Tootfinder

Display modules for the trigger crossbar front panel came in.
Pervasive Displays E2213SJ0C1 212 x 104 pixel red/black/white e-ink display.
Since there's no backlight in an e-ink display, the back side is exposed glass with a visible electrode pattern. Let's take a closer look!

If you believe the attack by #iran was mostly for show, consider the bar graph here: https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran’s…

ASIO: violent rightwing extremists are still inspired by the Christchurch mosque massacre carried & “want to trigger a so called ‘race war’”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news

Thinking in scenarios, what would europe / NATO do if Russia decided to damage /destroy most undersea cables which are essential for our internet and networking in Europe? They have the undersea capabilities, it would not trigger a nuclear war. What would/could we do in response ?
#Geopolitics @…

And here is the trigger event, I reckon. The opinion writer we believe is basically a sock puppet for the media proprietor is back – and making some plainly false factual claims.
The easiest to prove: that in investigating their identity, News24 did not provide them with an opportunity to comment.
That is the work of a moment to take before the Press Ombud, at which point Independent Media has to choose between apologising or storming out again.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240315072705/https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/analysis/debunking-the-lies-a-response-to-news24s-special-projects-propaganda-779c9b95-930a-4b70-b845-f710f63c897a

Canadian wildfires trigger air quality alerts across 4 U.S. states (Denise Chow/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/canada-wildfires-air-quality-alerts-us-states-rcna151956
http://www.memeorandum.com/240513/p36#a240513p36

A giant sunspot cluster rivaling the one that caused the Carrington Event in 1859 could trigger a cannibal coronal mass ejection.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carrington-level-cluster-of-sunspot…

Giant Sunspot Cluster Could Pelt Earth with a Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejection
A giant sunspot cluster rivaling the one that caused the Carrington Event in 1859 could trigger a cannibal coronal mass ejection. But this is unlikely to cause major problems

And here is the trigger event, I reckon. The opinion writer we believe is basically a sock puppet for the media proprietor is back – and making some plainly false factual claims.
The easiest to prove: that in investigating their identity, News24 did not provide them with an opportunity to comment.
That is the work of a moment to take before the Press Ombud, at which point Independent Media has to choose between apologising or storming out again.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240315072705/https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/analysis/debunking-the-lies-a-response-to-news24s-special-projects-propaganda-779c9b95-930a-4b70-b845-f710f63c897a

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03266 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

High-z Gamma-Ray Bursts detection by SVOM/ECLAIRs: Impact of instrumental biases on the burst measured properties
Context. Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) can be detected at cosmological distances and therefore can be used to study the contents and phases of the early Universe. The 4 -- 150 keV wide-field trigger camera ECLAIRs to fly on-board the Space-based multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM) mission dedicated to study high-energy transient sky in synergy with multi-messenger follow-up instruments, is adapted to detect high-z GRBs. Aims. Investigating the detection capabilities of ECLAIRs for high redshift…

Will Aaron Bushnell’s Death Trigger Anarchism Witch Hunt? #AaronBushnell

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16767 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Infection-induced Cascading Failures -- Impact and Mitigation
Two-layer spreading processes on unidirectionally dependent networks are studied, where the spreading infection of diseases or malware in one layer can trigger cascading failures in another layer and lead to secondary disasters, e.g., disrupting public services, supply chains, or power distribution. We utilize the dynamic message-passing method to devise efficient algorithms for inferring the system states, which allows one to investigate systematically the nature of such complex intertwined sp…

A bold red trigger warning on a civil complaint? Shooting, sexual intercourse, and prostitutes, you say? <digs in> well, there goes my afternoon

Concealing Backdoor Model Updates in Federated Learning by Trigger-Optimized Data Poisoning
Yujie Zhang, Neil Gong, Michael K. Reiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06206

The case was on a break, as there were negotiations ongoing. I do not know what made me look so unusual as to trigger investigation from the bench. I would have thought Big Irish Heads were commonplace in New York.

Lawmakers begin efforts to move around Johnson, force vote on Ukraine aid
Pressure is mounting for Speaker Mike #Johnson (R-La.) to address aiding foreign allies as House Democrats and Republicans tee up opposing measures that would supersede House GOP leadership and trigger votes on bills funding #Ukraine,

Lawmakers begin efforts to move around Johnson, force vote on Ukraine aid
Over a month after the Senate approved a $95.3 billion national security package, the House remains indecisive about how — and whether — to aid allies at war.

What's the old adage? "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail..."
Well, the new one is "Every app will add AI and you'll accidentally trigger it without meaning to!"
Also, there's no way to disable this shit. I use a web-based app and it has a "Press 'space' for AI" every time I click to type my own text.

I can't leave Windows at work because of the need to use a couple of management programs that are only compatible with that system. But that does not prevent me from additionally using a laptop with GNU/Linux.
Since I have discovered a couple of online shops for second-hand computers, I have pulled the trigger and bought a small netbook with a 5th generation i5 and 8GB RAM. This device with Linux Mint and i3wm is going to fly.
I don't know why I haven't done this befo…

If you're curious about #HTMX and #aspnetcore and how they can work together, check out this sample using Hx-Trigger to trigger other elements to update from a single request.
This is nice if you have global shared state like a shopping cart, score, etc.

GitHub - khalidabuhakmeh/HxTriggerSample: Hx-Trigger for global events
Hx-Trigger for global events . Contribute to khalidabuhakmeh/HxTriggerSample development by creating an account on GitHub.

Random question. Usually, #Emacs tracks the column position when you change lines. If you're in column position 37 on line 4 and you move down to line 5, you'll be in column position 37 on line 5. Every now and then, this behavior randomly stops (I say randomly, I must accidentally trigger it somehow.) Moving up and down always moves the cursor to column 1. Saving the buffer, killing it, a…

Knowledge-aware Alert Aggregation in Large-scale Cloud Systems: a Hybrid Approach
Jinxi Kuang, Jinyang Liu, Junjie Huang, Renyi Zhong, Jiazhen Gu, Lan Yu, Rui Tan, Zengyin Yang, Michael R. Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06485

Knowledge-aware Alert Aggregation in Large-scale Cloud Systems: a Hybrid Approach
Due to the scale and complexity of cloud systems, a system failure would trigger an "alert storm", i.e., massive correlated alerts. Although these alerts can be traced back to a few root causes, the overwhelming number makes it infeasible for manual handling. Alert aggregation is thus critical to help engineers concentrate on the root cause and facilitate failure resolution. Existing methods typically utilize semantic similarity-based methods or statistical methods to aggregate alerts. However,…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03323 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Binary branching processes with Moran type interactions
The aim of this paper is to study the large population limit of a binary branching particle system with Moran type interactions: we introduce a new model where particles evolve, reproduce and die independently and, with a probability that may depend on the configuration of the whole system, the death of a particle may trigger the reproduction of another particle, while a branching event may trigger the death of an other one. We study the occupation measure of the new model, explicitly relating …

Have to admit I’m a *little* bummed this didn’t trigger something fun.

So I've just logged in, and this, from @… (via boosting) is the very first post - https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/112059627467312670…

David Revoy (@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org)
Attaché : 1 image I learned this morning of the passing of Akira Toriyama, the father of Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, designer of Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger. Also, probably the artist who influenced me the most when I started drawing. Here is an old fan art I drew of Arale. My heart is really heavy this morning... #akiratoriyama #toriyama #鳥山明 #fanart #krita

Still not happy with the fingering on this bass tab, but it's close enough for the time being. I'll let it sit for a while then come back to it... #bass #ChronoTrigger #vgm

Artist Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger and more) has passed away:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/03/dragon-ball-creator-akira-toriyama-has-passed-away

Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Has Passed Away
He also worked on games like Dragon Quest

Cowboys can create $65M cap space without extending Dak Prescott https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/cowboys-can-create-65m-cap-space-without-extending-dak-prescott/

Cowboys can create $65M cap space without extending Dak Prescott
The Cowboys began preparation for the new league year in earnest on Friday, executing a conversion trigger on the final year of Zack Martin’s contract. The nine-time All-Pro (seven times Firs…

AHT20 based sensor works a charm - been hating the non i2c ones I used before. This is all win. Stable as can be
Now to do some work to make my managed FSMs capable of reacting to values from metrics and trigger power switches etc.
Trying to come up with a good solution to my winter 8C heating level problems - in the baltics Electrolux (usually very solid kit) is some rebranded Russian rubbish that keep dying. This winter was not fun managing that.

It's time.
Thanks – to the countless software developers and contributors who rarely, or never, receive a personal thank-you.
Some of the most challenging projects can trigger unfairly negative responses, when positive updates are offered. To the few developers who are bold and generous enough to take on these extraordinary challenges: a very special thank-you. You know who you are.

Trigger mechanism for a singing cavitating tip vortex
Zhaohui Qian, Yongshun Zeng, Xiaoxing Peng, Xianwu Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02883 https://

Trigger mechanism for a singing cavitating tip vortex
The discrete tone radiated from tip vortex cavitation (TVC), known as 'vortex singing', was recognized in 1989, but its triggering remains unclear for over thirty years. In this study, the desinent cavitation number and viscous correction are applied to describe the dynamics of cavitation bubbles and the dispersion relation of cavity interfacial waves. The wavenumber-frequency spectrum of the cavity radius from the experiment in CSSRC indicates that singing waves predominantly consist of the st…

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Morcheeba:
🎵 Trigger hippie
#Morcheeba
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GaYqv2NMMlVbG3ewJQ4A6
https://darrpurple.bandcamp.com/track/5-morcheeba-trigger-hippie

2022 retro-link! https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155 - Covid-19 will never become endemic.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11631 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Characterization and performance of an upgraded front-end-board for NectarCAM
This paper presents an analysis of the updated version of the Front-End Board (FEB) for the NectarCAM camera, developed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). The FEB is a critical component responsible for reading and converting signals from the camera's photo-multiplier tubes into digital data and generating module-level trigger signals. This study provides an overview of the design and performance of the new FEB version, including the use of an improved NECTAr3 chip with advan…

Er zijn muzieken waar ik niet zonder trigger aan denk.
Papas en Vangelis bijvoorbeeld:
https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=gwl1t9JlNFc&list=PL99xt1EORnQjjfBqj2HZldLOusCsKSRCu&index=0

The Neural Network First-Level Hardware Track Trigger of the Belle II Experiment
S. B\"ahr, H. Bae, J. Becker, M. Bertemes, M. Campajola, T. Ferber, G. Inguglia, Y. Iwasaki, T. J\"ulg, C. Kiesling, Y. -T. Lai, Y. Liu, A. Knoll, T. Koga, A. Lenz, F. Meggendorfer, H. Nakazawa, M. Neu, J. Schieck, E. Schmidt, J. -G. Shiu, S. Skambraks, K. Unger, J. Yin

The Neural Network First-Level Hardware Track Trigger of the Belle II Experiment
We describe the principles and performance of the first-level ("L1") hardware track trigger of Belle II, based on neural networks. The networks use as input the results from the standard Belle II trigger, which provides "2D" track candidates in the plane transverse to the electron-positron beams. The networks then provide estimates for the origin of the 2D track candidates in direction of the colliding beams ("$z$-vertex"), as well as their polar emission angles $θ$. Given the $z$-vertices of …

👍 "Israeli security units are accused of human rights violations, which would trigger U.S. laws prohibiting the provision of military assistance"
Blinken says he’s made decision on Israeli human rights violations in West Bank - The Washington Post
https://www.

Blinken says he’s made decision on Israeli human rights violations in West Bank
Israeli security units are accused of human rights violations, which would trigger U.S. laws prohibiting the provision of military assistance.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13056 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

SATBA: An Invisible Backdoor Attack Based On Spatial Attention
Backdoor attack has emerged as a novel and concerning threat to AI security. These attacks involve the training of Deep Neural Network (DNN) on datasets that contain hidden trigger patterns. Although the poisoned model behaves normally on benign samples, it exhibits abnormal behavior on samples containing the trigger pattern. However, most existing backdoor attacks suffer from two significant drawbacks: their trigger patterns are visible and easy to detect by backdoor defense or even human insp…

ph- hypermobility chronic pain adhd
i've skipped my workout a few too many times and now my lower back is completely shot.
i can't stress enough how many times the massage ball in combination with the muscle trigger point app saved me. in the past those kinds of pain could take months to resolve. now it's usually fixed in a few days max.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04175 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Cloud-cloud collisions triggering star formation in galaxy simulations
Cloud-cloud collisions (CCCs) are expected to compress gas and trigger star formation. However, it is not well understood how the collisions and the induced star formation affect galactic-scale properties. By developing an on-the-fly algorithm to identify CCCs at each timestep in a galaxy simulation and a model that relates CCC-triggered star formation to collision speeds, we perform simulations of isolated galaxies to study the evolution of galaxies and giant molecular clouds (GMCs) with presc…

Big shout out to @… for writing this blog post on #htmx and #aspnetcore.
It's pretty amazing how little code (and no

Listening to HTMX HX-Trigger response header events from Alpine.js
HTMX and Alpine.js are a great combination. Here's how to listen to HTMX HX-Trigger response header events from Alpine.js.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15145 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

Long-lived doubly charged scalars in the left-right symmetric model: catalyzed nuclear fusion and collider implications
We show that the doubly charged scalar from the $SU(2)_R$-triplet Higgs field in the Left-Right Symmetric Model has its mass governed by a hidden symmetry so that its value can be much lower than the $SU(2)_R$ breaking scale. This makes it a long-lived particle while being consistent with all existing theoretical and experimental constraints. Such long-lived doubly charged scalars have the potential to trigger catalyzed fusion processes in light nuclei, which may have important applications for…

Minus script, an accessible disclosure widget can fit in a Masto post:
```
<button type="button" id="B1" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="D1">
Trigger
</button>
<div id="D1">
Content
</div>
```
```
button[aria-expanded="false"] div {
display: none;
}
```
`aria-controls` is ~optional (not exposed by SRs in this context).…

Around-the-world seismic echo as a trigger for aftershocks and the main shock of an earthquake
A. V. Guglielmi, O. D. Zotov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18258

Around-the-world seismic echo as a trigger for aftershocks and the main shock of an earthquake
The essence of the cumulative effect of a round-the-world seismic echo is that the echo can serve as a trigger for a second tremors in the epicentral zone of the earthquake that gave rise to the echo. According to the classification of triggers, the round-the-world echo is an endogenous force mechanical additive trigger. The round-the-world echo excited by the main shock as a trigger for aftershocks has been studied in detail previously. In this work, the question of whether a foreshock can exc…

Prediction of Space Weather Events through Analysis of Active Region Magnetograms using Convolutional Neural Network
Shlesh Sakpal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02545

Prediction of Space Weather Events through Analysis of Active Region Magnetograms using Convolutional Neural Network
Although space weather events may not directly affect human life, they have the potential to inflict significant harm upon our communities. Harmful space weather events can trigger atmospheric changes that result in physical and economic damages on a global scale. In 1989, Earth experienced the effects of a powerful geomagnetic storm that caused satellites to malfunction, while triggering power blackouts in Canada, along with electricity disturbances in the United States and Europe. With the so…

At least four of the main principles of Trump's economic philosophy carry significant inflationary risks, according to economists and Wall Street analysts.
1. Universal tariffs: In what would likely trigger a massive global trade war, Trump has called for 10% tariffs on all imports, 100% tariffs on cars made outside the U.S., and a minimum 60% tariffs on Chinese goods.
🔸An analysis by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a Democrat-aligned group, found that the 10%…

Trump's inflation bomb: How his second-term plans could make it worse
Economists warn tariffs, lower interest rates, lower taxes and mass deportations could super-charge inflation.

Finally pulled the trigger on this o7
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/307283

maintainers: remove msfjarvis by msfjarvis · Pull Request #307283 · NixOS/nixpkgs
Description of changes It's been a great few years of being a small part of the community but I think I'm done now. This orphans a few packages but I'm sure someone else who gives a shit can take o...

As far as I can tell, he wasn't overly political. Was his crime working for a foreign university?
I fear anytime a #Chinese friend, journalist, or students, goes home. You never know what might trigger an exit ban, or worse.

Chinese professor at Japan university missing after visiting homeland
Hu Shiyun became unreachable after arriving in China following the end of summer school courses in August last year, and his family hasn't heard from him.

#NowPlaying - sunday night willie! always mindblown about the economics that result in willie nelson's LPs remaining so cheap despite his national hero status, alongside country/folk/pre-'60s jazz, etc. but whatever, this one is a serious winner. besides the heartlandy title track, almost no traces of 1986. produced by willie, lotsa trigger

Looking through old files this weekend, stumbled across a flier for the 1990 introduction of the NeXTstation. Those were some great academic discounts ($2,000 discount from the $4,995 base model list price)!
Clearly enough to tempt, since I kept the flier. But not enough for me to pull the trigger: I stuck with a borrowed ‘030 NeXTcube for a while longer (until the 33MHz turbo models were introduced).

Trigger mechanism for a singing cavitating tip vortex
Zhaohui Qian, Yongshun Zeng, Xiaoxing Peng, Xianwu Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02883 https://

Trigger mechanism for a singing cavitating tip vortex
The discrete tone radiated from tip vortex cavitation (TVC), known as 'vortex singing', was recognized in 1989, but its triggering remains unclear for over thirty years. In this study, the desinent cavitation number and viscous correction are applied to describe the dynamics of cavitation bubbles and the dispersion relation of cavity interfacial waves. The wavenumber-frequency spectrum of the cavity radius from the experiment in CSSRC indicates that singing waves predominantly consist of the st…

Thinking more about firmware update mechanisms and provisioning for the trigger crossbar (and my future open T&M projects).
I want something that is freedom preserving but also secure (i.e. ensures the owner can do whatever they want and outsiders are kept out). Thoughts so far, open to suggestions:
* Out of the box, serial console is the only administration interface and is wide open (no login required), and the instrument is not reachable via network.
* Once you log i…

Sometimes "couch philosophers" join in a debate.
Usually, these are the people who don't know shit on the subject at hand. Their knowledge is basically what they just came up with. Their authority is based on the fact that they've read, or heard, something, somewhere, at some point in time. Even if it weren't complete tabloid class bullshit, they've usually only skimmed over it, without true comprehension or understanding the context, forgot most of it, and filled all these blanks with whatever fitted their world view.
They enjoy indifference, since the topic in question doesn't really concern them, and they call it "an open mind". They don't try to understand the emotions of the other person, that is directly troubled by the issue at hand. All they care about is discussing for the sake of it. Sometimes they actually enjoy when the debate turns into a shitstorm, when they manage to trigger an emotional response, and they gloat in their "alpha male" "superiority".
There's no point in talking to these people. You need to recognize the symptoms quickly, and ban them. Every counterargument is giving them satisfaction that they've triggered an answer, that they've got everyone's attention on them. The best you can do is take away the possibility of further participation from them.

A Multimodal Approach to Device-Directed Speech Detection with Large Language Models
Dominik Wager, Alexander Churchill, Siddharth Sigtia, Panayiotis Georgiou, Matt Mirsamadi, Aarshee Mishra, Erik Marchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14438

A Multimodal Approach to Device-Directed Speech Detection with Large Language Models
Interactions with virtual assistants typically start with a predefined trigger phrase followed by the user command. To make interactions with the assistant more intuitive, we explore whether it is feasible to drop the requirement that users must begin each command with a trigger phrase. We explore this task in three ways: First, we train classifiers using only acoustic information obtained from the audio waveform. Second, we take the decoder outputs of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) syst…

Status of the production of GEM chambers for the CMS experiment at Large Hadron Collider
L. Benussi, S. Bianco, R. Campagnola, M. Caponero, S. Colafranceschi, S. Meola, E. Paoletti, L. Passamonti, D. Piccolo, D. Pierluigi, A. Russo, G. Saviano, R. Tesauro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03677…

Status of the production of GEM chambers for the CMS experiment at Large Hadron Collider
The High Luminosity LHC phase includes an upgrade to the muon stations for the CMS Experiment. CMS trigger and muon identification performance will be crucial, and it is, therefore, necessary to install new GEM stations to extend acceptance in the high-η region. An explanation of the quality control test and an update on the status of production will be provided.

Since I pulled the trigger and became a Glass patron, I got 3 referral links for a free year of Glass (applies to new accounts). Hit me up if you'd like one.
#glass

Łukasz Wójcik on Glass Photography Community
Łukasz Wójcik. Street, reportage, travels, stories, personal. Hailing from Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱

"Rain comes to the Arctic, with a cascade of troubling changes"
#Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Rain comes to the Arctic, with a cascade of troubling changes
Rain used to be rare in the Arctic, but as the region warms, so-called rain-on-snow events are becoming more common. The rains accelerate ice loss, trigger flooding, landslides, and avalanches, and create problems for wildlife and the Indigenous people who depend on them.

New FDA-approved drug makes severe food allergies less life-threatening
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/fda-approves-first-drug-to-lessen-food-allergies-before-accidental-eating/?u…

SCOTUS May Kill 'Bump Stock' Ban So Some Lucky Ducky Can Top Las Vegas Massacre's Death Toll
https://www.wonkette.com/p/scotus-may-kill-bump-stock-ban-so

SCOTUS May Kill 'Bump Stock' Ban So Some Lucky Ducky Can Top Las Vegas Massacre's Death Toll
Trigger warning: The case may turn on grammar. Yikes.

Properties of electrons accelerated by the Ganymede-magnetosphere interaction: survey of Juno high-latitude observations
J. Rabia, V. Hue, N. Andre, Q. Nenon, J. R. Szalay, F. Allegrini, A. H. Sulaiman, C. K. Louis, T. K. Greathouse, Y. Sarkango, D. Santos-Costa, M. Blanc, E. Penou, P. Louarn, R. W. Ebert, G. R. Gladstone, A. Mura, J. E. P. Connerney, S. J. Bolton

Properties of electrons accelerated by the Ganymede-magnetosphere interaction: survey of Juno high-latitude observations
The encounter between the Jovian co-rotating plasma and Ganymede gives rise to electromagnetic waves that propagate along the magnetic field lines and accelerate particles by resonant or non-resonant wave-particle interaction. They ultimately precipitate into Jupiter's atmosphere and trigger auroral emissions. In this study, we use Juno/JADE, Juno/UVS data, and magnetic field line tracing to characterize the properties of electrons accelerated by the Ganymede-magnetosphere interaction in the fa…

Nano/micro-plastics effects in agricultural landscapes: an overlooked threat to pollination, biological pest control, and food security
Dong ShengSustainable Agricultural Systems & Engineering Lab, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Coastal Environment and Resources of Zhejiang Province, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Siyuan…

Nano/micro-plastics effects in agricultural landscapes: an overlooked threat to pollination, biological pest control, and food security
Biodiversity-associated ecosystem services such as pollination and biocontrol may be severely affected by emerging nano/micro-plastics (NMP) pollution. We synthesized the little-explored effects of NMP on pollinators and biocontrol agents on the organismal, farm and landscape scale. For instance ingested NMP trigger organismal changes from gene expression, organ damage to behavior modifications. At the farm and landscape level, NMP will likely amplify synergistic effects with other threats such…

LSP Framework: A Compensatory Model for Defeating Trigger Reverse Engineering via Label Smoothing Poisoning
Beichen Li, Yuanfang Guo, Heqi Peng, Yangxi Li, Yunhong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12852

LSP Framework: A Compensatory Model for Defeating Trigger Reverse Engineering via Label Smoothing Poisoning
Deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Among the existing backdoor defense methods, trigger reverse engineering based approaches, which reconstruct the backdoor triggers via optimizations, are the most versatile and effective ones compared to other types of methods. In this paper, we summarize and construct a generic paradigm for the typical trigger reverse engineering process. Based on this paradigm, we propose a new perspective to defeat trigger reverse engineering by manipu…

THz-assisted microscopy of silica matrix for biological materials encapsulation: a theoretical and experimental study
Matteo De Tullio, Giovanni Noviinverardi, Jonathan Houard, Marc Ropitaux, Ivan Blum, Francesco Carnovale, Gianluca Lattanzi, Simone Taioli, Gustav Eriksson, Mats Hulander, Martin Andersson, Angela Vella, Tommaso Morresi
https://

THz-assisted microscopy of silica matrix for biological materials encapsulation: a theoretical and experimental study
In this study, we use THz-assisted atom probe tomography (APT) to analyse silica matrices used to encapsulate biomolecules. This technique provides the chemical composition and 3D structure without significantly heating the biosample, which is crucial for studying soft organic molecules such as proteins. Our results show that THz pulses and a positive static field trigger controlled evaporation of silica matrices, enabling 4D imaging with chemical sensitivity comparable to UV laser-assisted APT…

I am a #Fujifilm shooter. I generally stay away from third party lenses because they lack aperture rings. Viltrox released a 13mm F1.4 XF Auto Focus Ultra Wide Angle Lens that received raving reviews. I decided to pull the trigger and purchase. Plus it has an aperture ring. I was looking forward to going out today but it is f*ck*ng raining. No, I don’t have a cat.

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Calexico:
🎵 El gatillo (Trigger revisited)
#Calexico
https://casadecalexico.bandcamp.com/track/el-gatillo-trigger-revisited

How do I keep Apple Music from popping up on the Mac on occasion without me asking for it? Does some kind of audio configuration change (like taking out iPods) trigger this?

An #aspnetcore #Blazor user asked for help this week regarding a blog post I had written, which made me revisit a demo I did and think about @… HX-Trigger post…

Finally found some time to tidy up the other side of my lab bench. Now I'm dual tracking the 1000baseT1 testing on the right side and the trigger crossbar at left.
The potential for this sort of thing is exactly why I've got two of most pieces of gear.
It'll get even nearer when my next Koaxis order with some short SMA-SMPM cables comes in and I can get rid of the long coils going to the SDA.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02619 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Collisional flavor swap with neutrino self-interactions
Neutrinos play pivotal roles in determining fluid dynamics, nucleosynthesis, and their observables in core-collapse supernova (CCSN) and binary neutron star merger (BNSM). In this paper, we present a novel phenomenon, collisional flavor swap, in which neutrino-matter interactions trigger the complete interchange of neutrino spectra between two different flavors, aided by neutrino self-interactions. We find that a necessary condition to trigger the collisional swap is occurrences of resonance-li…

High Low: Cowboys’ Odds of Drafting at RB in 2024 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/high-low-cowboys-odds-of-drafting-at-rb-in-2024

High Low: Cowboys’ Odds of Drafting at RB in 2024
It’s very possible that the Dallas Cowboys make another addition to the running back position in free agency, but what are the odds that they pull that trigger in the 2024 NFL Draft?

#Republicans are the pro-crime party. #thugs
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South Carolina Republican primary live updates: Trump, Nikki Haley face off as early exit poll results roll in
Get live updates and the latest news coverage on the 2024 South Carolina primary, where Donald Trump and Nikki Haley go head-to-head as voters cast their ballots.

Ruledger: Ensuring Execution Integrity in Trigger-Action IoT Platforms
Jingwen Fan, Yi He, Bo Tang, Qi Li, Ravi Sandhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19011 htt…

Ruledger: Ensuring Execution Integrity in Trigger-Action IoT Platforms
Smart home IoT systems utilize trigger-action platforms, e.g., IFTTT, to manage devices from various vendors. However, they may be abused by triggering malicious rule execution with forged IoT devices or events violating the execution integrity and the intentions of the users. To address this issue, we propose a ledger based IoT platform called Ruledger, which ensures the correct execution of rules by verifying the authenticity of the corresponding information. Ruledger utilizes smart contracts…

High-mass star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud triggered by colliding HI flows
K. Tsuge, H. Sano, K. Tachihara, K. Bekki, K. Tokuda, T. Inoue, N. Mizuno, A. Kawamura, T. Onishi, Y. Fukui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05046

High-mass star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud triggered by colliding HI flows
The galactic tidal interaction is a possible mechanism to trigger the active star formation in galaxies. The recent analyses using the HI data in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) proposed that the tidally driven HI flow, the L-component, is colliding with the LMC disk, the D-component, and is triggering high-mass star formation toward the active star-forming regions R136 and N44. In order to explore the role of the collision over the entire LMC disk, we investigated the I-component, the collisi…

Finally found some time to tidy up the other side of my lab bench. Now I'm dual tracking the 1000baseT1 testing on the right side and the trigger crossbar at left.
The potential for this sort of thing is exactly why I've got two of most pieces of gear.
It'll get even nearer when my next Koaxis order with some short SMA-SMPM cables comes in and I can get rid of the long coils going to the SDA.

The Raspberry I had to play retro games on had to be used as a 3D printer server. I wanted to buy another one, but the prices are absurd. A cheap minipc with an N100 is going to make my beloved SNES games fly with Retropie, Batocera or Recalbox.
Trigger pulled and waiting for the purchase on Aliexpress.
#retrogamig

4D Track Reconstruction on Free-Streaming Data at PANDA at FAIR
Jenny Taylor, Michael Papenbrock, Tobias Stockmanns, Ralf Kliemt, Tord Johansson, Adeel Akram, Karin Sch\"onning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03667

4D Track Reconstruction on Free-Streaming Data at PANDA at FAIR
A new generation of experiments is being developed, where the challenge of separating rare signal processes from background at high intensities requires a change of trigger paradigm. At the future PANDA experiment at FAIR, hardware triggers will be abandoned and instead a purely software-based system will be used. This requires novel reconstruction methods with the ability to process data from many events simultaneously. A 4D tracking algorithm based on the cellular automaton has been develop…

PSA smtp2go.com provides 1000 emails / month relayed through their SMTP servers for free.
Good enough for my home lab needs I reckon. Should resolve issues with trigger happy fastmail.

If he doesn't fork over the appeal $$$ and relies on a bond, that's an admission he's broke
Trump appeals $364 million decision in N.Y. civil fraud case
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/26/trump-new-york-civil-fraud-trial-appeal…

Trump appeals $364 million decision in N.Y. civil fraud case
The appeal will trigger a lengthy process that will likely delay enforcement of the ruling.

New FDA-approved drug makes severe food allergies less life-threatening
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/fda-approves-first-drug-to-lessen-food-allergies-before-accidental-eating/?u…

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Bored to Death: Artificial Intelligence Research Reveals the Role of Boredom in Suicide Behavior
Background: Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) contributed significantly to suicide assessment, however, our theoretical understanding of this complex behavior is still limited. Objective: This study aimed to harness AI methodologies to uncover hidden risk factors that trigger or aggravate suicide behaviors. Method: The primary dataset included 228,052 Facebook postings by 1,006 users who completed the gold-standard Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale. This dataset was analy…

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Pixel data real time processing as a next step for HL-LHC upgrades and beyond
The experiments at LHC are implementing novel and challenging detector upgrades for the High Luminosity LHC, among which the tracking systems. This paper reports on performance studies, illustrated by an electron trigger, using a simplified pixel tracker. To achieve a real-time trigger (e.g. processing HL-LHC collision events at 40 MHz), simple algorithms are developed for reconstructing pixel-based tracks and track isolation, utilizing look-up tables based on pixel detector information. Signif…

High-z Gamma-Ray Bursts detection by SVOM/ECLAIRs: Impact of instrumental biases on the burst measured properties
Miguel Llamas Lanza, Olivier Godet, Benjamin Arcier, Manal Yassine, Jean-Luc Atteia, Laurent Bouchet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03266

High-z Gamma-Ray Bursts detection by SVOM/ECLAIRs: Impact of instrumental biases on the burst measured properties
Context. Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) can be detected at cosmological distances and therefore can be used to study the contents and phases of the early Universe. The 4 -- 150 keV wide-field trigger camera ECLAIRs to fly on-board the Space-based multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM) mission dedicated to study high-energy transient sky in synergy with multi-messenger follow-up instruments, is adapted to detect high-z GRBs. Aims. Investigating the detection capabilities of ECLAIRs for high redshift…

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BELT: Old-School Backdoor Attacks can Evade the State-of-the-Art Defense with Backdoor Exclusivity Lifting
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where malicious functionality is embedded to allow attackers to trigger incorrect classifications. Old-school backdoor attacks use strong trigger features that can easily be learned by victim models. Despite robustness against input variation, the robustness however increases the likelihood of unintentional trigger activations. This leaves traces to existing defenses, which find approximate replacements for the original triggers t…

The Raspberry I had to play retro games on had to be used as a 3D printer server. I wanted to buy another one, but the prices are absurd. A cheap minipc with an N100 is going to make my beloved SNES games fly with Retropie, Batocera or Recalbox.
Trigger pulled and waiting for the purchase on Aliexpress.
#retrogamig

The good news: The world makes a lot of flu vaccine and has been doing it for decades.
Regulatory agencies have well-oiled systems to allow manufacturers to update the viruses the vaccines target without having to seek new licenses.
The United States even has some H5 vaccine in a stockpile that it believes would offer protection against the version of the H5N1 virus infecting dairy cattle, though there would not be nearly enough doses for the entire country.
The bad news: T…

Massive amounts of H5N1 vaccine would be needed if there's a bird flu pandemic. Can we make enough?
The first signs that H5N1 avian flu was starting to spread from person to person would trigger a race to produce massive amounts of vaccine.

Assembling the trigger crossbar board over lunch.
Not thrilled with the paste print quality, very inconsistent. the top left corner was way too thick as the board flexed during printing, the middle BGA skipped some pads, and the WLCSP in the bottom right was near perfect.
These big boards bend too much in my paste fixture, I need to find a way to prevent that before I do any more boards of this scale.

The good news: The world makes a lot of flu vaccine and has been doing it for decades.
Regulatory agencies have well-oiled systems to allow manufacturers to update the viruses the vaccines target without having to seek new licenses.
The United States even has some H5 vaccine in a stockpile that it believes would offer protection against the version of the H5N1 virus infecting dairy cattle, though there would not be nearly enough doses for the entire country.
The bad news: T…

Massive amounts of H5N1 vaccine would be needed if there's a bird flu pandemic. Can we make enough?
The first signs that H5N1 avian flu was starting to spread from person to person would trigger a race to produce massive amounts of vaccine.

Evading #BacterialResistance: Scientists Develop Groundbreaking New Antibiotic
https://scitechdaily.com/evading-bacte…

Evading Bacterial Resistance: Scientists Develop Groundbreaking New Antibiotic
Researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago and Harvard University have created an antibiotic that may provide medicine a new tool to combat bacteria resistant to drugs and the illnesses they trigger. The antibiotic, cresomycin, described in Science, effectively suppresses pathogenic bact

Trigger crossbar front panel board is back from fab.
It looks like I mostly pulled off the 0.5mm pitch BGA, but the Vbat via looks to be insufficiently tented so I might get it failing open there. Should have moved the via slightly further away from the ball to reduce the risk of such a failure.
Good news is, I don't think this will matter for two reasons.
1) The actual Vbat ball is not the one next to the via, it's the one to the right. The outer-ring ball is an un…

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Towards Practical Fabrication Stage Attacks Using Interrupt-Resilient Hardware Trojans
We introduce a new class of hardware trojans called interrupt-resilient trojans (IRTs). Our work is motivated by the observation that hardware trojan attacks on CPUs, even under favorable attack scenarios (e.g., an attacker with local system access), are affected by unpredictability due to non-deterministic context switching events. As we confirm experimentally, these events can lead to race conditions between trigger signals and the CPU events targeted by the trojan payloads (e.g., a CPU memor…

Beginning to think of using a CAN bus for system health sensors at some point in the future.
The idea is that every MCU/FPGA would broadcast "hey my supply voltage is X, my temperature is Y" etc periodically onto the shared bus, and any interested party could listen in.
The trigger crossbar ended up with a rather complex game of telephone instead: getting power consumption stats onto the front panel display involves four different STM32s and an FPGA communicating over I…

With the 1000baseT1 boards mostly alive, but no progress on decoding until I get the new coupler board, I'm shifting gears to the trigger crossbar.
Building the back side tonight. Probably won't have time to do the front until tomorrow.
I need to figure out a solution for working with larger boards. This thing is maxing out my current stencil fixture. And my dreams are only getting bigger from here.

Exploring Backdoor Vulnerabilities of Chat Models
Yunzhuo Hao, Wenkai Yang, Yankai Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02406 https://arxiv…

Exploring Backdoor Vulnerabilities of Chat Models
Recent researches have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) are susceptible to a security threat known as Backdoor Attack. The backdoored model will behave well in normal cases but exhibit malicious behaviours on inputs inserted with a specific backdoor trigger. Current backdoor studies on LLMs predominantly focus on instruction-tuned LLMs, while neglecting another realistic scenario where LLMs are fine-tuned on multi-turn conversational data to be chat models. Chat models are extensively ad…

New thread on my big ongoing embedded project since the other one was getting too big.
To recap, this is a pilot project for a bunch of my future open hardware T&M and networking projects, validating a common platform that a lot of the future stuff is going to run on.
The primary problem it's trying to address is that I have a lot of instrumentation with trigger in/out ports, sometimes at different voltage levels, and I don't always have the same instrument sourcing t…

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DrAttack: Prompt Decomposition and Reconstruction Makes Powerful LLM Jailbreakers
The safety alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) is vulnerable to both manual and automated jailbreak attacks, which adversarially trigger LLMs to output harmful content. However, current methods for jailbreaking LLMs, which nest entire harmful prompts, are not effective at concealing malicious intent and can be easily identified and rejected by well-aligned LLMs. This paper discovers that decomposing a malicious prompt into separated sub-prompts can effectively obscure its underlying malic…

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DrAttack: Prompt Decomposition and Reconstruction Makes Powerful LLM Jailbreakers
The safety alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) is vulnerable to both manual and automated jailbreak attacks, which adversarially trigger LLMs to output harmful content. However, current methods for jailbreaking LLMs, which nest entire harmful prompts, are not effective at concealing malicious intent and can be easily identified and rejected by well-aligned LLMs. This paper discovers that decomposing a malicious prompt into separated sub-prompts can effectively obscure its underlying malic…