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She started bike riding in 2023 - and achieved the outright endurance #JOGLEJOG world record in 2025 - wow!
https://road.cc/content/news/sarah-rug

History-maker Sarah Ruggins smashes outright world record for cycling from John o’ Groats to Land’s End and back, after illness left her unable to walk as a teenager
Dr Ruggins, who bought her first bike in 2023, has beaten James MacDonald’s JOGLEJOG record by seven hours, completing the epic 2,700km ride in five days, 11 hours, and 14 minutes

Is this from the guys that claim they are into "PC, not Linux"? I'd watch that (streaming 12 hours from now, 18 June 2025, 20:00 GMT) ->
Watch Us Build A Linux-Based Dual GPU PC - LIVE - PCWorld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG5iYjyIqLM

Former Saints TE Jimmy Graham completes Arctic Challenge with crew, rowing 584 miles in record time https://www.nfl.com/news/jimmy-graham-arctic-challenge-record-time-rowing-584-miles

Die Bilder und Videos von den #NoKing Protesten haben mir übrigens Hoffnung gemacht.
https://omfg.town/@dansinker/114690663638438881
Gesehen habe ich sie auf imgur.…

#MutualAid @… needs some help:
https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwild…

Everyone: Yeah, Hyperfocus must be so great!
Me: I sleep 4 hours badly at night and dream in #cplusplus 😵‍💫 #adhd

How we decreased #GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/06/05/how-we-decr…

It's two hours out from the start of FFOTUS' imperial march in DC and it is looking like the gods disapprove and will be micturating on his parade.

Me, 1.5 hours ago: “Ok, it’s gonna be hot but screw it, let’s fix the privacy screen/window & door lock in the OTHER car door this afternoon”
Me, 1.4 hours ago: “where the fuck is the part for the screen motor??”
Me, now: “godsdammit”
(still haven’t found it)

40 hours in and I think I will hit the 100 hours mark on Xenoblade 3. Having fun!
#videogames #XenobladeChronicles3 #jrpg

It's so very lonely, you're 19 and 23 light-hours from home…
#NASA to silence #Voyager social media accounts • The Register
https://share.google/DxdXvopuOs2zSLiZU

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Your perfect Sunday soundtrack
Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re tackling chores, enjoying a brew, or simply watching the clouds go by.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fm1c

Nominal, which develops AI agents for ERP systems to automate tasks for finance teams, raised a $20M Series A led by Next47, bringing its total funding to ~$30M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjp11cpislx

Ex-Cognigo founders raise $20M Series A to bring AI automation to CFOs
Nominal’s agentic platform promises to cut thousands of hours of manual accounting work.

Hours of hiking at high elevation is the best complement/remedy for hours of coding... Last Saturday we were on the mountain for 9 hours (21km hike), and here's a short POV video from near the highest point, near the pass into Rappenalptal, 900m above the valley... It was a beautiful varied path through many different terrains with some exposed sections and grand vistas, even though the last part of the 1400m descent wasn't anything fun...
Also, between 20 and 30 seconds, the …

An Earth-Sized Planet in a 5.4h Orbit Around a Nearby K dwarf
Kaya Han Ta\c{s}, Gudmundur Stefansson, Syarief N. M. Fariz, Esha Garg, Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Elise Koo, David Bruijne, Jacob Luhn, Eric B. Ford, Suvrath Mahadevan, Sarah E. Logsdon, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, Te Han, Mark E. Everett, Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes, Cullen Blake, William D. Cochran, Jiayin Dong, Rachel B. Fernandes, Mark R. Giovinazzi, Samuel Halverson, Shubham Kanodia, Daniel Krolikowski, Michael McElwain, Joe Ninan, …

An Earth-Sized Planet in a 5.4h Orbit Around a Nearby K dwarf
We present the discovery and confirmation of the ultra-short period (USP) planet TOI-2431 b orbiting a nearby ($d\sim36$ pc) late K star ($T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ = $4109 \pm 28 \, {\rm K}$) using observations from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), precise radial velocities with the NEID and the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) spectrographs, as well as ground-based high contrast imaging from NESSI. TOI-2431 b has a period of 5 hours and 22 minutes, making it one of the shortest-per…

H'mmm... My @forgejo instance has been hit very hard last night by AI crawlers, including from
* https://openai.com/gptbot (125,467 hits in 24 hours)
*

"Here is the thing: the video describes, at an excruciatingly slow pace (at least by the standards of our generation’s TikTok-formatted brains), with the terms and phraseology of 1968, and during no less than one and a half hours, the very computer you are using to read this article. Yes, the one on your lap or on your desk."
https://

Doug Engelbart
As in any human group, there are certain pilgrimages, certain rites of passage that all software developers apparently must go through. They are various and equally anecdotical: to compile and boot their own Linux kernel; to read "The Art of Computer Programming" in its entirety (and then send their CV to Bill Gates); to give a presentation in a conference; and finally, to sit through the whole duration of "The Mother of All Demos", the recording of the unavoidable presentation made by Douglas …

Ukrainian drone strike military and industrial sites across Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/ukrainian-drone-strike-military-and.html

Honestly, I want to be remembered as an anarcho-syndicalist who really cared about building solidarity and living a simpler, more meaningful life.
Not just some random three-year-old autistic gamer who spends way too many hours glued to the same video game.
Like, there’s more to me than that, you know?
#Anarchism

QPEs from EMRI Debris Streams Impacting Accretion Disks in Galactic Nuclei
Itai Linial, Brian D. Metzger, Eliot Quataert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10096 h…

QPEs from EMRI Debris Streams Impacting Accretion Disks in Galactic Nuclei
Quasi-periodic eruption (QPE) sources in galactic nuclei are often associated with a stellar object orbiting a supermassive black hole with hours-days period, brought in as an extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI). In the presence of an accretion disk, repeated star-disk collisions lead to ablation of a small fraction of the stellar mass during each disk passage. We analytically follow the evolution of the stellar debris as it is tidally stretched outside the EMRI's Hill sphere, forming an elongat…

After several hours of work, my photos from this years @… are now online. I tried to write proper and useful descriptions and include links where its possible and where it makes sense. Enjoy: https://www.

Modeling the Curbside Congestion Effects of Ride-hailing Services for Morning Commute using Bi-modal Two-Tandem Bottlenecks
Yao Deng, Zhi-Chun Li, Sean Qian, Wei Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09466

Modeling the Curbside Congestion Effects of Ride-hailing Services for Morning Commute using Bi-modal Two-Tandem Bottlenecks
With the proliferation of ride-hailing services, curb space in urban areas has become highly congested due to the massive passenger pick-ups and drop-offs. Particularly during peak hours, the massive ride-hailing vehicles waiting to drop off obstruct curb spaces and even disrupt the flow of mainline traffic. However, there is a lack of an analytical model that formulates and mitigates the congestion effects of ride-hailing drop-offs in curb spaces. To address this issue, this paper proposes a n…

Oh yes... not one, but two #Mordor towers in the usage graphs. Can somebody please throw that #AI ring in Mount Doom?

A Radio Flaring, Chromospherically-Inactive K Dwarf
Dale A. Frail, Scott D. Hyman, Michele L. Silverstein, Emil Polisensky, Evangelia Tremou, Simona Giacintucci, Hodari-Sadiki Hubbard-James, Jacinda Byam, Steve B. Howell, Robert F. Wilson, Matthew Lastovka, Tracy E. Clarke, Namir E. Kassim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07255…

A Radio Flaring, Chromospherically-Inactive K Dwarf
We report on an unusual radio source J180526-292953, initially identified as a steep spectrum, polarized point source toward the Galactic bulge and found to coincide with the nearby K dwarf HD317101A. We conducted a multi-wavelength radio study utilizing new GMRT observations and archival data from ASKAP, MeerKAT, and the VLA. At 1.5 GHz, HD317101A exhibits highly polarized coherent emission with variable activity lasting several hours with an apparent period of 3.7 days, which is consistent wi…

London Blue Light Collaboration Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Spatio temporal Patterns on Emergency Services by London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade
Fangyuan Li, Yijing Li, Luke Edward Rogerson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06011

London Blue Light Collaboration Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Spatio temporal Patterns on Emergency Services by London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade
With rising demand for emergency services, the London Ambulance Service, LAS, and the London Fire Brigade, LFB, face growing challenges in resource coordination. This study investigates the temporal and spatial similarities in their service demands to assess potential for routine cross-agency collaboration. Time series analysis revealed aligned demand peaks in summer, on Fridays, during daytime hours, and were highly sensitive to high temperature weather conditions. Bivariate mapping and Moran …

The maps in Xenoblade 3 are truly huge. 20 hours in and only on map 3 and I think I still can't access parts of the other maps yet.
#videogames #jrpg

The family, who come out every afternoon during the hottest hours, described their offering of water as charity in a society that sees good deeds as central to salvation.

I started the morning with the objective of putting the plants we brought from our old house into our new yard. But I quickly realized all the tools I needed were sprinkled throughout my disorganized garage. So I spent 3 hours ripping out old cabinets left by the previous owners to make some space and then hunting through our piles of stuff to find the garden tools. Got most of it organized, so at least I can actually put my hands on stuff. A small step forward.
#Gardening #FengShui

Threat intel experts have told me that CISOs should be prepared for DDoS attacks in terms of Iranian threats.
"'313 Team' claimed responsibility for a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on Trump’s Truth Social platform just hours after the U.S. strikes."

Iranian-Aligned Hackers Claim Responsibility for Attack on Trump’s Truth Social Platform
A group of Iranian-aligned hackers has reportedly attacked something President Donald Trump holds dear — his Truth Social platform.

heartbreaking: accidentally wiped power on hours on lg tv with 89k hours on it

Asana reports Q1 revenue of $187.3M, vs. $185.5M est., up 9% YoY vs. 26% last year, and adjusted EPS of $0.05, vs. $0.02 est.; ASAN falls 8% after hours (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/03/asan…

Asana shares drop as earnings results top estimates but revenue growth slows - SiliconANGLE
Asana shares drop as earnings results top estimates but revenue growth slows - SiliconANGLE

I would like to start a bi-weekly meeting for people who would like to try out #Linux. My thought is to set up in a nearby coffee shop for a few hours and allow people to try out on a few laptops as well as have a couple of live distros on USBs to try on their own. Has anyone on here tried something like that out? And what advice would you give.

Interesting background on Spain’s grid blackout. A series of small issues and manual fixes that made it worse…. Recovery in a few hours was impressive. Overall that sounds like a fairly typical outage to me. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Spanish blackout report: Power plants meant to stabilize voltage didn’t
The Iberian blackout was a consequence of grid management, not any power source.

In Georgian London, a young Scotswoman purloins a handful of handkerchiefs to buy food.
235 years later, her several greats-grandson sits at a computer in the Antipodes, trying out #Daggerheart via Discord in the morning’s ungodly wee hours.
They told the Scotswoman her actions would have far-reaching consequences. She could never have imagined time zones, let alone how they’d affect h…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07621 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

Information-Set Decoding for Convolutional Codes
In this paper, we present a framework for generic decoding of convolutional codes, which allows us to do cryptanalysis of code-based systems that use convolutional codes. We then apply this framework to information set decoding, study success probabilities and give tools to choose variables. Finally, we use this to attack two cryptosystems based on convolutional codes. In the first, our code recovered about 74% of errors in less than 10 hours each, and in the second case, we give experimental e…

Some years ago, to avoid missing files when copying course materials to a different drive (e.g., a USB stick), I started copying (instead of symlinking) all files into the corresponding directory.
Obviously, the downside is that lots of duplicate files accumulate, including large files, like videos. So I thought about ways to deduplicate them... Some hours later:
TIL that on APFS, files copied via the Finder are cloned. So many of the “duplicate” files actually don’t take up extr…

Just who are these hammock-dwelling emperors who have 23 hours of free time a week?!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06404 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Analysis of optical spectroscopy and photometry of the type I X-ray bursting system UW CrB
UW Coronae Borealis (UW CrB) is a low mass X-ray binary that shows both Type 1 X-ray and optical bursts, which typically last for 20 s. The system has a binary period of close to 2 hours and is thought to have a relatively high inclination due to the presence of an eclipse in the optical light curve. There is also evidence that an asymmetric disc is present in the system, which precesses every 5.5 days based on changes in the depth of the eclipse. In this paper, we present optical photometry an…

At 4 hours I left #ubuntu installer running and went to bed. This morning, at 16 hours, I killed the process. Trying again without entering the Live desktop but I do so WISH the devs had left SOME means to know why and where it fails.
This is why when folks ask me to help with their Windows machine, I gracefully decline.

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Your Perfect Sunday Soundtrack
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f06n

DSA-NRP: No-Reflow Prediction from Angiographic Perfusion Dynamics in Stroke EVT
Shreeram Athreya, Carlos Olivares, Ameera Ismail, Kambiz Nael, William Speier, Corey Arnold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17501

DSA-NRP: No-Reflow Prediction from Angiographic Perfusion Dynamics in Stroke EVT
Following successful large-vessel recanalization via endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke (AIS), some patients experience a complication known as no-reflow, defined by persistent microvascular hypoperfusion that undermines tissue recovery and worsens clinical outcomes. Although prompt identification is crucial, standard clinical practice relies on perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within 24 hours post-procedure, delaying intervention. In this work, we introduce the…

"I rejoice greatly that I find there is patience in my soul for quite a long time yet, that I desire no earthly possessions, and need nothing but books, the possibility of writing, and of being daily for a few hours alone." - Fyodor #Dostoevsky, letter to N. D. Fonvisin, March 1854.
#books #solitude #writing #quotes

Gallup: ~60% of 2,232 teachers at US K-12 public schools say they used AI tools in the past school year; regular users estimate weekly time savings of 5.9 hours (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatgpt-teacher-c…

Classical Guitar Duet Separation using GuitarDuets -- a Dataset of Real and Synthesized Guitar Recordings
Marios Glytsos, Christos Garoufis, Athanasia Zlatintsi, Petros Maragos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01172

Classical Guitar Duet Separation using GuitarDuets -- a Dataset of Real and Synthesized Guitar Recordings
Recent advancements in music source separation (MSS) have focused in the multi-timbral case, with existing architectures tailored for the separation of distinct instruments, overlooking thus the challenge of separating instruments with similar timbral characteristics. Addressing this gap, our work focuses on monotimbral MSS, specifically within the context of classical guitar duets. To this end, we introduce the GuitarDuets dataset, featuring a combined total of approximately three hours of rea…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
A/S/L:
🎵 After Hours
#A #S #L
https://masikus.bandcamp.com/track/s-e-e-k-s-o-l-a-c-e

Investigating MAXI J1752$-$457 with NuSTAR in the aftermath of a superburst
Sean N. Pike, Hitoshi Negoro, Douglas Buisson, Benjamin Coughenour, Julian Gerber, Aarran W. Shaw, Mutsumi Sugizaki, John A. Tomsick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05677

Investigating MAXI J1752$-$457 with NuSTAR in the aftermath of a superburst
We present two NuSTAR observations of the X-ray transient, MAXI J1752$-$457, following a superburst which was observed by MAXI/GSC in November, 2024. NuSTAR follow-up confirmed that MAXI J1752$-$457 is coincident with the previously observed Einstein Probe source, EP240809a. We performed a spectral analysis of the source during both NuSTAR observations, and we confirm that the hard X-ray spectra are consistent with the inclusion of a spherical blackbody component. At about 79 hours after the on…

#IsraelIsATerroristState #BoycottIsrael #IsraeliWarCrimes #FreePalestine

Now this was a nice loop around the #chiemsee! 😊
#cycling #mountainbiking #mtb

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03071 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

The Search for Squawk: Agile Modeling in Bioacoustics
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has shown great promise in helping ecologists understand the health of animal populations and ecosystems. However, extracting insights from millions of hours of audio recordings requires the development of specialized recognizers. This is typically a challenging task, necessitating large amounts of training data and machine learning expertise. In this work, we introduce a general, scalable and data-efficient system for developing recognizers for novel bioacoust…

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC