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wanna see my NixOS configuration for a git-pages cluster that announces BGP routes for anycast? it runs on any commodity VPS because i sub-lease a single anycast /32 IPv4 from rage4 instead of an entire /24 prefix
here's the entire thing: https://codeberg.org/grebedoc-dev/rage

rage4.infra.grebedoc.dev
Static pages server for the general public in NixOS using git-pages (Rage4 AnycastIP network)

how to get a bunch of hosts on the internet to generate some sample TCP SYNs for you:
http://rage4.infra.grebedoc.dev/
mastodons gooo

The scale of investment and the involvement of governments means ROI must be found (or rather created) now, by any means necessary! Demand already is being forcefully created to justify these expenditures. Business models, regulations and policies/politics are pivoted in lockstep. Aside from all the conceptual, ethical and environmental issues of LLMs and their required infrastructure, these shifts are already also impacting chip/hardware production pipelines and start spelling the end of pe…

samim (@samim@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6m, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* As a % of GDP, spending on AI infra has already exceeded spending on telecom and internet infrastructure from the dot-com boom—and it’s still growing. This spending is so big it’s acting as a sort of privat…

https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rslint
... written in Go and crabs everywhere ...
this is so weird lol

GitHub - web-infra-dev/rslint: 🚀 Go Faster. Go Typed
🚀 Go Faster. Go Typed. Contribute to web-infra-dev/rslint development by creating an account on GitHub.

Non-local Metric-Affine Gravity
Salvatore Capozziello, Damianos Iosifidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01777 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01777

Non-local Metric-Affine Gravity
Non-local gravity can potentially solve several problems of gravitational field both at Ultra-Violet and Infra-Red scales. However, such an approach has been formulated mainly in metric formalism. In this paper, we discuss non-local theories of gravity in the metric-affine framework. In particular, we study the dynamics of metric-affine analogue of some well-studied non-local theories, by treating the metric and the connection as independent fields. The approach gives the opportunity to deal wi…

@… If you poke around in https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/tree/main/packages/client all of the infra is there to create an @11ty/server package u…

ok so it turns out that using "your own" anycast infra (renting a shared /32, since a /24 costs waaaay too much) is actually quite straightforward? *shuffles five hours lost to baroque BGP software and stupid fucking TCP MD5 option under the desk*
if i knew this i'd not have bothered with IaaS providers (primary occupuation: billing. secondary occupation: pro-AI extremist rants on the blog full of contept for their customers)

Bengaluru-based FinBox, which provides B2B digital lending infrastructure, risk intelligence, and orchestration tools, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiati…

Digital credit infra startup FinBox raises $40 million from WestBridge Capital, others
FinBox, a digital credit infrastructure platform, secured $40 million in a funding round led by WestBridge Capital, with participation from A91 Partners and Aditya Birla Ventures. The company intends to utilise the funds to develop AI-driven solutions and expand its product offerings. Founded in 2017, FinBox enables enterprises and financial institutions to integrate financial services into their ecosystems.

Infra-red enhanced loops in quadratic gravity
Alberto Salvio, Alessandro Strumia, Marco Vitti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08803 https://

Infra-red enhanced loops in quadratic gravity
It has been suggested that logarithmically enhanced infra-red loop corrections arising in theories with four derivatives correspond to a physical running of couplings, rendering quadratic gravity asymptotically free. We find that these effects depend on the gauge and on the field parameterisation. We compute physical on-shell amplitudes and find genuine infra-red log-enhanced loop corrections, that are process-dependent and cannot be absorbed into running couplings. As a byproduct, we derive th…

Nvidia debuts new Omniverse SDKs and Cosmos world foundation models for robotics devs, including Cosmos Reason, a 7B-parameter reasoning vision language model (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/nvid

Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses | TechCrunch
Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter "reasoning" vision language model for physical AI applications and robots.

Somebody (maybe it was Erin? can’t remember) proposed that we should have a menu of governance structures just as we currently have a menu of OSS licenses, crafted with the same care and granted the same importance, so that somebody looking to share code can:
- communicate very clearly where they are on that continuum from “Here’s some cool code, maybe it’s useful” to “There is solid, sustainable human infra behind this code,” and
- get guidance and support so that, as their project grows, it moves smoothly along that continuum of governance.
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Diving into the planetary system of Proxima with NIRPS -- Breaking the metre per second barrier in the infrared
Alejandro Su\'arez Mascare\~no, \'Etienne Artigau, Lucile Mignon, Xavier Delfosse, Neil J. Cook, Fran\c{c}ois Bouchy, Ren\'e Doyon, Jonay I. Gonz\'alez Hern\'andez, Thomas Vandal, Izan de Castro Le\~ao, Atanas K. Stefanov, Jo\~ao Faria, Charles Cadieux, Pierrot Lamontagne, Fr\'ed\'erique Baron, Susana C. C. Barros, Bj\"orn Benneke, Xavier Bonf…

Diving into the planetary system of Proxima with NIRPS -- Breaking the metre per second barrier in the infrared
We obtained 420 high-resolution spectra of Proxima, over 159 nights, using the Near Infra Red Planet Searcher (NIRPS). We derived 149 nightly binned radial velocity measurements with a standard deviation of 1.69 m/s and a median uncertainty of 55 cm/s, and performed a joint analysis combining radial velocities, spectroscopic activity indicators, and ground-based photometry, to model the planetary and stellar signals present in the data, applying multi-dimensional Gaussian process regression to …

Always nice how a 1-minute "config change" turns into a 1-hour infra update. :drool:

#Google's #CI is checking for gen #AI suspects:

Mapping the Photon Detection Efficiency of VUV Sensitive SiPMs from the Ultra-Violet to the Near Infra-Red
Austin de St Croix, Harry Lewis, Kurtis Raymond, Fabrice Reti\`ere, Maia Henriksson-Ward, Giacomo Gallina, Nicholas Morrison, Aileen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16005

Mapping the Photon Detection Efficiency of VUV Sensitive SiPMs from the Ultra-Violet to the Near Infra-Red
We present a flexible analytic model describing the Photo-Detection Efficiency (PDE) for P-on-N silicon photomultipliers. This model can be used for device characterization, PDE extrapolation from limited data or design optimization. The model uses six device specific parameters to describe PDE for a large range of wavelengths, angles of incidence, voltages and temperatures. Refractive index data taken from literature are inputs to the model, which also allows the prediction of PDE for devices …

So I had this terrible idea a few years ago to write some infrastructure automation that provisions a new compute instance, sets up secrets storage, configures IAM roles, authorizes the new instance to be able to provision new instance and roles via infra-as-code automation, and then the new instance tears down the instance and roles that created it, before then creating its own new compute instance, etc
Like a self-propagating glider in Conway's Game of Life, except with cloud inf…

Power-Law and Logarithmic Entropy-Corrected Ricci Dark Energy in a Non-Flat FRW Universe with Viscous Interaction
Antonio Pasqua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21110 https://…

Power-Law and Logarithmic Entropy-Corrected Ricci Dark Energy in a Non-Flat FRW Universe with Viscous Interaction
In this work, we consider the logarithmic-corrected and the power-law corrected versions of the holographic dark energy (HDE) model in the non-flat FRW universe filled with a viscous Dark Energy (DE) interacting with Dark Matter (DM). We propose to replace the infra-red cut-off with the inverse of the Ricci scalar curvature $R$. We obtain the equation of state (EoS) parameter $ω_Λ$, the deceleration parameter $q$ and the evolution of energy density parameter $ω_Λ '$ in the presence of int…

#jaidecouvert ContainerLab qui permet de simuler des infra réseaux
#TIL

JWST/NIRCam imaging of the Bipolar Planetary Nebula NGC 6537: the (Infra)red Spider, Revealed
Joel Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA), Paula Moraga Baez (RIT), Bruce Balick (University of Washington, USA), Rodolfo Montez Jr. (CfA/SAO, USA), Caroline Geiser (Max Planck Institute, Germany), Mikako Matsuura (Cardiff University, UK), Jason Nordhaus (RIT), Miguel Santander-Garcia (OAN, Spain)

JWST/NIRCam imaging of the Bipolar Planetary Nebula NGC 6537: the (Infra)red Spider, Revealed
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) near-infrared (NIRCam) Br$α$, H$_2$, [Fe II], and PAH imaging of the molecule-rich, high-excitation bipolar planetary nebula (PN) NGC 6537 (the Red Spider), complemented by new ALMA and Chandra observations and archival HST images. The resulting multiwavelength view of the Red Spider establishes the detailed lobe/torus structure of the nebula and the mass-loss history of its progenitor star. The extinction-penetrating JWST/NIRCam Br$α$ and PAH and …

Vous vous souvenez mon épisode de podcast sur la distribution de secrets dans une infra codifiée en mode full décentralisée ?
Celui-ci : https://pod.broken-by-design.fr/@yakafokon/episodes/comment-ne-pas-etre-dans-le-secret-des-dieux…

Hi everyone at #MCH2025! We're about to start with the last talk of the day: #BadgeHub! In this talk Francis, Edwin, and Aleksander will explain the Infra, Frameworks, Databases, Backend and Frontend for this new website where Apps for this amazing Badge can be shared. Please reply to this message if…

All about BadgeHub WHY2025
BadgeHub is a Badge Application Website that enables Badge Enthousiasts to share Badge Apps. In this talk, we first explain what BadgeHub is and what you can do with it. After that, we go into all the technical details and difficult decisions that went into building BadgeHub with PostgreSQL, Node.js and Vite. We will talk about Infra, Frameworks, Databases, Backend and Frontend.

The excellent @… (https://erinkissane.com) has written a lot about the idea of “governance” in tech: the human networks and processes that surround the things that we build. Erin has proposed — and I agree, though I long failed to see it! — that governance is the gaping hole in the way we build OSS, shared infra, and the whole technology commons.
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Yes I do care. OrganicMaps this wasn't expected from you.
Go @…
#organicMaps #comsps

Typical #DougFord. I swear he's a shit at everything as #Trump.
The LCBO and Beer Store systems were working _perfectly_.. and making the province gobs of cash, AND reusing/diverting all that waste.
Already shuttered LCBO and TBS locations because of other retailers and now your recycling infra is ha…

Poor registries are being overwhelmed.
How about every enterprise user donates to cover infra costs?
https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/…

Switching to @… continues to look like a good idea.
https://fosstodon.org/@organicmaps/115202657995358203

@… @… just reading between the lines here if you were going to self host this type of thing, I think Netlify’s caching infra was better for this style of thing. I get the vibe that Vercel has their setup tuned for SSR where the cache doesn…

Modeling of runaway electron induced damage on boron-nitride tiles in WEST
Tommaso Rizzi, Svetlana Ratynskaia, Panagiotis Tolias, Yann Corre, Mathilde Diez, Mehdi Firdaouss, Jonathan Gerardin, Raphael Mitteau, Cedric Reux, Artem Kulachenko, the WEST team, the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15821

Modeling of runaway electron induced damage on boron-nitride tiles in WEST
The runaway electron (RE) - induced damage on boron nitride (BN) tiles mounted on the inner bumpers of the WEST tokamak is modeled employing available empirical input and experimental constraints, concerning the post-mortem documentation of the damaged material topology and infra-red camera observations of the long-time decay of the surface temperature. A newly developed work-flow for the modeling of brittle failure due to RE impacts, recently validated against a controlled DIII-D experiment, i…

Memo: Meta restructures Superintelligence Lab; Alexandr Wang heads TBD Lab, Robert Fergus heads FAIR, Nat Friedman heads products, Aparna Ramani heads Infra (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Restructures AI Group Again in Pursuit of Superintelligence
Meta Platforms Inc. is splitting its newly formed artificial intelligence group into four distinct teams and reassigning many of the company’s existing AI employees, an attempt to better capitalize on billions of dollars’ worth of recently acquired talent.

Poor registries are being overwhelmed.
How about every enterprise user donates to cover infra costs?
https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/…

Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have raised $5B via bonds this month for AI and digital infra; with JD.com, their combined 2025 AI capex is projected to top $32B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-17…

China’s AI Funding Spree: Why Alibaba, Baidu Are Tapping Bond Markets
Companies in China’s technology sector have been raising billions in capital to advance their artificial intelligence capabilities and other digital infrastructure.

Dark Matter in a Three-Brane Randall-Sundrum Scenario out of the Evanescent Limit
Andrea Donini, Miguel G. Folgado, Alejandro Mu\~noz-Ovalle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04580 htt…

Dark Matter in a Three-Brane Randall-Sundrum Scenario out of the Evanescent Limit
The Nature of Dark Matter (DM), that constitutes approximately 25\% of the energy density in the Universe, is still eluding us. An intriguing possibility is that DM does indeed interacts with SM particles only gravitationally (the only mean by which we have detected it so far), albeit in an extra-dimensional scenario yet it has not been possible to detect it by some non-gravitational means. In a three-brane Randall-Sundrum setup, with DM located on a Deep Infra-Red GeV-TeV brane, and the SM on …

Mark Zuckerberg Q&A: Meta's focus on "personal super intelligence", how large compensation packages pale in comparison to AI infra investments, AI glasses, more (Jessica E. Lessin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/arti…

Inside Zuckerberg’s AI Playbook: Billions in Compute, a Talent Arms Race, and a New Vision for Meta
When I sat down with Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerbergto talk artificial intelligence, I expected that he would want to discuss the company’s new supercomputer plans and talk about why he’s been working the phones all summer in a red-hot AI recruiting blitz. We covered all that. But over the ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Max Richter:
🎵 Infra 2
#MaxRichter
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Zw0mPKYwKHq9NjtoZxu7S
🎶 show playlist 👇
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🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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Infrared and Optical Emission-line Diagnostics
Mark Durr\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08603 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08603

Infrared and Optical Emission-line Diagnostics
We study a catalogue of over 130 emission-line galaxies with matched near infra-red (NIR) and optical spectra, where we examine the relationship between the respective nuclear activity classifications, diagnosed by the flux ratios of emission lines. We match the standard NIR classification with four different optical classifications. While there is a broad agreement between the two regimes, there are mismatches and overlaps caused either by aperture effects and/or NIR radiation penetrating obsc…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Max Richter:
🎵 Infra 1
#MaxRichter
https://open.spotify.com/track/0oPLqfTar1dEiydXz1mnhq