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Talking Transactions: Decentralized Communication through Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)
Xihan Xiong, Zhipeng Wang, Qin Wang, Endong Liu, Pascal Berrang, William Knottenbelt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24724

Talking Transactions: Decentralized Communication through Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)
Can you imagine, blockchain transactions can talk! In this paper, we study how they talk and what they talk about. We focus on the input data field of Ethereum transactions, which is designed to allow external callers to interact with smart contracts. In practice, this field also enables users to embed natural language messages into transactions. Users can leverage these Input Data Messages (IDMs) for peer-to-peer communication. This means that, beyond Ethereum's well-known role as a financial …

*points at glasgow* network card

Today is the release of #Netflix adaptation of El #Eternauta (The Eternaut). I haven't seen it yet, but I highly encourage you to do it. The Eternaut is the holy grail of Argentine comics and science fiction. Set on an alien invasion in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I can still remember the fascination the…

Fetterman defends mental health, desire to stay Congress (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/02/fetterman-mental-health-congress-00380050
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p77#a250602p77

Happy Pride Month from a straight ally!:QueerCatHeart_Pride:
:ablobpride1: :ablobpride2:
And for all eternity: Equal rights, respect and tolerance for everybody - regardless of sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, skin color, culture or religion!
♥️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💐
#Pride #PrideMonth

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S\"{o}ze: One Network Telemetry Is All You Need for Per-flow Weighted Bandwidth Allocation at Scale
Weitao Wang, T. S. Eugene Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00834

Söze: One Network Telemetry Is All You Need for Per-flow Weighted Bandwidth Allocation at Scale
Weighted bandwidth allocation is a powerful abstraction that has a wide range of use cases in modern data center networks. However, realizing highly agile and precise weighted bandwidth allocation for large-scale cloud environments is fundamentally challenging. In this paper, we propose Söze, a lightweight decentralized weighted bandwidth allocation system that leverages simple network telemetry features of commodity Ethernet switches. Given the flow weights, Söze can effectively use the tele…

The network cabling came in so got it installed. Not sure if this is _exactly_ the way I want to run it, but either way it's pretty clean overall. Each one of the Minisforum MS-A2s will get 2x10GbE fiber for iSCSI and 1x2.5GbE for VM traffic.
#minirack #homelab

Eternalism and Everettian Quantum Mechanics
Matias Slavov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22160 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22160

Eternalism and Everettian Quantum Mechanics
This paper shall explore the conjunction of eternalism and Everettian quantum mechanics. It shall be argued that there is a strong analogy between these two views. In case there is an indefinite number of worlds and observers that are all equally real, there should be an indefinite number of local times which are all also equally real. Whereas Everettianism, specifically the diverging version, treats actuality indexically, relativistic eternalism treats tense indexically. All times exist analog…

Today we arrived back in Vienna at ~14:00, after leaving Istanbul on Tuesday 11:00, so ~50 hours of relaxed travelling (3h bus to Edirne, ~39h with the Optima Express train to Villach (2 nights & one day in a private sleeper compartment, like a cruise but on a train), then 4.5h to Vienna)