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Doing my #OpenSCAD slides for #SCaLE21x with Marp, a markdown presentation system.
A few years ago I evaluated ditching powerpoint for some code-based slides and it was definitely not ready.
Boy have things changed. This is nearly ready for the normies. Super quick to make slides with live…

Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem
Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document.

The way a bank refuses to let you put a comma in a value, subverting an an attempt to cut-and-paste the correct amount, yet in the confirmation screen for the transfer formats the value with the comma reinstated.
Most software is just so shitty now. Was it ever better? I dunno, but I blame the vast open source packaging ecosystem for outsourcing quality.

A Power Management and Control System for Portable Ecosystem Monitoring Devices
Marcel Balle (Westlake University, China), Wenxiu Xu (Westlake University, China), Kevin FA Darras (Westlake University, China), Thomas Cherico Wanger (Westlake University, China)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05322…

A Power Management and Control System for Portable Ecosystem Monitoring Devices
Recent advances in Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies help ecosystem monitoring to shift towards automated monitoring with low power sensors and embedded vision on powerful processing units. Vision-based monitoring devices need an effective power management and control system (PMCS) with system-adapted power input and output capabilities to achieve power-efficient and self-sustainable operation. Here, we present a universal power management solution for autom…

Whether to foster developer goodwill or advance its ecosystem ambitions (or both), Google debuted a number of #open #source tools primarily aimed at supporting generative AI projects and infrastructure.
The first, #MaxDiffusion,…

Google open sources tools to support AI model development | TechCrunch
Google is launching Jetstream, a new engine to run generative AI models, and MaxDiffusion, a collection of reference implementations of various diffusion models.

🏭 Commercial Chiplet Ecosystem May Be A Decade Away
#semiconductors

Commercial Chiplet Ecosystem May Be A Decade Away
Technology and business hurdles must be addressed before widespread adoption.

The discovery of the hydrothermal vent ecosystem was a pivotal moment in #oceanography.
https://www.theguardian.com/…

Optimization of Lightweight Malware Detection Models For AIoT Devices
Felicia Lo, Shin-Ming Cheng, Rafael Kaliski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04567 https://…

Optimization of Lightweight Malware Detection Models For AIoT Devices
Malware intrusion is problematic for Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) devices as they often reside in an ecosystem of connected devices, such as a smart home. If any devices are infected, the whole ecosystem can be compromised. Although various Machine Learning (ML) models are deployed to detect malware and network intrusion, generally speaking, robust high-accuracy models tend to require resources not found in all IoT devices, compared to less robust models…

"Am I missing something? It feels like this new commercial is just whistling past the single biggest shortcoming in the Apple ecosystem."
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/09/dont-let-me-go-commercial
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Apple’s New iPhone Ad: ‘Don’t Let Me Go’
Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bks2zGnssMY

“The good news is that people still read lots of books and that anybody who has the content and wants to deliver it into the marketplace as a book can do so at a highly manageable cost. The bad news is that new careers delivering the creative works in a structured and predictable ecosystem that values experience and a network of professional contacts are vanishing before they begin.” #publishing

Amid regulatory pressure around cloud vendor lock-in, AWS follows Google and drops egress fees for moving data out of its ecosystem; Microsoft's fees remain (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/amazon-…

AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers | TechCrunch
AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called "egress fees" attached.

What’s genuinely shocking about #javascript isn't the complexity of the ecosystem but the fact that it's flooded by services that tie building apps to subscription services.
It's hard to find a tutorial that doesn't immediately tell you to sign up for Service X to make things work.
That’s a big red flag for me.

So #Bluesky is doing developer grants, even if very small ones. $500-$2000/project, $10k total. One thing that having a funded project lets you do.
https://bsky.app/profile/atproto.com/p

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04311 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Egglog Python: A Pythonic Library for E-graphs
E-graphs have emerged as a versatile data structure with applications in synthesis, optimization, and verification through techniques such as equality saturation. This paper introduces Python bindings for the experimental egglog library (previously called egg-smol), which aims to bring the benefits of e-graphs to the Python ecosystem. The bindings offer a high-level, Pythonic API providing an accessible and familiar interface for Python users. By integrating e-graph techniques with Python, we h…

"In the past, climate change deniers accused scientists of exaggerating the threat of global warming. However, the evidence that is now emerging from Antarctica and other parts of the world makes it very clear that scientists did not exaggerate. Indeed, they very probably underrated by a considerable degree the threat that now faces humanity"

"‘Pesticides by stealth’: garden soil conditioners killing worms, experts fear"
#Gardening #Pesticides

TIL #GitHub is limiting statistics/graphs for repos with more than 10,000 commits... Considering ~99% of those in https://thi.ng/umbrella are my own, it seems I've been rather busy... 😇

Broadly scoped ecosystem & mono-repository of 190 TypeScript projects for general purpose, functional, data driven development

"As to the consequences of this meteorological metamorphosis, these could be devastating, researchers warn. If all the ice on Antarctica were to melt, this would raise sea levels around the globe by more than 60 metres. Islands and coastal zones where much of the world’s population now have homes would be inundated."
That's why we need #postcapitalism

I guess one reason there's a large GraphQL-specific ecosystem is that having fewer endpoints doing more things breaks a lot of the Web paradigms that REST relies on, for better and worse.

An Adaptive Hydropower Management Approach for Downstream Ecosystem Preservation
C. Coelho, M. Jing, M. Fernanda P. Costa, L. L. Ferr\'as
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02821

An Adaptive Hydropower Management Approach for Downstream Ecosystem Preservation
Hydropower plants play a pivotal role in advancing clean and sustainable energy production, contributing significantly to the global transition towards renewable energy sources. However, hydropower plants are currently perceived both positively as sources of renewable energy and negatively as disruptors of ecosystems. In this work, we highlight the overlooked potential of using hydropower plant as protectors of ecosystems by using adaptive ecological discharges. To advocate for this perspective…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01622 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCE_…

Non-Atomic Arbitrage in Decentralized Finance
The prevalence of maximal extractable value (MEV) in the Ethereum ecosystem has led to a characterization of the latter as a dark forest. Studies of MEV have thus far largely been restricted to purely on-chain MEV, i.e., sandwich attacks, cyclic arbitrage, and liquidations. In this work, we shed light on the prevalence of non-atomic arbitrage on decentralized exchanges (DEXes) on the Ethereum blockchain. Importantly, non-atomic arbitrage exploits price differences between DEXes on the Ethereum …

Veterstacio en Antarkto raportis temperaturon pli ol 38C super la mezo por la sezono. Kiam marglacio fandas, la algoj sub la glacio malaperas, kaj la kriloj kiuj manĝas ilin ankaŭ mortas, forigante la bazon de la nutroĉeno por multo da marbestoj.
Jen bonega resumo de la afero:

“Conducting Accessibility Research In An Inaccessible Ecosystem”
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/conducting-accessibility-research-inaccessible-ecosystem/
• I appreciate explanation of use of identity firs…

Conducting Accessibility Research In An Inaccessible Ecosystem — Smashing Magazine
Conducting UX research that includes participants with a variety of disabilities is vital to building inclusive technology, but most prototypes used for testing are inaccessible. Rather than continuing to leave out feedback from disabled consumers, which ultimately leads to exclusive technology, researchers must get creative in their workarounds and be relentless in their efforts.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11227 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

An Introduction to the Compute Express Link (CXL) Interconnect
The Compute Express Link (CXL) is an open industry-standard interconnect between processors and devices such as accelerators, memory buffers, smart network interfaces, persistent memory, and solid-state drives. CXL offers coherency and memory semantics with bandwidth that scales with PCIe bandwidth while achieving significantly lower latency than PCIe. All major CPU vendors, device vendors, and datacenter operators have adopted CXL as a common standard. This enables an inter-operable ecosystem …

Amid regulatory pressure around cloud vendor lock-in, AWS follows Google and drops egress fees for moving data out of its ecosystem; Microsoft's fees remain (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/amazon-…

AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers | TechCrunch
AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called "egress fees" attached.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17309 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepe…

Polyglot Jet Finding
The evaluation of new computing languages for a large community, like HEP, involves comparison of many aspects of the languages' behaviour, ecosystem and interactions with other languages. In this paper we compare a number of languages using a common, yet non-trivial, HEP algorithm: the \akt\ clustering algorithm used for jet finding. We compare specifically the algorithm implemented in Python (pure Python and accelerated with numpy and numba), and Julia, with respect to the reference implement…

One human earth week (March 12) until INP becomes a Core Web Vital, with big implications to the JavaScript-heavy React-ecosystem.
Folks hiding bad lab data (Lighthouse scores) behind decent field data (Core Web Vitals) are right to be nervous about this! Remember that Core Web Vitals affect your SEO/rank on Google 👀
https://

The financial ecosystem behind your high-rewards credit card. I thought this was fascinating but maybe I’m weird: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/anatomy-of-credit-card-rewards-programs/

Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.

This really is not good. If the wind patterns continue to shift to bring lower latitude air to the Antarctic, this will accelerate the loss of polar ice and make the ecosystem changes happening there more abrupt.
#ClimateChange #Antarctica

“The backdoor highlights the politics, governance, and community management of an ecosystem exploited by massive tech companies and largely run by volunteers.”
https://www.404media.co/the-xz-backdoor-highlights-the-vul…

The Xz Backdoor Highlights the Vulnerability of Open Source Software—and Its Strengths
The backdoor highlights the politics, governance, and community management of an ecosystem exploited by massive tech companies and largely run by volunteers.

#cycling loop done! I never rode my #MTB up this particular forest road to the #mountain and maybe I now know why: Some part of it is really steep - or I'm just unfit. But woah did I drive on my person…

‘Like the flip of a switch, it’s gone’: has the ecosystem of the UK’s largest lake collapsed? “It also raises the prospect that this shallow body of water and its surrounding wetlands may have shifted beyond a state of decline into cascading ecosystem collapse. “🙀
Lough Neagh’s flies were seen as a nuisance. Now their sudden disappearance is a startling omen for a lake that supplies 40% of Northern Ireland’s water

Optical Photon Emission in Extended Airshowers -- Hybrid computing in the context of CORSIKA 8
Dominik Baack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04229 https://

Optical Photon Emission in Extended Airshowers -- Hybrid computing in the context of CORSIKA 8
With the motivation to improve experimental gains and precision, established astroparticle experiments are currently undergoing massive upgrades. In addition, several new experiments are being built or planned. With the resulting gain in observational quality, the amount and accuracy of simulated data required for the analysis is also rising. In order to meet the increasing requirements and complexity due to the experiments' growth and to provide a unified software ecosystem, it was decided to …

OSS Malicious Package Analysis in the Wild
Xiaoyan Zhou, Ying Zhang, Wenjia Niu, Jiqiang Liu, Haining Wang, Qiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04991 https…

OSS Malicious Package Analysis in the Wild
The open-source software (OSS) ecosystem suffers from various security threats and risks, and malicious packages play a central role in software supply chain (SSC) attacks. Although malware research has a history of over thirty years, less attention has been paid to OSS malware. Its existing research has three limitations: a lack of high-quality datasets, malware diversity, and attack campaign context. In this paper, we first build and curate the largest dataset of 23,425 malicious packages fro…

I will be voting for Biden - but I think he is a wimp. Here he is, at the pinnacle of authority and power, commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful military, including the Army Corps of Engineers and other groups who are trained to do amazing construction - and demolition - under fire.
And here is a governor of a state, blocking an international border and river that are under Federal, not State, authority.
And yet Biden sits on his butt and goes to robed judges and w…

Impact of EIP-4844 on Ethereum: Consensus Security, Ethereum Usage, Rollup Transaction Dynamics, and Blob Gas Fee Markets
Seongwan Park, Bosul Mun, Seungyun Lee, Woojin Jeong, Jaewook Lee, Hyeonsang Eom, Huisu Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03183

Impact of EIP-4844 on Ethereum: Consensus Security, Ethereum Usage, Rollup Transaction Dynamics, and Blob Gas Fee Markets
On March 13, 2024, Ethereum implemented EIP-4844, designed to enhance its role as a data availability layer. While this upgrade reduces data posting costs for rollups, it also raises concerns about its impact on the consensus layer due to increased propagation sizes. Moreover, the broader effects on the overall Ethereum ecosystem remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of the impact of EIP-4844 on consensus security, Ethereum usage, rollup transaction dynamics…

Biggest takeaway for me from Aby and Thameem's talk on GraphQL services is that there is a large ecosystem of GraphQL-specific tooling, like routers and IDEs. Graphene, Strawberry, Ariadne, Tartiflette named as frameworks for GraphQL in Python that can sit on top of web frameworks like FastAPI. #PyCascades

India approves a ~$1.25B investment in AI projects over five years, including for optimizing compute infrastructure, LLM development, and education in AI (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiati…

Cabinet approves 'India AI Mission' with an outlay of Rs 10,371.92 cr for five years
The Union Cabinet has approved a Rs 10,371.92 crore 'India AI mission' for five years to promote Artificial Intelligence in India. The mission aims to establish a comprehensive ecosystem for AI innovation, democratize computing access, improve data quality, develop indigenous AI capabilities, attract top talent, enable industry collaboration, provide startup risk capital, ensure socially impactful AI projects, and bolster ethical AI.

A Comparison of Cryptocurrency Volatility-benchmarking New and Mature Asset Classes
Alessio Brini, Jimmie Lenz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04962 https://

A Comparison of Cryptocurrency Volatility-benchmarking New and Mature Asset Classes
The paper analyzes the cryptocurrency ecosystem at both the aggregate and individual levels to understand the factors that impact future volatility. The study uses high-frequency panel data from 2020 to 2022 to examine the relationship between several market volatility drivers, such as daily leverage, signed volatility and jumps. Several known autoregressive model specifications are estimated over different market regimes, and results are compared to equity data as a reference benchmark of a mo…

T3rminal Cyberdeck Has Looks to Die For
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-9ea50449-0fa428c4bd25ba52
T3rminal Cyberdeck Has Looks to Die For One of the greatest things about the hacker ecosystem is that whole standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants …

I've been reading "On Green” (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, “On Attunement” with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on “AGI”, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmed”, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purpose” but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
On 18 March, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station on the #east #Antarctic #plateau documented a remarkable event.
…

VELLET: Verifiable Embedded Wallet for Securing Authenticity and Integrity
Hiroki Watanabe, Kohei Ichihara, Takumi Aita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03874 ht…

VELLET: Verifiable Embedded Wallet for Securing Authenticity and Integrity
The blockchain ecosystem, particularly with the rise of Web3 and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), has experienced a significant increase in users and applications. However, this expansion is challenged by the need to connect early adopters with a wider user base. A notable difficulty in this process is the complex interfaces of blockchain wallets, which can be daunting for those familiar with traditional payment methods. To address this issue, the category of "embedded wallets" has emerged as a prom…

Another day, another way in which the #Kotlin/#Java ecosystem is weaker/worse than the #PHP ecosystem.
I'm kind of tired of finding these.

Scientists Discover Mysterious Ecosystem Beneath Earth's Driest Desert
https://gizmodo.com/atacama-desert-microbial-diversity-alien-life-mars-1851434831

Scientists Discover Mysterious Ecosystem Beneath Earth's Driest Desert
Underneath the parched sands of Atacama is a massive, diverse group of bacteria and a previously undetected biosphere, according to a new study.

Physics Informed Modeling of Ecosystem Respiration via Dynamic Mode Decomposition with Control Input
Maha Shadaydeh, Joachim Denzler, Mirco Migliavacca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17625

Physics Informed Modeling of Ecosystem Respiration via Dynamic Mode Decomposition with Control Input
Ecosystem respiration (Reco) represents a major component of the global carbon cycle, and accurate characterization of its dynamics is essential for a comprehensive understanding of ecosystem-climate interactions and the impacts of climate extremes on the ecosystem. This paper presents a novel data-driven and physics-aware method for estimating Reco dynamics using the dynamic mode decomposition with control input (DMDc) technique, an emerging tool for analyzing nonlinear dynamical systems. The …

#cycling loop done! I never rode my #MTB up this particular forest road to the #mountain and maybe I now know why: Some part of it is really steep - or I'm just unfit. But woah did I drive on my person…

Environmental Insights: Democratizing Access to Ambient Air Pollution Data and Predictive Analytics with an Open-Source Python Package
Liam J Berrisford, Ronaldo Menezes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03664

Environmental Insights: Democratizing Access to Ambient Air Pollution Data and Predictive Analytics with an Open-Source Python Package
Ambient air pollution is a pervasive issue with wide-ranging effects on human health, ecosystem vitality, and economic structures. Utilizing data on ambient air pollution concentrations, researchers can perform comprehensive analyses to uncover the multifaceted impacts of air pollution across society. To this end, we introduce Environmental Insights, an open-source Python package designed to democratize access to air pollution concentration data. This tool enables users to easily retrieve histo…

"‘Revolutionary’: EU Parliament votes to criminalise most serious cases of ecosystem destruction"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Ecocide

EU to introduce 10-year prison sentences for environmental crimes
Countries will have two years to put the updated directive, which covers crimes 'comparable to ecocide', into national law.

The mis/disinformation ecosystem makes every day seem like April Fool's.

Facebook says it's working on an AI system for its video recommendations across its entire ecosystem, and tests have led to an 8%-10% gain in Reels watch time (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/facebook-w

Stop Stealing My Data: Sanitizing Stego Channels in 3D Printing Design Files
Aleksandr Dolgavin, Mark Yampolskiy, Moti Yung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05106

Stop Stealing My Data: Sanitizing Stego Channels in 3D Printing Design Files
The increased adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) and the acceptance of AM outsourcing created an ecosystem in which the sending and receiving of digital designs by different actors became normal. It has recently been shown that the STL design files -- most commonly used in AM -- contain steganographic channels. Such channels can allow additional data to be embedded within the STL files without changing the printed model. These factors create a threat of misusing the design files as a cover…

A Workflow for GLAM Metadata Crosswalk
Arianna Moretti, Ivan Heibi, Silvio Peroni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02113 https://arxiv.org/…

A Workflow for GLAM Metadata Crosswalk
The acquisition of physical artifacts not only involves transferring existing information into the digital ecosystem but also generates information as a process itself, underscoring the importance of meticulous management of FAIR data and metadata. In addition, the diversity of objects within the cultural heritage domain is reflected in a multitude of descriptive models. The digitization process expands the opportunities for exchange and joint utilization, granted that the descriptive schemas a…

I like the #rust, it gives me avenues to explore the ecosystem.

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

European Commission designates Apple's iPadOS as a 'gatekeeper' under DMA
EU iPad users will be able to download apps from sources other than App Store
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4202877/european-commissi…

European Commission designates Apple's iPadOS as a 'gatekeeper' under DMA
The European Commission has taken a major step in regulating Apple's ecosystem, designating iPadOS as a "gatekeeper" under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA).

"how to reboot touch bar" and "how to reboot airpods without factory reset" and other things I have to look up when I use this "just works" ecosystem

Volgens mij is Het Witte Huis het met jou eens, @… https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/112015777426228596

For those of you who will still be there at #DHd2024 on Friday morning: if you want to know how to implement a #knowledgegraph based research data ecosystem (not only) for @nfdi4culture, please come and listen to our presentation on "Communities, Harvesting, and CGIF: Building the Research…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02935 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Unveiling the Blind Spots: A Critical Examination of Fairness in Autonomous Driving Systems
Autonomous driving systems have extended the spectrum of Web of Things for intelligent vehicles and have become an important component of the Web ecosystem. Similar to traditional Web-based applications, fairness is an essential aspect for ensuring the high quality of autonomous driving systems, particularly in the context of pedestrian detectors within them. However, there is an absence in the literature of a comprehensive assessment of the fairness of current Deep Learning (DL)-based pedestri…

Producers United, a grassroots group of 86 top Hollywood "career producers", launches to advocate for reforms, including changing their fee structure (Mike Fleming Jr/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/movie-tv-producers-la…

Producers United Is Launched By 86 Top Film & TV “Career Producers” To Change Fee Structure, Get Health Benefits & Stop Gradual Ecosystem Erosion
The 86 members of Producers United is a collection of the most prolific “Career Producers” who make about 90% of Hollywood’s biggest movies.

Hydrologic Cycle Weakening in Hothouse Climates
Jiachen Liu, Jun Yang, Feng Ding, Gang Chen, Yongyun Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01969 https://

Hydrologic Cycle Weakening in Hothouse Climates
The hydrologic cycle has wide impacts on the ocean salinity and circulation, carbon and nitrogen cycles, and the ecosystem. Under anthropogenic global warming, previous studies showed that the intensification of the hydrologic cycle is a robust feature. Whether this trend persists in hothouse climates, however, is unknown. Here we show in climate models that mean precipitation first increases with rising surface temperature, but the precipitation trend reverses when the surface is hotter than ~…

cant believe its alive!!! doesnt look much healthy tho: its yellowish and has a deffect on its leaf :(
#plant #botanics #biology

The topic of biomass is complex, so it's easy to bafflegab a green screen for #climate and #ecosystem damaging practices. #LandUseChange, especially destruction of intact forest ecosystems, is one of t…

The topic of biomass is complex, so it's easy to bafflegab a green screen for #climate and #ecosystem damaging practices. #LandUseChange, especially destruction of intact forest ecosystems, is one of t…

Nice, insightful survey. Thanks Alex! https://www.composables.com/state-of-compose

State of Compose in 2023 – Composables.com
Community survey to identify the latest trends, available APIs, and community efforts in the Compose ecosystem.

The Terraformers (2023) by Annalee Newitz is set in a far future where humans are built instead of birthed. Destry is an ecosystem ranger on a planet that's being terraformed over centuries by a corporation that's basically a real-estate developer. She has implants that can connect to the network of sensors that permeates the ecosystem. Her companion is a sentient moose with an anti-gravity organ that lets him fly. 1/

SOPA: A Framework for Sustainability-Oriented Process Analysis and Re-design in Business Process Management
Finn Klessascheck, Ingo Weber, Luise Pufahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01176

SOPA: A Framework for Sustainability-Oriented Process Analysis and Re-design in Business Process Management
Given the continuous global degradation of the Earth's ecosystem due to unsustainable human activity, it is increasingly important for enterprises to evaluate the effects they have on the environment. Consequently, assessing the impact of business processes on sustainability is becoming an important consideration in the discipline of Business Process Management (BPM). However, existing practical approaches that aim at a sustainability-oriented analysis of business processes provide only a limit…

#Rust Bytes: Predictions and Speculations on the #Future Direction
https://weeklyrust.substack.com/p…

The thing about Earth is, we're kind of locked into its ecosystem.

Against Europe’s largest gas project and a major threat to the fragile Black Sea ecosystem
Whereas this particular event has passed, there is still hope and the campaign continues.
https://www.greenpeace.org/i…

This is very serious. Lough Neagh's ecosystem is being stretched to the point where it may not return to a state that is not fundamentally impaired. The collapse of midges, which are incredibly important invertebrate predators of zooplankton, and highly desired food for planktivorous fishes, is a *very bad sign. Widespread algal blooms and changes to fish populations are a sign of a lack of careful lake management.

iOS 17.4 launches with new EU App Store business terms, with some last-minute tweaks like no longer needing a €1M stand-by letter of credit to start a store (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/05/apple-tweaks-eu-app-store-busine…

Apple Tweaks New EU App Store Business Terms After Developer Feedback
With the launch of iOS 17.4, Apple's app ecosystem changes in the European Union have gone into effect. Apple today said that it made some last...

Do You Trust Your Model? Emerging Malware Threats in the Deep Learning Ecosystem
Dorjan Hitaj, Giulio Pagnotta, Fabio De Gaspari, Sediola Ruko, Briland Hitaj, Luigi V. Mancini, Fernando Perez-Cruz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03593

Do You Trust Your Model? Emerging Malware Threats in the Deep Learning Ecosystem
Training high-quality deep learning models is a challenging task due to computational and technical requirements. A growing number of individuals, institutions, and companies increasingly rely on pre-trained, third-party models made available in public repositories. These models are often used directly or integrated in product pipelines with no particular precautions, since they are effectively just data in tensor form and considered safe. In this paper, we raise awareness of a new machine lear…

“The CARIAD project aims to maintain a healthy digital ecosystem by helping ActivityPub service providers to classify or block domains exhibiting harmful behavior. Our commitment to freedom of association means everyone is free to block anyone, at any time, for any reason. ActivityPub is predominantly a volunteer-operated messaging service, and as such, no-one can be forced to accept your content.”

resources/CARIAD at main · iftas-org/resources
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iOS 17.4 launches with new EU App Store business terms, with some last-minute tweaks like no longer needing a €1M stand-by letter of credit to start a store (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/05/apple-tweaks-eu-app-store-busine…

Apple Tweaks New EU App Store Business Terms After Developer Feedback
With the launch of iOS 17.4, Apple's app ecosystem changes in the European Union have gone into effect. Apple today said that it made some last...

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Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem
In this White Paper, we present recommendations for the scientific community and funding agencies to foster the infrastructure for a collaborative multi-messenger and time-domain astronomy (MMA/TDA) ecosystem. MMA/TDA is poised for breakthrough discoveries in the coming decade. In much the same way that expanding beyond the optical bandpass revealed entirely new and unexpected discoveries, cosmic messengers beyond light (i.e., gravitational waves, neutrinos, and cosmic rays) open entirely new w…

'Fate worse than death': Anti-Trump conservatives will soon have no home in right-wing media - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/anti-trump-conservatives-media/?utm_medium=email

'Fate worse than death': Anti-Trump conservatives will soon have no home in right-wing media
With Super Tuesday looming — in which 15 states and territories will hold their presidential primaries and caucuses next Tuesday — one prominent conservative is warning that criticism of former President Donald Trump will soon no longer be tolerated in the right-wing media ecosystem.In a recent arti...

"how to reboot touch bar" and "how to reboot airpods without factory reset" and other things I have to look up when I use this "just works" ecosystem

A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people (Byron Tau/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets…

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

#ReleaseWednesday 🚀 This week's https://thi.ng/umbrella releases include:

Broadly scoped ecosystem & mono-repository of 190 TypeScript projects for general purpose, functional, data driven development

The state of the #dotnet #oss ecosystem.

Integrating Blockchain technology within an Information Ecosystem
Francesco Salzano, Lodovica Marchesi, Remo Pareschi, Roberto Tonelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13191

Integrating Blockchain technology within an Information Ecosystem
Context: Blockchain-based Information Ecosystems (BBIEs) are a type of information ecosystem in which blockchain technology is used to provide a trust mechanism among parties and to manage shared business logic, breaking the traditional scheme of Information Ecosystems dominated by a leading company and leveraging the decentralization of data management, information flow, and business logic. Objective: In this paper, we propose architecture and technical aspects concerning the creation of a BBI…

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Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem
In this White Paper, we present recommendations for the scientific community and funding agencies to foster the infrastructure for a collaborative multi-messenger and time-domain astronomy (MMA/TDA) ecosystem. MMA/TDA is poised for breakthrough discoveries in the coming decade. In much the same way that expanding beyond the optical bandpass revealed entirely new and unexpected discoveries, cosmic messengers beyond light (i.e., gravitational waves, neutrinos, and cosmic rays) open entirely new w…

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Protected QR Code-based Anti-counterfeit System for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
The pharmaceutical manufacturing faces critical challenges due to the global threat of counterfeit drugs. This paper proposes a new approach of protected QR codes to secure unique product information for safeguarding the pharmaceutical supply chain. The proposed solution integrates secure QR code generation and encrypted data transmission to establish a comprehensive anti-counterfeit ecosystem. The protected QR codes encapsulate product information that cannot be identified using traditional QR…

Google tests removing links to CA news sites to measure the impact of the California Journalism Preservation Act and pauses investments in the CA news ecosystem (Jaffer Zaidi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/news/calif…

Why the California Journalism Preservation Act is putting support of the news ecosystem at risk
CJPA is unworkable and may result in changes to our services in California. As a result, we’re testing potential product implementations.

The brief and rather peculiar history of the rise of the idea of the "self-organising network".
A very powerful ideology of our time is the idea of the "self-organising network".
It says that human beings can organise themselves into systems where they are linked, but where there is no #hierarchy, no #leaders

Google tests removing links to CA news sites to measure the impact of the California Journalism Preservation Act and pauses investments in the CA news ecosystem (Jaffer Zaidi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/news/calif…

Why the California Journalism Preservation Act is putting support of the news ecosystem at risk
CJPA is unworkable and may result in changes to our services in California. As a result, we’re testing potential product implementations.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01329 has been replaced.
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Decentralization of Ethereum's Builder Market
Blockchains protect an ecosystem worth more than $500bn with their strong security properties derived from the principle of decentralization. Is today's blockchain really decentralized? In this paper, we empirically studied one of the {\em least decentralized} parts of Ethereum -- the most used blockchain system in practice -- and shed light on the decentralization issue from a new perspective. To avoid centralization caused by Maximal Extractable Value (MEV), Ethereum adopts a novel mechanis…

DroneUp unveils an autonomous drone "ecosystem" for last-mile deliveries, with Walmart, 7-Eleven, and Chick-fil-A the first retailers to pilot the system (Joann Muller/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/26/walmart-7-11-chick-fil-a…

Scoop: Walmart, 7-11, Chick-fil-A pilot new drone delivery tech
DroneUp unveiled a proprietary autonomous drone delivery "ecosystem" for retailers.

It’s really great of the #JetBrains #WebStorm team to step up and support #Volar with a $10,000 donation. #OSS

Giving Back to the Ecosystem: JetBrains Supports Volar | The WebStorm Blog
We’re thrilled to announce that JetBrains donated $10,000 to the Volar team!

It’s really great of the #JetBrains #WebStorm team to step up and support #Volar with a $10,000 donation. #OSS

Giving Back to the Ecosystem: JetBrains Supports Volar | The WebStorm Blog
We’re thrilled to announce that JetBrains donated $10,000 to the Volar team!

Exploring Jamming and Hijacking Attacks for Micro Aerial Drones
Yassine Mekdad, Abbas Acar, Ahmet Aris, Abdeslam El Fergougui, Mauro Conti, Riccardo Lazzeretti, Selcuk Uluagac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03858

Exploring Jamming and Hijacking Attacks for Micro Aerial Drones
Recent advancements in drone technology have shown that commercial off-the-shelf Micro Aerial Drones are more effective than large-sized drones for performing flight missions in narrow environments, such as swarming, indoor navigation, and inspection of hazardous locations. Due to their deployments in many civilian and military applications, safe and reliable communication of these drones throughout the mission is critical. The Crazyflie ecosystem is one of the most popular Micro Aerial Drones …

A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people (Byron Tau/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets…

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

How Phil Schiller, now an Apple Fellow, emerged as Apple's most ardent public defender of its ecosystem, under threat from the US DOJ, the EU, rivals, and more (Wall Street Journal)
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Google opens its second hardware office in New Taipei City, as VP of Engineering Elmer Peng says "Taiwan is Google's largest hardware R&D hub outside of the US" (Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/5E135MYuqJ

Google to expand hardware R&D team in Taiwan
Search engine giant 'serious' about beefing up equipment and software ecosystem

A look at the restaurant reservation ecosystem in New York City, where new apps have sprung up to help diners book a table at buzzy restaurants for a price (Adam Iscoe/New Yorker)
https://t.co/Rd5tDIofjq

A look at the underground bitcoin community in Austin, which attracts bitcoiners because of Texas' pro-crypto policies and ecosystem of developers and miners (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/24/inside-austins-bitcoin-underground.htm…