@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-11 08:30:29
Don Lemon's Lemon Media Network is expanding its newsroom and operations teams after surpassing 10M followers, with half of its growth in the past year alone (Stephanie Kaloi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-05-11 07:52:52
Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?
If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:
1. Gentoo is independent.
There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.
2. Gentoo aims to be secure.
We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.
3. Gentoo is made by humans.
We banned LLM contributions two years ago, and never regretted it. We didn't "wait and see", we took decisive action, and if we got left behind, it's only for the better. Unfortunately, in today's LLM-ridden world we can't stop slop software from being packaged in Gentoo without sacrificing our commitment to keep packages up to date, but we try to keep the worst offenders (like copywashed chardet) at bay.
4. Gentoo supports sustainability.
This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we're actually trying to make computing sustainable. Gentoo's source-first nature makes it inherently flexible. We try our best to support a plethora of older and less common hardware. We go against the flow and still try to provide a workable system on hardware that is not supported by Rust or V8. And on top of that, we do our best to provide binary packages for a variety of configurations.
Of course, that's not all. I want Gentoo to be reliable and stable, to be oriented towards privacy by default, to be welcome and respectful.
And all these things ultimately depend on people working on Gentoo, and contributing to Gentoo. We always need more people that share these principles and want to help us achieve them.
What do you appreciate in Gentoo?
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-07 06:11:00
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-10 15:53:07
South Africa Bullied by a protector
When Donald Trump returned to the US presidency in January 2025, South Africans were surprised to find themselves in his line of fire.
The false claim that white South African farmers are being murdered for their land has long been a staple conspiracy theory of the white far-right
(white farmers have been killed, but not at a higher rate than the thousands of other victims of South Africa’s high violent crime rate).
With Trump back i…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-09 07:59:03
When they say "we are entering a new industrial revolution" what they want you to hear is "things that were once expensive will now be cheap," but what they mean is "we will be using the massive economic disruption, that we are creating, to change the world against your will and further shape it towards the interests of a small and powerful minority."
#LLM #AI
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-06-10 22:48:25
Clean drinking water gaps linked to hunger and unsafe food worldwide #environment
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-06-11 08:30:02
Multipartite reference-frame-independent quantum cryptographic communication
Donghwa Lee, Kyujin Shin, Hyang-Tag Lim, Yosep Kim, Yong-Su Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12284 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12284 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12284
arXiv:2606.12284v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reference frame mismatch among communication parties introduces errors in quantum cryptographic protocols. As the number of participants increases, aligning reference frames becomes increasingly difficult, complicating multipartite quantum cryptographic implementations. Here, we theoretically and experimentally investigate multipartite reference-frame-independent (RFI) quantum cryptographic communication using Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states. We generalize the bipartite RFI security parameter $C$ to an $N$-party parameter $C_N$ and derive the asymptotic secret key rate expressed solely in terms of experimentally accessible quantities. We analyze the key rate under global and local depolarizing noise models and find that increasing the number of parties $N$ enhances robustness against global depolarizing noise while increasing vulnerability to local channel noise. We also present a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration of four-party RFI quantum cryptographic communication using four-photon GHZ states, confirming the reference-frame invariance of both the $C_4$ parameter and the secret key rate under various reference frame rotations.
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@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-05-26 09:50:11
War started: line goes up. War on pause: line goes up. War resumes: line goes up. Oil prices rise: line goes up. "Peace" talks: line goes up. Talks break down, more bombing: line goes up. Thermonuclear war threats: line goes up. Ceasefire summit: line goes up. Ceasefire starts: line goes up. Ceasefire actually completely made up by the US: line goes up. Bombings continue: line goes up.
Rational markets, baby!
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-06-07 06:33:25
Starting to dust off the Ethernet switch project and make some strides towards finishing it.
First step: preparing to populate the back side of the remaining switch line cards. I hand assembled one a year or so ago and then the project got put on ice while I got busy with higher priority stuff.
But now that my friends are starting to get their PnP operational, I'm gonna try and run the rest of the boards on it.
Just inventoried components for the back-side assembly run …
@arXiv_eessAS_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-05-12 08:01:06
Rethinking Entropy Minimization in Test-Time Adaptation for Autoregressive Models
Wei-Ping Huang, Chee-En Yu, Guan-Ting Lin, Hung-yi Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08186 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.08186 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.08186
arXiv:2605.08186v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) via entropy minimization (EM) has proven effective for classification tasks, yet its application to generative autoregressive models remains theoretically fragmented. Existing approaches typically rely on distinct heuristics, such as teacher forcing with pseudo labels or policy-gradient-based reinforcement learning, without a unified mathematical foundation. In this work, we resolve this discrepancy by deriving a rigorous formulation of EM tailored to autoregressive models. We show that the exact objective naturally decomposes into a token-level policy gradient loss and a token-level entropy loss, and we reinterpret prior methods as partial realizations of this unified formulation. Using Whisper ASR as a testbed, we demonstrate that our approach consistently improves performance across more than 20 diverse domains, including acoustic noise, accents, and multilingual settings.
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