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The Omarchy/Framework thing
I want to state for the record that I love Framework’s products. They are incredibly friendly to Linux, to Free Software, and to the Right to Repair movement. If their stated mission didn’t so closely align to my own values—and if they weren’t jeopardizing their reputation

I try to protect my garden. Like many gardens there are vermin - such as rats - that damage, even destroy, the beauty and use of my garden.
I offer no excuses when I remove those vermin from my garden, usually by killing them.
I do have some sympathy for them should the traps not finish the job and they squeak in alarm as I approach to take their lives. But those squeaks do not deter me.
Our world, our nation, our neighborhoods are gardens. There are people who undermine …

Nonlinearly Preconditioned Gradient Methods: Momentum and Stochastic Analysis
Konstantinos Oikonomidis, Jan Quan, Panagiotis Patrinos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11312 https://…

Nonlinearly Preconditioned Gradient Methods: Momentum and Stochastic Analysis
We study nonlinearly preconditioned gradient methods for smooth nonconvex optimization problems, focusing on sigmoid preconditioners that inherently perform a form of gradient clipping akin to the widely used gradient clipping technique. Building upon this idea, we introduce a novel heavy ball-type algorithm and provide convergence guarantees under a generalized smoothness condition that is less restrictive than traditional Lipschitz smoothness, thus covering a broader class of functions. Addit…

The Guardian reports revenue in the year to March up 7% YoY to £276M, losses down £24M from £37M the year prior, and 1.3M "recurring supporters" online, up 13% (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busin…

Guardian reports bumper year for digital reader revenue
The Guardian has reported a bumper year for digital reader revenue, up by 22% from £88m in 2023/2024 to £107m in the year to March 2025.

❝The community he created? His role was to be a steward. He did not live up to the job.❞
From @…:
https://mastodon.online/@gardiner_bryant/115367199280886318

Australian household energy bills will⭐️ halve by 2050 ⭐️as solar panels, batteries and electric cars and appliances become the norm,
reducing pressure on the federal government over living costs and creating room for more climate action, a thinktank study suggests.
Modelling by the Grattan Institute finds that cutting greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation in line with the goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050
will cut average household energy costs fro…