Notices by clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)

The PDF is here and is absolutely crackers, MIT should be ashamed of themselves for letting this out the door.

https://cams.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/Safe-CAMS-MIT-Article-Final-4-7-2025-Working-Paper.pdf

The management at my org is thankfully very good and gets it, but if you are struggling to explain to your management as to why they should stop sucking the GenAI marketing juice and chasing the AI laser pointer like a cat and instead do foundational security, explain it a way they'll understand: AI.

as far as i can tell, because go-git has a "/v6" at the end in its go.mod, it breaks all of the "sure, here it works" suggestions people give

The only pair I would have mentioned off the cuff is Sheung Wan and Central (and Hong Kong Station, same thing as Central really, you don't blip out of the network when you walk from one to the other). There's a walkway bridge connecting Shun Tak on top of Sheung Wan Station to IFC on top of Hong Kong Station.

But the other day I realized that also Wan Chai Station and the new Exhibition Center Station are fully connected. Cool, but that's not the exciting thing yet. I would have guessed it or figured it out if someone asked, they're both in Wan Chai, which is rich with interconnected towers.

No, what's cool is that this got me thinking: How close are we to having a connection between these two clusters? Admiralty and Wan Chai are a bit disconnected and I don't see that closing soon, but Admiralty and Central are very close. But there's no way to reach the Statue Square entrance of Central without crossing the actual Statue Square from Admiralty.

Or so I thought! I wasn't sure, so today I went to check it out.

We're not talking completely underground now, Central/Hong Kong+Sheung Wan and Exhibition Centre+Wan Chai are connected by bridges, buildings etc, the point is you have a roof over your head at all times.

So I went to Admiralty and Central, and I realized you have no less than two almost-connections.

The first one is Admiralty->Cheung Kong then HSBC->Central; I kind of knew this one. From Lippo Centre you can cross over the highway to Cheung Kong Centre, fully covered, but then you have to cross the road to HSBC before you're in the bridge complex connecting most of core Central.

The second connection Admiralty->Central goes through the newly built The Henderson, which is just across the road from Statue Square. The Henderson is the tower that looks like a pile of classic Coca Cola bottles stacked into a tower.

Now, I thought that from there all you can do is just walk across Statue Square to enter Central Station, but there is a walkway bridge being built from The Henderson to AIA Tower, it looks like it will be finished any week now. And there's an entrance to Central Station just outside AIA.

Until that bridge is finished, you can take the circular stairs down to Statue Square, and you'll be exposed at the top of those stairs, but then you'll be under the stairs themselves, and then you can walk up a covered ramp to AIA Tower again.

So, you can walk all the way from Sheung Wan, over the bridge to the IFC, through HK Station, through Central, up to just outside AIA, cross the sidewalk, walk the bridge to The Henderson when it's ready, walk through Admiralty, walk the tunnel to Three Pacific Place, and then you're technically in Wan Chai, although not very close to Wan Chai Station.

Shun Tak to Three Pacific Place, that's four MTR stations, 2.6 km the way the crow flies, dozens of malls, hundreds (thousands?) of employers, and the only part that exposes you to the sun and rain is 20 m of sidewalk and, for now, 5 m of stairs.

I think that's pretty damn cool.

That 20 m of sidewalk ... next to the AIA is the CCB, and they have a direct exit to the MTR in their basement.

C'mon guys, just put a plank across the gap, and Sheung Wan and Admiralty can be fully connected!

... up to just outside AIA, cross the sidewalk, walk the bridge to The Henderson when it's ready, walk through Admiralty ...The walkway from AIA Tower to The Henderson is now open!

#HKInfra

There we go. Officially and ritually on ancestral soil.

#sweden

Now (weeks ago) that Mull and Mulch have suddenly been discontinued, which degoogled Chromium is there that I can run in parallel to Cromite?

I use Cromite as my default with incognito forced on, for restaurant ordering sites and such. Firefox derivatives don't work, restaurant services are Gecko-hostile.

I used to have Mulch as my Fedi browser. I need one that I can run in non-incognito mode, and I need the Cromite tab group model to handle my exponentially exploding Fedi tabs. I would even use Chrome if it had those tab groups. Is there a plugin for Android Firefox that does Cromite-style tab groups?

Hong Kong's pedestrian infrastructure is very cool. It's not perfect in any way. If you don't have full mobility it can bevery cumbersome at times. But overall, better than most cities.

There's lots of pedestrian tunnels and walkways. There are lifts and escalators in many places. Sometimes the lift allows you to bring a bicycle, ride across a bridge, on a paved bike lane, to the next lift.

But today I learned that one particular part is even cooler than I thought.

One of the fun things with living in Hong Kong, if you're a five-year-old at heart, love secret tunnels, and don't love walking outside in scorching heat with near-saturated humidity, is to learn to navigate the walkways beneath the busy district of Tsim Sha Tsui. TST station has tunnels to most parts of core TST and to the harborside promenade, and also fully connects to neighboring station TST East. Twice! There are two ways to go from one station to the other completely underground.

Which other stations are connected like that?

@ansgarscherp Fully agree. We, the Information Retrieval Research Journal, continued Springer's Information Retrieval as a diamond open access journal, run by some of its former editorial board members and its original founders. @lpag

K-Pop Demon Hunters seems to have "worked". Blackpink and Twice are the first two videos on the Trending page on PipePipe.

(anonymous YouTube, so not tied to my personal preferences)

💥💥 Double detonation!

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by blasting twice.

This was done by studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with our Very Large Telescope. Led by the Univ. of South Wales, this shows some of the most important explosions in the Universe in a new light.

What happened exactly? Keep reading.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

📷 ESO/P. Das et al. Backgr. stars (HST): K. Noll et al.

I'm probably not the first to say it, but lockpicking do be kind of horny

@badrihippo Oh yes, this sums up clearly what I wasn't quite thinking so crisp and clear when I voted "no, but ...".

If I'll rephrase what I was kind of thinking, helped by what you said, billionaires are a problem indication, but directly suppressing them is suppressing a symptom rather than a root cause.

@evan @malte @ghostdancer @screwturn @ted