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US and Russia Agree to Restart Military-to-Military Talks (Magan Crane/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-05/us-and-russia-agree-to-restart-military-to-military-talks
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p44#a260205p44

Fubo's CEO says NBCUniversal has been unwilling to restart carriage talks with Fubo; NBCUniversal channels have been unavailable on Fubo since November 2025 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/fubo-comcast-nbc-discussions-stall/

Now is a good time for doing crime
Eons ago, in 2012, I had a weird experience.
My iPhone suddenly shut down.
When I restarted it, I found it was totally reset—clean, like a new device.
This was the early days of iOS, so I wasn’t too concerned until I went to connect it to my computer to restore it from a backup.
But when I flipped open the lid of my laptop, it too was mid-restart.
And then, suddenly, the screen went gray. It was being remotely wiped.

ZOR filters: fast and smaller than fuse filters
Antoine Limasset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03525 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.03525 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03525
arXiv:2602.03525v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Probabilistic membership filters support fast approximate membership queries with a controlled false-positive probability $\varepsilon$ and are widely used across storage, analytics, networking, and bioinformatics \cite{chang2008bigtable,dayan2018optimalbloom,broder2004network,harris2020improved,marchet2023scalable,chikhi2025logan,hernandez2025reindeer2}. In the static setting, state-of-the-art designs such as XOR and fuse filters achieve low overhead and very fast queries, but their peeling-based construction succeeds only with high probability, which complicates deterministic builds \cite{graf2020xor,graf2022binary,ulrich2023taxor}.
We introduce \emph{ZOR filters}, a deterministic continuation of XOR/fuse filters that guarantees construction termination while preserving the same XOR-based query mechanism. ZOR replaces restart-on-failure with deterministic peeling that abandons a small fraction of keys, and restores false-positive-only semantics by storing the remainder in a compact auxiliary structure. In our experiments, the abandoned fraction drops below $1\%$ for moderate arity (e.g., $N\ge 5$), so the auxiliary handles a negligible fraction of keys. As a result, ZOR filters can achieve overhead within $1\%$ of the information-theoretic lower bound $\log_2(1/\varepsilon)$ while retaining fuse-like query performance; the additional cost is concentrated on negative queries due to the auxiliary check. Our current prototype builds several-fold slower than highly optimized fuse builders because it maintains explicit incidence information during deterministic peeling; closing this optimisation gap is an engineering target.
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Hmm. After waking up kubuntu Firefox will not load, the system monitor is not responding and restart action seem to not respond.
#ubuntu

Sable Offshore Corp. has successfully petitioned federal authorities to assume regulatory authority over its Santa Barbara County oil and gas pipelines
-- another move in the company’s attempts to restart production.
The Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration decided on Wednesday that two Santa Barbara County pipelines operated by Sable are interstate pipelines,
removing them from state authority.”
—and subsequently:

@… the reboot (18:06) – very few people realise that this is a blunt instrument.
Surely harmless in your test, however clean shutdown and restart practices should be promoted.
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Dear Apple,
You’re missing the “fuck off and never bother me again with this bullshit” option.
#apple #tahoe #liquidAss

Offenbar ist mein durchlaufendes Kiosk-iPad als Informationsterminal für Homeassistant ein Problem.
Es sammeln sich über die Zeit scheinbar offene Socket-Verbindungen an, die dann irgendwann in die Hunderte gehen.
Ich habe keine Ahnung warum.
Ich versuche das jetzt erstmal zu lindern, indem ich dem Homeassistant-Client alle 6 Stunden einen Restart-Befehl schicke, was hoffentlich die offenen Verbindungen schließt.
Falls jemand das Problem kennt - gern melden!

Trump and Putin reportedly in secret talks to restart Nord Stream under U.S. control: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/22/trump-and-putin-reportedly-in.html

California sues Trump administration over allegedly 'unlawful' pipeline restart approval years after oil spill (Brie Stimson/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-sues-trump-administration-allegedly-unlawful-pipeline-restart-approval-years-oil-spill
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p113#a260123p113

hahahahahahahaha
nope

Win11 is filled with tiny little bugs.
This piss me out more than all the big stuff like Co-pilot that I can just not use or disable.
For example:
-Ctrl-C not copying.
-File that refuse to be dragged and dropped unless I close the file manager and restart it
-File that auto-revert to their old name
after I renamed them.
And all kind of other small weirdness that just make my day more painful.

I suspect that my VS Code is completely "borken" as I cannot imagine how so many people are productive using it.
1. The selection behavior I have shared earlier continues to manifest sporadically. A restart fixes it. Sometimes.
2. I can't recall any keyboard shortcuts as they don't use any historical paradigms and they are all of the place.
3. Frequently used functionality (e.g. stage changes) has no shortcuts.
I am sure this is will be unpopular opinion.
It's been my experience so far. Very frustrating and I almost gave up a few times already.

Finally did something I've been meaning to do for a LONG time, fully disabled Defender on this HP laptop with Windows 10. Been driving me nuts, when I need to test things, and how Defender restarts automatically if you restart your laptop. The guide I found that was amazing and worked was this: https:…

computer: your computer has to restart for updates
me: uh, im in the middle of something; i have 17 things open.
computer: ok would you like to reschedule?
me: yes, tomorrow at 5:30pm
computer: sorry can't reschedule for then.
me: ok, how about tomorrow at 9am
computer: sorry can't reschedule for then.
me: so its "now" or "???". That's not really a fucking choice then is it?
CAKE OR DEATH. cake please. WELL WE'…

Love how the network stack on Windows 11—an operating system more than 30 years old and having had dozens of major releases since NT 3.1—just occasionally hoses itself so bad I can't reven restart the computer without it hanging

The #Zaporizhzhia nuclear station among the war's contested issues
The Zelenskiy-Trump talks have failed to deliver a breakthrough on the plant
Russia controls the plant, and wants to restart production
Russia and Ukraine differ over how the US may be involved

This is the sort of thing that makes me wary of tech. Not his script, all it does is install a policy.json file that does what it claims.
But installed, suddenly kiosk mode in Firefox is a black screen! Normal mode is fine. So I remove the policy file although nothing there should affect kiosk, restart and -kiosk is still a black screen!
There's likely a fix, for them who has the nous, but I'm guessing stuff like this contributes significantly to our tech landfills 😅

Fuck, no, Apple. I was forced to update to iOS 26 due to lack of security updates for 18 on devices that can run 26 (i.e., due to extortion) but you’re not infecting my Mac with Liquid Ass.
Notice the dark pattern of pestering you in hopes you will accidentally hit the “Restart” button even though you’ve specifically turned off auto updates. Microsoft-level disrespect for consent here.
(Not surprising from a company that gives golden awards to fascists.)

Dan Bongino, who stepped down as the deputy director of the FBI this month, says he will restart his podcast on February 2, streaming daily on Rumble (Reggie Ugwu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/arts/dan-bongino-fbi-podcast.html

Regret-Guided Search Control for Efficient Learning in AlphaZero
Yun-Jui Tsai, Wei-Yu Chen, Yan-Ru Ju, Yu-Hung Chang, Ti-Rong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20809 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20809 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20809
arXiv:2602.20809v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) agents achieve remarkable performance but remain far less learning-efficient than humans. While RL agents require extensive self-play games to extract useful signals, humans often need only a few games, improving rapidly by repeatedly revisiting states where mistakes occurred. This idea, known as search control, aims to restart from valuable states rather than always from the initial state. In AlphaZero, prior work Go-Exploit applies this idea by sampling past states from self-play or search trees, but it treats all states equally, regardless of their learning potential. We propose Regret-Guided Search Control (RGSC), which extends AlphaZero with a regret network that learns to identify high-regret states, where the agent's evaluation diverges most from the actual outcome. These states are collected from both self-play trajectories and MCTS nodes, stored in a prioritized regret buffer, and reused as new starting positions. Across 9x9 Go, 10x10 Othello, and 11x11 Hex, RGSC outperforms AlphaZero and Go-Exploit by an average of 77 and 89 Elo, respectively. When training on a well-trained 9x9 Go model, RGSC further improves the win rate against KataGo from 69.3% to 78.2%, while both baselines show no improvement. These results demonstrate that RGSC provides an effective mechanism for search control, improving both efficiency and robustness of AlphaZero training. Our code is available at https://rlg.iis.sinica.edu.tw/papers/rgsc.
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Well, it now came to this: I have to install an add-on in #LibreWolf (#Firefox fork) as well on my almost naked #Chromium in order to get reliable session resume after browser restart:

Email purporting to come from Netflix saying that they've been unable to
"auto-recharge your membership because you have reached your monthly spending limit. We would love to have you back. If you change your mind, simply restart your membership and update your payment details ...blah blah"
Very clever of them since I've never had, nor ever will have, a netflix account.
Email comes from a Polish domain, apparently.

Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, burned the books and had scholars killed as he tightened his grip on the former warring kingdoms and set out to restart history with himself as the prime creator. Thousands of years later, Saloth Sâr, a Cambodian schoolteacher, renamed himself Pol Pot and declared a new "Year Zero" as he began murdering everyone with an education (or even wearing eyeglasses). Destroying the past isn't just a literary device from Orwell. It's how t…

Hahaha, of course I did a server restart after I posted this that is taking forever to finish… 🤪

A return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy
-- but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster,
residents’ fears about tsunamis, earthquakes and evacuation plans remain
Activity around the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is reaching its peak:
workers remove earth to expand the width of a main road,
while lorries arrive at its heavily guarded entrance.
When all seven of its reactors are working, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa generates 8.2 gigawatt…

hmmm... unclear but youtube started dropping frames again. Seems like the nvidia driver changes from 590 back to 570? I changed it back to 590 and I think it works better. small chance it's better because a computer restart?
I've restarted my #ubuntu more then I ever restarted windows.

The #homelab is noodling all our >5000 documents for the initial #paperless import. Kinda stupid that paperless bluntly requeues everything *in addition again* when you restart it (e.g. to fine tune import settings).

UK opposes French and Italian push to restart talks with Kremlin: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/uk-opposes-french-and-italian.html

Ran into a weird issue with macOS and iTerm 2 while experimenting with #talos over the weekend.
Short version: I had to quit iTerm, reset the local network security permission for it and restart it before I could run talosctl from my a session in iTerm. Maddeningly it was working from a session in Terminal.app
The long version is at #homelab #iterm2

California sues the Trump administration over plans to restart oil pipelines along the coast (Sophie Austin/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/california-oil-pipelines-coast-sable-trump-lawsuit-cbf79cac5dcdd7d2a720281246e52b09
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p114#a260123p114

Today in #iOS26: playing a playlist to my sound bar via AirPlay, and after each song ends the next one starts playing silently, even though volume is up et cetera. If I restart the new song, then it plays without any other issues, until the next song.

❌🟢❌ I solved the #sumplete Daily 5x5 #1058 in 01:51.69
sumplete.com/daily
I made an error that did not reveal itself until late in my first pass and had to restart.
#WordPuzzle #MathPuzzle

Retirement isn't an end; it's a RESTART. At 55 , you wield unmatched wisdom and drive that can fuel new adventures. The time to chase those old dreams? It’s NOW! 💪🌟
Which past aspiration are you ready to pursue again? Let's discuss in the comments—thriving financially and physically enriches life's journey!

OK, 30 Tage ging's gut. Ich hab jetzt die Kühlkörper drauf und auch schon ein 2025.12. update eingespielt. Dann war heute nacht die Datenbank weg. Ohne Restart / Update oder irgendwas anderes sichtbares gibt es nun keinerlei Daten mehr vor ca. 04:20 Uhr heute Nacht.
Kein irgendwie auffälliges Ereignis in den Logs, noch massenhaft Speicher frei, sonst alles normal.
Die Maschinen sollen mir helfen nicht andersrum.
@… @… https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei/115700256649777359

Home assistant is too unreliable. I run it on the Raspberry Pi4B with an external HDD for storage and every now and then it just stops responding or does not boot after an update or does not update or ... Sometimes a restart helps, sometimes I need to reinstall and get everything from the backup. Now today I ran into the "missing shutdown button":
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/shutdown-option-removed/715359/15 Such a diva. I'm done with home assistant for now.
https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei/114523359245193309
P.S. Switching back to RetroPie on that machine.