Tootfinder

Dont know why these schengen calculator sites dont all just visualize the window for you, this is so much more understandable

Si trabajšs para una App esto te interesa.
¿Tu trabajo depende de una plataforma digital? ¿Hacés repartos? ¿Transportšs personas?
La Escuela de Economía de la Universidad Nacional UNA, la Fundación Friedrich Ebert y la Organización Internacional del Trabajo te invitan a conocer el nuevo Convenio 193 de la OIT y su importancia para las personas trabajadoras en plataformas.
¿Cušndo? Jueves 3 de septiembre a las 8:30 a.m.
¿Dónde? En la sede de la OIT en San Pedro de Mont…

Counterpoint: Q2 global smartphone revenue rose 7% YoY, and average device selling price rose 17% to $400; Apple took 49% of global revenue, and Samsung 16% (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31…

It's a very random Monday today, and that deserves ten very random #MondayRandom10 tracks:
1. Rush—"YYZ"
2. White Zombie—"Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah)"
3. Moondog—"Symphonique #6 (Good for Goodie)"
4. A Perfect Circle—"Over"
5. Smashing Pumpkins—"Mayonaise"
6. Queen—"Somebody to Love"
7. Little Ri…

#MondayRandom10, 3 Aug 2026
Playlist • David Jacobs

AI-based single-shot structured-light depth reconstruction for real-time laparoscopic surgical guidance
Wayne Wonseok Rodgers, Xiangyi Le, Seonghoon Jang, Shuwen Wei, Justin Opfermann, Michael Kam, Axel Krieger, Jin U. Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05109 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05109 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05109
arXiv:2608.05109v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Significance. Accurate intraoperative depth perception is important for autonomous and semi-autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery. Conventional fringe projection profilometry can achieve millimeter-scale accuracy but often requires multi-shot acquisition, digital-micromirror-device projection, and projector-camera synchronization, complicating integration into compact laparoscopic systems.
Aim. To develop a synchronization-free, single-shot depth-sensing platform using a passive LED-illuminated binary mask and a VQ-VAE prior with a custom U-Net depth head.
Approach. A compact projection module was coupled to one channel of a dual-channel laparoscope, while the second channel imaged the fringe-illuminated target. A Zivid 3D camera acquired reference depth for 722 paired phantom images. Zivid depth maps were reprojected into the SSLE image frame for supervised training and evaluation. The VQ-VAE encoded each input into a discrete latent representation, and a latent-space U-Net predicted depth without a separate mask-prediction branch.
Results. Using a fixed train/validation/test split, the proposed model achieved an MAE of 3.70 mm, AbsRel of 0.0326, delta=1.1 accuracy of 0.962, and delta=1.1^2 accuracy of 0.970. It achieved lower MAE than the dual U-Net MaskNet DepthNet baseline and outperformed off-the-shelf monocular depth models in MAE, AbsRel, and threshold accuracy. The pipeline operated at 26.0 Hz over 301 consecutive frames on an NVIDIA A100 GPU.
Conclusions. The LED-illuminated binary-pattern platform with latent-space depth reconstruction enables synchronization-free, video-rate endoscopic depth estimation. Results demonstrate Zivid-referenced phantom reconstruction without an explicit segmentation stage, while emphasizing the importance of dataset size and SSLE-Zivid calibration accuracy.
toXiv_bot_toot

Argentina: la diffusione incontrollata della sorveglianza basata sull'intelligenza artificiale rafforza un'infrastruttura tecno-autoritaria di controllo sociale.
L'uso sempre più diffuso delle tecnologie di sorveglianza in Argentina durante i primi due anni dell'amministrazione di Javier #Milei ha contribuito ad ampliare le capacitŠ di sorveglianza statale, la profilazione…

Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil the $250 Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety band, set to ship in early 2027 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/fitbit-founders-launc…

Fitbit founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band | TechCrunch
Luffu Link combines all day health sensing, voice logging, location awareness, and the ability to get help from trusted contacts into a single device, all without needing a phone nearby.

It’s #MondayRandom10 time once more, and my Apple Music playlist clearly needs to get something off its chest:
1. Propagandhi—“A Speculative Fiction”
2. Smashing Pumpkins—“Sweet Sweet”
3. AC/DC—“If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)”
4. Pentangle—“Hunting Song”
5. Justice—“Stress”
6. Jello Biafra (ft Nomeansno)—“Ride the Flume”
7. The Jam—“All Around the World”

#MondayRandom10, 31 Aug 2026
Playlist • David Jacobs

Huh, turns out the SSD that failed is the one that I bought in December 2025. It should be well and damn truly in warranty. Bit disappointing to have a failure well after ELF and before the device is senescent.

My phone won't stop nagging me once a month about my battery supposedly "deteriorating".
Of course it'll deteriorate if you daily drive One UI instead of vanilla LineageOS, but alas I can't switch.