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Woo! Got Intext EPROM working on my Epson HX-20 after quite a fight!
After Ghidra'ing the ROM dump to figure out what the error it was giving was about, I figured out it needed me to go through BASIC and do a CLEAR to specify a 'ram file' size for it to use.
Now, to figure out a Ghidra patch.
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Fossil fuel industry's 'climate false solutions' reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fossil-fuel-industry-climate-false.html

Fossil fuel industry's 'climate false solutions' reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests
Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsetting—operate as false solutions that not only fail to effectively reduce emissions, but also prolong the lifespan of fossil fuel infrastructures, entrench environmental injustices, and reinforce the political and economic power of the very industry responsible for the climate crisis.

Airline Index 2025: Luftfahrt verpasst erneut Klimaziele
Trotz neuer, effizienterer Flugzeuge haben die Fluggesellschaften im Jahr ihre Klimaziele verfehlt, wie eine Studie zeigt.
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“Additional direct manufacturing costs do not fully explain the higher prices of electric cars outside China. [..] in Germany, the retail price difference is more than double the manufacturing cost difference.”
https://www.iea.org/reports/what-next-for-the…

Executive summary – What Next for the Global Car Industry – Analysis - IEA
What Next for the Global Car Industry - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

Counting induced subgraphs with given intersection sizes
Haixiang Zhang, Yichen Wang, Xiamiao Zhao, Mei Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15466 https://arxiv.o…

Counting induced subgraphs with given intersection sizes
Let $F$ be a graph of order $r$. In this paper, we study the maximum number of induced copies of $F$ with restricted intersections, which highlights the motivation from extremal set theory. Let $L=\{\ell_1,\dots,\ell_s\}\subseteq[0,r-1]$ be an integer set with $s\not\in\{1,r\}$. Let $Ψ_r(n,F,L)$ be the maximum number of induced copies of $F$ in an $n$-vertex graph, where the induced copies of $F$ are $L$-intersecting as a family of $r$-subsets, i.e., for any two induced copies of $F$, the size…

A Comparative Study of Rule-Based and Data-Driven Approaches in Industrial Monitoring
Giovanni De Gasperis, Sante Dino Facchini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15848 https://

A Comparative Study of Rule-Based and Data-Driven Approaches in Industrial Monitoring
Industrial monitoring systems, especially when deployed in Industry 4.0 environments, are experiencing a shift in paradigm from traditional rule-based architectures to data-driven approaches leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence. This study presents a comparison between these two methodologies, analyzing their respective strengths, limitations, and application scenarios, and proposes a basic framework to evaluate their key properties. Rule-based systems offer high interpretabi…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Airline Index 2025: Luftfahrt verpasst erneut Klimaziele
https://w…

Ooh, and Intext has a basic terminal program!
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All new roads lead to increased deforestation in Ecuador’s Indigenous territory https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/all-new-roads-lead-to-increased-deforestation-in-ecuadors-indigenous-territory/

All new roads lead to increased deforestation in Ecuador’s Indigenous territory
Between March and May 2025, at least eight children from the Achuar Indigenous community died of leptospirosis in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. The disease is preventable with access to safe drinking water and timely treatment. But these two conditions are absent in Taisha, one of the poorest five cantons in Ecuador and the one with […]

MICA: Multi-Agent Industrial Coordination Assistant
Di Wen, Kunyu Peng, Junwei Zheng, Yufan Chen, Yitain Shi, Jiale Wei, Ruiping Liu, Kailun Yang, Rainer Stiefelhagen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15237

MICA: Multi-Agent Industrial Coordination Assistant
Industrial workflows demand adaptive and trustworthy assistance that can operate under limited computing, connectivity, and strict privacy constraints. In this work, we present MICA (Multi-Agent Industrial Coordination Assistant), a perception-grounded and speech-interactive system that delivers real-time guidance for assembly, troubleshooting, part queries, and maintenance. MICA coordinates five role-specialized language agents, audited by a safety checker, to ensure accurate and compliant sup…