Tootfinder

TIL sheep hunting is a thing. WTF is sheep hunting a thing?
#sheep
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/rancher_hybrid_sheep/

Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep
Ewe-nique endeavor aimed to create Jurassic Baaa-rk experience for hunters

Arthur "Jack" Schubarth, 80, pled guilty to a decade-long attempt to breed a giant sheep. Very Jurassic Park, including cloned embryos. I honestly feel respect for the guy.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/12/mont

Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Wildlife Trafficking Charges as Part of Yearslong Effort to Create Giant Hybrid Sheep for Captive Hunting
#MTNews #Montana

Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Wildlife Trafficking Charges as Part of Yearslong Effort to Create Giant Hybrid Sheep for Captive Hunting
A Montana man pleaded guilty to two felony wildlife crimes – a conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act and substantively violating the Lacey Act – as part of an almost decade-long effort to create giant sheep hybrids in the United States with an aim to sell the species to captive hunting facilities.

Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Wildlife Trafficking Charges as Part of Yearslong Effort to Create Giant Hybrid Sheep for Captive Hunting (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/montana-man-pleads-guilty-federal-wildlife-trafficking-charges-part-yearslong-effort-create
http://www.memeorandum.com/240313/p65#a240313p65

I've just posted a pretty long request for thoughts on dead code hunting in #linux - all thoughts welcome;
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Zjy82Ja6G2iIHl75@gallifrey/T/#u

Parameter Constraints on Traversable Wormholes within Beyond Horndeski Theories through Quasi-Periodic Oscillations
Farukh Abdulkhamidov, Petya Nedkova, Javlon Rayibaev, Jutta Kunz, Bobomurat Ahmedov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08356

Parameter Constraints on Traversable Wormholes within Beyond Horndeski Theories through Quasi-Periodic Oscillations
{\it Hunting} compact astrophysical objects such as black holes and wormholes, as well as testing gravity theories, are important issues in relativistic astrophysics. In this sense, theoretical and observational studies of quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in (micro)quasars become helpful in exploring their central object, which can be a black hole or a wormhole. In the present work, we study the throat properties of traversable wormholes beyond Horndeski theory. Also, we investigate t…

These good boys were super happy to see me but didn’t get out of the car or anything while getting ear scratches. Good doggos.
They are hunting dogs probsbly back from the mornings excursion

Shoutout to @… whose 2021 cartoon on Aurora hunting inspired me to start paying attention to aurora alerts, leading to my first sighting of #auroraaustralis last night.

Australian Lure Fishing
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Australian Lure Fishing | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Australian Lure Fishing Host: Greg Doc Lures Vinall Category: Leisure Sub-Category: Fishing & Hunting, Hobbies First Episode: 2018 Three times per week Australia’s most successful lure…

systems, communication, work
Thoughtful thread from @… - about job hunting in techie contexts, but at another level about how malfunctional systems persist, and info gets lost in transmission.
Reminds me of a kind of questioning which I think I do a lot: How does this actually work in practice. What are we trying to do. Where did this bit come from, and does it still make sense now or is it a left-over from an earlier situation.
#systems

Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
$2.4.1 DIFFICULTIES OF HUNTING AT WORK"
I don't know what to say
"In academia, dating and romantic/sexual relationship between professors and students is controversial"
Yes. Yes it is.
"There is clearly a world-wide bias in judgmental decisions for accusing males, compared to females, in harassments. It may be because males usually ask out and show interest in females and females may take it as an offense."
Okay so has anyone explained to you the concept of power dynamics and unethical abuse of authority roles?
"A funny thing is that once, in a seminar for teaching assistants in the University of Waterloo, they told us that teaching
assistants should not date students. I asked about the case of John Nash. The professor answered me that they married
after the student graduated (which I think is not true). Then, I answered even if that is true, did they suddenly get
married without any dating? Of course, they dated before that, while she was a student! I think they themselves know
that this rule is nonfunctional because if the professor/instructor and the student are both single, they may like each
other or fall in love as they interact frequently in the school. This rule was even criticised in the American comedy show "Friends" (season 6, episode 18)."
Ok, there's a lot to unpack here, but the main bit is this: Do you understand that the sitcom "Friends" is not a good source for understanding ethics?

Galactical Bug Hunting: How we discovered new issues in CD Projekt Red’s Gaming Platform https://www.anvilsecure.com/blog/galactical-bug-hunting-how-we-discovered-new-issues-in-cd-projekt-reds-gaming-platform.html

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! here my #LastFourWatched
🔹The Idea of You (2½★)
🔹Barbarian (3★)
🔹Civil War (2½★)
🔹Fresh (3½★)
🔗 https://

“After conducting interviews with over 60 players for this article, it’s clear that the propaganda of Helldivers 2 inherently encourages people to band together. But some are acting in bad faith, spinning the clear satire into an overly serious military role-play — one that extends beyond acts like consecrating someone as public enemy number one.”

A month in, Helldivers 2 is tangled in bigotry and witch hunting
Helldivers 2’s theme of fighting a war together is, for better or worse, resounding in the community beyond the game itself.

Body camera footage from Idaho reveals a sheriff hunting for a Young Adult book he could use for a political stunt.
Sheriff Robert Norris is speaking into his body camera. “Today’s date is April 20, approximately 7 a.m. Just want to document my visit to the Hayden Library. My attorney and I are just curious and would like to document this visit to see what kind of materials are on display here.”

Police Bodycam Shows Sheriff Hunting for 'Obscene' Books at Library
Body camera footage from Idaho reveals a sheriff hunting for a YA book he could use for a political stunt.

Another Cloudflare domain to investigate and block if you don’t use: r2.dev
You don’t necessarily have to block it, but you might want to start hunting for r2.dev URL’s in your incoming email, maybe create a rule to quarantine messages that contain those URL’s. #threathunting #threatintel
From: @…
https://cyberplace.social/@fellows/112044131574761836

Shoutout to @… whose 2021 cartoon on Aurora hunting inspired me to start paying attention to aurora alerts, leading to my first sighting of #auroraaustralis last night.

🐋 Killer whales use specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals in the open ocean
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-killer-whales-specialized-techniques-marine.html

Killer whales use specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals in the open ocean
Killer whales foraging in deep submarine canyons off the coast of California represent a distinct subpopulation that uses specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals, Josh McInnes at the University of British Columbia and colleagues report on March 20 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.

Police Bodycam Shows Sheriff Hunting for 'Obscene' Books at Library https://www.404media.co/police-bodycam-shows-sheriff-kootenai-idaho-hunting-for-obscene-books-at-library/

Analysis of a Leslie-Gower model with Alle effects, cooperative hunting, and constant placement rates
Yonghui Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04552 https:/…

Analysis of a Leslie-Gower model with Alle effects, cooperative hunting, and constant placement rates
This paper investigates the dynamical properties of the Leslie-Gower model with Alle effects, cooperative hunting, and constant placement rates. The conditions for the existence of the triple equilibrium point of the model are first analyzed. Subsequently, the canonical type theory and the qualitative theory of planar systems are applied to obtain that the triple equilibrium point can be a node with a residual dimension of 2 and an equilibrium point with a residual dimension of 3 under differen…

Gary Larson was right all along, scientists aren't to be trusted. Go get 'em, orcas!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-killer-whale-orca-population-hunting-predators-1.7149194

Orca are serious predators, who hunt cooperatively in groups, so it shouldn't be surprising that they can take down large prey. This is particularly more likely given the reductions in some of their #Salmon prey off the #BC coast.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00174 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Bump hunting through density curvature features
Bump hunting deals with finding in sample spaces meaningful data subsets known as bumps. These have traditionally been conceived as modal or concave regions in the graph of the underlying density function. We define an abstract bump construct based on curvature functionals of the probability density. Then, we explore several alternative characterizations involving derivatives up to second order. In particular, a suitable implementation of Good and Gaskins' original concave bumps is proposed in …

it's annoying that people who have lots moralize the strategies people who don't have use to survive.
on the flip side, it's hard to not be over-pampering.
common learned strategies:
- resource hunting (asking dad vs mom, or a less experienced volunteer when the shift lead says no)
- fragmenting for assistance (slightly different requests to many people)
- hoarding (if you've never endured scarcity you might not get this)
Nothing wrong with that strategy, just we're also trying to help out the polite / hesitant folks who don't vouch for themselves
or dealing with a limited "one phone per family" budget because money in a charity is f-ing tight.
assume the best of the people you're trying to help, but don't commit the org to promises (even saying maybe can be seen as commitment that might backfire) - call the case manager and let them work it out.
trying to avoid codependency and encouraging them to try it themselves / gain confidence in a new place, encourage independence and self sufficiency.

An Enhanced Grey Wolf Optimizer with Elite Inheritance and Balance Search Mechanisms
Jianhua Jiang, Ziying Zhao, Weihua Li, Keqin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06524

An Enhanced Grey Wolf Optimizer with Elite Inheritance and Balance Search Mechanisms
The Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) is recognized as a novel meta-heuristic algorithm inspired by the social leadership hierarchy and hunting mechanism of grey wolves. It is well-known for its simple parameter setting, fast convergence speed, and strong optimization capability. In the original GWO, there are two significant design flaws in its fundamental optimization mechanisms. Problem (1): the algorithm fails to inherit from elite positions from the last iteration when generating the next position…

With or without $\nu$? Hunting for the seed of the matter-antimatter asymmetry
CUORE Collaboration, D. Q. Adams, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso, F. T. Avignone III, O. Azzolini, G. Bari, F. Bellini, G. Benato, M. Beretta, M. Biassoni, A. Branca, C. Brofferio, C. Bucci, J. Camilleri, A. Caminata, A. Campani, J. Cao, S. Capelli, C. Capelli, L. Cappelli, L. Cardani, P. Carniti, N. Casali, E. Celi, D. Chiesa, M. Clemenza, O. Cremonesi, R. J. Creswick, A. D'Addabbo, I. Dafinei, F. Del Corso, S.…

With or without $ν$? Hunting for the seed of the matter-antimatter asymmetry
The matter-antimatter asymmetry underlines the incompleteness of the current understanding of particle physics. Neutrinoless double-beta ($0νββ$) decay may help explain this asymmetry, while unveiling the Majorana nature of the neutrino. The CUORE experiment searches for $0νββ$ decay of $^{130}$Te using a tonne-scale cryogenic calorimeter operated at milli-kelvin temperatures. We report no evidence for $0νββ$ decay and place a lower limit on the half-life of T$_{1/2}$ $>$ 3.8 $\times$ …

🐋 Killer whales use specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals in the open ocean
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-killer-whales-specialized-techniques-marine.html

Killer whales use specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals in the open ocean
Killer whales foraging in deep submarine canyons off the coast of California represent a distinct subpopulation that uses specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals, Josh McInnes at the University of British Columbia and colleagues report on March 20 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.

Biden administration to halt major mining project over tribal hunting concerns | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-ambler-road-interior-department-alaska-b253…

Biden administration to halt major mining project over tribal hunting concerns
The project was set to go through the Arctic National Park and Preserve, a major piece of protected land in the northern half of the state

Black Desert
Black Desert is a game that tests the limitations of MMORPG
by implementing remastered graphics and audio. Enjoy exciting combat and siege,
exploration, trading, fishing, training, alchemy, cooking, gathering, hunting, and more in the vast open world.

Anyone out there build a #Microsoft Advanced Hunting or Sentinel #KQL query that incorporates Spamhaus DROP data? #cybersecurity #threathunting #threatintel
From: @…
https://infosec.exchange/@spamhaus/112088844848460909

Unsupervised Threat Hunting using Continuous Bag-of-Terms-and-Time (CBoTT)
Varol Kayhan, Shivendu Shivendu, Rouzbeh Behnia, Clinton Daniel, Manish Agrawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10327

Unsupervised Threat Hunting using Continuous Bag-of-Terms-and-Time (CBoTT)
Threat hunting is sifting through system logs to detect malicious activities that might have bypassed existing security measures. It can be performed in several ways, one of which is based on detecting anomalies. We propose an unsupervised framework, called continuous bag-of-terms-and-time (CBoTT), and publish its application programming interface (API) to help researchers and cybersecurity analysts perform anomaly-based threat hunting among SIEM logs geared toward process auditing on endpoint …

Streamline Threat Hunting: Shortemall Automates Short URL Analysis with a Click https://github.com/osintmatter/shortemall

#Germany bans hunting imports. #Botswana threatens to send 20,000 live elephants instead.
Do the pachyderms get dual citizenship?

Botswana threatens to deport 20,000 elephants to Germany
“No joke.”

@… Yes, and even the auditor thinks the company has going concern problems. Who is the auditor, you may ask:
“In his free time Ben enjoys Jeeping in his CJ-7 that he built from scratch, horseback riding, backpacking, fishing, camping, hunting, sailing, hiking and spending time with his wife and three children.”

"[…] The other day I was implementing multi-threaded stat() calls in bfs. When I ran some benchmarks, I saw something that made my heart skip a beat: […]
I searched Google for that "corrupted node" message and found that it had happened to someone else recently too: Linus Torvalds, just after merging a #Btrfs pull request. (This was not the first time Linus and I had hit the sam…

So...I'm not sure about LinkedIn. I used to think of it as a job hunting site. But I see more and more people using it to publish stuff relevant to business, and even tech. Certainly there are a lot more people there than here.
Should I be publishing tech stuff over there? Cross posting? Twitter was my go-to for that kind of thing because the communities I was in (API, CNCF) were all there. Not sure which void I should be screaming into now...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16233 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

Hunting for sterile neutrino with future collider signatures
We study the feasibility to observe sterile neutrino at the high energy colliders with direct production channels through $e^+e^-$, $ep$ collision, and indirect production channels through decays of heavy meson, baryon and Higgs. For $e^+e^-$ collision, the $e^+e^-\to\barν_e N$ channel is explored with new signal selection method which tends to be efficient for light $m_N$, the constraints of active-sterile mixing $|U_{eN}|^2$ at the SuperKEKB, CEPC and ILC are expected to reach bett…

Yikes how the fuck have i been milkshake-ducked by a *Linux Distro*, less than two weeks after making the switch?
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/112339955990992840
Where to now then? Silverblue I guess.

I'm guessing the Noem hunting dog story might play better in agricultural areas while it causes city folk to recoil, and maybe that differentiation helps sell her candidacy to those who have to put down animals on the reg (or run them over accidentally with tractors, etc). There's a lot of death on the farm.
I'm not saying I don't find the story horrifying. But she may be aiming for that reaction from those who are not her people.

<sigh> Now I've nailed a small pile of unusued listhead's, I now find myself hunting unused 'struct's.
(For which my script is far from perfect, so needs more eyeballing; in particular I have to check if there's an associated variable).
Help!

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
Via New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
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In this South Dakota town, it was a tradition: waffle and eggs, a little pheasant hunting, then drag your puppy into a gravel pit and shoot her in the head. But now the woke mob is taking all …

Been hunting for this beauty of a track for almost a year now, after hearing it (uncredited) in a mix... 10 mins of bliss with blankets of warm perma-chords/pads, minimal bassline, hypnotic broken beats
Burroughs — NREM (2023)
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=cZYH2S3PwPw

it's annoying that people who have lots moralize the strategies people who don't have use to survive.
on the flip side, it's hard to not be over-pampering.
common learned strategies:
- resource hunting (asking dad vs mom, or a less experienced volunteer when the shift lead says no)
- fragmenting for assistance (slightly different requests to many people)
- hoarding (if you've never endured scarcity you might not get this)
Nothing wrong with that strategy, just we're also trying to help out the polite / hesitant folks who don't vouch for themselves
or dealing with a limited "one phone per family" budget because money in a charity is f-ing tight.
assume the best of the people you're trying to help, but don't commit the org to promises (even saying maybe can be seen as commitment that might backfire) - call the case manager and let them work it out.
trying to avoid codependency and encouraging them to try it themselves / gain confidence in a new place, encourage independence and self sufficiency.

Flares hunting in hot subdwarf and white dwarf stars from Cycles 1-5 of TESS photometry
Keyu Xing, Weikai Zong, Roberto Silvotti, Jian-Ning Fu, St\'ephane Charpinet, Tianqi Cang, J. J. Hermes, Xiao-Yu Ma, Haotian Wang, Xuan Wang, Tao Wu, Jiaxin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16018 <…

Flares hunting in hot subdwarf and white dwarf stars from Cycles 1-5 of TESS photometry
Stellar flares are critical phenomena on stellar surfaces, which are closely tied to stellar magnetism. While extensively studied in main-sequence (MS) stars, their occurrence in evolved compact stars, specifically hot subdwarfs and white dwarfs (WDs), remains scarcely explored. Based on Cycles 1-5 of TESS photometry, we conducted a pioneering survey of flare events in $\sim12,000$ compact stars, corresponding to $\sim38,000$ light curves with 2-minute cadence. Through dedicated techniques for …

Calico in magnolia.
BTW the collar is from #caturday

Birdsbesafe® Cat Collar For Birds | We Help Birds Be Safe From Cats
Discover Birdsbesafe, a company dedicated to protecting wild birds from cats. With over a decade of experience, Birdsbesafe offers an innovative solution to minimize bird hunting by cats. Their patented Birdsbesafe® cat collar cover has become a globally recognized tool for bird conservation. Click in to save a bird.

"Sick and twisted" makes her the ideal running mate for Trump, I would have thought. Two of a kind.
Conservatives condemn Trump VP hopeful's ‘twisted’ admission of killing dog https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a

🦋 Cerrado mammals change their habits to escape humans, study shows
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/cerrado-mammals-change-their-habits-to-escape-humans-study-shows/

Cerrado mammals change their habits to escape humans, study shows
How do wild animals manage to continue hunting and reproducing in areas occupied by houses, roads, domestic animals and crops? Scientists increasingly point out that the only solution for most species is to drastically change their habits, in a forced adaptation process whose consequences for the surroundings are still uncertain. An article published in early […]

Spain.
Wolf population stable despite hunting ban.
"The wolf invasion that never happened".
#rewilding
La invasión del lobo que nunca ocurrió: la población se mantiene estable desde que se prohibió su caza

La invasión del lobo que nunca ocurrió: la población se mantiene estable desde que se prohibió su caza
Allí donde antes estaba permitido matarlos, la población de lobos en España se mantiene sin grandes cambios tras la prohibición de su caza en 2021. Lejos de una explosión, el número de manadas en Galicia, Asturias o Cantabria son similares a los de 2020, antes de que el lobo recibiera protección en todo el territorio, según los últimos datos oficiales de recuento de las propias comunidades autónomas. Cuando en septiembre de 2021 quedó prohibida la caza general de lobos, cuatro comuni…

April 8 is slated to be my first weekday off work for recreational reasons in 27 years. Every other over that time has been for holidays, funerals, family obligations, school-out coverage, Kyle’s surgeries, etc.
I’m going to get into SWMBO's brand new company car, head for I-75, and drive south into the path of totality hunting for clear skies. SWMBO is welcome to come along, but I expect she won't. Her job has neither slack nor chill. (But excellent benefits.)

yay house hunting

A Reddit user is seeking advice on whether to move from a threat hunting role, with perks like remote work from anywhere and unlimited leave, to offensive security. Despite wanting to switch roles for growth, they're reluctant due to the freedom their current position offers. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1b07lpt/

The vast new ‘whaling ship’ that Japan hopes will revive a shrinking industry
In the new vessel, the whaling industry envisions an age of prosperity and rising demand, ultimately guaranteeing the future of the most controversial ingredient in Japan’s culinary repertoire
The new vessel’s range of 13,000km is fuelling suspicion that,
five years after Japan abandoned its controversial “scientific” hunts in the Southern Ocean and resumed commercial whaling along its own coastl…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09252 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Dark ages, a window on the dark sector. Hunting for ultra-light axions
Measurements of 21cm intensity mapping (IM) during the dark ages can potentially provide us with an unprecedented window on high redshifts and small scales. One of the main advantages this can bring involves the possibility to probe the nature of dark matter. Tests of dark matter models with the large-scale structure of the Universe are limited by non-linearities and astrophysical effects, which are not present for IM measurements during the dark ages. In this paper we focus on constraining the…

Extinction values towards embedded planets in protoplanetary disks estimated from hydrodynamic simulations
Felipe Alarc\'on, Edwin Bergin, Gabriele Cugno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05788

Extinction values towards embedded planets in protoplanetary disks estimated from hydrodynamic simulations
The upcoming new coronographs with deeper contrast limits, together with planned and current high-contrast imaging campaigns will push the detectability limit of protoplanets. These planet-hunting campaigns present a new opportunity to characterize protoplanets and their surrounding environments. However, there are clear uncertainties as to what are the extinction levels at different regions of protoplanetary disks, which will impede our ability to characterize young planets. A correct understa…

Biden administration to halt major mining project over tribal hunting concerns | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-ambler-road-interior-department-alaska-b253…

Biden administration to halt major mining project over tribal hunting concerns
The project was set to go through the Arctic National Park and Preserve, a major piece of protected land in the northern half of the state

Black Desert
Black Desert is a game that tests the limitations of MMORPG
by implementing remastered graphics and audio. Enjoy exciting combat and siege,
exploration, trading, fishing, training, alchemy, cooking, gathering, hunting, and more in the vast open world.

I am hunting in YouTube for good SNL stuff, and what am I to see? An advert for robots straight out of "Robocop" ->
GTC March 2024 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2F8yisiS6E

Paid to procreate: South Korean company offers staff $75,000 for each baby they have - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/16/south-korea-birth-rate-fertility/

How much is a baby worth? A $75,000 bonus, this South Korean firm says.
South Korea’s demographic crisis is becoming so existential, and government efforts to change it are so ineffective, that businesses are now hunting for solutions.

Fluid ejections in nature
Elio J. Challita, Pankaj Rohilla, M. Saad Bhamla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02359 https://arxiv.org/pdf/240…

Fluid ejections in nature
From microscopic fungi to colossal whales, fluidic ejections are a universal and intricate phenomenon in biology, serving vital functions such as animal excretion, venom spraying, prey hunting, spore dispersal, and plant guttation. This review delves into the complex fluid physics of ejections across various scales, exploring both muscle-powered active systems and passive mechanisms driven by gravity or osmosis. We introduce a framework using dimensionless numbers to delineate transitions from …

@… And the auditor questions the going concern status of the company. And who is the auditor? BF Borgers. Want to know more? Here's the team, according to the firm's website:
"In his free time Ben enjoys Jeeping in his CJ-7 that he built from scratch, horseback riding, backpacking, fishing, camping, hunting, sailing, hiking and spending time…

So...I'm not sure about LinkedIn. I used to think of it as a job hunting site. But I see more and more people using it to publish stuff relevant to business, and even tech. Certainly there are a lot more people there than here.
Should I be publishing tech stuff over there? Cross posting? Twitter was my go-to for that kind of thing because the communities I was in (API, CNCF) were all there. Not sure which void I should be screaming into now...

Muy #LastFourWatched on this #LetterboxdFriday:
🔹American Fiction (4★)
🔹Definitely, Maybe (3½★)
🔹The Wolf of Wall Street (4★)
🔹Irish Wish (1½★)
🔗 https…

'Cannabis partially decriminalised in Germany'
'Botswana offers to send 20,000 elephants to Germany'
that place is getting wild.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68715164

Botswana offers to send 20,000 elephants to Germany
Germany wants tougher limits on hunting the animals, but Botswana says it has too many of them.

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
Via New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
·
34s
In this South Dakota town, it was a tradition: waffle and eggs, a little pheasant hunting, then drag your puppy into a gravel pit and shoot her in the head. But now the woke mob is taking all …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16824 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

The $B^0 \to J/ψf_0(1370,1500,1710)$ decays: an opportunity for scalar glueball hunting
The scalars $f_0$ closest to 1.5 GeV contain the mesons $f_0(1370)$, $f_0(1500)$ and $f_0(1710)$, and the latter two ones are usually viewed as the potential candidates for the scalar glueballs. In this work, by including the important contributions from the vertex corrections, we study the decays $B^0 \to J/ψf_0$ within the improved perturbative QCD approach and analyze the possible scalar glueball hunting. Together with the two mixing models, namely, $f_0(1500) (f_0(1710))$ being the primary…

Hunting DeFi Vulnerabilities via Context-Sensitive Concolic Verification
Yepeng Ding, Arthur Gervais, Roger Wattenhofer, Hiroyuki Sato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10376

Extinction values towards embedded planets in protoplanetary disks estimated from hydrodynamic simulations
Felipe Alarc\'on, Edwin Bergin, Gabriele Cugno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05788

Extinction values towards embedded planets in protoplanetary disks estimated from hydrodynamic simulations
The upcoming new coronographs with deeper contrast limits, together with planned and current high-contrast imaging campaigns will push the detectability limit of protoplanets. These planet-hunting campaigns present a new opportunity to characterize protoplanets and their surrounding environments. However, there are clear uncertainties as to what are the extinction levels at different regions of protoplanetary disks, which will impede our ability to characterize young planets. A correct understa…

The poster is seeking a managed security service provider (MSSP) or potentially security operations center as a service (SOCaaS) for 24/7 global monitoring and response. They manage Microsoft systems but are open to different security products. Services wanted include EDR/NGAV, SIEM, Threat Hunting, and Vulnerability Management. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bq0eav/

Y'know, when you don't train them properly and then you defend shooting them...says a lot about her.
Kristi Noem Defends Killing Her 14-Month-Old Dog and a Goat - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/politics/kristi-noe…

Kristi Noem Defends Killing Her 14-Month-Old Dog and a Goat
In a forthcoming book, the South Dakota governor, seen as a potential vice-presidential pick, tells of shooting her hunting dog. And a goat.

Trump VP contender writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book
Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun, then led Cricket to a gravel pit.…

Funny story about "assault weapons". The AR-15, a semiauto rifle designed for civilian use, is the first target of people using made-up terms like "assault weapon", for reasons like "It was built for military use" (It wasn't), "It's a powerful weapon" (It's actually underpowered compared to many hunting rifles), and most of all "IT's A wEaPoN oF wAr!!1!1!!"
Well, I just discovered how useful the warmongering western wor…

Too late for #LetterboxdFriday? Maybe a little bit... Anyway here are my #LastFourWatched
🔹Huesera (3½★)
🔹Man on the Moon (3½★)
🔹The Menu (3½★)
🔹Strange Way of Life (4★)
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Especially if you're male:
These Popular Recreational Activities Could Be Increasing Your Risk of a Deadly Neurological Disease
https://scitechdaily.com/these-popular-recreational-activities-c…

These Popular Recreational Activities Could Be Increasing Your Risk of a Deadly Neurological Disease
Activities could be modifiable risk factors for the disease. A study from Michigan Medicine suggests that participating in recreational activities — including golfing, gardening or yard work, woodworking, and hunting — may be associated with an increase in a person’s risk for developing amyotrophic

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Nested Dirichlet models for unsupervised attack pattern detection in honeypot data
Cyber-systems are under near-constant threat from intrusion attempts. Attacks types vary, but each attempt typically has a specific underlying intent, and the perpetrators are typically groups of individuals with similar objectives. Clustering attacks appearing to share a common intent is very valuable to threat-hunting experts. This article explores Dirichlet distribution topic models for clustering terminal session commands collected from honeypots, which are special network hosts designed to…

Fake-SMS: A Malware Hunting Story https://medium.com/@aleksamajkic/17e25c42f986

The Reddit user is asking the community for their favorite SIEM system for threat hunting and shares their preference for Splunk due to its level of detail. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1blhjft/

Hunting DeFi Vulnerabilities via Context-Sensitive Concolic Verification
Yepeng Ding, Arthur Gervais, Roger Wattenhofer, Hiroyuki Sato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10376

'She can't be VP now': Fellow Republicans slam Noem after puppy-killing brag - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/noem-republicans-slam-puppy/

'She can't be VP now': Fellow Republicans slam Noem after puppy-killing brag
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is under fire after boasting in her new book that she killed her fourteen-month-old German wirehair pointer puppy Cricket, whom she described as "worthless" and "untrainable" as a hunting dog on her farm, after she didn't obey commands on hunts and behaved aggressively around...

Before this Friday ends I'm sharing my #FourLastWatched.
🔸Planes, trains and automobiles (2½★)
🔸Oscar (4★)
🔸Knives Out (4★)
🔸Glass Onion (4★)
#LetterboxdFriday #Cinemastodon…

A powerful 17-acre site in Alabama remembers enslavement
The morning after our whipping, we all had to go to work, as if nothing had happened. I was so sore I could hardly do anything,” recalled James Matthews, who, like many enslaved people after a severe whipping, ran away into the woods.
“I have known a great many who never came back; they were whipped so bad they never got well, but died in the woods, and their bodies have been found by people hunting.
White men come in…

Here’s a tip for newcomers to #cybersecurity If you want to view the web page of a URL that you think might be malicious, don’t just click on the link. Go to https://urlscan.io and put the URL in their scanner. They will go to the site for you and provide you with a bunch of good information about the site and provide a screenshot.
If you want to limit who can see your URL scan, select the option to keep your scan private.
Happy hunting!

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Hunting for Hypercharge Anapole Dark Matter in All Spin Scenarios
We conduct a combined analysis to investigate dark matter (DM) with hypercharge anapole moments, focusing on scenarios where Majorana DM particles with spin 1/2, 1, 3/2, and 2 interact exclusively with Standard Model particles through U(1)$_{Y}$ hypercharge anapole terms for the first time. For completeness, we construct general effective U(1) gauge-invariant three-point vertices. These enable the generation of hypercharge gauge-invariant interaction vertices for both a virtual photon $γ$ and …

The Redditor is frustrated with the job hunting process in cybersecurity, as every position seems to require different certifications. Although they have a bachelor's degree and work experience, they're struggling to receive responses to job applications. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bjy818/

A survey for variable stars with small telescopes: IX - Evolution of Spot Properties on YSOs in IC5070
Carys Herbert, Dirk Froebrich, Siegfried Vanaverbeke, Aleks Scholz, Jochen Eisl\"offel, Thomas Urtly, Ivan L. Walton, Klaas Wiersema, Nick J. Quinn, Georg Piehler, Mario Morales Aimar, Rafael Castillo Garc\'ia, Tonny Vanmunster, Francisco C. Sold\'an Alfaro, Faustino Garc\'ia de la Cuesta, Domenico Licchelli, Alex Escartin Perez, Esteban Fern\'andez Ma\~nanes, Noe…

A survey for variable stars with small telescopes: IX - Evolution of Spot Properties on YSOs in IC5070
We present spot properties on 32 periodic young stellar objects in IC 5070. Long term, $\sim$5 yr, light curves in the $V$, $R$, and $I$-bands are obtained through the HOYS (Hunting Outbursting Young Stars) citizen science project. These are dissected into six months long slices, with 3 months oversampling, to measure 234 sets of amplitudes in all filters. We fit 180 of these with reliable spot solutions. Two thirds of spot solutions are cold spots, the lowest is 2150 K below the stellar temper…

User is seeking resources to learn about Threat Hunting from beginner to advanced level. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1atltdb/

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Hunting for $X_b$ via hidden bottomonium decays $X_b\to ππχ_{bJ}$
In this work, we investigate the isospin breaking decay $X_b \to π^0χ_{bJ}$ and the isospin conserved decay $X_b \to ππχ_{bJ}$, where $X_b$ is taken to be the heavy quark flavor symmetry counterpart of $X(3872)$ in the bottomonium sector as a $B^*\bar B$ molecule candidate. Since the mass of this state may be far below the $B {\bar B}^*$ threshold and the mass difference between the neutral and charged bottom meson is small compared to the binding energy of the $X_b$, the isospin-violating…

Today, a double #MusicRecommendation from #Poland. The band #Żywiołak, playing psychodelic #FolkRock. The first track is somewhat dedicated to the recent events in Poland, the second one is always related to #Toruń.
1. "Mój miły rolniku" ("My dear farmer")
"""
We understand that your field is overgrown with weeds,
but it's better if you're not too rasta in this country.
We burned various stuff here since king Piast,
but you can't anymore,
you can't anymore, period.
"""
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=QruAUPOn-pM
https://open.spotify.com/track/5kawFPF3q6j2Wo4VtdIJim
2. "Grzybobranie" ("Mushroom hunting")
"""
Milk cap barbecued in the fires of hell,
milk cap topped with mohair sauce,
milk cap served in a Sunday dish,
a nutritious diet for aged ladies.
"""
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=Co3vw_dMa4w
https://open.spotify.com/track/75ThNNP7A2MqKv5oKZZoUF
(both my poor translation, they are rhymed in the original)
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/�%BBywiołak/73855

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Hunting Nonstandard Neutrino Interactions and Leptoquarks in Dark Matter Experiments
Next generation direct dark matter (DM) detection experiments will have unprecedented capabilities to explore coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$ν$NS) complementary to dedicated neutrino experiments. We demonstrate that future DM experiments can effectively probe nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) mediated by scalar fields in the scattering of solar and atmospheric neutrinos. We set first limits on $S_1$ leptoquark models that result in sizable $μ-d$ and $τ-d$ sector neutrino NSI …