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Nine EU countries are joining forces to push for public charging infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles along two major European corridors. The goal is to speed up grid connections and permits for charging hubs along these routes, making smart use of available grid capacity wherever possible.
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#afir | Jaap Burger
Nine EU countries are joining forces to push for public charging infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles along two major European corridors. The goal is to speed up grid connections and permits for charging hubs along these routes, making smart use of available grid capacity wherever possible. Ministers from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland and Sweden have just signed a declaration to work on accelerating the development of charging infrastructure fo…

Security and Privacy Assessment of U.S. and Non-U.S. Android E-Commerce Applications
Urvashi Kishnani, Sanchari Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12031 https://

Security and Privacy Assessment of U.S. and Non-U.S. Android E-Commerce Applications
E-commerce mobile applications are central to global financial transactions, making their security and privacy crucial. In this study, we analyze 92 top-grossing Android e-commerce apps (58 U.S.-based and 34 international) using MobSF, AndroBugs, and RiskInDroid. Our analysis shows widespread SSL and certificate weaknesses, with approximately 92% using unsecured HTTP connections and an average MobSF security score of 40.92/100. Over-privileged permissions were identified in 77 apps. While U.S. …

Preserving Core Structures of Social Networks via Information Guided Multi-Step Graph Pruning
Yutong Hu, Bingxin Zhou, Jing Wang, Weishu Zhao, Liang Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10499

Preserving Core Structures of Social Networks via Information Guided Multi-Step Graph Pruning
Social networks often contain dense and overlapping connections that obscure their essential interaction patterns, making analysis and interpretation challenging. Identifying the structural backbone of such networks is crucial for understanding community organization, information flow, and functional relationships. This study introduces a multi-step network pruning framework that leverages principles from information theory to balance structural complexity and task-relevant information. The fra…

My TL is full of people making these connections: white supremacy, oligarchs ending democracy, the US has never been a democracy for everyone, Jim Crow was the model the Nazis followed, etc. All important. All worth repeating over and over.
(“Broken record therapy,” my dad says: just keep saying it until they hear it.)
I’m bookmarking this particularly essay for the way it gathers the pieces in one place, the way it brings the history and the present into a single clear picture.
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Making the case that #Cargo features could be improved to alleviate #Rust compile times
https://saghm.com/cargo-features-rust-…

Huh, think I might've figured out why one (but only one) of my NextCloud instances loses contact with the OnlyOffice instance on the same host... Figured out it *might* be because of frequent polling that's resulted in the Mailcow instance (also on the host, as I'm trying to economise) is seeing it as making too many connections and is temporarily fail2banning it nightly. I've added the host's IP(v4&6) to the Fail2Ban whitelist... 🤞 it's still connected tomorrow!<…

What I really do like about the #Meshcore app is the ability to tell whether my messages are making it to the mesh. There are multiple ways to tell.
First is the display of heard repeats. That indicate that x number of repeaters have received and repeated the message.
The second is the explicit delivery confirmation in private message chats.
Thirds is the new way to di…

»Windows 11 updates break localhost (127.0.0.1) HTTP/2 connections:
Microsoft's October Windows 11 updates have broken the "localhost" functionality, making applications that connect back to 127.0.0.1 over HTTP/2 no longer function properly.«
This could affect many more people and companies without them knowing how their local software works (no accusation).
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Mean-field analysis of a neural network with stochastic STDP
Pascal Helson, Etienne Tanr\'e, Romain Veltz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02545 https://arxi…

Mean-field analysis of a neural network with stochastic STDP
Analysing biological spiking neural network models with synaptic plasticity has proven to be challenging both theoretically and numerically. In a network with N all-to-all connected neurons, the number of synaptic connections is on the order of $N^2$, making these models computationally demanding. Furthermore, the intricate coupling between neuron and synapse dynamics, along with the heterogeneity generated by plasticity, hinder the use of classic theoretical tools such as mean-field or slow-fa…

Bridging Control Variates and Regression Adjustment in A/B Testing: From Design-Based to Model-Based Frameworks
Yu Zhang, Bokui Wan, Yongli Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13944 …

Bridging Control Variates and Regression Adjustment in A/B Testing: From Design-Based to Model-Based Frameworks
A B testing serves as the gold standard for large scale, data driven decision making in online businesses. To mitigate metric variability and enhance testing sensitivity, control variates and regression adjustment have emerged as prominent variance reduction techniques, leveraging pre experiment data to improve estimator performance. Over the past decade, these methods have spawned numerous derivatives, yet their theoretical connections and comparative properties remain underexplored. In this p…

Some leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
#USPol