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Bear is working on web access to notes... finally!
#bearNotes

Bear Web Public Beta - You are invited!
We’re excited to share a new chapter for Bear: Bear Web is now in Public Beta! This is a big step toward making Bear available wherever you need it, and we’d love for you to give it a try. ⚠ Please read the following carefully before jumping in. About Bear Web Bear Web is a web app designed to complement the native Bear apps on Mac, iPhone and iPad, providing you with the flexibility to access your notes from any web browser. It is primarily for situations where you cannot access the n.…

80 years later, Hiroshima bombing survivors warn of new nuclear warfare (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/80-years-later-hiroshima-bombing-survivors-warn-new-nuclear-warfare-rcna220177
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p117#a250806p117

I can’t figure this out: I’m listening to a podcast in the #iPhone #Apple #Podcasts app. I am on the screen with the transcription on. The playback controls faded.
How can I bring back the controls?!?!? Wherever I click it jumps in the podcast as the click registers as a click on the transcription.

WARBERT: A Hierarchical BERT-based Model for Web API Recommendation
Zishuo Xu, Yuhong Gu, Dezhong Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23175 https://arxiv.org/pd…

WARBERT: A Hierarchical BERT-based Model for Web API Recommendation
With the emergence of Web 2.0 and microservices architecture, the number of Web APIs has increased dramatically, further intensifying the demand for efficient Web API recommendation. Existing solutions typically fall into two categories: recommendation-type methods, which treat each API as a label for classification, and match-type methods, which focus on matching mashups through API retrieval. However, three critical challenges persist: 1) the semantic ambiguities in comparing API and mashup d…

WireBend-kit: A Computational Design and Fabrication Toolkit for Wirebending Custom 3D Wireframe Structures
Faraz Faruqi, Josha Paonaskar, Riley Schuler, Aiden Prevey, Carson Taylor, Anika Tak, Anthony Guinto, Eeshani Shilamkar, Natarith Cheenaruenthong, Martin Nisser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24083…

WireBend-kit: A Computational Design and Fabrication Toolkit for Wirebending Custom 3D Wireframe Structures
This paper introduces WireBend-kit, a desktop wirebending machine and computational design tool for creating 3D wireframe structures. Combined, they allow users to rapidly and inexpensively create custom 3D wireframe structures from aluminum wire. Our design tool is implemented in freely available software and allows users to generate virtual wireframe designs and assess their fabricability. A path-planning procedure automatically converts the wireframe design into fabrication instructions for …

A kind editor had pity upon me:
#poetry

Upon a Single Fact
Upon a single fact is life supported: I-AM exists and works and speaks, before All time began, when space and earth were sorted, His plan completed, the Fartherest Edge and Core. The human mind cannot fully know The only limitless God whose spiritual Being Is Air to breathe and Wind that chooses to blow Wherever he desires, and no man seeing. This central truth: the eternal One not only Speaks but writes as well: his plan revealed, The unknown explained, the deepest secret unsealed- He lays the…

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Maximo Park:
🎵 The Coast Is Always Changing
#NowPlaying #MaximoPark
https://warprecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-coast-is-always-changing
https://open.spotify.com/track/7w7t2RqogJ2IisdriHbZ1o

Victim in Epstein case decries 'political warfare' in effort to release grand jury transcripts (Casey Gannon/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/epstein-victims-statements-grand-jury
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p101#a250804p101

I've probably mentioned that I'm working on switching #Gentoo from our half-broken eselect-ldso logic to #FlexiBLAS. This also involves a transition period where both setups would be supported.
A good thing is that the switch is ABI-compatible with the previous state (or at least it's supposed to be — we're working with upstream on fixing function coverage). Since libblas.so, liblapack.so and the rest are replaced by symlinks, programs that link to them will simply start using FlexiBLAS. So far, so good.
Unfortunately, switching the other way doesn't work as well. Stuff newly built against our libblas.so & co. symlinks naturally reads FlexiBLAS's SONAME from them, and links to libflexiblas directly. So should you decide to switch back, some packages will stay linked to FlexiBLAS and will need to rebuilt.
In order to avoid this, I would have to replace the symlinks with wrapper libraries, having libblas.so.3 and so on SONAMEs, and linking to libflexiblas. Unfortunately, a dummy wrapper isn't going to work — the linker will complain about using indirect symbols from libflexiblas.so. So I would probably have to "reexport" their symbols somehow, and ideally split into appropriate libraries, so that `-Wl,--as-needed` wouldn't drop some of them. But how to do that?
Well, let's look at the existing logic for eselect-ldso — clearly both BLIS and OpenBLAS create some wrappers. So I've spent some time investigating upstream Makefiles, and literally couldn't find the respective targets. I mean, these are quite complex Makefiles, but I'm grepping hard and can't find even a partial match.
As it turns out, these Makefile targets are added by Gentoo-specific patches. And these patches are just horrible. In case of OpenBLAS, they create the wrapper libraries by linking all the relevant .o files from OpenBLAS build, plus the shared OpenBLAS library. So the OpenBLAS symbols relevant to each interface end up duplicated in libblas.so, liblapack.so, etc., and apparently the symbols needed by them are taken from libopenblas.so. The individual interface libraries aren't even linked to one another, so they expose their own duplicate symbols, but use the implementation from OpenBLAS instead.
BLIS is even worse — the patch is simply creating libblas.so and libcblas.so, using all BLIS objects directly, plus symbol visibility to hide symbols irrelevant to the library. So yes, libblis.so, libblas.so and libcblas.so are roughly three separate copies of the same library, differing only in symbol visibility. And of course libcblas.so doesn't use libblas.so.
Truly #GSoC quality.

Texas Pushes Redistricting Into an Era of 'Maximum Warfare' (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/texas-redistricting-democrats-republicans-midterms.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p50#a250802p50