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I do not understand how #2FA on my company laptop works. At random, far-apart times a nondescript dialogue pops up out of nowhere asking me to enter a number in the authenticator app.
Why not ask for the second factor when I log into Windows (the first time of the day)? At least when there is no (known) network?
It also feels like it would not be terribly hard to produce something like…

🐛 Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-nanotechnology-crop-munching-pests-beneficial.html

Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
A bane of farmers' existence, it's estimated that plant-eating pests are responsible for the loss of up to 40% of pre-harvest yields globally. But a new generation of crop treatments that target only "bad" bugs could mean big gains for the Canadian agriculture sector, improving pest management tools in an industry that in 2024 generated over $142 billion.

As the federal government begins to implement President Trump’s new national security directive
to investigate the so-called
radical left as domestic terrorists,
a little known FBI organization,
located in an affluent and leafy suburb of Northern Virginia,
is at the center of it all.
Based just seven miles from CIA headquarters,
the Threat Screening Center
has a secret budget and a classified personnel count.
The nondescript cluster of g…

Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7
“We’re expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror investigations.

Nematic Fluctuations and Electronic Correlations in Heavily Hole-Doped Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Fe$_2$As$_2$ Probed by Elastoresistance
Franz Eckelt, Steffen Sykora, Xiaochen Hong, Vilmos Koscis, Vadim Grinenko, Bernd B\"uchner, Kunihiro Kihou, Chu-Ho Lee, Christian Hess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09151…

Nematic Fluctuations and Electronic Correlations in Heavily Hole-Doped Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Fe$_2$As$_2$ Probed by Elastoresistance
This work investigates nematic fluctuations and electronic correlations in the hole-doped iron pnictide superconductor Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Fe$_2$As$_2$ by means of longitudinal and transverse elastoresistance measurements over a wide doping range ($0.63 < x < 0.98$). For this purpose, the orbital character of the electronic response was revealed by decomposition of the elastoresistance into the $A_{1g}$ and $B_{2g}$ symmetry channels. It was shown that at lower doping levels nematic fluctuations in …

You know it's a good Halloween costume when you have to add a "hello my name is.." nametag so people know what you are. 😂

Did I mention IC reversing is absolute crack for AuDHD brains?
I should probably put down the EEPROM, at least for a while, and move on to other stuff. But I'm having too much fun.
This is the dangerous part, and the part I have the most trouble with... the problem is so big you'll *never* be done (especially doing it manually without any automation, figuring out what each cell is by hand, etc).
There's always more to discover. Nerd sniping to the 20th power.

"Ulkomaalaiset työntekijät ovat usein täysin työnantajansa armoilla, koska heidän oleskelulupansa on riippuvainen työpaikasta. Pelko työpaikan menetyksestä ja karkotuksesta mahdollistaa hyväksikäytön."
#työmarkkinat #yritykset

Järvisydän polki ukrainalaispakolaisten työehtoja, väittää uutuuskirja – yrittäjä: Emme tienneet
Paavo Teittisen kirjasta ilmenee, miten järjestelmällistä hyväksikäyttö on Suomessa, ja miten tapauksissa toistuu sama riiston kaava.

Emergence of mixed orientational ordering in quasi-one-dimensional superdisk and superball fluids
Sakineh Mizani, Martin Oettela, P\'eter Gurin, Szabolcs Varga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06918

Emergence of mixed orientational ordering in quasi-one-dimensional superdisk and superball fluids
We report the discovery of a mixed orientational structure in the quasi-one-dimensional fluid of hard non-spherical bodies with the exact calculation of the thermodynamic and structural quantities using the transfer operator method. The mixed arrangement, which is spatially uniform, but orientionally ordered, cannot be identified with conventional mesophases such as tetratic, cubatic and nematic. It is found that the particles form a mixed orientational arrangement with preferred parallel and p…

❤️‍🔥 Heat-rechargeable design powers nanoscale molecular machines
#nanotechnology

Heat-rechargeable design powers nanoscale molecular machines
Though it might seem like science fiction, scientists are working to build nanoscale molecular machines that can be designed for myriad applications, such as "smart" medicines and materials. But like all machines, these tiny devices need a source of power, the way electronic appliances use electricity or living cells use ATP (adenosine triphosphate, the universal biological energy source).