Tootfinder

I'll be getting my main laptop back soon, on which—for reasons that aren't relevant here—I've had to temporarily install Windows.
Now I'm faced with the dilemma of choosing a distro. Since my ThinkPad runs Arch Linux, I'm wondering if it's time to reinstall Fedora.
What I do know for sure is that it's time to give Wayland and Hyprland a try, after years of using i3wm.

"Nehmt den Kindern nicht noch die letzte Gelegenheit, rumzuhängen und sich auszutauschen"
https://alecmuffett.com/article/160943

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Al Barry and the Cimarons:
🎵 Morning Sun
#AlBarryandtheCimarons
https://franzalexanderdj.bandcamp.com/track/al-barry-the-cimarons-morning-sun-franz-alexander-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uqqDha6xHfmP4Gu1VyYxd

From Licensing to Open Access: Designing a Sustainable Transition in Operational Weather Data
Emma Pidduck, Umberto Modigliani, Victoria L. Bennett, Fabio Venuti, Florian Pappenberger, Florence Rabier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21673 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.21673 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.21673
arXiv:2605.21673v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This translational article documents the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) transition from a restricted data licensing model to open access under CC BY 4.0, completed in October 2025. The policy context included EU open data requirements and alignment with international data exchange frameworks. The transition was implemented through a tiered service model that kept core forecast data open while offering operationally supported delivery as a cost-recovered service. Between 2020 and 2025, ECMWF executed an iterative planning cycle: setting an annual target for revenue reduction, specifying additions to the open tier under that target, provisioning infrastructure, and assessing outcomes to update assumptions. Drawing on internal administrative records (2014 - 2025), we describe design choices, operational constraints, and early outcomes. In the six months following the end of the transition, more than 93% of previously paying organisations retained a Service Agreement, while open endpoint download volumes increased substantially. We discuss trade-offs in defining the open tier (resolution, parameters, schedule), the reduction of compliance overheads formerly associated with redistribution restrictions, and the scalability implications of global distribution. We note an emerging sustainability question as AI-based forecast products become freely available. The early evidence is consistent with the view that a tiered service model can be designed to reconcile open-access obligations with operational sustainability, subject to monitoring over longer contract renewal cycles (typically annual).
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Talking Heads:
🎵 Wild Wild Life
#TalkingHeads
https://spoonhead.bandcamp.com/track/talking-heads-wild-wild-life-spoonhead-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/07SZJMPaTsiFbGvBeeib3O

#PhantastikPrompts 18.7.:
Happy End, alles offen oder vollkommene Zerstörung - was für ein Ende schreibst du am liebsten?
Meine Enden sind genrebedingt (Slice of Life) und formatbedingt (lange Reihe) ziemlich offen. Ich versuche aber zum Ausklang eine wohltuende, ruhige Szene zu schreiben. Die Probleme sind nicht allesamt gelöst, aber es gibt Hoffnung, dass sie es bald werd…

Deutschlands Botschafter zieht erschütternde Bilanz über Zeit in Russland
https://www.fr.de/politik/deutschlands-botschafter-zieht-erschuetternde-bilanz-ueber-zeit-in-russland-zr-94403320.html

„Enttäuschung, Empörung, fürchterlich“: Deutschlands Botschafter in Russland rechnet mit seiner Zeit in Moskau ab
Drei Jahre lang hatte Alexander Graf Lambsdorff als deutscher Botschafter in Moskau agiert. Seine Bilanz ist ernüchternd – und besorgniserregend.

The Trump administration has stacked a top chemical safety board with industry-aligned scientists
who have a range of financial conflicts of interest and stand to profit from deregulation,
public health advocates say.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s science advisory committee on chemicals (SACC)
is slated to review research for dozens of toxic chemicals during the new members’ terms.
At least 13 proposed Trump appointees are probably conflicted on the che…

Trump officials accused of stacking top chemical safety board with industry ‘mouthpieces’
Public health advocates warn of conflicts of interests and say panel likely to provide justification for key rollbacks

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Babyface:
🎵 Whip Appeal
#Babyface
https://martinez779.bandcamp.com/track/babyface-whip-appeal-alejandro-martinez-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3pVJdvuKppX2YVwYsfXZpq