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Russia’s new “anti-drone” solution – dressing soldiers like giant penguins #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/russias-new-antidrone-solution-dressing.html

https://decorrespondent.nl/16676/cuffed-caged-cast-away-this-is-europe-s-innovative-solution-for-unwanted-migrants/eba9bf23-262a-06db-23e1-307631f71ae6?mc_cid=f702f432c8…

Cuffed, caged, cast away: this is Europe’s ‘innovative solution’ for unwanted migrants
Somewhere in rural Albania stands a cage. A gigantic cage, containing not animals, but people.

The .sln format has been around forever and it shows. SLNX brings a clean, XML-based solution file that’s readable, diffable, and open. https://www.poppastring.com/blog/a-simpler-solution-file-format

Quotes from @… : “Plan the learning. Not the solution. Not less planning. Different planning.
The question isn’t “How do we plan less?”, but “What are we actually trying to plan?”
Plan the learning: decide upfront what you need to understand, how you’ll find out, and what you’ll do with what you discover.”
—
We’ve been doing Q2 planning, and folks want estimates on when projects can be completed while we don’t even know yet what our options might be, let alone what an appropriate solution is.
I’ve been trying to focus on what to do next that will move us forward, and only give estimates for that.
But I can only estimate what I’ve done before, or can abstract from previous similar activities. Doing work breakdowns for very near horizons helps, but that develops over time. I can’t estimate past what’s visible to me now.
https://medium.com/thrivve-partners/you-cant-plan-your-way-to-discovery-0798f2797852

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans some Coinbase ads, finding them "irresponsible" for suggesting crypto as a solution to the cost of living crisis (Tom Knowles/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/28/coin…

Zack, Frankreich ersetzt Teams, Webex, Zoom etc. durch eine eigene Lösung: https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-etat-visio-solution-visioconference-agents-publics/

An iconic story and idea that sticks with me over the years is Isaac Asimov's classic tale that introduces the 3 Laws of Robotics, "Runaround"
I'm about to spoil the dilemma (not the solution), but it doesn't ruin the value of the story
Robots must obey orders, and secondary to that, robots must protect themselves. This particular robot is ordered to retrieve selenium to fix a human life support system for a facility on Mercury. Unknown to the humans, the s…

Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty
The open-source initiative promises seamless document compatibility, transparent governance, and reduced dependency on non-European platforms.
https://tech.eu/2026/03/27/europe-bui…

Europe builds Microsoft-compatible ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty
Today, a coalition of European enterprises and community organisations has launched Euro-Office, a solution for editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, developed as a true sovereign community collaboration of over a dozen different organisations. A tech preview is available immediately. The effort, backed by major European tech firms including IONOS, Nextcloud, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian and BTactic is planning a first stable release by summer. Need for a sovere…

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans some Coinbase ads, finding them "irresponsible" for suggesting crypto as a solution to the cost of living crisis (Tom Knowles/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/28/coin…

Digitale Unabhängigkeit endet nicht dabei, alles in Europa oder Deutschland zu hosten, sondern auch regelmäßige Sicherheitskopien zu ziehen und niemals komplett von einem einzelnen Anbieter abhängig zu sein: https://wortfilter.de/jtl-agentur-modern-solution-insolvent/

Even if, for just a brief moment, I put aside all the ethical, environmental, moral, social, and economical problems with LLM generated code:
It’s just like… not what I want you know?
I’ve never felt that it would be better if I moved faster.
Or if my solution was more fragile.
Or if my own personal understanding of the problem space was shallower.
Calling this industry Software Engineering is already a laughingstock to any actual engineer. I’ve never once wanted …

🔋 LG Energy Solution To Sell Ohio Battery  Facility To Honda For $2.85 Billion
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/LG-Energy-Solution-To-Sell-Ohio-Battery-Facility-To-Honda-For-285-Billion.html

LG Energy Solution To Sell Ohio Battery Facility To Honda For $2.85 Billion
South Korea's LG Energy Solution has agreed to sell the building and fixed-asset components of its Ohio electric vehicle battery plant to Honda Development and Manufacturing of America

RansomHouse has hit Viva, the major ticketing and access control solution provider for the world's museums.
Ransomware Attack on Viva Ticket Impacts 3,500 Global Partners Including the Louvre
https://beyondmachines.net/event_det…

Ransomware Attack on Viva Ticket Impacts 3,500 Global Partners Including the Louvre
Viva Ticket, a ticketing provider, suffered a ransomware attack claimed by the RansomHouse group that potentially exposed the personal data of millions of users across 3,500 organizations.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116299916004934596
There is a much simpler solution: the US and Israel should cease their attacks on Iran and offer payment for the damages done in exchange for an open Strait.
The rest of the world should demand th…

Are governments properly supporting the digital commons? Many adopt open source software but don't fund the upstream projects that maintain it. This amplifies a "tragedy of the commons" rather than being part of the solution. Governments have historically invented ways to shape the playing field - patents, public universities, copyright, taxes ... They can do it again!

Governments need to adopt Matrix responsibly | Anais Concepcion
Are governments abdicating their duty to the digital commons? And no, this isn't another "pay up" post. The solution is bigger than money. Element astutely highlights a troubling pattern: A government adopts open source software, deploys it, and pays nothing to the editors maintaining the upstream project. Upstream editors, receiving no revenue from their largest users, face a rational but painful choice: build proprietary features that force payment, or shut down. I think it's worse than th…

Multi-Sensor Trajectory Reconstruction of the 24 April 2025 Alaska #Fireball and Implications for Planetary Defense: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22630 -> "On 24 April 2025 at 18:30:57 UTC, a bright daytime fireball over Southcentral Alaska was detected by 37 seismic stations, 16 single infrasound sensors, and four infrasound arrays, yielding 30 ballistic and multiple fragmentation arrivals. The unprecedented density of seismoacoustic coverage enabled detailed reconstruction of the event using acoustic signals, with fragmentation source locations further guiding the identification of Doppler weather radar signatures of a meteorite fall. Incorporation of a radar-derived terminal point yielded a final trajectory solution, which agreed closely with an independent optical trajectory solution from video analysis. [...] This uniquely well-recorded event demonstrates the capability of dense seismoacoustic networks to constrain bolide trajectories, energetics, and fragmentation, with radar and optical data providing critical confirmation and complementary perspectives."

I've joined the Xteink X4 team and took this opportunity to write the only post of this month. Just in time ;)
#blog

#LaVCa: LLM-assisted visual cortex captioning https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13606 using "large language models (LLMs) to generate natural-language captions for images to which voxels are selective"; to be presented a…

LaVCa: LLM-assisted Visual Cortex Captioning
Understanding the property of neural populations (or voxels) in the human brain can advance our comprehension of human perceptual and cognitive processing capabilities and contribute to developing brain-inspired computer models. Recent encoding models using deep neural networks (DNNs) have successfully predicted voxel-wise activity. However, interpreting the properties that explain voxel responses remains challenging because of the black-box nature of DNNs. As a solution, we propose LLM-assiste…

Have you ever in your life used "Click to Pay"(an EMV developed solution) that is a bit like ApplePay/GooglePay for paying on websites but offered directly by Visa, MasterCard and Amex?

6.19.x kernel seems to have some major shitfuckery wrt my ThinkPad-- stalls, freezing, segfaults, the works. 6.14.11 works, but is ancient, so I took its config and built 6.12.79-- perfect! Looks like I have a solution until 2035.

Cowboys Could Find Long-Term Solution With ‘Bigger Than Life’ LB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/long-term-solution-linebacker-jacob-rodriguez/

For my tool-choice article, I came up with an #orgmode template to support collecting #requirements and solutions with their evaluation.
This might be handy to some of you.
#UOMF: Requirement Analysis…

#eduVPN case study: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Part 2)
University adopted eduVPN as its sole remote-access system for the entire institutional community.
For Ca’ Foscari, choosing a solution designed specifically by and for the R&E community and supported in Italy by GARR was an important step in aligning remote access with its broader digital infrastructure.
Stefano C…

None of the "code generation" stuff is new by the way.
The tech industry has tried to speed up coding and increase software output for the last 3 to 4 decades, by various means; e.g. Rapid Application Development, Expert Systems, Object-Oriented Programming, thousands of different frameworks all the way to trying to off-shore development and exploit third-world labor.
The problem with this is: there is no software scarcity. Pretending that "we can't make software fast enough" is a red herring to hide the fact that making (good) software is 90% painstaking research, design, planning, marketing and talking to and supporting customers.
And 10% writing the actual code—the C-suite is doing ye olde "trying to find a technical solution to a social problem".

Executives don’t want to just sell juice. They want to empower you with an agentic, customizable, and seamless juice experience.
But no one has stopped to think about what any of that actually means. Before designing a "solution," you need a good, *shared* problem definition. If the beautiful clarity within the design team shatters on contact with any handoff, you didn't finish the job.
Read more in this week's Product Picnic:

Your problem framing is sabotaging your strategy
Skipping to designing the solution before you have adequately designed the problem is not speeding you up, but slowing you down.

And Congress & the Courts have done NOTHING.
This is why I have so little faith in American democracy. The entire system of check & balances have failed.
The only solution is to remove ambivalent politicians from Congress during midterms this year.
Original post: https://bs…

I messaged my doctor's office about the extreme pain I am in. From the response:
"You should not be in excruciating pain, that is not reasonable."
I agree! Sadly they have no solution besides refilling my prescriptions, telling me to continue what I am doing, and telling me to wait a week for the next appointment.
(Luckily my daughter was just in Illinois.)

Years ago, I developed a #Kotlin #GUI to help me rename my files in batch. Last week, I was surprised to see that it didn’t work to rename a network volume, though it had in the past. In this post, I aim to describe the issue and its solution.

Funny how people, in light of the LiteLLM compromise, jump to the conclusion that the solution is to make your supply chain even more intransparent by vendoring in dependencies through an LLM's processing, rather than just using pinned and vetted dependencies by default over tools' defaults "yolo there has been an update and it claims to be semver compatible" attitude.

And people keep being suprised by the regular genocides that *keep fucking happening*. And yes, call what ICE is doing what it is. It is a gencoide. Even if it's not killing millions of people (yet), the "genocide" doesn't mean "killing logs of people" it means "trying to wipe out a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group." What the fuck is ICE trying to do? They're carrying out ethnic cleansing. It's genocide.
Genocide in Gaza, genocide in Syria, genocide in Turkey, China, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Serbia... why the fuck does it keep happening? I'll tell you why. It's states.
People like to think of countries and ethnic reagions as the same thing, but they aren't. They never have been. There's never been clear divisions between ethnic groups. But the existence of the state depends on a shared identity. When the truth is more complicated, the state must find a way to fix that. The solution is genocide. You can't separate the two. There can be no state without genocide. The mechanism to carry ou the kind of mass murder and the incentive to do so are really not easy to put together without the state. The state makes genocide viable, and the state demands genocide to protect it's own existence.
Every election is a dice roll. Every state is on a clock, waiting for the luck to run out. And the worst people possible are just waiting for their chance to win and carry out those genocides in order to lock in their power.
Never again means nothing unless you are attacking the root of genocide: the state.

With the boom in AI side projects, I would have expected the number of packages created from 2025 to now to be a bit higher. Especially when you consider that #dotnet solutions have package sprawl (e.g., 1 solution has 20 packages).

Senate Republicans believe they have a solution to reopen DHS and end airport chaos (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-tout-deal-end-dhs-shutdown-airport-delays-rcna264909
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p82#a260324p82

"The second excuse is that the uber-rich will flee the country. There are three possible responses to this claim. The first is that there’s no evidence to support it. The second is, if true, good riddance: they do us more harm than good. The third is to say: then the obvious solution is a global tax-avoidance measure."
#Kleptocracy
Money Talks – George Monbiot

Money Talks
The grim truth is that almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest.

And by the way, I decided to give OpenSUSE Tumbleweed another try today. Since Debian has its little quirks with my keyboards and I don’t want to use a distribution with a U.S. background like Fedora, OpenSUSE would be the politically correct choice for me as a European solution.
#linux #unix…

One of those problems where we know the solution - but there's no profit incentive, I guess. Wonder why the #ProLife community isn't pushing for solution.
World is short of nearly a million midwives, report warns

One of those problems where we know the solution - but there's no profit incentive, I guess. Wonder why the #ProLife community isn't pushing for solution.
World is short of nearly a million midwives, report warns

Browns' assessment of Baker Mayfield was correct. Their solution was catastrophic https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6988963/2026/01/21/browns-baker-mayfield-narratives-deshaun-watson/

"‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics"
#Plastic #Plastics #Recycling

#fedihelp with #mastodon:
i am using mastodon now since 3 years more intensively on browser, app (currently mona) BUT..........
i did not find out how i can start reading where i left yesterday?
is there a cross app / cross plattform solution?

#Mastobada Partir
Il travaille fort tout le temps
Pour un boss qui connait pas même son nom
Il se fait point payer assez, ça y prend une break
Mais il a la solution, ya know
Un p’tit billet pour Mexico
Mettre ses orteils dans le sable et pis downer ses problèmes
P'tit Belliveau, « P't'être qu'il a du tequila dans la brain » (2024)

TIL that #btrfs will happily run into a "no space left on device" wall with no possibility to write metadata anymore (which is needed for balancing and thus getting out of this situation) 🤦
(btrfs haters and #zfs enthusiasts incoming in 3... 2... 1...)
UPDATE: Solution is to `btrfs devic…

Raiders most critical need position also has simplest solution https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/12/raiders-most-critical-need-position-quarterback-…

Anybody know if ammonium fluoride in a neutral pH environment (i.e. without adding HF or additional acid to effectively form HF in solution from H and F- ions) will attack silicon dioxide or nitride at any appreciable rate?
Or more generally, tips on tuning a wet oxide etch to be as non-corrosive as possible to metals (specifically Al and Cu)?

Complementary Eigen-Zundel Interpretation Reconciles Thermodynamics and Spectroscopy of Excess Protons in Aqueous HF Solutions
Louis Lehmann, Florian N. Br\"unig, Jonathan Scherlitzki, Morten Lehmann, Martin Kaupp, Beate Paulus, Roland R. Netz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25371 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25371 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25371
arXiv:2603.25371v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Aqueous solutions of HF and HCl behave very differently at intermediate concentrations: HCl dissociates completely, whereas HF remains only partially dissociated and forms bifluoride (HF$_2^-$). This should lead to different excess-proton spectra in HF and HCl solutions, in contrast to experimental reports. Using ab initio molecular dynamics, we show that in HF the proton is not firmly bound to F$^-$, as suggested by textbook chemistry, but dynamically shared with a hydrating water molecule. This is rationalized by a modified Eigen-state description which also explains the formation of HF$_2^-$. The similar vibrational spectra of HF and HCl solutions are explained by a complementary Zundel picture in terms of almost identical excess proton transfer free-energy profiles for HF and HCl. These results reconcile thermodynamic and spectroscopic observations and provide a unified microscopic picture of excess protons in aqueous solution.
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Revamped my domain name site #indieweb using

Ricardo Mendes - DevOps / Wanna be Solution Architect
Ricardo Mendes is a DevOps engineer sharing experiences in infrastructure, automation, and solution architecture.

From synthetic turbulence to true solutions: A deep diffusion model for discovering periodic orbits in the Navier-Stokes equations
Jeremy P Parker, Tobias M Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23181 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23181 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.23181
arXiv:2602.23181v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence has shown remarkable success in synthesizing data that mimic complex real-world systems, but its potential role in the discovery of mathematically meaningful structures in physical models remains underexplored. In this work, we demonstrate how a generative diffusion model can be used to uncover previously unknown solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation: the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in a turbulent regime. Trained on data from a direct numerical simulation of turbulence, the model learns to generate time series that resemble physically plausible trajectories. By carefully modifying the temporal structure of the model and enforcing the symmetries of the governing equations, we produce synthetic trajectories that are periodic in time, despite the fact that the training data did not contain periodic trajectories. These synthetic trajectories are then refined into true solutions using an iterative solver, yielding 111 new periodic orbits (POs) with very short periods. Our results reveal a previously unobserved richness in the PO structure of this system and suggest a broader role for generative AI: not as replacements for simulation and existing solvers, but as a complementary tool for navigating the complex solution spaces of nonlinear dynamical systems.
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"The film offers an unfiltered view inside a system where overcrowding, untreated addiction, and violence are routine, and where official oversight is almost nonexistent."
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/11/alabama-solution-prisons…

How ‘The Alabama Solution’ Documents the ‘Horrors’ Inside Prisons
The directors of ‘The Alabama Solution’ discuss their piercing new documentary and what they hope people will take away from the film.

Ich hatte noch Reserven auf einem meiner VPS-Server und habe dort die Foto-App Immich installiert. Bin ziemlich begeistert bis jetzt. Versuche gerade alle meine iCloud Fotos dorthin zu transferieren. Ein ziemlicher Akt, aber es wird langsam.
https://immich.app/

Immich
Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.

The Climate Solution Sitting in America’s Trash #food

The Climate Solution Sitting in America’s Trash
Cutting food waste is a huge potential climate win. Why are we ignoring it?

Morteratsch and the majestic Bernina range in full glory 🤩
Yes! That's what I'm talking about... Reprint was successful and much improved! Tweaked negative, new developer mix & weaker toner for more neutral grays. Also built an interim solution/contraption (involving 6kg of books as weight) to ensure the contact print is sharp everywhere...
As for the scene in the image: These are the highest mountains of the central eastern Alps (Piz Bernina on the right is 4048m, th…

Har nu avinstallerat Adobe Acrobat och Creative Cloud, och tänkte redigera i https://smallpdf.com/ istället. Men har ni något tips på något Windowsprogram som gör att jag snabbt kan konvertera en fil till pdf via högerklicksmenyn istället?

Smallpdf.com - A Free Solution to all your PDF Problems
Smallpdf - the platform that makes it super easy to convert and edit all your PDF files. Solving all your PDF problems in one place - and yes, free.

Remember, using a native HTML `<fieldset>` / `<legend>` gets you better results in SRs than its ARIA equivalent:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/07/use-legend-and-fieldset.html
My post deals with the inverse of the others I shared — unstyling the nat…

Use Legend and Fieldset
It’s 2022 and people are still afraid to use

and

. I understand the layout challenges can be frustrating, but swapping to an ARIA group role will result in a more inaccessible experience. A Solution Try this:

Choose

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legend:not(:focus):not(:active) { position: absolute; overflow: hidden;…

The Cone of J-Hermitian Matrices and a Geometric Mean
Jose Franco, Allan Merino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21258 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21258 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21258
arXiv:2602.21258v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the cone $\mathscr{P}_{\text{J}}$ of positive J-Hermitian matrices associated with an indefinite signature matrix J = $\text{Id}_{p,q}$. We show that the J-exponential map is bijective and use it to analyze the algebraic and geometric structure of $\mathscr{P}_{\text{J}}$. Through a canonical identification with the cone of positive definite matrices, we endow $\mathscr{P}_{\text{J}}$ with a natural Riemannian structure. In this setting, we define a J-geometric mean as the midpoint of geodesics and prove that it is uniquely characterized as the solution of a Riccati-type equation.
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‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/19/they-pushed-so-many-lies-about-re…

Jak korzystacie ze #Stremio to pamiętajcie, że torrent w Polsce jest legalny tylko w jedną stronę (do siebie), a udostępnianie już nie jest, więc wtedy przychodzą z pomocą takie usługi jak #realdebrid
Jakby ktoś chciał to tutaj jest mój reflink:

Real-Debrid: All-in-one solution
Real-Debrid is an unrestricted downloader that allows you to quickly download files hosted on the Internet or instantly stream them into an innovative web player

I’m looking for a commercial Mastodon hosting solution for a small organization… I know of @… but are there others out there worth looking at?
#mastodon #fediverse

Would be nice if someone familiar with @… apps sets up a tar pit solution to protect hosted applications like mastodon
https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/1138674

"no elegant solution to FizzBuzz exists"
https://www.gayle.com/blog/2015/5/31/the-problem-with-the-fizzbuzz-problem
…

I finally, _finally_ seem to have finished adapting to the time change.
Screw all of this.
Y'know what we had a perfectly good solution to "I'd like to see the daylight" It's called taking a walk.

I've seen a bunch of "the CA age verification law is the best way to do a bad thing and so we shouldn't oppose compliance" takes, which others are rightly pointing out is a bad stance because it's blindingly obvious that compliance now sets the stage for compliance later and the clearly set up later is mandatory verification of age data. Even if you think that, for example, California's current "progressive" government won't go there, we're all currently seeing just how easy it is for a new government to pick up the oppressive tools the "good" government was using "restraint" with and put them to worse ends.
On the other hand, I'll freely admit that distros *do* need a way to shield themselves from liability right now. The clear (to me; IANAL) correct solution is to say on your website "don't download this OS if you're in a jurisdiction where it's not legal for us to provide it."). Assuming this does put you in the clear liability-wise, it has several positive effects:
- Stops zero people from downloading it.
- Makes it clear that your project will not collaborate with fascists/oppressive regime enjoyers.
- Means that when the next law makes verifying user ages mandatory (and/or explicitly requires using Palantir-adjacent services to do so) you've already got a strategy in place and there's no need for a "debate" in your "community" about compliance.
- Gets users more practice with "the law is malicious/needlessly bureaucratic/oppressive; let's ignore it" which to be honest people in general clearly desperately need at this point.
- Is the most effective political move if you want to resist the way things are going. Forcing the other side to explain why "California bans Linux" is good rhetorical strategy. Make *them* try to explain "well it's actually not so harmful since we let users set it themselves" and answer your follow-up "but what if next year the requirements change; I just refuse to go along with this slippery slope stuff and I'm not bothered if that means you want to *ban* me."
#AgeVerification

Anyone I know running this? Had an issue this week were someone got yet another vendor to send email, and our SPF is too big. Looking at solutions, sadly I can't say "stop getting vendors". Expurgate: https://github.com/smck83/expurgate

"While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition."
It feels somehow worse that we have WW2 as a cautionary tale and yet are here now anyway.

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution

This is a really good mini-tutorial on designing more impactful maps. Sadly, they use ArcGIS instead of #QGIS or another #FOSS4G solution, but the graphic design ideas are generally applicable.

It took me forever to find the 11 keystrokes solution

Lynch believes 49ers, Williams 'on the same page' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48026679/john-lynch-believes-49ers-trent-williams-all-same-page-optimistic-deal

Bikelution: Federated Gradient-Boosting for Scalable Shared Micro-Mobility Demand Forecasting
Antonios Tziorvas, Andreas Tritsarolis, Yannis Theodoridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20671 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20671 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20671
arXiv:2602.20671v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid growth of dockless bike-sharing systems has generated massive spatio-temporal datasets useful for fleet allocation, congestion reduction, and sustainable mobility. Bike demand, however, depends on several external factors, making traditional time-series models insufficient. Centralized Machine Learning (CML) yields high-accuracy forecasts but raises privacy and bandwidth issues when data are distributed across edge devices. To overcome these limitations, we propose Bikelution, an efficient Federated Learning (FL) solution based on gradient-boosted trees that preserves privacy while delivering accurate mid-term demand forecasts up to six hours ahead. Experiments on three real-world BSS datasets show that Bikelution is comparable to its CML-based variant and outperforms the current state-of-the-art. The results highlight the feasibility of privacy-aware demand forecasting and outline the trade-offs between FL and CML approaches.
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Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-deals/japan-s-re…

Japan's Renesas to sell timing solution segment to US-based SiTime for $3bn
Chipmaker divesting non-core businesses after seeing a loss in 1st 9 months of 2025

Is it true that Alfred app @… and LaunchBar @… rely on Spotlight’s index to work?
I am trying to find out an alternative solution for my recent issues with Spotlight crashing continuously on #macOS #Tahoe

Ground Station: An Open Source SDR Orchestration Platform for Satellite Tracking and Decoding

The software presents as a web-based UI that allows users to manage satellite passes, view SDR waterfall data, decode basic signals such as GMSK telemetry, view telemetry packets, synchronize TLEs, manage multiple SDR devices, browse downloaded weather imagery, monitor DSP performance, and interface with antenna rotators.
Unlike tools such as SatDump, which focus primarily …

Hello all - it's that time again - tomorrow evening, Tue 13 Jan, at 20:00 NZDT, we'll be having our Jan Libre/FOSS meeting at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - anyone welcome to join us. It'll be held on our BigBlueButton instance (thanks to Prodigi.nz for sponsored hosting infrastructure!). We'll …

Denkvoer voor in het stemhokje: “The real structural solution to high power prices is not to mute marginal pricing, but to reduce exposure to fossil fuels and accelerate clean capacity, grids and flexibility. That lowers marginal costs structurally rather than cosmetically.”
#energietransitie
#windenergie
#ZonneEnergie https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-why-does-gas-set-the-price-of-electricity-and-is-there-an-alternative/

EasyTier - A Simple, Secure, Decentralized SD-WAN Solution
A simple, decentralized mesh VPN with WireGuard support.
✨ #dezentral

EasyTier
EasyTier official

Hey folks, please, if you are posting especially political stuff, photos, articles, memes... Please use a common hashtag.
If someone can't filter away based on hashtags, the only solution is to mute the whole account. This would be collateral damage.
Cant speak for anyone else, but I want to keep my timeline clean. Even if I have to mute complete accounts 🙁

A European solution to reducing bureaucratic deadlock would be to spin up an oversight office to review quarterly reports from the various agencies to ensure they are meeting a number of KPCIs that demonstrate that they are effectively reducing friction, and to summarize and present these findings on a biannual cadence to a working group of MEPs

A clever solution for buildings that can't handle traditional solar panels is coming to Australia.
Smart Commercial and Over Easy Solar are launching prefab vertical rooftop systems with bifacial panels that install easily on structures with weight limits or design constraints. The vertical setup shifts power generation to morning and afternoon hours, complementing standard rooftop arrays.

Smart Commercial to roll out prefab vertical rooftop PV system
Smart Commercial Energy has unveiled a new prefabricated vertical rooftop solar system for the Australian market as part of a collaboration with Norwegian clean energy company Over Easy Solar.

Q&A with TPM founder Josh Marshall on the rise of independent journalism, early blogging vs. newsletters, and feeling bullish about the media ecosystem (Thor Benson/Long Lead Presents)
https://depthperception.longlead.com/p/tpm-josh…

TPM’s Josh Marshall on blogs, newsletters, and independent journalism's resurgence
Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall says independent journalists’ success is the "sustainable" solution to traditional media’s woes.

Open Market: Slim pickings in OT free agency for Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/open-market-slim-pickings-in-ot-free-agency-for-cowboys

'This is the future' — Amid blackouts, these Ukrainian mountain villages have green solution: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/this-is-the-future-amid.html

Finding Kolton Miller’s successor must be a Raiders priority https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/24/finding-kolton-millers-successor-must-be-a-raiders-priority/

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116261543716154268
The idea behind this comes from the intro to Ostrom's Governing the Commons. She points out that the Tragedy of the Commons happens when actors can be modeled as prisoners with no coordination. By increasing communication, we can create opportunities to shift away from the tragedy. Today, the climate crisis is very much a grand Tragedy of the Commons problem. A solution would be to build a (bottom up) coordinated carbon budget, and a community like described could be a low effort first step towards that.

Trump: Diplomatic solution in Iran remains possible and "much easier now" (Robert Costa/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-diplomatic-solution-in-iran-remains-possible-and-much-easier-now/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p97#a260228p97

I *love* how The Mythical Man Month is as relevant as ever, and the same voices in the room are *still* convinced more ~~bodies~~ agents is the solution to all our problems.

"‘Hot sand for a cooler climate’: Has Finland finally found a solution to industrial heat emissions?"
#Finland #Climate #ClimateChange

Finnish startup uses sand to slash industrial heat emissions by 90%
Finland is leading the race to decarbonise industrial heat emissions, using sand to produce fossil-free steam.

Google announces a new "advanced flow" for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period to install apps from unverified developers (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/897420/android-sideloading…

Google reveals its solution for true Android sideloading: a mandatory waiting period
The one-time ‘advanced flow’ for power users to sideload apps from unverified developers includes 24 hours of cooling off time.

Made new test prints on some off-cuts, using a slightly stronger developer solution than usual to see impact on max. depth. The main image (Eagle Creek, Oregon) is using 18% sodium acetate (curve corrected negative), the test strips are of 20% and 15% solutions (both uncorrected). The phone capture doesn't really show the differences too well, but I think I will go for the 18-20% from now on...
(Btw. The original image is here:

Niners GM John Lynch: We've had 'good and substantive meetings' regarding Trent Williams' contract https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-gm-john-lynch-we-ve-had-good-and-substantive-meetings-regarding-trent-williams-…

A Novel Explicit Filter for the Approximate Deconvolution in Large-Eddy Simulation on General Unstructured Grids: A posteriori tests on highly stretched grids
Mohammad Bagher Molaei, Ehsan Amani, Morteza Ghorbani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21166 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21166 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21166
arXiv:2602.21166v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Explicit filters play a pivotal role in the scale separation and numerical stability of advanced Large Eddy Simulation (LES) closures, such as dynamic eddy-viscosity or Approximate Deconvolution (AD) methods. In the present study, it is demonstrated that the performance of commonly used explicit filters applicable to general unstructured grids highly depends on the grid configuration, specifically the cell aspect ratio, which can result in poor filter spectral properties, ultimately leading to large errors and even solution divergence. This study introduces a novel, efficient explicit filter for general unstructured grids, addressing this shortcoming through a combination of a face-averaging technique and recursive filtering. The filter parameters are then determined through a constrained multi-objective optimization, ensuring desirable spectral properties, including high-wavenumber attenuation, filter-width precision, filter stability and positivity, and minimized dispersion and commutation errors. The AD-LES of turbulent channel flow benchmarks using the new filter demonstrate a noticeable improvement in turbulent flow predictions on highly stretched boundary-layer-type grids, particularly in reducing the log-layer mean velocity profile mismatch, compared to simulations using conventional filters. The analyses show that this enhancement is mainly attributed to the sufficient level of attenuation near the Nyquist wavenumber achieved by the new filter in all spatial directions across various grid configurations, among others. The new filter was also successfully tested on unstructured prism grids for the 3D Taylor-Green vortex benchmark.
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Open Market: Slim pickings in OT free agency for Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/open-market-slim-pickings-in-ot-free-agency-for-cowboys

🧼 Natural peptides from cyanobacteria offer eco-friendly solution to marine biofouling
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-natural-peptides-cyanobacteria-eco-friendly.html

Natural peptides from cyanobacteria offer eco-friendly solution to marine biofouling
A new CIIMAR study demonstrates that natural peptides produced by cyanobacteria are capable of replacing toxic biocides that dominate the market for anti-fouling paints used in the maritime industry. The use of these peptides as an active component brings direct benefits to the environment, the blue economy and marine biodiversity.

EU accession process 'designed for peace,' needs 'solution' to bring Ukraine into bloc sooner, official says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/14/eu-accession-process-designed-for.html

"Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?"
#Chemicals #Environment #Oceans

Pittsburgh at the NFL combine: QB reset in store for Steelers? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47981589/pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-combine-quarterback-reset-store-aaron-rodgers-2026-draft

Free Agency: Cowboys best George Pickens contract strategy is patience https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/22/free-agency-cowboys-best-george-pickens-contract-strat…

can this be a solution