Tootfinder

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#OpenRC […] has been in a state of bureaucratic decay for a decade now, having all been hoarded by a random corporate contractor about as responsive to the outside universe as OpenOffice (while taking up as much space; they're the entire reason for the farcical metadata/AUTHORS file in the main package repo).
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#Gentoo copyright policy (AKA #GLEP76) has been a long time in the making. More specifically, as you can guess from the author list, it has been a long time in fruitless debate, followed by a short period of creative activity. In its original form, it has been unanimously approved both by the Council and the Trustees in September 2018.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/653118
Not a month later, once we've actually started requiring signoffs per the new policy, one of the Council members requested a "transitional period", to give their company's legal team more time to approve it. Like, they've actively influenced the policy, they've actually voted for approving it, but they didn't mean for it to actually apply at the time — and they've never bothered telling anyone about the problem earlier. Fortunately, they've managed to get a quick approval and started using it.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/667602
As a side effect of using it, attribution lines to said company started popping up in random ebuilds that their employees touched (malicious compliance or just corporate bullshit?). This heralded a maintenance nightmare. Two months later, metadata/AUTHORS was proposed as a compromise to stop that.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/672962
All these years later, I'm thinking that we had a simpler solution to all these, and many later problems, at our disposal back then…

Hmm. Why do human fingerprints and the patterns on this polyrhachis decora ant face look similar? I can't think of any reason...yet, but I'll keep thinking about it for a while.
Maybe they're more like a Maori face tattoo. So friends and enemies can recognize...maybe not.
Maybe to break the air fluid tension in front of them as they run... No, seems unlikely.
Maybe because I enjoy it! Yeah, that's the ticket!
Now I can get some work done.

Introducing Systems Thinking as a Framework for Teaching and Assessing Threat Modeling Competency
Siddhant S. Joshi, Preeti Mukherjee, Kirsten A. Davis, James C. Davis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16632

Introducing Systems Thinking as a Framework for Teaching and Assessing Threat Modeling Competency
Computing systems face diverse and substantial cybersecurity threats. To mitigate these cybersecurity threats, software engineers need to be competent in the skill of threat modeling. In industry and academia, there are many frameworks for teaching threat modeling, but our analysis of these frameworks suggests that (1) these approaches tend to be focused on component-level analysis rather than educating students to reason holistically about a system's cybersecurity, and (2) there is no rubric f…

Studies on $R_K$ with Large Dilepton Invariant-Mass, Scalable Pythonic Fitting, and Online Event Interpretation with GNNs at LHCb
Jonas Eschle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12622

Studies on $R_K$ with Large Dilepton Invariant-Mass, Scalable Pythonic Fitting, and Online Event Interpretation with GNNs at LHCb
The Standard Model of particle physics is well established, yet recently showed tensions with experimental observations. A large part of this thesis is dedicated to the first measurement of the ratio of branching fractions of the decays $B^+ \rightarrow K^+ μ^+ μ^-$ and $B^+ \rightarrow K^+ e^+ e^-$ , referred to as $R_K$ , in the high dilepton invariant-mass region. The presented analysis uses the full dataset of proton-proton collisions collected by the LHCb experiment in the years 2011-201…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11645 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

On the possibility of mixed axion/neutralino dark matter in specific SUSY DFSZ axion models
We introduce four supersymmetric (SUSY) axion models in which the strong CP problem and the $μ$ problem are solved with the help of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism and the Kim-Nilles mechanism, respectively. The axion physics enriches the SUSY model by introducing axion as a dark matter candidate and, therefore, the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) could just be a part of the total dark matter. For this reason, axion relieves the tensions between SUSY models and numerous experimental measurem…