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Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JENNA: She's right, Blake. He's led a privileged life. He's got money.
BLAKE: He's also been on the move for a long time.
JENNA: But even so, a man with his skills can always earn it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/170 B…

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Self Hosting is not the answer.
"I realized how privileged I am to have the skills required for digital sovereignty. I realized how unattainable, unsustainable, and unrealistic self-hosting is as a mass solution to the problems we face. I realized that self-reliance isn't freedom — it's the luxury of retreating from a system that others can't escape."

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
Hey friends 👋, A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers. Thankfully, I still have access to my library because I saw this video by Jared Henderson warning of the change and downloaded all

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JENNA: She's right, Blake. He's led a privileged life. He's got money.
BLAKE: He's also been on the move for a long time.
JENNA: But even so, a man with his skills can always earn it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/170 B…

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«erases the history&work of the people who quietly labored to create better digital services for the public; in their place, it proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country. And we find that new definition in the way the site’s constructed: it is digital design intended for the privileged few, one that actively excludes people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”»
Great piece by @… on the notional design studio
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

Microsoft issued a blog post today on a new hellacious ransomware attack by Storm-0501 that hops from on-prem assets to the cloud and then deletes everything it can, including backups, while encrypting everything else.
Thanks to @… DiGrippo for sharing her thoughts with me on this brutal new attack chain.

Storm-0501 debuts a brutal hybrid ransomware attack chain
Storm-0501 is hijacking privileged accounts, deleting backups, and encrypting cloud data in a new hybrid ransomware campaign. Microsoft urges CISOs to enforce least privilege, drill ransomware playbooks, and reassess the risks of keeping legacy on-prem assets.

Driving Style Recognition Like an Expert Using Semantic Privileged Information from Large Language Models
Zhaokun Chen, Chaopeng Zhang, Xiaohan Li, Wenshuo Wang, Gentiane Venture, Junqiang Xi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13881

Driving Style Recognition Like an Expert Using Semantic Privileged Information from Large Language Models
Existing driving style recognition systems largely depend on low-level sensor-derived features for training, neglecting the rich semantic reasoning capability inherent to human experts. This discrepancy results in a fundamental misalignment between algorithmic classifications and expert judgments. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel framework that integrates Semantic Privileged Information (SPI) derived from large language models (LLMs) to align recognition outcomes with human-interpretable …

Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI
Siyuan Song, Harvey Lederman, Jennifer Hu, Kyle Mahowald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14802 https://ar…

Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI
Whether AI models can introspect is an increasingly important practical question. But there is no consensus on how introspection is to be defined. Beginning from a recently proposed ''lightweight'' definition, we argue instead for a thicker one. According to our proposal, introspection in AI is any process which yields information about internal states through a process more reliable than one with equal or lower computational cost available to a third party. Using experiments where LLMs reason …

As I understand the process, artists create a facsimile recording, an image of the sound, and a publisher is then authorized to replicate and distribute that image so others can get a sense of the original sound.
So just how is Spotify uniquely privileged different from Tin Pan Alley Sheet Music Publishers?
Don’t regulate us like radio, music streamer Spotify tells CRTC | #thecanadianpressnews
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/entertainment/don-t-regulate-us-like-radio-music-streamer-spotify-tells-crtc/article_e32c4537-6afc-5493-9fa2-ee0d8cc399b5.html

How often do you stop to consider how much harm has come from the absurd capitalist notion of "everyone must work for living" [does not apply to the rich], and its sister notion "everyone must work full hours"?
How many harmful technologies couldn't be phased out because it meant a lot of people losing their only source of income? How many destructive industries have been proliferating simply because closing them down would mean a lot of people without jobs? How much further are we going to push for the absurd notion of infinite growth?
And of course it only applies to the quasi-privileged groups. Nobody cares when lots of "low-tech" people are laid off and told to find a new job, because techbros need their new "high-tech" (read: more destructive to the planet) ideas to sell.
#AntiCapitalism #ClimateCrisis

This week, I was privileged to speak at #DevOpsDay Kansas City. The event was co-located with and part of #KCDC. It was my first edition for both. As I’m returning to engineering, the number of conferences I’ll attend in the near future will probably be very low, if not zero. Hence, I wanted to revive the …

❝I have noticed that we people privileged by supremacy have a tendency to take this same stance toward newly aware people, a stance which is not ours to assume. We seem to feel that it is our business to meet people who are in the same place that we were just a few short years or decades ago, and meet their shock and surprise and anger and dismay with a skepticism and an impatience we haven't earned.
We say things like "are you surprised?"
We say things like "why does this shock you?"
We say "oh so you're only angry now?"
We say things like "where have you been?"
…
Instead of asking “are you surprised?” say “I was surprised once, too; here's what I know.” Instead of “what took you so long?” say “I just got here recently; here's what I've learned.”❞ https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/114847074342312772

BACFuzz: Exposing the Silence on Broken Access Control Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
I Putu Arya Dharmaadi, Mohannad Alhanahnah, Van-Thuan Pham, Fadi Mohsen, Fatih Turkmen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15984

BACFuzz: Exposing the Silence on Broken Access Control Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
Broken Access Control (BAC) remains one of the most critical and widespread vulnerabilities in web applications, allowing attackers to access unauthorized resources or perform privileged actions. Despite its severity, BAC is underexplored in automated testing due to key challenges: the lack of reliable oracles and the difficulty of generating semantically valid attack requests. We introduce BACFuzz, the first gray-box fuzzing framework specifically designed to uncover BAC vulnerabilities, inclu…

An early morning alone on the banks of the (still young) Isar river some weeks ago... Really more "flow" rather than #WaterfallWednesday, but I just absolutely cherish places and moments like this & feeling so privileged being able to experience these after decades of living in large cities... (each time also a reminder how much we stand to lose...)

"Come to mind the names of violent battles: DR-DOS, Taligent, AmigaOS, Newton OS, Windows for Pen Computing, Copland, Vino, NeXTSTEP, Novell NetWare, JavaOS, BeOS, DoJ vs Microsoft, Rhapsody, POSIX, Linux is communism, Linux is a cancer, Samizdat, Windows Vista, SCO, Symbian, Solaris, OpenSolaris, systemd, Windows Phone, MeeGo, Tizen, Firefox OS, Sailfish OS. Countless mythical man-month hours were lost. Millions of lines of code were fired."

By-the-way, it is clear that we are experiencing the end of Democracy and rise of Dictatorship in the US.
We have long observed the rise of large corporations as a class of privileged nobility.
And now we are watching the onset of governance by artificial "intelligence".
Perhaps we will resume democracy, but unless we change our ground rules - such as our Constitution - the power of corporations and, now, AI's will remain a serious problem.
So I will men…

I decided that kernel module to flash an LED on disk activity had no business being a kernel module now since it's not pulling privileged data from inside the kernel to do its thing. It's a userspace binary that does the exact same thing (polling /proc/diskstats) now. It should work on any machine that has an LED controllable via /sys/class/led/ (e.g. power, caps lock, whatever)

Common ownership? Never, so long as society clings to economic monopolies and the machinery of state, true freedom for all remains impossible!
As Rocker argued, only the abolition of all monopolies and the creation of a federation of free communities, where the land and means of production belong to everyone, not privileged minorities, can end exploitation and allow genuine liberty to flourish.
Until then, "common ownership" is just a slogan, not a living reality.

Faced with the growing risk that #LightPollution represents for the development of astronomy in Chile, international observatories with a presence in the country have formed a joint organization dedicated to protecting the dark skies of northern Chile: https://giantmagellan.org/2025/06/03/dark-skies-council-international-astronomical-observatories-join-forces-to-protect-chiles-skies/ - the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), the Giant Magellan Telescope, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), signed an agreement to create the Dark Skies Council; through this alliance, the institutions will work in a coordinated manner to protect Chile’s privileged skies.

The Geometry of Motion, Vol. I: Mechanics as Geometries
Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12810 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12810

The Geometry of Motion, Vol. I: Mechanics as Geometries
This work presents a group-theoretic interpretation of the historical evolution of mechanics, proposing that each fundamental theory of motion corresponds to a distinct geometry in the sense of Felix Klein. The character of each geometry is uniquely determined by its Inertia Group-the group of spacetime transformations that preserves its privileged class of inertial motions. We trace the three major epistemological ruptures in the history of mechanics by translating foundational physical princi…

X-Nav: Learning End-to-End Cross-Embodiment Navigation for Mobile Robots
Haitong Wang, Aaron Hao Tan, Angus Fung, Goldie Nejat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14731

X-Nav: Learning End-to-End Cross-Embodiment Navigation for Mobile Robots
Existing navigation methods are primarily designed for specific robot embodiments, limiting their generalizability across diverse robot platforms. In this paper, we introduce X-Nav, a novel framework for end-to-end cross-embodiment navigation where a single unified policy can be deployed across various embodiments for both wheeled and quadrupedal robots. X-Nav consists of two learning stages: 1) multiple expert policies are trained using deep reinforcement learning with privileged observations …

Detecting Hardware Trojans in Microprocessors via Hardware Error Correction Code-based Modules
Alessandro Palumbo, Ruben Salvador
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15417

Detecting Hardware Trojans in Microprocessors via Hardware Error Correction Code-based Modules
Software-exploitable Hardware Trojans (HTs) enable attackers to execute unauthorized software or gain illicit access to privileged operations. This manuscript introduces a hardware-based methodology for detecting runtime HT activations using Error Correction Codes (ECCs) on a RISC-V microprocessor. Specifically, it focuses on HTs that inject malicious instructions, disrupting the normal execution flow by triggering unauthorized programs. To counter this threat, the manuscript introduces a Hardw…

Measuring the initial mass of 44Ti in SN 1987A through the 44Sc emission line
Roberta Giuffrida, Marco Miceli, Emanuele Greco, Salvatore Orlando, Masaomi Ono, Vincenzo Sapienza, Fabrizio Bocchino, Oleh Petruk, Barbara Olmi, Shigehiro Nagataki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06832

Measuring the initial mass of 44Ti in SN 1987A through the 44Sc emission line
Context. Deriving the mass and large-scale asymmetries of radioactive isotopes offers valuable insights into the complex phases of a supernova explosion. Important examples are $^{56}$Ni, with its decay products $^{56}$Co and $^{56}$Fe, and $^{44}$Ti, which are studied through their X-rays emission lines and provide a powerful diagnostic tool to probe the explosive nucleosynthesis processes in the inner layers of the exploding star. Aims. In this framework, SN 1987A provides a privileged labora…

Because it is inevitable that they are going to ram Wayland down our throats whether we want it or not, I have spent the evening working on some glue to launch XScreenSavers after an idle period. (Not locking, just demos.)
XScreenSaver accepts -activate and -deactivate commands, so I'm just watching for idle and running those commands in response. The idle logic works well (but requires privileged access to /dev/input/event* devices).
What has cost me most of the evening is p…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.RO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/new
[1/3]:
- Learn to Teach: Sample-Efficient Privileged Learning for Humanoid Locomotion over Diverse Terrains
Feiyang Wu, Xavier Nal, Jaehwi Jang, Wei Zhu, Zhaoyuan Gu, Anqi Wu, Ye Zhao