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“FOR REVIEW: Address formats around the world”
https://www.w3.org/blog/International/2025/08/06/for-review-address-formats-around-the-world/
The doc to review:

me: "please floss"
8yo: *ignores me*
me: "PLEASE floss, it's floss time."
8yo: *jumps up*
8yo: "OMG A SPIDER WEB"
me: "Please floss. It keeps the spiders away!"
8yo: "huh? what? how?"
me: "Flossing gets out old chunks of food from between your teeth. If you don't get the old food out, it starts to rot. The rotting food attracts flies, who hang out around your mouth. The flies attract spide…

"The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age" was published around 10 years ago. Very interesting, how things have changed since then. TDM for research is still in its infancy, and reuse in the context of #ai has caused a backlash against most of the 6 principles of the Declaration. Tellingly, the Declaration is only accessible via the internet archive:

The reading of IETF RFC 2119 going around reminded me that I had recorded myself reading the classic e2e paper and Clark's later design philosophy paper for my students. I certainly am not a trained voice actor, but I seem to recall at least a couple of students appreciating that format.
I'm pretty sure I did this around the mid 2000s when iPods were at their peak popularity, but the Wayback Machine doesn't have a record of them until much later.
If I ever teach agai…

#SeriouslyIfYoureStillUsingInternetExplorerYouShouldStop

X-ray view of a massive node of the Cosmic Web at z=3 II. Discovery of extended X-ray emission around a hyperluminous QSO
Andrea Travascio, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Gabriele Pezzulli, Paolo Tozzi, Luca Di Mascolo, Michela Esposito, Titouan Lazeyras, Marika Lepore, Stefano Borgani, Martin Elvis, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Marta Galbiati, Nicholas Ledos, Riccardo Middei, Antonio Pensabene, Enrico Piconcelli, Giada Quadri, Fabio Vito, Weichen Wang, Luca Zappacosta

X-ray view of a massive node of the Cosmic Web at z=3 II. Discovery of extended X-ray emission around a hyperluminous QSO
While the warm, ionized gas in the CGM at z>3 is now routinely observed around bright QSOs in Lya emission, little is known about the CGM hot phase due to its expected faintness in the X-ray band, often referred to as the ICM. Here, we report the analysis of 634 ks of Chandra X-ray observations in the MQN01 Cosmic Node, a region containing one of the brightest Lya nebulae and the largest galaxy overdensity discovered so far at z>3. We detect 66 net counts of X-ray emission in the 0.5-2 keV band…

The Browser Company launches Dia, a macOS browser in beta for Arc users based around an AI chat sidebar that can access tabs, history, and logged-in sites (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/web/685232/dia-browser-ai-arc

The Dia browser is a big bet on the web — and an even bigger bet on AI
Dia uses a simple interface and a chatbot that lets you chat with tabs and get more done. It’s a big bet that AI is the future of the internet.

you may be familiar with this 1st photo of a polish gentleman recording music at the jarocin festival in 1986, but here's what the rest of the tapers' section looked like! (sadly, the linked interview doesn't seem to be archived.) https://web.archive.org/web/…

Unveiling the small-scale web around galaxies with miniJPAS and DESI: the role of local connectivity in star formation
Daniela Gal\'arraga-Espinosa, Guinevere Kauffmann, Silvia Bonoli, Luisa Lucie-Smith, Rosa M. Gonz\'alez Delgado, Elmo Tempel, Raul Abramo, Siddharta Gurung-L\'opez, Valerio Marra, Jailson Alcaniz, Narciso Benitez, Saulo Carneiro, Javier Cenarro, David Crist\'obal-Hornillos, Renato Dupke, Alessandro Ederoclite, Antonio Hern\'an-Caballero, Carlos Hern…

Unveiling the small-scale web around galaxies with miniJPAS and DESI: the role of local connectivity in star formation
We present the first statistical observational study detecting small-scale filaments in the immediate surroundings of galaxies, i.e. the local web of galaxies. Simulations predict that cold gas, the fuel for star formation, is channeled through filamentary structures into galaxies. Yet, direct observational evidence for this process has been limited by the challenge of mapping the cosmic web at small scales. Using miniJPAS spectro-photometric data combined with spectroscopic DESI redshifts when…

After some refactoring, learning about `hatch`, moving more files around, and generally abusing `test.pypi.org`: I've uploaded `diceparse` to PyPI. Still need to update the web documentation, but it now feels like a proper project at this point.
I still need to add a CLI part so you can just roll dice after installing the package, but I'll handle that later. Also need to tweak the README.md a bit as well...

I used to self host, up until about 2022 or so, but it became too much of a pain and after an outage I just jumped to Google because I had used it at previous job.
I ended up switching to @… which I used almost 20 years ago (before GMail was around.) I know some people don't care for Fastmail but it works well for me.
I tend to avoid the web int…

How to Keep Up With New CSS Features | CSS-Tricks
https://css-tricks.com/how-to-keep-up-with-new-css-features/
Oh, the State of CSS survey is open... And ßmore good sources.

The Trust Fabric: Decentralized Interoperability and Economic Coordination for the Agentic Web
Sree Bhargavi Balija, Rekha Singal, Abhishek Singh, Ramesh Raskar, Erfan Darzi, Raghu Bala, Thomas Hardjono, Ken Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07901

The Trust Fabric: Decentralized Interoperability and Economic Coordination for the Agentic Web
The fragmentation of AI agent ecosystems has created urgent demands for interoperability, trust, and economic coordination that current protocols -- including MCP (Hou et al., 2025), A2A (Habler et al., 2025), ACP (Liu et al., 2025), and Cisco's AGP (Edwards, 2025) -- cannot address at scale. We present the Nanda Unified Architecture, a decentralized framework built around three core innovations: fast DID-based agent discovery through distributed registries, semantic agent cards with verifiable…

Filling the Gap for Uzbek: Creating Translation Resources for Southern Uzbek
Mukhammadsaid Mamasaidov, Azizullah Aral, Abror Shopulatov, Mironshoh Inomjonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14586

Filling the Gap for Uzbek: Creating Translation Resources for Southern Uzbek
Southern Uzbek (uzs) is a Turkic language variety spoken by around 5 million people in Afghanistan and differs significantly from Northern Uzbek (uzn) in phonology, lexicon, and orthography. Despite the large number of speakers, Southern Uzbek is underrepresented in natural language processing. We present new resources for Southern Uzbek machine translation, including a 997-sentence FLORES+ dev set, 39,994 parallel sentences from dictionary, literary, and web sources, and a fine-tuned NLLB-200 …

Most of the time I like widescreen and ultra-widescreen, but when I'm just puttering around on a computer, I find 5:4/4:3 oddly cozy. Incidentally, it works really well for browsing the modern web, because images fit pretty well in both square and vertical formats while wider formats still look ok.
Yes, I'm coming at you live in 1280x1024.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Histsex: 23 June - 30 June
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Got slammed by an unidentified but certainly "#AI"-related #distributed #crawler this week, it drove one site's traffic to 10× average. Today I tired of playing Whac-a-Mole and blocked the two bigge…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02469 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

LoRaConnect: Unlocking HTTP Potential on LoRa Backbones for Remote Areas and Ad-Hoc Networks
The minimal infrastructure requirements of LoRa make it suitable for deployments in remote and disaster-stricken areas. Concomitantly, the modern era is witnessing the proliferation of web applications in all aspects of human life, including IoT and other network services. Contemporary IoT and network solutions heavily rely on web applications to render services. However, despite the recent research and development pivoted around LoRa, there is still a lack of studies focusing on web applicatio…

Unveiling Usability Challenges in Web Privacy Controls
Rahat Masood, Sunday Oyinlola Ogundoyin, Muhammad Ikram, Alex Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11908 ht…

Unveiling Usability Challenges in Web Privacy Controls
With the increasing concerns around privacy and the enforcement of data privacy laws, many websites now provide users with privacy controls. However, locating these controls can be challenging, as they are frequently hidden within multiple settings and layers. Moreover, the lack of standardization means these controls can vary widely across services. The technical or confusing terminology used to describe these controls further complicates users' ability to understand and use them effectively. …

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-USA: 23 June - 30 June
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03465 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNI_…

Extending Internet Access Over LoRa for Internet of Things and Critical Applications
LoRa bridges the gap between remote locations and mainstream networks, enabling large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. Despite the recent advancements around LoRa, Internet access over this technology is still largely unexplored. Most existing solutions only handle packets within the local LoRa network and do not interact with web applications. This limits the scalability and the ability to deliver essential web services in disconnected regions. This work proposes and implements ILoR…

Navigating Cookie Consent Violations Across the Globe
Brian Tang, Duc Bui, Kang G. Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08996 https://arxi…

Navigating Cookie Consent Violations Across the Globe
Online services provide users with cookie banners to accept/reject the cookies placed on their web browsers. Despite the increased adoption of cookie banners, little has been done to ensure that cookie consent is compliant with privacy laws around the globe. Prior studies have found that cookies are often placed on browsers even after their explicit rejection by users. These inconsistencies in cookie banner behavior circumvent users' consent preferences and are known as cookie consent violation…

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Histsex: 23 June - 30 June
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