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The 82nd edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we look at hits and misses (mostly misses, let us be honest) in our long tradition of predicting the future; in the Library section, we review "The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop and famous papers authored by J. C. R. Licklider; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch "The Mother of all Demos" by Doug Engelbart.

Issue 082: Futurism
Welcome to the 82nd issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Futurism. In this edition, we look at hits and misses (mostly misses, let us be honest) in our long tradition of predicting the future; in the Library section, we review "The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop and famous papers authored by J. C. R. Licklider; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch "The Mother of all Demos" by Doug Engelbart.

Anyone else experiencing problems (again) with link previews (including thumbnail images) when posting from #Mastodon via #Bridgy to #Bluesky?
Have reported the issue to the team, hopefully it can be sorted b…

Fediverse => Bluesky: auto-generate embeds (with thumbnail images) for links? · Issue #1411 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
I do not know if this is a general problem between platforms or if it is strictly an issue between Mastodon -> Bluesky, but whenever I post an article (or other external link) on Mastodon the thumb...

Décider où poster mon issue ? L'avantage du paradigme #Monorepo
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-05-06_2331/

Is RFK Gonna Take the Poppers Away? - The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/queer-issue-2025/2025/06/06/80089651/is-rfk-gonna-take-the-poppers-away

Would anyone else like to access the current :nixos: flake's commit message from within #nix, e.g. via `self.sourceInfo.commitMsg`, for example to get a more descriptive boot menu entry? I for sure do and opened an issue:
https://

Provide flake's current commit message in self.sourceInfo · Issue #13331 · NixOS/nix
Is your feature request related to a problem? It would be great if one could access the current commit message of the flake. The self.sourceInfo.*Rev are great, but for things like the boot menu or...

SRE Weekly Issue #475 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-475/

In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.
Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.
https://www.

The Real GenAI Issue

It is not an issue of laziness. It is an issue of complexity and nuance and a range of difficulties all merging into one manifestation of distress. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-193-laziness-is-a-myth/

Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Apple’s struggles to update Siri lead to investor concerns over AI strategy
iPhone-maker hit by technological challenges that have led to delays to the full rollout of its ‘Apple Intelligence’ features

@… if content duplication isn’t an issue, it could be solved the same way but it would have some live region complexity to it!

A nice article was just published in our Focus Issue on Urban Mobility and Green Transportation in Sustainable Cities:
Active travel modelling: a methodological approach to networks for walking and cycling commuting analysis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.10…

Help wanted: Can we get someone to go through the build/link time dependencies of ngscopeclient, identify every third-party open source library we use, and ensure that they're all credited properly in the documentation, and include/link to the text of the appropriate licenses?
https://github.com/ng…

Add full text of third party licenses as appropriate · Issue #22 · ngscopeclient/scopehal-docs
Section 2.4 mentions a bunch of third party libraries but doesn't actually include the license text.

European Journal of Jewish Studies Volume 19 (2025): Issue 1 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069807/european-journal-jewish-studies-volume-19-2025-issue-1

For those interested in a quick take on iOS clients for Mastodon, I've now used @…, @…, and @…

Bug: Scrolling Jumps to random place in feed · Issue #2217 · Dimillian/IceCubesApp
Environment: OS: IceCubesApp version: Latest iPad / iOS Description When scrolling through the timeline, the app periodically just jumps to another place than what is being viewed. It’s hard to fin...

Hurray this #intellij issue finally transitioned into their backlog after 6 years!
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-63668
This would solve several issues I have…

The Indian government says it has not issued any directive to withhold the Reuters X account in the country (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/go…

Government says no order to withhold Reuters handle on X in India
India has denied ordering the blocking of Reuters’ X account, saying no such directive was issued. As per notification on the X account, it was withheld “in response to a legal demand,” sparking criticism from journalists and free speech advocates. An official spokesperson said that the government is working with X to resolve the issue amid growing censorship concerns.

She’s right, you know.
We don’t need a general solution for how we accommodate trans kids in sports. It can be handled on a case by case basis. It’s being hypothesized into absurd scale to trigger reaction. There’s no “catastrophe” possible. There are a few dozen specific cases and they are different enough that they should be handled independently.
The details in real cases always seem to argue in favor of the trans kid’s choice.

Cross-Border Data Flows in Africa: Examining Policy Approaches and Pathways to Regulatory Interoperability
https://fpf.org/blog/cross-border-data-flows-in-africa-examining-policy-approaches-and-pathways…

Oh wow ​LLMs are just so terrible. 🤦‍♂️
I made a #systemd service watcher¹ ( :nixos: #NixOS module²³) which regularly feeds systemd status outputs into an LLM (mistral here) and sends me an email if it thinks it found real problems. Well, now I always get alarmist emails with bullshit warnings, suc…

Yann Büchau / ollama-watchdog · GitLab
GitLab.com

@… This is just confusing… I know I’m using an unsupported configuration, but maybe just assume I’m using a totally different piece of software, and then debug my issue for me with that assumption.
Wat.

Android: #Obtanium (instead of #FDroid app) is really awesome for managing app updates.
However, this method has an issue when the naming schema of the #apk files change on the server side, and you're using a…

Applying Large Language Models to Issue Classification: Revisiting with Extended Data and New Models
Gabriel Aracena, Kyle Luster, Fabio Santos, Igor Steinmacher, Marco A. Gerosa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00128

Applying Large Language Models to Issue Classification: Revisiting with Extended Data and New Models
Effective prioritization of issue reports in software engineering helps to optimize resource allocation and information recovery. However, manual issue classification is laborious and lacks scalability. As an alternative, many open source software (OSS) projects employ automated processes for this task, yet this method often relies on large datasets for adequate training. Traditionally, machine learning techniques have been used for issue classification. More recently, large language models (LL…

Texans' C.J. Stroud injury update: DeMeco Ryans shares latest on QB's shoulder issue during OTAs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-

Scaling Transformers for Discriminative Recommendation via Generative Pretraining
Chunqi Wang, Bingchao Wu, Zheng Chen, Lei Shen, Bing Wang, Xiaoyi Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03699

Scaling Transformers for Discriminative Recommendation via Generative Pretraining
Discriminative recommendation tasks, such as CTR (click-through rate) and CVR (conversion rate) prediction, play critical roles in the ranking stage of large-scale industrial recommender systems. However, training a discriminative model encounters a significant overfitting issue induced by data sparsity. Moreover, this overfitting issue worsens with larger models, causing them to underperform smaller ones. To address the overfitting issue and enhance model scalability, we propose a framework na…

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Optimized Kalman Filter based State Estimation and Height Control in Hopping Robots
Rotor-based hopping locomotion significantly improves efficiency and operation time as compared to purely flying systems; where most hopping robots use the liftoff states and an assumed ballistic trajectory to determine the hopping height. However, significant aerial phase force (e.g., thrust and drag) can invalidate this assumption and lead to poor estimation performance. To combat this issue, a group has implemented multiple sensors (active and passive optical, inertial, and contact) and sign…

The 80th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we deplore the sad state of the Windows operating system; in the Library section, we review “The Old New Thing” by Raymond Chen; and in our Vidéothèque section, we learn about how the Longhorn project derailed through Dave Plummer.
https://…

Raiders predicted to finally sign Nate Hobbs replacement in 56-game starting cornerback https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-predicted-finally-sign-nate-ho…

Multi-Tool Analysis of User Interface & Accessibility in Deployed Web-Based Chatbots
Mukesh Rajmohan, Smit Desai, Sanchari Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04659

Multi-Tool Analysis of User Interface & Accessibility in Deployed Web-Based Chatbots
In this work, we present a multi-tool evaluation of 106 deployed web-based chatbots, across domains like healthcare, education and customer service, comprising both standalone applications and embedded widgets using automated tools (Google Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, SiteImprove Accessibility Checker) and manual audits (Microsoft Accessibility Insights). Our analysis reveals that over 80% of chatbots exhibit at least one critical accessibility issue, and 45% suffer from missing semantic str…

I see no Constitutional reason why SCOTUS is precluded from revisiting a prior decision and amending it.
We issue updates for software, why not for decisions?
Yes, it could lead to uncertainties if used more than rarely.
But imagine if the court could re-open the Dred Scott or Korematsu decisions and change the original?
Git hubs could accommodate this.

Issue 87 - SO ORDERED -- Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!) ... (Molly White/Citation Needed)
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-87/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p149#a250701p149

Preface to the Special Issue of the TAL Journal on Scholarly Document Processing
Florian Boudin, Akiko Aizawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03587 https://

Preface to the Special Issue of the TAL Journal on Scholarly Document Processing
The rapid growth of scholarly literature makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep up with new knowledge. Automated tools are now more essential than ever to help navigate and interpret this vast body of information. Scientific papers pose unique difficulties, with their complex language, specialized terminology, and diverse formats, requiring advanced methods to extract reliable and actionable insights. Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities, enabling tasks such as …

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Causal Inference with Outcomes Truncated by Death and Missing Not at Random
In clinical trials, principal stratification analysis is commonly employed to address the issue of truncation by death, where a subject dies before the outcome can be measured. However, in practice, many survivor outcomes may remain uncollected or be missing not at random, posing a challenge to standard principal stratification analyses. In this paper, we explore the identification, estimation, and bounds of the average treatment effect within a subpopulation of individuals who would potentiall…

CFP - Langston Hughes’s Blues Vision in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners: A Special Issue of The Langston Hughes Review https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20070057/cfp-langston-hughess-blues-vision-ryan-cooglers-sinner…

Moms want Trump's birthright citizenship order enjoined
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/children-born-on-us-soil-are-citizens-mothers-urge-court-to-issue-injunction-and-reject-trump-admin-arguments-in-birthright-citizenship-merits-case/

Very high-order accurate finite volume scheme for the streamfunction-vorticity formulation of incompressible fluid flows with polygonal meshes on arbitrary curved boundaries
Ricardo Costa (Institute for Polymers and Composites, University of Minho, Azur\'em Campus, 4804-058 Guimar\~aes, Portugal, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho, Azur\'em Campus, 4804-058 Guimar\~aes, Portugal), St\'ephane Clain (Centre of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, 3000-143 C…

Very high-order accurate finite volume scheme for the streamfunction-vorticity formulation of incompressible fluid flows with polygonal meshes on arbitrary curved boundaries
Conventional mathematical models for simulating incompressible fluid flow problems are based on the Navier-Stokes equations expressed in terms of pressure and velocity. In this context, pressure-velocity coupling is a key issue, and countless numerical techniques and methods have been developed over the decades to solve these equations efficiently and accurately. In two dimensions, an alternative approach is to rewrite the Navier-Stokes equations regarding two scalar quantities: the streamfunct…

A Newton Augmented Lagrangian Method for Symmetric Cone Programming with Complexity Analysis
Rui-Jin Zhang, Ruoyu Diao, Xin-Wei Liu, Yu-Hong Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04802

A Newton Augmented Lagrangian Method for Symmetric Cone Programming with Complexity Analysis
Symmetric cone programming incorporates a broad class of convex optimization problems, including linear programming, second-order cone programming, and semidefinite programming. Although the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) is well-suited for large-scale scenarios, its subproblems are often not second-order continuously differentiable, preventing direct use of classical Newton methods. To address this issue, we observe that barrier functions from interior-point methods (IPMs) naturally serve a…

Thanking the @… folks for the excellent work they do, and especially for their upcoming support for security certificates for IP addresses which is nothing short of revolutionary for the future of the (Small) Web.

Getting ready to issue IP address certificates
Happy to see the progress on this. Thought you might be interested in seeing how important this feature is going to be for the Small Web: It’s going to be invaluable for helping decentralise the web. Thank you for the work you do 🙂

"Coldplay to re-issue albums on records made from recycled plastic bottles"
#Coldplay #Music #Vinyl

Coldplay to re-issue LPs on records made from recycled plastic bottles
Coldplay will re-issue nine of their previous albums on records made from recycled plastic bottles. The EcoRecords reduce carbon emissions during the manufacturing process by 85 per cent compared with traditional vinyl production.

SRE Weekly Issue #479 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-479/

UPDATE! They fixed it!
Very sad atm my friend who bridged their account from bluesky isn't found on mastodon.I've added an issue here but I can't figure out what the issue might be.
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1973

I've been pondering the AI botnet issue for Git forges. Seems to me they seem to airways hit */*/commit/ or */*/blame/ and other such endpoints. It seems reasonable to assume (at least to me) that those types of endpoints are only going to be hit by legitimate users if they are actively working on the code. It would be really beneficial if there were a setting in #forgejo and other forges…

I am triply cautious of this article from @…:
- OpenAI et al use the supposed danger (and thus implied power) of their own product as a marketing ploy (as the article points out)
- When a product vendor funds their own research about the potential dangers of their product, it’s more likely to be good PR than good research
- Society always engages in moral panics about new things causing addiction and psychological damage (including bicycles and novels!)
With those caveats in mind, I do think this is an issue worth watching closely. And that quote in the post? Chef’s kiss.
https://mstdn.ca/@dyckron/114796898620291517

@… Do you think this is an issue? I have no idea how people test React components at all nowadays.
Personally I prefer to write browser tests with a fake backend implementation (running in the client; no HTTP calls), but this might be controversial.

This week I've learned that "per-connection randomized MAC" – while being great for privacy – can be an issue for login-based WiFi networks. First of all it requires you to login again every time you reconnect, but you may also get issues with let's say hotel WiFis that limit the number of devices on one account 😅
I think this is mostly an issue caused by the captive portal implementation.
CC @…

today's "I can't believe I wasted half a hour on this" computer issue: whether Wireshark validates the Ethernet checksum in packets depends on the capture format you're using
.snoop: nope, and ignores all settings including "always check FCS"
.pcap: yep
saving a .snoop file as a .pcap file makes it immediately check all FCS

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FlexiReg: Flexible Urban Region Representation Learning
The increasing availability of urban data offers new opportunities for learning region representations, which can be used as input to machine learning models for downstream tasks such as check-in or crime prediction. While existing solutions have produced promising results, an issue is their fixed formation of regions and fixed input region features, which may not suit the needs of different downstream tasks. To address this limitation, we propose a model named FlexiReg for urban region represe…

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RiOSWorld: Benchmarking the Risk of Multimodal Compter-Use Agents
With the rapid development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), they are increasingly deployed as autonomous computer-use agents capable of accomplishing complex computer tasks. However, a pressing issue arises: Can the safety risk principles designed and aligned for general MLLMs in dialogue scenarios be effectively transferred to real-world computer-use scenarios? Existing research on evaluating the safety risks of MLLM-based computer-use agents suffers from several limitations: it ei…

Learn why one camp director quit posting daily photos of campers. Pretty interesting take on things. #SummerCamp #CampLife

Camp Director Georgia Del Favero: Why I Don't Post Daily Photos from Our Overnight Camp - Free-Range Kids
Are daily photos from overnight camp a big issue? Probably not the biggest. But they are part of a culture where parents have increasingly come to expect the ability to watch their kids at all times, even from afar —  or at least have been trained to expect this by organizations eager to provide surveillance-as-a-service. 

Hole spin qubits in unstrained Germanium layers
Lorenzo Mauro, Mauricio J. Rodriguez, Esteban A. Rodriguez-Mena, Yann-Michel Niquet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04977

Hole spin qubits in unstrained Germanium layers
Strained germanium heterostructures are one of the most promising material for hole spin qubits but suffer from the strong anisotropy of the gyromagnetic factors that hinders the optimization of the magnetic field orientation. The figures of merit (Rabi frequencies, lifetimes...) can indeed vary by an order of magnitude within a few degrees around the heterostructure plane. We propose to address this issue by confining the holes at the interface of an unstrained, bulk Ge substrate or thick buff…

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Delay Update in determinant quantum Monte Carlo
Determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) is a widely used unbiased numerical method for simulating strongly correlated electron systems. However, the update process in DQMC is often a bottleneck for its efficiency. To address this issue, we propose a generalized delay update scheme that can handle both onsite and extended interactions. Our delay update scheme can be implemented in both zero-temperature and finite-temperature versions of DQMC. We apply the delay update scheme to various strongly c…

When folks open a GitHub issue on one of your random-ass experimental learning repositories.

How it started… #DB adventures

"God’s love has the first and the final word, and we are invited to be part of it in our time and place."
—Shannon Craigo-Snell ’95 M.Div., ’02 Ph.D. in her article in the new issue of Reflections https://reflections.yale.edu/article/c

Love this video. But I’ve got a problem with this dude thinking his vote for Trump didn’t play any part in this problem.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3lsn3in6t622w

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$\text{TREX}^2$: Dual-Reconstruction Framework for Teleoperated-Robot with EXtended Reality
Robot teleoperation with extended reality (XR teleoperation) enables intuitive interaction by allowing remote robots to mimic user motions with real-time 3D feedback. However, existing systems face significant motion-to-motion (M2M) latency--the delay between the user's latest motion and the corresponding robot feedback--leading to high teleoperation error and mission completion time. This issue stems from the system's exclusive reliance on network communication, making it highly vulnerable to …

Limn Issue 12: Climate's Interiors is out now online and in print.
Read anywhere with the link below.
https://limn.press/issue/climates-interiors/

Climate's Interiors - Limn
We tend to think about climate solutions from the exterior. Mitigating emissions, climate-proofing crops, erecting solar panels and windmills. But what happens when we shift our perspective? What if we think of climate change from inside cells, bodies, buildings, and systems? This issue of Limn takes the interior as a counterintuitive starting point for thinking about planetary change. Our proposition: Thinking from the interior fundamentally shifts how we understand our warming world and, cruc…

I think a misunderstanding is that people want to fight "scraping" or "automated systems". But my feeling is that the issue is with the _purpose_ of the scraping: It's not "that person is scraping my site" it's "that person wants to use my work to train their slop machine". The issue is the SLOP machine with all the negative externalities they have.
And that is a path worth exploring (that I have similarly argued for code): We want to cont…

Carbon-Aware Temporal Data Transfer Scheduling Across Cloud Datacenters
Elvis Rodrigues, Jacob Goldverg, Tevfik Kosar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04117 http…

Carbon-Aware Temporal Data Transfer Scheduling Across Cloud Datacenters
Inter-datacenter communication is a significant part of cloud operations and produces a substantial amount of carbon emissions for cloud data centers, where the environmental impact has already been a pressing issue. In this paper, we present a novel carbon-aware temporal data transfer scheduling framework, called LinTS, which promises to significantly reduce the carbon emission of data transfers between cloud data centers. LinTS produces a competitive transfer schedule and makes scaling decisi…

I would say that's about it so far. I'm pretty happy with it overall, have supported the development, and use it every day with no issue. The initial setup took me some time as a newbie, but the PiMyLife blog really helped.
I love how many different apps I can connect my server to, how configurable it is, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the future holds for Navidrome. The dev also seems pretty nice and responsive.

What Makes ChatGPT Effective for Software Issue Resolution? An Empirical Study of Developer-ChatGPT Conversations in GitHub
Ramtin Ehsani, Sakshi Pathak, Esteban Parra, Sonia Haiduc, Preetha Chatterjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22390

What Makes ChatGPT Effective for Software Issue Resolution? An Empirical Study of Developer-ChatGPT Conversations in GitHub
Conversational large-language models are extensively used for issue resolution tasks. However, not all developer-LLM conversations are useful for effective issue resolution. In this paper, we analyze 686 developer-ChatGPT conversations shared within GitHub issue threads to identify characteristics that make these conversations effective for issue resolution. First, we analyze the conversations and their corresponding issues to distinguish helpful from unhelpful conversations. We begin by catego…

Recent Advances in Medical Image Classification
Loan Dao, Ngoc Quoc Ly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04129 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04…

Recent Advances in Medical Image Classification
Medical image classification is crucial for diagnosis and treatment, benefiting significantly from advancements in artificial intelligence. The paper reviews recent progress in the field, focusing on three levels of solutions: basic, specific, and applied. It highlights advances in traditional methods using deep learning models like Convolutional Neural Networks and Vision Transformers, as well as state-of-the-art approaches with Vision Language Models. These models tackle the issue of limited …

Excited to report that our script to help the public contact elected officials to demand they intervene and end #censorship has been added to 5calls.org! Make your calls today to #DefendResearch! Pass this along to your community!

Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/30/spain-records-highs-of-46c-and-france-under-alert-as-europe-swelters-in-heatwave…

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Impact of convective overshooting on the single-degenerate model of Type Ia supernovae
The single-degenerate (SD) model is one of the principal models for the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). However, it faces some challenges, the primary being its inability to account for the observed SN Ia birth rate. Many studies have attempted to address this issue by expanding the parameter space, defined by the initial donor star mass and orbital period, that can lead to SNe Ia, as well as by improving binary population synthesis. While these efforts have led to significant progr…

Suppose a student fails a course, and this leads to the termination of their studies. If they can’t challenge the grades as such, they may choose to attack you personally and question your competence, allege that you’re biased, claim misconduct, or try to otherwise discredit you, which may easily lead to charges that have nothing to do with the original issue.
Will your institution defend you? Maybe, maybe not. They may decide that certain allegations must be investigated. ⇢

Suppose a student fails a course, and this leads to the termination of their studies. If they can’t challenge the grades as such, they may choose to attack you personally and question your competence, allege that you’re biased, claim misconduct, or try to otherwise discredit you, which may easily lead to charges that have nothing to do with the original issue.
Will your institution defend you? Maybe, maybe not. They may decide that certain allegations must be investigated. ⇢

Korea Journal special issue - Anticommunism in South Korea
https://ift.tt/rP7E812
Wan on Thusi, 'Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg' Thusi, I.…
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FairHuman: Boosting Hand and Face Quality in Human Image Generation with Minimum Potential Delay Fairness in Diffusion Models
Yuxuan Wang, Tianwei Cao, Huayu Zhang, Zhongjiang He, Kongming Liang, Zhanyu Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02714

FairHuman: Boosting Hand and Face Quality in Human Image Generation with Minimum Potential Delay Fairness in Diffusion Models
Image generation has achieved remarkable progress with the development of large-scale text-to-image models, especially diffusion-based models. However, generating human images with plausible details, such as faces or hands, remains challenging due to insufficient supervision of local regions during training. To address this issue, we propose FairHuman, a multi-objective fine-tuning approach designed to enhance both global and local generation quality fairly. Specifically, we first construct thr…

SRE Weekly Issue #483 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-483/

Russian delegates call abducted children issue "show for childless European grandmothers" - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/03/russian-delegates-call-abducted-children-issue-show-for-childless-european-grandmothers/

The 81st edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we worry about the perils of vibe coding in the minds of new generations of software developers; in the Library section, we review "Geek Sublime" by Vikram Chandra; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch a 1986 interview of Grace Hopper at "Late Night with David Letterman".

Issue 081: Compilers
Welcome to the 81st issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Compilers. In this edition, we worry about the perils of vibe coding in the minds of new generations of software developers; in the Library section, we review "Geek Sublime" by Vikram Chandra; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch a 1986 interview of Grace Hopper at "Late Night with David Letterman".

Je viens de créer cette issue concernant les #ElasticMetal #Scaleway « Elastic Metal: Add protected feature for Elastic Metal »
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After having wondered why my browsers all behave differently when navigating websites with a keyboard, I found this helpful article about the various settings the browsers have and the „spatial" navigation feature that f.e. #Vivaldi offers:

Links unreachable with tab key despite having href made me learn about Spatial Navigation
Another issue where I was not able to google a simple solution: I discovered that links on a website...

The Transgender "Issue" Is Not a Distraction for Democrats (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/transgender-issue-is-not-a-distraction-for-democrats-facts-golden-rule
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p66#a250630p66

CFP - Langston Hughes’s Blues Vision in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners: A Special Issue of The Langston Hughes Review
https://ift.tt/2H8RQWV
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
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"I do not deny scientific medicine’s power—its tools have saved my life and improved my functioning as much as its knowledge allowed. However, faith gives me a way of seeing and understanding the body as God’s good creation and sustained by God’s spirit."
—Hospice chaplain Aaron Klink ’05 M.Div. in his article for the new issue of Reflections, titled "Meds, MRIs, Miracles: A Hospice Chaplain Rereads Genesis"

Trump said on Thursday that a phone call earlier in the day with Vladimir Putin
resulted in "no progress at all"
on efforts to end the war in Ukraine,
while a Kremlin aide said the Russian president reiterated that Moscow would keep pushing to solve the conflict’s “root causes.”
– Russian shorthand for the issue of Nato enlargement and western support for Ukraine.

The two leaders did not discuss a recent pause in some US weapons shipments to K…

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DFPL: Decentralized Federated Prototype Learning Across Heterogeneous Data Distributions
Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm through centralized model aggregation. However, standard federated learning relies on a centralized server, making it vulnerable to server failures. While existing solutions utilize blockchain technology to implement Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL), the statistical heterogeneity of data distributions among clients severely degrades the performance of DFL. Driven by this issue, this paper proposes a decentralized federated prot…

SRE Weekly Issue #474 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-474/

I have to give credit to the @… community. Any issue I enter into GitHub gets an almost immediate response that helps me solve my problems. #javascript #website

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Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization
Generative recommendation systems have gained increasing attention as an innovative approach that directly generates item identifiers for recommendation tasks. Despite their potential, a major challenge is the effective construction of item identifiers that align well with recommender systems. Current approaches often treat item tokenization and generative recommendation training as separate processes, which can lead to suboptimal performance. To overcome this issue, we introduce ETEGRec, a nov…

"Labour issue Supplementary Badger Cull licences for 2025!"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals

Labour issue Supplementary Badger Cull licences for 2025!
Natural England confirms second year of badger culling under 2024 Supplementary licences, challenged in upcoming court case by Badger Trust and Wild Justice.

I think one main issue I have with the whole "EURO Stack" stuff is that it is not looking for an alternative. It's "we want what we got just with EU companies". But the fact that the Internet and its services have been turned into a mall is the big fucking problem. I don't want a "European Facebook" built on the same logic of exploitation.

"My experiences of connection with God and others in the church have kept me coming back. I am hoping against hope that the 21st century church can be an experiential community for the future, a place that more and more people can turn to for a mysterious experience of eternal resonance."
—S. Slade Hogan ’22 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which asks whether Christianity is losing its religion.

Anyone using #JupyterHub (services.jupyterhub.enable=true) on :nixos: #NixOS? Then you should have run into the database migration issue here:

JupyterHub database migration
I am struggling hard to get my JupyterHub working again. After an update (longer ago), JupyterHub often requires a manual database migration and refuses to start: ❯ journalctl -efu jupyterhub ... Jun 04 22:10:41 yann-desktop-nixos jupyterhub[1038575]: Found database schema version 0eee8c825d24 != 4621fec11365. Backup your database and run `jupyterhub upgrade-db` to upgrade to the latest schema. ... Jun 04 22:10:42 yann-desktop-nixos systemd[1]: Failed to start Jupyterhub development server. …

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Collision- and Reachability-Aware Multi-Robot Control with Grounded LLM Planners
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in various robot control tasks. However, their deployment in real-world applications remains constrained. Even state-ofthe-art LLMs, such as GPT-o4mini, frequently produce invalid action plans that violate physical constraints, such as directing a robot to an unreachable location or causing collisions between robots. This issue primarily arises from a lack of awareness of these physical constraints during the reasoning process. T…

Automatic Multi-level Feature Tree Construction for Domain-Specific Reusable Artifacts Management
Dongming Jin, Zhi Jin, Nianyu Li, Kai Yang, Linyu Li, Suijing Guan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03946

Automatic Multi-level Feature Tree Construction for Domain-Specific Reusable Artifacts Management
With the rapid growth of open-source ecosystems (e.g., Linux) and domain-specific software projects (e.g., aerospace), efficient management of reusable artifacts is becoming increasingly crucial for software reuse. The multi-level feature tree enables semantic management based on functionality and supports requirements-driven artifact selection. However, constructing such a tree heavily relies on domain expertise, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. To address this issue, this paper pr…

"Meanwhile, others see signs of success. That code (actually from 2006) is still there because, well, it is still there, because its authors did not get distracted by the shiny shiny and get bogged down in another rewrite, because as manufacturers and markets came and went, the Java runtime was still there, and the bytecode could still execute."

SRE Weekly Issue #478 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-478/

“I know faithful people, including faithful preachers, who persist in hope for the future, against all odds, grounded in their hope in God’s steadfastness. That hope emboldens them both to hear and preach the truth of God’s compassion and of God’s justice, and to act accordingly. Their hope emboldens me.”
—Roger Ferlo ’79 Ph.D. writing in the latest issue of our journal, Reflections

#CFP: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?
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#CFP: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?
JEASA - Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia - Special Issue on Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?

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LEMON-Mapping: Loop-Enhanced Large-Scale Multi-Session Point Cloud Merging and Optimization for Globally Consistent Mapping
Multi-robot collaboration is becoming increasingly critical and presents significant challenges in modern robotics, especially for building a globally consistent, accurate map. Traditional multi-robot pose graph optimization (PGO) methods ensure basic global consistency but ignore the geometric structure of the map, and only use loop closures as constraints between pose nodes, leading to divergence and blurring in overlapping regions. To address this issue, we propose LEMON-Mapping, a loop-enha…

Korea Journal special issue - Anticommunism in South Korea
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Hagley History Hangout/New Episode Artists bring a unique perspective to historical…
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SRE Weekly Issue #482 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-482/

SRE Weekly Issue #473 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-473/

TOC: Jewish Ecologies: New Special Issue of Dibur Literary Journal https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069494/jewish-ecologies-new-special-issue-dibur-literary-journal

European Journal of Jewish Studies Volume 19 (2025): Issue 1
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When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
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SRE Weekly Issue #477 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-477/

SRE Weekly Issue #481 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-481/