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People seem to think both that technology is magical and also that software engineers in Silicon Valley are priests of that religion but I am here to tell you they believed such "logic" as me having a PhD in applied physics meaning I had a degree in philosophy and continuously repeat things anonymous right wing trolls posted on my anonymous Twitter as facts

Alle Frauen in meiner TL, die 47 und älter sind, beantworten bitte JETZT diese Umfrage:
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Just had the realization that criminal masterminds should fill a yellow inkjet cartridge with distilled water and rest easy in printed anonymity. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/112299387447962014

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL that the reason printers refuse to print without yellow ink is because they print a Machine Identification Code on every page, leaving a unique microscopic pattern of yellow dots that say what the serial number and model of the printer is, allowing the documents to be traced back to the owner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c84ew3/til_that_the_reason_printers_refuse_to_print/

More on the case against Mckesson:
Supreme Court allows police officer’s suit to move forward against Black Lives Matter leader | The Hill
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-b…

Supreme Court allows police officer’s suit to move forward against Black Lives Matter leader
The Supreme Court allowed a police officer’s lawsuit against a Black Lives Matter leader to move forward Monday. In a brief order, the justices turned away activist DeRay Mckesson’s First Amendment appeal, meaning he must face the lawsuit brought by the anonymous officer who was injured during a 2016 protest. Days after police fatally shot…

I have a brief story to tell: Earlier this week, a large DDoS attack against 2 out of our larger set of #Tor (@…) relays - which also act as stable HSDir nodes - has managed to partially interrupt Internet traffic for the whole #JKULinz. While the attack was not huge compared to others (peak traffic around 3-4 Gbit/s, well above 1M PPS), we suspect either a nation state actor or fairly well-funded organization for 3 reasons:
* The attack was more advanced than simply saturating the upstream with bandwidth/packets, but had proper handshakes with the Tor relays, trying to cause resource exhaustion on the application level (we have seen this pattern multiple times in the last 6 months, but this one was much more massive in terms of incoming packets).
* The attack was very targeted, affecting only 2 IPs out of 25, consistently over some time. This indicates that either the position in the HSDir or specific connections or hidden services that were relayed over those nodes were the target - but note that these are only guesses, we don't have hard data on the motivation of this targeting.
* The only motivations that come to mind are either de-anonymization attacks or take-downs of particular hidden services. These do not seem to be relevant for usual ransom DDoS botnet attackers, but more for political reasons.
We have some flow data and would be interested in doing more analysis. Any ideas or correlation with other data on Tor relay attacks welcome :)
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The Design and Organization of Educational Competitions with Anonymous and Real-Time Leaderboards in Academic and Industrial Settings
Serdar Kad{\i}o\u{g}lu, Bernard Kleynhans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07936

The Design and Organization of Educational Competitions with Anonymous and Real-Time Leaderboards in Academic and Industrial Settings
The goal of this paper is to share our experience in designing and organizing educational competitions with anonymous and (near) real-time leaderboards in both academic and industrial settings. While such competitions serve as a great educational tool and provide participants with hands-on experience, they require significant planning, technical setup, and administration from organizers. In this paper, we first outline several important areas including team registration, data access, submission…

"Mit all diesen Indizien fiel der Verdacht auf Wasserenthärter, die handelsüblichen Waschmitteln zugesetzt sind. Die Vermutung ist keineswegs so abwegig, wie sie auf den ersten Blick scheinen mag – im Gegenteil. In Europa verkaufte Waschmittel enthalten oft Aminomethylphosphonate. (...) Wenn sie sich zersetzen, entsteht als Abbauprodukt ebenfalls AMPA. Glyphosat ist mit ihnen strukturell stark verwandt."
Ein Text von Verena Tang und @…

Glyphosat entsteht womöglich aus Waschmittel
Ein Teil des Glyphosats in der Umwelt könnte aus einer ganz anderen Quelle stammen als bisher vermutet. Daten deuten darauf hin, dass es aus Wasserenthärtern entsteht.

A Comparison of SynDiffix Multi-table versus Single-table Synthetic Data
Paul Francis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08463 https://arxiv.…

A Comparison of SynDiffix Multi-table versus Single-table Synthetic Data
SynDiffix is a new open-source tool for structured data synthesis. It has anonymization features that allow it to generate multiple synthetic tables while maintaining strong anonymity. Compared to the more common single-table approach, multi-table leads to more accurate data, since only the features of interest for a given analysis need be synthesized. This paper compares SynDiffix with 15 other commercial and academic synthetic data techniques using the SDNIST analysis framework, modified by u…