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Spring Cleaning Spring has sprung! And right now is an excellent time to clean up your digital devices. ## Subtraction Makes You Safer When we think about improving security and privacy, we tend to add things: password managers, VPNs, encrypted communication apps. But one of the most effective ways to protect yourself is much simpler: remove what you don’t need. Subtraction, not addition. Over the years, our computers and smartphones gain apps and plugins through steady accretion, like barnacles. Every app you install exposes you to more data collection and security vulnerabilities. Over time, these apps can automatically update, collecting more data and adding new exploitable features. Worse yet, the apps may be abandoned – any existing security bugs will become well known but will never be fixed. Even apps you don’t open can still sometimes make you vulnerable – especially if they include background services, auto-start components, or helper functions that still run, even if you don’t launch the app itself. Furthermore, over the years there have been many apps that we had to install for a special purpose, but those functions have since been built into the operating system or pre-installed apps. For example, almost every modern web browser can display PDF files now – you don’t need a specialized, proprietary app like Adobe Acrobat Reader. Also, you used to have to install a special app to read QR codes – but both iOS and Android will do this using the built-in camera app now. And finally, companies relentlessly push us to install their apps because apps don’t benefit from the privacy protections built into modern web browsers like Safari, Brave or Firefox. In fact, many apps have a built-in web browser so that if you click a link in their app, it opens using their own browser – bypassing your chosen browser, which could block their ads and tracking. ## Out with the Old So let’s take a few minutes to look through all the apps we have installed and get rid of anything we don’t really need. What you don’t install can’t track you, leak your data, or get hacked. You don’t need to spend hours on this. Just start with the obvious wins. (Remember that you can always reinstall the app later – and in many cases, your data and settings will come back automatically if the app uses cloud sync.) You should look at both your smartphone and your computer here. You want to look through _all_ your installed apps (see below for help with this). You want to find… * Apps you haven’t used in months * Apps you installed as a free trial or just to try them out * Apps some restaurant or store coerced you to install for a sign-up deal or free appetizer or whatever. * Apps that can be replaced with a web version that you access with a browser (especially social media apps) * Apps you installed to solve one specific problem that you no longer need * Apps with a special purpose that can be replaced with a more private or secure built-in app Again, some examples of that last category include PDF viewers, QR code scanners, flashlight and calculator apps. And if you can get by with just using a website instead of a dedicated app, you’ll be better off in your chosen browser where you have more control over tracking, ads, and permissions. Here are some articles that will help you view all your installed apps and then remove them. Sadly, just looking at your smartphone’s home screen and secondary ‘pages’ won’t give you a complete list anymore – nor will looking in your ‘Applications’ folder on your computer. * iOS (iPhone, iPad) * Settings → General → iPhone Storage → select app → Delete App * Or long-press icon → Remove App * Android * Settings → Apps → select app → Uninstall * Enable “All” or “See All Apps” to see everything * macOS * System Information → Software → Applications * Drag app from Applications → Trash * Apps can live in multiple locations on macOS, which is why this more advanced view is helpful. * Windows * Settings → Apps → Installed apps → Uninstall * Or right-click from Start menu On macOS, AppCleaner is a lightweight, widely trusted tool for removing leftover app files on macOS. It’s generally safe – but only download it from the official site, and take a moment to review what it’s deleting before you click “Remove.” ## Going Further Browser plugins (or “addons” or “extensions”) are very popular today – and you should treat each one like an application. They often have the ability to track all the sites you visit, alter web pages, steal information you put in web forms, and much more. And if that weren’t bad enough, there are many outright malicious plugins that mimic popular, legitimate plugins. You should absolutely review all the plugins you have installed in your browser(s) and remove anything you don’t absolutely need. For any apps or plugins you just can’t bring yourself to uninstall, you should carefully review the permissions you’ve given them. Yes, even browser plugins have permissions. You should try to also close out any old online accounts you have that you no longer use, including finding all the really old ones you’d forgotten you even had. Depending on where you live, you will have different data deletion rights – but in all cases, it’s worth asking data brokers to delete your data. You don’t have to do this yourself – for as little as $20 a year, you can have EasyOptOuts do it for you. Spring cleaning isn’t about perfection – it’s about being intentional. Every app you remove, every extension you uninstall, every account you delete is one less way for your data to be collected, misused, or exposed. It will improve security, too, by reducing your attack surface. Subtraction makes you safer. #### Need practical security tips? Sign up to receive Carey's favorite security tips + the first chapter of his book, _Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons_. Don't get caught with your drawbridge down! **Get started**

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Calling ☢️47☣️ only #incompetent and/or a #liar is gross #minimization.

It is a #Nazi #domesticterrorist with hundred's of thousands' of Americans blood on his hands.

Calling ☢️47☣️ only #incompetent and/or a #liar is gross #minimization.

It is a #Nazi #domesticterrorist with hundred's of thousands' of Americans blood on his hands.

Anti-Zionist academics start to flirt with Holocaust denial and minimization Capitalization of terms as a new form of antisemitism

#Anti-Zionist #academics start to #flirt with #Holocaust #denial and #minimization.

Capitalization of terms as a new #form of #antisemitism

Everything I'm saying about #UnitarianUniversalist #ClergyMisconduct aka #ClergyAbuse that includes #ChildSexAbuse, & ongoing #UUA mishandling, #minimization, cover-up & #Denial thereof, can be verified if you engage in "a free & responsible search for truth & meaning" as per UUism's #4thPrinciple.

The inexact power augmented Lagrangian method for constrained nonconvex optimization

Alexander Bodard, Konstantinos Oikonomidis, Emanuel Laude, Panagiotis Patrinos

Action editor: Konstantin Mishchenko

https://openreview.net/forum?id=63ANb4r7EM

#minimization #constrained #optimization

Slicing the Gaussian Mixture Wasserstein Distance

Moritz Piening, Robert Beinert

Action editor: Makoto Yamada

https://openreview.net/forum?id=yPBtJ4JPwi

#wasserstein #generative #minimization

How do you care for an ageing parent – when they want none of it? | Barry J Jacobs Supporting my mother as she grew older meant facing pride, minimization and resistance. The key to a healthier relationship was empathy

“She protected her #pride by using #minimization, a close cousin of #denial. It wasn’t that she refused to believe she had kidney disease..but she made light of their impact on her capabilities.”: buff.ly/xuvKBpi

#caregiver #ChronicDisease
Via @theguardian.com

Byzantine-Robust and Hessian-Free Federated Bilevel Optimization

Shruti P Maralappanavar, Bharath B N

Action editor: Yingbin Liang

https://openreview.net/forum?id=5trmyvtkeo

#optimization #byzantine #minimization

a broccoli person is standing in front of the entranceway to a business, which has a sign out front that reads "*no corn allowed". there is a corn person outside the business holding a sign that says "corn rights are vegetable rights." the broccoli is saying to the corn "we just have a different of opinion. agree to disagree."... commentary on the work: prejudice is not an opinion. framing is important. minimization can be notorious.

part of a series
(lying vegetables)
#prejudice #minimization #dismissal
#illustration #cartoon #discrimination

If U*Us are neutral in a situation of #UnitarianUniversalist #injustice, U*Us have chosen the side of the U*U oppressor(s).

Sadly, many U*Us are "neutral" as in #PassivelyComplicit in a variety of U*U #injustices, including UNjust #UUA mishandling, #minimization, #CoverUp & #Denial of #ClergyAbuse.

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Slicing the Gaussian Mixture Wasserstein Distance

Moritz Piening, Robert Beinert

https://openreview.net/forum?id=yPBtJ4JPwi

#wasserstein #generative #minimization

a broccoli is blocking a corn from entering their business, saying "we just have a difference of opinion. agree to disagree." there is a sign on the business that says "*no corn allowed". the corn is holding a sign that says "corn rights are vegetable rights". x x x Abusers are minimizers. Abusers are gaslighters. Abusers are liars. Prejudice is always abusive. x x x Part of a series of drawings. You can find more lying vegetables here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62376633/ https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62298147/ https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46199210/ https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46226637 x x x “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” -Robert Jones Jr. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/j.....disagree-love/

art by me 🎨 #art #artsky #racism #discrimination #prejudice #corn #broccoli #vegetables #minimization #minimizers #gaslighting #gaslighter
#abusers #abusive #socialdisease

GitHub - NVIDIA-Digital-Bio/nvMolKit: A high-performance, GPU-accelerated library for key computational chemistry tasks, such as molecular similarity, conf... #nvidia #nvmolkit #molecularmodeling #compchem #morgan #fingerprints #tanimoto #mmff #rdkit #gpu #conformergeneration #minimization

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They the failures] have taken place in the context of extreme #wealth & #influence which, together w/gendered #power dynamics & #socioeconomic vulnerability, have shaped #government inaction. Public officials—through #neglect, #minimization, or deliberate #manipulation—blunted scrutiny, weakened […]

Those who also paid attention to history and current narratives know that #denial and #minimization are a serious problem.

They've gone full gestapo, concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. Trump is talking about "slavery with extra steps" for farm workers.

Just learn, improve and move on.

a man in a suit and sunglasses is looking down at something ALT: a man in a suit and sunglasses is looking down at something

I prefer to see the world without 157 cognitive distortion lenses myself,

but I guess some people really love their #denial & #minimization #DefenseMechanisms

and seem to get super mad when other people won’t wear them too.

νSAM: Memory-Efficient Sharpness-Aware Minimization via Nuclear Norm Constraints

Thomas Pethick, Parameswaran Raman, Lenon Minorics et al.

Action editor: Konstantin Mishchenko

https://openreview.net/forum?id=V6ia5hWIMD

#optimizer #sgd #minimization

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Python vectorized minimization of a multivariate loss function without jacobian I have a loss fun...

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#python #scipy #minimization

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Python vectorized minimization of a multivariate loss function without jacobian I have a loss fun...

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NNSA to ask for risk assessment of weapons usability of High-Assay Low Enriched Uranium fuels <p>On 2 January 2025, NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby <a href="https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/nnsa-administrator-jill-hruby-issues-statement-understanding-and-assessing-risks">announced</a> that the agency was "finalizing plans" to commission a National Academies report on proliferation risks of HALEU fuel. Hruby noted that "reactor type, fuel enrichment level, fuel quantity, and fuel form are important factors in evaluating proliferation risks." HALEU (high-assay low-enriched uranium) is uranium enriched to between 10 and 20 percent uranium-235 and is the fuel of choice in many proposed "small modular reactors," concepts, some of which plan to use HALEU to sustain their chain reactions. Current light-water power reactors use fuel with enrichments levels below 5 percent. </p> <p>Hruby's announcement stems from the article published in Science in June 2024 "<a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8693">The weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium</a>" by Scott Kemp, Ed Lyman, Mark Deinert, Richard Garwin, and IPFM co-founder Frank von Hippel. It suggests that HALEU enriched above about 12 percent uranium-235 could be used to make a practical weapon. Quantities ranging from several hundred kilograms to about 1000 kg of 19.75 percent HALEU could produce explosive yields similar to or greater than that of the 15 kilotons of the Hiroshima bomb.</p> <p>The article argued that plans for the use of HALEU have not carefully considered the potential proliferation and terrorism risks that the wide adoption of this fuel creates. It called for an assessment of the practicality of making nuclear explosives with HALEU by experts at DOE's nuclear-weapon design laboratories. Given that DOE would be reviewing its own promotion of HALEU as a power-reactor fuel, they also recommended an independent review of the laboratories' conclusions. </p> <p>With the change of Administration in the United State, whether Hruby's successor will be as open to considering this issue remains to be seen, but indications are that the National Academies study is expected to go forward.</p> <p><strong>Enrichment and bombs</strong></p> <p>When uranium is enriched to above about 6 percent uranium-235, it can sustain an explosive fast-neutron chain reaction such as occurred in the Hiroshima bomb. The technical and policy question is what is the minimum enrichment required to make a practical bomb.</p> <p>This question arose in 1954 when, following President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech at the United Nations, the U.S. began to export research reactors. Research reactors produce surplus neutrons for various purposes including the production of short-lived radioactive isotopes to trace biological molecules. The higher the enrichment, the more compact a core can be and the higher the neutron flux available in or adjacent to the core at a given power. The incentive, therefore, was to pick as high an enrichment as possible without spreading the bomb.</p> <p>The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had the matter analyzed and Lawrence Hafstad, its director of research development, <a href="https://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/2016/05/on_the_origins_and_significanc.html">reported</a> back that:</p> <blockquote> <p>Information from Los Alamos indicates that 10 percent enriched uranium is not suitable for any practical weapon... For higher concentrations [enrichment] it would be possible to prevent assembly of a weapon by restricting the total amount of material issued of any given assay. </p> </blockquote> <p>Hafstad recommended that fuel enriched to more than 20 percent not be exported but </p> <blockquote> <p>enriched uranium of assay between 10 percent and 20 percent U²³⁵ be regarded as not of weapons significance provided the total quantity held by any one country does not exceed that given by the formula, kg total U = 2/C^1.7.</p> </blockquote> <p>Here, C is the enrichment. At an enrichment of 10 percent (C =0.1) the maximum amount of enriched uranium that could be exported to a single country would 100 kg and at 20 percent it would be 31 kg.</p> <p>Initial U.S. exports under the Atoms for Peace Program complied with Hafstad's recommendation. The quantitative limit was abandoned later, however, and, for safeguarding purposes, "low-enriched uranium" enriched to less than 20 percent uranium-235 was <a href="https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/PUB2003_web.pdf">defined</a> by the International Atomic Energy Agency as "indirect use material," requiring further enrichment to become weapons usable. </p> <p>In addition, during the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet Union, using the provision of research reactors as a tool for alliance building, ignored the 20 percent enrichment limit and exported research reactors fueled with "weapon-grade" uranium, i.e. uranium enriched to greater than 90 percent uranium-235, to about forty non-nuclear weapon states (see the IPFM report <a href="https://fissilematerials.org/library/rr15.pdf"><em>Banning the Production of Highly Enriched Uranium</em></a>). </p> <p>Nuclear-weapon proliferation became an issue again, however, after India's first nuclear test in 1974. The 20 percent limit was revived for new reactor exports and, after the September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda attacks on the U.S., concerns about the possibility of nuclear terrorism incentivized the U.S. and Russia to launch a joint effort to convert the highly-enriched-uranium-fueled research reactors they had exported to 19.75 percent enriched uranium.</p> <p>With the decline in the economic competitiveness of conventional nuclear power reactors, however, governments recently have been encouraging reactor designers to explore the possibilities of "small modular reactors," some of which - especially fast-neutron reactors - require HALEU. In 2024, the US Congress <a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-four-contracts-boost-domestic-haleu-supply-and">provided</a> the Department of Energy $2.7 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act to fund the startup of HALEU production.</p> <div id="more"> </div>

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⚖️ The #ECJ ruled that collecting gender-specific titles (e.g., "Monsieur" or "Madame") for ticket purchases breaches #GDPR. #Transparency & data #minimization are essential for #compliance.
💡Learn how this impacts #inclusivity and #privacy.
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Unified Convergence Theory of Stochastic and Variance-Reduced Cubic Newton Methods

El Mahdi Chayti, Martin Jaggi, Nikita Doikov

Action editor: Atsushi Nitanda

https://openreview.net/forum?id=FCs5czlDTr

#hessian #hessians #minimization

Luke (John Jay): Despite a warning,
People infer leniency
When it is implied. #minimization #APLS2017