Tootfinder

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is now a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program-Root, thus becoming a central point of contact within the CVE program for national/EU authorities, EU CSIRTs network members, and cooperative partners falling under ENISA’s mandate.
htt…

How Cowboys fans should root in Eagles-Commanders game for longshot NFL playoff chances https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/how-cowboys-fans-should-root-eagles-commander…

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban Gender Affirming Care,
they said trans people are
"at the root of the evils we face"
and are
"a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
-- Alejendro Caraballo

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

root-beer colored wax

Thanks digital ocean for the root spam.
Their agent process hourly update cron has started spamming to stdout over night. Ouch.

LibrePods: "Volle" AirPods-Unterstützung für Android braucht Root
Auf GitHub ist nun das LibrePods-Projekt zu finden. Sein Macher verspricht exakten Support von Apples AirPods-Features – mit einem Haken.

I know Whatsapp is the root of all evil etc, but the sleep clinic uses it and it's just so enabling. So far, via their WA account, I've had really fast responses to queries which has resulted in a referral for CBT for sleep issues and an appointment next week to have a new #cpap mask fitted. It would be lovely if it didn't have to be via Whatsapp but I'm really impressed with the effe…

Just a reminder that #Putin in his yearly petition-the-tsar-bash said that there will be no peace in #Ukraine until the "root causes" are adressed. We all know that the root cause is that Putin can not abide an independent

Resilient technologies aren’t retro—they’re ROOT: Robust, Open, Ongoing, Time-tested. In RDM, text-first small, composable tools beat opaque stacks. Emacs/Org(-babel) for literate workflows & provenance; Makefiles declare rebuilds; CLI atoms—curl, sed, awk, grep, diff, tar, rsync, cron, SQLite—keep steps inspectable, portable, rebuildable. DOI: https://

The Root Cause Fallacy: Hidden Causes
https://read.perspectiveship.com/p/the-root-cause-fallacy

Sequoia PGP exemplifies everything that's wrong about #RustLang (don't mean this against Sequoia). It features a bunch of different CLIs, which is a reasonable design.
If Sequoia were written in C, these CLIs would probably be using some shared library. If Sequoia were written in Python, they would probably use a shared Python package. However, it's written in Rust, so every CLI is a huge binary with its own copy of subset of shared Sequoia code, built separately:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12M 10-08 06:36 /usr/bin/gpg-sq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4,7M 10-08 06:36 /usr/bin/gpgv-sq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21M 10-08 08:38 /usr/bin/sq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6,9M 10-08 08:38 /usr/bin/sqop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3,1M 10-08 08:32 /usr/bin/sqv

Node.js devs, so picture this: you run `npm install` and you get a bunch of packages with audit errors.
The only thing I want to know at that point is what’s the root package that these dependencies belong to? (Running npm audit fix is a last resort as I don’t like it fiddling around with the dependencies of nested packages.)
It’s also not a straightforward thing to do, but it’s nothing jq and a bit of piping can’t fix:
```bash
npm audit --json | jq -r '.vulnerabil…

Have you noticed that when the blame #DNS meme starts flying the root is perfectly operational, there is rarely a mention of the big registry operators, BIND, Unbound, Knot, and PowerDNS are absent the conversation, and many who can craft a reasonable dig query are getting responses from local and public resolvers to debug?
Even with all the misconfiguration, added complexity on top of it, a…

2025 was a wild ride for me. It was absolutely amazing & I’m not sure I’ll be able to top my non-YT (sorry 🙈) output but I was also permanently stressed out as fuck.
So now, after giving one of my most important speeches for some of the most important people in my life, I’m collapsing to human goo.

New project post: AnotterKiosk
AnotterKiosk is another full-page web-browser OS for Pi's and other PCs, displays a webpage in full screen 24/7.
It has support for multi-touch input, a watchdog/heartbeat feature, local webserver, fully read-only root FS (won't kill SD cards, ever!), manual EDID overrides, configurable caching, reverse SSH tunnel support...
Can be used for signs, conference info screens, dashboards, home automation, etc.

ZFS encrypted root on Ubuntu 25.10, installed from a fresh USB key works fine following the instructions at
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting Started/Ubuntu/Ubuntu 22.04 Root on ZFS.html
It's a …

It's not a real vTuber unless it's a root vegetable in a hypervisor. Otherwise it's just a sparkling YouTuber.

Root Cause Analysis of Outliers in Unknown Cyclic Graphs
Daniela Schkoda, Dominik Janzing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06995 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06995…

Root Cause Analysis of Outliers in Unknown Cyclic Graphs
We study the propagation of outliers in cyclic causal graphs with linear structural equations, tracing them back to one or several "root cause" nodes. We show that it is possible to identify a short list of potential root causes provided that the perturbation is sufficiently strong and propagates according to the same structural equations as in the normal mode. This shortlist consists of the true root causes together with those of its parents lying on a cycle with the root cause. Notably, our m…

#ListeningClub
It’s just an itch beneath the skin
I can’t get it out or seal it in
I can't dislodge the need to scratch it
Screaming from its root
It’s an echo inside my head
A need to say what can’t be said
It’s the nerve tattoo
Such a bad rash
Spiteful and divine

Ashley Allison, a CNN commentator and Democratic consultant, buys The Root from G/O Media, returning the brand to Black ownership (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/media/the-root-go-media-ashley-allison

The Root returns to Black ownership
Ashley Allison, a Democratic political strategist and CNN commentator, said Thursday that she is acquiring The Root from G/O Media.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Metal Fingers:
🎵 Arrow Root
#MetalFingers
https://mfdoom.bandcamp.com/track/arrow-root

So I was at node 22.9.0 and mastodon's compiler was complaining that I needed to be at least 22.14 or something… I've used the command at root:
n latest
and
n stable
The first installed v25.2.1
The second installed v24.11.1
now when I do node --version it reports:
v24.11.1
So hopefully the next time I need to do a mastodon upgrade it won’t complain anymore? 🤷‍♂️
#selfhost #mastodon #nodejs #debian

"Craft a single network packet to obtain root": I had hoped that this type of vulnerability hat been eliminated.
At least, the Router Advertisement packets should generally not be able to cross routers.
Patch your #FreeBSD systems now.
#rtsol

@… if I'm not mistaken, my Kubuntu with root-on-ZFS uses OpenZFS native encryption.
In particular, these two commands, which I ran with 25.10 in live mode (booted from a USB memory stick) as part of a routine to access the encrypted 25.04 system on the internal SSD:
sudo cat /media/kubuntu/keystore-rpool/system.key | sudo zfs load-k…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Deerhoof:
🎵 Who Do You Root For?
#Deerhoof

[root@localhost:~] df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
VMFS-6 225.2G 192.9G 32.3G 86% /vmfs/volumes/samsung970evoplus
VMFS-6 1.8T 1.4G 1.8T 0% /vmfs/volumes/wdblacksn7100-2tb
Finally added some storage to the homelab.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Ulrika Spacek:
🎵 Square Root of None
#NowPlaying #UlrikaSpacek
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…

‘Buddhism: The Unspeakable Truth’ Elevates Victims’ Stories in Imperfect Documentary
Despite shortcomings, the film gives a necessary platform to abuse survivors.

But he's wrong: it WAS funny. Sure, a lot of people didn't get it, and that made minor news. And it has become the root of a rich tree of memes
I find the indignant, entitled voice of those quotes to be funny from a distance but also kinda creepy. https://fed.brid…

Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)

Damn, Curt Smith's STILL got it. Sure, I generally root for anyone named "Curt/Kurt" but Tears for Fears is the simply best. 😜
▶️ Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Live) 2022
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NZ-o1N2swMw&si=dsABDhNG6S1MdtHi…

If you're using #Debian 13 and you're wondering why the `ping` command has stopped working for non-root users... `apt install linux-sysctl-defaults` will fix that for you.

RE: https://twitter.com/NWSL/status/1990189869352587629
What an incredible team to root for.

A broad retreat is underway in the nonprofit world.
After Donald Trump ordered his administration to root out “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts earlier this year,
opening the door to investigations and funding cuts for offenders,
more than 1,000 charities rewrote their mission statements in forms they filed this year with the Internal Revenue Service,
removing or minimizing language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities.<…

Deleting DEI
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings.

Steelers blame 'unacceptable' run defense for loss https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46622438/steelers-blame-porous-run-defense-loss-bengals

update: I chugged the root beer

Gauss and p-adic numbers
Franz Lemmermeyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11559 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11559

Gauss and p-adic numbers
In his notebooks, Gauss recorded various calculations with "infinite congruences". These infinite congruences are p-adic numbers; Gauss computes a square root of $5$ in the $11$-adic integers in order to find an $11$-adic approximation to a quadratic Gauss sum, computes a nontrivial square root of $1$ in $10$-adic integers, and computes the $10$-adic logarithms of small natural numbers.

Quahogs are VERY long-lived clams. This wise one was born 100 before Shakespeare. Cherish them. If you eat them, venerate their little clam bodies, first.
From "New Scientist", Tom Gauld comic.
#AncientWisdom equals #GoodEating

how to make block-level remote backups dramatically faster (i get ~3x or more speedup) on Linux:
ssh root@host "zstd </dev/sda -T0" | unzstd | pv >/dev/mapper/backup-host-root

Approximating the coefficients of the Bessel functions
Andrew Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10370 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10370

Approximating the coefficients of the Bessel functions
For the type A, BC, and D root systems, we determine equivalent conditions between the coefficients of an exponential holomorphic function and the asymptotic values taken by the Dunkl bilinear form when one of its entries is the function. We establish these conditions over the $|θN| \rightarrow\infty$ regime for the type A and D root systems and over the $|θ_0 N|\rightarrow \infty, \frac{θ_1}{θ_0 N}\rightarrow c\in\mathbb{C}$ regime for the type BC root system. We also g…

NYC uses the term "curb your dog" on a bunch of signs. The term has never made sense to me. Where did it come from and what is it supposed to mean now? Horses were the root?

So...I'm 6 episodes into #AlienEarth and I have no one to root for, they are all Grade A assholes. Difficult to connect then, and it might be me but it seems a pattern for recent #SciFi had the same feeling with

from my link log —
capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities.
https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html
saved 2025-12-12

Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
Thursday marks a first deadline,
set this month in a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
for all federal law enforcement agencies to “coordinate delivery”
to the FBI of their intelligence files
on “Antifa” and “Antifa-related” activities.
Bondi has tasked the FBI with using those files to draw up lists of Americans and foreigners to investigate
as part of a campaign directed by …

Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
The Justice Department’s program to root out violent “Antifa” extremism is raising First Amendment concerns.

#TIL man kann die Kommunikation der Apps nach Außen auf dem Smartphone beobachten, ohne das Gerät zu rooten.
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/pcapdroid-android-netzwer…

PCAPdroid: Android-Netzwerkverkehr ohne Root mitschneiden
Auf F-Droid ist seit einigen Tagen die App PCAPdroid verfügbar. Damit lässt sich ein Datenmitschnitt des Android-Netzwerkverkehrs erstellen. Besser: Man…

How soon before LLMs replace the laborers?
Age of the ‘scam state’: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/02/sc…

How soon before LLMs replace the laborers?
Age of the ‘scam state’: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/02/sc…

Successfully got the openSUSE Pi5 abomination booting off a WD VelociRaptor 10kRPM SATA hard drive that uses more power than the entire rest of the computer!
Things are different in openSUSE-aarch64 land compared to Raspbian:
1. videocore loads a grub executable, so it feels like a PC when it boots
2. there's no /boot/cmdline.txt (on mmcblk0p1 or elsewhere)
3. the usual `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg` / update-grub command autodetects current root and silen…

I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became humiliated by their promises that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day.
Some of the OG researchers took it quite badly that they stalled and weren’t in the limelight anymore.
‣ Marvin Minsky (co-founder of MIT AI lab and arguably the most important early AI bro) went on to visit Epstein’s island multiple times.
‣ Karl Steinbuch, who came up with the German term for computer science ("Informatik")—who also was a literal Nazi (and likely war criminal) in World War II—later wrote articles in ultra-right magazines about things like “equal rights rob women of their children”.
‣ John McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, co-authored document that coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”) was a staunch Republican who years later claimed (in a serious article) that “thermostats have beliefs”.
[one moment, I am receiving more information]
‣ There’s a second Epstein Island AI pioneer? Who also was Chief Learning Officer at… Trump University? That would be Roger Schank (founded one of the first AI companies in the 1980s AI boom, it even had an IPO. Of course the 1980s AI bubble burst).
Obviously all of the above received all the awards in computer science and are very revered people.

Countermind: A Multi-Layered Security Architecture for Large Language Models
Dominik Schwarz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11837 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11…

Countermind: A Multi-Layered Security Architecture for Large Language Models
The security of Large Language Model (LLM) applications is fundamentally challenged by "form-first" attacks like prompt injection and jailbreaking, where malicious instructions are embedded within user inputs. Conventional defenses, which rely on post hoc output filtering, are often brittle and fail to address the root cause: the model's inability to distinguish trusted instructions from untrusted data. This paper proposes Countermind, a multi-layered security architecture intended to shift def…

On the enumeration of records of rooted trees and rooted forests
Adri\'an Lillo, Mercedes Rosas, Stefan Trandafir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12536 https://

On the enumeration of records of rooted trees and rooted forests
A record of a rooted Cayley tree is a node whose label is the largest along the unique path to the root. In this work, we find elegant functional equations relating the generating functions for records of rooted Cayley trees and for records of forests of rooted trees with the Cayley tree function, and explore the consequences of our results.

I have bought a plate of beer and have started building my own CA, with offline Root and all that fun.
Just because I wanted to try client-cert authentication in nginx

Starting your week by getting your DUX in a row ;-)
#retrocomputing #hpux
https://hachyderm.io/@thejpster/115521<…

FLOWR.root: A flow matching based foundation model for joint multi-purpose structure-aware 3D ligand generation and affinity prediction
Julian Cremer, Tuan Le, Mohammad M. Ghahremanpour, Emilia S{\l}ugocka, Filipe Menezes, Djork-Arn\'e Clevert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02578

FLOWR.root: A flow matching based foundation model for joint multi-purpose structure-aware 3D ligand generation and affinity prediction
We present Flowr.root, an equivariant flow-matching model for pocket-aware 3D ligand generation with joint binding affinity prediction and confidence estimation. The model supports de novo generation, pharmacophore-conditional sampling, fragment elaboration, and multi-endpoint affinity prediction (pIC50, pKi, pKd, pEC50). Training combines large-scale ligand libraries with mixed-fidelity protein-ligand complexes, followed by refinement on curated co-crystal datasets and parameter-efficient fine…

That patch to "detect fascism" is a nice piece of satire, but I think it has a bit too much of a broad audience and therefore I think it is not really good.
I therefore I have a proposal for a better utility that does not label projects or people, and instead tackles the problem at the root: a questionaire at boot. During the boot process it will ask you if you support queer rights, if you support trans rights, if you think white people are getting replaced or if you think pe…

... and I know I shouldn't be configuring new work laptop when I'm on vacation, but here we are.
Modern Ubuntu not including a ZFS root option from the installer is a giant pain.

Temporal Variabilities Limit Convergence Rates in Gradient-Based Online Optimization
Bryan Van Scoy, Gianluca Bianchin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12512 https://

Temporal Variabilities Limit Convergence Rates in Gradient-Based Online Optimization
This paper investigates the fundamental performance limits of gradient-based algorithms for time-varying optimization. Leveraging the internal model principle and root locus techniques, we show that temporal variabilities impose intrinsic limits on the achievable rate of convergence. For a problem with condition ratio $κ$ and time variation whose model has degree $n$, we show that the worst-case convergence rate of any minimal-order gradient-based algorithm is $ρ_\text{TV} = (\frac{κ-1}{κ+1…

Matrix generators for Weil representations
Mikko Korhonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12261 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12261

Matrix generators for Weil representations
Let $r$ be an odd prime and $\mathbb{F}$ a field containing a primitive $r$th root of unity. Then for all $\ell \geq 1$, there is a faithful representation $f: \operatorname{Sp}_{2\ell}(r) \rightarrow \operatorname{GL}_{r^\ell}(\mathbb{F})$ called the Weil representation. We provide explicit matrices generating $\operatorname{Sp}_{2\ell}(r)$ in $\operatorname{GL}_{r^\ell}(\mathbb{F})$, which we have implemented in Magma. We also describe such generators for the irreducible Weil representations …

AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-launches-cloud-ai-tool…

Amazon launches cloud AI tool to help engineers recover from outages faster
Amazon Web Services' DevOps Agent is meant to help developers more quickly figure out what caused an outage and how to fix it.

The Steiner Path Aggregation Problem
Da Qi Chen, Daniel Hathcock, D Ellis Hershkowitz, R. Ravi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01392 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

The Steiner Path Aggregation Problem
In the Steiner Path Aggregation Problem, our goal is to aggregate paths in a directed network into a single arborescence without significantly disrupting the paths. In particular, we are given a directed multigraph with colored arcs, a root, and $k$ terminals, each of which has a monochromatic path to the root. Our goal is to find an arborescence in which every terminal has a path to the root, and its path does not switch colors too many times. We give an efficient algorithm that finds such a s…

Nonlinear Heisenberg Limit via Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Metrology
Binke Xia, Jingzheng Huang, Yuxiang Yang, Guihua Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09216 https://

Nonlinear Heisenberg Limit via Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Metrology
The Heisenberg limit is acknowledged as the ultimate precision limit in quantum metrology, traditionally implying that root mean square errors of parameter estimation decrease linearly with the time T of evolution and the number N of quantum gates or probes. However, this conventional perspective fails to interpret recent studies of "super-Heisenberg" scaling, where precision improves faster than linearly with T and N. In this work, we revisit the Heisenberg scaling by leveraging the position-m…

Exactly my own approach:
“I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.” — Muhammad Yunus
#QuoteOfTheDay #BottomUpDesign

he's one of gen z's memetic totems and brings joy and prosperity into every hearth and home his image is displayed in

if (rsfp = mypopen("/bin/mail root","w")) { /* heh, heh */
-- Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code

A Practical Guide to Rigorously Locate Periodic Orbits in Discrete Dynamics
Luc\'ia Alonso Mozo, Olivier H\'enot, Phillipo Lappicy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06373 https…

A Practical Guide to Rigorously Locate Periodic Orbits in Discrete Dynamics
Periodic orbits are important objects of discrete dynamical systems, but finding them is not always easy. We present a self-contained introductory account, aimed at non-experts, to prove their existence and study their stability using the aid of the computer. The method consists in three main steps. First, we reformulate the problem of identifying a $p$-periodic orbit as a root-finding problem. Second, we find a numerical approximation of the root (i.e. a periodic orbit candidate). Third, we ve…

Sometimes, when I get a native crash and I have no idea what happened, I paste the disassembly into aistudio and have it explain to me what is going on.
It might not be able to count how many letters are in strawberry, but it can pinpoint the root cause for a bug in Apple's Objective-C runtime.
This is a regression in iOS 26.1 beta:

Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…

Higher-Order Root-Finding Algorithm and its Applications
Wei Guo Foo, Chik How Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20897 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20897…

Higher-Order Root-Finding Algorithm and its Applications
Root-finding method is an iterative process that constructs a sequence converging to a solution of an equation. Householder's method is a higher-order method that requires higher order derivatives of the reciprocal of a function and has disadvantages. Firstly, symbolic computations can take a long time, and numerical methods to differentiate a function can accumulate errors. Secondly, the convergence factor existing in the literature is a rough estimate. In this paper, we propose a higher-order…

So I somewhat blindly guessed that the "PCIe" address space block contained a PCIe Base Spec compliant configuration register space starting at base address 0x00.
I'm now printing a bunch of info about the root complex which seems plausible. But I need to figure out how to enumerate the link partner still.

Partition functions of two-dimensional Coulomb gases with circular root- and jump-type singularities
Kohei Noda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00843 https://ar…

Partition functions of two-dimensional Coulomb gases with circular root- and jump-type singularities
In this paper, we study the random polynomial $p_n(ρ):=\prod_{j=1}^n (|z_j|-ρ)$, where the points $\{z_j\}_{j=1}^n$ are the eigenvalue moduli of random normal matrices with a radially symmetric potential. We establish precise large $n$ asymptotic expansions for the moment generating function \[ \mathbb{E}\!\left[e^{\tfrac{u}π\mathrm{Im}\log p_n(ρ)}\, e^{a\,\mathrm{Re}\log p_n(ρ)}\right], \qquad u\in\mathbb{R}, \; a>-1, \] where $ρ>0$ lies in the bulk of the spectral droplet. The…

From these photos one may wonder if the government of Israel retains its legitimacy....
(I support the existence of a self-governing Israel living in peace and safety; I support the same for Palestinians.)
"Photos from inside Gaza show destruction wrought by Israeli military efforts to root out Hamas"

Urban neighborhood in northern Gaza reduced to rubble by Israeli forces
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The few buildings still standing in this expanse of northern Gaza protrude from the earth like broken bones.

Error chaining in JavaScript: cleaner debugging with Error.cause
Error handling in JavaScript has always felt a bit chaotic. Throwing errors is easy, but tracing them back to the root cause? Not so much. That’s where the cause property comes in.
🧑‍💻 https://all…

Error chaining in JavaScript: cleaner debugging with Error.cause - Matt Smith
Use JavaScript's 'cause' property to chain errors, preserve context, and simplify debugging. Cleaner stack traces, better test assertions.

Data Integration Using Multivariate Mode Decomposition for Physiological Sensing with Multiple Millimeter-Wave Radar Systems
Kimitaka Sumi, Takuya Sakamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10542

Data Integration Using Multivariate Mode Decomposition for Physiological Sensing with Multiple Millimeter-Wave Radar Systems
This study proposes a multi-radar system for non-contact physiological sensing across arbitrary body orientations. In integrating signals obtained from different radar viewpoints, we adopt a multivariate variational mode decomposition method to extract the common respiratory component. Experiments conducted with six subjects under varying distances and orientations demonstrate that, compared with a single-radar setup, the proposed system reduced the root mean square error of the respiratory int…

@… @… firmwmware for iwm is automatic with the FreeBSD-set-minimal meta package.
root@clean:~ # pkg info --required-by FreeBSD-firmware-iwm
FreeBSD-firmware-iwm-15.0:
FreeBSD-set-minimal-15.0
root@clean:~…

Reconstruction of tensor categories of type $G_2$
Lilit Martirosyan, Hans Wenzl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09922 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09922

Reconstruction of tensor categories of type $G_2$
We prove that any non-symmetric ribbon tensor category $\mathcal{C}$ with the fusion rules of the compact group of type $G_2$ needs to be equivalent to the representation category of the corresponding Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum group for $q$ not a root of unity. We also prove an analogous result for the corresponding finite fusion tensor categories.

A counterexample to a conjecture of A. R. Miller
Gabriel Navarro, Benjamin Sambale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10734 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10734…

A counterexample to a conjecture of A. R. Miller
Let $χ$ be an irreducible character of a finite group $G$. A. R. Miller conjectured that the proportion of elements $g\in G$ such that $χ(g)$ is zero or a root of unity is at least 1/2. We construct a character of a perfect group of order 69120 such that this proportion is 511/1152.

License plate trackers promise to root out local crime. Amid ICE crackdowns, local governments say they can't be trusted. (Faith Wardwell/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/license-plate-trackers-pushback-00670550
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p24#a251130p24

A proof of Witten's asymptotic expansion conjecture for WRT invariants of Seifert fibered homology spheres
J{\o}rgen Ellegaard Andersen, Li Han, Yong Li, William Elb{\ae}k Misteg{\aa}rd, David Sauzin, Shanzhong Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10678

A proof of Witten's asymptotic expansion conjecture for WRT invariants of Seifert fibered homology spheres
Let $X$ be a general Seifert fibered integral homology $3$-sphere with $r\ge3$ exceptional fibers. For every root of unity $ζ\not=1$, we show that the SU(2) WRT invariant of $X$ evaluated at $ζ$ is (up to an elementary factor) the non-tangential limit at $ζ$ of the GPPV invariant of $X$, thereby generalizing a result from [Andersen-Mistegard 2022]. Based on this result, we apply the quantum modularity results developed in [Han-Li-Sauzin-Sun 2023] to the GPPV invariant of $X$ to prove Witten'…

GraphTracer: Graph-Guided Failure Tracing in LLM Agents for Robust Multi-Turn Deep Search
Heng Zhang, Yuling Shi, Xiaodong Gu, Haochen You, Zijian Zhang, Lubin Gan, Yilei Yuan, Jin Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10581

GraphTracer: Graph-Guided Failure Tracing in LLM Agents for Robust Multi-Turn Deep Search
Multi-agent systems powered by Large Language Models excel at complex tasks through coordinated collaboration, yet they face high failure rates in multi-turn deep search scenarios. Existing temporal attribution methods struggle to accurately diagnose root causes, particularly when errors propagate across multiple agents. Attempts to automate failure attribution by analyzing action sequences remain ineffective due to their inability to account for information dependencies that span agents. This …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
D’Angelo:
🎵 The Root
#DAngelo
https://robertsandlord.bandcamp.com/track/the-root-dangelo-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Qmkg3JVW6e0w55HQudjSW

New on blog: "How we incidentally uncovered a 7-year old bug in gentoo-ci"
"""
“Gentoo CI” is the service providing periodic linting for the Gentoo repository. It is a part of the Repository mirror and CI project that I’ve started in 2015. Of course, it all started as a temporary third-party solution, but it persisted, was integrated into Gentoo Infrastructure and grew organically into quite a monstrosity.
It’s imperfect in many ways. In particular, it has only some degree of error recovery and when things go wrong beyond that, it requires a manual fix. Often the “fix” is to stop mirroring a problematic repository. Over time, I’ve started having serious doubts about the project, and proposed sunsetting most of it.
Lately, things have been getting worse. What started as a minor change in behavior of Git triggered a whole cascade of failures, leading to me finally announcing the deadline for sunsetting the mirroring of third-party repositories, and starting ripping non-critical bits out of it. Interesting enough, this whole process led me to finally discover the root cause of most of these failures — a bug that has existed since the very early version of the code, but happened to be hidden by the hacky error recovery code. Here’s the story of it.
"""
#Gentoo

on the minus side I have to be awake at 10am to let some guy in to install smoke detectors
on the plus side this means I will be awake to root for Israel's demise against Norway in world cup qualis

Here's who Cowboys should root for in Eagles-Bears, other Wk 13 games https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/28/week-13-rooting-guide-heres-who-can-help-cowboys-playoff…

@…
The upgrade is not yet available. The issues described in my previous comment are with 25.04.
I'm in no rush for the upgrade. Whilst waiting, I learnt how to work with 25.04 encrypted root-on-OpenZFS whilst booted from a 25.10 USB memory stick in live mode. Information wasn't too difficult to find. Some pleasant surprises :-)

Rethinking Provenance Completeness with a Learning-Based Linux Scheduler
Jinsong Mao, Benjamin E. Ujcich, Shiqing Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08479 https://

Rethinking Provenance Completeness with a Learning-Based Linux Scheduler
Provenance plays a critical role in maintaining traceability of a system's actions for root cause analysis of security threats and impacts. Provenance collection is often incorporated into the reference monitor of systems to ensure that an audit trail exists of all events, that events are completely captured, and that logging of such events cannot be bypassed. However, recent research has questioned whether existing state-of-the-art provenance collection systems fail to ensure the security guar…

Planar Length-Constrained Minimum Spanning Trees
D Ellis Hershkowitz, Richard Z Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09002 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09002

Planar Length-Constrained Minimum Spanning Trees
In length-constrained minimum spanning tree (MST) we are given an $n$-node graph $G = (V,E)$ with edge weights $w : E \to \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ and edge lengths $l: E \to \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ along with a root node $r \in V$ and a length-constraint $h \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$. Our goal is to output a spanning tree of minimum weight according to $w$ in which every node is at distance at most $h$ from $r$ according to $l$. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for planar graphs which, for any cons…

DE-Sinc approximation for unilateral rapidly decreasing functions and its computational error bound
Tomoaki Okayama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11411 https://

DE-Sinc approximation for unilateral rapidly decreasing functions and its computational error bound
The Sinc approximation is known to be a highly efficient approximation formula for rapidly decreasing functions. For unilateral rapidly decreasing functions, which rapidly decrease as $x\to\infty$ but does not as $x\to-\infty$, an appropriate variable transformation makes the functions rapidly decreasing. As such a variable transformation, Stenger proposed $t = \sinh(\log(\operatorname{arsinh}(\exp x)))$, which enables the Sinc approximation to achieve root-exponential convergence. Recently, an…

N.B.: No, that river is not horribly polluted. The brown is from wood tannins. Many #Michigan (and presumably other states with boreal forest) rivers are so loaded with fallen trees that they take on the color of root beer. https://

WX Story (bot) (@wxstory_bot@m.ai6yr.org)
Attached: 1 image National Weather Service - Gaylord, MI #MIwx #APX #NWS #WX

Well, I've root caused my PCIe issues.
And now I have a nice pretty warning message to detect when I screw up the same way in the future.
Now to open up the RISAF5 configuration so I can actually get stuff done.

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D’Angelo:
🎵 The Root
#DAngelo
https://robertsandlord.bandcamp.com/track/the-root-dangelo-cover
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Twists arising from torsion points
Lukas Novak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08486 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08486 …

Twists arising from torsion points
Let $p$ be a prime number, $K$ a number field that contains the $p$-th root of unity $ζ_p$, $d$ a $p$-power-free integer and $L=K(\sqrt[p]{d})$. Let $E/K$ be an elliptic curve with full $p$-torsion and $S,T \in E(K)[p]$ be the generators. Define the cocycle $ξ_d : \operatorname{Gal}(\overline{K}/K) \to E$ by \[ ξ_d (σ)= \begin{cases} O, & \text{if } σ(\sqrt[p]{d})=\sqrt[p]{d}, \newline kS, & \text{if } σ(\sqrt[p]{d})=ζ_p^k\sqrt[p]{d}, \end{cases} \] and denote by $H_S^d$ the twist …

printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
-- linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:

hey wanna see some completely normal systemverilog? https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan/blob/e383c23ab5d44940a07652ccd31406166286073d/hw/dv/sv/dv_utils/dv_utils_pkg.sv#L210-L355

opentitan/hw/dv/sv/dv_utils/dv_utils_pkg.sv at e383c23ab5d44940a07652ccd31406166286073d · lowRISC/opentitan
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust. Contribute to lowRISC/opentitan development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Week 10 Dallas Cowboys' Wishlist: Who to Root For

Still bugged – a fresh installation of BETA5.
First boot, unable to login as root.
#FreeBSD #bug #beta5

@… that Spanish club Rayo Vallecano I mentioned ❤️

STM32MP2 PCIe bringup update: the PCIe IP has 4 MB of address space allocated to it, but touching anything past the first 2 MB seems to hang.
When I dump any of the register blocks in the first 2 MB, they all report the same Synopsys : 0550 device ID.
All of the registers are the same in each of the mirrors, with the exception of 8 bytes starting at 0x174 and 4 bytes starting at 0x728.
Somehow there has to be a way to see devices behind the root complex.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration records,
in an average year over 2,500 medical device recalls are issued in the United States.
Some of these recalls simply require checking the device for problems, but others require the return or destruction of the device.
Once identified, the FDA categorizes the root cause of these recalls into 40 categories,
plus a catchall of “other”:
situations that include labeling mix-ups, problems with expiration dat…

FDA Data Reveals Medical Device Recalls Software Woes
Thousands of medical device recalls are issued every year, and software is one of the leading causes.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Ginger Root:
🎵 Loretta
#GingerRoot
https://gingerroot.bandcamp.com/track/loretta
https://open.spotify.com/track/3eZqBNHlNA4lUsbAB6UmvD

November 3, 2026:
Donald Trump calls the press into the Oval Office and announces that the GOP has held the House
—but he warns that Democrats will try to steal the election,
and announces plans to send a legal team to Arizona to root out fraud.
He spends the rest of the night posting threats and allegations on Truth Social.
In the morning, Republican lawyers file to stop vote counting,
arguing that any votes counted after Election Day are illegal under f…

Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.