Tootfinder

ALIA in partnership with the Office of Community Cohesion is looking to work with public libraries across the country on an exciting new community engagement initiative. Participating libraries will receive a payment of $9,900 incl GST in order to host a range of programs that strengthen, grow, and protect community cohesion in diverse ways.
Information session on Wednesday 25 June, 12:30pm AEST. This is your opportunity to find out more and ask questions before putting in your expres…

NFL community observes Juneteenth holiday https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-community-observes-juneteenth-holiday-2025

Trump cuts to foreign aid leave food destined for desperate millions rotting in storage. »The dismantling of USAID and cuts to humanitarian aid has been devastating and unacceptable,« said one international aid group. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-usa…

Issue Retrieval and Verification Enhanced Supplementary Code Comment Generation
Yanzhen Zou, Xianlin Zhao, Xinglu Pan, Bing Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14649

Issue Retrieval and Verification Enhanced Supplementary Code Comment Generation
Issue reports have been recognized to contain rich information for retrieval-augmented code comment generation. However, how to minimize hallucinations in the generated comments remains significant challenges. In this paper, we propose IsComment, an issue-based LLM retrieval and verification approach for generating method's design rationale, usage directives, and so on as supplementary code comments. We first identify five main types of code supplementary information that issue reports can prov…

TIL handy tip for sorting IPv6 addresses:
$ printf -- '%s\n' ff02::1 2001:db8:1::1 fe80::33 2001:db8::15 | decorate -k1:ipv6
2001:db8::15
2001:db8:1::1
fe80::33
ff02::1
(from "datamash" package on Debian)
via comment on https://utcc.uto…

Thinking about different communities on the train. This evening I was handing out pompoms to volunteer race marshals, tomorrow I'm at a BRAID community gathering on arts and humanities research and responsible AI

Raiders' Jackson Powers-Johnson humbly walks back comments on Steelers star https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-jackson-powers-johnson-walks-back-comme…

Let's use Hanlon's Razor, and assume good faith in that the #inaturalist staff just needs a bit of help for how one could actually share decision-making power with a large online community.
To do that, I've written up some ideas of how other online communities (in #citizenscience, #openscience and beyond) have gone about doing that.
https://tzovar.as/power-sharing/

Four wealthy nations
—the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia
—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade,
according to new data published by Oil Change Internationalon Monday, the first day of the Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany.
Oil Change's analysis,
titled Planet Wreckers,
notes that if those four Global North nations stopped their planned new oil and gas extraction,
32 billion tons of carb…

'Planet Wreckers': 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil and Gas Over Next Decade | Common Dreams
"This is not just hypocrisy," said one climate campaigner. "It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis."

TIL handy tip for sorting IPv6 addresses:
$ printf -- '%s\n' ff02::1 2001:db8:1::1 fe80::33 2001:db8::15 | decorate -k1:ipv6
2001:db8::15
2001:db8:1::1
fe80::33
ff02::1
(from "datamash" package on Debian)
via comment on https://utcc.uto…