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Starlink-Alternative: Telekom beteiligt sich am EU-Satellitenprojekt IRIS²
Um unabhängiger von US-Konzernen zu werden, plant die Europäische Union ein eigenständiges Satellitennetz. Die Deutsche Telekom liefert die IT-Infrastruktur.

@… this also have bookmarks and GPX and offline routing etc
https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/114805402854181804

Hey Google,
Now We Have This New Private, Offline Alternative:
A maps app that doesn't track you but lets you record your path on the map
https://news.itsfoss.com/comaps-launch/

Look Google, We Have This New Private, Offline Alternative Now
A maps app that doesn't track you but lets you track your path on the map. A pathbreaking open source alternative.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Statt Jira und Confluence: OpenProject und XWiki planen Open-Source-Alternative

TIL that Cake (the alternative rock band) called themselves that way after the grime and the dirt that accumulates with time 🤘

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Monogenic functions over real alternative *-algebras: fundamental results and applications
The concept of monogenic functions over real alternative $\ast$-algebras has recently been introduced to unify several classical monogenic (or regular) functions theories in hypercomplex analysis, including quaternionic, octonionic, and Clifford analysis. This paper explores the fundamental properties of these monogenic functions, focusing on the Cauchy-Pompeiu integral formula and Taylor series expansion in hypercomplex subspaces, among which the non-commutativity and especially non-associativ…

"tough on crime" ruins lives and doesn't make us safe.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sf-teen-defendant-substance-treatment-alternative-prison-sentence/

A 19-year-old in S.F. treatment program passed some notes. Now, he faces years in prison.
SF aims to both get tougher on crime and put recovery first. How many second chances should a teenage defendant with addiction issues get?

Schon mal was von ihr gehört, von der durchwachsenen Silphie?
https://www.telepolis.de/features/Silphie-bluehendes-Multitalent-auf-dem-Acker-10397187.html

Silphie – blühendes Multitalent auf dem Acker
Mais dominiert bisher deutsche Äcker, doch Dürreperioden setzen ihm zu. Die Durchwachsene Silphie könnte eine Alternative sein. Doch was macht diese gelb blühende Pflanze so besonders?

Zimní pneu – Nahšč
#alternative

Document: Xiaohongshu, a TikTok alternative known in the US as Rednote, has surged to a $26B valuation based on recent market transactions via a GSR fund (Echo Wong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

US based nonprofit
Many families in Uganda stuck with unhealthy dirt floors are finding an affordable alternative | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/many-families-in-uganda-stuck-with-unhealthy-dirt-floors-are-finding-an-affordable-alternative/

It won't be an easy path. I think maybe they should consider merger with the Greens and an electoral alliance with PC. Maybe later
MP Zarah Sultana resigns from Labour to co-found a new party with Corbyn | Jeremy Corbyn | The Guardian
https://www.…

Test of conformal gravity as an alternative to dark matter from the observations of elliptical galaxies
Li-Xue Yue, Da-Ming Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03955

Test of conformal gravity as an alternative to dark matter from the observations of elliptical galaxies
As an alternative gravitational theory to General Relativity (GR), the Conformal Gravity (CG) has recently been successfully verified by observations of Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) and the rotation curves of spiral galaxies. The observations of galaxies only pertain to the non-relativistic form of gravity. In this context, within the framework of the Newtonian theory of gravity (the non-relativistic form of GR), dark matter is postulated to account for the observations. On the other hand, the no…

Big Bird: Privacy Budget Management for W3C's Privacy-Preserving Attribution API
Pierre Tholoniat, Alison Caulfield, Giorgio Cavicchioli, Mark Chen, Nikos Goutzoulias, Benjamin Case, Asaf Cidon, Roxana Geambasu, Mathias L\'ecuyer, Martin Thomson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05290

Big Bird: Privacy Budget Management for W3C's Privacy-Preserving Attribution API
Privacy-preserving advertising APIs like Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA) are designed to enhance web privacy while enabling effective ad measurement. PPA offers an alternative to cross-site tracking with encrypted reports governed by differential privacy (DP), but current designs lack a principled approach to privacy budget management, creating uncertainty around critical design decisions. We present Big Bird, a privacy budget manager for PPA that clarifies per-site budget semantics and in…

John Ruskin said: 'There is No Wealth but Life.'
What I had to do was find and explore new ways of seeing it.
Once I did, I never felt alone.
Cultivating alternative ways of experiencing the world has completely changed my life;
it helped me overcome anxiety and depression, opened up a world of possibility and led me to a new career in photography.
-- Andy Marshall

About the Genius Loci Digest
For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.

from my link log —
The SLAX scripting language: an alternative syntax for XSLT.
http://juniper.github.io/libslax/slax-manual.html
saved 2024-11-25

GenAI-free WorldCon alternative!
Mia Tsai: on Bluesky: "ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon"
Thursday, August 14, 2025
ACT Theatre, downtown #Seattle
> My vision for ConCurrent was simple
> one day of excellent programming; have it be free to attend; run it efficiently; and never use genAI/L…

Mia Tsai (@itsamia.bsky.social)
There’s no way to ease into this news, so here it is. Today, I am announcing ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon, scheduled for Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle at 700 Union Street, across from the Sheraton. 1/7

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Statt Jira und Confluence: OpenProject und XWiki planen Open-Source-Alternative

It doesn't take much to create a #fedi alternative to #Linkedin. We just need structured profiles (featuring experience and education) and posts (that let people know if they could still apply or position is taken).

Set Smoothness Unlocks Clarke Hyper-stationarity in Bilevel Optimization
He Chen, Jiajin Li, Anthony Man-cho So
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04587 https://…

Set Smoothness Unlocks Clarke Hyper-stationarity in Bilevel Optimization
Solving bilevel optimization (BLO) problems to global optimality is generally intractable. A common alternative is to compute a hyper-stationary point -- a stationary point of the hyper-objective function formed by minimizing/maximizing the upper-level function over the lower-level solution set. However, existing approaches either yield weak notions of stationarity or rely on restrictive assumptions to ensure the smoothness of hyper-objective functions. In this paper, we remove these impractica…

Experience Paper: Scaling WiFi Sensing to Millions of Commodity Devices for Ubiquitous Home Monitoring
Guozhen Zhu, Yuqian Hu, Chenshu Wu, Wei-Hsiang Wang, Beibei Wang, K. J. Ray Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04322

Experience Paper: Scaling WiFi Sensing to Millions of Commodity Devices for Ubiquitous Home Monitoring
WiFi-based home monitoring has emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional camera- and sensor-based solutions, offering wide coverage with minimal intrusion by leveraging existing wireless infrastructure. This paper presents key insights and lessons learned from developing and deploying a large-scale WiFi sensing solution, currently operational across over 10 million commodity off-the-shelf routers and 100 million smart bulbs worldwide. Through this extensive deployment, we identify four…

Very high-order accurate finite volume scheme for the streamfunction-vorticity formulation of incompressible fluid flows with polygonal meshes on arbitrary curved boundaries
Ricardo Costa (Institute for Polymers and Composites, University of Minho, Azur\'em Campus, 4804-058 Guimar\~aes, Portugal, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho, Azur\'em Campus, 4804-058 Guimar\~aes, Portugal), St\'ephane Clain (Centre of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, 3000-143 C…

Very high-order accurate finite volume scheme for the streamfunction-vorticity formulation of incompressible fluid flows with polygonal meshes on arbitrary curved boundaries
Conventional mathematical models for simulating incompressible fluid flow problems are based on the Navier-Stokes equations expressed in terms of pressure and velocity. In this context, pressure-velocity coupling is a key issue, and countless numerical techniques and methods have been developed over the decades to solve these equations efficiently and accurately. In two dimensions, an alternative approach is to rewrite the Navier-Stokes equations regarding two scalar quantities: the streamfunct…

Robust Estimation in Step-Stress Experiments under Exponential Lifetime Distributions
Mar\'ia Jaenada, Juan Manuel Mill\'an, Leandro Pardo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04445

Robust Estimation in Step-Stress Experiments under Exponential Lifetime Distributions
Many modern products exhibit high reliability, often resulting in long times to failure. Consequently, conducting experiments under normal operating conditions may require an impractically long duration to obtain sufficient failure data for reliable statistical inference. As an alternative, accelerated life tests (ALTs) are employed to induce earlier failures and thereby reduce testing time. In step-stress experiments a stress factor that accelerates product degradation is identified and system…

Exciton-Exciton Annihilation Mediated by Many-Body Coulomb and Phonon Interactions: An Ab Initio Study
Guy Vosco, Sivan Refaely-Abramson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05223

Exciton-Exciton Annihilation Mediated by Many-Body Coulomb and Phonon Interactions: An Ab Initio Study
Exciton-exciton annihilation (EEA), in which two excitons interact to generate high-energy excitations, is an important non-radiative channel in light-induced excited-state relaxation. When efficient, this process offers an alternative route to exciton emission, potentially allowing extended energetically excited particles' lifetime and coherence. These properties are significant in designing and understanding materials-based quantum devices, particularly for low-dimensional semiconductors. Her…

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A Causation-Based Framework for Pricing and Cost Allocation of Energy, Reserves, and Transmission in Modern Power Systems
The increasing vulnerability of power systems has heightened the need for operating reserves to manage contingencies such as generator outages, line failures, and sudden load variations. Unlike energy costs, driven by consumer demand, operating reserve costs arise from addressing the most critical credible contingencies - prompting the question: how should these costs be allocated through efficient pricing mechanisms? As an alternative to previously reported schemes, this paper presents a new c…

A novel test of gravity: Does spacetime geometry track matter density?
Camille Bonvin, Nastassia Grimm, Isaac Tutusaus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04387 htt…

A novel test of gravity: Does spacetime geometry track matter density?
We propose a novel test of gravity that combines galaxy clustering with gravitational lensing. In general relativity, the evolution of matter density fluctuations and of the Weyl potential -- the sum of spatial and temporal distortions of the geometry -- are governed by the same growth function. In contrast, alternative theories of gravity that modify the relation between geometry and matter content can lead to differences in these two growths. Exploiting a recent method to directly measure the…

Organic Crystal Active Waveguide as an All-Angle Signal Receiver and Transmission Platform for Visible Light Communication
Ankur Khapre, Jyotisman Hazarika, Rajadurai Chandrasekar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04874

Organic Crystal Active Waveguide as an All-Angle Signal Receiver and Transmission Platform for Visible Light Communication
Organic crystal waveguides, known for excellent light-guiding and photonic versatility, present a promising alternative to conventional optical media in visible light communication (VLC) systems. In a novel approach, the high photoluminescence quantum yield organic crystal 2,2dash-((1E,1Edash)-hydrazine-1,2-diylidenebis(methaneylylidene))diphenol (SAA) is used as an optical waveguide medium for real-time data communication in the visible range, employing a microcontroller unit with on off keyin…

@… > all apps auto-move to Alternative Terms
Are the terms really alternative at that point? 😅

Seaweed farming as an eco-friendly alternative for Tanzanian fishing communities https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/seaweed-farming-as-an-eco-friendly-alternative-for-tanzanian-fishing-communities/

Seaweed farming as an eco-friendly alternative for Tanzanian fishing communities
Climate change, overfishing and habitat loss have caused a sharp decline in fish stocks around Pemba Island, off the coast of Tanzania. To find a new income from the sea, women from Pemba are turning to sustainable seaweed farming, Mongabay’s video team reported in May. Seaweed farming was introduced to the island in 1989. It […]

@… Yeah, I agree. I was also disappointed; I thought the alternative proposals in the thread (such as `<embed>` with MIME types) made a lot more sense, and it just culminates in Andreessen saying “fuck you, we’re doing what I proposed”.
And now we’re stuck with it. Thanks, Marc.

#Großwärmepumpen können ganze Städte mit klimafreundlicher #Fernwärme versorgen.
Anlagen wie in #Mannheim,

Wärmepumpen XXL: Wie sie ganze Städte versorgen sollen
Die Wärmepumpe kann eine Alternative zu fossilen Heizungen im Altbau sein, wenn bestimmte Bedingungen erfüllt sind, wie große Heizkörper und ausreichende Isolierung.

Buried unstrained Ge channels: a lattice-matched platform for quantum technology
Davide Costa, Karina Hudson, Patrick Del Vecchio, Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Alberto Tosato, Davide Degli Esposti, Mario Lodari, Stefano Bosco, Giordano Scappucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04724

Buried unstrained Ge channels: a lattice-matched platform for quantum technology
Ge and Si strained quantum wells have enabled the most advanced spin-qubit quantum processors, but they are deposited on defective, metamorphic SiGe substrates, which may impact device performance and scaling. Here we introduce an alternative platform, based on a heterojunction between unstrained Ge and a strained SiGe barrier, which is lattice-matched to a Ge substrate. In a structure with a 52-nm-thick strained SiGe barrier, we demonstrate a low-disorder two-dimensional hole gas with a high-m…

I wish someone else would make a compelling Notion alternative because I'm tired of it being so damn buggy all the time

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05393 has been replaced.
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RIVCoin: an alternative, integrated, CeFi/DeFi-Vaulted Cryptocurrency
This whitepaper introduces RIVCoin, a cryptocurrency built on Cosmos, fully stabilized by a diversified portfolio of both CeFi and DeFi assets, available in a digital, non-custodial wallet called RIV Wallet, that aims to provide Users an easy way to access the cryptocurrency markets, compliant to the strictest AML laws and regulations up to date. The token is a cryptocurrency at any time stabilized by a basket of assets: reserves are invested in a portfolio composed long term by 50% of CeFi ass…

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MTevent: A Multi-Task Event Camera Dataset for 6D Pose Estimation and Moving Object Detection
Mobile robots are reaching unprecedented speeds, with platforms like Unitree B2, and Fraunhofer O3dyn achieving maximum speeds between 5 and 10 m/s. However, effectively utilizing such speeds remains a challenge due to the limitations of RGB cameras, which suffer from motion blur and fail to provide real-time responsiveness. Event cameras, with their asynchronous operation, and low-latency sensing, offer a promising alternative for high-speed robotic perception. In this work, we introduce MTeve…

An alternative approach to the phonon theory of liquids: Evolution of the energy of diffusion
M. Y. Esmer, Bahtiyar A. Mamedov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02121

An alternative approach to the phonon theory of liquids: Evolution of the energy of diffusion
With regard to the three basic states of matter (solid, liquid, gas), the calculation of the heat capacity of liquids in a general form has been considered one of the deepest and most interesting challenges in condensed matter physics, due to the strong, system-specific interactions involved. Notwithstanding the theoretical difficulties, there have recently been significant advances in our understanding of liquids, and the phonon theory of liquids has been proposed. However, this theory uses th…

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Digital-physical testbed for ship autonomy studies in the Marine Cybernetics Laboratory basin
The algorithms developed for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) are often challenging to test on actual vessels due to high operational costs and safety considerations. Simulations offer a cost-effective alternative and eliminate risks, but they may not accurately represent real-world dynamics for the given tasks. Utilizing small-scale model ships and robotic vessels in conjunction with a laboratory basin provides an accessible testing environment for the early stages of validation proces…

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A note on the diversity Owen values
Béal et al. (Int J Game Theory 54, 2025) introduce the Diversity Owen value for TU-games with diversity constraints, and provide axiomatic characterizations using the axioms of fairness and balanced contributions. However, there exist logical flaws in the proofs of the uniqueness of these characterizations. In this note we provides the corrected proofs of the characterizations by introducing the null player for diversity games axiom. Also, we establish two alternative characterizations of the …

Judges using 'alternative routes' to bypass Supreme Court's pro-Trump rulings - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supreme-court-wins/

As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way: with water
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/05/13/climate-change/un-water-cooling-pipes/
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As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way — with water
As more and more people want to stay cool in a planet that is steadily heating up, energy experts point to this kind of water-based system as a good alternative.

Die Abhängigkeit von US-Konzernen kostet Europa Milliarden – und gefährdet die digitale Souveränität. Open Source-Lösungen werden zur echten Alternative, wie das Beispiel OpenDesk zeigt. Unser Gespräch mit Alex Smolianitski vom @… bei #9vor9.

Digitale Souveränität: Zwischen Trump, Cloud Act und OpenDesk – ZenDiS bei #9vor9
Die Abhängigkeit von US-Konzernen kostet Europa Milliarden – und gefährdet die digitale Selbstbestimmung. Open Source wird zur echten Alternative, wie das Beispiel OpenDesk zeigt. Doch ohne entschl…

Mentra entwickelt ein Open-Source-Betriebssystem für Smart Glasses
Das Start-up Mentra arbeitet an einer Open-Source-Alternative zu Smart-Glasses-Betriebssystemen der großen Techkonzerne.
http…

Bridging Ethical Principles and Algorithmic Methods: An Alternative Approach for Assessing Trustworthiness in AI Systems
Michael Papademas, Xenia Ziouvelou, Antonis Troumpoukis, Vangelis Karkaletsis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22774

Bridging Ethical Principles and Algorithmic Methods: An Alternative Approach for Assessing Trustworthiness in AI Systems
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology epitomizes the complex challenges posed by human-made artifacts, particularly those widely integrated into society and exert significant influence, highlighting potential benefits and their negative consequences. While other technologies may also pose substantial risks, AI's pervasive reach makes its societal effects especially profound. The complexity of AI systems, coupled with their remarkable capabilities, can lead to a reliance on technologies that o…

Diffusion Tensor MRI and Spherical-Deconvolution-Based Tractography on an Ultra-Low Field Portable MRI System
James Gholam, Phil Schmid, Joshua Ametepe, Alix Plumley, Leandro Beltrachini, Francesco Padormo, Rui Teixeira, Rafael OHalloran, Kaloian Petkov, Klaus Engel, Steven CR Williams, Sean Deoni, Mara Cercignani, Derek K Jones
https://

Diffusion Tensor MRI and Spherical-Deconvolution-Based Tractography on an Ultra-Low Field Portable MRI System
Ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI is emerging as an alternative modality to high-field (HF) MRI due to its lower cost, minimal siting requirements, portability, and enhanced accessibility factors that enable large-scale deployment. Although ULF-MRI exhibits lower signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), advanced imaging and data-driven denoising methods enabled by high-performance computing have made contrasts like diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) feasible at ULF. This study investigates the potential and limitati…

AI-Governed Agent Architecture for Web-Trustworthy Tokenization of Alternative Assets
Ailiya Borjigin, Wei Zhou, Cong He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00096 h…

AI-Governed Agent Architecture for Web-Trustworthy Tokenization of Alternative Assets
Alternative Assets tokenization is transforming non-traditional financial instruments are represented and traded on the web. However, ensuring trustworthiness in web-based tokenized ecosystems poses significant challenges, from verifying off-chain asset data to enforcing regulatory compliance. This paper proposes an AI-governed agent architecture that integrates intelligent agents with blockchain to achieve web-trustworthy tokenization of alternative assets. In the proposed architecture, autono…

Interested in digital sovereignty in the EU context. Read this Eurostack document, i also like the beautiful visualization on this page.
#EU

EuroStack
Building a european alternative for technological sovereignty

from my link log —
Recovering control flow structures from Java bytecode without CFGs.
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/recovering-control-flow-structures-without-cfgs/
saved 2025-06-06

Recovering control flow structures without CFGs
I’m working on a Java decompiler because I’m not satisfied with the performance of other solutions. I’ve always heard that decompiling JVM bytecode is a solved problem, but I’ve concluded that the decompilation methods used by CFR and Vineflower are hacky, inefficient, and sometimes don’t even work. The existing solutions are haphazard and inadequate compared to alternative approaches. Specifically, I have beef with the control flow extraction strategies employed by most decompilers. …

Why is school lunch debt a thing? There's got to be a better way to handle it than to take a kid's lunch away from them. If the school can afford to give them an "alternative meal," why can't they afford to give them the original meal?
https://www.

I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened.
“I immediately wondered if this was real.”

Good for you Andy Burnham.
"At the weekend the continuity rebels won the backing of Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester. Burnham, who has become increasingly vocal in recent weeks in setting out an alternative, more muscular, soft left alternative to what Keir Starmer is offering, ... he urged Labour MPs to vote down the bill."

ProRank: Prompt Warmup via Reinforcement Learning for Small Language Models Reranking
Xianming Li, Aamir Shakir, Rui Huang, Julius Lipp, Jing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03487

ProRank: Prompt Warmup via Reinforcement Learning for Small Language Models Reranking
Reranking is fundamental to information retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation, with recent Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly advancing reranking quality. While recent advances with LLMs have significantly improved document reranking quality, current approaches primarily rely on large-scale LLMs (>7B parameters) through zero-shot prompting, presenting high computational costs. Small Language Models (SLMs) offer a promising alternative because of their efficiency, but our prelimin…

Energy Consumption Optimization for Autonomous Vehicles via Positive Control Input Minimization
Andreas Hadjigeorgiou, Stelios Timotheou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04685

Energy Consumption Optimization for Autonomous Vehicles via Positive Control Input Minimization
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) present a unique opportunity to improve the sustainability of transportation systems by adopting eco-driving strategies that reduce energy consumption and emissions. This paper introduces a novel surrogate model for energy and fuel consumption that minimizes Positive Control Input (PCI). Unlike conventional objectives such as squared acceleration, which often misrepresent actual energy usage, PCI provides a more accurate and optimization-friendly alternative. Building …

Compact binary systems in Einstein-{\AE}ther gravity. II. Radiation reaction to 2.5 post-Newtonian order
Fatemeh Taherasghari, Clifford M. Will
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03843

Compact binary systems in Einstein-Æther gravity. II. Radiation reaction to 2.5 post-Newtonian order
We obtain the equations of motion for compact binary systems (black holes or neutron stars) in an alternative theory of gravity known as Einstein-AEther theory, which supplements the standard spacetime metric with a timelike four-vector (the AEther field) that is constrained to have unit norm. The equations make use of solutions obtained in Paper I for the gravitational and AEther field potentials within the near zone of the system, evaluated to 2.5 post-Newtonian (PN) order ($O(v/c)^5$ beyond …

Dodajemy jeszcze jeden system budowania, brachu! Z pewnością nie pożałujesz dodania jeszcze jednego systemu budowania!
Oczywiście, że próbują wepchnąć bajzel… znaczy, #Bazel.
https://github.com/libarchive/libar…

Was ist denn beim Spiegel Online kaputt?
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/fedora-asahi-remix-alltagstaugliches-linux-fuer-macos-nutzer-a-769f47bd-6740-4254-9c9f-cba36550ceb6

Fedora Asahi Remix statt macOS: Ein alltagstaugliches Linux für neue Macs
Auch Macs mit Apple-Chips können zu Linux-Rechnern werden. Wir zeigen, wie Sie das alternative Betriebssystem Fedora Asahi Remix neben macOS installieren.

My go-to catchphrase this week has been “Define (xxx).”
Such as, “Define ‘broken’.” As though something could be wildly spun into an alternative interpretation.

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The Kazdan-Warner problem on compact Kähler surfaces
In this paper, we investigate a Kazdan-Warner problem on compact Kähler surfaces, which corresponds to prescribing sign-changing Chern scalar curvatures, and establish a Chen-Li type existence theorem on compact Kähler surfaces when the candidate curvature function is of negative average. Moreover, we give an alternative proof of Ding-Liu's theorem [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 347(1995) 1059-1066] on prescribing sign-changing Gaussian curvatures.

Oh, #ThunderbirdCloud hört sich interessant an und könnte tatsächlich #Gmail bei mir ablösen! Ich nutze letzteres nur als Oberfläche, um Pop3-Konten an einer Stelle zu aggregieren.
Scheine ja nicht nur ich so zu machen.

Thunderbird: Mozillas Alternative zu Microsoft 365 und Google Workspace - Golem.de
Thunderbird verliert Nutzer an Microsoft 365 – und geht jetzt auch in die Cloud. Das neue Angebot rund um Mail und Kalender ist vielversprechend.

Why UUIDs are bad, and why you should consider the alternative
TL;DR: Use Cuid2 instead of UUID.
🧑‍💻 #code

Why UUIDs are bad, and why you should consider the alternative
Universally Unique Identifier, or UUID for short, is widely used as a unique identifier across systems. Their appeal lies in their simplicity and universality. But they come with costs (and they are huge).

An Alternative Finite Difference WENO-like Scheme with Physical Constraint Preservation for Divergence-Preserving Hyperbolic Systems
Dinshaw S. Balsara, Deepak Bhoriya, Chi-Wang Shu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22312

An Alternative Finite Difference WENO-like Scheme with Physical Constraint Preservation for Divergence-Preserving Hyperbolic Systems
Alternative finite difference Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (AFD-WENO) schemes allow us to very efficiently update hyperbolic systems even in complex geometries. Recent innovations in AFD-WENO methods allow us to treat hyperbolic system with non-conservative products almost as efficiently as conservation laws. However, some PDE systems,like computational electrodynamics (CED) and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD), have involution constraints that req…

"Can This Alternative Browser Make Search Good Again?" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2025/can-this-alternative-browser-make-search-good-again
&…

The European Commission has published new requirements for EV charging points. These requirements will make hardware more expensive and add to the complexity of the already opaque pricing landscape for public EV charging. They also lack a focus on true interoperability from a user's perspective.

The delegated act amending the European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) has now been officially published by the European Commission and will apply from 8 January 2026 onwards. | Jaap Burger
The delegated act amending the European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) has now been officially published by the European Commission and will apply from 8 January 2026 onwards. From this date onwards, all newly installed public EV charging stations will be required to support the outdated EN ISO 15118-2 standard, without specifying the functionality. From January 2027 onwards, all new public and private EV charging points will be required to support EN ISO 15118-20, again wit…

Designing morphologies of soft medical devices using cooperative neuro coevolution
Hugo Alcaraz-Herrera, Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas, Igor Balaz, Andrew Adamatzky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03847

Designing morphologies of soft medical devices using cooperative neuro coevolution
Soft robots have proven to outperform traditional robots in applications related to propagation in geometrically constrained environments. Designing these robots and their controllers is an intricate task, since their building materials exhibit non-linear properties. Human designs may be biased; hence, alternative designing processes should be considered. We present a cooperative neuro coevolution approach to designing the morphologies of soft actuators and their controllers for applications in…

Answer Matching Outperforms Multiple Choice for Language Model Evaluation
Nikhil Chandak, Shashwat Goel, Ameya Prabhu, Moritz Hardt, Jonas Geiping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02856

Answer Matching Outperforms Multiple Choice for Language Model Evaluation
Multiple choice benchmarks have long been the workhorse of language model evaluation because grading multiple choice is objective and easy to automate. However, we show multiple choice questions from popular benchmarks can often be answered without even seeing the question. These shortcuts arise from a fundamental limitation of discriminative evaluation not shared by evaluations of the model's free-form, generative answers. Until recently, there appeared to be no viable, scalable alternative to…

Lattice Boltzmann wall boundary conditions for RANS-based simulations with wall functions
Jorge Ponsin, Carlos Lozano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03905 http…

Lattice Boltzmann wall boundary conditions for RANS-based simulations with wall functions
In this study, we investigate wall boundary condition schemes for Lattice Boltzmann simulations of turbulent flows modeled using RANS equations with wall functions. Two alternative schemes are formulated and assessed: a hybrid regularized boundary condition and a slip-velocity bounce-back scheme. Their performance is evaluated using two canonical turbulent flow cases, a fully developed channel flow and a zero-pressure-gradient flat plate boundary layer (BL), selected specifically to isolate and…

I think one main issue I have with the whole "EURO Stack" stuff is that it is not looking for an alternative. It's "we want what we got just with EU companies". But the fact that the Internet and its services have been turned into a mall is the big fucking problem. I don't want a "European Facebook" built on the same logic of exploitation.

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Tight qubit uncertainty relations studied through weak values in neutron interferometry
In its original formulation, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle describes a trade-off relation between the error of a quantum measurement and the thereby induced disturbance on the measured object. However, this relation is not valid in general. An alternative universally valid relation was derived by Ozawa in 2003, defining error and disturbance in a general concept, experimentally accessible via a tomographic method. Later, it was shown by Hall that these errors correspond to the statistical …

H3 in irradiated protoplanetary disks: Linking far-ultraviolet radiation and hot water vapor
Javier R. Goicoechea, Octavio Roncero, Evelyne Roueff, John H. Black, Ilane Schroetter, Olivier Bern\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05189

H3+ in irradiated protoplanetary disks: Linking far-ultraviolet radiation and hot water vapor
The likely JWST detection of vibrationally excited H3+ emission in the irradiated disk d203-506, reported by Schroetter et al., raises the question of whether cosmic-ray ionization is enhanced in disks within clustered star-forming regions, or if alternative mechanisms contribute to H3+ formation and excitation. We present a detailed model of the photodissociation region (PDR) component of a protoplanetary disk-comprising the outer disk surface and the photoevaporative wind-exposed to strong ex…

Method of Weighted Words on Cylindric Partitions
Burcu Barsak\c{c}{\i}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02435 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02…

Method of Weighted Words on Cylindric Partitions
We study the generating functions of cylindric partitions having profile $c=(c_1, c_2, \ldots, c_r)$ with rank $2$ and levels $2, 3$ and $4$. As a result, we give expressions alternative to Borodin's formula for these generating functions. We use the method of weighted words which was first introduced by Alladi and Gordon, later was applied by Dousse in a new version to prove some partition identities and to get infinite products. We adopt the method to our subject with a more combinatorial app…

Closed-Loop Rhythmic Haptic Biofeedback via Smartwatch for Relaxation and Sleep Onset
Jueun Lee, Dennis Moschina, Supraja Ramesh, Tobias R\"oddiger, Kai Kunze, Michael Beigl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02432

Closed-Loop Rhythmic Haptic Biofeedback via Smartwatch for Relaxation and Sleep Onset
We investigate the use of musically structured, closed-loop vibration patterns as a passive biofeedback intervention for relaxation and sleep initiation. By encoding rhythmic meter structures into smartwatch vibrations and adapting their frequency to be slightly slower than the user's real-time heart rate, our system aims to reduce arousal through tactile entrainment, offering a non-invasive alternative to auditory or open-loop approaches previously used in sleep and anxiety contexts. In the fi…

I agree. To me the scariest part is not the courting of the far right, it’s the willingness to participate in this febrile hallucinatory fiction. This is Alternative Facts land.
https://mastodon.social/@BarneyDellar@mastodon.scot/114614780453751884

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Stochastic Domination of Exit Times for Random Walks and Brownian Motion with Drift
In this note, by an elementary use of Girsanov's transform we show that the exit time for either a biased random walk or a drifted Brownian motion on a symmetric interval is stochastically monotone with respect to the drift parameter. In the random walk case, this gives an alternative proof of a recent result of E. Peköz and R. Righter in 2024. Our arguments in both discrete and continuous cases are parallel to each other. We also outline a simple SDE proof for the Brownian case based on a sta…

@… I would recommend not reading it, and also not quoting it if you can find an alternative formulation.

Her ser vi nok en gang hvordan staten og byråkratiet forsŸker å kontrollere hva unge skal tenke, mene og konsumere. Når Valgdirektoratet advarer mot unges mediebruk, handler det ikke bare om «beskyttelse» – det er også et forsŸk på å styre informasjonsflyten og forme unge til lydige borgere som ikke stiller spŸrsmål ved makta. Staten frykter at unge skal finne alternative stemmer og informasjon utenfor de etablerte kanalene, fordi det utfordrer deres monopol på sannhet og kontroll.
I s…

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Knot invariants from representations of braids by automorphisms of a free group
We describe an alternative way of computing Alexander polynomials of knots/links, based on the Artin representation of the corresponding braids by automorphisms of a free group. Then we apply the same method to other representations of braid groups discovered by Wada and compare the corresponding isotopic invariants to Alexander polynomials.

Signalling Health for Improved Kubernetes Microservice Availability
Jacob Roberts, Blair Archibald, Phil Trinder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02158 https://

Signalling Health for Improved Kubernetes Microservice Availability
Microservices are often deployed and managed by a container orchestrator that can detect and fix failures to maintain the service availability critical in many applications. In Poll-based Container Monitoring (PCM), the orchestrator periodically checks container health. While a common approach, PCM requires careful tuning, may degrade service availability, and can be slow to detect container health changes. An alternative is Signal-based Container Monitoring (SCM), where the container signals t…

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Segment Anything for Histopathology
Nucleus segmentation is an important analysis task in digital pathology. However, methods for automatic segmentation often struggle with new data from a different distribution, requiring users to manually annotate nuclei and retrain data-specific models. Vision foundation models (VFMs), such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), offer a more robust alternative for automatic and interactive segmentation. Despite their success in natural images, a foundation model for nucleus segmentation in histo…

Threads bekommt Direktnachrichten sowie Highlighter für angesagte Themen
Die X-Alternative von Meta erlaubt erstmals Messaging von und zu Followern, doch es gibt Kritik. Der Highlighter entspricht den Trends des ehemaligen Twitter.

SPACE: Your Genomic Profile Predictor is a Powerful DNA Foundation Model
Zhao Yang, Jiwei Zhu, Bing Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01833 https://

SPACE: Your Genomic Profile Predictor is a Powerful DNA Foundation Model
Inspired by the success of unsupervised pre-training paradigms, researchers have applied these approaches to DNA pre-training. However, we argue that these approaches alone yield suboptimal results because pure DNA sequences lack sufficient information, since their functions are regulated by genomic profiles like chromatin accessibility. Here, we demonstrate that supervised training for genomic profile prediction serves as a more effective alternative to pure sequence pre-training. Furthermore,…

Apple macht bei Godot mit
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191207

Apple macht bei Godot mit
Godot ist eine Open-Source-Alternative zu Unity und Unreal Engine: Apple mit an Bord – für Vision Pro Bis Godot jedoch Unreal das Wasser reichen kann, dauert es noch. Hoffentlich wird es kein warte…

"Conspiracy thinking is also a trap because it contains feedback loops of positive reinforcement. If you reject authoritative sources of information as part of a conspiracy, then you will likely reject any information that can disprove the conspiracy. Any information that contradicts the conspiracy, or lack of information that would prove the conspiracy, are part of the conspiracy."

#Mehrweg-Taschen und #Körbe sind die umweltfreundliche Alternative zu #Einwegplastik! 🌿 Ob #Stoffbeutel

Mehrweg-Taschen und Körbe: Die umweltfreundliche Alternative zum Einweg-Plastik.
Mehrweg-Taschen und Körbe statt Einweg verwenden: So reduzieren Sie Ihren Verpackungsmüll beim Einkaufen.

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The Dynamic Persistence of Economic Shocks
We propose a novel framework for modeling time-varying persistence in economic time series, allowing for smoothly evolving heterogeneity in shock dynamics. We leverage localized regression techniques to flexibly identify changes in persistence over time, offering a data-driven alternative to traditional parametric models. We applied this methodology to U.S. inflation and stock market volatility data and found substantial persistence variations that align with key macroeconomic events and market…

Nonlinear Optimal Control of DC Microgrids with Safety and Stability Guarantees
Muratkhan Abdirash, Xiaofan Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03454 https://…

Nonlinear Optimal Control of DC Microgrids with Safety and Stability Guarantees
A DC microgrid is a promising alternative to the traditional AC power grid, since it can efficiently integrate distributed and renewable energy resources. However, as an emerging framework, it lacks the rigorous theoretical guarantees of its AC counterpart. In particular, safe stabilization of the DC microgrid has been a non-trivial task in power electronics. To address that, we take a control theoretic perspective in designing the feedback controller with provable guarantees. We present a syst…

Prompt learning with bounding box constraints for medical image segmentation
M\'elanie Gaillochet, Mehrdad Noori, Sahar Dastani, Christian Desrosiers, Herv\'e Lombaert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02743

Prompt learning with bounding box constraints for medical image segmentation
Pixel-wise annotations are notoriously labourious and costly to obtain in the medical domain. To mitigate this burden, weakly supervised approaches based on bounding box annotations-much easier to acquire-offer a practical alternative. Vision foundation models have recently shown noteworthy segmentation performance when provided with prompts such as points or bounding boxes. Prompt learning exploits these models by adapting them to downstream tasks and automating segmentation, thereby reducing …

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RLZero: Direct Policy Inference from Language Without In-Domain Supervision
The reward hypothesis states that all goals and purposes can be understood as the maximization of a received scalar reward signal. However, in practice, defining such a reward signal is notoriously difficult, as humans are often unable to predict the optimal behavior corresponding to a reward function. Natural language offers an intuitive alternative for instructing reinforcement learning (RL) agents, yet previous language-conditioned approaches either require costly supervision or test-time tr…

Campfire, which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services, raised a $35M Series A led by Accel (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/tiny-ai-erp-startup-campfire-is-winning-s…

Tiny AI ERP startup Campfire is winning so many startups from NetSuite, Accel led a $35M Series A  | TechCrunch
Campfire was launched in 2023 to upend 1990s-era enterprise resource planning accounting software (ERP) like Netsuite with an LLM-powered alternative. 

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Dendritic Localized Learning: Toward Biologically Plausible Algorithm
Backpropagation is the foundational algorithm for training neural networks and a key driver of deep learning's success. However, its biological plausibility has been challenged due to three primary limitations: weight symmetry, reliance on global error signals, and the dual-phase nature of training, as highlighted by the existing literature. Although various alternative learning approaches have been proposed to address these issues, most either fail to satisfy all three criteria simultaneously …

19.000 Kilometer dichter dran: US-Startup will GPS-Alternative liefern
Das US-Startup Xona Space Systems plant eine erdnahe GPS-Alternative. 258 Satelliten sollen präzisere und störungsresistentere Navigationsdaten liefern.

Esoteric Language Models
Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Zhihan Yang, Yash Akhauri, Johnna Liu, Deepansha Singh, Zhoujun Cheng, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric Xing, John Thickstun, Arash Vahdat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01928

Esoteric Language Models
Diffusion-based language models offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) models by enabling parallel and controllable generation. Among this family of models, Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) achieve the strongest performance but still underperform AR models in perplexity and lack key inference-time efficiency features--most notably, KV caching. In this work, we introduce Eso-LMs, a new family of models that fuses AR and MDM paradigms, enabling smooth interpolation between their perp…

✊ Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
#politics…

Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
As he visits the US for the first time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save us from a dystopian future.

3D Heart Reconstruction from Sparse Pose-agnostic 2D Echocardiographic Slices
Zhurong Chen, Jinhua Chen, Wei Zhuo, Wufeng Xue, Dong Ni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02411

3D Heart Reconstruction from Sparse Pose-agnostic 2D Echocardiographic Slices
Echocardiography (echo) plays an indispensable role in the clinical practice of heart diseases. However, ultrasound imaging typically provides only two-dimensional (2D) cross-sectional images from a few specific views, making it challenging to interpret and inaccurate for estimation of clinical parameters like the volume of left ventricle (LV). 3D ultrasound imaging provides an alternative for 3D quantification, but is still limited by the low spatial and temporal resolution and the highly dema…

An effective proof of finiteness for Kauffman bracket skein modules
Giulio Belletti, Renaud Detcherry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02589 https://

An effective proof of finiteness for Kauffman bracket skein modules
We prove a version of the finiteness conjecture for Kauffman bracket skein modules of $3$-manifolds with boundary, which was introduced by the second author in \cite{Det21}. In particular our methods, which are constructive, give an alternative proof of Witten's finiteness conjecture for the Kauffman bracket skein modules of closed $3$-manifolds, which was originally proved in \cite{GJS19}. Moreover, as a corollary we show that the peripheral ideal of any link is non-empty, answering a question…

RichControl: Structure- and Appearance-Rich Training-Free Spatial Control for Text-to-Image Generation
Liheng Zhang, Lexi Pang, Hang Ye, Xiaoxuan Ma, Yizhou Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02792

RichControl: Structure- and Appearance-Rich Training-Free Spatial Control for Text-to-Image Generation
Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have shown remarkable success in generating high-quality images from text prompts. Recent efforts extend these models to incorporate conditional images (e.g., depth or pose maps) for fine-grained spatial control. Among them, feature injection methods have emerged as a training-free alternative to traditional fine-tuning approaches. However, they often suffer from structural misalignment, condition leakage, and visual artifacts, especially when the condition …

Stabilization of Linear Switched Systems with Long Input Delay via Average or Averaging Predictor Feedbacks
Andreas Katsanikakis, Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03908

Stabilization of Linear Switched Systems with Long Input Delay via Average or Averaging Predictor Feedbacks
We develop delay-compensating feedback laws for linear switched systems with time-dependent switching. Because the future values of the switching signal, which are needed for constructing an exact predictor-feedback law, may be unavailable at current time, the key design challenge is how to construct a proper predictor state. We resolve this challenge constructing two alternative, average predictor-based feedback laws. The first is viewed as a predictor-feedback law for a particular average sys…

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Keyed Chaotic Tensor Transformations for Secure And Attributable Neural Inference
This work introduces a novel framework for secure and privacy-preserving neural network inference based on keyed chaotic dynamical transformations. The proposed method applies a deterministic, cryptographically seeded chaotic system to tensors, producing non-invertible, user-specific transformations that enable authenticated inference, tensor-level watermarking, and data attribution. This framework offers a scalable and lightweight alternative to conventional cryptographic techniques, and estab…

The term "context engineering" is gaining traction over "prompt engineering" as it better describes the skill of providing LLMs with the necessary information (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/27/context-…

Split-Merge Revisited: A Scalable Approach to Generalized Eigenvalue Problems
Xiaozhi Liu, Yong Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02389 https://

Split-Merge Revisited: A Scalable Approach to Generalized Eigenvalue Problems
The generalized eigenvalue problem (GEP) serves as a cornerstone in a wide range of applications in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing. However, traditional approaches that aim to maximize the classical Rayleigh quotient often suffer from numerical instability and limited computational efficiency, especially in large-scale settings. In this work, we explore an alternative difference-based formulation of GEP by minimizing a structured quadratic polynomial objective, which enables …

I finally finished Houyhnhnm Computing, a wonderful exploration of an alternative approach to programming, and the advantages it would bring.
https://ngnghm.github.io/index.html
I’d highly recommend reading it. (At least, chapters 1–9 were great. Chapter 10 is about Urbit, which… ble…