Tootfinder

NFL to implement quality-control program for playing surfaces https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6863245/2025/12/04/nfl-quality-control-playing-surfaces-field/

Development team meetings are about to get way more confrontational and defensive when folks start asking each other, “Why did you choose to implement it that way?”

I was unreasonably giddy when I stumbled across the real-time discussion of implementation of a feature I use regularly in Shotcut — the proposal, the math, the initial implementation, and then how it evolved into the feature I use.
There's something so cool about seeing people nerd out about stuff and seeing development happen in the open.

Audio Alignment Implementation
This is not a suggestion of some feature. I plan to implement a functionality that is already on the Road Map. But I would like to discuss, document and, if possible, get support from volunteers. I am not really familiar with MLT and Shotcut terminologies. Feel free to correct things (this post is a wiki). The “MLT only” part has been accomplished. All we need now is to integrate it in Shotcut. I (André) plan to wait until the next release because people are busy with beta tests, right n…

AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-launches-cloud-ai-tool…

Amazon launches cloud AI tool to help engineers recover from outages faster
Amazon Web Services' DevOps Agent is meant to help developers more quickly figure out what caused an outage and how to fix it.

Does anyone know of any examples of #Pandoc Lua filters that implement some kind of inheritance of attributes?
Specifically, I’d like to take the language possibly set by enclosing blocks into account when processing inline elements.

Does anyone know of any examples of #Pandoc Lua filters that implement some kind of inheritance of attributes?
Specifically, I’d like to take the language possibly set by enclosing blocks into account when processing inline elements.

Does anyone know of any examples of #Pandoc Lua filters that implement some kind of inheritance of attributes?
Specifically, I’d like to take the language possibly set by enclosing blocks into account when processing inline elements.

hardware iceberg, near the top:
- nobody can implement I2C in hardware (except for Philips)
- SPI doesn't exist as a coherent entity
- UART has a CDR loop but you don't think of it that way
- MSP430 "JTAG" 🦋

Trying to decide which feature I should next implement on DITA Langauge Server and I really don't want to tackle find keyrefs feature. Crawling all linked files is expensive, even with caching and using regexp. #dls #dita

Wohoo, QGIS Arrow support has been merged: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63749
Thanks @… & @…

Implement QgsArrowIterator to iterate over features as batches of ArrowArray by paleolimbot · Pull Request #63749 · qgis/QGIS
Description As encouraged by @nyalldawson! https://mastodon.social/@nyalld/115459416976982489 The motivation is to eliminate the need for per-feature iteration in Python to maintain the fidelity of...

I DEMAND ALL AIRPORTS IMPLEMENT BEANBAGS RIGHT NOW. GLOBALLY!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Long awaited: efficiency standards for electric vehicles. Good news for the energy transition.
Can't beat an e-bike, though ;)
https://carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/china-to-enforce…

China to enforce world’s first mandatory EV energy standard in 2026, capping two-tonne models at 15.1 kWh per 100 km
China will implement the world’s first mandatory electric vehicle energy consumption standard in January 2026.

smth smth aaah I am only one person, so many cool things happening in parallel at @… 🥴
FOSDEM::attend(DevRoom::Rust, me.clone()); // compile error
Unfortunately, I am not Clone just yet.
I assume I cannot implement that in a thread-safe manner.

India's Department of Telecommunications directs WhatsApp and other messaging apps to implement SIM binding to ensure each account remains tied to an active SIM (Kamya Pandey/MediaNama)
https://www.medianama.com/2025/11/223-dot-sim-binding-direc…

This foreign policy series by @… is quite revealing. Chakrabarti has by far the best answer to the IMF/World Bank question: "the role of the IMF and World Bank has been to try to implement austerity measures on countries by creating pressure from outside creditors...It’s been a way to impose neoliberal policy on countries, and also a way to force countries to lose t…

How S.F. congressional hopefuls view Israel, China and foreign policy (part 2)
In the second part of the foreign policy Q&A, the three candidates discuss China and Taiwan, foreign aid, trade, and tariffs.

Edtech company settles with FTC in wake of data breach https://therecord.media/illuminate-education-data-breach-settlement-ftc

Cozy Business With Katherine
Strategies, steps, and stories to go deeper with your own business journey and implement in alignment with your goals and desires...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/emerge-and-expand/

How can business leaders design & implement agentic AI, run high impact pilots & build the human skills that set Frontier firms apart?
▶️ AI and automation expert on how leaders use AI agents to get ahead | Pascal Bornet - #Microsoft #Worklab

When you slept shorter than usual, because just before sleep you got an idea how to implement multiplication in https://nandgame.com.
Of course, when you actually went to bed, you figured out an ever better method, and with 32-bit output. But I suppose the old one is nice too, quite pedagogical.

Wow.
“Booz Allen failed to implement adequate safeguards to protect sensitive data, incl. the confidential taxpayer information it had access to through its contracts with the Internal Revenue Service.”
Treasury Cancels Contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-r

Treasury Cancels Contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced the cancelation of all contracts with consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. The Treasury Department currently has 31 separate contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton totaling $4.8 million in annual spending and $21 million in total obligations. “President Trump has entrusted his cabinet to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, and canceling these contracts is an essential step to increasing Americans’ trust in government,�…

Some jurisdictions still believe that tighter regulation of cars can encourage innovation and deliver benefits.
The aim here is to improve the efficiency of electric vehicles further.
https://carnewschina.com/2025…

China to enforce world’s first mandatory EV energy standard in 2026, capping two-tonne models at 15.1 kWh per 100 km
China will implement the world’s first mandatory electric vehicle energy consumption standard in January 2026.

What's the current state of XMPP and OpenID Connect? My web search returned that ejabberd is still considering if and how to implement and Prosody has experimental alpha-stage support via a module. I couldn't find anything conclusive in regards to XMPP clients. What's with Gajim(?) and Conversations? Or other clients? Are there any web clients supporting OIDC?
#jabber

Senate Republican Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) has said that
the U.S. “can’t afford” to implement Donald Trump’s proposal
to send out $2,000 checks to supposedly offset costs of tariffs
— just days after the president wined and dined some of the richest people on the planet at an extravagant black tie dinner in the White House

Ron Johnson Says US “Can’t Afford” $2k Checks as Trump Feasts With Billionaires
The statement comes after the GOP traded millions of Americans’ health care for more tax cuts for the rich.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/115934567247896543
Some folks are only going to care about this when they also implement it in Minneapolis in a few years’ time.
(Hey, give them a break, you can’t just deploy this stuff everywhere all at once…

Mostly I've always used middleware to apply broad swaths of business logic to my ASP.NET Core operations, but found a nice use case for ActionFilterAttributes if you need to selectively implement business logic to specific controller items (https://learn.…

ASP.NET MVC 4 Custom Action Filters
ASP.NET MVC provides Action Filters for executing filtering logic either before or after an action method is called. Action Filters are custom attributes tha...

Neuroengineer job position at Neuralink: "Implement end-to-end hardware and software solutions for prosthetic vision, including machine vision algorithms, smart glasses, and eye tracking technology." https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4328946490/

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

Here you go again....
Malaysia may implement age verification..
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/malaysia-may-ban-users-under-16-from-social-media-starting-next-year

Yesterday was one of those good days doing hard stuff, playing with Chebyshev polynomials, binary coefficients, factorials of half integers, and other fun. All in the interest of a pointless decision to (re)implement the general 𝚪 function using the Lanczos approximation, but totally worth it for the experience alone.
The internet, the good old internet, is a treasure trove for this kind of work, especially but not exclusively wikipedia@wikis.world.

"Governments must implement taxes on the super-rich now and prioritise reducing inequality. The world cannot continue on this obscene trajectory.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/21/mi…

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich
Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney sign letter timed for WEF in Davos saying wealthy are buying political influence

"There has to be a better way than these custom, non-standard solutions [to tracking users through URL parameters]? Well, some clever people at [the biggest user-tracking company in existence, which introduced many of them] thought the same and decided to tackle this [by introducing new protocol-level server-side parameters that only a tiny fraction of companies is going to care about, never mind implement]."

No one wants to build bad products. But in an industry where programmers implement features to order, it can be hard to shake that feeling.
This is how orgs see the ROI of UX: as a soothing function to tell everyone they're doing a good job. And as a scapegoat, when we finally learn otherwise.
UX cheerleading is doing the industry no favors.
#UX

Stop doing UX cheerleading
Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.

It probably helps that recently I have been looking at cpio archives in hexdump† (because that is the kind of nerd I am), so I know how archiving basically works under the hood.
For my own custom archive format, I only bothered to implement the absolute bare minimum I need.
† https://gist.github.com/…

Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement Trump's new Medicaid work requirements (Geoff Mulvihill/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-work-requirements-oz-nebraska-d5a9162ede90c95e06bd45d6b7e16f8a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p130#a251217p130

Okay, let's admit it, it's rather fun to be able to tell a machine "Let's rock and roll!" and it is able to infer that I mean, "Yeah, that design document is now in great shape, we should start generating code".

With the emergence of more processors with 64 cores or more, I'm thinking more about whether it makes sense to implement a hypercube virtualised on a single chip with a single vector of memory, or as a literal hypercube of 64 (say) RP2350s. I understand the problems of transferring data across a hypercube, but I don't have a good feeling of how the bus contention on a multicore processor scales. What should I read?

Implementing post scarcity hardware
Prototype work towards building a post-scarcity software system

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.
Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.
And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.
They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

Just added Web Reachability API (at least that’s what I’m calling it) support to https://ip.small-web.org.
It’s for testing the reachability of your Small Web servers (using a domain or, more importantly, an IPv4/IPv6 address). I’m using it to implement Web Numbers¹ support in Auto Encrypt² and Kitten³.
…

Revamped my domain name site #indieweb using

Ricardo Mendes - DevOps / Wanna be Solution Architect
Ricardo Mendes is a DevOps engineer sharing experiences in infrastructure, automation, and solution architecture.

We really need a new Internet. How do we help?
https://torrentfreak.com/italy-fines-cloudflare-e14-million-for-refusing-to-filter-pirate-sites-on-public-1-1-1-1-dns/

Took a few minutes over lunch to iron out the last of the bugs in the happy path of PCIe link training.
There's no timeouts or fallback if there's problems but if the other side is happy, it will train up to L0 and then sit there ignoring all incoming traffic.
After a while, the link partner gets mad that it hasn't seen a single DLLP from me and drops the link. I don't implement recovery yet so things go downhill from there.

What?
Researchers from the University of Vienna have quietly compiled a digital directory so vast that it contains the personal details of nearly half the global population by scraping the data of 3.5 billion WhatsApp users.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/whatsapp-da…

WhatsApp Data of 3.5 Billion Users Scraped in Record-Breaking Research Study
Researchers from the University of Vienna scraped data from 3.5 billion WhatsApp users, revealing significant privacy risks and prompting Meta to implement new security mitigations.

Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future launches a $10M media campaign to push Congress to craft a national AI policy that will override a patchwork of state laws (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/ai-pac-trump-congress-midterms.html

AI super PAC launches $10 million campaign pushing 'uniform' national policy
The PAC is mobilizing as President Donald Trump's White House and congressional Republicans are working to suppress states' ability to implement AI laws.

from my link log —
Using eBPF to load-balance traffic across UDP sockets with Golang.
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-reuseport-ebpf-go
saved 2026-01-05

The surname "Adams" should be completely disqualifying in NYC politics from now on. #NYCCouncil
https://www.amny.com/news/speaker-adams-no-vote-daylig…

Running out of daylight: Advocates fume over Speaker Adams not holding vote on universal ‘daylighting’ street safety bill before year’s end
Outgoing City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams will not bring a measure to implement universal "daylighting," which would eliminate parking near intersections

Did you know it's possible for two lines to appear to diverge in a 2D perspective view, but actually converge in 3D? Kind of the opposite of parallel lines in 3D converging in 2D.
I discovered this while trying to implement a clipping algorithm. At first I didn't believe it was possible, it felt so foreign to everyday experience. It actually happens whenever two lines converge behind the center of projection, but we rarely see that IRL.
(Image rendered from pov of came…

Fast and length-independnt transport time supported by topological edge states in finite-size Su-Schieffer-Heeger chains
Yu-Han Chang, Nadia Daniela Rivera Torres, Santiago Figueroa Manrique, Raul A. Robles Robles, Vanna Chrismas Silalahi, Cen-Shawn Wu, Gang Wang, Giulia Marcucci, Laura Pilozzi, Claudio Conti, Ray-Kuang Lee, Watson Kuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19237 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19237 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.19237
arXiv:2511.19237v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In order to transport information with topological protection, we explore experimentally the fast transport time using edge states in one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains. The transport time is investigated in both one- and two-dimensional models with topological non-trivial band structures. The fast transport is inherited with the wavefunction localization, giving a stronger effective coupling strength between the mode and the measurement leads. Also the transport time in one-dimension is independent of the system size. To verify the asertion, we implement a chain of split-ring resonators and their complementary ones with controllable hopping strengths. By performing the measurements on the group delay of non-trivially topological edge states with pulse excitations, the transport time between two edge states is directly observed with the chain length up to $20$. Along the route to harness topology to protect optical information, our experimental demonstrations provide a crucial guideline for utilizing photonic topological devices.
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Weighted Stochastic Differential Equation to Implement Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao Gradient Flow
Herlock Rahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17878
arXiv:2512.17878v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Score-based diffusion models currently constitute the state of the art in continuous generative modeling. These methods are typically formulated via overdamped or underdamped Ornstein--Uhlenbeck-type stochastic differential equations, in which sampling is driven by a combination of deterministic drift and Brownian diffusion, resulting in continuous particle trajectories in the ambient space. While such dynamics enjoy exponential convergence guarantees for strongly log-concave target distributions, it is well known that their mixing rates deteriorate exponentially in the presence of nonconvex or multimodal landscapes, such as double-well potentials. Since many practical generative modeling tasks involve highly non-log-concave target distributions, considerable recent effort has been devoted to developing sampling schemes that improve exploration beyond classical diffusion dynamics.
A promising line of work leverages tools from information geometry to augment diffusion-based samplers with controlled mass reweighting mechanisms. This perspective leads naturally to Wasserstein--Fisher--Rao (WFR) geometries, which couple transport in the sample space with vertical (reaction) dynamics on the space of probability measures. In this work, we formulate such reweighting mechanisms through the introduction of explicit correction terms and show how they can be implemented via weighted stochastic differential equations using the Feynman--Kac representation. Our study provides a preliminary but rigorous investigation of WFR-based sampling dynamics, and aims to clarify their geometric and operator-theoretic structure as a foundation for future theoretical and algorithmic developments.
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People bitch about C being complicated and unwieldy, and then need more than 30 lines of code to implement insertion sort because finding from a predicate in reverse is not implemented and neither is rotate

🔧 YAML frontmatter converts directly to CLI flags: model: opus becomes --model opus, mcp-config: ./mcp.json becomes --mcp-config ./mcp.json, dangerously-skip-permissions: true becomes --dangerously-skip-permissions
🔄 Full Unix philosophy support: Pipe data in and out with stdin/stdout, chain agents together like git diff | review.claude .md or plan.claude .md | implement.codex .md, transparent logging shows what runs

The UK Treasury is drafting new rules
to regulate cryptocurrencies
under legislation set to come into force in 2027, The Guardian reported Sunday.
The move would place digital asset firms under the supervision of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),
subjecting them to the same standards as other traditional financial products such as stocks and shares.
Regulators are seeking to address gaps in consumer protection as the market has expanded rapidly,
especia…

UK Treasury to implement regulation for Bitcoin and crypto by 2027 - EUROPE SAYS
Key Takeaways

Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194
Super interesting work 😍
> "an attacker could extract private information such as the online and activity status of a victim, e.g., screen on/off. More…

Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
With over 3 billion users globally, mobile instant messaging apps have become indispensable for both personal and professional communication. Besides plain messaging, many services implement additional features such as delivery and read receipts informing a user when a message has successfully reached its target. This paper highlights that delivery receipts can pose significant privacy risks to users. We use specifically crafted messages that trigger delivery receipts allowing any user to be pi…

Now the next thing... what is the next 'big' thing that #Mastodon should implement since we now have Quote Posting?!
#noxp

woohoo #zephyros now supports the #trng of the #rp2350 (as found in the rpi pico 2 for example)

entropy: rpi_pico: implement entropy driver for RP2350 by xudongzheng · Pull Request #83346 · zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Use get_rand_64() from Pico SDK for entropy. This is somewhat based on #66764.

Yay, first shot of Auto Encrypt¹ running a HTTPS web server at a Web Number (IP address).
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
Next step: find out why some of the tests are failing on the Linux box, fix, and implement Web Numbers support in Kitten² and Catalyst³.
¹

What makes great, easy to implement feedback?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3dDs8jMLis

Job Posting
Citizen Lab Research Officer in the Area of Spyware and Digital Targeted Threats
https://citizenlab.ca/job-posting-citizen-lab-research-officer-in-the-area-of-spyware-and-digital-targeted-threats/

Job Posting: Citizen Lab Research Officer in the Area of Spyware and Digital Targeted Threats  - The Citizen Lab
The Citizen Lab is now accepting applications for the position of Research Officer in the Area of Spyware and Digital Threats. Under the supervision of the senior legal advisor, the research officer will assist with building case databases, implement training workshops, and conduct legal research on methods used in digital accountability research as well as […]

PCIe-from-scratch update: GTP is configured and sending a hardcoded 8b10b junk pattern to the SoC.
On the RX side, I'm able to correctly identify and parse TS1/TS2 training sets.
Next step will be to refactor a bit, then implement the actual LTSSM and start sending training sets.

Kids on the bus, all playing video games walking to the back to find a seat... jeesh, teach them to read and write some Rust 🦀 or computer architecture and have them implement RISC-V cores or smth.

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) introduced legislation on Wednesday seeking to
reverse the Trump administration's new childhood vaccine schedule that has alarmed health experts.
The measure, an amendment to an appropriations package currently under consideration by Congress,
would prohibit any funds going to the Health and Human Services Department from being used to implement the changes,
which removed the HPV, RSV, Rotavirus, COVID-19, Flu, Hepatitis A & B and Men…

ICE Has Been Detaining Native Americans In Minnesota

#Gentoo #jobserver revealed another problem with steve in particular, and (I believe) the jobserver protocol in general: blocking clients are prioritized over polling clients.
The problem is simple: when handling blocking reads, steve can issue a job token immediately. When handling a poll, it merely indicates that a token is available, and the client must issue another read request to get it. So if tokens are scarce and there are both blocking and polling clients running, the former are likely to be taking all the incoming tokens.
My idea of working around this is to implement temporary reservations. If a client polls for a token, we reserve one for it. The reserved token can afterwards be only read by the same client. This way, both blocking and polling clients get a token — the former get it immediately, the latter get it reserved for them. And if there are no tokens available, both get into a single FIFO queue, for a poor man's round-robin (steve also throttles all reads to one token at a time).
However, polls technically don't guarantee that the client will eventually read the token, so we need to handle reservation expirations as well.

OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's "skills" mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …

Nerd: wants to understand things, even unimportant things. 🧐
Geek: wants to implement things, especially unimportant things. 🤓
#difference #nerd #geek #definition

The FTC denied a petition from Scott Zuckerman, the CEO of a company that marketed “stalkerware” apps, to vacate or modify the FTC’s 2021 order banning him from offering any monitoring products and services and requiring him to implement an information security program.

FTC Denies Petition from SpyFone App CEO to Vacate 2021 Order
The Federal Trade Commission has denied a petition from Scott Z

UK fines LastPass £1.2 million for data breach affecting 1.6 million people https://therecord.media/uk-fines-lastpass-over-1-million-data-breach

Internet monitoring experts say Iran blackout likely to continue https://therecord.media/internet-monitoring-experts-say-iran-blackouts-continue