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My TrueNAS server is reporting one of the disks I got just two months ago with "CRITICAL: 10 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors" which seems bad...
It's a WD disk and there should be a two year warranty on it, so I may need to look into replacing it.
Self hosting really is Tamagotchi for Nerds.
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Happy Fourth of July. A fine new recording that's worth a listen today.
Ben Folds with the National Symphony Orchestra, "But Wait, There's More" (live, 2024)
Wait, there's more.
Don't think we can take too much more.
Pray that there's a bottom somewhere in sight.
Brothers and sisters hold tight.
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It's time for the #EV industry to hold itself to a higher standard when it comes to roaming. You can't have your cake and eat it. Make the cake bigger!
https://www.linkedin.com/…

I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop… | Jaap Burger
I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop pretending roaming works and start holding the ecosystem to a higher standard? As a fossil in this industry, I remember how EV roaming took off 15 years ago – it was a no-brainer from a user perspective and a logical step to ensure that the EV charging market could grow, benefiting everyone in the sector. As an early electric car driver eager to travel abroad, I spent a lot of time getting the right passes for local n…

"In all my discussions with scientists across every sector, exactly zero think the journal system works well."
https://asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific-publishing-enough-is-enough

Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough
Why we're no longer funding journal publications

Inflation Model Based on Virasoro Squeezing
Kenji Ebata, So Katagiri, Yoshiki Matsuoka, Takaaki Sehara, Akio Sugamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02236 http…

Inflation Model Based on Virasoro Squeezing
We propose a novel mechanism for realizing slow-roll inflation that is fully consistent with observational data, based on conformal transformations acting exclusively on a complex scalar field -- without coupling to the gravitational sector. These transformations generically produce a plateau in the inflaton potential, as guaranteed by the maximum modulus theorem, thereby naturally satisfying the slow-roll conditions. Our framework utilizes squeezing operations generated by the Virasoro algeb…

Towards Effective Multidisciplinary Health and HCI Teams based on AI Framework
Mohammed Almutairi, Diego G\'omez-Zar\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05226

Towards Effective Multidisciplinary Health and HCI Teams based on AI Framework
As a Ph.D. student with a diverse background in both public and private sectors, I have encountered numerous challenges in cross-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder team projects. My research on developing team compositions that involve multidisciplinary members from fields including education, academia, and health. Along with my advisor, we are focused on exploring how HCI can help individuals assemble more effective teams. This effort involves developing socio-technical systems that guide and …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00493 has been replaced.
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Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
We present radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and SONG-Australia. We also analysed a sector of TESS photometry that overlapped with the 2022 SONG data. We processed the time series to assign weights and to remove bad data points. The power spectrum clearly shows solar-like oscillations centred at 430 muHz. The TESS data show the oscillations at lower signal-to-noise because photometric measurements are much more affected by the granu…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12456 has been replaced.
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Ichnos: A Carbon Footprint Estimator for Scientific Workflows
Scientific workflows facilitate the automation of data analysis, and are used to process increasing amounts of data. Therefore, they tend to be resource-intensive and long-running, leading to significant energy consumption and carbon emissions. With ever-increasing emissions from the ICT sector, it is crucial to quantify and understand the carbon footprint of scientific workflows. However, existing tooling requires significant effort from users - such as setting up power monitoring before execu…

Stacking the Deck: Gambling on a Light QCD Axion
Abhishek Banerjee, Manuel A. Buen-Abad, Anson Hook
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02049 https://

Stacking the Deck: Gambling on a Light QCD Axion
We consider axions lighter than what their QCD couplings might otherwise suggest. Starting with a $\mathbb{Z}_N$-axion, we introduce a small explicit $\mathbb{Z}_N$ symmetry-breaking coupling between the Standard Model Higgs boson and a reheaton. This small explicit breaking allows us to populate a large portion of the light axion $m_a$-$f_a$ plane, removes the $1/N$ tuning in the $\mathbb{Z}_N$-axion, and explains why only our sector was reheated. Due to finite temperature effects, axions of t…

Cynthia Kaiser, the FBI's ex-deputy assistant director leading cyber policy, intel, and engagement, is leaving to join cybersecurity company Halcyon as SVP (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/cynthia-kaiser-fbi-halcyon-ransomware/

Top FBI cyber official Cynthia Kaiser exits for Halcyon
The 20-year bureau pro wants to see what it’s like to fight ransomware from the private sector.