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Past me: running out of space because of small disks.
Present me: running out of space because disks are too big, so I create smaller partitions and keep some space unpartitioned for future use.

Sharing for a friend: 'Lead the development of the digital future of British art research' - Head of Systems, Data and Technology (Fixed term 18-months) Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC) https://www.peridotpartners.co.uk/jobs/hea

My main gripe with “AI coding” is that people present it in highly emotional terms as a fait accompli that will “change everything” instead of it being just another tool (that is one of many) to make software.
Like I saw a SERIOUS post today (not on here) from a tech guy I previously respected that was basically like a 90s infomercial with black and white video of working on a computer (labeled “without AI”) and then over-saturated footage of chilling in the pool or whatever shit (labeled “with AI”).
Not to mention there’s a constant barrage of “enjoy being poor” type bullshit.
This is abusive behavior; it’s emotional manipulation and gaslighting.
It’s cringe, as the kids would say.
I think the underlying LLM technology has use cases that are genuinely useful, for example when making explorative software prototypes, both for backend and frontend stuff.
But it's like a hammer. Useful for nails, useless for anything else.
And you got to ask where the hammer is coming from. Was it made with stolen metal? Forged by exploitative labor? Locked away in a data center so you can only rent the hammer by the hour from some business trying to do a bait and switch?
I'm hoping that the AI landlord industry dies eventually (signs point to this as they won't be able to fulfill the obligations to their investors) and people use locally-run stuff, ethically with open source models (without stolen stuff) and without ridiculous environmental impact in the future.

Lenovo's Motorola partners with GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused, de-Googled version of Android, to preinstall GrapheneOS on upcoming Motorola smartphones (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/03/01/motorola-…

Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features
Motorola has announced a partnership with GrapheneOS which will see a phone with support, as well as features ported to other devices.

Beam Test Performance of AstroPix sensor with 120 GeV protons
Bobae Kim, Regina Caputo, Manoj Jadhav, Sylvester Joosten, Carolyn Kierans, Henry Klest, Adrien Laviron, Richard Leys, Jessica Metcalfe, Jared Richards, Nicolas Striebig, Amanda L. Steinhebel, Daniel Violette, Maria Zurek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06084 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06084 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06084
arXiv:2602.06084v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AstroPix is a high-voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) monolithic active pixel sensor (MAPS) developed for precision gamma-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the medium energy regime, as well as for precise shower imaging and tracking in the Barrel Imaging Calorimeter (BIC) of the Electron Proton/Ion Collider (ePIC) detector at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). We present beam test results of the AstroPix v3 sensor using a 120 GeV proton beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF), performed as part of the broader experimental campaign for the BIC prototype calorimeter. The sensor's 500 um pixel pitch enabled precise measurement of the beam profile, providing important information for calorimeter performance studies. Using the measured 120 GeV proton data, we measure the energy deposit of minimum ionizing particles and use them to extract the corresponding effective depletion depth.
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After a few iterations of 3d printed prototyping I have an external enclosure for my ThunderScope PCIe prototype to enable future testing without being too dangerously exposed to shorts from random tools and cables on the bench.
And to more firmly secure the card in the slot so it doesn't wobble around when I'm mating and unmating cables.
ProtoPasta ESD CF-PLA on a friend's printer.

Bright Fractional Single and Multi-Solitons in a Prototypical Nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger Paradigm: Existence, Stability and Dynamics
Robert J. Decker, A. Demirkaya, T. J. Alexander, P. G. Kevrekidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17175 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.17175 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.17175
arXiv:2602.17175v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the present work we explore features of single and pairs of solitary waves in a fractional variant of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation. Motivated by the recent experimental realization of arbitrary fractional exponents, upon quantifying the tail properties of such coherent structures, we detail their destabilization when the fractional exponent $\alpha$ acquires values $\alpha<1$ and showcase how the relevant destabilization is associated with collapse type phenomena. We then turn to in- and out-of-phase pairs of such waveforms and illustrate how they generically exist for arbitrary $\alpha$ when we cross the harmonic limit, i.e., for $\alpha>2$. Importantly, we use the parameter $\alpha$ as a ``bifurcation parameter'' in order to connect the harmonic ($\alpha=2$) and biharmonic ($\alpha=4$) limits. Remarkably, not only do we retrieve the instability of all solitonic pairs in the biharmonic case, but showcase a stabilization feature of particular branches of such multipulses that is {\it unique} to the fractional case and does not arise -- to our knowledge -- for integer multi-pulse settings. We explain systematically this stabilization via spectral analysis and expand upon the implications of our results for the potential observability of fractional multipulse solitary waves.
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