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volume 2 of the 7th edition of the unix documentation has the long-form tutorial and reference material (vol 1 has the man pages)
the table of contents lists each paper with its title, author(s), and a brief blurb
for instance
UNIX Assembler Reference Manual.
D. M. Ritchie.
The ultimate dead language.

Another Record Proposal Submission from #JWST Observers: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news/jwst/2025/another-record-proposal-submission-from-jwst-observers -> "The 2,935 proposals received include 2,639 General Observer proposals for 101,751 hours (vs. 8,000 hours offered at an oversubscription of 13:1), 53 Survey, 14 Pure Parallels, 243 Archival Research, 116 Target of Opportunity, and 105 Joint Programs" -> Researchers Submit Record Number of Ambitious Proposals for Webb's Fifth Year of Science: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-405

@… tipped me of to the best rsync tip. Always . at the end of your paths to remove the "is this gonna sync the directory and it's contents or the contents of this directory" ambiguity
`rsync -avsPW host:/path/. data/.`
(how the hell did I typo the original version of this? Fixed.)

'xxd' is a command that is both a hex dumper, and an undumper - i.e. it can turn the hexdump back into a binary.
Being able to go both ways makes it good for being able to edit a hex file in your favourite editor. Other tricks it can do are to generate a C array declaration with the contents. It defaults to hex numbered address (unlike 'hexdump' which confusingly uses octal!)

If you'd like to search the contents of our magazine from the comfort of your terminal, here's the "s" tool.
https://gitlab.com/akosma/s

Adrian Kosmaczewski / S Search Tool · GitLab
GitLab.com

I often find myself in this position -- checking whether there are any files in an old folder not in the new location, before deleting the old folder -- and generally re-invent the wheel. Here's a 1-liner that checks (works in Julia, similar in Python, R, other langs likely):
setdiff(
readdir("./lumber/oldfiles"),
readdir("./stuff/newfiles"))
Obvs, not checking timestamp or contents.
Edit: Julia doesn't interpret "~/"

Axing old log store contents to make room for wood that's going to start drying for next year.
#LifeIsAseriesOfCycles

check out how quickly #GitPages (and #Grebedoc) can check out a giant git repository without any changes!
if supported by the server, it retrieves only a single tree from git (no other branches, no tags, no history, no file contents), backfills it from the existing site contents, and then p…

#Drumpf Dream Scheme Team Ramping Up Pressure Points Day & Night On #GOP Members To Thwart A Vote To Release Contents Of Messy #MarALago Moments And Other Damning Deets Buried In

Trump Summons Lauren Boebert as He Pushes GOP to Block Epstein Vote
Representative Lauren Boebert, one of the Republicans pressing for more Epstein disclosures, was summoned for a meeting in the White House Situation Room.

This legislation seems relevant
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/40/contents
The Identity Documents Act 2010 repealed the Identity Cards Act 2006.
When Blunkett and Blair touted the idea of ID cards quarter of a century ago, public opinion was…

Finished “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin. A Lyft driver is asked by a woman to drive her and a mysterious box across the country for $200k. The rules are that he cannot look inside, nor ask about the contents. Everything comes undone along the way in a mostly fun, pulpy thriller kind of way.
Some dark satire about anxiety, the web, social media, public discourse, incels, etc.
3.5/5 stars, rounded up to 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Robust reset control design for piezo-actuated nano-positioner in presence of hysteresis nonlinearity
Ashkan Sebghati, S. Hassan HosseinNia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09445 http…

Robust reset control design for piezo-actuated nano-positioner in presence of hysteresis nonlinearity
In this paper, a robust nonlinear control scheme is designed for the motion control of a class of piezo-actuated nano-positioning systems using frequency-domain analysis. The hysteresis, the nonlinearity in the piezoelectric material, degrades the precision in tracking references with high frequency contents and different travel ranges. The hysteresis compensation by the inverse model, as the state-of-the-art solution, is not reliable alone. Therefore, a control framework with robustness agains…

from my link log —
Keeping secrets: Diffie-Hellman and the NSA.
https://stanfordmag.org/contents/keeping-secrets
saved 2020-10-17 https://

Keeping Secrets
Four decades ago, university researchers figured out the key to computer privacy, sparking a battle with the National Security Agency that continues today.

There's no such thing as $_PUT in #PHP . One must fake it
$_PUT = array();
parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $_PUT);

A possibility of describing a sequential gauge symmetry as a part of the dihedral flavor symmetry and its implications
Jae Jun Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06155 https://

A possibility of describing a sequential gauge symmetry as a part of the dihedral flavor symmetry and its implications
We present a method in which the dimension-five and -six terms in a sequential gauge symmetry can coexist with that of the dihedral flavor symmetry. We start with the contents in the model proposed in a sequential gauge symmetry, meeting the conditions for the contents to be described in the flavor symmetry, build up the mass matrices and discuss its implications. Given that the breaking of the symmetry only takes place in the dimension-five and -six terms in the mass matrix of the charged ferm…

Wait, the Smart Pipe infomercial is now almost 11 years old?
https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/kohler-wants-to-put-a-tiny-camera-in-your-toilet-and-analyze-the-contents/

Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents
The company's new Dekoda toilet accessory is like a little bathroom detective.

@… @… Also, to add on: I’ve noticed that clicking or tapping anywhere in a `tabindex="-1"` zone moves your focus to the top of that zone, which:
a) Means you can’t click in the contents to prime where focus should go next (always …

It is slowly getting published:
Proofs for my special issue on Camp Memories (all texts are already published online first)
A first view on the TOC !!
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mss
@…

Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more (Lex Fridman)
https://lexfridman.com/pavel-durov-transcript

so much formerly public info is disappearing that i really wish there was a search engine that combined the active WWW with the full text contents of the @… wayback machine. or even just a good way to search the latter. (or maybe there is? couldn't find anything easy/functional.)

More totally absurd unsolicited suggestions from #YouTube about for my next video. I would NEVER write anything in the horrible hyped up style they suggest, and the suggested contents are utterly vacuous. #AI is still rubbish -it's worse than that -it encourages cheating.

People say tar is hard but off the top of my head here are 298 ways to make a gzip compressed tar archive of a directory and its contents with GNU tar.
https://gist.github.com/ruario/ac0c6a15369853df2c698aa6fe595135
There are more but I got bored. 😜
P…

Ran into this little quirk of (many) C-syntax languages, yesterday. Hadn't seen it before.
#PHP
```
<?php
function getApiData() {
https://example.org/api
return file_get_contents("

It’s late 2025 and Safari still breaks accessibility via display properties:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299321
Amended my 2022 post as a result:

December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
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MaskCD: Mitigating LVLM Hallucinations by Image Head Masked Contrastive Decoding
Jingyuan Deng, Yujiu Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02790 https://arxiv.o…

MaskCD: Mitigating LVLM Hallucinations by Image Head Masked Contrastive Decoding
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable performance in visual-language understanding for downstream multimodal tasks. While their capabilities are improving, problems emerge simultaneously. Among those problems, the hallucinations have attracted much attention, which stands for the phenomenon where LVLMs generate contradictory content to their input visual and text contents. Many approaches have been proposed to deal with this issue, such as contrastive decoding and attention…

I think I started off on the wrong foot here, on my Qtile Wayland FreeBSD adventure 🤣
Getting that dd command from history, changing the iso to the FreeBSD one, and zapping it onto /dev/sda indeed did correctly overwrite my 2TB external disk. Not the contents of /dev/sdb, the USB stick where it should land.
That's what you get for inserting extra disks 🥳 🤓 😂

What’s Where?
In this blog, I mostly post things on which I have an opinion, or perhaps a discussion that I want to start or continue. I also have a blog at where I'll post more of the daily activity type of stuff, although I certainly do not post to it daily! I also have a micro.blog account at the contents of which get federated around very platforms, such as Mastadon, BlueSky and Threads. I'm currently building a photography website at So, have a wander around, and,…

What’s Where?
In this blog, I mostly post things on which I have an opinion, or perhaps a discussion that I want to start or continue. I also have a blog at where I’ll post more of the daily activity type …

Consciousness As Entropy Reduction (Short Version)
Yifeng Chen, J. W. Sanders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06297

Consciousness As Entropy Reduction (Short Version)
A model of consciousness is proposed which, having a logical basis, lends itself to simulation using a simple mathematical model called Consciousness as Entropy Reduction (CER). The approach has been inspired by previous models such as GWT, IIT and an earlier less mainstream model called "Feature Map" in Psychology. CER considers the contents of consciousness and subconsciousness as \textit{scenarios}: a vector of patterns (or features) on various "channels" (or feature locations). In CER, a fe…

Poor #productmanagement: if your software works on files in a directory, and the contents of that directory are subject to change (say, switching between branches in a code repo), then don't CACHE the list of files in that directory that you care about and stash that shit in `%user%/.config/la-la-la-la-lookatme-im-expensive-software/cache` and then show that to the user.
Like wtf, wh…

I committed the unforgivable sin of coughing while walking around K. His lashing out succeeded in spinning his chair tray right into my pint mug of coffee, full of my morning mix: strong coffee with a hefty dose of fiber and milk. It flew just far enough to dump its contents all across my laptop and the general clutter around it.
Psyllium is sticky. That seems to have slowed the coffee soaking into the keyboard, so frantic response may have saved me.
My chill, OTOH, is entire…

Nice annotation of the US-Russia "peace plan" with regard to Ukraine.
https://samf.substack.com/p/the-witkoff-dmitriev-peace-plan-annotated?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true

The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan annotated
We now know a bit more about the process which led to the new peace plan and we now have a copy of its contents, to which I will turn soon.

from my link log —
A history of man pages.
https://abochannek.github.io/utilities/2024/12/08/man-pages.html
saved 2025-11-06 https://…

Capitulating law firms presumably were hoping that their deals would prevent the same revocation of security clearances and cancellation of federal contracts that Trump had already leveled at other firms.
But none of that was included in the vague contents of the deals,
leaving it entirely unclear what these law firms were getting out of exchange.
What was clearer was what Trump was getting out of it:
namely, an open-ended promise from the capitulating law firms to …

The lawyers who caved
Big Law firms finally have to hold up their end of a Trumpian bargain.

Back in the day, we called this sort of thing a "Chaos Monkey" and it was an essential part of testing backups.
https://www.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of…

Laptop backup day. I have a reminder for the last Sunday of each month. It doesn't take much time and being a Sunday I am normally not using my laptop.
Simple batch script using XCOPY. Low tech and it works. Upside is that any other machine & O/S can read the contents of the drive. I cycle between two drives (Eventually I will buy a third). Cheap insurance in case of a machine failure.
Why? Well I have the condo newsletters I write with the templates, photos and ba…

This is surely going to be in a future RISKS Digest.
"This aspect of Helios’ design ensures that no two trustees could collude to determine the outcome of an election or the contents of individual votes on their own: all trustees must provide their decryption shares.
Unfortunately, one of the three trustees has irretrievably lost their private key [...]"

Tracing Planetary Accretion in a 3 Gyr old Hydrogen-rich White Dwarf - The Extremely Polluted Atmosphere of LSPM J0207 3331: #WhiteDwarf Still Consuming Its Planetary System: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-404

Ryan Lizza details his relationship with Olivia Nuzzi, saying she had a relationship with ex-MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and presidential candidate Mark Sanford (Ryan Lizza/Telos News)
https://www.telos.news/p/part-1-how-i-found-out

Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its contents scattered on the floor.

How are people doing time-series monitoring of apache logs e.g. to split out request type (2xx/3xx/4xx/5xx)?
I'm aware of apache_exporter but that's just exporting the contents of http://localhost//server-status

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Automated Insertion of Flushes and Fences for Persistency
Yutong Guo, Weiyu Luo, Brian Demsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19459 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1…

Automated Insertion of Flushes and Fences for Persistency
CXL shared memory and persistent memory allow the contents of memory to persist beyond crashes. Stores to persistent or CXL memory are typically not immediately made persistent; developers must manually flush the corresponding cache lines to force the data to be written to the underlying storage. Correctly using flush and fence operations is known to be challenging. While state-of-the-art tools can find missing flush instructions, they often require bug-revealing test cases. No existing tools c…

Play by the Type Rules: Inferring Constraints for LLM Functions in Declarative Programs
Parker Glenn, Alfy Samuel, Daben Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20208 https://

Play by the Type Rules: Inferring Constraints for LLM Functions in Declarative Programs
Integrating LLM powered operators in declarative query languages allows for the combination of cheap and interpretable functions with powerful, generalizable language model reasoning. However, in order to benefit from the optimized execution of a database query language like SQL, generated outputs must align with the rules enforced by both type checkers and database contents. Current approaches address this challenge with orchestrations consisting of many LLM-based post-processing calls to ensu…

What's wrong with this #macOS launch plist?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<true />
<key>Label</key>
<string>org.gnu.Emacs</string>
<key>AssociatedBundleIdentifiers</key>
<string>org.gnu.Emacs</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Application/Emacs30.2.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>ProcessType</key>
<string>Interactive</string>
<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/Users/alexandp/Library/Logs/org.gnu.Emacs.stderr.log</string>
<key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/Users/alexandp/Library/Logs/org.gnu.Emacs.stdout.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>

from my link log —
Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell.
https://github.com/quchen/articles/blob/master/loeb-moeb.md
saved 2025-11-06 htt…

articles/loeb-moeb.md at master · quchen/articles
Miscellaneous articles. The readme is the table of contents. - quchen/articles

Non-Uniform Content-Oblivious Leader Election on Oriented Asynchronous Rings
J\'er\'emie Chalopin, Yi-Jun Chang, Lyuting Chen, Giuseppe A. Di Luna, Haoran Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19187 …

Non-Uniform Content-Oblivious Leader Election on Oriented Asynchronous Rings
We study the leader election problem in oriented ring networks under content-oblivious asynchronous message-passing systems, where an adversary may arbitrarily corrupt message contents. Frei et al. (DISC 2024) presented a uniform terminating leader election algorithm for oriented rings in this setting, with message complexity $O(n \cdot \mathsf{ID}_{\max})$ on a ring of size $n$, where $\mathsf{ID}_{\max}$ is the largest identifier in the system, this result has been recently extended by Chal…

#productmanagement in your software, if you include a tree control, and allow users to DO things in said tree control, like modify the contents/structure OF the tree control, then if you have to redraw the tree control to reflect the change, and you DONT remember what node I had open and return me to it, then I _freaking hate you_
T'is a poor tree control if it doesn't "remem…

A Multi-Grid Implicit Neural Representation for Multi-View Videos
Qingyue Ling, Zhengxue Cheng, Donghui Feng, Shen Wang, Chen Zhu, Guo Lu, Heming Sun, Jiro Katto, Li Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16706

A Multi-Grid Implicit Neural Representation for Multi-View Videos
Multi-view videos are becoming widely used in different fields, but their high resolution and multi-camera shooting raise significant challenges for storage and transmission. In this paper, we propose MV-MGINR, a multi-grid implicit neural representation for multi-view videos. It combines a time-indexed grid, a view-indexed grid and an integrated time and view grid. The first two grids capture common representative contents across each view and time axis respectively, and the latter one capture…

Capacitary Muckenhoupt Weights and Weighted Norm Inequalities for Hardy-Littlewood Maximal Operators
Long Huang, Yangzhi Zhang, Ciqiang Zhuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23839 htt…

Capacitary Muckenhoupt Weights and Weighted Norm Inequalities for Hardy-Littlewood Maximal Operators
Let $\mathcal H_{\infty}^δ$ denote the Hausdorff content of dimension $δ\in(0,n]$ defined on subsets of $\mathbb R^n$. The principal problem, considered in this paper, is to characterize the non-negative function $w$ for which the weighted $L^p$-norm inequality with $p\in(1,\infty)$ and the weighted weak $L^1$-norm inequality on Hardy-Littlewood maximal operators associated with Hausdorff contents hold true. To achieve this, we introduce a class of capacitary Muckenhoupt weights depending on …

December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
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Instruction-tuned Self-Questioning Framework for Multimodal Reasoning
You-Won Jang, Yu-Jung Heo, Jaeseok Kim, Minsu Lee, Du-Seong Chang, Byoung-Tak Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21251

Instruction-tuned Self-Questioning Framework for Multimodal Reasoning
The field of vision-language understanding has been actively researched in recent years, thanks to the development of Large Language Models~(LLMs). However, it still needs help with problems requiring multi-step reasoning, even for very simple questions. Recent studies adopt LLMs to tackle this problem by iteratively generating sub-questions and answers. However, there are disadvantages such as 1) the fine-grained visual contents of images are not available using LLMs that cannot read visual in…

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December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
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