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[Guide] Accessing Linux Duplicity Backups on Ext4 USB Drive from Apple Silicon Macs (2025)
Tips & Guides
I recently needed to access and selectively restore files from large Duplicity backups stored on an Ext4 USB drive, and created by DéjŠ Dup on an Ubuntu Linux server...

#OpenTelemetry Autoinstrumentation in #Java
https://www.dash0.com/guides/opentelemetry

I've been pretty quiet here lately, but I've not been goofing off. I am leveraging what I've learned about security and privacy over the last two decades to create guides for the non-technical person. Easy to read (hopefully) guides on messaging, email, browsing and other topics that will make it easy for anyone to improve their Internet privacy. Stay tuned.
By the way, this is not a commercial effort. The guides will be free to download, use and share.
Why am I doin…

Marine Rosset, socialiste et homosexuelle, nommée Š la tête des Scouts et guides de France : le malaise d’une partie de la communauté catholique
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/202

Scouts et guides de France : remous après l’élection de Marine Rosset, socialiste et homosexuelle
Depuis que l’élue du 5ᵉ arrondissement de Paris a pris les rênes du mouvement, des voix réactionnaires et une partie de la communauté catholique font entendre leur opposition à ce choix.

Google announces 30 Gemini AI tools for educators, like "Gems" which help students on specific subjects, included with Google Workspace for Education accounts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025…

Google embraces AI in the classroom with new Gemini tools for educators, chatbots for students, and more | TechCrunch
Google will give teachers the ability to create interactive study guides using the AI research tool Notebook LM, along with their classroom materials.

Core detection via Ricci curvature flows on weighted graphs
Juan Zhao, Jicheng Ma, Yunyan Yang, Liang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01400 https://arxiv.o…

Core detection via Ricci curvature flows on weighted graphs
Graph Ricci curvature is crucial as it geometrically quantifies network structure. It pinpoints bottlenecks via negative curvature, identifies cohesive communities with positive curvature, and highlights robust hubs. This guides network analysis, resilience assessment, flow optimization, and effective algorithm design. In this paper, we derived upper and lower bounds for the weights along several kinds of discrete Ricci curvature flows. As an application, we utilized discrete Ricci curvature …

Evolution of #HTTP
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Evolution_of_HTTP

from my link log —
Walking the London Loop.
https://www.innerlondonramblers.org.uk/ideasforwalks/loop-guides.html
saved 2025-04-11

AI-guided digital intervention with physiological monitoring reduces intrusive memories after experimental trauma
Megan T. deBettencourt, Sruthi Sakthivel, Emily A. Holmes, Mark Chevillet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01081

AI-guided digital intervention with physiological monitoring reduces intrusive memories after experimental trauma
Trauma prevalence is vast globally. Evidence-based digital treatments can help, but most require human guidance. Human guides provide tailored instructions and responsiveness to internal cognitive states, but limit scalability. Can generative AI and neurotechnology provide a scalable alternative? Here we test ANTIDOTE, combining AI guidance and pupillometry to automatically deliver and monitor an evidence-based digital treatment, specifically the Imagery Competing Task Intervention (ICTI), to r…

Encryption Is Not a Crime - Privacy Guides
Contrary to what some policymakers seem to believe, whether naively or maliciously, encryption is not a crime. Anyone asserting encryption is a tool for crime is either painfully misinformed or is attempting to manipulate legislators to gain oppressive power over the people. Encryption is not a crime, encryption is a shield.
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Encryption Is Not a Crime
Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.

Chrono Odyssey (Playtest)
Requested access to CO's Playtest this weekend and got the notification on Friday I was in. Installed and launched the game. Game defaulted to Epic settings. Left it there and started the game. Right off the bat, the cinematics had strange artifacting on them. Almost looked like the Steam browser in the background was ghosting into the game somehow.
Created a character. Decent customization. Male doesn't look absurdly buff. Femme isn't overl…

Meine liebsten OpenStreetMap-Angebote
* #Mapy - fast wie Google Maps (mit Kommentare, Routen, Umgebung) https://mapy.com/de/zakladni?source=osm&a…

Beyond Pixel Agreement: Large Language Models as Clinical Guardrails for Reliable Medical Image Segmentation
Jiaxi Sheng, Leyi Yu, Haoyue Li, Yifan Gao, Xin Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01841

Beyond Pixel Agreement: Large Language Models as Clinical Guardrails for Reliable Medical Image Segmentation
Evaluating AI-generated medical image segmentations for clinical acceptability poses a significant challenge, as traditional pixelagreement metrics often fail to capture true diagnostic utility. This paper introduces Hierarchical Clinical Reasoner (HCR), a novel framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) as clinical guardrails for reliable, zero-shot quality assessment. HCR employs a structured, multistage prompting strategy that guides LLMs through a detailed reasoning process, enco…

Building Telemetry Pipelines with the #OpenTelemetry #Collector
https://www.dash0.com/guides/opentelemetry

Learning to Prune Branches in Modern Tree-Fruit Orchards
Abhinav Jain, Cindy Grimm, Stefan Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23015 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.…

Learning to Prune Branches in Modern Tree-Fruit Orchards
Dormant tree pruning is labor-intensive but essential to maintaining modern highly-productive fruit orchards. In this work we present a closed-loop visuomotor controller for robotic pruning. The controller guides the cutter through a cluttered tree environment to reach a specified cut point and ensures the cutters are perpendicular to the branch. We train the controller using a novel orchard simulation that captures the geometric distribution of branches in a target apple orchard configuration.…

Moved the switch power cables to the outside of the rack and used the red "loops" to route the cable down to the PDU. I should have enough space in the basement for the Proxmox node power bricks.
#homelab #minirack

Satellite company Maxar launches Sentry, an AI service that autonomously guides satellites to monitor cities, ports, and other sites for unusual activity (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🎉 Meet the new GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) - Part 1
Announced at the latest GÉANT Community Programme workshop in Prague, the committee guides & strengthens our vibrant community.
🔗 Read the workshop highlights & meet the members: https://connect.gean…

Attn Lawyers & Legal Assistants. Continuously updated guides for Legal Professionals are also available by subscription for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & a special ed. for Word for Macintosh.

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gwp6j

Working on my new home (#blogging, I am realizing that unlike in the past, it might not make sense to use feedburner anymore.
M…

David August
Stories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.

Happiness Break: A Meditation on the Uniqueness of Your Voice https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/happiness_break_a_meditation_on_t…

Happiness Break: A Meditation on the Uniqueness of Your Voice
Embrace the beauty of your accent in this self-compassion meditation that guides you in a reflection of your history, heritage, and connection to your ancestors.

A recent post about a library publishing guidelines on citing genAI got me thinking about when that might be appropriate (rarely) or not (almost always), and what those cites should look like when they are needed. I have a new post talking about why genAI output shouldn’t be cited in most cases and, for when they must be, giving examples from common style guides.

Citing material generated by LLMs and chatbots
A recent post on Bluesky lamenting a university library publishing guidelines for citing generative AI (genAI) got me thinking about why one would want to do that in the first place and then, assuming there's a valid reason, what that citation should look like. So, that's what I'm exploring today.

PSA: isc-dhcp-server >~3.0 sets the 'siaddr' in offers to 0 unless you set the next-server entry for a server; and Javastations don't like that. They used to set it to the server IP, like god intended.
(Yours after many hours of debug, bisection, tcpdump and reading the dhcp spec).
So if you're reading old config guides for old machines and using a modern DHCP server...

Protect your email privacy – Start now with Proton Mail

Just a reminder that autocracies always implement broad surveillance methods in order to identify and punish resistance. Surveillance can take many forms including the capture of your email messages and attachments. Take action now to create ways to communicate privately with your family, friends and colleagues. Options that are available today can quickly disappear.

I suggest that you install and start using Pro…

I'm stuck doing a puzzle in #finalfantasyvi :blobcatpats:
I promised to myself I will not see hints and guides.
I want to do it myself.
#videogames #nintendo

Voice-guided Orchestrated Intelligence for Clinical Evaluation (VOICE): A Voice AI Agent System for Prehospital Stroke Assessment
Julian Acosta, Scott Adams, Julius Kernbach, Romain Hardy, Sung Eun Kim, Luyang Luo, Xiaoman Zhang, Shreya Johri, Mohammed Baharoon, Pranav Rajpurkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22898

Voice-guided Orchestrated Intelligence for Clinical Evaluation (VOICE): A Voice AI Agent System for Prehospital Stroke Assessment
We developed a voice-driven artificial intelligence (AI) system that guides anyone - from paramedics to family members - through expert-level stroke evaluations using natural conversation, while also enabling smartphone video capture of key examination components for documentation and potential expert review. This addresses a critical gap in emergency care: current stroke recognition by first responders is inconsistent and often inaccurate, with sensitivity for stroke detection as low as 58%, c…

Chain-of-Thought for Large Language Model-empowered Wireless Communications
Xudong Wang, Jian Zhu, Ruichen Zhang, Lei Feng, Dusit Niyato, Jiacheng Wang, Hongyang Du, Shiwen Mao, Zhu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22320

Chain-of-Thought for Large Language Model-empowered Wireless Communications
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have opened new possibilities for automated reasoning and decision-making in wireless networks. However, applying LLMs to wireless communications presents challenges such as limited capability in handling complex logic, generalization, and reasoning. Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, which guides LLMs to generate explicit intermediate reasoning steps, has been shown to significantly improve LLM performance on complex tasks. Inspired by this, this …

Spouse (a psychotherapist) was forwarded this paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412
> Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers
which has caused us to spend a big chunk of after dinner lounging alternating among incredulous…

Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers
Should a large language model (LLM) be used as a therapist? In this paper, we investigate the use of LLMs to *replace* mental health providers, a use case promoted in the tech startup and research space. We conduct a mapping review of therapy guides used by major medical institutions to identify crucial aspects of therapeutic relationships, such as the importance of a therapeutic alliance between therapist and client. We then assess the ability of LLMs to reproduce and adhere to these aspects o…

A novel multi-thickness topology optimization method for balancing structural performance and manufacturability
Gabriel Stankiewicz, Chaitanya Dev, Paul Steinmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19388

A novel multi-thickness topology optimization method for balancing structural performance and manufacturability
Topology optimization (TO) in two dimensions often presents a trade-off between structural performance and manufacturability, with unpenalized (variable-thickness) methods yielding superior but complex designs, and penalized (SIMP) methods producing simpler, truss-like structures with compromised performance. This paper introduces a multi-thickness, density-based topology optimization method designed to bridge this gap. The proposed approach guides the design towards a predefined set of discret…

Evaluating the Use of LLMs for Documentation to Code Traceability
Ebube Alor, SayedHassan Khatoonabadi, Emad Shihab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16440 https:…

Evaluating the Use of LLMs for Documentation to Code Traceability
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new potential for automating documentation-to-code traceability, yet their capabilities remain underexplored. We present a comprehensive evaluation of LLMs (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o3-mini) in establishing trace links between various software documentation (including API references and user guides) and source code. We create two novel datasets from two open-source projects (Unity Catalog and Crawl4AI). Through systematic experiments, we assess three key…

Regular Tree Search for Simulation Optimization
Du-Yi Wang, Guo Liang, Guangwu Liu, Kun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17696 https://

Regular Tree Search for Simulation Optimization
Tackling simulation optimization problems with non-convex objective functions remains a fundamental challenge in operations research. In this paper, we propose a class of random search algorithms, called Regular Tree Search, which integrates adaptive sampling with recursive partitioning of the search space. The algorithm concentrates simulations on increasingly promising regions by iteratively refining a tree structure. A tree search strategy guides sampling decisions, while partitioning is tri…

Excitation of Giant Surface Waves During Laser Wake Field Acceleration
Travis Garrett, Christopher Pieronek, E. Rockafellow, Oliver Sale, Sahir Virani, J. E. Shrock, B. Miao, A. Sloss, Jennifer Elle, H. M. Milchberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21503

Excitation of Giant Surface Waves During Laser Wake Field Acceleration
We have detected the presence of very high intensity surface waves that are excited during plasma waveguided laser wakefield acceleration. Wakefield acceleration can be enchanced by the introduction of an ``all optical" plasma waveguide that confines and guides a laser pulse at the optimal intensity over long distances, producing quasimonoenergetic multi-GeV electron bunches. However strong pulses of radio frequency radiation (RF) are also produced, and particle in cell simulations show why: a …

Next-Gen Museum Guides: Autonomous Navigation and Visitor Interaction with an Agentic Robot
Luca Garello, Francesca Cocchella, Alessandra Sciutti, Manuel Catalano, Francesco Rea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12273

Next-Gen Museum Guides: Autonomous Navigation and Visitor Interaction with an Agentic Robot
Autonomous robots are increasingly being tested into public spaces to enhance user experiences, particularly in cultural and educational settings. This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the autonomous museum guide robot Alter-Ego equipped with advanced navigation and interactive capabilities. The robot leverages state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide real-time, context aware question-and-answer (Q&A) interactions, allowing visitors to engage in conve…

@… I don't buy this argument. It assumes the means-tested service is used involuntarily. You can't equivalently tax eg a library user fee or a bus fare because use is unpredictable & even depends on the fee.
The political argument (which goes back way before 1998) is the real one. It also guides you in cases like bus fares where it's not …

#PennedPossibilities 695 — Do you enjoy the process of worldbuilding?
I love when it comes together, I do. My world is large, and I love to see how the pieces all fit, but most of all, I love discovering that through my characters. It is they who show me these things. They are my guides.

Improving Contextual ASR via Multi-grained Fusion with Large Language Models
Shilin Zhou, Zhenghua Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12252 https://

Improving Contextual ASR via Multi-grained Fusion with Large Language Models
While end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models have shown impressive performance in transcribing general speech, they often struggle to accurately recognize contextually relevant keywords, such as proper nouns or user-specific entities. Previous approaches have explored leveraging keyword dictionaries in the textual modality to improve keyword recognition, either through token-level fusion that guides token-by-token generation or phrase-level fusion that enables direct copying of …

Sunlit level path
With deep forest either side
Guides me through the glade.
#dailyhaikuprompt - glade
#haiku
#poem

IP2: Entity-Guided Interest Probing for Personalized News Recommendation
Youlin Wu, Yuanyuan Sun, Xiaokun Zhang, Haoxi Zhan, Bo Xu, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13622

IP2: Entity-Guided Interest Probing for Personalized News Recommendation
News recommender systems aim to provide personalized news reading experiences for users based on their reading history. Behavioral science studies suggest that screen-based news reading contains three successive steps: scanning, title reading, and then clicking. Adhering to these steps, we find that intra-news entity interest dominates the scanning stage, while the inter-news entity interest guides title reading and influences click decisions. Unfortunately, current methods overlook the unique …

In this moment when equity & inclusion efforts are being hindered & erased, the DLF Committee on Equity & Inclusion is creating a Zotero library of related resources for the GLAM community. Let us know what topics would be most helpful to you: https://docs.google.com/f…

Navigating Sparse Molecular Data with Stein Diffusion Guidance
Van Khoa Nguyen, Lionel Blond\'e, Alexandros Kalousis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05482 h…

Navigating Sparse Molecular Data with Stein Diffusion Guidance
Stochastic optimal control (SOC) has recently emerged as a principled framework for fine-tuning diffusion models. However, its dependence on computationally intensive simulations makes it impractical for fast sampling. In parallel, a class of training-free approaches has been developed that guides diffusion models using off-the-shelf classifiers on predicted clean samples, bypassing the need to train classifiers on noisy data. These methods can be interpreted as approximate SOC schemes, using T…

Electromagnetic Noise Characterization and Suppression in Low-Field MRI Systems
Teresa Guallart-Naval, Joseba Alonso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20413 https://

Electromagnetic Noise Characterization and Suppression in Low-Field MRI Systems
Purpose: Low-field MRI systems operate at single MHz-range frequencies, where signal losses are primarily dominated by thermal noise from the radio-frequency (RF) receive coils. Achieving operation close to this limit is essential for maximizing imaging performance and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). However, electromagnetic interference (EMI) from cabling, electronics, and patient loading often degrades system performance. Our goal is to develop and validate a practical protocol that guides users…

One thing I've noticed about the coverage of the LA protests is the differing use of "non-lethal" and "less-lethal" in describing weapons being used by the state against protesters.
And in this case I think the liability-dodging term "less lethal" is actually more useful, and should be incorporated into style-guides.

EditGen: Harnessing Cross-Attention Control for Instruction-Based Auto-Regressive Audio Editing
Vassilis Sioros, Alexandros Potamianos, Giorgos Paraskevopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11096

EditGen: Harnessing Cross-Attention Control for Instruction-Based Auto-Regressive Audio Editing
In this study, we investigate leveraging cross-attention control for efficient audio editing within auto-regressive models. Inspired by image editing methodologies, we develop a Prompt-to-Prompt-like approach that guides edits through cross and self-attention mechanisms. Integrating a diffusion-based strategy, influenced by Auffusion, we extend the model's functionality to support refinement edits, establishing a baseline for prompt-guided audio editing. Additionally, we introduce an alternativ…

Ich muss sagen, Mapy (https://mapy.com) find ich wirklich eine nette auf OpenStreetMap aufsetzende ~App. Routen planen und finden scheint leicht zu gehen.
Bei Locations (Suche) wird es dann aber schon leider wieder wenig. Wäre cool, wenn einfach alles aus

Protect your privacy – Start now with Signal
 
Autocracies always implement broad surveillance methods in order to identify and punish resistance. Surveillance can take many forms including the capture of your social media posts and email, monitoring your connections to web sites, and preventing the use of private communications through encryption back-doors and other means.
 
Take action now to create ways to communicate privately with your family, friends and colleague…

RunPacer: A Smartwatch-Based Vibrotactile Feedback System for Symmetric Co-Running by Visually Impaired Individuals and Guides
Yichen Yu, Huan-Song Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04241

RunPacer: A Smartwatch-Based Vibrotactile Feedback System for Symmetric Co-Running by Visually Impaired Individuals and Guides
Visually impaired individuals often require a guide runner to safely participate in outdoor running. However, maintaining synchronized pacing with verbal cues or tethers can be mentally taxing and physically restrictive. Existing solutions primarily focus on navigation or obstacle avoidance but overlook the importance of real-time interpersonal rhythm coordination during running. We introduce RunPacer, a smartwatch-based vibrotactile feedback system that delivers synchronized rhythmic pulses to…

Rethinking Growth: An Extension of the Solow-Swan Model
Timothy F. Power, Roman G. Smirnov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10864 https://a…

Rethinking Growth: An Extension of the Solow-Swan Model
The aggregate Cobb-Douglas production function stands as a central element in the renowned Solow-Swan model in economics, providing a crucial theoretical framework for comprehending the determinants of economic growth. This model not only guides policymakers and economists but also influences their decisions, fostering sustainable and inclusive development. In this study, we utilize a one-input version of a new generalization of the Cobb-Douglas production function proposed recently, thereby ex…

Digital Salon: An AI and Physics-Driven Tool for 3D Hair Grooming and Simulation
Chengan He, Jorge Alejandro Amador Herrera, Zhixin Shu, Xin Sun, Yao Feng, S\"oren Pirk, Dominik L. Michels, Meng Zhang, Tuanfeng Y. Wang, Julie Dorsey, Holly Rushmeier, Yi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07387

Digital Salon: An AI and Physics-Driven Tool for 3D Hair Grooming and Simulation
We introduce Digital Salon, a comprehensive hair authoring system that supports real-time 3D hair generation, simulation, and rendering. Unlike existing methods that focus on isolated parts of 3D hair modeling and involve a heavy computation process or network training, Digital Salon offers a holistic and interactive system that lowers the technical barriers of 3D hair modeling through natural language-based interaction. The system guides users through four key stages: text-guided hair retrieva…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02878 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

CoT is Not True Reasoning, It Is Just a Tight Constraint to Imitate: A Theory Perspective
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has demonstrably enhanced the performance of Large Language Models on tasks requiring multi-step inference. This success has led to widespread claims of emergent reasoning capabilities in these models. In this paper, we present a theoretical counter-perspective: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) does not elicit genuine, abstract reasoning. Instead, we argue that Chain-of-Thought functions as a powerful structural constraint that guides Large Language Models to imitate the …

My Personal Privacy - Your resource for achieving better online privacy
Why privacy:
The right to privacy is a well-established, fundamental human right. It is necessary for a safe and just society. It is especially important in regions where intolerance and discrimination are backed by autocratic regimes. While you may not feel the need for privacy in all of your online activity, you should be able to achieve a high level of privacy when you need it. This website and the document…