Tootfinder

I woke up at 2am (I'm having trouble sleeping), saw that production was down, saw that I can't fix it myself, and sent an email looking for a fix. Do I leave it down and go back to sleep?

A U.S. Army veteran who was arrested during an immigration raid at a Southern California farm last week
said Wednesday he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray
before being dragged from his vehicle and pinned down by federal agents who arrested him.
George Retes, 25, who works as a security guard at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, said he was arriving at work on July 10
when several federal agents surrounded his car and
— despite him identifying himself as …

Army veteran detained by ICE in California farm raid speaks out
A U.S. Army veteran arrested during an immigration raid at a California marijuana farm says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle on his way to work. George Retes, a native of Ventura City, California, says he was pinned to the ground by ICE officials on his back and his neck after getting caught between protesters and authorities last week at Glass House Farms in Camarillo. Retes was held for three days before being release without charges and with…

Good to see at least some politicians realizing that you need to provide solutions that the voters need, not policies that the big donors like, the policies shaped by years of mindless repetition of Milton Friedman's failed economic hypotheses, policies based on "everyone knows - it's common sense" rather than actually looking at what works and what doesn't.
(And Friedman's nonsense has been a mantra since the 1970s, so everyone has heard the nonsense pre…

Good to see at least some politicians realizing that you need to provide solutions that the voters need, not policies that the big donors like, the policies shaped by years of mindless repetition of Milton Friedman's failed economic hypotheses, policies based on "everyone knows - it's common sense" rather than actually looking at what works and what doesn't.
(And Friedman's nonsense has been a mantra since the 1970s, so everyone has heard the nonsense pre…

We are back at the vet too soon.

Happen to be in Frankfurt/Main some time the next few weeks? Go and see Annegret Soltau's works at Städel Museum, ending Aug 17: #art…

I'm planning to run my own #dawarich server to keep track of my location history for quite a while already.
In the meantime, I just look at my #Openstreetmap edit history to see where I've been and when, and it works surprisingly well!
It doesn't bother me that anyone…

Once you are done fighting it, documents typeset with #TexLaTeX are pretty damn rad! 🚀
The automations you can put into place to help you focus on the actual writing are really something else:
- different modes for notes, submission, and publishing
- acronym or physical unit expansion only upon first mention
- auto-generated glossary or symbol list
- and of course a ton…

This works, right? I mean, sure the numbers are reversed but the time makes sense to most people this way!
And yes you are looking at a backwards clock through a mirror in my bathroom.

I do not understand how #2FA on my company laptop works. At random, far-apart times a nondescript dialogue pops up out of nowhere asking me to enter a number in the authenticator app.
Why not ask for the second factor when I log into Windows (the first time of the day)? At least when there is no (known) network?
It also feels like it would not be terribly hard to produce something like…

A radiative lepton model in a non-invertible fusion rule
Jingqian Chen, Chao-Qiang Geng, Hiroshi Okada, Jia-Jun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11951 https:/…

A radiative lepton model in a non-invertible fusion rule
We propose a new mechanism in which electron and muon masses are induced at one-loop level after dynamically violating the symmetry of the Ising fusion rule. In the neutrino sector, while the neutrino mass is generated at one-loop level, the Ising fusion rule plays a role in stabilizing the particles inside the loop. As a result, the symmetry works like a $Z_2$ symmetry that is not broken at any loop order. Subsequently, we discuss the lepton flavor violating processes, muon anomalous magnetic …

From a comment: “@…: well things must be at their worst because the art is so good right now”
via @mimsymars@threads.net

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#BBCProms
- 2025
Live at the BBC Proms: Hervé Niquet conducts Le Concert Spirituel in Striggio's epic Mass ‘Ecco sì beato giorno', as well as works by Benevolo, Corteccia and Palestrina.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h0w0

Have to share another cool picture from Lost Dot. 😁
Caption: Christoph Tapken (314) arrived at noon, sharing how close he’d come to scratching at CP5. At one point, he was ready to jump in a taxi and call it a day, but standing at the Finish in Constanța, he was glad he’d pushed through. More proud of his mental resilience than the physical effort, Christoph is now looking forward to reuniting with his family in Germany.
Source: Lost Dot

Convergent perturbative series via finite path integral limits: application to energy at strong coupling of the anharmonic oscillator
Ariel Edery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08782 …

Convergent perturbative series via finite path integral limits: application to energy at strong coupling of the anharmonic oscillator
Solving quantum field theories at strong coupling remains a challenging task. The main issue is that the usual perturbative series are asymptotic series which can be useful at weak coupling but break down completely at strong coupling. In this work, we show that if the limits of integration in the path integral are finite, the perturbative series is remarkably an absolutely convergent series which works well at strong coupling. For now, we apply this perturbative approach to $λ\,ϕ^4$ theory i…

How are you doing these days? If you’re looking at the news or opening social media feeds, it’s a lot, I know.
I continue my practice of writing back to posts on social media. Also its antidote: writing back to works of art served up at random. It’s a little like surfing, taking the waves as they come. It’s a little like dancing. It’s one way to reclaim my attention, one way to stay alive to the present.
#Art

Ever-refreshing Hells and a few Heavens
Writings in response to social media posts and works of art.

Zero Indirect Band Gap in Non-Hermitian Systems
Rahul S, Giandomenico Palumbo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15102 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15102

Zero Indirect Band Gap in Non-Hermitian Systems
Zero indirect gaps in band models are typically viewed as unstable and achievable only through fine-tuning. Recent works, however, have revealed robust semimetallic phases in Hermitian systems where the indirect gap remains pinned at zero over a finite parameter range. Here, we extend this paradigm to non-Hermitian lattice models by studying a one-dimensional diamond-like system with gain and loss. We show that a zero indirect band gap can remain stable against non-Hermitian perturbations and i…

from my link log —
Why Metropolis–Hastings works.
https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2019/11/02/metropolis-hastings/#bishop2006pattern
saved 2025-08-11

On Banach subalgebras of $\mathscr{H}^\infty$ consisting of lacunary Dirichlet series
Amol Sasane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13127 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

On Banach subalgebras of $\mathscr{H}^\infty$ consisting of lacunary Dirichlet series
Let $\mathscr{H}^\infty$ be the set of all Dirichlet series $f=\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_nn^{-s}$ (where $a_n\in\mathbb{C}$ for all $n\in\mathbb{N}=\{1,2,3,\cdots\}$) that converge at each $s$ in $\mathbb{C}_0=\{s\in \mathbb{C}:\text{Re}(s)>0\}$, such that $\|f\|_{\infty}=\sup_{s\in\mathbb{C}_0}|f(s)|<\infty$. Then $\mathscr{H}^\infty$ is a Banach algebra with pointwise operations and the supremum norm $\|\cdot\|_\infty$, and has been studied in earlier works. The articl…

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Signs 💚
在路上 - 去西安/ 表象 💚
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

just tried my first Pixelfed story (which only works over web-ui yet) - but there was no chance to tag @… (with your pixelfed account) at all...
that story thing needs some love @… too

A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks as it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands amid the AI boom (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/at-20-techmeme-has-never-been-hotter…

Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site, Techmeme, has never been hotter.
Journalism is getting battered now. But thanks to the AI boom, Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site Techmeme has never been hotter. Media companies should take notes.

ADHO (adho.org) updates at the opening of #DH2025 from Diane and Michael - the Italian Digital Humanities association officially joins ADHO, and announces awards including the Zampoli prize to Stylo software, the conference bursaries winners and Fortier prize nominees. Also note the Code of Conduct!

A lot of things have changed in the 7 years since I took this video on a perfectly still lake in Eden Vermont.
Back then, I’d take a September solo trip to pick up a friend’s Collected Works allotment at Hill Farmstead. That programme doesn’t exist anymore, and COVID kind of ruined some of the things I loved about Vermont… and now… a different kind of ruining, I guess.
I deeply miss what were simpler times—and we didn’t even know it, then.

I donated again to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School https://www.brennancenter.org/ Due to the dire threats to the USA from the current administration and the Republican party I am double up on my donations to protect us from those threats to our way of life.

Brennan Center for Justice | Home
Defend Democracy. Reform Justice. Protect the Constitution. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law works to build an America that is democratic, just, and free.

@… Should turn it into a proper autoscaler at some point, but it works :)

@… Excited to give it a thorough read, but immediately off the bat I have to say: Kodus to you all at @… for having a website that just *works*. In today’s web, that’s remarkable in its own right. Scrolling throu…

`scx_bpfland` works really well as scheduler, I can compile Zed which mostly maxes out my CPU and still browse the web comfortably in Firefox.
https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/tree/main/scheds/rust/scx_bpfland

A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks as it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands amid the AI boom (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/at-20-techmeme-has-never-been-hotter…

Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site, Techmeme, has never been hotter.
Journalism is getting battered now. But thanks to the AI boom, Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site Techmeme has never been hotter. Media companies should take notes.

I really like the fall decorations at the balloon house in the neighborhood

Toward Greener Background Processes -- Measuring Energy Cost of Autosave Feature
Maria K\"u\"usvek, Hina Anwar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11738 https://

Toward Greener Background Processes - Measuring Energy Cost of Autosave Feature
Background processes in desktop applications are often overlooked in energy consumption studies, yet they represent continuous, automated workloads with significant cumulative impact. This paper introduces a reusable process for evaluating the energy behavior of such features at the level of operational design. The process works in three phases: 1) decomposing background functionality into core operations, 2) operational isolation, and 3) controlled measurements enabling comparative profiling. …

A First Look at Starlink In-Flight Performance: An Intercontinental Empirical Study
Muhammad Asad Ullah, Luca Borgianni, Heikki Kokkinen, Antti Anttonen, Stefano Giordano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09839

A First Look at Starlink In-Flight Performance: An Intercontinental Empirical Study
Starlink delivers Internet services to users across terrestrial, maritime, and aviation domains. The prior works have studied its performance at fixed sites and in-motion vehicles, while an in-depth analysis of in-flight performance remains absent. With major airlines now offering Starlink Internet onboard, there is a growing need to evaluate and improve its performance for aviation users. This paper addresses this shortcoming by conducting in-flight measurements over the Baltic Sea and the Pac…

I had completely forgotten the state The Last of Us Part 1 for PC was in at launch. Which explains my surprise when I finally got to it and tried to run my Epic copy on Linux. At least for me and at the moment, the game works only with Proton 9.0-4 (Steam's mark of excellence) and, weirdly, with Wine-10.10. FSR 4 with an RDNA 3 card (again, for me) is impossible - the game crashes hard in every FSR 4 scenario. It's saving grace is it runs great on a native 1440p resolution 🤷‍♂️

TL;DR: what if nationalism, not anarchy, is futile?
Since I had the pleasure of seeing the "what would anarchists do against a warlord?" argument again in my timeline, I'll present again my extremely simple proposed solution:
Convince the followers of the warlord that they're better off joining you in freedom, then kill or exile the warlord once they're alone or vastly outnumbered.
Remember that even in our own historical moment where nothing close to large-scale free society has existed in living memory, the warlord's promise of "help me oppress others and you'll be richly rewarded" is a lie that many understand is historically a bad bet. Many, many people currently take that bet, for a variety of reasons, and they're enough to coerce through fear an even larger number of others. But although we imagine, just as the medieval peasants might have imagined of monarchy, that such a structure is both the natural order of things and much too strong to possibly fail, in reality it takes an enormous amount of energy, coordination, and luck for these structures to persist! Nations crumble every day, and none has survived more than a couple *hundred* years, compared to pre-nation societies which persisted for *tends of thousands of years* if not more. I'm this bubbling froth of hierarchies, the notion that hierarchy is inevitable is certainly popular, but since there's clearly a bit of an ulterior motive to make (and teach) that claim, I'm not sure we should trust it.
So what I believe could form the preconditions for future anarchist societies to avoid the "warlord problem" is merely: a widespread common sense belief that letting anyone else have authority over you is morally suspect. Given such a belief, a warlord will have a hard time building any following at all, and their opponents will have an easy time getting their supporters to defect. In fact, we're already partway there, relative to the situation a couple hundred years ago. At that time, someone could claim "you need to obey my orders and fight and die for me because the Queen was my mother" and that was actually a quite successful strategy. Nowadays, this strategy is only still working in a few isolated places, and the idea that one could *start a new monarchy* or even resurrect a defunct one seems absurd. So why can't that same transformation from "this is just how the world works" to "haha, how did anyone ever believe *that*? also happen to nationalism in general? I don't see an obvious reason why not.
Now I think one popular counterargument to this is: if you think non-state societies can win out with these tactics, why didn't they work for American tribes in the face of the European colonizers? (Or insert your favorite example of colonialism here.) I think I can imagine a variety of reasons, from the fact that many of those societies didn't try this tactic (and/or were hierarchical themselves), to the impacts of disease weakening those societies pre-contact, to the fact that with much-greater communication and education possibilities it might work better now, to the fact that most of those tribes are *still* around, and a future in which they persist longer than the colonist ideologies actually seems likely to me, despite the fact that so much cultural destruction has taken place. In fact, if the modern day descendants of the colonized tribes sow the seeds of a future society free of colonialism, that's the ultimate demonstration of the futility of hierarchical domination (I just read "Theory of Water" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson).
I guess the TL;DR on this is: what if nationalism is actually as futile as monarchy, and we're just unfortunately living in the brief period during which it is ascendant?

Igor Stravinsky - "The Firebird" (1960) (London Symph. Orch., Dorati cond.)
I just discovered that the old vinylrecords(at)a.gup.pe account no longer works, so switching to the new @…
#NowPlaying

Hey #FOSS friends! 🚴‍♂️
I just got into biking again as an adult, and I’m loving it!
Now I’m on the hunt for a simple open source app to track how far I ride. Bonus points if it’s on GitHub, if not, at least F-Droid works. If there’s nothing bike-specific, I’m cool with any travel or hiking tracker too.
I use a Pixel 9a with GrapheneOS.
Any recs? Drop ’em here! 🙌

#Children collecting water are majority of the 10 dead Sunday after Israeli missile strike in #Gaza . #IDF claim "technical error" "under review" as they were only seeking to kill a "militant" dozens of metres b…

“Linux is different now, you should give it a try” says a random Internet person, commenting a video where a developer explains why they don’t run a linux desktop anymore.
No my dude, it’s not different at all. Linux today is as Linux it was 25 years ago, except that a ton of hardware just works.
I run a “gaming” distro on a secondary computer and I’m amazed and extremely grateful that everything just fucking works and I can play games instead of playing sysadmin. But.

«Dominance does not equal importance, nor is dominance the same as relevance. The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users.»
From "Firefox is fine. The people running it are not"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/firefox_isnt_dead/

Cowboys' Tyler Guyton works out at OL summit at UFC PI in Las Vegas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-tyler-guyton-works-out-ol-summit-ufc-pi-in-las-vegas

Physical black holes: spacetime and matter near trapping surfaces
Swayamsiddha Maharana, Rama Vadapalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11578 https://arxiv.org/…

Physical black holes: spacetime and matter near trapping surfaces
Within a semiclassical framework, we investigate spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations that (i) develop a trapped region within a finite time as measured by distant observers, and (ii) remain sufficiently regular at the apparent horizon. These requirements characterize the self-consistent approach, and it imposes specific constraints on the limiting form of the energy momentum tensor (EMT). Previous works argued that only certain EMT classes admit viable dynamical solutions,…

I'm trying to convince a former coworker who is having trouble finding a job that she should probably update her LinkedIn profile ... to at least show that they are unemployed and looking for a job. It's been six weeks since she was let go, at this point.

I've been mesmerised for the past few days by the collaborative music and VJ-ing tool at nudel.cc. There are a bunch of videos on the youtube channel of coder/artist @ TodePond@mas.to and this one here starts out with a tutorial of how the sound engine works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr4ACMrRq_8

Output-Sparse Matrix Multiplication Using Compressed Sensing
Huck Bennett, Karthik Gajulapalli, Alexander Golovnev, Evelyn Warton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10250 https://

Output-Sparse Matrix Multiplication Using Compressed Sensing
We give two algorithms for output-sparse matrix multiplication (OSMM), the problem of multiplying two $n \times n$ matrices $A, B$ when their product $AB$ is promised to have at most $O(n^δ)$ many non-zero entries for a given value $δ\in [0, 2]$. We then show how to speed up these algorithms in the fully sparse setting, where the input matrices $A, B$ are themselves sparse. All of our algorithms work over arbitrary rings. Our first, deterministic algorithm for OSMM works via a two-pass redu…

A few more details here:
Static price of 32.97 cent / kWh. Feed-in is rewarded at a slightly higher (but unknown) price. It's not a 'dynamic electricity' as previously communicated, but rather a 'managed smart' tariff.
Also no V2H: user cannot control discharging. Unclear if this works with solar.

from my link log —
Type inference zoo.
https://zoo.cuichen.cc/research
saved 2025-06-18 https://dotat.at/:/QG9V1.html

Is Earendel a Star Cluster? Metal Poor Globular Cluster Progenitors at z~6: #Earendel within the Sunrise was previously identified as a candidate star or binary due to size constraints placed by the lensing magnification, however recent works have suggested this constraint may be relaxed to even the size of star clusters. Here, we explore the hypothesis that Earendel may actually be a star cluster, and simultaneously evaluate other star clusters within the host galaxy."

I’ve mentioned before that podcasts aren’t my jam. Except when shoveling. Maybe. Tech podcasts make we want to throw down my shovel and write stuff.
Stumbled across ‘A Meal of Thorns’ from ‘Ancillary Review of Books’ (“an experiment in utopian criticism”):
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/ame

Podcast
Latest Episode: About the Podcast: A Meal of Thorns is a critical book club hosted by Jake Casella Brookins. Each episode, we’ll be looking closely at works of speculative fiction, thinking a…

I see no problem here. https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115006183468266776

At a Glance to Your Fingertips: Enabling Direct Manipulation of Distant Objects Through SightWarp
Yang Liu, Thorbj{\o}rn Mikkelsen, Zehai Liu, Gengchen Tian, Diako Mardanbegi, Qiushi Zhou, Hans Gellersen, Ken Pfeuffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04821

At a Glance to Your Fingertips: Enabling Direct Manipulation of Distant Objects Through SightWarp
In 3D user interfaces, reaching out to grab and manipulate something works great until it is out of reach. Indirect techniques like gaze and pinch offer an alternative for distant interaction, but do not provide the same immediacy or proprioceptive feedback as direct gestures. To support direct gestures for faraway objects, we introduce SightWarp, an interaction technique that exploits eye-hand coordination to seamlessly summon object proxies to the user's fingertips. The idea is that after loo…

FreeAudio: Training-Free Timing Planning for Controllable Long-Form Text-to-Audio Generation
Yuxuan Jiang, Zehua Chen, Zeqian Ju, Chang Li, Weibei Dou, Jun Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08557

FreeAudio: Training-Free Timing Planning for Controllable Long-Form Text-to-Audio Generation
Text-to-audio (T2A) generation has achieved promising results with the recent advances in generative models. However, because of the limited quality and quantity of temporally-aligned audio-text pairs, existing T2A methods struggle to handle the complex text prompts that contain precise timing control, e.g., "owl hooted at 2.4s-5.2s". Recent works have explored data augmentation techniques or introduced timing conditions as model inputs to enable timing-conditioned 10-second T2A generation, whi…

But that is adjustable via the included Ecobee smart thermostat. If we set the backup heat to start at minus 5°C then our furnace could be running for 8 weeks or less. The key is to test and monitor electricity consumption at lower temperatures since the heat pump works harder when it's colder. Then compare our gas and electricity bills to determine the right set-up. Over time we should find the right balance point.

Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says "works at 3-4 startups at the same time" and has "been preying on YC companies and more" (Bhavya Sukheja/NDTV)
https://www.ndtv.c…

AI Founder Accuses Indian Techie Soham Parekh Of Scamming Multiple Startups: "Fired This Guy In First Week"
A US-based AI founder has accused an Indian techie of working at multiple startups simultaneously under false pretences.

@… I was thinking of you when I just tried this AI prompt: “> spawn 5 agents using batchtool to replace the react webui with html/css with no javascript, remove all the react code and references, keep the same functionality and layout. “. I will let you know how it works out. It’s a throwaway app at this point anyway, but it it works I’ll keep it this way.…

Works cited:
My cat

I almost never hold my camera diagonally but this works out OK for #abstractaugust -- this is the facade of the Vet Research Tower at Cornell University
#photo #photography

Characterization of the computed homology and cohomology bases -- technical report
Yann-Situ Gazull, Aldo Gonzalez-Lorenzo, Alexandra Bac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09350 https:…

Characterization of the computed homology and cohomology bases -- technical report
Computing homology and cohomology is at the heart of many recent works and a key issue for topological data analysis. Among homological objects, homology generators are useful to locate or understand holes (especially for geometric objects). The present paper provides a characterization of the class of homology bases that are computed by standard algorithmic methods. The proof of this characterization relies on the Homological Discrete Vector Field, a combinatorial structure for computing homol…

A New Algorithm for Computing Integer Hulls of 2D Polyhedral Sets
Chirantan Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09134 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09134

A New Algorithm for Computing Integer Hulls of 2D Polyhedral Sets
The $\texttt{IntegerHull}$ function is part of Maple's $\texttt{PolyhedralSets}$ library, which calculates the integer hull of a given polyhedral set. This algorithm works by translating the supporting hyperplanes of the facets of the input polyhedral set inwards till each hyperplane encounters at least one integer point. The polyhedral set is then divided into smaller regions and a brute force method is applied to find the remaining vertices. There are certain edge case scenarios where the c…

still works .... my #iPod

A novel method and dataset for depth-guided image deblurring from smartphone Lidar
Antonio Montanaro, Diego Valsesia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09241 https://

A novel method and dataset for depth-guided image deblurring from smartphone Lidar
Modern smartphones are equipped with Lidar sensors providing depth-sensing capabilities. Recent works have shown that this complementary sensor allows to improve various tasks in image processing, including deblurring. However, there is a current lack of datasets with realistic blurred images and paired mobile Lidar depth maps to further study the topic. At the same time, there is also a lack of blind zero-shot methods that can deblur a real image using the depth guidance without requiring exte…

A short proof of free energy limit of two spin spherical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model at any temperature
Debapratim Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06298 https://

A short proof of free energy limit of two spin spherical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model at any temperature
In this paper, we present a short proof of the limit of free energy of spherical 2 spin Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SSK) model without external field. This proof works for all temperatures and is based on the Laplace method of integration and considering a discrete approximation of the whole space. This proof is general enough and can be adapted to any interaction matrix where the eigenvalue distribution has some nice properties. The proof in the high-temperature case is the same as the proof give…

Not enough developers understand the responsibilities of having a large userbase and how important preserving freedom of users is.
Every time you change the way something works, the cost of that change is borne by your entire userbase. If you have a million users and you move a button and everyone spends 30 seconds figuring out where it went, that's 8333 hours of wasted effort. At $150/hr for a somewhat average tech salary, you've cost your userbase $1.25M with that one change.…

Does anyone know a developer who works at Wayfair?

No wizards needed, my Linux rig just works its magic for a buttery-smooth stream. Join me for some Lord of the Rings Online tonight! #Linux #Gaming #LOTR

They have the good bottles of Squirt at the Kwik Stop again!

A security researcher said
flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal
exposed the private information
and vehicle data of its customers,
and could have allowed hackers to remotely break into any of its customers’ vehicles.
Eaton Zveare, who works as a security researcher at software delivery company Harness,
told TechCrunch the flaw he discovered
allowed the creation of an admin account
that granted “unfettered access” to the unnamed carma…

Security flaws in a carmaker's web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere | TechCrunch
Security researcher Eaton Zveare told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered in the carmaker's centralized dealer portal exposed vast access to customer and vehicle data. With this access, Zveare said he could remotely take over a customer's account and unlock their cars, and more.

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
2/2
To address the bigger question I started with ("should we teach AI-"assisted" coding?"), my answer is: "No, except enough to show students directly what its pitfalls are." We have little enough time as it is to cover the core knowledge that they'll need, which has become more urgent now that they're going to be expected to clean up AI bugs and they'll have less time to develop an understanding of the problems they're supposed to be solving. The skill of prompt engineering & other skills of working with AI are relatively easy to pick up on your own, given a decent not-even-mathematical understanding of how a neutral network works, which is something we should be giving to all students, not just our majors.
Reasonable learning objectives for CS majors might include explaining what types of bugs an AI "assistant" is most likely to introduce, explaining the difference between software engineering and writing code, explaining why using an AI "assistant" is likely to violate open-source licenses, listing at lest three independent ethical objections to contemporary LLMs and explaining the evidence for/reasoning behind them, explaining why we should expect AI "assistants" to be better at generating code from scratch than at fixing bugs in existing code (and why they'll confidently "claim" to have fixed problems they haven't), and even fixing bugs in AI generated code (without AI "assistance").
If we lived in a world where the underlying environmental, labor, and data commons issues with AI weren't as bad, or if we could find and use systems that effectively mitigate these issues (there's lots of piecemeal progress on several of these) then we should probably start teaching an elective on coding with an assistant to students who have mastered programming basics, but such a class should probably spend a good chunk of time on non-assisted debugging.
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding

MarComm at work is hosting "Photo Headshot Week" for faculty and staff who need new or updated headshots from a professional photographer. I'm thinking about doing that ... and then commissioning someone to draw me based upon it, because that's been what I generally do.

At some point after I finish with @… and/or #Milwaukee

Short rainbow cycles for families of small edge sets
He Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04581 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04581

Short rainbow cycles for families of small edge sets
In 2019, Aharoni proposed a conjecture generalizing the Caceetta-Häggkvist conjecture: if an $n$-vertex graph $G$ admits an edge coloring (not necessarily proper) with $n$ colors such that each color class has size at least $r$, then $G$ contains a rainbow cycle of length at most $\lceil n/r\rceil$. Recent works \cite{AG2023,ABCGZ2023,G2025} have shown that if a constant fraction of the color classes are non-star, then the rainbow girth is $O(\log n)$. In this note, we extend these results, an…

I wrote some iPhone apps in Objective C in the early days, it was hard, I stopped about 15 years ago. Now I’m building a native Swift app with a voice based interface using Claude to write the code, and a Claude-flow agent swarm to create plans and architecture and more complex implementation steps. It’s fun, it works on my phone, and all I have to do is say what I want in steps small enough that I can tell I got it. Follow along at

Customs and Border Protection held a veteran political adviser for 45 minutes after returning to the U.S. from a vacation.
Rick Taylor thought it may have been -- because of an Obama-Biden T-shirt in his luggage.
Taylor, 71, was returning home from a weeklong vacation in Turks and Caicos with his wife and daughter on June 20
when he was placed in a holding room along with several Latino families at Miami International Airport.
“I know how the system works and have pr…

Veteran LA political adviser detained at US airport – and thinks having Obama-Biden T-shirt in his luggage may have been why
‘I know how the system works and have pretty good connections and I was still freaking out,’ Rick Taylor says

The last person I still speak with at my old employer was let go earlier this week.

I already have a phone that is less than six months old but if google released a "Pixel 10 Flip" at a price point that similar to the 2025 Motorola Razr, I would buy it.

How popular media gets love wrong
Okay, so what exactly are the details of the "engineered" model of love from my previous post? I'll try to summarize my thoughts and the experiences they're built on.
1. "Love" can be be thought of like a mechanism that's built by two (or more) people. In this case, no single person can build the thing alone, to work it needs contributions from multiple people (I suppose self-love might be an exception to that). In any case, the builders can intentionally choose how they build (and maintain) the mechanism, they can build it differently to suit their particular needs/wants, and they will need to maintain and repair it over time to keep it running. It may need winding, or fuel, or charging plus oil changes and bolt-tightening, etc.
2. Any two (or more) people can choose to start building love between them at any time. No need to "find your soulmate" or "wait for the right person." Now the caveat is that the mechanism is difficult to build and requires lots of cooperation, so there might indeed be "wrong people" to try to build love with. People in general might experience more failures than successes. The key component is slowly-escalating shared commitment to the project, which is negotiated between the partners so that neither one feels like they've been left to do all the work themselves. Since it's a big scary project though, it's very easy to decide it's too hard and give up, and so the builders need to encourage each other and pace themselves. The project can only succeed if there's mutual commitment, and that will certainly require compromise (sometimes even sacrifice, though not always). If the mechanism works well, the benefits (companionship; encouragement; praise; loving sex; hugs; etc.) will be well worth the compromises you make to build it, but this isn't always the case.
3. The mechanism is prone to falling apart if not maintained. In my view, the "fire" and "appeal" models of love don't adequately convey the need for this maintenance and lead to a lot of under-maintained relationships many of which fall apart. You'll need to do things together that make you happy, do things that make your partner happy (in some cases even if they annoy you, but never in a transactional or box-checking way), spend time with shared attention, spend time alone and/or apart, reassure each other through words (or deeds) of mutual beliefs (especially your continued commitment to the relationship), do things that comfort and/or excite each other physically (anywhere from hugs to hand-holding to sex) and probably other things I'm not thinking of. Not *every* relationship needs *all* of these maintenance techniques, but I think most will need most. Note especially that patriarchy teaches men that they don't need to bother with any of this, which harms primarily their romantic partners but secondarily them as their relationships fail due to their own (cultivated-by-patriarchy) incompetence. If a relationship evolves to a point where one person is doing all the maintenance (& improvement) work, it's been bent into a shape that no longer really qualifies as "love" in my book, and that's super unhealthy.
4. The key things to negotiate when trying to build a new love are first, how to work together in the first place, and how to be comfortable around each others' habits (or how to change those habits). Second, what level of commitment you have right now, and what how/when you want to increase that commitment. Additionally, I think it's worth checking in about what you're each putting into and getting out of the relationship, to ensure that it continues to be positive for all participants. To build a successful relationship, you need to be able to incrementally increase the level of commitment to one that you're both comfortable staying at long-term, while ensuring that for both partners, the relationship is both a net benefit and has manageable costs (those two things are not the same). Obviously it's not easy to actually have conversations about these things (congratulations if you can just talk about this stuff) because there's a huge fear of hearing an answer that you don't want to hear. I think the range of discouraging answers which actually spell doom for a relationship is smaller than people think and there's usually a reasonable "shoulder" you can fall into where things aren't on a good trajectory but could be brought back into one, but even so these conversations are scary. Still, I think only having honest conversations about these things when you're angry at each other is not a good plan. You can also try to communicate some of these things via non-conversational means, if that feels safer, and at least being aware that these are the objectives you're pursuing is probably helpful.
I'll post two more replies here about my own experiences that led me to this mental model and trying to distill this into advice, although it will take me a moment to get to those.
#relationships #love

I got 18.93 mi in on the bike tonight. I started at around 6:00 p.m. which meant that I was biking home in the dark ... with sunglasses as my eye protection.

This is the one non-food thing that I bought at the #Wisconsin State Fair, this year.
(They were out of the shirts that said "Ice only belongs in a brandy old fashioned")
#GulfOfMexico

See how the game works?
Republicans have long instinctively understood, far better than their oft-bumbling opponents,
that capturing the language is crucially important.
When you do that, when you frame the terms of debate,
you have a darn good shot at winning hearts and minds. Particularly weak minds.
I’ll leave it to the shrinks to diagnose the passivity of the Democratic mindset,
to try to fathom why the blue party has long allowed "class warfare&qu…

We have always been at war with Eastasia.
"President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

I got a call at 10:00 a.m. this morning from somebody I used to work with saying that they had just been laid off. I really wish I had some decent advice to give to her beyond taking a day or two to breathe and do something pleasurable.

There's a lot of pressurefor businesses to get ahead with AI.
And I imagine at many companies
there's a sense that if you don't keep up, you're leaving innovation on the table.
At the same time, there's a gap between the excitement around AI and understanding what it means for each role.
CarGurus started an internal initiative "AI Forward" to meet business units and function where they are.
The group works together to evaluate u…

How CarGurus's new working group helps employees experiment with AI
The online marketplace for cars is helping its employees adopt and explore new tech with AI Forward, a working group designed to lead AI adoption.

Over the weekend, I bought a $10/mo "movie club" membership that's good at the movie theater that is one county over. I wish that the theater in my actual town had something like that.

The thing that I've been working on at work for the past 2 months finally works, so I celebrated a little.

There are 3 weeks until I go up to Oshkosh for 2 days at the EAA fly-in. I might make an overnight solo adventure an annual thing.

Is the Pratt & Whitney 747SP still at the #EAA #AirVenture?

I remember my grandma taking me and my brother to see a movie at the Fox Bay when I was little. It's sad to see it go.
#WhitefishBay #FoxBay #Milwaukee

I have been waiting in this line for around an hour at this point. #EAA #airventure

Looking back at the #Laradock hashtag, I am starting to get the feeling that I am the only person trying to do this crap. 😒

I showed my parents how to toggle engine auto stop start off on their car (The thing that turns off your engine when you're at a red light, to save gas). I'm not sure that they actually knew what it was.

I'm not sure that 5% off of a $8 latte at work is worth it when I can make the same thing at home for $2.

I am going to be at the #EAA Fly-in in #Oshkosh, this week. I usually just go on the weekend but this year I'm going during the week.

I need to go volunteer for another shift at the dorms this afternoon. I feel like I just recovered from the last one.

I am using two @… devices at home and I really wish I had more. OMG, they are nice.

I need to go work at the dorms later on today. You better believe I'm going to be biking there instead of paying for parking.

is at the #Milwaukee Air and Water show.

"Free Falling" is a weird song to be playing on the speakers at a booth for an airplane company

I've seen a lot of randos trying to get folks on the local developer slack to do this. It's usually something like "we will pay you monthly to maintain a fleet of laptops at your house". There is always someone desperate enough or ignorant enough to say yes.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6rokcE6/

I spent the day at the Ren Fair yesterday. That was a lot of fun.

I got out and bought some eggs, veggies, and peaches at the local farmers market

I saw the price for a half a hog at the farmers market and I'm kind of curious how much processing would cost.