Tootfinder

#Git has become a fundamental part of our developers' daily routine that it’s hard to remember our lives without it. And yet, most of us use a limited set of commands and options. Today, I want to focus on two commands most developers probably use every day and look at the defaults behind them.

@… but is it worse than slacks defaults?

Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens, including easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/11/ios-26-expands-family-tool…

iOS 26: Apple will expand family tools for child accounts - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced updates aimed at helping parents protect kids online, as part of its broader push to make Apple platforms safer.

Für Zettlr-Nutzer: Ich habe meine Zettlr-Ressourcen, inklusive meiner Snippets und Pandoc-Export-Konfigurationen (Defaults) auf GitLab veröffentlicht: https://gitlab.kit.edu/uhrhr/zettlr-ressourcen/

@lolxd292@mastodon.social Yes, because the UI expects that if you reply to a conversation, you intend to converse with the whole conversation. Usually that's correct, but if your intention differs from the defaults, you'll need to adjust that action.

My macOS laptop has felt... less than responsive of late.
I'm thinking about hitting the restore-to-factory-defaults type button and using Time Machine to bring stuff back.
I haven't done this procedure in probably 5-10 years.
Any hiccups or pitfalls I should know about?
Running Sequoia 15.6.1
#macOS #Apple #TimeMachine #maintenance

Revisiting Sampling Strategies for Molecular Generation
Yuyan Ni, Shikun Feng, Wei-Ying Ma, Zhi-Ming Ma, Yanyan Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17340 https:…

Revisiting Sampling Strategies for Molecular Generation
Sampling strategies in diffusion models are critical to molecular generation yet remain relatively underexplored. In this work, we investigate a broad spectrum of sampling methods beyond conventional defaults and reveal that sampling choice substantially affects molecular generation performance. In particular, we identify a maximally stochastic sampling (StoMax), a simple yet underexplored strategy, as consistently outperforming default sampling methods for generative models DDPM and BFN. Our f…

Propagation of carbon price shocks through the value chain: the mean-field game of defaults
Zorana Grbac, Simone Pavarana, Thorsten Schmidt, Peter Tankov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11353

Propagation of carbon price shocks through the value chain: the mean-field game of defaults
We introduce a new mean-field game framework to analyze the impact of carbon pricing in a multi-sector economy with defaultable firms. Each sector produces a homogeneous good, with its price endogenously determined through market clearing. Firms act as price takers and maximize profits by choosing an optimal allocation of inputs-including labor, emissions, and intermediate goods from other sectors-while interacting through the endogenous sectoral price. Firms also choose their default timing to…

{ggblanket}, a wrapper around #ggplot for quick, explorative plots with sensible defaults and less code. https://davidhodge931.github.io/ggblanket/

Simplify ggplot2 Visualisation
Simplify ggplot2 visualisation with ggblanket wrapper functions.

It’s annoyingly-difficult to advocate for users from a technology standpoint in 2025. Defaults are usually slanted for the benefit of service providers.
As an example: it took me WAY too long to figure out how to turn off link rewriting in emails we’re sending with AWS Simple Email Service. I had to find it in two different places before we could send URLs we actually asked it to send (instead of bouncing them through their tracking service). The default was invasive and hard to change…

Spent 30 minutes to discover #Python's csv module, which I've used often for years, defaults to CRLF on output regardless of what the source file's line endings are and what your local environment is.
I was converting a TSV to CSV and puzzling over why the resulting file was larger.
I will have to remember to set lineterminator='\n' going forward. Lossless compres…

Filling MIDI Velocity using U-Net Image Colorizer
Zhanhong He, David Cooper, Defeng Huang, Roberto Togneri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07751 https://arxiv.o…

Filling MIDI Velocity using U-Net Image Colorizer
Modern music producers commonly use MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) to store their musical compositions. However, MIDI files created with digital software may lack the expressive characteristics of human performances, essentially leaving the velocity parameter - a control for note loudness - undefined, which defaults to a flat value. The task of filling MIDI velocity is termed MIDI velocity prediction, which uses regression models to enhance music expressiveness by adjusting only th…

One of the things that I think has always been a benefit of C is that old code has generally continued to work with new code due to how conservative language changes have been. I think C23 is going to cause some pain though, and since GCC now defaults to the C23 standard that's kind of important.
For 50 years everyone has been defining their own boolean types in C due to the language not having that facility built in. Now we get 'bool', 'true' and 'false' a…