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Before earlier this year, I had a Ford Ranger sitting in my driveway that I used three or four times per year. I ordered collector plates for it (since I don't drive it in the winter anyways and I don't want to have to pay to renew plates) and then my sister's car broke down (while she's still owed money on it) so I gave the truck to her. I hadn't even received the collector plates yet. I found out today that she's driving around with the collector plates on it.

JDK 26: The new features in #Java 26
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4050993/jdk-26-the-new-features-in-java-26.html

... She ordered regular plates but then put the renewal stickers on the collector plates. I warned her that that is not how it works. 🤨

@… The only half mast flag I noticed today was at the office of our regional trash collector.
Not like I have much choice in doing business with them either… FFS.

Bridging the Gap in Phishing Detection: A Comprehensive Phishing Dataset Collector
Aditya Kulkarni, Shahil Manishbhai Patel, Shivam Pradip Tirmare, Vivek Balachandran, Tamal Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09592

Bridging the Gap in Phishing Detection: A Comprehensive Phishing Dataset Collector
To combat phishing attacks -- aimed at luring web users to divulge their sensitive information -- various phishing detection approaches have been proposed. As attackers focus on devising new tactics to bypass existing detection solutions, researchers have adapted by integrating machine learning and deep learning into phishing detection. Phishing dataset collection is vital to developing effective phishing detection approaches, which highly depend on the diversity of the gathered datasets. The l…

Building Telemetry Pipelines with the #OpenTelemetry #Collector
https://www.dash0.com/guides/opentelemetry

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Haley Heynderickx:
🎵 The Bug Collector
#HaleyHeynderickx
https://folkadelphia.bandcamp.com/track/the-bug-collector
https://open.spotify.com/track/5nVE45ithgyVocZp5XLAk6

from my link log —
CHICKEN Scheme internals: the garbage collector.
https://www.more-magic.net/posts/internals-gc.html
saved 2025-08-08

Vacuum Dealloyed Brass as Li-Metal Battery Current Collector: Effect of Zinc and Porosity
Eric V Woods, Xinren Chen, Shaolou Wei, Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva, Ayman A El-Zoka, J Manoj Prabhakar, Tim M Schwarz, Yongqiang Kang, Leonardo S Aota, Mahander P Singh, Katja Angenendt, Ozge Ozgun, Matic Jovivcevic-Klug, Patricia Jovivcevic-Klug, Christian Bross, Jian Liu, Rene de Kloe, Gerhard Dehm, Stefan Zaefferer, Yug Joshi, Baptiste Gault

Vacuum Dealloyed Brass as Li-Metal Battery Current Collector: Effect of Zinc and Porosity
"Anode-free" lithium-metal batteries promise significantly higher energy density than conventional graphite-based lithium-ion batteries; however, lithium dendrite growth can lead to internal short circuits with associated safety risks. While porous current collectors can suppress dendrite growth, optimal porosity and composition remain unknown. Here, we show that the temperature during vapor phase dealloying (VPD) of alpha-brass (Cu63Zn37) controls the surface Zn concentration, decreasing from …

A nice day for a bit of outdoor reading. About to dig into John Fowles’ The Collector while Robocrop mows the grass.

I’ve been fascinated by the great auk for a while and was delighted to find this one on the shore of Skerjafjörður. This sculpture is easier to get to than the one Reykjaness by Todd McGrain. This sculpture is by œlöf Nordal, more info in alt.

TIL (HT @aaroneline) that Brown has one of the "finest private libraries" on magic and related content, the bequest of a collector who "put himself through Brown by giving magic performances". Libraries are amazing places.
https://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=…

When Donald Trump didn’t like the weak jobs numbers that were released on Friday, he fired the person responsible for producing them.
It was a move with few precedents in the century-long history of economic statistics in the United States.
And for good reason: When political leaders meddle in government data, it rarely ends well.
Perhaps most famously, there is the case of Argentina, which in the 2000s and 2010s systematically understated inflation figures to such a degre…

Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils.
Economists say unbiased data is essential for policymaking, and for democracy.

Ki-oon doesn’t fuck around with their collector editions
#manga

🌝 Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
http://www.righto.com/2025/07/reverse-engineering-mysterious-up-data.html
#electronics

Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-st...

@… doing this in the OTEL collector is on my list. But in this case allow listing which device to gather metrics for on the prometheus node exporter. Plus allow listing which metrics to ship to the cloud instance

The Labeled Coupon Collector Problem
Andrew Tan, Oriel Limor, Daniella Bar-Lev, Ryan Gabrys, Zohar Yakhini, Paul H. Siegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15231

The Labeled Coupon Collector Problem
We generalize the well-known Coupon Collector Problem (CCP) in combinatorics. Our problem is to find the minimum and expected number of draws, with replacement, required to recover $n$ distinctly labeled coupons, with each draw consisting of a random subset of $k$ different coupons and a random ordering of their associated labels. We specify two variations of the problem, Type-I in which the set of labels is known at the start, and Type-II in which the set of labels is unknown at the start. We …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ryli:
🎵 Friend Collector
#Ryli
https://dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/friend-collector-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3MUeJ5rkkUYfHdGsvn4KBs

On the Consistency and Performance of the Iterative Bayesian Update
Ehab ElSalamouny, Catuscia Palamidessi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09980 https://arxiv.o…

On the Consistency and Performance of the Iterative Bayesian Update
For many social, scientific, and commercial purposes, it is often important to estimate the distribution of the users' data regarding a sensitive attribute, e.g., their ages, locations, etc. To allow this estimation while protecting the users' privacy, every user applies a local privacy protection mechanism that releases a noisy (sanitized) version of their original datum to the data collector; then the original distribution is estimated using one of the known methods, such as the matrix invers…

Theoretical estimate and characteristics of electro-vortex flows in cylindrical electrodes
Swapnil Soni, Avishek Ranjan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02297 https://

Theoretical estimate and characteristics of electro-vortex flows in cylindrical electrodes
Electro-vortex flows (EVF) arise in conducting fluids due to diverging current lines and the non-conservative Lorentz force. They are typically characterized by the $S$ parameter, defined as $S=μ_0 I^2/4π^2 ρν^2$, where it is known that $Re \sim \sqrt{S}$ for large currents. However, the strength of the EVF in a confined cylindrical domain with a co-axially placed current collector (CC) depends also on the ratio of the CC radius to the cylinder radius, $K=r_0/R$, in addition to the current …

Low Overhead Allocation Sampling in a Garbage Collected Virtual Machine
Christoph Jung, C. F. Bolz-Tereick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16883 https://…

Low Overhead Allocation Sampling in a Garbage Collected Virtual Machine
Compared to the more commonly used time-based profiling, allocation profiling provides an alternate view of the execution of allocation heavy dynamically typed languages. However, profiling every single allocation in a program is very inefficient. We present a sampling allocation profiler that is deeply integrated into the garbage collector of PyPy, a Python virtual machine. This integration ensures tunable low overhead for the allocation profiler, which we measure and quantify. Enabling alloca…

Augmented Shuffle Differential Privacy Protocols for Large-Domain Categorical and Key-Value Data
Takao Murakami, Yuichi Sei, Reo Eriguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02004 https:…

Augmented Shuffle Differential Privacy Protocols for Large-Domain Categorical and Key-Value Data
Shuffle DP (Differential Privacy) protocols provide high accuracy and privacy by introducing a shuffler who randomly shuffles data in a distributed system. However, most shuffle DP protocols are vulnerable to two attacks: collusion attacks by the data collector and users and data poisoning attacks. A recent study addresses this issue by introducing an augmented shuffle DP protocol, where users do not add noise and the shuffler performs random sampling and dummy data addition. However, it focuse…