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Today, I re-printed the first two things I ever designed for #3DPrinting nine years ago and change. When the pen clips for our kitchen whiteboard broke back in 2016, right after I bought my first printer, I made replacements.
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What could actually change in Lions' offense with John Morton as offensive coordinator?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/what-co

Installing the DivumWX “Light” skin for WeeWx Weather Software for a remote web server setup.
NOTE JUNE 2 2025: AS DIVUMWX IS STILL UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT THESE INSTRUCTIONS MAY CHANGE. In 2022 I installed a new skin as part of my Alberniweather.ca website using the "Weather34" skin for displaying weather data from my Davis Weather Station. My setup is a little special because my weather data gathering server is at home, where it creates the webpages and then syncs…
https://chrisalemany.ca/b/2tK

I'm a fucking Anarchist, and I’m not shutting the hell up! Stop trying to convince me otherwise. If you don’t like my path and my knowledge, then I have a damn good option for you!
Move the fuck on with your life. Find new friends, meet new people, connect with those who share your interests. Stop wasting your time trying to change me.
Fuck off telling me to vote in some bullshit election. Stop trying to talk me out of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism. I’m done with th…

Bonne nouvelle : les émissions de gaz Š effet de serre de la Chine ont effectivement baissé, alors la demande d'énergie a augmenté.
https://www.vox.com/climate/414297/china-carbon-emissions-climate-change-clean-energy-tariffs

Reducing Resistance to Urban Transport System Change
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S3050697225000016

Prediction of the Conditional Probability Densities of Time Interval Extrema for Risk-Sensitive Scheduling
Buyi Yu, Wenyuan Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01358

Prediction of the Conditional Probability Densities of Time Interval Extrema for Risk-Sensitive Scheduling
Planning and scheduling activities in the electrical power system, such as the commitment of reserve generation, often involve statistical characterization of peak demand. Extreme Value Analysis (EVA)-based probabilistic assessments of annual peaks are widely adopted by energy regulatory and oversight agencies to determine the likelihood and severity of potential energy shortfalls. Due to the inability of classical EVA to account for peak distributions that change with annual extreme temperatur…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09300 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Optimal response for stochastic differential equations by local kernel perturbations
We consider a random dynamical system on $\mathbb{R}^d$, whose dynamics is defined by a stochastic differential equation. The annealed transfer operator associated with such systems is a kernel operator. Given a set of feasible infinitesimal perturbations $P$ to this kernel, with support in a certain compact set, and a specified observable function $ϕ: \mathbb{R}^d \to \mathbb{R}$, we study which infinitesimal perturbation in $P$ produces the greatest change in expectation of $ϕ$. We establis…

Chip Kelly Clears the Air on Ashton Jeanty's New Stance https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-deland-mcullough-chip-kelly-ashton-jeanty

Actually I think I'm just gonna make a new account since I can't change the username

«L’Allemagne doit s’engager de toutes ses forces pour préserver la sécurité d’Israël et des Juifs dans le monde, mais cela ne justifie pas tout. Affamer les Palestiniens et aggraver délibérément la situation humanitaire de manière dramatique n’a rien Š voir avec la garantie du droit Š l’existence d’Israël, et cela ne peut pas non plus être la raison d’Etat allemande», estime Merz.
https://www.letemps.ch/monde/depassee-vis-a-vis-d-israel-depuis-le-7-octobre-l-allemagne-change-de-ton-face-au-desastre-de-gaza

Apple has (maybe) seen the light and (maybe) goes CalVer 🥳
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/apple-to-rebrand-device-operating-systems-ios-26-macos-26-watchos-26

iOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, iPadOS 26: Apple to Rebrand Device Software
Apple Inc. is planning the most sweeping change yet to its operating system names, part of a software overhaul that extends to all its devices.

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

Stupidly, today I decided to play around with the DuckDuckGo ai (duck.ai) to see if I could get it to write the code for me to change the resolution of a dataset to the native model resolution.
I *knew* that LLM were bad at math. But I didn’t realize HOW bad.
I asked it to change a 0.25 by 0.25 georeferenced global array to 1 by 1.25 degrees.
Maybe I was naïve in thinking it would ‘know’ that there are 180 degrees of latitude and 360 degrees on longitude.
But I had to do 5 prompts to get that piece corrected. Admittedly, I did not correct it directly— I corrected it as I would a student by prompting that there was an error in a particular line. (And yes- I realize it isn’t human and this is the wrong approach.)
I think I’m done with AI for now. I would have failed a student taking a class with me who didn’t have this most basic of knowledge down the first 5 minutes of class.
I keep thinking that LLM are sewing machines. They do a lot of good in the hands of someone who knows how to make them work, but they are only marginally better than hand-stitching when given to someone like me.
Is there a LLM that can write code in FORTRAN?

"The UK wildfire warning system as climate change drives hot temperatures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

The UK wildfire warning system as climate change drives hot temperatures
As climate change continues climate's like the UK's have begun to change with wildfires starting to increase due to the drier weather

Well, maybe we’ll get swamped with excellent applications when we (hopefully) have an opening for a PhD position in fall…
But requiring French limits the candidate pool so much, I guess it won’t make any difference.
https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/114557615125630255…

#PleaseBoost #Poll
Do you feel informed about climate risks and adaptation to climate change?
#ClimateChangeAdaptation

“Apocalypse forces us to radically change. But by facing the future with optimism instead of doom, we can transform ourselves into the kinds of people-the kinds of communities—who can survive.”
https://slate.com/technology/2025/05/h

Ich hoffe, @… kann uns beruhigen https://www.ft.com/content/9d2319b1-ce8f-4466-895c-a5e26495a023

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/linux_6_15_rc6_keyboards/
This change will cost Mr. Torvalds a lot of money. It's another rabbit hole down which your money is dippi…

I mean, I get that circumstances change in life occasionally, but my first thought was, how'd they afford one in the first place? #Tesla

Does someone know how to change the port for an SSH based cache?
The `user@host:port` pattern doesn't work on my machine.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-change-port-for-ssh-based-cache/63908

How climate change triggered a landslide tsunami
#FederatedMemory

Trainable dynamical masking for readout-free optical computing
S. Bogdanov, E. Manuylovich, S. K. Turitsyn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23464 https://…

Trainable dynamical masking for readout-free optical computing
Nonlinear systems, transforming an input signal into a high-dimensional output feature space, can be used for non-conventional computing. This approach, however, requires a change of system parameters during training rather than coefficients in a software program. We propose here to use available off-the-shelf high-speed optical communication devices and technologies to implement a trainable dynamical mask in addition to or even instead of the traditional readout layer for extreme learning mach…

Erik Strauss – FTUR
#abstract

#mastodonadmin note on v4.3.5
None
YMMV
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.5

Germany in a nutshell:
There is no law that regulates how old tires on a normal car can be before they have to be replaced. Meaning: You can drive 300km/h on the Autobahn with 12 year old tires as long as they have enough profile.
BUT: If you have a trailer which is licensed to be towed with up to 100km/h you have to change tires every 6 years, else you are only allowed to tow it with 80km/h

To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)

What Trump says: Climate change is BS. It's not going to happen. Forget about it.
What Trump means: Climate change is BS. It's not going to happen in my lifetime. Forget about it. Because I will have...
#trump #politics

Just stumbled across a great App of @geodepartment.mastodon.online
Have you encountered changes in the alpine environment: glacier retreat, land slides, vegetation change etc.? Bring them into context to uncover historical changes and report them at #Alps #GlobalChange #CitizenScience

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19365 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Three-dimensional magnetic Schrödinger operator with the potential supported in a tube
In this article we discuss the magnetic Schroedinger operator $H= (i \nabla +A)^2-V$ on $\mathbb{R}^3$ with a non-negative potential $V$ supported over the tube built along a curve which is a local deformation of a straight one, and the magnetic field $B := \mathrm{rot}(A)$ is assumed to be nonzero and local. For the latter, we prove that the magnetic field does not change the essential spectrum of this system, and investigate a sufficient condition for the discrete spectrum of $H$ to be empty.

Tired from #Gmail sigh...I need to have a change, a fresh air.
My #mailbox are fulled of junk, messed mails, etc.
I'm wondering what #mail provider I can choose.
Or as always I…

What Trump says: Climate change is BS. It's not going to happen. Forget about it.
What Trump means: Climate change is BS. It's not going to happen in my lifetime. Forget about it. Because I will have...
#trump #politics

Oddly satisfying to find that the reason our metrics change between one event and another is because one has a hard coded value instead of a real one, and that it's been that way since inception, two years before I started.
I'm the only maintainer on this software, and it's not prioritized, but it is a business priority

Sorry to see the FEMA head fired. He’s right, eliminating FEMA is a terrible idea. Just canceling “non-disaster” funding will harm Americans and not really save money. Each dollar spent in preparedness saves $6-13 in post-disaster recovery, depending on how it is measured. Well, if there were no disasters, we’d save money, but pretending climate change isn’t real won’t help there either. By the way, states already do a ton of disaster preparedness and management—FEMA is the central standardi…

Even Microsoft knows better than to use Windows #linux
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/04/03/microsoft-…

#gsa #nyc #columbia #climate
The original Charney Report that says doubling CO2 will yield 1.5-4.5 degrees C temperature change (
#NOAA 's #GFDL and #NASA 's #GISS - incidentally, gfdl was also in the news yesterday
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-noaa-budget-cuts-climate-change-modeling-princeton-gfdl
" The gutting of NOAA was outlined earlier this month in a leaked memo from the Office of Management and Budget that detailed steep reductions at the Department of Commerce, which houses the science agency. ... NOAA’s overall funding would be slashed by 27%…
most significant target is the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ⎯ a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling, including the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ⎯ which would be cut by 74%. “At this funding level, OAR is eliminated as a line office,” the memo stated.”

So on a whim, decided to check out a new DE. Came across hyprland tiling DE. I am liking the keyboard shorts. Kept accidentally bumping Super M so that was a quick change. Fun to setup so far, it looks very customizable. #linux #hyprland

#NewPaper out: Anne Reichmuth , Kühn I, Schmidt A, Doktor D (2025) Forested Natura 2000 sites under climate change: effects of tree species distribution shifts. Web Ecology 25: 59–89.
We have modelled and analysed the effect of possible tree species distribution shift in Norway spruce (Picea abies), European beech (Fagus sylvatica), and two oak species (Quercus petraea and Quercus robur), considered jointly on forested Natura 2000 sites, an EU-wide conservation area network. The modelling procedure was performed using 3 to 4 bio-climatic variables derived from 26 variables of the EURO-CORDEX Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) climate simulations for the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) 2.6, 4.5, and 8.5 until 2098. Our results reveal a severe decline in Picea within Natura 2000 sites in central Europe and lower elevations and confirm a strong shift towards higher elevations and latitudes. This amounts to an 18 % absolute mean change (−18 % mean loss, 15 % mean gain). Quercus sp. reveal similar results, with 23 % absolute mean change (−23 % loss, 24 % gain) at Natura 2000 sites, whereas Fagus remains stable throughout the model results with 8 % absolute mean change (−7 % loss, 9 % gain). As ecosystems of any type are highly dynamic, climate change can lead to additional severe pressure on statically defined conservation goals and associated management activities.
#biodiversity #ecology #ClimateChange #conservation

#gsa has told #nasa to vacate it’s only office in #nyc
#columbia and nasa with about 2/3 of the 120 people in the building being researchers employed by Columbia. This lab could not exist at all outside of nyc.
This lab, along with #gfdl in Princeton NJ were the first to come up with how sensitive the #climate is to inputs of CO2 in the 1979 Charney report.
We still make estimates of future climate change today.