2025-11-13 20:39:29
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/
»Over 67,000 Fake npm Packages Flood Registry in Worm-Like Spam Attack:
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a large-scale spam campaign that has flooded the npm registry with thousands of fake packages since early 2024 as part of a likely financially motivated effort.«
How do you check if the JavaScript libraries and their libraries on which they are based are now safe?!??
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For #TextModeTuesday, some fonts from my old demoscene days, recreated in 2022 for an example project of my opensource libraries:
Figlet style text generator using big fonts:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/big-font/
Listening to Rudolf Mumenthaler, head library of UZH, at the 10th anniversary of ZHAW library Winterthur. He argues that libraries have been taken advantage of when it comes to publishing and access to published material. They should be careful to not losing agency again when it comes to research data. Let’s see
I made a script for this, but then I thought a webui would be better so I could use it in my phone and stuff
I asked an LLM to generate a python webui to run server-side the script I wrote, and surprisingly it 100% worked first try. I was sure it wouldn’t work at all, but I didn’t touch that code and it works.
I can’t even say I “vibe coded” this bc I didn’t even read the code enough to know its vibes lmao. I’m surprised this even works, and it does work well. What the actual fuck.
Welp, not my favourite way to do things but I wasn’t in the mood to do python and figure out the extra libraries and stuff.
And it works so I’ll just use that. In a hardened systemd service to make sure it doesn’t like accidentally delete my whole system or something.
I wish dependencies would stop embedding their own arguments parser in a package that didn’t need a CLI to begin with.
Eleventy has *three* different dependencies with pretty hefty (and outdated) CLI argument parser libraries 😭
Is there an `overrides`-style feature that works for libraries? (afaik this feature is only for app-level code)
@… it really depends on the dependencies.
Is it compiled? What libraries does it need.
Is it interpreted? Good luck defining the dependencies...
Libraries scramble to find another print book provider after Baker & Taylor, once the largest US distributor of print books to public libraries, shuts down (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5668426/libraries-books-distributor-closing
IntrinTrans: LLM-based Intrinsic Code Translator for RISC-V Vector
Liutong Han, Zhiyuan Tan, Hongbin Zhang, Pengcheng Wang, Chu Kang, Mingjie Xing, Yanjun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10119
[2025-10-14 Tue (UTC), 1 new article found for cs.DL Digital Libraries]
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(Dis)Proving Spectre Security with Speculation-Passing Style
Santiago Arranz-Olmos, Gilles Barthe, Lionel Blatter, Xingyu Xie, Zhiyuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11573 htt…
MS2toImg: A Framework for Direct Bioactivity Prediction from Raw LC-MS/MS Data
Hansol Hong, Sangwon Lee, Jang-Ho Ha, Sung-June Chu, So-Hee An, Woo-Hyun Paek, Gyuhwa Chung, Kyoung Tai No
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09716
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/
Interesting post on the CILIP website: 'AI Wars - The Libraries Fight Back' https://www.cilip.org.uk/news/712840/AI-Wars---The-Libraries-Fight-Back.htm
Timed for Green Libraries Week, which is examining the environmental impact of AI …
You’re Wasting Time in Java Without These #10 Libraries (sic)
https://medium.com/@gaddamnaveen192/youre-wasting-time-in-java-without-these-10-libraries-87a8c5c6f3ab?sk=0ae4f21f22b0c376642a6a72b4c3cd16
All kinds of issues and adjustments are popping up and will be popping up as we go through AI integration into our lives. This was an interesting read: https://x.com/MarcJSchmidt/status/2009688028931875156
This was especially interesting: Look at Tailwind: "75 million d…
@… Superb article - & everyone please call on the libraries, universities, arts organisations & NGOs important to you...
#OpenAccess #DigitalSovereignty
Parks, Libraries and Leisure: Northampton’s Social Life in the 1920s https://edintone.com/leisure-libraries-parks/ In the 1920s, increased opportunities for leisure were an important part of life for the working-class. @…
What to expect from microscopic nuclear modelling for k$_{\rm eff}$ calculations ?
D. Rochman, A. Koning, S. Goriely, S. Hilaire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11256 https://…
software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
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This network has 550 nodes and 3691 edges.
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Minor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency"
IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. A small % of library funding but important.
but I believe everyone is gone and grants cancelled so not sure what happens if funding returns-- who gets employed?
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge (Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/tennessee-public-libraries-close
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p42#a251125p42
So Intel have added a so-called On-Die Certifying Authority (ODCA) with ME gen 3 version 15 based platforms.
That is also explained in the recent CSME whitepaper.
I figured that the FTPR CPD manifest contains a new extension now for certificate revocation, including a URL to CRL data.
That extension's data itself is encoded as ASN.1 DER, so I need yet another parser. Uh-oh... which one should I choose, does anyone have recent experiences to share? 🙃
I am checking t…
Alabama GOP Leader Who Used Fake ID To Vote Has Trans Books Axed From Kids Sections At Public Libraries - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/alabama-gop-leader-who-used-fake-id-to-vote-has-trans-books-axed-from-kids-sections-at-public-libraries/
Some thoughts from recent talks: 'AI and Machine Learning in Libraries: Promising, But Not Ready Yet' https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2025/10/ai-and-machine-learning-in-libraries-promising-but-not-ready-yet/
from my link log —
foreign-dlopen: load dynamic libraries into a statically-linked executable.
https://github.com/pfalcon/foreign-dlopen
saved 2025-12-04 ht…
I am a bit surprised how high Javascript is in that list. Don't get me wrong, I am in the same camp, but I'd have thought people liked JS more.
(I just don't think the platform [as in runtime important tooling/libraries] is mature and it's too hype driven so I decided to check in in a few years when things might have settled more)
The American Library Association (ALA) has touted a "massive win"
after previously revoked federal funding for libraries and museums was reinstated nationwide.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
announced on Wednesday it had
"reinstated all federal grants,"
8 months after an executive order from Donald Trump kick-started a firestorm
at the agency that supports the nation’s libraries.
Most of IMLS' staff, and i…
software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 533 nodes and 1735 edges.
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Last night's #elections lesson: change is possible! Start where you're at, which includes your local library board!
@librariesftp.bsky.social
helps folks do this with candidate training. Learn more in this newsletter & at the Dec. 4 open house!
Consider some Dead coding {💀} ?
It's December and quiet, it might be a nice small project on a code base you already know - it's amazing what you find! I'm not talking about rewriting - I'm talking about just removing whole unused functions or libraries.
Now, if you're doing this on an area of code maintained by someone else don't wade in with thousands of changes, try a few and just check you're not deleting stuff people want.
If you find somethin…
Excellent news, especially for overseas DOD libraries, where kids don't have the options they might have stateside.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/21/nx-s1-5580738/judge-banned-books-returned-to-military-school-libraries
Enjoyed the wide variety of maps in #SecretMaps at the British Library and then... a live action team text adventure exploring the world of libraries. Thanks Seth Kriebel for an unpredictable and excellent experience! I'm still wondering what the spice smell was
I wrote up a talk I did recently: 'AI and Machine Learning in Libraries: Promising, But Not Ready Yet' https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2025/10/ai-and-machine-learning-in-libraries-promising-but-not-ready-yet
"Literature in Context evolved from two independent projects, one by John O’Brien at The University of Virginia, and one by Tonya Howe, at Marymount University. O’Brien and Howe joined forces in 2017 and successfully applied for a Level II Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities in collaboration with Christine Ruotolo, Director of Research in the Arts and Humanities at The University of Virginia Libraries (HAA-258768-18). In 2022, the project was awarded a second grant from the NEH ODH (HAA-290349-23), as well as an Open Course Grant from VIVA, Virginia’s academic library consortium. In April 2025, the second federal grant was terminated, along with many others, by DOGE."
@… @… I’ve gotten books from various university libraries via the Fort Vancouver Regional Library system.
One of them stuck with me enough to get my own copy… which involved calling the author’s widow and mailing her a check. At…
Apple Friends, Xcode is bundling 48 megs worth of SwiftSyntax code into my iOS libraries and binaries because I defined some @… on my code.
The library does not reference or consume SwiftSyntax. In fact, a test with SwiftPM shows that it works correctly for a standalone executable, but for iOS it just gratuitously bundles it
It is rendering my Godot A…
📊 How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000
https://lemire.me/blog/2025/11/23/how-good-are-chinese-cpus-benchmarking-the-loongson-3a6000/
@… Just want to point out that some public libraries provide access to such new sources, so you can view without paying.
I guess the Internet Archive is now a for-Proffitt...
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115611174274779543
I just updated 8 libraries I maintain to run on PHP 8.5.
None of them required any changes for 8.5. One had two deprecation nitpicks left over from 8.4 that I'd not previously caught, trivially fixed.
It took me a little over an hour to do all 8, including some other maintenance at the same time.
PHP upgrades rock if your code is good. 🙂 :elephpant:
#PHP
Good Librations - A Kiama Library Podcast
Welcome to the Good Librations podcast, an entertaining dive down the rabbit hole of all things books, reading, libraries and more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/good-librations/…
Public #libraries should have datasheets, reference manuals and schematics. Would be great for #rightToRepair and keeping #knowledge in general - a library's main purpose.
Some tips for debugging #Windows applications that do not start:
1. Run them via #wine. It can give you a useful error message (such as "this library is missing this symbol" rather than completely useless generic error code).
2. Wine has winedump tool that can be used to get information from DLLs and static libraries.
3. https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies is a good replacement for Dependency Walker that runs on Wine.
NaviGait: Navigating Dynamically Feasible Gait Libraries using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Neil C. Janwani, Varun Madabushi, Maegan Tucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11542 https…
So, 11 out of 12 days completed for #AdventofCode and my thoughts for this year:
- `nim` is probably the language I've enjoyed coding the most in.
- `python`'s whole ecosystem of libraries just makes things so much easier. Day 10 and `scipy` just destroyed that solution (part 2 specifically)
- `rust` annoys me, but I 100% admit that it's a skill issue on my pa…
Don't judge. Help. #Libraries
@borkdude, in your 'scittle with additional libraries' files, you have, for each file in the library, a line
SHADOW_ENV.evalLoad( <filename>, <boolean>, <???>);
where ??? is a string of JS source code with some punctuation replaced by hex codes.
The second last line appears to invoke the file itself (recursively!?!), and the last is always
SHADOW_ENV.evalLoad("shadow.module.<filename>.append.js", false, <???>);
Wha…
PVS-Studio blog writer Georgii Tormozov summarizes a long list of improvements made to Microsoft's next LTS (and anniversary release) .NET 10. This overview highlights support for C# 14, performance enhancements, new libraries (including post-quantum crypto.), runtime and SDK. A good read to keep up with the latest and greatest in .NET.
"What's new in .NET 10"
software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 6488 nodes and 150985 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
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{annotater}: Annotate package load calls, so we can have an idea of the overall purpose of the libraries we’re loading: #rstats
Keeping the PlayStation 2 alive -- inside the world of the PCSX2 emulator
https://gardinerbryant.com/keeping-the-playstation-2-alive-inside-the-world-of-the-pcsx2-emulator
On a day full of conversations about big AI tech and the decisions museum, libraries and archives have to make at the intersection of licensing data for AI and their values, the AI Afterlives workbook seems like a thought-provoking exercise #FF2025
@… Thought that was a barely pseudonymous book about you! 😂
https://mastodon.social/@bookblabla/115588744411865533
My colleagues just published a really nice analysis comparing the performance of (AI-enabled) Primo Research Assistant and traditional library search. TL;DR they pull up about the same proportion of relevant articles, without much overlap. Generated summary text still needs work. https://ital.corejournals.org/in…
The monthly Digital Library Federation Committee on #equity and #inclusion mtg is a welcoming space to discuss supporting #libraries,
software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 532 nodes and 1730 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/n…
Tensor Logic: The Language of AI
Pedro Domingos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12269 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12269…
I love it when kids get told "no" and plow ahead anyway. #Iowa #bannedbooks #libraries
Kid2 just got a few ordered books and celebrated like it's Christmas. Thanks to public libraries, any day can be a holiday (including actual holidays - see Labor unions--Organizing).
software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 533 nodes and 1735 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/…
ALIA Graphic Podcast
In this podcast, the ALIA Graphic team discusses the latest news relevant to libraries and graphic novels...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/alia-graphic-podcast/
Aixel: A Unified, Adaptive and Extensible System for AI-powered Data Analysis
Meihui Zhang, Liming Wang, Chi Zhang, Zhaojing Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12642 https://…
Another post on #Quansight PBC blog: "BLAS/LAPACK #packaging"
#BLAS and #LAPACK are the standard libraries for linear algebra. The original implementation, often called Netlib LAPACK, developed since the 1980s, nowadays serves primarily as the origin of the standard interface, the reference implementation and a conformance test suite. The end users usually use optimized implementations of the same interfaces. The choice ranges from generically tuned libraries such as OpenBLAS and BLIS, through libraries focused on specific hardware such as Intel® oneMKL, Arm Performance Libraries or the Accelerate framework on macOS, to ATLAS that aims to automatically optimize for a specific system.
The diversity of available libraries, developed in parallel with the standard interfaces, along with vendor-specific extensions and further downstream changes, adds quite a bit of complexity around using these libraries in software, and distributing such software afterwards. This problem entangles implementation authors, consumer software authors, build system maintainers and distribution maintainers. Software authors generally wish to distribute their packages built against a generically optimized BLAS/LAPACK implementation. Advanced users often wish to be able to use a different implementation, more suited to their particular needs. Distributions wish to be able to consistently build software against their system libraries, and ideally provide users the ability to switch between different implementations. Then, build systems need to provide the scaffolding for all of that.
I have recently taken up the work to provide such a scaffolding for the Meson build system; to add support for BLAS and LAPACK dependencies to Meson. While working on it, I had to learn a lot about BLAS/LAPACK packaging: not only how the different implementations differ from one another, but also what is changed by their respective downstream packaging. In this blog post, I would like to organize and share what I have learned.
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#CondaForge #Debian #Fedora #Gentoo
software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 799 nodes and 7895 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
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software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 838 nodes and 3088 edges.
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https://networks.skewed.de/…
Replaced article(s) found for cs.DL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DL/new
[1/1]:
- APC waivers and Ukraine's publishing output in Gold OA journals: Evidence from five commercial pu...
Serhii Nazarovets
I'm hanging out at the university's rare book library today. This is what living is for.
#histodons #libraries #archives #GLAM
Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/call-for-composers-and-pub…
Replaced article(s) found for cs.DL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DL/new
[1/1]:
- Breakthrough Asymmetries across Disciplines and Countries: A Network approach to Structural Compl...
Adarsh Raghuvanshi, Hrishidev Unni, Vinayak, Anirban Chakraborti
The Hawaii State Public Library System banned the phrase “banned books week,” in displays at 51 public libraries across the state. #irony #BannedBooksWeek #Hawaii
software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 3310 nodes and 22370 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.d…
software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 838 nodes and 3088 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/…
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DL/new
[1/1]:
- Leveraging LLMs for Semi-Automatic Corpus Filtration in Systematic Literature Reviews
Lucas Joos, Daniel A. Keim, Maximilian T. Fischer
[2025-10-15 Wed (UTC), no new articles found for cs.DL Digital Libraries]
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