Tootfinder

There are quite a few lessons to be learned here (and no, Excel as such isn't the main problem)
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/03/20/2142229/formula-1-chief-appalled-to-find-team-using-excel-to-ma…

È in corso la redazione della versione fediversica del #MEGALISTONE «1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die». Partecipate!
https://mas.to/@buffyleigh/111823074970081253

I just watched the Antisocial Network. I found it questionable that they let Kirtaner appear to take credit for the Parler scrape of video data about January 6. But I did appreciate that they got his character arc generally right, about how Kirtaner fell squarely on the "troll" side of the Anonymous schism, and not the "activist" side of the schism, originally... He only tried to take up the "activist" nomenclature and symbols, after coming out of retirement, to fight this battle against QAnon.

They don’t even need anonymity: Internet trolls may have latent psychopathic tendencies, researchers find
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-02/how-internet-anonymity-creates-trolls/103415012

How internet anonymity allows toxic trolls to express their 'true' psychopathic tendencies
Psychologists say people with high psychopathic tendencies are able to explore their "true self" when they're not identifiable. 

Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names 
'What matters, it seems, is not so much whether you are commenting anonymously, but whether you are invested in your persona and accountable for its behaviour in that particular forum. There seems to be value in enabling people to speak on forums without their comments being connected, via their real names, to other contexts.
...calls to end anonymity online by forcing pe…

Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names 
A higher quality discussion emerged among commenters allowed to use personas instead of their real names.

Internet of Dongs (gah I love them) also got their hands on the "Reddit said this vibrator has malware" vibrator this weekend, pulled it apart, and confirmed it doesn't have malware: https://internetofdon.gs/bad-vibes-or-why-you-…

Bad vibes? Or: Why you shouldn’t trust everything you read on Reddit
Note from RenderMan: This post is a writeup by a friend who specializes in malware analysis and tracking who wishes to remain anonymous but wanted to share what they found. More than happy to post such things, so feel free to reach out if you want your research posted anonymously.

I just watched the Antisocial Network. I found it questionable that they let Kirtaner appear to take credit for the Parler scrape of video data about January 6. But I did appreciate that they got his character arc generally right, about how Kirtaner fell squarely on the "troll" side of the Anonymous schism, and not the "activist" side of the schism, originally... He only tried to take up the "activist" nomenclature and symbols, after coming out of retirement, to fight this battle against QAnon.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10572 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Improved Anonymous Multi-Agent Path Finding Algorithm
We consider an Anonymous Multi-Agent Path-Finding (AMAPF) problem where the set of agents is confined to a graph, a set of goal vertices is given and each of these vertices has to be reached by some agent. The problem is to find an assignment of the goals to the agents as well as the collision-free paths, and we are interested in finding the solution with the optimal makespan. A well-established approach to solve this problem is to reduce it to a special type of a graph search problem, i.e. to …

Internet of Dongs (gah I love them) also got their hands on the "Reddit said this vibrator has malware" vibrator this weekend, pulled it apart, and confirmed it doesn't have malware: https://internetofdon.gs/bad-vibes-or-why-you-…

Bad vibes? Or: Why you shouldn’t trust everything you read on Reddit
Note from RenderMan: This post is a writeup by a friend who specializes in malware analysis and tracking who wishes to remain anonymous but wanted to share what they found. More than happy to post such things, so feel free to reach out if you want your research posted anonymously.