@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-08 22:11:28
NFL hit with bizarre postseason quirk at Super Bowl LX that the league hasn't seen in 23 years
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-bizarre-postseason-quirk-super-bowl-2026/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-03-10 19:09:19
I’ve just had occasion to use Svelte / SvelteKit on a web project, and…
…it’s quite good. The core features are well chosen, and they work. The learning curve pays dividends. The resulting code is reasonably pleasant to read. As often as not, the surprises have sensible decisions behind them. It feels like it •is• the thing that React is •trying to be•.
There are gaps and quirks and barriers — it is a tool, after all — but if you’re writing a highly interactive SPA-style site, it gets the Paul Seal of Approval.
@arXiv_csDS_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-02-09 07:46:50
Towards Efficient Data Structures for Approximate Search with Range Queries
Ladan Kian, Dariusz R. Kowalski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06860 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06860 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06860
arXiv:2602.06860v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Range queries are simple and popular types of queries used in data retrieval. However, extracting exact and complete information using range queries is costly. As a remedy, some previous work proposed a faster principle, {\em approximate} search with range queries, also called single range cover (SRC) search. It can, however, produce some false positives. In this work we introduce a new SRC search structure, a $c$-DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph), which provably decreases the average number of false positives by logarithmic factor while keeping asymptotically same time and memory complexities as a classic tree structure. A $c$-DAG is a tunable augmentation of the 1D-Tree with denser overlapping branches ($c \geq 3$ children per node). We perform a competitive analysis of a $c$-DAG with respect to 1D-Tree and derive an additive constant time overhead and a multiplicative logarithmic improvement of the false positives ratio, on average. We also provide a generic framework to extend our results to empirical distributions of queries, and demonstrate its effectiveness for Gowalla dataset. Finally, we quantify and discuss security and privacy aspects of SRC search on $c$-DAG vs 1D-Tree, mainly mitigation of structural leakage, which makes $c$-DAG a good data structure candidate for deployment in privacy-preserving systems (e.g., searchable encryption) and multimedia retrieval.
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@jtk@infosec.exchange2026-03-09 18:17:09
IP4 prefixes for.ir TLD name servers are being announced. TCP/UDP over IP4 queries are getting responses from most of those name servers.
There are inconsistencies between what is in the root and now in ir. The root zone has IP6 addresses for each .ir name server, but the .ir zone currently does not. c.nic.ir in the root has glue for a name server in NL that is still responding authoritatively on both A and AAAA addresses, but it is surely out of sync.
Oddly, the ir zone has an…
@jevinskie@mastodon.social2026-02-10 22:06:30
Does anyone have a favorite or quirky application of BDDs/ZDDs (Binary/Zero-suppressed Decision Diagrams) that they’d like to share?
I’m tinkering with them to look into novel instruction decoding approaches (including software LUT cascades). I need a better decomposition with fewer support variables tho… =\
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-02-09 12:42:04
from my link log —
AEQuery: Apple Events command line query tool without AppleScript.
https://markalldritt.com/?p=1368
saved 2026-02-08 https://dotat.a…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-10 10:07:28
Los colaboracionistas de Donald Trump
https://www.eldiario.es/blog/el-boletin-del-director/colaboracionistas-donald-trump_132_12897703.html
@esoriano@social.linux.pizza2026-01-09 18:30:14
Se han convocado dos plazas de Profesor Ayudante Doctor de Ingeniería Telemštica en el Departamento Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones y Sistemas Telemšticos y Computación de la Escuela de Ingeniería de Fuenlabrada de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
Si quieres trabajar con nosotros investigando e impartiendo docencia de redes, sistemas distribuidos, programación, robótica, software de sistemas, etc. aplica a las plazas Y158/DL011892/C61 y Y158/DL011893/C61:
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org2026-03-09 14:25:24
Seven fabulous forgotten superfoods
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/mar/09/peas-are-criminally-overlooked-seven-fabulous-forgotten-superfoods
peas, blackcurrants, emmer, quark...
"...it’s much m…
@jtk@infosec.exchange2026-01-09 22:54:23
There are four .ir TLD nameservers, three of which are located behind IRNIC and have been generally unavailable outside of Iran (not sure about in-country).
One auth NS (c.nic.ir.) is operating behind #AS48011 outside of Iran and is responding to queries.
However, from what I can see from the SOA RRs for the zone captured by passive DNS, c.nic.ir does not currently appear to be in s…