Tootfinder

"Two months ago, we decided that [AI] is finally mature enough to take center stage in rsyslog development. Since then, we’ve:
Upgraded the repository for AI agent compatibility (automated review and more)
Restructured key parts of the codebase
Built new functionality with heavy AI assistance
Developed a full base strategy for AI integration
Identified high-impact areas where AI will support log processing and observability"

🎵 And your wise men DO know how it feels
To be thick as another brick in the wall 🎵
REUTERS: A building brick made almost entirely from recycled rubble may help solve one of the construction industry’s biggest environmental challenges — managing its significant waste.
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Could these recycled bricks help build a low-carbon future? | Reuters
A building brick made almost entirely from recycled rubble could help solve one of the construction industry’s biggest environmental challenges — managing its significant waste.   Unlike traditional clay bricks, the K-BRIQ, made by Kenoteq in Edinburgh, Scotland, produces 95% fewer carbon emissions.   #brick #construction #rubble #environment #climatechange #building

Enzyme-based plastics recycling at an industrial scale could be cost-effective, analysis finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-enzyme-based-plastics-recycling-industrial.html

Fenceline (or frontline) communities are residential areas that sit next to high polluting facilities that emit pollutants like noise, light, odours, chemicals, and even traffic.
Lynn Jacobs explains that less than a kilometer from her home and across from the KahnawŠ:ke Survival (High) School are waste management facilities, including one that recycles plastic battery casings.
“In the summer, we smell plastic burning odours because the process of the recycling is, it gets shredd…

Sacrifice Zones: Life along the fenceline between the land and industry
Lynn Jacobs opens a gate to the backyard of her small homestead, taking slow strides

De ware aard van de chipsdoos van Lays - #Zwerfinator
https://zwerfinator.nl/index.php/2025/06/01/de-ware-aard-van-de-chipsdoos-van-lays/…

We have to talk about burning trash🗑️🔥
Waste incinerators / waste-to-energy plants that generate electricity and heat are an enormous and often underestimated source of CO2 🏭💨🌎. For example, in Germany, a country where waste-to-energy plants are common, their emissions are higher than those of cement.
Waste incinerator operators will often claim that half of their emissions don't count 🌿 or even that they already have net-negative emissions 🌎. I disagree with both 🧵

Just Stop Burning Trash
Waste-to-energy plants are a massive source of carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, it is not obvious what the best solution for high-emitting incinerators would be. Should incinerators be equiped with carbon capture? How much can recycling rates be improved, and what role should chemical recycling play? And could landfills be a carbon storage solution?

Adaptive recycled plastic architecture: Vacuum-Sealed Chainmail Structures Through Computational Design
Yi Xu, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Mustafa Faruki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04660

Adaptive recycled plastic architecture: Vacuum-Sealed Chainmail Structures Through Computational Design
The construction industry is a major consumer of raw materials, accounting for nearly half of global material usage annually, while generating significant waste that poses sustainability challenges. This paper explores the untapped potential of recycled plastics as a primary construction material, leveraging their lightweight, flexible, and customizable properties for advanced applications in modular chainmail systems. Through a computational workflow, the study optimizes the design, testing, a…

SiM3D: Single-instance Multiview Multimodal and Multisetup 3D Anomaly Detection Benchmark
Alex Costanzino, Pierluigi Zama Ramirez, Luigi Lella, Matteo Ragaglia, Alessandro Oliva, Giuseppe Lisanti, Luigi Di Stefano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21549

SiM3D: Single-instance Multiview Multimodal and Multisetup 3D Anomaly Detection Benchmark
We propose SiM3D, the first benchmark considering the integration of multiview and multimodal information for comprehensive 3D anomaly detection and segmentation (ADS), where the task is to produce a voxel-based Anomaly Volume. Moreover, SiM3D focuses on a scenario of high interest in manufacturing: single-instance anomaly detection, where only one object, either real or synthetic, is available for training. In this respect, SiM3D stands out as the first ADS benchmark that addresses the challen…

"This startup turns steel and aluminum waste into usable metals"
#US #USA #America #Chicargo

This start-up turns steel and aluminum waste into usable metals
Chicago-area Sun Metalon removes gunk and grime from metal slivers normally thrown away, helping to reduce emissions from aluminum and steel production.