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There seem to be constant reminders of the disastrous mistakes that led up to the most catastrophic American foreign policy decision in recent memory -- the war on Iraq.
Despite the costly lessons of the past and the flashing warning signs before us today,
Trump seems poised to press the button on joining Israel’s attack on Iran.
Doing so could be an even bigger mistake.
The echoes are numerous:
A complete disregard for international law and diplomatic alternativ…

Can the United States Really Be Marching Toward This Madness Again?
The eerie echoes of Iraq and 2003 are numerous. But there are some key differences—and they make going into Iran an even greater act of folly.

Christus in der Tiefe - den haben wir heute tatsächlich gesehen in der Bucht von San Fruttuoso. Ein wunderschöner Ort mit Kloster. Ein 78 Jahre alter früherer Dorfbewohner hat uns mit seinem Ruderboot dort hin gebracht. Durch die Wasserlupe konnte man ihn gut erkennen, auf dem Foto kommt das leider nicht raus. In der Kirche gibt es aber eine Kopie. Hier habe ich letztes Jahr eine Andacht dazu gemacht:

SuperADMM: Solving Quadratic Programs Faster with Dynamic Weighting ADMM
P. C. N. Verheijen, D. Goswami, M. Lazar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11608 https://…

SuperADMM: Solving Quadratic Programs Faster with Dynamic Weighting ADMM
In this paper we develop an accelerated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for solving quadratic programs called superADMM. Unlike standard ADMM QP solvers, superADMM uses a novel dynamic weighting method that penalizes each constraint individually and performs weight updates at every ADMM iteration. We provide a numerical stability analysis, methods for parameter selection and infeasibility detection. The algorithm is implemented in c with efficient linear algebra pac…

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projects in the near future:
1. my mac-mini server runs ubuntu server and need apps. I'm thinking about Heimdall and a next cloud instance that I can reach via tailscale. I will also use it as an exit node for my tailscale network.
2. Making the server sleep when not in use and use an old RPi to 'wake it up' also over tailscale.
3. Making a portable router out of a Radxa Rock 4c that also use tailscale as a vpn alternative using the exit node.

My least favorite work interactions are with customers’ 3rd party “rockstar” consultants. I never know how to respond to certain sorts of queries. Ones where I could answer the question as asked but it really implies a deeper misunderstanding. I feel like I want to write him a treatise on VPNs: what they are and how they work. And Cc his boss (who shares his surname…) to communicate the depth of the problem.
I’m letting my boss handle it. He’s the networking guy anyway…

New resonances at LHC
Alain Le Yaouanc, Fran\c{c}ois Richard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09490 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.09490…

New resonances at LHC
Due to the large QCD background, the tt spectroscopy is poorly doing at LHC with the exception of a toponium type candidate observed with high statistical significance by CMS. Our previous work offers an alternate interpretation of this narrow resonance as a Kaluza Klein graviton. For heavy scalars, following ATLAS, we describe how the top loop contribution to the gluon-gluon fusion mechanisms could produce a dip rather than a bump in the mass distribution, which further complicates searches fo…

Not so dark, not so dense: an alternative explanation for the lensing subhalo in SDSSJ0946 1006
Qiuhan He, Andrew Robertson, James W. Nightingale, Aristeidis Amvrosiadis, Shaun Cole, Carlos S. Frenk, Samuel C. Lange, Shubo Li, Ran Li, Xiaoyue Cao, Leo W. H. Fung, Xianghao Ma, Richard Massey, Kaihao Wang, Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta
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Not so dark, not so dense: an alternative explanation for the lensing subhalo in SDSSJ0946+1006
Previous studies of the strong lens system SDSSJ0946+1006 have reported a dark matter subhalo with an unusually high central density, potentially challenging the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. However, these analyses assumed the subhalo to be completely dark, neglecting the possibility that it may host a faint galaxy. In this work, we revisit the lensing analysis of SDSSJ0946+1006, explicitly modelling the subhalo as a luminous satellite. Incorporating light from the perturber broade…

European cloud providers and enterprise IT customers are sounding alarms over changes to VMware's licensing structure that have driven prices up by as much as 1,500% since Broadcom's acquisition of the virtualisation giant.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/20…

European customers rail against Broadcom's 1,500% VMware price hike
A new report concludes that Broadcom’s price rises are leaving European customers without viable VMware alternatives.

The Hourglass Simulation: A Catalog for the Roman High-Latitude Time-Domain Core Community Survey
B. M. Rose, M. Vincenzi, R. Hounsell, H. Qu, L. Aldoroty, D. Scolnic, R. Kessler, P. Macias, D. Brout, M. Acevedo, R. C. Chen, S. Gomez, E. Peterson, D. Rubin, M. Sako
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05161

The Hourglass Simulation: A Catalog for the Roman High-Latitude Time-Domain Core Community Survey
We present a simulation of the time-domain catalog for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's High-Latitude Time-Domain Core Community Survey. This simulation, called the Hourglass simulation, uses the most up-to-date spectral energy distribution models and rate measurements for ten extra-galactic time-domain sources. We simulate these models through the design reference Roman Space Telescope survey: four filters per tier, a five day cadence, over two years, a wide tier of 19 deg$^2$ and a dee…