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Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing across Russian border, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/former-wagner-fighter-seeks-asylum.html

I feel stupid for asking this… but is there still no good way to checkout and later pull a pull request branch from another repo?
We've got `gh pr checkout NUMBER` but the only way I've found to fetch updates is to delete the local branch and start over.
I really don't want to play adlib with manually adding remotes etc – is this still the best we can do in 2025??
EDIT: it’s solved! 🎉

Tomáš Janoušek (@liskin@genserver.social)
@hynek @carlton Drop fetch.all=true and that fixes it.You may need to learn to use git remote update instead of git fetch though.And I’d consider filing this as a bug upstream, because as you said ...

Sometimes I wake up to the liberating feeling that no one holds authority over me. If only the world would recognize this freedom and dismantle all forms of oppression!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

The feeling when you find the root cause for a problem that has been bothering you for months. And it turns out to be fixable by adding a single letter. (To turn an "unsigned long" literal into an "unsigned long long" one.) (Actually I made it use the UINT64_C() macro from <cstdint>.)
Writing portable code is hard. And thanks, Windows, for keeping "long" as 32 bits even in 64-bit code.
Now, if only Clang or gcc on Linux would warn about such po…

Filling MIDI Velocity using U-Net Image Colorizer
Zhanhong He, David Cooper, Defeng Huang, Roberto Togneri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07751 https://arxiv.o…

Filling MIDI Velocity using U-Net Image Colorizer
Modern music producers commonly use MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) to store their musical compositions. However, MIDI files created with digital software may lack the expressive characteristics of human performances, essentially leaving the velocity parameter - a control for note loudness - undefined, which defaults to a flat value. The task of filling MIDI velocity is termed MIDI velocity prediction, which uses regression models to enhance music expressiveness by adjusting only th…

Repurposing an old fileserver as another backup server using #TrueNAS… First, I want to pull out any disks with reallocated sectors. Most disks are more than 5 years old and my plan is to replace future failing HDDs with larger ones. As an appliance, TrueNAS is not meant for low-level tinkering. The GUI only shows actual uncorrected sectors as SMART errors and has no way to light up a disk slot o…

FVGen: Accelerating Novel-View Synthesis with Adversarial Video Diffusion Distillation
Wenbin Teng, Gonglin Chen, Haiwei Chen, Yajie Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06392 https:…

FVGen: Accelerating Novel-View Synthesis with Adversarial Video Diffusion Distillation
Recent progress in 3D reconstruction has enabled realistic 3D models from dense image captures, yet challenges persist with sparse views, often leading to artifacts in unseen areas. Recent works leverage Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) to generate dense observations, filling the gaps when only sparse views are available for 3D reconstruction tasks. A significant limitation of these methods is their slow sampling speed when using VDMs. In this paper, we present FVGen, a novel framework that addres…

Mediator-Guided Multi-Agent Collaboration among Open-Source Models for Medical Decision-Making
Kaitao Chen, Mianxin Liu, Daoming Zong, Chaoyue Ding, Shaohao Rui, Yankai Jiang, Mu Zhou, Xiaosong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05996

Mediator-Guided Multi-Agent Collaboration among Open-Source Models for Medical Decision-Making
Complex medical decision-making involves cooperative workflows operated by different clinicians. Designing AI multi-agent systems can expedite and augment human-level clinical decision-making. Existing multi-agent researches primarily focus on language-only tasks, yet their extension to multimodal scenarios remains challenging. A blind combination of diverse vision-language models (VLMs) can amplify an erroneous outcome interpretation. VLMs in general are less capable in instruction following a…

“According to our president, there’s only two genders..."
Also according to him experiments with injecting bleach, shining UV lights up your ass, hydroxychloroquine, etc. should be pursued. I hope said student is following that advice too.
https://www.theguardian.c…

Hyperfixiation Joy, Stay if You Love It, Scroll if You Don’t!
Next year marks a decade since I first heard Loin d’ici by Zoë Straub. Ten years of the same song looping in my mind, ten years of clinging to every word, every note, as if it’s the only thing keeping me afloat. I remember May 14, 2016, like it’s a scar, the day my hyperfixation began. Time keeps slipping past me, but the song stays, haunting and comforting at once, as if Zoë herself is quietly following me through the endle…