Tootfinder

Frage an alle #GitLab Admins: gibt es eine Möglichkeit, einen User automatisch auf alle Projekte Instanz-weit in GitLab self hosted zuzulassen?
Für eine Überprüfung reicht ein Audit User nicht aus und ich möchte das so weit wir möglich automatisieren, auch für neue Projekte.

from my link log —
Mystical: a way to write PostScript that looks like a magical circle.
https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html
saved 2025-05-18

And Public Enemy’s new album “Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025” is great, too.
https://publicenemy.bandcamp.com/album/black-sky-over-the-projects-apartment-2025

Buttigieg DOT ignored safety issues to build dozens of windmill projects near highways, railroads (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/us-news/buttigieg-dot-ignored-safety-issues-to-build-dozens-of-windmill-projects-near-highways-railroads/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p89#a250729p89

Examples of creative data visualizations, mostly ggplot: #ggplot

GitHub - tashapiro/tanya-data-viz: Personal data visualization side projects.
Personal data visualization side projects. Contribute to tashapiro/tanya-data-viz development by creating an account on GitHub.

NY&NJ Harbor&Tributaries Focus Area Feasibility Study Draft Report was just released.
In it, US Army Core of Engineers looks at seawalls and similar to mitigate coastal storm surge risk in the #NYC metro
Public comment period July 24, 2025 – August 25, 2025
There are 3 spots of actionable items (FY2028 cost, added value):
1) East Harlem (cost $762million, $1.264 billion)
2) East Riser Meadowlands (cost $249million, value added $428 million)
3) Oakwood Beach Staten Island (cost $55million, value added $87 million)
I only know item 1 well enough to comment.
https://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Projects-in-New-York/New-York-New-Jersey-Harbor-Tributaries-Focus-Area-Feasibility-Study/
🧵

free webinar on patient-led research into Long Covid & ME/CFS, Wed 9 July 2025
"Patient-Led Research Fund Webinar 2025 ...
"Come see the results and latest progress from the 10 studies funded by the Patient-Led Research Fund — biomedical research projects selected by a panel of patient-researchers with both scientific expertise and lived experience of Long COVID and/or ME/CFS.
"Wednesday, July 9
10:00 am – 1:30 pm PT
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm ET"
(which I think is 6pm-9.30pm UK time)
#MECFS #LongCovid #research

"They’re unknowingly becoming the bad guys”: AI-powered bounty hunters think they’re helping, but their fabricated bug reports are overwhelming solo maintainers like cURL’s Daniel Stenberg—who’s paid $92K for real flaws and now may scrap the program.
https://www.

Dealing with SonarQube Cloud: Initial Results from a Mining Software Repository Study
Sabato Nocera, Davide Fucci, Giuseppe Scanniello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18816 https://

Dealing with SonarQube Cloud: Initial Results from a Mining Software Repository Study
Background: Static Code Analysis (SCA) tools are widely adopted to enforce code quality standards. However, little is known about how open-source projects use and customize these tools. Aims: This paper investigates how GitHub projects use and customize a popular SCA tool, namely SonarQube Cloud. Method: We conducted a mining study of GitHub projects that are linked through GitHub Actions to SonarQube Cloud projects. Results: Among 321 GitHub projects using SonarQube Cloud, 81% of them are corr…

The Ethereum Foundation pauses its grants program, which awarded $3M to 100 projects since 2018, to rethink its spending strategy and reduce its burn rate (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/368804/ethereum-founda…

'Sanitized view of our history': Judge blows up Trump's plans to scrap 'DEI-related' grants and history projects that do not conform to 'preferred, triumphalist version of the past'
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/sanitized-view-of-our-history-judge-blows-up-trumps-plans-to-scrap-dei-related-grants-and-history-projects-that-do-not-conform-to-preferred-triumphalist-version-of-the-past/

What's going on with ArcelorMittal's steel decarbonization projects Steelanol and Torero in Belgium? 🔩🔗🏭
Recently, several Belgian publications reported that ArcelorMittal may shutdown the Steelanol plant at its site in Ghent. Steelanol converts steel mill off-gases into Ethanol.
Steelanol has a "sister project" called Torero, a Biocoal plant. And it appears Torero is not working as planned.
🧵

Here’s a series of side quests on my other side projects:
1. WBGT (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature) readings are now displayed as 🔥 on https://checkweather.sg/
Open-source: https:…

A potential customer may have ghosted me but I just keep working on the project as I get spare time between other projects because it's a fun and challenging one and if they ever reply to me again then yay(?) but if not I'll just drop a new product for others if they want it.

Wallis Annenberg, the Los Angeles philanthropist who provided generous financial support for a broad range of Southern California community projects that bear her name, has died at 86.
Annenberg died of lung cancer at her Los Angeles home, according to a statement posted to Instagram by Annenberg GenSpace, a research center she founded.
“I’ve never had a problem using the Annenberg name,” Ms. Annenberg told Vanity Fair in 2009.
“That’s who I am, and I’m happy to be that. I…

Los Angeles philanthropist Wallis Annenberg dies at 86
Wallis Annenberg, the Los Angeles philanthropist behind a wildlife crossing, beach house, Science Center wing and more, has died, her family says.

Gentrification feedback loop. As SF displaces its working class, Area Median Income rises, raising the rent levels for “affordable” housing, which further displaces and excludes working-class households, so AMI rises again… and a 1-bedroom for $2,900 is now defined as low-income housing.
#sfpol #housing

Since at least 2009, I've had 4-5 git repositories online with gitweb.cgi for projects I worked on in the mid/late 2000s. Nothing super important, and no activity since 2010 or so, but just sitting there available.
I just had to kill the web server because facebook's web crawlers are hitting the webserver so hard and overloading the cheap VPS that it's on (which I'm using for other things). It has literally been no bother for 15 years until now.
Meta truly is a …

Developers need side projects like fish need bicycles. 🐟 🚲
#programming #life

Ontario NDP, Liberals successfully stall Bill 5 after filibustering until midnight Thursday | CBC News
Bill 5 would create so-called "special economic zones" where the government can exempt companies or projects from complying with provincial laws or regulations. It would also replace the province's endangered species act, replacing it with an new law that critics say waters down protections.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ndp-liberals-stall-bill-5-after-filibuster-1.7546691

Begin - 3 Ideas for Actually Starting Creative Projects
#creativity #CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.c…

Begin - 3 Ideas for Actually Starting Creative Projects
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

https://techiegamers.com/texas-data-centers-quietly-draining-water/

AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers - Techie + Gamers
Texas has long been defined by oil, heat, and huge infrastructure projects. Now, it’s also at the center of a growing environmental debate. Microsoft’s Stargate campus in Abilene is leading a data center boom that is drawing concern over water use, right in the middle of a prolonged drought. According to a July 2025 investigation

I am planning on moving my shit away from Notion.
The whole "2nd Brain" thing does not work for me (it just gives me busywork instead of doing something useful) so what I am looking for
- self-hostable
- should have a web interface I can use from any machine without installation
-I need "tasks", "projects" that contain tasks and "notes" (ideally optionally connected to projects and/or tasks)
- boards for tasks
- mobile …

"Conservationist Hail Recovery of 150 Struggling Species Thanks to Projects by Natural England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Conservation

Conservationist Hail Recovery of 150 Struggling Species Thanks to Projects by Natural England
its report card has arrived, and its A+ work has seen the recovery of 150 struggling or declining species. 

National Guard troops to pick up trash in DC, work on 'beautification' projects (NBC4 Washington)
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/national-guard-troops-to-pick-up-trash-in-dc-work-on-beautification-projects/3980033/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p7#a250827p7

Enabling Content Management Systems as an Information Source in Model-driven Projects
Joan Giner-Miguelez, Abel G\'omez, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19797 https:/…

Enabling Content Management Systems as an Information Source in Model-driven Projects
Content Management Systems (CMSs) are the most popular tool when it comes to create and publish content across the web. Recently, CMSs have evolved, becoming \emph{headless}. Content served by a \emph{headless CMS} aims to be consumed by other applications and services through REST APIs rather than by human users through a web browser. This evolution has enabled CMSs to become a notorious source of content to be used in a variety of contexts beyond pure web navigation. As such, CMS have become …

Sources: the $550B US-Japan investment framework, central to the trade agreement, was heavily influenced by Masayoshi Son, with the Stargate Project tied to it (Akira Yamashita/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/inter

How Howard Lutnick and Masayoshi Son put Japan on the hook for $550bn
SoftBank CEO's financing search for massive projects led him to tariff talks

In 2023, I wrote an article about two Bioenergy-with-CCS 🌲🔥🍃 (BECCS) projects in Denmark🇩🇰, which is somewhat timely given recent news.
It was published on the shipping news page Fathom World, which is no longer online, so I have republished it.
Back then, Ørsted announced plans for carbon capture and storage at two of its bioenergy power plants (Asnæsværket and AvedŸreværket). 🧵

Denmark's biomass plants become part of carbon dioxide shipping project
Ørsted plans to ship carbon emissions from two of its biomass-fired power plants in Denmark to the Northern Lights project in Norway.

There's obviously something like a Rule 34-C: no matter what your fetish is, there's a crowdfunding for a device to help you enjoy it.
Groove Thing | The World's First Internal Music Player https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/groov…

We did a little promo video about the album for our Kickstarter campaign back then, and I think it’s pretty charming. The Kickstarter campaign is long since closed, but you can see see the video if you want to see the artists and get a little behind the scenes action:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paul/the-river-inside-of-trees/

Orchid: Orchestrating Context Across Creative Workflows with Generative AI
Srishti Palani, Gonzalo Ramos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19517 https://arxiv.org…

Orchid: Orchestrating Context Across Creative Workflows with Generative AI
Context is critical for meaningful interactions between people and Generative AI (GenAI). Yet mainstream tools offer limited means to orchestrate it, particularly across workflows that span multiple interactions, sessions, and models, as often occurs in creative projects. Re specifying prior details, juggling diverse artifacts, and dealing with context drift overwhelm users, obscure intent, and curtail creativity. To address these challenges, we present Orchid, a system that gives its users aff…

Milwaukee Peeps! A photographer friend of mine is working on a really cool project..
"Using 19th century dry plate photography to create a new body of work focused on Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
➡️ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/15128

I recently briefly heard about the Indian rural telephone exchanges (RAX), which appear to go back all the way to electromechanical switches. They (C-DOT) even built a V5.2 Access Network called AN-RAX. Started to collect some documents at https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetwork…

Ex-Cowboys WR Predicted To Be Traded To The Steelers https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brandin-cooks-predicted-trade-pittsburgh-steelers/?adt_ei=[email]

«Komoot’s core tech of Leaflet map, Graphhopper routing engine, and #OpenStreetMap data are all free, open-source projects. This is in addition to all the open-source web servers, databases, and operating systems that tech companies build upon. They leech off the open-source commons»
I'm convinced that this is one of the big reasons why we need some form of @… sooner rather than later, to ensure our commons can be saved from corp capture.

sad :3 https://github.com/qilingframework/qiling/issues/253
someone's gotta retry ^^

Rewrite in Rust · Issue #253 · qilingframework/qiling
Python is a poor choice for anything remotely complex, especially that affects the execution times like emulation. Projects like Angr and Miasm met a bottleneck of Python, it's slowness, GIL, memor...

Collaborating with GenAI: Incentives and Replacements
Boaz Taitler, Omer Ben-Porat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20213 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20213…

Collaborating with GenAI: Incentives and Replacements
The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping how workers contribute to shared projects. While workers can use GenAI to boost productivity or reduce effort, managers may use it to replace some workers entirely. We present a theoretical framework to analyze how GenAI affects collaboration in such settings. In our model, the manager selects a team to work on a shared task, with GenAI substituting for unselected workers. Each worker selects how much effort to exert, and incurs a cost that increas…

Fine-Tuning Multilingual Language Models for Code Review: An Empirical Study on Industrial C# Projects
Igli Begolli, Meltem Aksoy, Daniel Neider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19271

Fine-Tuning Multilingual Language Models for Code Review: An Empirical Study on Industrial C# Projects
Code review is essential for maintaining software quality but often time-consuming and cognitively demanding, especially in industrial environments. Recent advancements in language models (LMs) have opened new avenues for automating core review tasks. This study presents the empirical evaluation of monolingual fine-tuning on the performance of open-source LMs across three key automated code review tasks: Code Change Quality Estimation, Review Comment Generation, and Code Refinement. We fine-tun…

@… <https://github.com/orgs/FreeBSDFoundation/projects/1/views/3?sliceBy[value]=System Management>…

Order of dynamical and control systems on maximal compact subgroups
Mauro Patr\~ao, La\'ercio dos Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18843 https://arxiv…

Order of dynamical and control systems on maximal compact subgroups
In this paper, we characterize the dynamical orders of minimal Morse components and, partially, of control sets on maximal compact subgroups of a semisimple Lie group as an algebraic order similar to the Bruhat order of the Weyl group. We call this order the extended Bruhat order of the extended Weyl group (or Weyl-Tits group), since it projects onto the Bruhat order and is obtained in an analogous way as the Bruhat order was historically obtained, as the incidence order of the Schubert cells i…

How brands are helping finance Hollywood projects in the planning stages and collaborating more closely with talent, distributors, and production companies (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/madison-avenue-lands-…

A Guide for Manual Annotation of Scientific Imagery: How to Prepare for Large Projects
Azim Ahmadzadeh, Rohan Adhyapak, Armin Iraji, Kartik Chaurasiya, V Aparna, Petrus C. Martens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14801

A Guide for Manual Annotation of Scientific Imagery: How to Prepare for Large Projects
Despite the high demand for manually annotated image data, managing complex and costly annotation projects remains under-discussed. This is partly due to the fact that leading such projects requires dealing with a set of diverse and interconnected challenges which often fall outside the expertise of specific domain experts, leaving practical guidelines scarce. These challenges range widely from data collection to resource allocation and recruitment, from mitigation of biases to effective traini…

I’m looking for fun AI related projects that students with minimal technical skills (mostly humanities students) can handle, as a practical and instructive end of term project given the current situation.
The kinds of projects I have in mind are:
- Fine tuning an LLM for a particular use
- Building custom chatbots
- Doing"psychology" on LLM interactions.
The goal is for the project to be engaging and lead to further reflection. Ideas for such projects and links to resources much appreciated!

EVENT: International Catacomb Society Online Panel with Recent Shohet Grant Recipients (August 5)
https://ift.tt/mVwsQvc
TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Veranstaltungshinweis für #wiki-Interessierte im #glam-Kontext: Online Vortrag & Diskussion: Bottom-Up Organizing in Wikimedia Projects, kommenden Mittwoch, 17-18 Uhr über Zoom. Anmeldung und Infos unter:

Modal Geometry Governs Proteoform Dynamics
James N. Cobley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20004 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20004…

Modal Geometry Governs Proteoform Dynamics
A central mystery is how a specific proteoform, a distinct molecular variant of a protein, dynamically shapes its own future by evolving into new modes that exist only in potential until realised. Here, Modal Geometric Field (MGF) Theory couples real and abstract proteoform transitions through four axioms. Axioms one-three (invariant) dictate that only first-order transitions occur on the discrete, volume invariant, non symplectic modal manifold. Axiom four (mutable) functorially projects the g…

Is there a proper, project management name for what I call 'magic elves'? Lurking tasks in a project plan with no-one assigned to them, leaving it to be done by the 'magic elves'. If you don't spot them and if there's no-one with the skills and time to complete those tasks, projects can go awry.

from my link log —
Shared memory consistency models: a tutorial. (1996)
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/aries/papers/consistency/computer_29_12_dec1996_p66.pdf
saved 2025-08-19

Projects, joy, etc #creativity #writing

Projects, joy, etc
I have a lot of unfinished projects. I’ve had to get used to that– that it is okay to have lots of unfinished projects. My wife is a super creative, prolific artist (I admire the shit o…

Beyond Reactive Safety: Risk-Aware LLM Alignment via Long-Horizon Simulation
Chenkai Sun, Denghui Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai, Heng Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20949

Beyond Reactive Safety: Risk-Aware LLM Alignment via Long-Horizon Simulation
Given the growing influence of language model-based agents on high-stakes societal decisions, from public policy to healthcare, ensuring their beneficial impact requires understanding the far-reaching implications of their suggestions. We propose a proof-of-concept framework that projects how model-generated advice could propagate through societal systems on a macroscopic scale over time, enabling more robust alignment. To assess the long-term safety awareness of language models, we also introd…

#TotalEnergies investiert 160 Mio. € in sechs neue #Batteriespeicherprojekte mit 221 MW in #Deutschland.
Die Anlagen, entwickelt von Tochterunternehmen

Germany: TotalEnergies Pursues Growth in Electricity by Launching Six New Battery Storage Projects
Paris, March 26, 2025 – On the occasion of Patrick Pouyanné’s participation in the Europe 2025 conference in Berlin, and in connection with the Company’s integrated development in the country’s electricity sector, TotalEnergies is announcing investment decisions for six battery storage projects.

Trump adds new level of scrutiny to wind and solar projects
The Interior Department said Thursday that it would add additional layers of review for wind and solar energy projects,
following Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at
ending any “preferential treatment” for renewable energy.

The new requirement threatens to trip up the approval process
as wind and solar projects race to begin construction by a deadline next July to qualify for tax credits,
whi…

Trump adds new level of scrutiny to wind and solar projects
The new requirement threatens to slow the approval process for renewable energy projects as they race to begin construction before the deadline for tax credits.

Missouri governor signs package to help finance Chiefs, Royals stadium projects https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6432303/2025/06/17/kansas-city-chiefs-royals-stadium-projects/

CAIDA Ark now has an active measurement programming environment for qualified researchers. https://www.caida.org/projects/ark/programming/

Getting Started: Ark Integrated Active Measurement Programming Environment
CAIDA’s Archipelago (Ark) infrastructure provides a programming environment

Have any #FLOSS projects actually had to deal with the consequences of someone submitting a #DCO signed patch in bad faith?

From First Use to Final Commit: Studying the Evolution of Multi-CI Service Adoption
Nitika Chopra, Taher A. Ghaleb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20095 https://

From First Use to Final Commit: Studying the Evolution of Multi-CI Service Adoption
Continuous Integration (CI) services, such as GitHub Actions and Travis CI, are widely adopted in open-source development to automate testing and deployment. Though existing research often examines individual services in isolation, it remains unclear how projects adopt and transition between multiple services over time. To understand how CI adoption is evolving across services, we present a preliminary study analyzing the historical CI adoption of 18,924 Java projects hosted on GitHub between J…

United Natural Foods Projects Up to $400M Sales Hit from June Cyberattack
https://www.securityweek.com/united-natural-foods-projects-up-to-400m-sales-hit-from-june-cyberattack/

Go support the creator of @…! https://buymeacoffee.com/cheeaun

Lim Chee Aun is building useful apps everyday.
I spend a lot of time creating and maintaining my side projects. Most of them are related to public transport with heavy usage of maps. Some of them costs a lot and I have to pay them from my own pock

@… @…
both of these are great projects and remind me of the Watershed networks from A Half-built Garden

Exploring post-neoliberal futures for managing commercial heating and cooling through speculative praxis
Oliver Bates, Christian Remy, Kieran Cutting, Adam Tyler, Adrian Friday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19072

Exploring post-neoliberal futures for managing commercial heating and cooling through speculative praxis
What could designing for carbon reduction of heating and cooling in commercial settings look like in the near future? How can we challenge dominant mindsets and paradigms of efficiency and behaviour change? How can we help build worlds through our practice that can become future realities? This paper introduces the fictional consultancy ANCSTRL.LAB to explore opportunities for making space in research projects that can encourage more systems-oriented interventions. We present a design fiction t…

"Cut electricity bills by scrapping green levies, say Labour MPs"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

Cut electricity bills by scrapping green levies, say Labour MPs
MPs want to see levies to help fund renewable energy projects and provide support for lower-income households to be moved onto gas bills or into general taxation.

We have finally documented Ruff – the tool greatly simplifies static code analysis for Python projects: #Python

Ruff
Ruff is an extremely fast Python linter and code formatter written in Rust that can enforce the rules of flake8, isort, perflint, Black, Bandit, and others. In total, Ruff can check over 800 rules....

Random Discounting and Assessment of Intertemporal Projects: a Non-expected Utility Approach
Wei Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17978 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Random Discounting and Assessment of Intertemporal Projects: a Non-expected Utility Approach
This paper assumes each individual in society has a random discount factor and assesses an intertemporal project using rank-dependent expected utility theory. We consider both the ex ante and the ex post approaches. For the former, we show the social planner's discount factor is a convex combination of those of the individuals under the standard Pareto condition. For the latter, we propose a method for determining the social planner's discount factor distribution from the individuals' distribut…

Tussell: UK government contracts for AI-related projects have reached £573M in 2025 to July 15, up from £468M for the whole of 2024, as it seeks efficiency (Josh Gabert-Doyon/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/70559d0c-5fb7-472e-b7c5-3735c6ba2da7

Ok, just a smol rant... Every time theres a new job platform, it's pretty neccessary to upload a whole portfolio again. And once all the images, and text are uploaded, the tags need to be accurate so they appear in site-searches correctly.
Not only that, but it then needs to be maintained. So, any changes or new projects to add... need to be done on every platform.
Am I wrong in thinking this is so incredibly tedious? lol
#Work #Jobs #Career

Dynamic Race Detection With O(1) Samples
Mosaad Al Thokair, Minjian Zhang, Umang Mathur, Mahesh Viswanathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20127 https://

Dynamic Race Detection With O(1) Samples
Happens before-based dynamic analysis is the go-to technique for detecting data races in large scale software projects due to the absence of false positive reports. However, such analyses are expensive since they employ expensive vector clock updates at each event, rendering them usable only for in-house testing. In this paper, we present a sampling-based, randomized race detector that processes only constantly many events of the input trace even in the worst case. This is the first sub-linear …

«You could probably sneak some bot code into these projects if you were some sort of performative dickhead. But you’re the one signing off on it and you’ve just nuked your reputation.»
Aye!
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/22/open-source-projects-reject-ai-code-over-copyright-concerns/

TIL that the Flipper Device team are opening a hackspace in Greenwich (just South of the dome).
https://hackspace.flipper.net

Flipper Hackspace
London-based community of hardware hackers and creative playground. We provide a space for your ideas and an electronics lab to accelerate your projects and learn new skills.

Trademarks for FLOSS projects and haters is a fascinating combination.
"You use our code but don't mention the project name! You must!"
"You use our project name in combination with your own shit that uses our code behind the curtain! You can't do that!"

I wouldn't over-claim re China's emissions reduction.
The reduction is only 1% and still likely to change to an increase.
Moreover, "Many wind and solar power projects have been halted across multiple Chinese regions "after a shift to market pricing. …

Chinese Wind, Solar Projects Shut Amid Shift to Market‐Based Pricing

@… <https://github.com/orgs/FreeBSDFoundation/projects/1/views/3?sliceBy[value]=System Management…

On Tuesday, roughly two dozen scientists gathered in the lobby of the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill for what resembled a science fair — but with a twist.
Instead of students presenting class projects, the event featured leading researchers from across the country standing in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.
The event, which was organized by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, showcas…

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs?curre…

A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.

EVENT: International Catacomb Society Online Panel with Recent Shohet Grant Recipients (August 5) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20071858/international-catacomb-society-online-panel-recent-shohet-grant…

Sources: Trump is planning EOs on July 23 to help US AI growth, including easing grid access for new power projects and offering federal land for data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump…

#FAFO
Murkowski feels ‘cheated’ by Trump administration actions against wind and solar projects - Anchorage Daily News
https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2025/07/18/sen-murkowski-feeling-cheated-by-trump-actions-against-wind-and-solar-says-shell-go-to-bat-for-alaska-projects/

Cowboys Insider Projects Controversial QB Wins Backup Job Behind Prescott https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/joe-milton-wins-backup-projected/?adt_ei=[email]

"South Africa approves six solar projects totaling 1,290 MW"
#SouthAfrica #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

South Africa approves six solar projects totaling 1,290 MW
An additional six solar projects have been approved as part of South Africa’s seventh renewables procurement round following the reallocation of unused onshore wind capacity to solar bids.

A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) #rstats #datascience

GitHub - Pakillo/template: A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not)
A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) - Pakillo/template

LLM-Based Repair of Static Nullability Errors
Nima Karimipour, Michael Pradel, Martin Kellogg, Manu Sridharan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20674 https://arxi…

LLM-Based Repair of Static Nullability Errors
Modern Java projects increasingly adopt static analysis tools that prevent null-pointer exceptions by treating nullness as a type property. However, integrating such tools into large, existing codebases remains a significant challenge. While annotation inference can eliminate many errors automatically, a subset of residual errors -- typically a mix of real bugs and false positives -- often persist and can only be resolved via code changes. Manually addressing these errors is tedious and error-p…

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison (ProPublica)
https://projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-immigrants-trump-deported-cecot/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p95#a250723p95

19 states sue the Energy Department over new funding caps on sustainable energy projects - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/08/19-states-sue-energy-department-over-new-funding-caps-sustainable-energy-projects/407557/

HeroDevs, which provides support for legacy open-source software, raised $125M from PSG, intends to allocate $20M to its Open Source Sustainability Fund (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/herodevs-rais…

HeroDevs raises $125M to provide long-term support for legacy open-source software - SiliconANGLE
HeroDevs raises $125M to provide long-term support for legacy open-source software - SiliconANGLE

Optimal CO2 storage management considering safety constraints in multi-stakeholder multi-site CCS projects: a game theoretic perspective
Jungang Chen, Seyyed A. Hosseini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11618

Optimal CO2 storage management considering safety constraints in multi-stakeholder multi-site CCS projects: a game theoretic perspective
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects typically involve a diverse array of stakeholders or players from public, private, and regulatory sectors, each with different objectives and responsibilities. Given the complexity, scale, and long-term nature of CCS operations, determining whether individual stakeholders can independently maximize their interests or whether collaborative coalition agreements are needed remains a central question for effective CCS project planning and management. CCS pr…

CIgrate: Automating CI Service Migration with Large Language Models
Md Nazmul Hossain, Taher A. Ghaleb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20402 https://arxiv.org/p…

CIgrate: Automating CI Service Migration with Large Language Models
Continuous Integration (CI) configurations often need to be migrated between services (e.g., Travis CI to GitHub Actions) as projects evolve, due to changes in service capabilities, usage limits, or service deprecation. Previous studies reported that migration across CI services is a recurring need in open-source development. However, manual migration can be time-consuming and error-prone. The state-of-the-art approach, CIMig, addresses this challenge by analyzing past migration examples to cre…

More than nine in 10 renewable power projects globally are now cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives.
Solar power is about 41% cheaper than the lowest-cost fossil fuel alternative,
and onshore wind generation is less than half the price of fossil fuels, according to a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency.
Costs have been driven down by the increasingly widespread use of the technologies,
a huge focus on low-carbon manufacturing in China,
and bu…

Intention-Driven Generation of Project-Specific Test Cases
Binhang Qi, Yun Lin, Xinyi Weng, Yuhuan Huang, Chenyan Liu, Hailong Sun, Jin Song Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20619

Intention-Driven Generation of Project-Specific Test Cases
Test cases are valuable assets for maintaining software quality. While numerous automated techniques have been proposed for generating tests (either by maximizing code coverage or by translating focal code into test code), practical tests are seldom driven by coverage alone. In real projects, each test reflects a developer's validation intention for a specific behaviour and embodies rich, project-specific knowledge: which specific APIs to call and what assertions truly matter. Without consideri…

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs?curre…

A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.

from my link log —
Mechanical watch: exploded view.
https://fellerts.no/projects/epoch.html
saved 2025-06-24 https://

Sen. Murkowski, feeling 'cheated' by Trump actions against wind and solar, says she'll go to bat for Alaska projects (Alex DeMarban/Anchorage Daily News)
https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2025/07/18/sen-murkowski-feeling-cheated-by-trump-actions-against-wind-and-solar-says-shell-go-to-bat-for-alaska-projects/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p31#a250719p31

"More than 90% of new renewable energy capacity is now cheaper than fossil fuels, study shows"
#FossilFuels #Energy #Renewables

Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows
The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point”, according to two United Nations reports released on Tuesday.

Matt and Ross Duffer officially sign a four-year exclusive deal with Paramount for theatrical films, TV, and streaming projects, starting in April 2026 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Duffer Brothers Officially Move to Paramount With Exclusive Four-Year Deal
The ‘Stranger Things’ creators will create movie, TV and streaming projects for the studio, with a focus on tentpole films.

A Large-Scale Study on Developer Engagement and Expertise in Configurable Software System Projects
Karolina M. Milano, Wesley K. G. Assun\c{c}\~ao, Bruno B. P. Cafeo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18070

A Large-Scale Study on Developer Engagement and Expertise in Configurable Software System Projects
Modern systems operate in multiple contexts making variability a fundamental aspect of Configurable Software Systems (CSSs). Variability, implemented via pre-processor directives (e.g., #ifdef blocks) interleaved with other code and spread across files, complicates maintenance and increases error risk. Despite its importance, little is known about how variable code is distributed among developers or whether conventional expertise metrics adequately capture variable code proficiency. This study …

"World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says"
#UN #UnitedNations #Climate

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, launches the nonprofit Laude Institute, self-funded with $100M for grants to AI projects and labs (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/2…

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI - SiliconANGLE
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI - SiliconANGLE

Trump administration taking new steps to block wind and solar projects, undisclosed memo says (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/interior-requires-burgum-sign-off-for-solar-wind-projects-00458999
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p163#a250716p163

How Do Community Smells Influence Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Machine Learning Projects?
Shamse Tasnim Cynthia, Nuri Almarimi, Banani Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15884

How Do Community Smells Influence Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Machine Learning Projects?
Community smells reflect poor organizational practices that often lead to socio-technical issues and the accumulation of Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD). While prior studies have explored these problems in general software systems, their interplay in machine learning (ML)-based projects remains largely underexamined. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of community smells and their relationship with SATD in open-source ML projects, analyzing data at the release level. First, we ex…

DocFetch - Towards Generating Software Documentation from Multiple Software Artifacts
Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla, Sridhar Chimalakonda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17719 https://…

DocFetch - Towards Generating Software Documentation from Multiple Software Artifacts
Software Documentation plays a major role in the usage and development of a project. Widespread adoption of open source software projects contributes to larger and faster development of the projects, making it difficult to maintain the associated documentation. Existing automated approaches to generate documentation largely focus on source code. However, information useful for documentation is observed to be scattered across various artifacts that co-evolve with the source code. Leveraging this…

Intel cancelled planned fab projects in Germany and Poland, and will consolidate its testing and assembly operations in Vietnam and Malaysia (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/intel-intc-earnings-report-q2-2025.html

Intel beats on revenue, issues better-than-expected forecast
"There are no more blank checks. Every investment must make economic sense," Tan wrote.

The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projects (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/whit…

Debian in the Research Software Ecosystem: A Bibliometric Analysis
Joenio Marques da Costa, Christina von Flach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18073 https://ar…

Debian in the Research Software Ecosystem: A Bibliometric Analysis
Context: The Debian system has historically participated in academic works and scientific projects, with well-known examples including NeuroDebian, Debian Med, Debsources, Debian Science, and Debian GIS, where the scientific relevance of Debian and its contribution to the Research Software ecosystem are evident. Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate the Debian system through academic publications, with the aim of classifying articles, mapping research, identifying trends, a…