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My latest weekend #update includes computer and dirt updates, a wedding, and wrongful conviction news.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/weekend-update-260/

Weekend Update 260 – Bob Mueller
Updating my Faithful Reader(s) on the computer, the pool, a wedding, and some wrongful conviction news here in Oklahoma.

Oh snap! `YARR - Yet Another RSS Reader` has a new version and I missed it in March!
https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr/releases/tag/v2.5
YARR is like Feedly or NewsBlur, except more like TinyRSS or FreshRSS - you can self-host.
UNLIKE those, you can tell yarr…

Replaced article(s) found for eess.IV. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.IV/new
[1/1]:
Dose-aware Diffusion Model for 3D PET Image Denoising: Multi-institutional Validation with Reader...

California Cops Investigate ‘Immigration Protest’ With AI-Camera System https://www.404media.co/california-cops-investigate-immigration-protest-with-ai-camera-system/

Hello!
I have a happy favour to ask.
Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give.
(She needs academic survey participants)
Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT
http…

Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

Also, my real-life friends, you can use any free RSS reader you like, I’m not promoting any specific one, to follow my Mastodon without signing up.
To download an RSS reader, just search “RSS reader” on Google Play or the Apple App Store.
Then copy and paste this "https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen.

Software help files be like
"
# <Objects>
In FancyApplication, <object>s are classified as
* Named <object>
* Unnamed <object>
*# <whizzbangs>
In FancyApplication, <whizzbang>s are classified as
...
"
Thanks for telling me that.
Now, how to connect <object>s to the turboencobombulator is, I guess, left as an exercise to the reader.

Weekend Update 260
Your regular weekend update on my life.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/weekend-update-260/

Weekend Update 260 – Bob Mueller
Updating my Faithful Reader(s) on the computer, the pool, a wedding, and some wrongful conviction news here in Oklahoma.

I hadn't really expected seeing a punch card reader and an older Pentium based PC from DEC, but here we are, at the #embroidery museum in Lustenau.
Vorarlberg had been famous for its textile industry.
Now it only has a few machines left running.

Combining this with a text to speech reader would be an interesting thing for sight-challenged folk. https://github.com/ngxson/smolvlm-realtime-webcam

Wieder keine #Gasdichtigkeitsprüfung gemacht
Mir fehlt die Zeit, sowas in der Woche zu erledigen und am Wochenende haben alle zu. Ersatzteile nicht zu bekommen.
https://www.

I was never one for noting the pagecounts of books. My measurements were usually "about one third done". Doing ebooks means that I think of a progress as percentages and length in hours.
For most of this year I read books that were over 25 hours long and am now in the three hour range.
Of course this is distorted. Reading during the day is usually quicker and if I fall asleep before turning off the e-reader (which happens a lot) the estimates get thrown off by the idle …

Wann macht VPN Sinn und wann nicht habe ich mal in dieser verlinkten Toot-Reihe aufgeführt, denn privat - sprich anonym - ist es nicht:
:mastodon: https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/chaos.social/@kubikpixel/10831104856945212…

Base pipe vs magrittr pipe: a thread by TimTeaFan: #rstats

Thread by @TimTeaFan on Thread Reader App
@TimTeaFan: I see still a lot of #RStats tweets about the base pipe vs. the {magrittr} pipe, often in favor of the former. I have to admit: I still stick to the magrittr pipe and here is...

temporarily pasting something into MS Word and the Editor pops up with this real helpful tip 📎

"I want to look at Mars missions which never happened. Over the last 75 years there have been many ideas about missions to Mars, and I want to explore some of them that didn't fly. I'm a cartographer so the focus is on maps of mission plans, not technology"
-- @…

"Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE."
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-n…

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

Dutch @… opinion editor selects letter from reader claiming that Wilders' far-right PVV has an 'enormous majority' in parliament, and that this mirrors the country.
In real life, PVV got 23.5% of the votes and almost 25% of the seats in parliament.

The need for a unifying left Alternative Economic Strategy,
#AES.
Look, here's a start we made on it last year.
https://gettingreal.org.uk/full-report/ in case you STILL hav…

Full Report | Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK
Read the full report The pdf version will open in your browser or pdf reader. Or Download the print version Complete wit

Friday Links 25-09
First post curated via Readwise Reader. I am creating some scripts to help replicate what I did with Pocket.
I enjoyed the Komoot goodbye video this week. It is lovely and a bit sad.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/05/friday-links-25-0…

Friday Links 25-09
First post curated via Readwise Reader . I am creating some scripts to help replicate what I did with Pocket.  I enjoyed the Komoot goodbye...

Thanks for the thoughtful replies. Answers to questions:
Many people asked for the context. This is for college students using what they already know about the order of arithmetic operations to start analyzing the structure of code. In the activity, they visual code structures using these kind of diagrams. The important thing here is thus not just subtraction; it’s this way of visualizing the relationships — and there already is a sight-centeric word, “visualize!” But I suspect a blind reader could also use these spatial relationships as a learning tool…if there were a good way of conveying the spatial relationships.

*has personally ordered satellite imagery to be captured and delivered voice* you know you don't need to be a nation state to get satellite imagery right? it starts at six hundred bucks. you, dear reader, can buy some

“Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/06/where-to-put-focus-when-opening-a-modal-dialog.html
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, in…

Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, including this one. This post is meant to help guide you, an intelligent and thoughtful and empathetic reader, figure out where you should set focus. The scenarios are non-exhaustive. Messages I’m artificially breaking these into…

Lest diesen Thread. Unbedingt. Und schickt euren Freunden, Bekannten und Verwandten eine Zusammenfassung. Vor allem an SPD, FDP und CxU Wählende. Ich hab da schon mal was vorbereitet.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/mastodon…

Jan's ebook reader had broken and, honestly, I'd never seen her so distraught. This meant that, for once, it was her failing to get words out of her mouth instead of me. Have a laugh and enjoy the perfection of imperfection this sunny Sunday #outtakes

Nem de propósito.
E por falar em putos que conhecem a música dos pais...
cc @…
https://rss-parrot.net/u/expresso.pt/status/…

Looks like it wouldn’t be too hard for ICE to tap the Flock cameras increasingly deployed around SF, if they aren’t already, by asking either SFPD or other PDs it shares access with to do the searches for them
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nati

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

"Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE."
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-n…

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

Lazy internet: Does anyone know of a Python (or other if it’s easy enough to configure) filtering RSS proxy? Instead of pointing my feed reader to example.com/rss, I’d point it at my server which would get that feed, filtering out things I don’t want to see.

Just read that Mozilla has decided to shut down Pocket (!?!). Its integration with Kobo e-readers is great and something I will miss. It will be difficult to find a similarly practical way to read web articles on my e-reader, other than the somewhat clunky pdf-saving cloud sync method. Any tips much welcome!

@… I'm tempted to boost, because I love Plasma.
The excessive anti-Microsoft overtones will certainly appeal to some people, however I don't think of this as a good way to promote a a system. The first reader comment under <

Spotted yet another "NIS 2 certified" title on LinkedIn. Impressive, considering NIS 2 doesn't actually have a certification.
Are training agencies just inventing fantasy diplomas so people can avoid reading the actual NIS 2 directive?
Maybe we need a "Certified NIS 2 Reader" badge, read the document once, and you're more qualified than half the certifications out there.
#certification

'Failure Imminent': When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk
https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/2112240/failure-imminent-when-llms-in-a-long-running-vending-business-simulati…

'Failure Imminent': When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk - Slashdot
Long-time Slashdot reader lunchlady55 writes: A pair of researchers investigating the ability of LLMs to coherently operate a simulated vending machine business have recorded hilariously unhinged behavior in many of the current "advanced" LLMs. The LLMs were equipped with several "tools" (code the ...

Calamus 16 Who is now reading this?
A funny little poem, omitted in later editions. On the surface it's a challenge to the reader and a chance for Whitman to establish himself as self-aware. Claiming his own flaws.
But the text drips with some latent queer meaning
as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it ;)
A secret love that you can never avow? Hello! At least it's tenderly and a long time.
This seems as good a time as any to link Whitman's Boys, a good recent piece considering Whitman as a queer man and what that means to us in current times. It's a nice overview of some queer theory and is even-handed.

Heute ist bei uns in #BadOeYnhausen das #Stadtradeln gestartet und ich habe letztes Jahr schon etwas dazu geschrieben, was sich auch in diesem Jahr nicht geändert hat:

Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
Mohan Sunkara, Akshay Kolgar Nayak, Sandeep Kalari, Yash Prakash, Sampath Jayarathna, Hae-Na Lee, Vikas Ashok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04865

Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
Online reviews have become an integral aspect of consumer decision-making on e-commerce websites, especially in the restaurant industry. Unlike sighted users who can visually skim through the reviews, perusing reviews remains challenging for blind users, who rely on screen reader assistive technology that supports predominantly one-dimensional narration of content via keyboard shortcuts. In an interview study, we uncovered numerous pain points of blind screen reader users with online restaurant…

#PennedPossibilities 683 — Can you describe a memorable interaction you’ve had with a reader about either your current or past WIP / book?
A group of children drew pictures in class after hearing an excerpt from one of my texts.
I have those saved, I was stunned. Kids, like 9–10 years old, liked something I wrote enough to actually draw images to match?
I am honoured!…

As #UKLabour flounders and talk of u-turns and leadership challenges abounds, here's a reminder that there's a ready-made lifeline:
https://gettingreal.org.uk/full-report/

Full Report | Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK
Read the full report The pdf version will open in your browser or pdf reader. Or Download the print version Complete wit

Had a meeting scheduled on Tuesday, been kicked to the next day all week. Sat down this morning expecting it at 10:30, now been moved to... 10am Saturday?
Dear reader, 10am on Saturdays is not a good time for me to do things.

#Pocket is shutting down :( My favourite “save for later” app which I especially like to use with my Kobo ebook reader.

I just published '🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-05-25'.
https://hot.fudge.org/archive/hot-fudge-sunday-for-2025-05-25/

There's some discourse on generative AI "democratizing" art.
And this is so confusing to me. I create images. And when I do, I'm trying to take something in my head, and make it real. And share that image in my head with others.
It's my image in my head. If I describe that to AI to make the image, then it is just approximate. To get it closer to my image needs a better prompt.
That's writing. Writing it its own art, and you can let the reader imagi…

So I've got a short #sciencefiction story in the latest issue of #SciFanSat, under the theme of "disaster", and I invite you to take a peek if you're into that sort of thing.
Also, I've got there a new item for my collection of weird stuff happening to the things…

Introduction to the theory of generalized locally Toeplitz sequences and its applications
Carlo Garoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02151 https://

Introduction to the theory of generalized locally Toeplitz sequences and its applications
The theory of generalized locally Toeplitz (GLT) sequences was conceived as an apparatus for computing the spectral distribution of matrices arising from the numerical discretization of differential equations (DEs). The purpose of this review is to introduce the reader to the theory of GLT sequences and to present some of its applications to the computation of the spectral distribution of DE discretization matrices. We mainly focus on the applications, whereas the theory is presented in a self-…

#Google #PixelBuds 2
Für den stark rabattierten Kauf eine gute Gelegenheit. Klingen voll und satt und sitzen - obwohl ich kein InEar-Fan bin - gut und angenehm.

Google Pixel Buds 2
Die Frau hat neulich ein Google Pixel 9a bekommen, weil wir einen Gutscheincode von Google hatten und inkl. dem Trade-In vom alten Google Pixel 4a 5G war es ein wohlfeiler Preis. Zudem gab es obendrauf noch die Google Pixel Buds …

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Smartphone-Based Food Traceability System Using NoSQL Database
Muhammad Syafrudin, Ganjar Alfian, Norma Latif Fitriyani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02033 ht…

Smartphone-Based Food Traceability System Using NoSQL Database
With growing consumer health awareness, ensuring food safety and quality throughout the supply chain is crucial, particularly for perishable goods. Contamination can occur during production, processing, or distribution, making real-time monitoring essential. This study proposes an affordable Smartphone-based food traceability system (FTS) that utilizes RFID technology and smartphone sensors. A smartphone-based RFID reader tracks products, while integrated sensors monitor temperature, humidity, …

What will the positive consequences of the antagonist's plan be, if they are successful?
#amwriting #amwritingscifi #creativewriting

#PennedPossibilities 683 — Can you describe a memorable interaction you’ve had with a reader about either your current or past WIP / book?
A group of children drew pictures in class after hearing an excerpt from one of my texts.
I have those saved, I was stunned. Kids, like 9–10 years old, liked something I wrote enough to actually draw images to match?
I am honoured!…

Personalized MR-Informed Diffusion Models for 3D PET Image Reconstruction
George Webber, Alexander Hammers, Andrew P. King, Andrew J. Reader
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03804

Personalized MR-Informed Diffusion Models for 3D PET Image Reconstruction
Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a diffusion model (without sinogram data) on high-quality, but still noisy, PET images. In this work, we propose a simple method for generating subject-specific PET images from a dataset of multi-subject PET-MR scans, synthesizing "pseudo-PET" images by transfor…

Happy Mojo Day!
Been in the habit of using a daily Discordian Tarot draw as a lens for the day. Today's is:
Past: Bureaucracy (aneristic illusion)
Present: O of Booms (whoosh!)
Future: Discord (eristic illusion)
Seems ominous.
My dead simple little tarot reader: https://…

Friday Links 25-08
Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-)

9 Jahre alt - #Skoda #Yeti beim #TÜV ohne Mängel.
Vielleicht behalte ich das Auto doch noch ein bisschen.

9 Jahre alt – Skoda Yeti ohne Mängel
Mitte 2016 wurde unser Auto zum ersten Mal zugelassen. Ein Dreivierteljahr später, habe ich es aus Filderstadt nach Bad Oeynhausen geholt. Seitdem sind wir damit knapp 60 TKM gefahren und insgesamt hat er 73 TKM auf dem Zähler. Größere Reparaturen …

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June 7: Describe some facet—hidden or overt—which can be found in each and every one of your works.
June 8: Talk about something you wrote and later removed, and why.
I have a tendency to hoard quotes, one-liners and other emotional shortcuts to use later as homages for the reader to catch.
While I very much like them, I also often feel them to be my "guilty pleasure", so they are also at the beginning of the queue when I need to cut — for example, for Mastodon it…

What will the positive consequences of the antagonist's plan be, if they are successful?
#amwriting #amwritingscifi #creativewriting

#Überholabstand mit Meterstab errechnet.
Ich muss die empfohlenen 100 cm zum rechten Rand noch besser einhalten. Dann mache ich mich zwar "breit wie ein LKW", aber meine Gesundheit ist mir schon wichtig!
…

Überholabstand mit Meterstab errechnet
Wenn ich zur Arbeit fahre habe ich eine Kamera am Lenker. Die ist nicht immer an, aber manchmal eben schon. So auch in der letzten Woche, als ich im Dörgen mit – meiner Meinung nach – zu wenig Seitenabstand überholt …

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Rund um den #Jordansprudel im #Audi!
Der Grund, warum er überhaupt so weit gekommen ist, sind die nicht wieder an Ort und Stelle verbrachten #Poller im Weg. Gerne werden die von Stadtwerken u…

#Radweg entlang der #MindenerStraße in #BadOeYnhausen teilgesperrt.
Ich kann schon verstehen, wenn man kurz vor dem