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#EroticMusings 7: Do you have a distinct style? Did you develop it intentionally? Do you want to change it?
I think that my choice of vocabulary, especially in the erotic passages, is quite unique. Also my tendency to start German sentences with "but" and my very own brand of gender neutral language, because German is everything but (unless you costumise it).
Some of …

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Chinese espionage campaign targeted House staffers ahead of trade talks,
--Ethical hackers uncover catastrophic flaws in restaurant chain's platforms,
--Salesloft Drift hack began last March,
--Customer data stolen in Wealthsimple breach,
--Trump to formally nominate Harman for NSA/Cybercom slot,
--Don't trust XChat's e…

Chinese espionage campaign targeted House staffers ahead of trade talks
Ethical hackers uncover catastrophic flaws in restaurant chain's platforms, Salesloft Drift hack began last March, Customer data stolen in Wealthsimple breach, Trump to formally nominate Harman for NSA/Cybercom slot, Don't trust XChat's encryption, Czech Republic warns of Chinese tech, much more

Real-time Optimization of Transport Chains for Single Wagon Load Railway Transport
Carsten Moldenhauer, Philipp Germann, Cedric Heimhofer, Caroline Spieckermann, Andreas Andresen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06621

Real-time Optimization of Transport Chains for Single Wagon Load Railway Transport
The freight branch of the Swiss national railways, SBB Cargo, offers customers to ship single or few wagons within its wagon load transportation system (WLV). In this system, wagons travel along a transport chain which is a sequence of consecutive trains. Recently, SBB Cargo redesigned its IT systems and renewed the computation of these transport chains. This paper describes the main design decisions and technical details: data structures, search algorithms, mathematical optimization of through…

In case you didn't have the chance to visit our poster on NFDIcore 3.0: A Mid-Level BFO2020-Compliant Ontology for Sustainable Research Data Interoperability Across Consortia, you can find it here on Zenodo:
https://zenodo.org/records/16946279
Corresponding abstract:

Classification of Vision-Based Tactile Sensors: A Review
Haoran Li, Yijiong Lin, Chenghua Lu, Max Yang, Efi Psomopoulou, Nathan F Lepora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02478 https:/…

Classification of Vision-Based Tactile Sensors: A Review
Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTS) have gained widespread application in robotic hands, grippers and prosthetics due to their high spatial resolution, low manufacturing costs, and ease of customization. While VBTSs have common design features, such as a camera module, they can differ in a rich diversity of sensing principles, material compositions, multimodal approaches, and data interpretation methods. Here, we propose a novel classification of VBTS that categorizes the technology into two pr…

Don't leave for the weekend until you've checked out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Data on UK SAS forces and MI6 officers exposed in massive Afghan leak,
--Google sues BadBox 2.0 ops,
--Salt Typhoon continues telco targeting,
--Paradox.ai developer used password of 123456 for Fortune 500 customers,
--EU sanctions Russians for disinformation campaigns,
--Qantas gains order blocking rele…

Data on UK SAS forces and MI6 officers exposed in massive Afghan leak
Google sues BadBox 2.0 ops, Salt Typhoon continues telco targeting, Paradox.ai developer used password of 123456 for Fortune 500 customers, EU sanctions Russians for disinformation campaigns, Qantas gains order blocking release of stolen data, FCC to bar Chinese kit from undersea cables, much more

Pre- and Post-Treatment Glioma Segmentation with the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit
Adrian Celaya, Tucker Netherton, Dawid Schellingerhout, Caroline Chung, Beatrice Riviere, David Fuentes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19626

Pre- and Post-Treatment Glioma Segmentation with the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit
Medical image segmentation continues to advance rapidly, yet rigorous comparison between methods remains challenging due to a lack of standardized and customizable tooling. In this work, we present the current state of the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit (MIST), with a particular focus on its flexible and modular postprocessing framework designed for the BraTS 2025 pre- and post-treatment glioma segmentation challenge. Since its debut in the 2024 BraTS adult glioma post-treatment segmentat…

Puts a "Deploy" button in Strapi so rather than webhooks triggering builds on every change, you can decide when to publish. Supports self-hosted Gitlab instances and pipeline variables.
Built from a fork-of-a-fork plus some retracted PRs.
All I really did was swear at `npm` until I figured out that I was missing a "prepare" step in package.json

GitHub - jaygooby/strapi-plugin-gitlab-publish: Trigger GitLab pipelines. Supports self-hosted GitLab instances and custom variable passing to the pipeline
Trigger GitLab pipelines. Supports self-hosted GitLab instances and custom variable passing to the pipeline - jaygooby/strapi-plugin-gitlab-publish

Emission Impossible: privacy-preserving carbon emissions claims
Jessica Man, Sadiq Jaffer, Patrick Ferris, Martin Kleppmann, Anil Madhavapeddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16347

Emission Impossible: privacy-preserving carbon emissions claims
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a significant climate impact, and data centres account for a large proportion of the carbon emissions from ICT. To achieve sustainability goals, it is important that all parties involved in ICT supply chains can track and share accurate carbon emissions data with their customers, investors, and the authorities. However, businesses have strong incentives to make their numbers look good, whilst less so to publish their accounting methods along…

If you're writing a library, you should really avoid #CMake. CMake is designed to lock you in. As in, once you release a #FreeSoftware project using CMake, you can't switch to another build system with causing real trouble to your users. And if you support multiple build systems, as soon as you start supporting CMake, some of your users are going to start locking everyone else in.
That's because CMake uses a custom package discovery mechanism that's hardly compatible with anything else, and that is so complex that it's very hard to reimplement it with any other build system. So when others start relying on the CMake config files being installed (and they naturally will, since that's how CMake does things), you can't stop installing them without actually breaking stuff. And if you want to preserve them without actually using CMake, well, good luck with that.
And if CMake is one of the options you support, then some of your consumers will accidentally start relying on it anyway. And this will be much worse for everyone, because now their projects won't work for people who build your project with any other build system. Which in turn will force more projects to use CMake anyway. Which in turn will make more people rely on CMake being used…
Use #Meson as the build system, it's clean and not designed to lock you in. Use pkg-config for library data; it's simple and portable.
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