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X plans a Handle Marketplace for Premium and Business subscribers to search for and request inactive usernames; rare handles can cost from $2,500 to $1M (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802474/x-is-launching-a-marketplace…

X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles
X is launching a Handle Marketplace where Premium subscribers will be able to search and request usernames that have been unavailable.

I have two desktop computers, and at first, I was a bit confused about the name of the device I need. It turns out I’m looking for a KVM switch, and need some tech support!
Do you have any recommendations for a reliable KVM switch that works well with Linux? I’m looking for something that handles USB and HDMI.
Edit: I live in Norway, if that helps.
#Linux

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

Is there a “vibe coding” joke mug with 7 handles

"The bug, introduced in build 26100.6899, has been traced to HTTP.sys, the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic."
The *kernel* component that handles what now!?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/windows_11_update_localhost/<…

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround
Updated: Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again

I thought I was too old to get excited about protocols, but this atproto discussion from Dan Abramov delivers:
https://overreacted.io/where-its-at/
(a follow up to his open social post)

Where It's at:// — overreacted
From handles to hosting.

For all 3 ARK SA players still out there, I did a bit of updates to my Linux installer.
Notably work on the management interface which it deploys.

Trump attends, handles coin toss at Army-Navy college football game (Ryan Mancini/NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-attends-handles-coin-toss-at-army-navy-college-football-game/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p61#a251213p61

Why, how do you transport yours?
#caturday

Final day of having the carpenter here. A lot of sawing. Built the dresser desk drawers, cut all the perspex into shape for the windowed doors that fit together now but still need gluing.
The dresser drawers are just about big enough to put the hairdryer in, so that's nice.
Still quite a bit for the other workers to do. Detailing for panels on the doors, gluing and hanging the window doors, handles and painting and touch ups. They reckon another 5 days work still, only two of which can be next week because I have stuff to do.
Must be weird being a builder and finishing your part of the job then never seeing it completed. He's done all this great work on it but will only see the completed work if he has to come back for something else. And he doesn't want to come back coz he's fed up of driving across London 😆

Omar Fateh,
the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist,
is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis
and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey.
Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate.
Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization,
raising the minimum wage
and reforming how the city handles public safety.
“…

“Mamdani of the Midwest”: Meet Omar Fateh. Could He Be the Next Mayor of Minneapolis?
Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey. Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate. Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization, raising the minimum wage and reforming how the city handles public safety. “Minneapolis can have a different kind of politics,…

A Hierarchical Quantized Tokenization Framework for Task-Adaptive Graph Representation Learning
Yang Xiang, Li Fan, Chenke Yin, Chengtao Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12369 http…

A Hierarchical Quantized Tokenization Framework for Task-Adaptive Graph Representation Learning
Recent progress in language and vision foundation models demonstrates the importance of discrete token interfaces that transform complex inputs into compact sequences for large-scale modeling. Extending this paradigm to graphs requires a tokenization scheme that handles non-Euclidean structures and multi-scale dependencies efficiently. Existing approaches to graph tokenization, linearized, continuous, and quantized, remain limited in adaptability and efficiency. In particular, most current quan…

Nix on handling criticism: I delete my social media https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46947394/broncos-bo-nix-handling-criticism-amid-offensive-struggles-delete-my-social-media

A topological counting rule for shells
Hussein Nassar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10683 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10683

A topological counting rule for shells
Holding a shell in their hands, one can apply six loads: three by pulling and shearing, and three by bending and twisting. Here, it is shown that the shell will resist exactly three load cases and comply with the other three, provided the shell is simply connected, meaning it has no holes and no handles.

Tomorrow, I'll be publishing a #WebDAV provider for #Terraform
It handles HTTP Basic, TLS and mTLS authentication.
It supports write-only attributes to deploy secrets, including deployment of ephemeral secrets.
In a few weeks, I expect to publish another version implementing…

To Ask or Not to Ask: Learning to Require Human Feedback
Andrea Pugnana, Giovanni De Toni, Cesare Barbera, Roberto Pellungrini, Bruno Lepri, Andrea Passerini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08314

To Ask or Not to Ask: Learning to Require Human Feedback
Developing decision-support systems that complement human performance in classification tasks remains an open challenge. A popular approach, Learning to Defer (LtD), allows a Machine Learning (ML) model to pass difficult cases to a human expert. However, LtD treats humans and ML models as mutually exclusive decision-makers, restricting the expert contribution to mere predictions. To address this limitation, we propose Learning to Ask (LtA), a new framework that handles both when and how to inco…

Apropos of nothing, Claude is advertised as “Describe what you need, and Claude handles the rest.” and not as “Describe what you need, and Claude makes suggestions which after your careful consideration mayhaps do what you asked but possibly not.”
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115684309967311298

Age of Information-Aware Cognitive Shared Access Networks with Energy Harvesting
Georgios Smpokos, Dionysis Xenakis, Marios Kountouris, Nikolaos Pappas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11198

Age of Information-Aware Cognitive Shared Access Networks with Energy Harvesting
This study investigates a cognitive shared access network with energy harvesting capabilities operating under Age of Information (AoI) constraints for the primary user. Secondary transmitters are spatially distributed according to a homogeneous Poisson Point Process (PPP), while the primary user is located at a fixed position. The primary transmitter handles bursty packet arrivals, whereas secondary users operate under saturated traffic conditions. To manage interference and energy, two distinc…

Metropolitana 🔶
城 🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Nervig, dass beim Kopieren von Posts innerhalb von Mastodon die Handles nochmal neu erfasst werden müssen. Da sollte zumindest ein Popup kommen, was gemeint ist, bevor man postet. Gibt es dafür eine Lösung / Workaround?

hey chat what do you think of my input UI element for compiler flags? it handles spaces correctly!

Well this is a fun loft find; The logo on the lid seems to be an exact match to Iraqi Republic Railways; the body seems to match a William Adams sugar pot from sometime 1950s onwards. It's not entirely crazy,p the Brits built some infrastructure in Iraq in the 50s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi…

Iraqi Republic Railways - Wikipedia

🧠 Next-token diffusion framework combines LLM text understanding with diffusion-based audio generation
🌍 Supports English & Chinese with cross-lingual capabilities
🎤 Handles spontaneous singing & natural turn-taking in conversations
📊 10.2k GitHub stars, MIT licensed
https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice

I handles many of important extensions, I’m liking it so far. But no safari extensions unfortunately, so missing my favourite blocker.
It is wicked fast though. https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115634295732705020

Hybrid quantum-classical analog simulation of two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard models with neutral atoms
Sergi Juli\`a-Farr\'e, Antoine Michel, Christophe Domain, Joseph Mikael, Jacques-Charles Lafoucriere, Joseph Vovrosh, Ahmed Chahlaoui, Dorian Claveau, Guillaume Villaret, Julius de Hond, Lo\"ic Henriet, Antoine Browaeys, Thomas Ayral, Alexandre Dauphin

Hybrid quantum-classical analog simulation of two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard models with neutral atoms
We experimentally study the two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model using a Rydberg-based quantum processing unit in the analog mode. Our approach avoids encoding directly the original fermions into qubits and instead relies on reformulating the original model onto a system of fermions coupled to spins and then decoupling them in a self-consistent manner. We then introduce the auxiliary spin solver: this hybrid quantum-classical algorithm handles a free-fermion problem, which can be solved efficien…

You'd be forgiven for thinking our back door is haunted, but no, it's just the cat who has figured out how door handles work but doesn't have the mass to actually open them

You can find me across the #fediverse at these handles:
Pixelfed: @…
BookWyrm: @…@…

Not finished today, but surely surely finished tomorrow!?
Mirrors stuck onto the doors. Quite a lot of mirror. Makes the room feel bigger.
All the trim and handles are on now. Just one hole for cables missing. Catches need to be put on the blind-doors. Adjusting the doors so they open and close smoothly. Couple of lights to be attached. Painting and decorating touch-up.
Actually do believe they'll finish tomorrow.

Attention-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Portfolio Optimization
Pei Xue, Yuanchun Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Attention-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Portfolio Optimization
We develop a deep reinforcement learning framework for dynamic portfolio optimization that combines a Dirichlet policy with cross-sectional attention mechanisms. The Dirichlet formulation ensures that portfolio weights are always feasible, handles tradability constraints naturally, and provides a stable way to explore the allocation space. The model integrates per-asset temporal encoders with a global attention layer, allowing it to capture sector relationships, factor spillovers, and other cro…

Why I switched from #Markdown to #Asciidoc for #technicalwriting.
Markdown is good, but Asciidoc is much more! It natively handles file includes, admonitions, spans in tables, and even diagrams—…

Model Predictive Path Integral Control for Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing
Christopher Martin, Apurva Patil, Wei Li, Takashi Tanaka, Dongmei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06547 htt…

Model Predictive Path Integral Control for Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing
Roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing is a continuous processing technology essential for scalable production of thin-film materials and printed electronics, but precise control remains challenging due to subsystem interactions, nonlinearities, and process disturbances. This paper proposes a Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control formulation for R2R systems, leveraging a GPU-based Monte-Carlo sampling approach to efficiently approximate optimal controls online. Crucially, MPPI easily handles …

Die AfD plant heute am 29. November 2025 in Gießen die Gründung ihrer neuen Jugendorganisation "Generation Deutschland" als Nachfolgerin der aufgelösten "Jungen Alternative". Gegner haben präventiv Hunderte bis über 1000 Handles auf Plattformen wie Instagram und TikTok geschnappt, oft mit Städtenamen kombiniert oder als Anti-AfD-Profile genutzt
Läuft doch ...
#noafd

Brave says it has surpassed 100M monthly active users across desktop and mobile worldwide, with 42M DAUs, and Brave Search handles 1.6B queries each month (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/327735/brave-now-has-over-…

Brave Now Has Over 100 Million Users
Brave announced today that it now has over 100 million active users across desktop and mobile worldwide.

PAD3R: Pose-Aware Dynamic 3D Reconstruction from Casual Videos
Ting-Hsuan Liao, Haowen Liu, Yiran Xu, Songwei Ge, Gengshan Yang, Jia-Bin Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25183 h…

PAD3R: Pose-Aware Dynamic 3D Reconstruction from Casual Videos
We present PAD3R, a method for reconstructing deformable 3D objects from casually captured, unposed monocular videos. Unlike existing approaches, PAD3R handles long video sequences featuring substantial object deformation, large-scale camera movement, and limited view coverage that typically challenge conventional systems. At its core, our approach trains a personalized, object-centric pose estimator, supervised by a pre-trained image-to-3D model. This guides the optimization of deformable 3D G…

I'm wearing winter boots. Every time I walk around I seem to charge myself and when I touch anything metal e.g. MacBook body and door or window handles at the office I get an electric shock.
It's either this or cold feet.

TITE-Safety: Time-to-event Safety Monitoring for Clinical Trials
Michael J. Martens, Qinghua Lian, Brent R. Logan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03175 https://…

TITE-Safety: Time-to-event Safety Monitoring for Clinical Trials
Safety evaluation is an essential component of clinical trials. To protect study participants, these studies often implement safety stopping rules that will halt the trial if an excessive number of toxicity events occur. Existing safety monitoring methods often treat these events as binary outcomes. A strategy that instead handles these as time-to-event endpoints can offer higher power and a reduced time to signal of excess risk, but must manage additional complexities including censoring and c…

MelCap: A Unified Single-Codebook Neural Codec for High-Fidelity Audio Compression
Jingyi Li, Zhiyuan Zhao, Yunfei Liu, Lijian Lin, Ye Zhu, Jiahao Wu, Qiuqiang Kong, Yu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01903

MelCap: A Unified Single-Codebook Neural Codec for High-Fidelity Audio Compression
Neural audio codecs have recently emerged as powerful tools for high-quality and low-bitrate audio compression, leveraging deep generative models to learn latent representations of audio signals. However, existing approaches either rely on a single quantizer that only processes speech domain, or on multiple quantizers that are not well suited for downstream tasks. To address this issue, we propose MelCap, a unified "one-codebook-for-all" neural codec that effectively handles speech, music, and …

Universal Beta Splatting
Rong Liu, Zhongpai Gao, Benjamin Planche, Meida Chen, Van Nguyen Nguyen, Meng Zheng, Anwesa Choudhuri, Terrence Chen, Yue Wang, Andrew Feng, Ziyan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03312

Universal Beta Splatting
We introduce Universal Beta Splatting (UBS), a unified framework that generalizes 3D Gaussian Splatting to N-dimensional anisotropic Beta kernels for explicit radiance field rendering. Unlike fixed Gaussian primitives, Beta kernels enable controllable dependency modeling across spatial, angular, and temporal dimensions within a single representation. Our unified approach captures complex light transport effects, handles anisotropic view-dependent appearance, and models scene dynamics without re…

More of the edging, most of the handles, many of the holes I asked for are there so cables can get where they need to. They've been painting a bit and varnishing a bit and the coving is prepared for the gap above the windows there.
One more day, they say. One more day. I'll have to make a list of everything still to be done over the weekend.

Data-Backed NFL Bets: Cowboys -6.5 backed by matchup edges on both sides of the ball https://www.pff.com/news/bet-data-backed-nfl-week-8-bets-cowboys-broncos

Approximating value functions via corner Benders' cuts
Matheus Jun Ota, Ricardo Fukasawa, Aleksandr M. Kazachkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21758 https://

Approximating value functions via corner Benders' cuts
We introduce a novel technique to generate Benders' cuts from a conic relaxation ("corner") derived from a basis of a higher-dimensional polyhedron that we aim to outer approximate in a lower-dimensional space. To generate facet-defining inequalities for the epigraph associated to this corner, we develop a computationally-efficient algorithm based on a compact reverse polar formulation and a row generation scheme that handles the redundant inequalities. Via a known connection between arc-flow a…

Engineering the uncontrollable: Steering noisy spin-correlated radical-pairs with coherent and incoherent control
Farhan T. Chowdhury, Luke D. Smith, Daniel R. Kattnig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05074 …

Engineering the uncontrollable: Steering noisy spin-correlated radical-pairs with coherent and incoherent control
The quantum control of spin-correlated radical pairs (SCRPs) holds promise for the targeted manipulation of magnetic field effects, with potential applications ranging from the design of noise-resilient quantum information processors to genetically encodable quantum sensors. However, achieving precise handles over the intricate interplay between coherent electron spin dynamics and incoherent relaxation processes in photoexcited radical-pair reactions requires tractable approaches for numericall…

DC-Gen: Post-Training Diffusion Acceleration with Deeply Compressed Latent Space
Wenkun He, Yuchao Gu, Junyu Chen, Dongyun Zou, Yujun Lin, Zhekai Zhang, Haocheng Xi, Muyang Li, Ligeng Zhu, Jincheng Yu, Junsong Chen, Enze Xie, Song Han, Han Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25180

DC-Gen: Post-Training Diffusion Acceleration with Deeply Compressed Latent Space
Existing text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, but face significant efficiency challenges when scaled to high resolutions, like 4K image generation. While previous research accelerates diffusion models in various aspects, it seldom handles the inherent redundancy within the latent space. To bridge this gap, this paper introduces DC-Gen, a general framework that accelerates text-to-image diffusion models by leveraging a deeply compressed latent space. Rather tha…

Simuorb: a new method for generating and describing the intersection points of clique-arrangements
P. Ryckelynck, L. Smoch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25234 https://

Simuorb: a new method for generating and describing the intersection points of clique-arrangements
This work, which may be seen as a companion paper to \cite{RS2}, handles the way the intersection points made by the diagonals of a regular polygon are distributed. It was stated recently by the authors that these points lie exclusively on circles centered on the origin and also the way their respective radii depend on the four indices of the vertices of the initial regular $n$-gon which characterize the two straight lines underlying the intersection points. Because these four vertices are loca…

Advancing Accessible Hand-Arm Vibration Safety Monitoring: ISO-Compliance with Wearable Sensors and Transfer Functions
Johannes Mootz, Reza Akhavian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16536

Advancing Accessible Hand-Arm Vibration Safety Monitoring: ISO-Compliance with Wearable Sensors and Transfer Functions
Field workers are frequently exposed to hazardous vibrations, increasing the risk of Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) and other long-term health problems. ISO 5349-1 provides guidelines for measuring vibration exposure. However, this standard was established in controlled conditions using high-quality accelerometers directly attached to power tool handles. This study investigates an alternative, wearable sensor-based data collection process and develops an error-minimization transfer function…

Simulating radio emission from extensive air showers with CORSIKA 8
Marvin Gottowik (for the CORSIKA 8 collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15840 https://

Simulating radio emission from extensive air showers with CORSIKA 8
CORSIKA 8 is a modern, flexible framework for simulating particle cascades in air and dense media, allowing for fully customizable shower simulations. The radio module autonomously handles electric field calculations and propagation to observer locations. It supports simultaneous simulations with both the ``Endpoint formalism'' as implemented in CoREAS and the ``ZHS'' algorithm from ZHAireS. In this contribution, we validate the radio module by comparing air-shower simulations in CORSIKA 8, COR…

VizGen: Data Exploration and Visualization from Natural Language via a Multi-Agent AI Architecture
Sandaru Fernando, Imasha Jayarathne, Sithumini Abeysekara, Shanuja Sithamparanthan, Thushari Silva, Deshan Jayawardana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22218

VizGen: Data Exploration and Visualization from Natural Language via a Multi-Agent AI Architecture
Data visualization is essential for interpreting complex datasets, yet traditional tools often require technical expertise, limiting accessibility. VizGen is an AI-assisted graph generation system that empowers users to create meaningful visualizations using natural language. Leveraging advanced NLP and LLMs like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemini 2.0 Flash, it translates user queries into SQL and recommends suitable graph types. Built on a multi-agent architecture, VizGen handles SQL generation, gra…

Provably Optimal Quantum Circuits with Mixed-Integer Programming
Harsha Nagarajan, Zsolt Szab\'o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00649 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Provably Optimal Quantum Circuits with Mixed-Integer Programming
We present a depth-aware optimization framework for quantum circuit compilation that unifies provable optimality with scalable heuristics. For exact synthesis of a target unitary, we formulate a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) that linearly handles global-phase equivalence and uses explicit parallel scheduling variables to certify depth-optimal solutions for small-to-medium circuits. Domain-specific valid constraints, including identity ordering, commuting-gate pruning, short-sequence redun…

A couple of days of just layering varnish and painting which didn't change anything visibly enough to bother with photos. But today, the windowed doors are starting to be completed. Three of them up.
This is what really makes the difference and makes it suddenly reminiscent of the Tardis.
Hopefully it'll be finished next week, they say. But they have said that before. The windowed doors have to be finished, the detailing to make the doors look panelled, handles, holes for cables, there's a bit of coving I decided to add to help carry wires and lights across the gap above the desk. More painting. Mirrors to be glued to doors.
We shall see :fingers_crossed:

I'm wearing winter boots. Every time I walk around I seem to charge myself and when I touch anything metal e.g. MacBook body and door or window handles at the office I get an electric shock.
It's either this or cold feet.