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Apologies that https://fpr-calc.ucl.ac.uk/ is unavailable at the mo. It's waiting for DNS update to spread following a redirect.
Meanwhile you can run the false positive risk calculator at

So.... anyone off the top of your head know the feasibility of migrating a Mastodon instance to a new domain name?
Is it generally better etiquette to run the 3-month decom rule and spin up a new clean instance, or do a DNS redirect?
#MastoAdmin

📅 Hurra! 2 Workshops im #VHS #Traunstein Programm!
https://mro.name/vhs
Im Winter biete ich fü…

SF folks: please call your supervisor and ask them not to redirect permanent affordable housing funds to temporary shelter
it’s likely illegal and it’s nonsense: the shelters would free up if people could exit to permanent housing!
https://dsasf.org/ocoh/

San Francisco is About to Defund Solutions to Homelessness
After a late-night session on June 26, the Budget & Appropriations Committee of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is moving forward with a set of proposed resolutions regarding the budget. T…

Democrats have been completely unable to mount an opposition,
but Vermont's Independent Senator Bernie Sanders is drawing record crowds with his
"Fighting Oligarchy Tour."
Six months into Trump's second term, his quest to remake America rolls along, highlighted by the passage last week of his sweeping domestic policy bill
- despite polls showing it's unpopular with most Americans.

I'm happy to announce we (Bosch eBike) just released the EU Data Act Portal... and we nailed it.
If you have any Bosch eBike, you are more than welcome to redirect your data that your bike produces to your own homelab.
As long as you're an EU customer.
https://portal.bosch-ebike.com/data-act

Also have “developers” CALLING me now wanting to do websites for my domains. I haven’t added any domains recently, and all of them redirect to a website, except for my mail server, which I added 15 years ago. Are things that bad in the IT job market?

Do you mysteriously not get emails - not even in your spam folder? If you're on a Microsoft system, this link might let you see emails invisibly held in quarantine: https://security.microsoft.com/quarantine?viewid=Email

#MastodonPoll: best response to "Iran can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon"? (pick one)
1. "That's why we should have stuck with the JCPOA, which Obama negotiated and Trump blew up. Bombing Iran makes them more likely to seek a nuclear weapon." (redirect)
2. "Actually, they can and should be allowed and even encouraged to have a nuclear weapon." (contradict)
3. "Who are we to allow or disallow Iran from seeking a nuclear weapon?" (disclaim responsibility)
4. "Iran wouldn't have been able to complete a nuclear weapon anyways." (argue mootness)
5. "Do you remember nothing from the run-up to the Iraq War?" (appeal to history)
Redirect to JCPOA
Contradict
Disclaim responsibility
Argue mootness
Appeal to history (Iraq)

It happened: the Trump regime just deleted NOAA's climate information site climate.gov, which was a great global resource.
https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/114738627171856942

Zack Labe (@ZLabe@fediscience.org)
Attached: 1 image The new redirect when you search ➡️ https://climate.gov/ Yikes... ☹️

A RIS-Enabled Computational Radar Coincidence Imaging
Kavian Zirak, Mohammadreza F. Imani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07285 https://ar…

A RIS-Enabled Computational Radar Coincidence Imaging
This paper introduces an innovative imaging method using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) by combining radar coincidence imaging (RCI) and computational imaging techniques. In the proposed framework, RISs simultaneously redirect beams toward a desired region of interest (ROI). The interference of these beams forms spatially diverse speckle patterns that carry information about the entire ROI. As a result, this method can take advantage of the benefits of both random patterns and spotl…

Amazon rarely publicly discusses take down or incident response actions, which I'd guess makes this noteworthy:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-disrupts-watering-hole-campaign-by-russias-apt29/

"It’s the same playbook Trump has used throughout his thugocracy: pressuring the Federal Reserve, gutting the EPA, extorting universities, muzzling the CDC and NIH, and suing NBC, CBS, and the Wall Street Journal. "

Book Review “The End” by Joel Wainwright

Performance analysis of common browser extensions for cryptojacking detection
Dmitry Tanana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02083 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.020…

Performance analysis of common browser extensions for cryptojacking detection
This paper considers five extensions for Chromium-based browsers in order to determine how effective can browser-based defenses against cryptojacking available to regular users be. We've examined most popular extensions - MinerBlock, AdGuard AdBlocker, Easy Redirect && Prevent Cryptojacking, CoinEater and Miners Shield, which claim to be designed specifically to identify and stop illegal cryptocurrency mining. An empirically confirmed dataset of 373 distinct cryptojacking-infected websites whic…

I tried using top LLMs for research and it was disastrous. o3 result looked appealing and did not make up studies titles, but the info allegedly extracted from them was completely hallucinated. Gemini 2.5 pro, while less bad, constantly made up a study title. Claude Opus 4 did not try to answer and just redirect me to PubMed.

#Show: Personal video #unoffice hours #booking system.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from reallocating $4 billion meant to help communities protect against natural disasters.
U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns in Boston granted a preliminary injunction sought by 20 Democrat-led states while their lawsuit over the funding moves ahead.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said in a statement that she would continue fighting to make sure “communities can adequately prepare for natural disasters

Judge blocks reallocation of billions meant for disaster mitigation
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from reallocating more than $4 billion meant to help communities protect against natural disasters. U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction sought by 20 Democrat-led states while their lawsuit over the funding moves ahead. The states argue the Federal Emergency Management Agency lacks the authority to end the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program and redirect more than $4 billion …

Learning to Rank with Variable Result Presentation Lengths
Norman Knyazev, Harrie Oosterhuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23319 https://

Learning to Rank with Variable Result Presentation Lengths
Learning to Rank (LTR) methods generally assume that each document in a top-K ranking is presented in an equal format. However, previous work has shown that users' perceptions of relevance can be changed by varying presentations, i.e., allocating more vertical space to some documents to provide additional textual or image information. Furthermore, presentation length can also redirect attention, as users are more likely to notice longer presentations when scrolling through results. Deciding on …

Novel 1-bit Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface
Sajedeh Keshmiri, Suren Jayasuriya, Mohammadreza F. Imani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04675 https://…

Novel 1-bit Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface
This paper proposes a novel 1-bit hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surface (HRIS) designed to sense the incident signal's angle of arrival (AoA) and redirect it toward desired directions. This device consists of independently tunable resonant patch elements loaded with PIN diodes. To introduce sensing capabilities, a portion of the signal incident on each element is coupled to a parallel plate waveguide (PPWG) through small rectangular slots. Two coaxial connectors are then used to collect the…

@… I thought you might like to give a shout out to http://betterdisplay.pro
Not sure if you've ever mentioned it on @…

My false positive risk calculator fpr-calc.ucl.ac.uk is temporarily off-line. Until a new redirect takes effect you can get it at https://shiny.ieis.tue.nl/fpr_calc/
Latest news about it is at

Federal Reserve Governor
Lisa Cook's lawyer
has filed a lawsuit against Trump
following his unprecedented attempt to fire her on Monday.
Many experts fear that the president's latest action could spell the end of the Fed's independence.