Tootfinder

With this being the first Raspberry Pi 5 of the cluster, and since those are notorious for running hotter than the Pi 4. Which I did extensive testing on last year: https://blog.wyrihaximus.net/2024/12/building-a-kubernetes-homelab-w…

Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/app…

2024: Zum ersten Mal mehr Internet-Bots als Menschen. 37 % davon „Bad Bots“. Sie klauen Daten, manipulieren Preise, täuschen Klicks – und füttern das Netz mit KI-Schrott. Jörg Schieb warnt: Wir surfen durch eine Bot-Fata Morgana und nennen es Social Media. #BadBot #KI

Stirbt Social Media – oder ertrinkt es in KI-Müll? - Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
Während wir darüber diskutieren, ob Social Media seinen Zenit überschritten hat, passiert im Hintergrund etwas viel Bedrohlicheres: Das Internet wird systematisch mit KI-generiertem Schrott geflutet.

#Microsoft:
> Due to ongoing technical issues, as of October 23, 2024, downloads are temporarily unavailable.
Yeah, I get it. These proprietary systems are like that. You can't do anything without exploiting open source volunteers.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

Can say what you want about Slackware, but some ports in Slackbuilds are updated faster than you can say update.
Cases in point for me: Vivaldi, Librewolf and Softmaker Office 2024.
All contributors: much appreciated 👍 !
#slackware

Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet (Defector)
https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-five

Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. The year-to-year story of our business is one of general stability—an incredible luxury in digital media—with incremental and hard-won improvements. But…

"US energy storage installations surpass 2024 total by Q3 2025"
#US #USA #America #Energy

US energy storage installations surpass 2024 total by Q3 2025
US energy storage deployments exceeded full-year 2024 levels within nine months, led by utility-scale projects and sustained residential growth, according to industry data.

Cowboys add well-traveled CB to struggling secondary in 4-round 2026 NFL mock draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-add-well-traveled-cb-struggling-secondary-4-round-2026-nfl-mock-draft

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate.
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: https://www.

Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways - Carbon Brief
The rate at which atmospheric CO2 is increasing is now outpacing the pathways set out...

McKinsey expects the European demand-side flexibility market to grow to €12 billion by 2030, with a €2 billion residential portion.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natural-…

from my link log —
Experience report: it will never work in theory.
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2024/03/10424425/1Ulj1Qa8tJ6
saved 2025-11-09

“How is it possible that a peace proposal ignores the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion, which reiterated that Israel’s occupation is illegal and must end?
How can it fail to mention the Palestinian’s right to self-determination?
Why are Palestinians, who have a right under international law to armed struggle against an occupying power, expected to disarm while Israel, the illegally occupying force, is not?”
And many more good questions.

Trump’s Sham Peace Plan
There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

Social Networks Are Lying to Manipulate You
#SocialMeda are manipulating all the time. This is what h…

Het Uur van de Wolf | NPO Start
https://npo.nl/start/serie/het-uur-van-de-wolf/seizoen-21_1/het-uur-van-de-wolf-janis-ian-breaking-silence (2024, 85 min)
Straks om 2240 het uur vsn de Wolf met
Janis Ian - Break…

"An increasing number of homes in the Netherlands are heated without the use of natural gas. In 2024, 11.2 percent of homes were fully gas-free, up from 8.7 percent in 2022. These homes are usually heated using a heat pump or are connected to a collective district heating system."
https://www.cbs.…

Ever more gas-free homes
An increasing number of homes in the Netherlands are heated without the use of natural gas. In 2024, 11.2 percent of homes were fully gas-free, up from 8.7 percent in 2022. These homes are usually heated using a heat pump or are connected to a collective district heating system. This means they do not require a gas-fired boiler. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports this on the basis of newly released figures.

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, Aytalina Kulichkina, Kateryna Maikovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11746

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study examines elite-driven political communication on Telegram during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, the first large-scale European war in the social media era. Using a unique dataset of Telegram public posts from Ukrainian and Russian policymakers (2019-2024), we analyze changes in communication volume, thematic content, and actor engagement following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. Our findings show a sharp increase in Telegram activity after the invasion, particularly among ruling…

I was looking for something else when I discovered that Jean-Guy Meunier passed away last year:
https://philo.uqam.ca/babillard/nouvelles/hommage-a-jean-guy-meunier-1940-2024/
He was one of the reviewers I suggested for my tenure review, but a…

#Deutschland hat mit 107,5 Gigawatt installierter #Photovoltaik-Leistung bereits die Hälfte des für 2030 angestrebten Ziels erreicht.
2024 wurde ein Rekordwert bei der #Stromeinspeisung

Rekord bei Sonnenstrom: Solar-Ausbau bis 2030: Die Hälfte ist geschafft
Millionen Anlagen auf Dächern und Feldern produzieren Sonnenstrom für Verbraucher. Doch das Wachstum verliert an Schwung und am Markt dominiert China, während hiesige Firmen in die Pleite rutschen.

Field hockey at the new Martha Dodson Field out past the East Hill Plaza -- Cornell Beat Vermont 3-1 in front of the largest crowd I've ever seen at a field hockey game. In the center are № 8 Ashley Plzak of the Big Red and № 15 Sophia Lefranc of the Catamounts, who won the US East Conference in 2024
#photo

Cyclo-logistique en Belgique
- plus de 5 millions de colis livrés Š vélo en Belgique, soit 70 % de plus qu’en 2023
- 10 millions de km parcourus par des coursiers Š vélo, soit 30 % de plus
- 4112 tonnes de CO₂ évitées et 12 millions € de coûts externes économisés
https://

Source: Stripe is in talks to buy back shares from its VC backers at a $106.7B valuation; Sequoia bought $861M worth of shares in 2024 at a $70B valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/stripe-buy-back-stock-vc

Scoop: Stripe in talks to buy back stock from investors
Stripe has never seemed interested in an IPO.

Last year global temperatures were 1.6°C over the pre-industrial average, the first year to breach the 1.5° goal.
"One or two years that exceed 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level does not imply that the Paris Agreement has been breached. However, with the current rate of warming at more than 0.2°C per decade, the probability of breaching the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement within the 2030s is highly likely."

Consciousness Self and Language
Robert Worden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23342 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23342

Consciousness Self and Language
Theories of consciousness depend on data, and it needs to be appropriate data, without overwhelming confounding factors. The reports of Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) in [Metzinger 2024] relate to consciousness in a state purer than everyday consciousness, which may have fewer confounding factors. This essay suggests that the confounding factors, which are absent or diminished in MPE states, are related to language. The self which is absent in mindful states is a product of language. The l…

Orientation does not help with 3-coloring a grid in online-LOCAL
Thomas Boudier, Filippo Casagrande, Avinandan Das, Massimo Equi, Henrik Lievonen, Augusto Modanese, Ronja Stimpert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22233

Orientation does not help with 3-coloring a grid in online-LOCAL
The online-LOCAL and SLOCAL models are extensions of the LOCAL model where nodes are processed in a sequential but potentially adversarial order. So far, the only problem we know of where the global memory of the online-LOCAL model has an advantage over SLOCAL is 3-coloring bipartite graphs. Recently, Chang et al. [PODC 2024] showed that even in grids, 3-coloring requires $Ω(\log n)$ locality in deterministic online-LOCAL. This result was subsequently extended by Akbari et al. [STOC 2025] to a…

Bien que depuis des années mes enfants n'exigent plus une berceuse avant de se coucher, j'identifie tellement avec cette chanson. Elle reste hypnotique, même après que le saxo se met Š hurler.
Myriam Gendron, « Berceuse » (2024)
https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/track/berceu…

First Radio Neutrino & Cosmic Rays Astronomy Workshop in India
Mohammad Ful Hossain Seikh, Victor Grachev, Ilya Kravchenko, Mohammad Sajjad Athar, Dave Besson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20704

First Radio Neutrino & Cosmic Rays Astronomy Workshop in India
We summarize the motivation for (as well as the presentations from) the April, 2024 workshop held in India and focused on radiowave techniques for cosmic ray and neutrino detection.

Champagne, chauffeur privé… Jordan Bardella encore retoqué sur ses frais de campagne aux Européennes
https://www.linforme.com/medias-culture/article/champagne-chauffeur-prive-jordan-bardella-…

Champagne, chauffeur privé… Jordan Bardella encore retoqué sur ses frais de campagne aux Européennes
La justice a confirmé que le contribuable n’avait pas à rembourser une partie des dépenses de la tête de liste du Rassemblement national lors du scrutin de 2024. Plusieurs centaines de milliers d’euros de coûts « excessifs » ou « sans finalité électorale ».

Revisiting 18 NFL trades at last year's deadline: Several solid moves, but a bunch of duds https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6760070/2025/10/30/nfl-trade-deadline-2024-best-worst-trades/

Incentives and Outcomes in Bug Bounties
Serena Wang, Martino Banchio, Krzysztof Kotowicz, Katrina Ligett, R. Preston McAfee, Eduardo' Vela'' Nava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16655

Incentives and Outcomes in Bug Bounties
Bug bounty programs have contributed significantly to security in technology firms in the last decade, but little is known about the role of reward incentives in producing useful outcomes. We analyze incentives and outcomes in Google's Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP), one of the world's largest bug bounty programs. We analyze the responsiveness of the quality and quantity of bugs received to changes in payments, focusing on a change in Google's reward amounts posted in July, 2024, in which …

Filing: Lachlan Murdoch's fiscal 2025 compensation jumped to $33M, including a $3M salary and $10.6M in stock awards, up from $23.8M in 2024 and $21.8M in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Rises to $33 Million As He Assumes Control of Family Media Empire
Weeks after settling with his siblings over who will control Fox, the company revealed that the CEO's fiscal 2025 pay rose significantly from 2024.

Browns QB Deshaun Watson designated to return to practice for first time since Achilles injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-qb-deshaun-watson-practice-injury-sh…

Skill, Will, or Both? Understanding Digital Inaccessibility from Accessibility Professionals' Viewpoint
P D Parthasarathy, Rachel F. Adler, Devorah Kletenik, Swaroop Joshi, Anshu M Mittal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23287

Skill, Will, or Both? Understanding Digital Inaccessibility from Accessibility Professionals' Viewpoint
Digital inaccessibility continues to be a significant barrier to true inclusion and equality. WebAIM's 2024 report reveals that only 4.1% of the world's top one million website homepages are fully accessible. Furthermore, the percentage of web pages with detectable Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) failures has only decreased by 1.9\% over the past five years, from 97.8%. To gain deeper insights into the persistent challenges of digital accessibility, we conducted a comprehensive surv…

Comment on "mbtransfer: Microbiome intervention analysis using transfer functions and mirror statistics": Implementation errors, theoretical misapplication, and methodological flaws
Travis E. Gibson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16486

Comment on "mbtransfer: Microbiome intervention analysis using transfer functions and mirror statistics": Implementation errors, theoretical misapplication, and methodological flaws
There are a number of errors in "mbtransfer: Microbiome intervention analysis using transfer functions and mirror statistics" PLOS Comp Bio (2024) spanning multiple aspects of the paper. The wrong inputs were provided to comparator methods for model training, when forecasting one method was provided initial conditions in the wrong units, and performance metrics were calculated without proper unit conversion. The false discovery rate and power analysis conclusions provided in the text are not su…

Auto-ARGUE: LLM-Based Report Generation Evaluation
William Walden, Marc Mason, Orion Weller, Laura Dietz, Hannah Recknor, Bryan Li, Gabrielle Kaili-May Liu, Yu Hou, James Mayfield, Eugene Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26184

Auto-ARGUE: LLM-Based Report Generation Evaluation
Generation of long-form, citation-backed reports is a primary use case for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. While open-source evaluation tools exist for various RAG tasks, ones tailored to report generation are lacking. Accordingly, we introduce Auto-ARGUE, a robust LLM-based implementation of the recent ARGUE framework for report generation evaluation. We present analysis of Auto-ARGUE on the report generation pilot task from the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR track, showing good system-level …

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…

Inspiring stories from women in astronomy in Africa
Priscilla Muheki, Mirjana Povi\'c, Somaya Saad, Salma Sylla Mbaye, in collaboration with Vanessa McBride, Naomi Asabre Frimpong, Meryem Guennoun, African Science Stars team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05195

Inspiring stories from women in astronomy in Africa
In preparation for the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly (GA) 2024, the first GA held in Africa, the African Network of Women in Astronomy (AfNWA) embarked on a visionary project: the creation of an inspiring storytelling book that showcases the remarkable journeys of professional female astronomers in Africa. This book is not merely a collection of biographies; it is a tapestry of resilience, passion, and scientific excellence woven through the lives of women who have ven…

Netflix says Southeast Asian content on the platform grew nearly 50% from 2023 to 2024 and 40 Southeast Asian titles were in its Global Top 10 in 2025 (Zac Ntim/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix-southeast-asian-content-1236632912/

Netflix Says Global Viewership Of Southeast Asian Content Grew By Almost 50% From 2023 To 2024
The streamer reported that more than 100 Southeast Asian titles have appeared in Netflix’s Global Top 10.

CL-UZH submission to the NIST SRE 2024 Speaker Recognition Evaluation
Aref Farhadipour, Shiran Liu, Masoumeh Chapariniya, Valeriia Perepelytsia, Srikanth Madikeri, Teodora Vukovic, Volker Dellwo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00952

CL-UZH submission to the NIST SRE 2024 Speaker Recognition Evaluation
The CL-UZH team submitted one system each for the fixed and open conditions of the NIST SRE 2024 challenge. For the closed-set condition, results for the audio-only trials were achieved using the X-vector system developed with Kaldi. For the audio-visual results we used only models developed for the visual modality. Two sets of results were submitted for the open-set and closed-set conditions, one based on a pretrained model using the VoxBlink2 and VoxCeleb2 datasets. An Xvector-based model was…

Filings: business services giant Conduent, which was spun off from Xerox in 2017, confirms that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5M people (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/b…

Dallas Cowboys' DeMarvion Overshown inching closer to return from injury https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-demarvion-overshown-inching-closer-return-injury/a662…

There are no US federal prohibitions on limiting campaign contributions at the state level, so twelve states actually permit unlimited financing. Other states have unfairly-high limits. Too bad I'm not a billionaire…
https://news.ballo…

Next highest weight and other lower $SU(3)$ irreducible representations with proxy-$SU(4)$ symmetry for nuclei with $32 \le \mbox{Z,N} \le 46$
V. K. B. Kota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00800

Next highest weight and other lower $SU(3)$ irreducible representations with proxy-$SU(4)$ symmetry for nuclei with $32 \le \mbox{Z,N} \le 46$
In the applications of proxy-SU(3) model in the context of determining $(β,γ)$ values for nuclei across the periodic table, for understanding the preponderance of triaxial shapes in nuclei with $Z \ge 30$, it is seen that one needs not only the highest weight (hw) or leading $SU(3)$ irreducible representation (irrep) $(λ_H, μ_H)$ but also the lower $SU(3)$ irreps $(λ,μ)$ such that $2λ+ μ=2λ_H + μ_H-3r$ with $r=0,1$ and $2$ [Bonatsos et al., Symmetry {\bf 16}, 1625 (2024)]. These give …

Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Des Moines Iowa school superintendent detained by ICE
#uspol #school #ICE #DesMoines

Des Moines Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts Detained by ICE, Officials Say
Federal immigration officials said the superintendent had received a deportation order in May 2024 and fled from agents when they approached him on Friday.

NICER observations reveal doubled timescales in Ansky's quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs)
L. Hern\'andez-Garc\'ia, P. S\'anchez-S\'aez, J. Chakraborty, J. Cuadra, G. Miniutti, R. Arcodia, P. Ar\'evalo, M. Giustini, E. Kara, C. Ricci, D. R. Pasham, Z. Arzoumanian, K. Gendreau, P. Lira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16304…

NICER observations reveal doubled timescales in Ansky's quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs)
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring X-ray bursts originating from the vicinity of supermassive black holes, but their driving mechanisms remain under debate. This study analyzes new NICER observations of QPEs in Ansky (a transient event in the nucleus of the galaxy SDSS J1335+0728), taken between January and June 2025. By examining flare durations, peak-to-peak recurrence times, and profiles, we compare the 2025 data with those from 2024 to investigate changes in energy, timescales, a…

Good Morning #Canada
Many people, that includes you, are worried about #Skynet assuming control of all military systems, but what happens when it starts harvesting our crops? Canadian agricultural scientists are blindly charging ahead in their efforts to fill our farms with robots. It started with self-driving tractors pulling conventional equipment and evolved to fully autonomous vehicles that plow, plant, fertilizer, weed, and harvest. Organic farming is seeing the biggest benefits as robots can hand weed 2 hectares per day, eliminating herbicides.... and farm workers. Almost 15% of Canada’s dairy farms use robotic milking cubicles where cows enter when they need milking, with no cold human hands involved. IMO, using robots to replace hard back breaking labour or tedious driving of equipment up and down a farm field is a good use of technology. But I hope the tech is not priced out of the reach of small farms.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Robotics #Farming
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2024/08/these-self-driving-weed-cutting-robots-transform-the-future-of-farming-says-u-of-g-researcher/

Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $180.2B, a $21.2B net income vs. $15.3B in Q3 2024, and operating income flat at $17.4B; AMZN jumps 10% after hours (Amazon)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251029099339/en/