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« “I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.»
This reminds me of how for openSNP we used to say that our ToS are “human-readable instead of being lawyer-readable”.
This collaborative effort tries to do the same for many large online services.
https://tosdr.org/en/

Rudolf Rocker never married his longtime partner Milly Witkop because they saw marriage as an authoritarian institution, and I have to agree with that view!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
Beomseok Lee, Marcely Zanon Boito, Laurent Besacier, Ioan Calapodescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01808

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
In this paper we describe NAVER LABS Europe submission to the instruction-following speech processing short track at IWSLT 2025. We participate in the constrained settings, developing systems that can simultaneously perform ASR, ST, and SQA tasks from English speech input into the following target languages: Chinese, Italian, and German. Our solution leverages two pretrained modules: (1) a speech-to-LLM embedding projector trained using representations from the SeamlessM4T-v2-large speech encod…

Cowboys new backup QB outranks 10 drafted higher, including 2 first-round picks https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/04/cowboys-milton-backup-qb-rankings-2025/84029638007/

@… That’s my excuse too. I’ve got a programming language to build. 😆
I agree with pretty much everything you’ve said, and unfortunately, I think the real work is the grunt work, in this instance. There’s lots of little bits and they have to connect together.

Effective Versions of Strong Measure Zero
Matthew Rayman
#toXiv_bot_toot

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11191 has been replaced.
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Primus: A Pioneering Collection of Open-Source Datasets for Cybersecurity LLM Training
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable advancements in specialized fields such as finance, law, and medicine. However, in cybersecurity, we have noticed a lack of open-source datasets, with a particular lack of high-quality cybersecurity pretraining corpora, even though much research indicates that LLMs acquire their knowledge during pretraining. To address this, we present a comprehensive suite of datasets covering all major training stages, including pretraining, instruction fine-…

I try to be polite and constructive on GitHub but today I couldn't resist some snark. I think Microsoft deserves it.
https://github.com/Azure/azure-service-bus-emulator-installer/issues/17#issuecomment-2790842139

Someone on lemmy mentioned that replacing "Russian XYZ" with "local meth head" makes news headlines much more fun.
I agree. So I installed a firefox extension that does this automatically: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/word-replacer-max/

Word Replacer Max – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Word Replacer Max for Firefox. Seamlessly replace text on any web page.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3636 has been replaced.
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Physics education research: Resources for graduate student instructors
This resource letter intends to provide physics instructors - particularly graduate student teaching assistants - at the introductory university level with a small but representative collection of resources to acquire a familiarity with research in physics education for guidance in everyday instruction. The resources are in the form of books, articles, websites, journals, and organizations.