was raised but not pursued (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3a32fdcb-1248-4721-8269-2867dc5e4d78

Finding SSH Strict Key Exchange Violations by State Learning
Fabian B\"aumer, Marcel Maehren, Marcus Brinkmann, J\"org Schwenk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10895 https:/…

Finding SSH Strict Key Exchange Violations by State Learning
SSH is an important protocol for secure remote shell access to servers on the Internet. At USENIX 2024, Bäumer et al. presented the Terrapin attack on SSH, which relies on the attacker injecting optional messages during the key exchange. To mitigate this attack, SSH vendors adopted an extension developed by OpenSSH called strict key exchange ("strict KEX"). With strict KEX, optional messages are forbidden during the handshake, preventing the attack. In practice, this should simplify the state …

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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Cowboys' Dak Prescott plummets out of NFL executive's golden graces in latest ranking https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/14/cowboys-dak-prescott-espn-rankings-qb/85200046007/…

from my link log —
Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust.
https://tweag.io/blog/2024-04-25-nix-protocol-in-rust/
saved 2024-05-06

Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust
We re-implemented the nix remote protocol, declaratively

Improved $\ell_{p}$ Regression via Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares
Alina Ene, Ta Duy Nguyen, Adrian Vladu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01729 https://arx…

Improved $\ell_{p}$ Regression via Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares
We introduce fast algorithms for solving $\ell_{p}$ regression problems using the iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) method. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art iteration complexity, outperforming the IRLS algorithm by Adil-Peng-Sachdeva (NeurIPS 2019) and matching the theoretical bounds established by the complex algorithm of Adil-Kyng-Peng-Sachdeva (SODA 2019, J. ACM 2024) via a simpler lightweight iterative scheme. This bridges the existing gap between theoretical and practical a…

Magneto-Thermal Coupling and Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions Inferred from Microwave Observations
Alexey A. Kuznetsov, Gregory D. Fleishman, Gelu M. Nita, Sergey A. Anfinogentov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18647

Magneto-Thermal Coupling and Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions Inferred from Microwave Observations
The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic field above sunspots, is a promising but barely exploited tool for studying the coronal magnetic field and plasma. We analyzed the microwave observations of eight solar active regions obtained with the Siberian Radioheliograph in years 2022-2024 in the frequency …

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Bruckner 200
The Latvia State Choir and National Symphony Orchestra celebrated Bruckner's 200th anniversary in 2024 with his third mass and a jubilant setting of Psalm 150.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jfrl

PoliTok-DE: A Multimodal Dataset of Political TikToks and Deletions From Germany
Tomas Ruiz, Andreas Nanz, Ursula Kristin Schmid, Carsten Schwemmer, Yannis Theocharis, Diana Rieger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15860

PoliTok-DE: A Multimodal Dataset of Political TikToks and Deletions From Germany
We present PoliTok-DE, a large-scale multimodal dataset (video, audio, images, text) of TikTok posts related to the 2024 Saxony state election in Germany. The corpus contains over 195,000 posts published between 01.07.2024 and 30.11.2024, of which over 18,000 (17.3%) were subsequently deleted from the platform. Posts were identified via the TikTok research API and complemented with web scraping to retrieve full multimodal media and metadata. PoliTok-DE supports computational social science acro…

Nothing more to be said here…
“An inmate who has pleaded guilty to murdering Robert Pickton in prison last year says he did it for the serial killer's victims.
Martin Charest admitted on Thursday morning to fatally assaulting Pickton with a broken broom handle at the Port-Cartier federal penitentiary in May 2024.
Charest pleaded guilty to first-degree murder during a court appearance in Sept-Îles, Que., northeast of Quebec City.
Pickton was convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder, but confessed to killing a total of 49 women whom he lured to his pig farm near Vancouver.
A statement of facts read out in court detailed how Charest locked himself into a room with Pickton and assaulted him twice while guards were unable to enter.
Charest told the judge he murdered Pickton after the serial killer had continued to brag about the murders and told other inmates he'd commit more crimes if he was ever released.”
#Justice #Canada #RobertPickton #MMIWG #Indigenous
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pickton-s-killer-murder-charge-1.7643499

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Beethoven, Bruckner and Tüür
Yunchan Lim makes his Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, performing Beethoven’s final piano concerto, the ‘Emperor’.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h1td

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

Healing Vibe – happy inspirations of all sorts #healing #inspiration #inspirations #musician

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now