Tootfinder

I have a habbit of making (too) many (small) packages for functionality that might be reused in different context. {box} might be an alternative by making scripts into modlues that can be loaded: #RStats

‘box’: Write Reusable, Composable and Modular R Code
A modern module system for R. Organise code into hierarchical, composable, reusable modules, and use it effortlessly across projects via a flexible, declarative dependency loading syntax.

Got USB-C - USB-C networking going between two of my snapdragon laptops in the early hours; it took some DT tweaks to persuade the ports to work in device mode; but then loading g_ncm and it came up nicely.
Hitting 2.72 Gbps which is hmm, low - but it was pegging a CPU, I'm not sure what usb-usb networking is supposed to be able to get.

`compinit` caching and lazy-loading increased my startup time by a factor of 5x! 🚀
Thanks for the pointers, @…!
https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/life-is

Life is too short for a slow terminal
I do all my work in the terminal, so it has to be quick. How my zsh starts in 30 milliseconds without a framework, and how to measure where your own shell spends its time.

🎯 Typical use cases: 12factor app environment variables, isolated per-project dev environments, loading deployment secrets.
🌐 https://github.com/direnv/direnv

""Dig into our two biggest plane-loading bottlenecks and the potential methods to alleviate this common travel headache.
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After hours of delay, your flight is finally boarding. But as the line grinds to a halt, you can’t help but think — there must be a faster way to board this plane. Mathematicians have been studying this problem for years, devising and testing a range of different boarding methods. Rachel Yang digs into our biggest plane-loading bottlenecks and potent…

I regret to inform you all that earlier today my dog escaped their sandbox. They got to the WiFi router and through sheer dumb luck hacked into the bank branch of a transnational bank down the street. They’re now buying up all the mortgages for the neighborhood and adding clauses to the mortgage contracts requiring treats and belly rubs. My security team is loading up our HARNESS countermeasures and WALKIES patches that could bring him back into containment or involve the neighborhood squirr…

looks like they vibe-coded another release (it just stopped loading)

Talk is cheap, unless it's the NFL: Kuechly and Tomlin are latest to cash in https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7584061/2026/09/11/nfl-broadcast-kuechly-tomlin-netflix-nbc-paid/

And this "Save to Recollect" browser extension makes my replacement of Raindrop complete!
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/save-to-recollect/fbmplkcoeijdokdlidejallnpcmiobjk
I used the importer to bulk add from Ra…

I have a bunch of old `.mbox` files from previous and unused Thunderbird accounts. I'd like to convert these files to individual `.eml` or even better text files so I can archive and search them better as I'm not loading them in Thunderbird anymore. Is there a utility for that somewhere?
boosting makes the world nicer.
[Edit] I have a bunch of solution in the replies thanks everyone.
#thunderbird

APEX: Adaptive Expert Prefetching for Memory-Efficient Edge MoE Inference
Alish Kanani, Layan Badawi, Umit Y. Ogras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11688 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11688 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11688
arXiv:2608.11688v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are attractive for edge deployment because they provide high model capacity while activating only a small subset of parameters per token, improving compute efficiency. However, MoE inference at the edge is fundamentally limited by memory. Expert parameters are large and often reside in off-chip memory due to capacity, cost, and power constraints, putting expert loading to the critical path. We present APEX: Adaptive Expert Prefetching, a predictive resource management framework that overlaps expert loading with useful computation. APEX introduces a lightweight prefetch router that predicts candidate experts before the attention block to dynamically fetch additional experts using a learned confidence model. This adaptive strategy achieves over 99% overlap accuracy, significantly outperforming fixed top-k prefetching techniques. APEX supports two execution modes: a correctness-preserving mode that guarantees exact routing semantics, and a stall-free mode that eliminates residual stalls by operating on available experts with negligible impact on application accuracy. Across multiple MoE models, the correctness-preserving mode reduces per-token latency by up to 26% and improves energy-delay product (EDP) by up to 41% over state-of-the-art baselines, while the stall-free mode provides additional efficiency gains with negligible impact on application accuracy. These results establish adaptive, confidence-driven expert prefetching as an effective approach for efficient MoE inference on edge systems.
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I sometimes have to use chrome at work, and o my god how incredibly slow is this software?
It takes a full minute to start loading the first page, it's incredible.

This #RustDuck #botnet thing is kinda cute.
https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/rustduck-en/

RustDuck: An In-Depth Analysis of a Two-Stage Botnet
Overview Since February 2026, the XLAB large-scale network threat perception system has detected a new malware family active in cyberspace that adopts a Loader + Core (two-stage loading) architecture. Currently, the family has spawned multiple variants, with the main core functionality being the execution of large-scale Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. It

Had quite an adventure in hardware debugger land at @… Mesh Night, last night, but we managed to get the bootloader onto this board by way of a Pi Pico Zero and the debugprobe firmware (after failing to make the Tigard do what we needed—certainly our fault, not Tigard’s).
Fun little project. Really rewarding to see it work, despite being way out of our depth on …

Anton Hill (@anthill@zeroes.ca)
Attached: 1 image Bought a RAK19713 card on a whim for a #meshcore or #meshtastic hobby project. Seems that it needs to be flashed with a GPIO harness once to enable loading custom firmware over the PCI-express USB. Am I reading this right? @foulab@chaos.social is this something I could do at your workshop? https://docs.rakwireless.com/product-categories/wislink/rak19713/firmware/#flash-the-arduino-bootloader

I've done a wee experimental feed aggregator for #Gaza #blogs here:
https://www.journeyman.cc/~simon/tmp/gazab

Populating the first machine assembled LATENTRED line card.
Doing a run of four, back side only, tonight if everything goes well. Machine placing most of the 456 placements per board with a handful of onesie twosies being done by tweezers because I didn't feel like loading up a feeder for a single ferrite or reference resistor

Mit #Mastodon 4.6. kann ich keine Emojis mehr im Webinterface eingeben. 😒
Früher ergab sich bei Eingabe von `:wink` eine Autovervollständigung. Das ist jetzt kaputt. Aber zumindest gibt es dafür ein Issue:
https://githu…

#proton #mail
Q: Anyone else having problems loading proton mail in the browser? Looks like they have a DDOS

How effective normal stress oscillations advance failure in fault gouge: frequency dependence, non-failure window, and the role of dilation
Pritom Sarma, Einat Aharonov, Renaud Toussaint, Stanislav Parez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01448 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.01448 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.01448
arXiv:2607.01448v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cyclic pore-pressure or normal stress variations arise both in relation to natural earthquakes and in engineered subsurface systems, yet their effect on fault stability remains poorly constrained at the grain scale. Here we numerically model, using a coupled Discrete Element--fluid dynamics model, the response of a sheared, fluid-saturated or dry, gouge-filled fault to effective normal stress oscillations over a wide frequency range (0.5-10000 Hz). The effective normal stress is oscillated either by cycling the pore-pressure or by directly cycling the normal stress, while keeping the stress state below the Mohr-Coulomb threshold measured in continuous loading. Despite this sub-critical loading, we observe failure across most frequencies, with a non-monotonic frequency dependence. A distinct non-failure window emerges at intermediate frequencies (30-200 Hz), bounded by failure at both lower and higher frequencies; the system exhibits four regimes from cyclic failure-and-arrest to continuous sliding. Pore-pressure and normal stress oscillations produce the same regime structure, confirming that they act as equivalent forcings via Terzaghi's principle, with fluid coupling adding only a delay due to dilatant hardening. Sub-critical failure arises from dilation-induced strength deterioration via two mechanisms: (i) low-frequency cycles allow sufficient time for shear-driven ratcheting dilation, while (ii) high-frequency cycles induce dynamic dilation (acoustic fluidization) via amplified seepage forces, stress gradients and inertial forces. The intermediate non-failure window represents the gap between these mechanisms. These results identify frequency as a controlling parameter for failure in granular materials, with implications for dynamic earthquake triggering and cyclic injection protocols.
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Lightsaber loading
#LEGO #ligtsaber #AhsokaTano #glowinthedark…

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speaking of slophub, here's environ-config 26.1.0 (my #Python take on loading config from env variables and secrets from safe places) a minor modernization update. thanks so much to every single name in the thanking section and to github who made it possible:

Release 26.1.0 · hynek/environ-config
Highlights Mostly packaging, small bugs, and docs updates. Only heads-up is that the created classes are now using attrs's NG-style ones with subtly different defaults. Full changelog below! Specia...

BBC Master 512 in DOS Plus; GEM, Turbo Pascal ( the 6502 Welcome panel). The video on the Master 512 is a bit odd - it's not got enough VRAM to be able to do normal PC modes, and it's not got the character gen to do hardware text (except teletext which is no use to the PC side). It was DOS Plus not MSDOS so some stuff was touchy. Hmm only thing I'm missing is the mouse, it might be in the loft somewhere.
I also need to try a PI RGB thing, my LCD doesn't like some st…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
James Blake:
🎵 Loading
#JamesBlake
https://a-souvenir.bandcamp.com/track/james-blake-x-brian-mcbride-loading-x-overture-for-other-halfs-a-souvenir-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0GQW2gDyxgT5IsNEM4osbJ

from my link log —
Linux eBPF projects and documentation.
https://ebpf.io/
saved 2020-08-12 https://dotat.at/:/WV3ZE.html

eBPF - Introduction, Tutorials & Community Resources
eBPF is a revolutionary technology that can run sandboxed programs in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code or loading a kernel module.

Mastodon.online in browser is completely broken for me. Bunch of 404s etc, nothing loading.
@mastodon any ideas?

Potential Applications of HBF in LLM Serving Systems
Yihan Yin, Yinlun Zhao, Zhixin Yun, Guanying Wu, Feng Zhu, Kai Tao, Shu Li, Fei Huang, Zhe Zhang, Shuangchen Li, Hongzhong Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13127 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13127 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13127
arXiv:2608.13127v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: LLM serving is increasingly constrained by memory capacity as model weights, KV caches, and the number of served model variants continue to grow. This report examines High-Bandwidth Flash (HBF) as a capacity-oriented extension to HBM-based serving systems. We first discuss how HBF can be integrated into the GPU memory hierarchy without undermining the bandwidth expected by the compute die. We then model the system-level value of added capacity as expanded residency for read-mostly model-state objects. Under this view, HBF can improve MoE serving by enabling more expert replicas and can improve multi-model serving by reducing model loading and supporting hot-model replication. Our simulation results show that these benefits depend on preserving the HBM-resident execution path while using HBF to expand the resident set of model weights.
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New Dallas Cowboys 2026 NFL Mock Draft Adds Raw DT With Massive Upside https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/new-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-raw-dt-massive-upside

I stumbled upon #seeqie , a terminal-based image viewer that uses Sixel Graphics. Written in #bash. It works fine with #foot

Kernel 7.2.0 seems to break my ALC5682 sound card. It's just...gone. The module is loading, but ENODEV under 7.2. Was doing this since the -rc. Same .config builds a working 7.1.x.

Deterministic loading of molecular arrays by microwave-assisted collisions
Etienne F. Walraven, Kang Feng, Jonas Rodewald, Michael R. Tarbutt, Tijs Karman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25783

ROLoad-PMP: Securing Sensitive Operations for Kernels and Bare-Metal Firmware
Wende Tan, Chenyang Li, Yangyu Chen, Yuan Li, Chao Zhang, Jianping Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13287 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13287 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13287
arXiv:2608.13287v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A common way for attackers to compromise victim systems is hijacking sensitive operations (e.g., control-flow transfers) with attacker-controlled inputs. Existing solutions in general only protect parts of these targets and have high performance overheads, which are impractical and hard to deploy on systems with limited resources (e.g., IoT devices) or for low-level software like kernels and bare-metal firmware. In this paper, we present a lightweight hardware-software co-design solution ROLoad-PMP to protect sensitive operations from being hijacked for low-level software. First, we propose new instructions, which only load data from read-only memory regions with specific keys, to guarantee the integrity of pointees pointed by (potentially corrupted) data pointers. Then, we provide a program hardening mechanism to protect sensitive operations, by classifying and placing their operands into read-only memory with different keys at compile-time and loading them with ROLoad-PMP-family instructions at runtime. We have implemented an FPGA-based prototype of ROLoad-PMP based on RISC-V, and demonstrated an important defense application, i.e., forward-edge control-flow integrity. Results showed that ROLoad-PMP only costs few extra hardware resources (< 1.40%). Moreover, it enables many lightweight (e.g., with negligible overheads < 0.853%) defenses, and provides broader and stronger security guarantees than existing hardware solutions, e.g., ARM BTI and Intel CET.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Kurt Vile:
🎵 Loading Zones
#KurtVile
https://kurtvile.bandcamp.com/track/loading-zones
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Z6W8GqZLM7DmgKp2jY6Pd

Is GitHub now vibe-coded? "2028" is "soon"? Or! Maybe! GitHub servers are already running on space-based data centers, which are at GPS altitudes — and hence experiencing gravitational time dilation… (The broken image is fine, I have image loading off in my mailer.)

Screenshots of my beeb series 7 yesterday booting off my restored Cumana floppy drive. The last one, the Teletext editor is I think by my high school Maths Teacher at the time.
#retrocomputing

At this year's Open Source #Firmware #Conference, I will be presenting on "Boot Chains and Build Systems"! 🥳🥳
(spoiler: it's complicated 🫠)

Boot Chains and Build Systems Open Source Firmware Conference 2026
It is clear that booting a system based on an application processor requires multiple binaries and possibly multiple hardware components - at the very least, one to initialize the DRAM and one to run in it. This implies that the various components of the chain, however many, need to be aware of the respective next and previous one somehow: Any component has to know the source, the protocol, and the destination for loading the next one, and the build system needs to create an overall image for t…

📦 upsert() keeps a single instance alive for singleton UI like toasts, loading overlays or progress bars — instead of stacking a new one, it updates the active instance with fresh data, no duplicates
⚙️ Mutation Flow: useMutationFlow from react-call/mutation-flow wires a callable straight to async backend actions, managing pending state and keeping the dialog open with a spinner until the promise resolves — so users can retry without losing their place, with end-to-end typed payloads…

New Dallas Cowboys 2026 NFL Mock Draft Adds Raw DT With Massive Upside https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/new-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-raw-dt-massive-upside

My Cumana disc drives seem to be working again; booted a few different disks on them. Alas the llayama 19" I'm using on my model B doesn't like the Acornsoft games modes; it works fine to the intros and is fine in all modes if I try them on other stuff. Hmm.
I think the Beeb might also be suffering from the heat a bit; I once saw it come up in 16k mode, and have had a few 'bad program' loading things. Time to go and clean stuff a bit maybe.

A High-Order Flux Reconstruction Actuator-Line Framework for Rotating-Blade Aerodynamics on Fixed Cartesian Grids
Abdullah Al Imran, Meilin Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20347
arXiv:2607.20347v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work couples a high-order flux reconstruction/correction procedure via reconstruction (FR/CPR) solver with a rotating actuator-line model (ALM) to simulate rotating-blade aerodynamics on fixed Cartesian grids. Blade loading is represented by volumetric body force source terms projected through an isotropic Gaussian kernel in a blade-attached frame, eliminating the need to resolve blade geometry. Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) serve as the demonstration configuration, with a modified Boeing-Vertol dynamic stall model incorporated to capture unsteady lift and drag. A mesh-resolution criterion for the Gaussian projection kernel on reasonably coarse meshes is derived. It shows that cost-effective coarse meshes can operate in a mesh-controlled regime with negligible induction feedback, motivating a Double Multiple Streamtube (DMST) correction to recover the physical inflow. Simulations are carried out over a range of tip-speed ratios at a chord-based Reynolds number of Re_c ~ 3.6 x 10^5. The framework is validated against experimental near-wake measurements and previously reported LES-ALM results, and the mean wake profile shows good agreement. The predicted power-coefficient curve matches high-fidelity three-dimensional LES-ALM data to within 6% around the optimal VAWT operation conditions. The framework also captures the regime-dependent influence of dynamic stall, azimuthal blade loading, lift hysteresis, and characteristic wake structures. These results demonstrate that the FR/CPR-ALM framework provides an accurate and computationally efficient geometry-free approach for VAWT analysis, making it well suited for parametric studies and large-scale wind energy applications.
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Capture velocities for direct loading of heavy molecules into conveyor-belt magneto-optical traps
Shoukang Yang, Shuhua Deng, Zixuan Zeng, Bo Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21944

Do we have any nextcloud-like webUIs but that work for filesystem folders and stuff?
Nextcloud is really bad at loading external libraries, specially those with large amounts of files, and I use it only with external libraries. Plus, it's quite annoying to maintain since I need ro run nextcloud-occ commands every update. I just want something that lets me upload, download move files around and stuff, I don't really use most of other nextcloud features (precisely because of too much lock-in). Plus working well on mobile devices so I can upload stuff from my phone. Having the ability to integrate with Collabora/LibreOffice Online would be great, but I was never able to get that or OnlyOffice to work anyway.

🎬 The special call prop exposes end() to finish a call and return a response, plus call.ended for exit animations by passing an unmounting delay to createCallable
🔥 Fast Refresh friendly with HMR support, an optional #Vite plugin to auto-inject displayName, and React.lazy compatibility for lazy-loading heavy callables

**Bo trum tui khi MECI cho khu vuc dock loading nha xuong**
Trong khu vực xuất nhập hŠng, khoảng hở giữa thùng xe tải vŠ cửa kho lŠ điểm rất dễ bị bỏ qua. Khi xe cập dock để bốc dỡ, nếu khu vực nŠy không được che kín, bụi bẩn, côn trùng, hơi nóng, nước mưa hoặc không khí lạnh thất thošt có thể ảnh hưởng trực tiếp đến môi trường bên trong nhŠ xưởng.
**Bộ trùm túi khí MECI** được thiết kế để hỗ trợ che kín khoảng hở giữa thùng xe vŠ cửa kho trong quš trình xuất nhập hŠng. Khi xe tả…

A Protocol for Shielding-Enhanced Loading of Single Polar Molecules into Optical Tweezers
Reuben R. W. Wang, Christian H. Nunez, Conner Williams, Amanda Younes, Li Du, Hossein R. Sadeghpour, Kang-Kuen Ni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20332

Cavitation Acoustic Perturbation Equations: A Computational Framework for Source-Resolved Multiphase Hydroacoustics
Zhi Cheng, Rajeev K. Jaiman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19567 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19567 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19567
arXiv:2607.19567v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work develops a cavitation-consistent acoustic perturbation framework for predicting sound generation and propagation in cavitating flows. Unlike conventional acoustic perturbation equations for single-phase or weakly compressible flows, the proposed formulation embeds cavitation physics directly into the acoustic equations. The cavitation acoustic perturbation equations (CAPE) incorporate vapor mass transfer, mixture compressibility, and pressure-rate effects within a unified formulation, allowing cavitation-induced noise sources to be resolved in the computational domain. The numerical framework is verified using one-dimensional wave-propagation problems. The solutions become insensitive to further mesh and time-step refinement, the perfectly matched layer suppresses boundary reflections, and the predicted attenuation over a range of source frequencies follows Stokes' sound attenuation law. The framework is then applied to cavitating flow past a circular cylinder and a NACA hydrofoil. The non-cavitating benchmark shows dipole-like radiation associated with unsteady loading, whereas cavitating cases exhibit monopole-like or geometry-modulated radiation caused by volumetric phase change. Source-term analyses identify tonal frequencies associated with vortex shedding, cavity shedding, and collapse-induced excitation. The phase-change terms provide a direct volumetric contribution to the monopole-like source, while localized collapse events appear through amplification of the pressure-rate source. The proposed framework extends acoustic perturbation methods to cavitating multiphase flows and provides an efficient tool for hydroacoustic prediction, source localization, and mechanism analysis in marine and hydraulic applications.
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#ComputerSupport #Parents
My elderly Mom uses #Thunderbird as her client for gmail. Yay for #SilverFOSS !
This is the second time it's become unusable.
The culprit? the same as the last time...she has an ungodly amount of emails open in tabs and it just crashes. Troubleshoot mode seems to get by that to let me 'Close Other Tabs' on a tab.
Boggles my mind it doesn't have some way to 'open clean' without loading the open emails...or at least a setting.