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This week, tens of thousands of game developers and producers will once again gather in San Francisco,
as they have since 1988,
for the weeklong Game Developers Conference.
But this year’s show will be missing many international developers
who say they no longer feel comfortable traveling to the United States to attend,
no matter how relevant the show is to their work and careers.
Dozens of those developers who spoke to Ars in recent months say they’re wa…

“It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US
Stories of border issues lead to pervasive travel fears across the worldwide industry.

In my tour of Arch KDE spins I've had a look at the latest EndeavourOS this morning. For now this strikes a perfect middleground: it is very close to core Arch, with some minor, non-obtrusive, tools added to it. Decent ricing ootb and also a nicely tweakable setup. No snapshots, no Nvidia tweaks ootb, but hovering around 1Gb in memory. Which is really sharp. On we go: CachyOS!
NB: what a geek does whilst waiting for his apartment in Danang 😎

"This is one aspect of what campaigners call “process as punishment”, an approach that now dominates the treatment of protest groups. Even if you are never convicted of a crime, your life is made hell if you dare, visibly and publicly, to dissent." -- @…
I can verify from the experience o…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/new
[1/1]:
- Fully Dynamic Adversarially Robust Correlation Clustering in Polylogarithmic Update Time
Vladimir Braverman, Prathamesh Dharangutte, Shreyas Pai, Vihan Shah, Chen Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09979 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/113502653187863544
- A Simple and Combinatorial Approach to Proving Chernoff Bounds and Their Generalizations
William Kuszmaul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03488 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/113791396712128907
- The Structural Complexity of Matrix-Vector Multiplication
Emile Anand, Jan van den Brand, Rose McCarty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21240 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114097340825270885
- Clustering under Constraints: Efficient Parameterized Approximation Schemes
Sujoy Bhore, Ameet Gadekar, Tanmay Inamdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06980 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114312444050875805
- Minimizing Envy and Maximizing Happiness in Graphical House Allocation
Anubhav Dhar, Ashlesha Hota, Palash Dey, Sudeshna Kolay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00296 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114437013364446063
- Fast and Simple Densest Subgraph with Predictions
Thai Bui, Luan Nguyen, Hoa T. Vu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12600 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114538936921930134
- Compressing Suffix Trees by Path Decompositions
Becker, Cenzato, Gagie, Kim, Koerkamp, Manzini, Prezza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14734 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114703384646892523
- Improved sampling algorithms and functional inequalities for non-log-concave distributions
Yuchen He, Zhehan Lei, Jianan Shao, Chihao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11236 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114862112197588124
- Deterministic Lower Bounds for $k$-Edge Connectivity in the Distributed Sketching Model
Peter Robinson, Ming Ming Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11257 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114862223634372292
- Optimally detecting uniformly-distributed $\ell_2$ heavy hitters in data streams
Santhoshini Velusamy, Huacheng Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07286 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115178875220889588
- Uncrossed Multiflows and Applications to Disjoint Paths
Chandra Chekuri, Guyslain Naves, Joseph Poremba, F. Bruce Shepherd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00254 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115490402963680492
- Dynamic Matroids: Base Packing and Covering
Tijn de Vos, Mara Grilnberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15460 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115580946319285096
- Branch-width of connectivity functions is fixed-parameter tractable
Tuukka Korhonen, Sang-il Oum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04756 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115864074799755995
- CoinPress: Practical Private Mean and Covariance Estimation
Sourav Biswas, Yihe Dong, Gautam Kamath, Jonathan Ullman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06618
- The Ideal Membership Problem and Abelian Groups
Andrei A. Bulatov, Akbar Rafiey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05218
- Bridging Classical and Quantum: Group-Theoretic Approach to Quantum Circuit Simulation
Daksh Shami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19575 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/112874282709517475
- Young domination on Hamming rectangles
Janko Gravner, Matja\v{z} Krnc, Martin Milani\v{c}, Jean-Florent Raymond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03788 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCO_bot/113791421814248215
- On the Space Complexity of Online Convolution
Joel Daniel Andersson, Amir Yehudayoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00181 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_bot/114437005955255553
- Universal Solvability for Robot Motion Planning on Graphs
Anubhav Dhar, Pranav Nyati, Tanishq Prasad, Ashlesha Hota, Sudeshna Kolay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18755 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_bot/114737342714568702
- Colorful Minors
Evangelos Protopapas, Dimitrios M. Thilikos, Sebastian Wiederrecht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10467
- Learning fermionic linear optics with Heisenberg scaling and physical operations
Aria Christensen, Andrew Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05058
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Part 3 - Moving forward
One of Mastodon's strengths is its decentralized structure. That also means no centralized marketing or development strategy focused on growth, particularly in Canada. Perhaps a volunteer group could take on that development plan and grow the Canadian user base.
- A vision of what an ideal future state would look like would benefit the planning and action steps. Collecting input from Canadian admins is recommended.
- We shouldn't burden existing admins beyond their current responsibilities. Volunteers would take actions like reaching out to politicians or government agencies.
Potential next steps:
1) Host a web meeting with interested Canadian admins to collect input on a shared vision for this project.
2) Collect volunteers who would be interested in reaching out to politicians or government agencies about creating a presence on Mastodon.
3) Select members of the group to be part of a steering committee.
4) Create a unique hashtag for this project for reporting and followers.

„In Hintern schieben“ - US-Politiker gehen im Web auf Van der Bellen los #News #Nachrichten

Chad Mizelle, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi,
hung an online help wanted sign for federal prosecutors last weekend
that perhaps explained 🔸why so many valuable Justice Department staff members have left, and 🔸why so few candidates want in.
Assistant U.S. attorneys are not typically recruited, as Mr. Mizelle sought to do, by a former federal employee who 👉asks potential candidates to send a private message to his X account.
Nor have they been ask…

Demanding Support for Trump, Justice Dept. Struggles to Recruit Prosecutors
Some offices are so decimated that the Justice Department has sent in military lawyers. More recently, officials asked for volunteers from other offices who can quickly deploy to places in desperate need.

As I walking through the town of Złotów, I've noticed the rentable electric scooters scattered all over the place, and I was wondering how their batteries handle temperatures below –10°C. I suspect they they don't handle them well at all. But well, business is business; why bother collecting them and storing somewhere through the winter, when you can just leave junk in the middle of the town, and just discount them afterwards.
#AntiCapitalism

French generals see it
#DescentIntoFascism
https://bsky.app/profile/strictlychristo.bsky.social/post/3md4iqwuiak2p

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 (@strictlychristo.bsky.social)
French generals see it #DescentIntoFascism

Pentagon briefing:
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that a US submarine sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian ocean
as he declared that the Iranian navy “rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf”
and that it was “ineffective, decimated, destroyed”.
He declared that “America is winning”
and suggested that in under a week the US and Israel
“will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace”.
The leader of the Iranian co…