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Security footage of #Boeing repair before door-plug #blowout was overwritten
NTSB: Boeing is "unable to find the records documenting" repair work on 737 Max 9.
"To date, we still do not know who performed the work to open, reinstall, and close the

Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten
NTSB: Boeing "unable to find the records documenting" repair work on 737 Max 9.

Not unrelated to previous posts. I'm sick and tired of artists not getting proper financial compensation for or control of their amazing work
I'm currently building an artist led game project based off tarot card illustrations
🧙‍♂️ Are you a fantasy illustrator?
Thread below 👇
#mtgart #cardart

No Microsoft, this is AI-generated nonsense and you're lying and I refuse to believe otherwise
https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/not-your-average-meeting/episode-2/

Looked at my https://adrianco.medium.com account, I have started a bunch of blog posts in the last few months, but haven’t finished them. Need to do some writing and get stuff off the backlog. Too much work-in-progress. Luckily I’m just posting because I feel like it, so the main thing is not to start a…

adrian cockcroft – Medium
Read writing from adrian cockcroft on Medium. Work: Technology strategy advisor, Partner at OrionX.net (ex Amazon Sustainability, AWS, Battery Ventures, Netflix, eBay, Sun Microsystems, CCL).

I've worked on community groups for a long long time, and the only good thing I can say about most codes of conduct is that their existence proves the group fought past the army of dudes who think they get in the way of important things like letting them dominate the group.
But seriously, most codes of conduct are worth about one bit of information: "has cared at all (y/n)”
There's a single code of conduct document that was extremely influential by being designed to be copy-and-pastable: the document was given a specific name, work was done to propagate the idea that all you had to do was adopt it as-is. Drop in and ready to go!
The only problem there is that doesn't work. A long, legalistic set of rules about what's Not Allowed with no actual policy for enforcement invites a bunch of problems: a long list can be treated as exhaustive, so people will do things not on the list then cry foul when you tell them to stop. A lack of enforcement policy invites a binary approach: is a person good (did nothing on the list) or bad (did something on the list)? If they're bad, kick them out, if they're good, keep them.
This is bad.
The actual rules that will be enforced will be much more subtle, will favor people in positions of power, and will not yield results consistent with the stated values of various factions of the group. Arguments will ensue about whether or not something "really counts" as an item on the list, because often the actual decision being made but not explicitly stated is “do we kick out some important person to the group for some broken way they relate to others in the group?”
The other way they get used is "here's a person doing something some part of the group doesn't like, which rule can we use to kick them out?”
These are both broken approaches that don't actually reflect the relations of the group, and they lead to punitive and destructive methods of enforcement, rather than healing and reparative methods. This leads to conflict within the group being turned into a code of conduct violation while at the same time allowing outsiders to weaponize the code of conduct by provoking those conflicts.

Apple letting the new iPad Pro run macOS would require major tradeoffs and adding touch to Mac would lead to "a lot of flakey software that doesn't really work" (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi)
https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1790581279433621918
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Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) on X
It is not unusual for customers to want the best of all worlds. It is why Detroit invented convertibles and el caminos. But the idea of a "dual boot" device is just nuts. It is guaranteed the only reality is it is running the wrong OS all the time for whatever you want to do.…

What is the point in criticizing people who are doing good work for not doing the good work that you think is more important, while you are doing nothing at all?
I tire of some of those I follow. Or rather "followed,” until today
#SubberThanSubtoot

Next best chance: #PyConUS! 🤓 @… https://hachyderm.io/@bigelow/11227600

Reminder: if you want to link to some #Linux #kernel discussion on lists like #LKML, use the official archives at

Boss has a lot of work, and I should test something.
For that, I need rpms from the build server built from a specific branch.
I asked him to grant me the rights to that build server...and he answered me today (after 3 days) that he would do it.🤦‍♂️
I am not paid enough to care.🤬
Well, that's not true. It still piss me a lot because when sh*t hits the fan, I will be the one responsible for delay. 🤬
But I have saved this conversation with my boss, and I will p…

I'm starting to get more strict about not using #Google or #zoom or #Whatsapp for work-related web calls.
Basically, my stance is now - we're using

So I had a crazy idea... I want to try the "Pay What You Want" thing again when selling art, but offer people who can't decide on an amount a chance to "spin the wheel" and then decide if they want to pay the amount they spin.
It would be between $5 and $35 or something.
Is that too crazy or could it work?
I could always let them decide to walk away and not go through with the sale or something.

Just a reminder that adding “young” (or “old”, for that matter) in a job ad is discriminatory. Why not write down something that the candidate can actually work on improving instead, and that has something to do with the job you’ll ask them to do?
#JustSaying #Academia

1 of 7 work days done until I see @…!!!!
Working 7 days bisexual (cause I’m not straight) in a row.

I got name-checked in Jessica Weber’s 2024 #AccessU Legal Update! It was for #AudioEye’s SLAPP #overlay suit.
Got to lunch very late because people wanted to ask me questions, but not in front of the AudioEye exec…

The 2024 AccessU Legal Update — Knowbility
Digital accessibility is a civil right for people with disabilities. Join disability rights attorney Jessie Weber as she provides background on the legal landscape and shares recent developments, trends, and upcoming activities in the digital accessibility legal space.

@… I hope you don't mind a quick question about the #SensorWatch that I could not work out from the documentation. I have stock firmware on the red board. If I hold the "MODE" button it shows temperature. If I click it one more time it…

heck...
- user visits form on website
- user doesn't do anything for a long time / keeps work open in a tab but not saved to site
- website updated (client JS & backend API)
- user tries to submit form
- website eats homework
how would you mitigate that?
migration keeps old API up long enough to be valid for $session_cookie time?
pop-up to the user that they're about to be logged out?
try to auto-save things where possible on an input-by-input basis?

My wife: "I put the concert tickets in a safe place, but I'm not telling you where, so you can't accidentally misplace them."
I agreed.
I guess people eventually
find ways to work around your disorders. :drgn__w_:
#ADD #ADHD

Reformation Abroad 🚀🗡️✊
Dramatized scifi series | When prisoners find themselves in outer space on a special work-release program, they quickly realize that things may not be as they seem. Join team 119 as they try to outrun their past and set aside their differences for a better future.
1 seasons, 5 episodes as of May...
https…

Reformation Abroad 🚀🗡️✊
Dramatized scifi series | When prisoners find themselves in outer space on a special work-release program, they quickly realize that things may not be as they seem. Join team 119 as they try to outrun their past and set aside their differences for a better future. 1 seasons, 5 episodes as of May 22, 2023.

“Chirp Access improperly stores credentials within its source code, potentially exposing sensitive information to unauthorized access,” CISA’s alert warned, assigning the bug a CVSS (badness) rating of 9.1 (out of a possible 10). “Chirp Systems has not responded to requests to work with CISA to mitigate this vulnerability.”
…

And here is the trigger event, I reckon. The opinion writer we believe is basically a sock puppet for the media proprietor is back – and making some plainly false factual claims.
The easiest to prove: that in investigating their identity, News24 did not provide them with an opportunity to comment.
That is the work of a moment to take before the Press Ombud, at which point Independent Media has to choose between apologising or storming out again.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240315072705/https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/analysis/debunking-the-lies-a-response-to-news24s-special-projects-propaganda-779c9b95-930a-4b70-b845-f710f63c897a

LOL! I "setup" custom domain for my backblaze object storage, now my entire new instance isn't connecting.
Gotta love shit that makes no sense. I didn't update the DNS for the root domain so there's not a single reason in the world that it shouldn't work just as it was working a few hours ago....🤦‍♂️

This toot from ten years ago sounds far more prophetic than I had intended it to be. "
In the early days of the Internet, we fought the pooh wars to determine who was right. It did not work out, so the Internet was shat down."

Open Position:
VP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Job Overview Summary
Reporting to the General Counsel, the inaugural Chief Information Security Officer is a visionary leader who is responsible for establishing the information security strategy and directing the implementation and monitoring of services, policies, standards, and solutions for Advarra. The CISO is both an experienced leader and a subject matter expert who will address cyber security from a strategic lens and provide guidance to leadership for managing risks to information security and cyber crisis management.
Description
At Advarra, we are passionate about making a difference in the world of clinical research and advancing human health. With a rich history rooted in ethical review services combined with innovative technology solutions and deep industry expertise, we are at the forefront of industry change. A market leader and pioneer, Advarra breaks the silos that impede clinical research, aligning patients, sites, sponsors, and CROs in a connected ecosystem to accelerate trials.
Company Culture
Our employees are the heart of Advarra. They are the key to our success and the driving force behind our mission and vision. Our values (Patient-Centric, Ethical, Quality Focused, Collaborative) guide our actions and decisions. Knowing the impact of our work on trial participants and patients, we act with urgency and purpose to advance clinical research so that people can live happier, healthier lives.
At Advarra, we seek to foster an inclusive and collaborative environment where everyone is treated with respect and diverse perspectives are embraced. Treating one another, our clients, and clinical trial participants with empathy and care are key tenets of our culture at Advarra; we are committed to creating a workplace where each employee is not only valued but empowered to thrive and make a meaningful impact.
Please note: I have no ability to answer questions about the position, or to refer anyone to the hiring managers involved.
Posting this here for anyone who feels this would be a good fit.
Link to Advarra listing:
https://recruiting.ultipro.com/ADV1023AVR/JobBoard/6051d363-03fe-4650-945e-f836306a8388/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=3bd76d2a-3885-4449-8b7e-b8f1a14d624b

What is the role of #care #platforms in digital capitalism? Will they transform markets as in delivery or ride-hailing? This seems not to be the case, new research by @… shows:

"[...] if you take the concept of trusting those you work with, and you throw away the oppositional and aggressive framing it's buried in, you get something really cool: trust the questions people ask and utilize the answers they learn. [...] Asking the basics is not a sign of incompetence, it’s a sign of trusting the process and developing your observability “muscle.”"
Redefining #Observability

Redefining Observability | Hazel Weakly
Observability is a bit of a hot topic, and while it’s increasingly been playing a larger role in engineering strategy, I think the way it’s presented can often...

I think it is about time that people start speaking about trickle-up economics… it’s not enough to denounce that trickle down does not work.
https://mastodon.social/@starlily/110492020836604846

"Every probabilistic algorithm that's efficient can be replaced by a deterministic one, so you don't really need [randomness] [...] The power believed to be in probabilistic algorithms doesn't exist." — Avi Wigderson
(Think on this, fellow generative artists! 😅 FWIW In my own work, I've learned to limit use of PRNGs to the absolute bare minimum, use as shorthand or for deferring design decisions to be solved in other [more controllable/intentional] ways later …

Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness
Avi Wigderson helped prove that randomness is not required for efficient computation.

My favorite part is how editors are continually unaware of this being low quality work, in every instance, but this part is good, too.
From: @…
https://social.kiesow.n…

I’ve started enjoying vertical tabs in edge on my work computer.
I feel dirty. And not in a good way. Who have I become?

Dallas Cowboys Coach Issues Blunt Response To CeeDee Lamb’s Absence https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_coach_issues_blunt_response_to_ceedee_lambs_absence/s1_17068_40365472

Dallas Cowboys Coach Issues Blunt Response To CeeDee Lamb’s Absence
The 2024 NFL season has a lot more meaning to the Dallas Cowboys than many years in the past have. It is a make or break season that could result in the complete dismantling of the team if they do not live up to expectations. Both Mike McCarthy and Dak Prescott are on the hot seat, but the season could have a big impact on CeeDee Lamb’s future with the team as well. Lamb has been rumored to potentially leave the Cowboys if the two sides can’t work out an extension. Things have not gone easy…

It's hilarious... KDE Plasma still keeps crashing on me, and whenever I work with KOrganizer - especially when deleting or adding calendar accounts.
And always inexplicable freezes in between. Is it perhaps due to the hardware of the mini PC and not quite the correct driver for this exotic?
However: I have now installed Gnome on a trial basis and everything works without any problems. 🤔
#linux

Loop unrolling (for test coverage): formal definition
Bertrand Meyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08923 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.0892…

Loop unrolling (for test coverage): formal definition
Techniques to achieve various forms of test coverage, such as branch coverage, typically do not iterate loops; in other words, they treat a loop as a conditional, executed zero or one time. Existing work by the author and collaborators produces test suites guaranteeing full branch coverage. More recent work has shown that by unrolling loops the approach can find significantly more bugs. The present discussion provides the theoretical basis and precise definition for this concept of unrolling.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10996 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Extended local ergotropy
A fundamental problem in quantum thermodynamics is to properly quantify the work extractable from out-of-equilibrium systems. While for closed systems, maximum quantum work extraction is defined in terms of the ergotropy functional, this question is unclear in open systems interacting with an environment. The concept of local ergotropy has been proposed, but it presents several problems, such as it is not guaranteed to be non-increasing in time. Here we introduce the concept of extended local e…

Every journal should make submission as easy as @…

Computable domains of a Halting Function
Abel Luis Peralta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.09484

Computable domains of a Halting Function
We discuss the possibility of constructing a function that validates the definition or not definition of the partial recursive functions of one variable. This is a topic in computability theory, which was first approached by Alan M. Turing in 1936 in his foundational work "On Computable Numbers". Here we face it using the Model of computability of the recursive functions instead of the Turing's machines, but the results are transferable from one to another paradigm with ease. Recursive function…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06664 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

LLM Agents can Autonomously Hack Websites
In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly capable and can now interact with tools (i.e., call functions), read documents, and recursively call themselves. As a result, these LLMs can now function autonomously as agents. With the rise in capabilities of these agents, recent work has speculated on how LLM agents would affect cybersecurity. However, not much is known about the offensive capabilities of LLM agents. In this work, we show that LLM agents can autonomousl…

Podcasts don't work for me, but I think I'll try these:
Terrible, Thanks for Asking: "It’s a show that makes space for how it really feels to go through the hard things in life, and a community of people who get it."
“It’s Going To Be OK” is a hard thing to believe given the state of, oh, everything. Many things are, in fact, not going to be okay at all. But on the advice of a wise therapist, we’re on a quest to find one okay thing about every day.
https://ttfa.org/
https://link.chtbl.com/IGTBO

“It categorizes AI systems by the potential harm they could do if they fail to work as intended or advertised, going from low-risk services such as spam filters through to high-risk tools used in critical infrastructure. The highest risk tier is “unacceptable” and these systems would be prohibited under the new law.”
This is the correct strategy. Regulate the harm, not the technology. Nice job, EU.

The Evergreen Web section in Kitten’s¹ settings now has its own page too (and uses Kitten’s new Streaming HTML² workflow).
If you have the previous version of your site up somewhere, you can use the 404-to-307 technique³ to forward missing pages to your old site so as not to break the Web.
I’ll add local static archive support later.
¹ https://…

app
A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

I replayed #FinalFantasyVIIRebirth #PS5's intro yesterday. I am just captivated by the work the team put in to not just present the *imagery* of the original game at a higher fidelity, but also the characterization and storytelling.

Trinomials with high differential uniformity
Yves Aubry (IMATH, I2M, UTLN), Fabien Herbaut (UCA INSPE, IMATH), Ali Issa (I2M, AMU)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09594

Trinomials with high differential uniformity
The context of this work is the study of the differential uniformity of polynomials defined over finite fields of even characteristic.We provide infinite families of trinomialswith high differential uniformitywhen the base field is large enough.It means in particular that these trinomials are not exceptional almost perfect nonlinear.

Modeling the Lane-Change Reactions to Merging Vehicles for Highway On-Ramp Simulations
Dustin Holley, Jovin Dsa, Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub, Gibran Ali, Tyler Naes, Ehsan Moradi-Pari, Pawan Sai Kallepalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09851

Modeling the Lane-Change Reactions to Merging Vehicles for Highway On-Ramp Simulations
Enhancing simulation environments to replicate real-world driver behavior is essential for developing Autonomous Vehicle technology. While some previous works have studied the yielding reaction of lag vehicles in response to a merging car at highway on-ramps, the possible lane-change reaction of the lag car has not been widely studied. In this work we aim to improve the simulation of the highway merge scenario by including the lane-change reaction in addition to yielding behavior of main-lane l…

Reformation Abroad 🚀🗡️✊
Dramatized scifi series | When prisoners find themselves in outer space on a special work-release program, they quickly realize that things may not be as they seem. Join team 119 as they try to outrun their past and set aside their differences for a better future.
1 seasons, 5 episodes as of May...
https…

Reformation Abroad 🚀🗡️✊
Dramatized scifi series | When prisoners find themselves in outer space on a special work-release program, they quickly realize that things may not be as they seem. Join team 119 as they try to outrun their past and set aside their differences for a better future. 1 seasons, 5 episodes as of May 22, 2023.

And here is the trigger event, I reckon. The opinion writer we believe is basically a sock puppet for the media proprietor is back – and making some plainly false factual claims.
The easiest to prove: that in investigating their identity, News24 did not provide them with an opportunity to comment.
That is the work of a moment to take before the Press Ombud, at which point Independent Media has to choose between apologising or storming out again.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240315072705/https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/analysis/debunking-the-lies-a-response-to-news24s-special-projects-propaganda-779c9b95-930a-4b70-b845-f710f63c897a

Teamsters leader explains to Republicans that they need to actually support unions, workers to get union votes - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/03/12/teamsters-leader-explains-to…

In other news, my 15x4.5m loop, obviously supposed to work on MW & SW, has just caught LRT Klasika 🇱🇹 on 96.2 MHz as it fades up & down w/ air scatter, if not other scatters too. Juragiai, 10kW (PEP?), 237km, horizontal polarisation, although this loop seems to pick up stuff on both H & V. Oh, and a nice meteor scatter just pinged :) Who needs Yagis? 😂 #fmdx

While I am harping on the subject of internet social media based on self-publishing rather than large republishing companies like Fbook, Twitter, etc...
I am quite concerned about the raw records that form the history of our times simply vanishing, irretrievably, as people age and die.
In earlier days things were recorded with relative permanence on paper (or stone). Not so today - one's entire life's work can vanish in few microseconds.
Not just the media or the s…

Flow-Based Synthesis of Reactive Tests for Discrete Decision-Making Systems with Temporal Logic Specifications
Josefine B. Graebener, Apurva S. Badithela, Denizalp Goktas, Wyatt Ubellacker, Eric V. Mazumdar, Aaron D. Ames, Richard M. Murray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09888

Flow-Based Synthesis of Reactive Tests for Discrete Decision-Making Systems with Temporal Logic Specifications
Designing tests to evaluate if a given autonomous system satisfies complex specifications is challenging due to the complexity of these systems. This work proposes a flow-based approach for reactive test synthesis from temporal logic specifications, enabling the synthesis of test environments consisting of static and reactive obstacles and dynamic test agents. The temporal logic specifications describe desired test behavior, including system requirements as well as a test objective that is not …

I don't remember if I posted images about the electrical work required. Basically it appears that almost all work was NOT done by a licensed electrician. About 100 junction boxes, switches, plugs, appliance plugs and ceiling fans checked. About 39 errors in wiring, especially on how aluminum and copper wires are secured.
This is why you really should hire a licensed electrician for your work. Expensive, but well worth knowing it was done properly.

No Lathe? Build Your Own
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-886d5206-b7abe1e1539fc98b
No Lathe? Build Your Own If you need to make round things, you probably need a lathe. Can you build one as nice as one you can buy? Probably not. But can you b…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15018 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Gravitationally induced matter creation in scalar-tensor $f(R,T_{μν}T^{μν})$ gravity
In this work, we analyze the possibility of gravitationally induced matter creation in the so-called Energy-Momentum-Squared gravity (EMSG), i.e. $f(R,T_{μν}T^{μν})$ gravity, in its dynamically equivalent scalar-tensor representation. Given the explicit nonminimal coupling between matter and geometry in this theory, the energy-momentum tensor is not generally covariantly conserved, which motivates the study of cosmological scenarios by resorting to the formalism of irreversible thermodynami…

[[C in Coders at Work]]:
https://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/coders-c-plus-plus/

I think it is about time that people start speaking about trickle-up economics… it’s not enough to denounce that trickle down does not work.
https://mastodon.social/@starlily/110492020836604846

Competitive Retrieval: Going Beyond the Single Query
Haya Nachimovsky, Moshe Tennenholtz, Fiana Raiber, Oren Kurland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09253 https…

Competitive Retrieval: Going Beyond the Single Query
Previous work on the competitive retrieval setting focused on a single-query setting: document authors manipulate their documents so as to improve their future ranking for a given query. We study a competitive setting where authors opt to improve their document's ranking for multiple queries. We use game theoretic analysis to prove that equilibrium does not necessarily exist. We then empirically show that it is more difficult for authors to improve their documents' rankings for multiple queries…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04217 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Understanding Underground Incentivized Review Services
While human factors in fraud have been studied by the HCI and security communities, most research has been directed to understanding either the victims' perspectives or prevention strategies, and not on fraudsters, their motivations and operation techniques. Additionally, the focus has been on a narrow set of problems: phishing, spam and bullying. In this work, we seek to understand review fraud on e-commerce platforms through an HCI lens. Through surveys with real fraudsters (N=36 agents and N…

Planned to take today off, so of course I scratched an itch I've been having at work instead:
This is a button you could drop into any app (probably only in debug mode) to get an embedded a11y inspector. It also dumps the selected nodes to logcat.
I'm not sure if something like this already exists, but I wanted something we could drop in the #JetpackCompose demo app …

I’ve started enjoying vertical tabs in edge on my work computer.
I feel dirty. And not in a good way. Who have I become?

Computation and analysis of subdiffusion with variable exponent
Xiangcheng Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09421 https://arxiv.org/p…

Computation and analysis of subdiffusion with variable exponent
We consider the subdiffusion of variable exponent modeling subdiffusion phenomena with varying memory properties. The main difficulty is that this model could not be analytically solved and the variable-exponent Abel kernel may not be positive definite or monotonic. This work develops a tool called the generalized identity function to convert this model to more feasible formulations for mathematical and numerical analysis, based on which we prove its well-posedness and regularity. In particular…

From 2015. This was when I wasn’t acknowledging my own repressed trans desires. This was my idea btw.
“Hey, let’s dress up as fictional women for a training video for work, not at all because I’m actually a trans woman and not realising it yet…..”
#trans #EggMoment

Mike Evans 'extremely confident' Baker Mayfield will re-sign with Buccaneers, but will 'make it work' if not

https://www.cbssports…

Mike Evans 'extremely confident' Baker Mayfield will re-sign with Buccaneers, but will 'make it work' if not
The wide receiver is hopeful for another team-up

A Blob Method for Mean Field Control With Terminal Constraints
Katy Craig, Karthik Elamvazhuthi, Harlin Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10124 https://

A Blob Method for Mean Field Control With Terminal Constraints
In the present work, we develop a novel particle method for a general class of mean field control problems, with source and terminal constraints. Specific examples of the problems we consider include the dynamic formulation of the p-Wasserstein metric, optimal transport around an obstacle, and measure transport subject to acceleration controls. Unlike existing numerical approaches, our particle method is meshfree and does not require global knowledge of an underlying cost function or of the ter…

Yes Finally it's INP day! After all that hard work I have been doing to get my site sizzeling along nicely!
#seo #pagespeed
Oh.

Look at the state of this.
LARUS Ltd sitting on AFRINIC IP addresses but leasing them to a company in Hong Kong and then when they receive an abuse report for THEIR IP ADDRESSES they don't even handle it but say "contact our customer". That's not how this is supposed to work. It's not how any of this is supposed to work.
Absolute scum carpetbaggers.

@… BoL would be an easy first thought, but I really dislike its dice rolling mechanic. GURPS would be too much work for me, but I’d probably try not Numenera, but the universal Cypher System rules. They are flexible enough for quick genre changes. Fate would work well, too.

Last night I updated my post “ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/03/ada-web-site-compliance-still-not-a-thing.html#Update09
Links to the DoJ release about making ADA apply to state &a…

ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing
Photo courtesy Steve Faulkner, taken outside the CSUNATC 2022 venue after we had chicken and rice, free from the food desert of the venue. Who has two thumbs and is not a lawyer? For years I have worked with clients who refer to digital/web accessibility as ADA work. They have…

Good morning and happy Tuesday #Fediverse
Let's start off the day and discuss how we're all doing and what our plans are for the day.
It's work stuff for me, with a meeting at 12pm and 2pm as is the case every other Tuesday.
I'm also working on a product review article that is almost complete, so hoping to have that published today if possible. If not, …

“The ability to succeed in this work depends not on education or intelligence or good character, but on having a particular personality type that causes you to always be thinking about stuff, along with an accompanying personality deformation that causes you to want to share those thoughts with the world.” https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/columnists-and-their-lives-of-quiet

Reconstructing Curves from Sparse Samples on Riemannian Manifolds
Diana Marin, Filippo Maggioli, Simone Melzi, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael Wimmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09661

Reconstructing Curves from Sparse Samples on Riemannian Manifolds
Reconstructing 2D curves from sample points has long been a critical challenge in computer graphics, finding essential applications in vector graphics. The design and editing of curves on surfaces has only recently begun to receive attention, primarily relying on human assistance, and where not, limited by very strict sampling conditions. In this work, we formally improve on the state-of-the-art requirements and introduce an innovative algorithm capable of reconstructing closed curves directly …

After driving our EV (& 32 yo manual ICE car) for the past 6months, here's some unsolicited advice to auto mechanics: if you're not already actively train(ed|ing) to work on EVs & auto electronics, down tools & run - don't walk - to enroll in a course. The market for EV mechanics is burgeoning somethin' crazy & that for ICEs is contracting. You can be in the right place at the right time.

‘“The problem here is the dominant sexual script associated with heterosexual sex, which does not include sufficient clitoral stimulation or sufficient focus on women’s pleasure. Heterosexual couples can create their own sexual scripts that work for the people involved. Couples can include more clitoral stimulation in their sexual encounters (…)”’
New findings shed light on why women orgasm more often with female partners

New findings shed light on why women orgasm more often with female partners
Women experience higher orgasm rates with female partners due to increased clitoral stimulation and altered sexual expectations, which contribute to closing the orgasm gap noted in heterosexual relationships.

ROFL 🤣: OpenAI—which has scraped the internet and fed copyrighted works into its own products—has filed a copyright claim over the OpenAI logo being used on the ChatGPT subreddit
"It does not seem wise for OpenAI to start enforcing copyright claims."
https://www.4…

OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo
“It does not seem wise for OpenAI to start enforcing copyright claims,” one Redditor wrote.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06334 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

Model validation for aggregate inferences in out-of-sample prediction
Generalization to new samples is a fundamental rationale for statistical modeling. For this purpose, model validation is particularly important, but recent work in survey inference has suggested that simple aggregation of individual prediction scores does not give a good measure of the score for population aggregate estimates. In this manuscript we explain why this occurs, propose two scoring metrics designed specifically for this problem, and demonstrate their use in three different ways. We s…

When Patrick Bringley’s beloved older brother fell ill with cancer,
he found that he no longer had much appetite for his ritzy job in the events department of the New Yorker.
Life then was about hospital rooms and love and “all the very basic things” in this world;
there seemed no meaning in hanging his jacket over his desk chair every morning.
But what to do instead?
In 2008, Tom died, and all Patrick knew was that he needed the kind of work that would not r…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05473 has been replaced.
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Modeling the effects of perturbations and steepest entropy ascent on the time evolution of entanglement
This work presents an analysis of the evolution of perturbed Bell diagonal states using the equation of motion of steepest-entropy-ascent quantum thermodynamics (SEAQT), the Lindblad equation, and various measures of loss of entanglement. First, a brief derivation is presented showing that Bell diagonal states are stationary states that are not stable equilibrium states relative to the SEAQT equation of motion, highlighting the need for the development of perturbation methods to study the evolu…

Cowboys' latest comments show how they're completely oblivious on how to solve their problems https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_latest_comments_show_how_theyre_com…

iJTyper: An Iterative Type Inference Framework for Java by Integrating Constraint- and Statistically-based Methods
Zhixiang Chen, Anji Li, Neng Zhang, Jianguo Chen, Yuan Huang, Zibin Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09995

iJTyper: An Iterative Type Inference Framework for Java by Integrating Constraint- and Statistically-based Methods
Inferring the types of API elements in incomplete code snippets (e.g., those on Q&A forums) is a prepositive step required to work with the code snippets. Existing type inference methods can be mainly categorized as constraint-based or statistically-based. The former imposes higher requirements on code syntax and often suffers from low recall due to the syntactic limitation of code snippets. The latter relies on the statistical regularities learned from a training corpus and does not take full …

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Signing in Four Public Software Package Registries: Quantity, Quality, and Influencing Factors
Many software applications incorporate open-source third-party packages distributed by public package registries. Guaranteeing authorship along this supply chain is a challenge. Package maintainers can guarantee package authorship through software signing. However, it is unclear how common this practice is, and whether the resulting signatures are created properly. Prior work has provided raw data on registry signing practices, but only measured single platforms, did not consider quality, did n…

Silicon Valley isn’t just full of psychopathic swindlers. It’s full of ecocidal psychopathic swindlers hell-bent on destroying not only democracy but our habitat along with it. It is your moral duty as a human being to oppose the planet-destroying hype bubbles they keep coming up with, whether it’s proof-of-work, AI, or whatever foul bit of bullshit comes next from that libertarian den of coke-addled billionaires and their fawning enablers.

I learned this concept as a teacher: Is it fair to penalize a student for missing an assignment or an exam, for being sick, for medical or family emergencies?
Not everything needs to be "graded", and when we do grade, the student who was sick shouldn't have to do extra work to make up a missed exam. My approach was to drop the lowest scoring assignments and exam, with no invasive questions on justification for whatever is going on in their lives.

Mike Evans 'extremely confident' Baker Mayfield will re-sign with Buccaneers, but will 'make it work' if not

https://www.cbssports…

Mike Evans 'extremely confident' Baker Mayfield will re-sign with Buccaneers, but will 'make it work' if not
The wide receiver is hopeful for another team-up

The impact of anisotropic sky-sampling on the Hubble constant in numerical relativity
Hayley J. Macpherson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09659 https://…

The impact of anisotropic sky-sampling on the Hubble constant in numerical relativity
We study the impact of nearby inhomogeneities on an observer's inference of the Hubble constant. Large-scale structures induce a dependence of cosmological parameters on observer position as well as an anisotropic variance of those parameters across an observer's sky. While the former has been explored quite thoroughly, the latter has not. Incomplete sampling of an anisotropic sky could introduce a bias in our cosmological inference if we assume an isotropic expansion law. In this work, we use …

LazyDP: Co-Designing Algorithm-Software for Scalable Training of Differentially Private Recommendation Models
Juntaek Lim, Youngeun Kwon, Ranggi Hwang, Kiwan Maeng, G. Edward Suh, Minsoo Rhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08847

LazyDP: Co-Designing Algorithm-Software for Scalable Training of Differentially Private Recommendation Models
Differential privacy (DP) is widely being employed in the industry as a practical standard for privacy protection. While private training of computer vision or natural language processing applications has been studied extensively, the computational challenges of training of recommender systems (RecSys) with DP have not been explored. In this work, we first present our detailed characterization of private RecSys training using DP-SGD, root-causing its several performance bottlenecks. Specificall…

‘“The problem here is the dominant sexual script associated with heterosexual sex, which does not include sufficient clitoral stimulation or sufficient focus on women’s pleasure. Heterosexual couples can create their own sexual scripts that work for the people involved. Couples can include more clitoral stimulation in their sexual encounters (…)”’
New findings shed light on why women orgasm more often with female partners

New findings shed light on why women orgasm more often with female partners
Women experience higher orgasm rates with female partners due to increased clitoral stimulation and altered sexual expectations, which contribute to closing the orgasm gap noted in heterosexual relationships.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06334 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

Model validation for aggregate inferences in out-of-sample prediction
Generalization to new samples is a fundamental rationale for statistical modeling. For this purpose, model validation is particularly important, but recent work in survey inference has suggested that simple aggregation of individual prediction scores does not give a good measure of the score for population aggregate estimates. In this manuscript we explain why this occurs, propose two scoring metrics designed specifically for this problem, and demonstrate their use in three different ways. We s…

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“I wanted to work for a company that cared deeply about me, so I employed myself.”
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Welp, I’m glad I didn’t buy a #humane AI Pin.
“Humane AI Pin review: not even close”
https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review

Humane AI Pin review: the post-smartphone future isn’t here yet
Humane’s new device, a wearable with a projector and camera and access to AI, occasionally works really well. All too often, it doesn’t work at all — and it’s way too expensive for that.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06944 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Differentially Private Graph Learning via Sensitivity-Bounded Personalized PageRank
Personalized PageRank (PPR) is a fundamental tool in unsupervised learning of graph representations such as node ranking, labeling, and graph embedding. However, while data privacy is one of the most important recent concerns, existing PPR algorithms are not designed to protect user privacy. PPR is highly sensitive to the input graph edges: the difference of only one edge may cause a big change in the PPR vector, potentially leaking private user data. In this work, we propose an algorithm whi…

The Stack Overflow / OpenAI news does not alarm me too much. There is *lots* of bad #accessibility information there. I did a talk on it.
Twice:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2017/09/slid

Slides from A11yTOConf
Before you wade into the slides, please note that all the code / accessibility advice in these slides is wrong. They are just examples. Do not copy them. If the embed does not work, view it at SlideShare. The t-shirt I was wearing may have been more popular than my…

"Muholi is not just somebody who makes incredible images, but they are also an incredible activist, speaker and advocate," says the director of the MEP Simon Baker. "Paris needs Muholi more than Muholi needs to be in Paris." 
https://www.…

Zanele Muholi: Unflinching images that confront injustice
Zanele Muholi creates powerful visual activism about queer life in South Africa. Precious Adesina talks to Muholi, and explores an extraordinary body of work.

Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
$2.4.1 DIFFICULTIES OF HUNTING AT WORK"
I don't know what to say
"In academia, dating and romantic/sexual relationship between professors and students is controversial"
Yes. Yes it is.
"There is clearly a world-wide bias in judgmental decisions for accusing males, compared to females, in harassments. It may be because males usually ask out and show interest in females and females may take it as an offense."
Okay so has anyone explained to you the concept of power dynamics and unethical abuse of authority roles?
"A funny thing is that once, in a seminar for teaching assistants in the University of Waterloo, they told us that teaching
assistants should not date students. I asked about the case of John Nash. The professor answered me that they married
after the student graduated (which I think is not true). Then, I answered even if that is true, did they suddenly get
married without any dating? Of course, they dated before that, while she was a student! I think they themselves know
that this rule is nonfunctional because if the professor/instructor and the student are both single, they may like each
other or fall in love as they interact frequently in the school. This rule was even criticised in the American comedy show "Friends" (season 6, episode 18)."
Ok, there's a lot to unpack here, but the main bit is this: Do you understand that the sitcom "Friends" is not a good source for understanding ethics?

Commanders rookie DT Johnny Newton will undergo second foot surgery since January https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5486675/2024/05/11/commanders-johnny-newton-surgery/

Commanders rookie DT Johnny Newton will undergo second foot surgery since January
Newton did not participate in on-field work during the first two days of rookie mini-camp.

Kitten update: session IDs now available in the `request.session` objects you get in your routes.
Kitten lets you persist arbitrary data in session objects to make it easy to work with sessions but you cannot store custom objects (instances of custom classes) as Kitten’s default database is not aware of custom classes in your application. Now, keyed to the session id, you can store custom objects in your app’s own database.

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— Mahatma Gandhi
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Thus far, the Supreme Court’s rulings in both the 14th Amendment and presidential immunity case have helped to reinforce Trump’s narrative that these criminal indictments aren’t really about him, they are about his legions of MAGA followers.
In equating his problems with their problems, Trump has ample fodder
— bogus as it may be
— to once again argue that his legal troubles are not of his own doing, but rather, the work of political adversaries who have been conspiring to i…

A criminologist explains why half of America does not care about Trump's crimes
Since 2023, when Donald Trump was criminally indicted in a combined four criminal cases on 91 felony counts, I have repeatedly been asked to explain how one-half of the American public seemingly does not care about the alleged crimes committed by their former president and presumptive 2024 Republica...