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I got to migrate my blogs to a new provider. That made me wonder if I really want all the archive to still be online in these days. Then I thought of one small post I made about a friend's suicide many years ago and how still almost every year someone leaves a comment. To him, not to me, not to my blog post. This post's perfect place seems to be nested amongst dozens of others in the archive where only those who know still get back to it. I guess this little big thing makes me keep m…

Two things: Via AltNationalParkService on FB: **Marine veterans are speaking out against the troop deployment in Los Angeles. Across the country, they’re taking down their American flags that have flown in front of their homes for years. Remember, we have friends everywhere.**
And, in a comment: "Notice how no one is talking about the Epstein files now?"

Sad news in the parish this evening. After 34 years, the Famous Pizza D'or in Monaghan town is closing their doors on June 1st 2025.
#Mastodaoine #Monaghan

Cowboys’ George Pickens ‘Has Every Reason to Be Motivated’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/george-pickens-pittsburgh-steelers-dak-prescott/?adt_ei=[email]

We spent the past two months redoing our sculpture garden. We opened it 14 years ago, and it needed a little care, mostly to the plant life. The new plants are native varieties for the most part, and the garden has been redesigned to create separate spaces for art and events. Learn more:

Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡
E-Fuels, so the story goes, could allow using existing cars and infrastructure like gas stations. However, E-Fuels are extremely inefficient.
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and the Chilean company HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile's windy Magallanes region, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol and small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🧵

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

New Zealand prime minister Ardern was grappling with whether to go:
“Something had been loosened worldwide,” she says,
with rage everywhere,
public servants being followed and attacked,
as if they were “somehow distinct from being human”.
We all recognise this rage,
but Ardern was at the centre of it,
representing progressive politics, tough Covid measures, empathy, emotion, anti-racism, femaleness;
a symbol of a different time, more rational…

Half-Iterates of $x(1 x)$, $\sin(x)$ and $\exp(x/e)$
Steven Finch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.07625…

Half-Iterates of $x(1+x)$, $\sin(x)$ and $\exp(x/e)$
The title reflects the original intent of this paper -- to continue exploring compositional square roots -- focusing on Walker's (1991) study of the Abel equation $f(\exp(x/e))=f(x)+1$ for real $x \neq e$. An unexpected discovery changed everything. We already knew that Écalle (1974) developed theory inspiring relevant calculations across years. Precise details, however, seemed to escape attention until recently. Helpful online posts of Jagy (2012) are important not to overlook. The new algori…

I honestly don’t get how this is possible in 2025.
There’s no excuse for not having protected backups of everything critical. That was true 30 years ago, it is true today. Back then a bigger piece of the risk was hardware, less malware. Today it is unlikely for a disk failure to take your data because we all learned that RAID was worthwhile. But RAID is not a backup and backups today need to be resistant to intentional malicious deletion.

It is fascinating (maybe not the word everyone would use) to watch, what once was viewed as an init replacement, systemd evolve. Terminal emulation:
https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/114618473677694301