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Amsterdam-based Finom, a neobank targeting SMBs, raised a €115M Series C led by AVP after raising €92.7M from General Catalyst in May (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/smb-focused-finom-closes-e115m-as-european-…

SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up | TechCrunch
Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).

AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, after its 2024 pivot away from a hardware device, taking its total funding to $56M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/wisp

Wispr Flow raises $30M from Menlo Ventures for its AI-powered dictation app | TechCrunch
Startups developing voice AI technology and applications are having their moment. Model builders like ElevenLabs and Cartesia have raised millions of

"Tämän vuoden alussa perusterveydenhuollon maksuja nostettiin kuitenkin 22,5 prosenttia ja erikoissairaanhoidossa 45 prosenttia. Vuonna 2024 maksuja oli korotettu jo 20 prosenttia."
#sote #terveydenhuolto #hallitus

Asiakasmaksujen perintä johtaa ulosottoihin
Helsingissä ulosottoon päätyi yli 50 000 maksua, eniten hammashoidon ja vanhusten hoidon maksuja.

Dear Apple SwiftUI friends, this bug is killing the vibe of our users: FB16257334
Repro for those in the community:
https://github.com/feedback-assistant/reports/issues/594

FB16257334: Inspector view bug · Issue #594 · feedback-assistant/reports
Date: 2024-01-07 Resolution: Open Area: SwiftUI OS: iPadOS 18.1 Type: Incorrect/Unexpected Behavior Keywords: SwiftUI, split view, iPadOS, NavigationSplitView Description Simple NavigationSplitView...

Aaron Rodgers readies for likely last season with Pittsburgh Steelers: Top 10 moments of QB's legendary career

https://www.cbssports.com/…

World Rainforest Day and the state of Earth’s most vital rainforests https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/world-rainforest-day-and-the-state-of-earths-most-vital-rainforests/

World Rainforest Day and the state of Earth’s most vital rainforests
June 22 marks World Rainforest Day, launched in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership to highlight the critical role of tropical forests. These ecosystems stabilize the climate, regulate rainfall, store vast amounts of carbon, and support most of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. Yet despite their importance, 2024 proved to be a devastating year. Fires ravaged millions of […]

Climate stripes for the Netherlands. It's already almost 2°C warmer than in 1980 here, on average.
#ShowYourStripesDay

Non-uniform bounds for non-normal approximation via Stein's method with applications to the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model
L\^e V\v{a}n Th\`anh, Nguyen Ngoc Tu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17061

Non-uniform bounds for non-normal approximation via Stein's method with applications to the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model
This paper establishes a non-uniform Berry--Esseen bound for non-normal approximation using Stein's method. The main theorem generalizes the result of the authors in [Comptes Rendus Mathematique, 2024] to the context of non-normal approximation. As an application of the main result, we derive non-uniform Berry--Esseen bounds in non-central limit theorems for the magnetization in the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model. These extend some existing results in the literature, i…

Energy Spectra of Secondary Particles Induced by Solar Energetic Proton Events and Magnetospheric Effects
A. Chilingarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16269 …

Energy Spectra of Secondary Particles Induced by Solar Energetic Proton Events and Magnetospheric Effects
We investigate the energy spectra of secondary cosmic ray particles associated with two distinct solar events: the magnetospheric effect (ME) of 5 November 2023 and ground-level enhancement (GLE 74) of 11 May 2024. Using data from the SEVAN and Neutron Monitor networks and energy release histograms from particle spectrometers, we reconstruct spectra and identify key differences between ME and GLE. CORSIKA-based simulations reveal that MEs are caused by galactic protons below geomagnetic cutoff …

As @pluralistic writes here, “the American right is a brittle coalition:”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
We imagine the right as monolithic at our peril. Reply guys love, love, love to lecture me about how These People are all the same. Here’s the thing: they are not, and imagining they are is self-defeating. The right has been •incredibly• effective at finding fracture points on the left and jamming a crowbar into them. It’s time we did the same.
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Christus in der Tiefe - den haben wir heute tatsächlich gesehen in der Bucht von San Fruttuoso. Ein wunderschöner Ort mit Kloster. Ein 78 Jahre alter früherer Dorfbewohner hat uns mit seinem Ruderboot dort hin gebracht. Durch die Wasserlupe konnte man ihn gut erkennen, auf dem Foto kommt das leider nicht raus. In der Kirche gibt es aber eine Kopie. Hier habe ich letztes Jahr eine Andacht dazu gemacht:

Massiver Cyberangriff auf US-Provider: Erster Einbruch schon ein Jahr früher
2024 ist mutmaßlich chinesischen Angreifern ein massiver Angriff auf US-Provider gelungen. Eine Malware wurde aber offenbar deutlich früher installiert.

from my link log —
The sorry state of Java deserialization.
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_110_java_io/
saved 2024-09-22 https://

In 2024, Vandenberg Space Force Base had 51 launches,
but proposed changes would increase that number to 100 launches per year at both the Space Launch Complex (SLC)-6 and SLC-4,
including both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. 
The Falcon Heavy, which according to the EIS, has not launched out of Vandenberg Space Force Base in the past, would launch a maximum of five times per year from the SLC-6.
Because of the Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters landing separately, …

Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project
#mozilla

Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project

The US Senate passes the Genius Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins; the bill now heads to the House (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/genius-stablecoin-bill-crypto.html

Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill, giving crypto industry first major legislative win
This is the first legislative victory for the digital asset industry, which put around $250 million in the 2024 election cycle.

Sources and docs: Amazon Prime Video ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-doubles-prime-video-ad-load/

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour
The move could lower CPMs but potentially hurt performance.

"Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024"
#Brazil #Energy #Renewables

Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024
Brazil’s electricity mix was 88% renewable in 2024, with wind and solar supplying about 24% of total demand, according to new data from state-owned energy agency Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica (EPE).

@… Sigh. Non-tech people always lean towards the old tech. Like REALLY old, about to hit 30 years, that’s USB-A. It’s been 10 years since USB-C already.
I think the logic of what “loads of people have” is fine except they were coping just fine 1997-2024 with NO ports at all, zero USB options were available
So if you’re building something in 2025…

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
Maxwell Bernstein, Joanna Krajewski, Rachel Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13600 …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
The climate crisis demands innovative solutions and quantum technologies are considered by some a potential solution (Berger et al., 2021; Calvin et al., 2023). The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations, 2024), focusing on applications for quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, leveraging quantum mechanics, offer unprecedented computational power (Ajagekar & You, 2022) and sensitivity (Schleich et al., 2016) that could revolut…

Sobre la DANA o gota fría https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/2024/11/03/over-de-dana-of-gota-fria/?lang=es

Conclusion: Bigfoot hangs out with black bears.
✅ Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/study-finds-bigfoot-sightings-correlate-with-black-be…

Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
The big conclusion: “If bigfoot is there, it could be a bear.”…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 113 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29887 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Admissible solutions of the 2D Onsager's conjecture
Lili Du, Xinliang Li, Weikui Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15396 https://arxi…

Admissible solutions of the 2D Onsager's conjecture
We show that for any $γ< \frac{1}{3}$ there exist Hölder continuous weak solutions $v \in C^γ([0,T] \times \mathbb{T}^2)$ of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations that strictly dissipate the total kinetic energy, improving upon the elegant work of Giri and Radu [Invent. Math., 238 (2), 2024]. Furthermore, we prove that the initial data of these \textit{admissible} solutions are dense in $B^γ_{\infty,r<\infty}$. Our approach introduces a new class of traveling waves, refining …

Cowboys star among NFLPA's leaders in retail sales, 2 others in year-end top 50 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/11/cowboys-parsons-lamb-prescott-among-league…

Fact Check: 2023 Video Could NOT Show A Celebration Of Release Of Israeli Soldiers Detained In 2024 Detention Center Rape Case -- Video Shows An Unrelated Party: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/fact-check-video-could-not.html

As much as I’d love to believe that the 2024 election results were the result of covert ballot tampering, I land in @…’s camp here. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the evidence here isn’t extraordinary. It isn’t even passing.
Sorry. I’d love to believe it. But I don’t.
1/ https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114684093459547741

Michael Penix Jr., Olu Fashanu, other 2024 NFL Draft first-rounders who need big seasons https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6421510/2025/06/13/nfl-draft-2024-second-year-players-michael-penix/

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024) - The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump - https://www.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024)
The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump

aus der reihe "lebensnahe forschung" heute: "A Transfer of Language and Culture: German Bread and Pastries and Their Names in Kosovo". https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2024-0014 🍞🥐🥖🥯🥪🥨🫓🙃

The Trump regime's coordinated repression did not come from nowhere.
In 2024, TheNew York Times reported that the Trump transition team was already planning to use emergency powers, such as the one Trump invoked on June 7,
to confront political opponents who protest the administration.
While the Trump administration planned this move for about a year,
the deployment of troops in Los Angeles is the brutal culmination of a yearslong campaign to systematically erod…

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights
Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.

#DDA Vogelwelt aktuell: Rückblick auf den Winter 2024/2025. https://www.dda-web.de/aktuelles/meldungen/vogelwelt-aktuell-rueckblick-auf-den-winter-202…

„This year, over 11.7 million people applied for Schengen short-stay visas. Globally, demand rose by more than 13%.
But for African applicants, that just meant more money lost.
Analysts estimate Africans lost €60 million (around US$67.5 million) in visa fees in 2024 alone — just for rejections.“
Via Sham Jaff's excellent newsletter https:…

Benchmarking Adelaide
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Benchmarking Adelaide | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Benchmarking Adelaide Host: Sam Dighton Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Entrepreneurship, Local News & Stories, Mathematics & Data Science First Episode: 2024 We sit down with…

Bisschen "late to the party", aber gutes Dokument:
Die "Bern declaration 2024" der #PublicHealth #PalliativeCare International (#PHPCI) zum gesellschaftlichen Umgang …

Finally, there'll be weekend transit service to Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park in Oakland once AC Transit's service changes launch on August 10
https://hikingbytransit.com/2024/09/14/realign/

What does AC Transit Realign mean for recreational access in the East Bay? - Hiking by Transit
Trailheads that are convenient to get to by bus, train, or ferry in the San Francisco Bay Area

It's amazing to me that people continue to look back at 2024 and angrily blame muslims,non-voters, & leftists for the overwhelming win by Trump. It must be nice to be able to completely ignore reality and learn nothing.
https://www.

Behind Trump’s 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition
Pew Research Center’s in-depth study of its survey respondents who voted in the 2024 election examines turnout, voting patterns and demographics.

President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-disclosure-cryptocu…

Trump Was Already a Crypto Czar in 2024
Financial disclosures for 2024 filed by the president on Friday show that digital coins had already become one of his family’s most successful ventures.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Jack Back, CeCe Rogers:
🎵 Freedom (Harry Romero extended remix)
#JackBack #CeCeRogers
https://defected.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-2024-extended-mix

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Ajna Marosz and Il Cuore Barocco play Graupner and Telemann
A chamber music concert from the 2024 Allegretto Žilina International Music Festival in northern Slovakia, bringing together award winning musicians from around the world.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002d1q4

Programming tonight’s episode of @… radio and stumbled on our most recent 3–hour #Drone #Accordion special episode from last fall
That’ll keep me going through…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-30: Electronic, Experimental & Drone Show IV: Night of the Restless
So… our podcast schedule got disrupted by the Internet Archive hack late last year, and we never quite got caught up. But we can get closer. Here, today, I can share with you our incredible e…

So, initial thoughts on MSFS 2024: holy crap, this is a ton of fun. Also, I'm a shitty pilot and I'm gonna need some pedals.
#gaming #linux

Spotify: 17.000 Künstler aus der EU verdienen mehr als 10.000 Euro
2024 strichen europäische Künstler auf Spotify 1,7 Milliarden Euro an Tantiemen ein. Für die meisten bleibt es aber schwierig, von den Ausschüttungen zu leben.

Plastik-futternde Pilze:
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/plastic-eating-fungi-could-be-glimmer-hope-cutting-ocean-pollution-2024-08-08/
🍄‍🟫

And yes, please, please, please view anyone raising money to expose some theoretical 2024 election tampering as a Steinesque grifter. They are conning you. And they are more likely than not conning you to fund some right-wing benefactor holding their puppet strings — or at best they’re just an old-fashioned charlatan. Ignore.
/end
https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114684153991038814

REfugEEs From Beyond – Weird Real Freestyle
#byncsa

No Words - #NoWords https://muz4now.com/2024/no-words-nowords/

No Words - #NoWords
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09304 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Black holes with electroweak hair -- the detailed derivation
We present a very detailed derivation of solutions describing hairy black holes within the gravity-coupled Weinberg-Salam theory, which were previously reported in \href{https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.171402}{Phys.Rev.Lett. 133 (2024) 171402}. These black holes support a strong magnetic field that polarizes the electroweak vacuum and creates a condensate of massive fields carrying superconducting currents along the black hole horizon. The currents, in turn, generate a ``corona'' of mag…

Cannes Lions: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube Shorts now averages 200B daily views, up 186% from 70B daily views reported in March 2024 (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-shorts-200-billion-daily-views/

YouTube Shorts Now Averages 200 Billion Daily Views
YouTube Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, CEO Neal Mohan announced during his keynote at Cannes Lions 2025.

Immer wenn ich lese "Kein Backup, kein Mitleid." muss ich mit dem Kopf schütteln. Hier ist nicht nur das "ob" (also warum man Backups machen muss) etwas das IMMER WIEDER erklärt werden muss, Auch das "wie", gerade das "wie", omg ist das "wie" wichtig!
aber abgesehen davon, nur weil man Jahrzehnte in einem Bereich tätig ist, geht ein Thema nicht weg, denn es haben mit der Zeit eben nicht alle verstanden. Muss mich da auch an eigene Nase…

Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser?cid=ios_app

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/banks-bet-big-on-fossil-fuels-boosting-financing-in-2024-report-finds/

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds
Financing for the fossil fuel sector from the world’s largest banks surged in 2024 to $869 billion, according to a recent report by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and other environmental groups. That figure represents an increase of nearly 23% compared to 2023. The $162.5 billion increase channeled to companies doing business in fossil fuels […]

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03447 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Asymptotic formula for the sum of a prime and a square-full number in intervals shorter than $X^{1/2}$
Let $R(N)$ be the number of representations of $N$ as a sum of a prime and a square-full number weighted with logarithmic function. In $2024$, the author and Y. Suzuki obtained an asymptotic formula for the sum of $R(N)$ over positive integers $N$ in a short interval ($X$, $X+H$] for $X^{\frac{1}{2}+\varepsilon} \le H < X^{1-\varepsilon}$. In this article, we improve the range of $H$, that is, we prove the same asymptotic formula for $X^{\frac{32-4\sqrt{15}}{49}+\varepsilon} \le H \le X^{1- \va…

In a few minutes LoftyAssist is about to have its 500th deployment to prod since November 11th of 2024. That averages out as 2 deployments per day. Obviously didn't push stuff to prod daily there, but some days I can just get cranking.
When I work on the systems, I want them to be instantly deployable. I know I have it easy because my systems are not mission critical, but there are real users behind them managing their money with it. So it is important not to fail, be buggy, etc.

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
Alina Wernick, Kristof Meding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03218 https://

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
The EU has become one of the vanguards in regulating the digital age. A particularly important regulation in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) domain is the EU AI Act, which entered into force in 2024. The AI Act specifies -- due to a risk-based approach -- various obligations for providers of AI systems. These obligations, for example, include a cascade of documentation and compliance measures, which represent a potential obstacle to science. But do these obligations also apply to AI researcher…

Sources: in May 2024, Business Insider sent some staff a recommended reading list that included seemingly AI-generated books that did not appear to exist (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/01/2025

Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI
Some titles on the list included books with extremely garbled titles and fake authors.

Autobuses de Malta https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/2024/08/13/autobuses-de-malta/?lang=es

from my link log —
The ATS programming language: unleashing the potential of types and templates!
https://www.cs.bu.edu/~hwxi/atslangweb/
saved 2024-11-02

100,000 Crab giant pulses at 215 MHz detected with an SKA-Low prototype station
M. Sokolowski, P. Kumar, S. Dhavali, B. W. Meyers, N. D. R. Bhat, A. Bera, S. McSweeney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07422

100,000 Crab giant pulses at 215 MHz detected with an SKA-Low prototype station
We report detection and analysis of the largest low-frequency (200 - 231.25 MHz) sample of Crab giant pulses (GPs) reported in the literature. In total about 95000 GPs were detected. The observations were performed in 2024/2025 with the EDA2, a prototype station of the SKA-Low telescope. The fluence distribution of GPs in the entire sample is very well characterised with a single power law (no flattening at higher fluences) N(F) $\propto$ F$^α$, where $α= -3.17\pm0.02$ for all GPs, and $α_{M…

Adaptive FEM with explicit time integration for the wave equation
Marcus J. Grote, Omar Lakkis, Carina S. Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11193 https://

Adaptive FEM with explicit time integration for the wave equation
Starting from a recent a posteriori error estimator for the finite element solution of the wave equation with explicit time-stepping [Grote, Lakkis, Santos, 2024], we devise a space-time adaptive strategy which includes both time evolving meshes and local time-stepping [Diaz, Grote, 2009] to overcome any overly stringent CFL stability restriction on the time-step due to local mesh refinement. Moreover, at each time-step the adaptive algorithm monitors the accuracy thanks to the error indicators…

Phase autoencoder for rapid data-driven synchronization of rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns
Koichiro Yawata, Ryo Sakuma, Kai Fukami, Kunihiko Taira, Hiroya Nakao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12777

Phase autoencoder for rapid data-driven synchronization of rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns
We present a machine-learning method for data-driven synchronization of rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns in reaction-diffusion systems. Based on the phase autoencoder [Yawata {\it et al.}, Chaos {\bf 34}, 063111 (2024)], we map high-dimensional field variables of the reaction-diffusion system to low-dimensional latent variables characterizing the asymptotic phase and amplitudes of the field variables. This yields a reduced phase description of the limit cycle underlying the rhythmic spatiotempo…

How Has Raiders' Malcolm Koonce Looked in OTAs? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/malcolm-koonce-patrick-graham-pete-carroll-las-vegas

Die @… diskutiert nicht nur, sondern kann wen auch ganz schön in die Mangel nehmen. Aber in nett.
From: @…

Jake Ferguson on new-look Cowboys offense, having bounce back year https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jake-ferguson-on-new-look-cowboys-offense-having-bounce-back-year

Emulating Dark Matter Halo Merger Trees with Graph Generative Models
Tri Nguyen, Chirag Modi, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Rachel S. Somerville
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10652

Emulating Dark Matter Halo Merger Trees with Graph Generative Models
Merger trees track the hierarchical assembly of dark matter halos across cosmic time and serve as essential inputs for semi-analytic models of galaxy formation. However, conventional methods for constructing merger trees rely on ad-hoc assumptions and are unable to incorporate environmental information. Nguyen et al. (2024) introduced FLORAH, a generative model based on recurrent neural networks and normalizing flows, for modeling main progenitor branches of merger trees. In this work, we exten…

Finance Friends
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Finance Friends | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Finance Friends Host: Fabian Ruggieri Category: Business Sub-Category: Finance & Investing First Episode: 2024 Imagine getting insider knowledge from industry leaders every week.

Goals for today: finish up the coffee and grab my private pilots license (PPL) in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. First landing went well enough though a little rough on touch down. Definitely glad I picked up pedals though because having the rudder on the flight sticks rotation axis is not ideal...
#msfs #gaming

Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 'Recall' feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot PCs
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/windows-recall-general-availabilit…

from my link log —
The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization.
https://moxie.org/2024/09/23/a-good-engineer.html
saved 2025-05-21

Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-03-28/alfalfa-hay-beef-water-colorado-river

Hay consumes a vast share of the Colorado River's water
Much of the Colorado River's water is used for agriculture. A new study shows 46% of the water that is diverted is used to grow hay to feed cattle.

Healing Melodies
- we've known for a long time that music has healing power -
#HealingMusic #NowPlaying
https://

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

With Aaron Rodgers, how will Steelers' offense change? OC Arthur Smith says team's attack is less 'obvious'

https://www.cbssports.co…

Facts are Harder Than Opinions -- A Multilingual, Comparative Analysis of LLM-Based Fact-Checking Reliability
Lorraine Saju, Arnim Bleier, Jana Lasser, Claudia Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03655

Facts are Harder Than Opinions -- A Multilingual, Comparative Analysis of LLM-Based Fact-Checking Reliability
The proliferation of misinformation necessitates scalable, automated fact-checking solutions. Yet, current benchmarks often overlook multilingual and topical diversity. This paper introduces a novel, dynamically extensible data set that includes 61,514 claims in multiple languages and topics, extending existing datasets up to 2024. Through a comprehensive evaluation of five prominent Large Language Models (LLMs), including GPT-4o, GPT-3.5 Turbo, LLaMA 3.1, and Mixtral 8x7B, we identify signific…

The best-case scenario for the Cowboys quarterback room in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/the-best-case-scenario-for-the-cowboys-quarterback-room-in-2025

A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.

Tell WestJet to Stop Sponsoring Calgary Stampede Rodeo Cruelty #AnimalRights

Tell WestJet to Stop Sponsoring Rodeo Cruelty!
WestJet, a so-called progressive airline, has been sponsoring rodeo for years at the Stampede—including 2024 bull riding competitions. Tell WestJet to STOP supporting animal suffering for entertainment! 🐂🚫

Our Mind on Music Podcast: Interview with Stan Stewart
https://ourmindonmusic.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/our-mind-on-music-podcast-interview-with-stan-stewart-aka-stanley-g-of-muz4now/

Our Mind on Music Podcast: Interview with Stan Stewart (aka Stanley G) of Muz4Now
In this week’s episode, we have the pleasure of interviewing Stan Stewart (aka Stanley G), a talented musician from Muz4Now. Stan is known for his captivating piano improvisations and heartfe…

Bills quarterback Josh Allen, actress Hailee Steinfeld get married in California, a look at their nuptials

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bil…

Ah, current plans for today: find some way to get Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 running on my computer. So far I've managed to select my starting airport/airfield and then the game hangs. It's progress, but I have a feeling this fight is going to go on for awhile considering the game hangs immediately afterwards.
#linux

from my link log —
Why is my Chumby’s CPU usage always 100%?
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/04/why-is-my-cpu-usage-always-100-upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-9/
saved 2025-01-13

Pan-European consumer group BEUC files a complaint with the EC against Shein over its alleged use of "dark patterns", after targeting Temu in 2024 (Helen Reid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/she

Flowing Loops
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Flowing Loops | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Flowing Loops Host: Dan Koop Category: Arts Sub-Category: Crafts & Creativity, Local News & Stories, Places & Travel First Episode: 2024 Dan Koop and six artists have been walking and talking…

Stashed in 2024, Cowboys 7th-round pick looks to turn grainy film into real opportunity https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/30/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-71-ot-nate-t…

DappRadar: NFT lending market volume has dropped 97% from a peak of ~$1B in January 2024 to ~$50M in May 2025, with borrower activity falling by 90% (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/real-world-assets-revitalize-dy…

Titans CB eager to 'remind everybody who L'Jarius Sneed is' after injury-shortened 2024 season https://www.nfl.com/news/l-jarius-sneed-eager-to-remind-everybody-after-injury-shortened-2024-season

So, tracked down the issue with Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2024. The default permissions for the HOTAS `/dev/hidraw` devices is too restrictive. This is why neither MSFS 2024 or Elite: Dangerous saw the devices. I added new entries into the `udev` rules to relax the permissions and both games immediately saw the HOTAS.
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KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="231d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0126", MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="hidraw*&q…

The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80 people to get remote jobs at 100 US firms, using "laptop farms" in the US (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-g…

US government takes down major North Korean 'remote IT workers' operation  | TechCrunch
US prosecutors indicated a total of 13 people involved in the fraudulent scheme to steal and launder money for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Cam Ward brings humility to Titans QB battle, explains 2024 first-round pick JC Latham

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cam-ward-br…

Wooo, my ProtonDB post was posted. I'm hoping this helps out other folks with getting MSFS 2024 working.
#linux #gaming

Cowboys breakout star cracks top-25 defensive tackle rankings https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-breakout-star-cracks-top-25-defensive-tackle-rankings

Falcons' Darnell Mooney says he 'came here to win' after falling just short of 1,000-yard season in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.

Stalled on getting MSFS 2024 to run, but did clean off the desk a bit. Not the best case scenario, but figured a nice lazy Saturday just relaxing would work out well.
#desktop

A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, accusing Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Hrmm, seems like my HOTAS setup doesn't work with MSFS 2024 under Linux which is very annoying. Not quite sure _why_ it's not working other than as far as MSFS is concerned it does not exist. `usbreset` shows it and I can see outputs from the device, but for this specific game it's a no-go at the moment. Very annoying.
#linux

Jason Pierre-Paul reflects on the Fourth of July accident that took his fingers and changed his life. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45582506/jason-pierre-paul-fourth-july-fingers-accident-ten-years-later-n…

Fantasy Football 2025 draft day targets: Five rookies most likely to break out as league-winning picks

https://www.cbssports.com/fantas…

Former Steelers standout receiver plots NFL comeback: 'I am the strongest and fastest I've ever been'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/for…

Jason Pierre-Paul training for return to NFL, says it would be 'dope' to play for Giants again

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jason-p

Ex-Dolphins DB Reshad Jones scammed out of $2.58 million in grand theft, money laundering scheme, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…