I just installed `asncounter`[1] by @… (blog post[2]) to get a glimpse who is accessing one of my servers. Turns out, 99% of the traffic originates from just two ASNs in Brazil: Mega Tele Informatica and R3 Telecom. I'm in Germany, my server is in Germany (I believe, it's a Hetzner root server).
I guess I could safely block these ASNs. The only thi…
Barium Autoionization for Efficient Ion Trap Loading
Zachary J. Wall, Justin D. Piel, Samuel R. Vizvary, Michael Bareian, Steven Diaz, Elijah Mossman, Anthony Ransford, Chris H. Greene, Eric R. Hudson, Wesley C. Campbell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12191
Well, shit. Guess I picked a bad day to re-case my PC and upgrade the GPU. Everything went well until I tried to update the OS, which failed while tossing a Mesa dependency error. Did some checking, and it seems to just be a Mesa issue I can't really do anything about ATM. So I'm stuck in 4K/basic graphics driver mode, with screen tearing a-plenty, till tomorrow? Hopefully? lol.
The new case looks nice at least.