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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #LiveOnKEXP
Frankie and the Witch Fingers:
🎵 Futurephobic
#FrankieandtheWitchFingers
https://frankieandthewitchfingers.bandcamp.com/track/futurephobic
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ARlESWSdowjYgqKnsGWwC

Disallow UEFI on MBR (msdos)
for x86 in Anaconda
This is a proposed change for Fedora 43 Linux
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Anaconda_Drop_Support_UEFI_on_MBR

I needed to escape… so I chose to stare at the TV to this…
#movie #escapism #futurepast

How to prepare for a 8h train ride: go running.
Now of to Prague to #FlockToFedora; looking forward to meet a lot of old friends there and make new ones.
Ohh, and I give a talk there, too: When and how to use upstream Linux kernels to fix or improve Fedora –

User Altruism in Recommendation Systems
Ekaterina Fedorova, Madeline Kitch, Chara Podimata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04525 https://a…

User Altruism in Recommendation Systems
Users of social media platforms based on recommendation systems (RecSys) (e.g. TikTok, X, YouTube) strategically interact with platform content to influence future recommendations. On some such platforms, users have been documented to form large-scale grassroots movements encouraging others to purposefully interact with algorithmically suppressed content in order to "boost" its recommendation; we term this behavior user altruism. To capture this behavior, we study a game between users and a Rec…

The proposal to "Drop 32-bit multilib support on x86_64 #Fedora Linux and stop building packages for i686"[1] has been withdrawn:
https://

A Tale of Two Shocks
Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, Domenico Trotta, Rungployphan Kieokaew, Liu Yang, Alexander Kollhoff, Lars Berger, Patrick K\"uhl, Stephan I. B\"ottcher, Bernd Heber, Philippe Louarn, Andrey Fedorov, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, Ra\'ul G\'omez-Herrero, Francisco Espinosa Lara, Ignacio Cernuda, Yulia Kartavykh, Linghua Wang, George C. Ho, Robert C. Allen, Glenn M. Mason, Zheyi Ding, Andrea Larosa, G. Sindhuja, Sandra Eldrum, Sebastian Fleth, David Lar…

A Tale of Two Shocks
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, . . . - for the thermal/suprathermal particle populations in the vicinity of two traveling interplanetary shocks observed by Solar Orbiter on 2023-11-29 07:51:17 UTC and 2023-11-30 10:47:26 UTC at $\sim 0.83$ astronomical units from the Sun. We investigate these two very dissimilar shocks and elucidate their non-equilibrium features. We do not provide explanations of all observed features, our aim is to report them here for future reference…

A change that proposes to drop i686 packages from x86_64 #Fedora 44 was just published:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archiv…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
York:
🎵 On the Beach (Matrix & Futurebound Remix)
#York
https://zonker.bandcamp.com/track/york-on-the-beach-zonker-9pm-mix

Kevin Kofler withdrew his #Fedora 43 change proposal[1] which proposed switching from the #Xorg Xserver to #X11libre: