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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:

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/

@… schau mal, ein Kickstarter für ein -punk (aka auch Solar-punk) Magazin:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyphenpunk…

good news: California Assembly passed a bill to require Caltrans to develop a quick-build program for bike lane and intersection safety projects on state highways! it's #AB891 (Zbur)
https://

Quick-Build Legislation Makes It Through the Assembly - Streetsblog California
Following the success of Quick-Build projects in Santa Monica, their Assemblymember wants to allow them on state highways.

on my way to the optional friday meeting of early arrivers to RetroNetConf, our small German-language meeting of various #retronetworking enthusiasts https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetw…

I backed roons immediately. No hesitation.
I want this so much and I don’t even know why.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whomtech/roons-the-mechanical-computer-kit

"Yukoner recognized by United Nations for #radio work"
https://www.yukon-news.com/news/yukoner-recognized-by-united-nations-for-rad…

How bad are the cuts to NASA? And is this the first hint of Planet 9? | Night Sky News May 2025
Some projects already built and scheduled for launch might end up in storage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si6paqM2_ug

Happy , today I deployed a #Forgejo instance to manage my private code projects. I won't be using #Github anymore for my stuff, only to contribute to 3rd party projects.
I still have some pending work to configure the CI workers, but I'll leave that for next week.
Along the way I've learnt some stuff about #OpenTofu and networking. Enough to know that I still prefer to be on the dev side of the "devops" .

Social Media Reactions to Open Source Promotions: AI-Powered GitHub Projects on Hacker News
Prachnachai Meakpaiboonwattana, Warittha Tarntong, Thai Mekratanavorakul, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Pattaraporn Sangaroonsilp, Raula Kula, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Kenichi Matsumoto, Thanwadee Sunetnanta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12643

Social Media Reactions to Open Source Promotions: AI-Powered GitHub Projects on Hacker News
Social media platforms have become more influential than traditional news sources, shaping public discourse and accelerating the spread of information. With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), open-source software (OSS) projects can leverage these platforms to gain visibility and attract contributors. In this study, we investigate the relationship between Hacker News, a social news site focused on computer science and entrepreneurship, and the extent to which it influences de…

Pretty interesting piece on how the #NASA proposed butget cuts (and the overall political mess in the US) affects #ESA.

What happens to Europe’s space ambitions if NASA cuts joint missions
Experts tell Euronews Next that if the US Congress passes the proposed NASA budget cuts, the EU-US relationship will never be able to go back to the way it was.

The Hardness of Achieving Impact in AI for Social Impact Research: A Ground-Level View of Challenges & Opportunities
Aditya Majumdar, Wenbo Zhang, Kashvi Prawal, Amulya Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14829

The Hardness of Achieving Impact in AI for Social Impact Research: A Ground-Level View of Challenges & Opportunities
In an attempt to tackle the UN SDGs, AI for Social Impact (AI4SI) projects focus on harnessing AI to address societal issues in areas such as healthcare, social justice, etc. Unfortunately, despite growing interest in AI4SI, achieving tangible, on-the-ground impact remains a significant challenge. For example, identifying and engaging motivated collaborators who are willing to co-design and deploy AI based solutions in real-world settings is often difficult. Even when such partnerships are esta…

"But West Virginia’s new law is unusual. Boasting the “least restrictive regulatory environment in the nation,” it prohibits local officials from having any input into where off-grid data centers go. This provision appears to be a nationwide first and is angering mayors and commissioners statewide."
From: @…

Your values are euros and cents. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114699001106153315

Recently I've combined various functions which I've been using in other projects (e.g. my personal PKM toolchain) and published them as new library https://thi.ng/text-analysis for better re-use:
- customizable, composable & extensible tokenization (transducer based)
- ngram gene…

Text tokenization, transformation & analysis transducers, utilities, stop words, porter stemming, vector encodings, similarities

Backed by #Japan, governments across #Southeast Asia are turning to #carbon capture and sequestration (#CCS) to hit their

Carbon capture projects promise a climate fix — and a fossil fuel lifeline
The Kasawari gas field, off the coast of Malaysian Borneo, was discovered in 2011 and has been seen as a lifeline for the country’s energy dreams. Malaysia has long depended on oil and gas exports for economic expansion and government revenue, and this new field promised to allow state-owned oil company Petronas and its partners […]

Where Projects are Evaluated – To see if they're as free and open source as advertised
The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth.
This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.
🧑‍💻 https://isitreallyfoss.com

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

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study
Abidi, Aguilar-Saavedra, Airen, Ajmal, Al-Thakeel, Alberghi, Maestre, Alimena, Alshamaily, Altmann, Altmannshofer, Amhis, Amiri, Andreazza, Antusch, Arnaez, Assamagan, Aumiller, Azizi, Azzi, Azzurri, Bagnaschi, Baharyioon, Bahl, Balagura, Barducci, Basso, Bechtle, Bellagamba, Berggren, Bernardi, Bhom, Biermann, Blekman, Bliewert, Bordone, Boudry, Boye, Bozovic, Braathen, Brient, Brodbek, Brost, Bruckman, Brudnowski, Bulliri, Bulyak, Burrid…

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study
The ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study ran between 2021 and 2025 as a broad effort across the experimental and theoretical particle physics communities, bringing together participants from many different proposed future collider projects. Activities across three main working groups advanced the joint development of tools and analysis techniques, fostered new considerations of detector design and optimisation, and led to a new set of studies resulting in improved projected sensitivit…

Something that’s been bothering me for years in the security world: why do researchers demand bug bounties for vulnerabilities in open source projects, when the very contributors maintaining and fixing those issues get nothing, just goodwill?
It feels deeply unfair. The burden falls on unpaid maintainers, yet bounty hunters get rewarded. If you want a paid bounty, maybe help fund the people who actually fix the mess too.

from my link log —
Precision Clock Mk IV.
https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv
saved 2025-05-31 https://…

EPC Framework for BESS Projects
Zeenat Hameed, Chresten Tr{\ae}holt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13281 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13281…

EPC Framework for BESS Projects
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are critical for modern power networks, supporting grid services such as frequency regulation, peak shaving, and black start. Delivering a BESS under an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) model requires a concise methodology that balances regulatory compliance, technical details, and schedule efficiency. This paper presents a streamlined, five step EPC framework covering feasibility assessment, permitting, procurement, construction, and commis…

The libxml2 maintainer is basically shrugging his shoulders and saying "deal with your own fucking security issues; libxml was never meant to be used in your projects" to google and the rest of the giant corporations that are using his labor without contributing back. I'm totally on board with that.
https://

Triaging security issues reported by third parties (#913) · Issues · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab
I have to spend several hours each week dealing with security issues reported by third parties. Most of these issues aren't critical but it's still a lot of...

On my way to event "Energy security in uncertain times. The role of gas storages in the energy system" organized by EBN.
Important topic. At Common Futures, we analyzed the future need for gas storages to enable the use of increasing volumes of EU biomethane:
https://www.

Using Gas Infrastructure for Biomethane
Using Gas Infrastructure for Biomethane

"‘We don’t need a disaster to justify resilience’: Climate projects can bring big economic benefits"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Finance

How climate resilience projects are paying off around the world
The 320 climate projects analysed were found to have potential yields of about €1 trillion in projected returns over a decade.

Was für ein Shit Move von GitHub (Microsoft) https://infosec.exchange/@tomgag/114504958452945090 /via @…

Tommaso Gagliardoni (@tomgag@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess. So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world. I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfy…

"Space: 2075": #Space2075

Understanding the Issue Types in Open Source Blockchain-based Software Projects with the Transformer-based BERTopic
Md Nahidul Islam Opu, Md Shahidul Islam, Sara Rouhani, Shaiful Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11451

Understanding the Issue Types in Open Source Blockchain-based Software Projects with the Transformer-based BERTopic
Blockchain-based software systems are increasingly deployed across diverse domains, yet a systematic understanding of their development challenges remains limited. This paper presents a large-scale empirical study of 497,742 issues mined from 1,209 open-source blockchain projects hosted on GitHub. Employing BERTopic, a transformer-based topic modeling technique, we identify 49 distinct issue topics and organize them hierarchically into 11 major subcategories. Our analysis reveals that both gene…

Reading 'What can we learn from the failure of digital projects?' by @biglittlethings.bsky.social https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/opinion/2025/05/what-can-we-learn-from-the-failure-of-d…

What can we learn from the failure of digital projects? - Museums Association
Ash Mann shares the findings and recommendations from a new report

FAST Pulsar Database: II. Scattering profiles of 122 Pulsars
W. C. Jing, J. L. Han, C. Wang, P. F. Wang, T. Wang, N. N. Cai, J. Xu, Z. L. Yang, D. J. Zhou, Yi Yan, W. Q. Su, X. Y. Gao, L. Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14519

FAST Pulsar Database: II. Scattering profiles of 122 Pulsars
The turbulent ionized interstellar medium diffracts radio waves and makes them propagate in multiple paths. The pulse-broadening observed at low frequencies results from the scattering effect of interstellar clouds of ionized gas. During the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey and other projects by using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we detect the pulse-broadening for 122 pulsars in the radio frequency band between 1.0 and 1.5 GHz, including 60 newly…

Join the second edition of the OpenSearch User Group Berlin. Learn about OpenSearch Project and Eliatra, get the latest news from the projects and meet the community over some drinks & snacks. 
📅 When: June 18, 2025 – 6.30 pm
📍 Where: Automat Berlin Gmbh, Schöneberger Ufer 65 | 10785 Berlin
Register now:

OpenSearch Project Berlin 2nd meetup, Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Hi Everyone, we are very excited to announce our OpenSearch Project Berlin 2nd meetup on **Wednesday June 18th** **Agenda** 6:30pm Start (Drinks and snacks will be provide

A senior Trump administration official projects that Huawei's Ascend AI chip output will be at or below 200,000 for 2025, in a hearing with US lawmakers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06…

I may need to get back to doing illustrations again since it's been about a year that I took a break...
Hand drawn stuff (even if digitally) might be the future of human art with all this AI bullshit going on.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/projects/illustrations/

Illustrations
In March 2024 I started doing sketches on an iPad using Procreate and an Apple Pencil. As of writing this it's May 2024 and I'm still doing it. I'll try to keep this page updated with new illustrations as they are completed. Each illustration links to a page with more info about it, and some [...]

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1972, construction begins on Canada’s largest single-site #Hydroelectric project at Churchill Falls, Labrador. To commemorate this minor historical event in our country's impressive record of hydroelectric technology and power generation, let's focus on one of the newest projects. The controversial Site C in British Columbia will begin filling its reservoir this summer in preparation for starting operations.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://youtu.be/gZARb7pLQeo?si=Wo5iEWE9ushqGBaS

Potrero Yard working group has an open seat for a representative of a senior-serving organization, if that’s you or someone you know.
The group advises SFMTA on the bus yard modernization housing development on the Mission/Potrero Hill border
https://www.sfmta.com/projects/potrero-yar

Potrero Yard Modernization Project
Rebuilding Potrero Yard to better serve you!

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing
Eric J. Korpela (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), David P. Anderson (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Jeff Cobb (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Matt Lebofsky (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Wei Liu (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Dan Werthimer (Space Sciences Laboratory, Univ…

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing
SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, looking for technosignatures in data recorded at multiple observatories from 1998 to 2020. Most radio SETI projects analyze data using dedicated processing hardware. SETI@home uses a different approach: time-domain data is distributed over the Internet to $\gt 10^{5}$ volunteered home computers, which analyze it. The large amount of computing power this affords ($\sim 10^{15}$ floating-point operations per second (FPO…

2025 NFL All-Rookie Team: Projecting 11 instant-impact newcomers on offense https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-all-rookie-team-projecting-11-instant-impact-newcomers-on-offense

The National Institutes of Health is responsible for more than 80% of the world’s grant investment in biomedical research.
Its funding has sparked countless medical breakthroughs
— on cancer, diabetes, strokes
— and plays a fundamental role in the development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Scientists compete vigorously for a slice of the more than $30 billion that the agency doles out annually;
they can spend years assembling grant applications that stretch thousand…

Science Shattered
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPublica what is being lost.

Accessibility Barriers in Multi-Terabyte Public Datasets: The Gap Between Promise and Practice
Marc Bara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13256 https://

Accessibility Barriers in Multi-Terabyte Public Datasets: The Gap Between Promise and Practice
The promise of "free and open" multi-terabyte datasets often collides with harsh realities. While these datasets may be technically accessible, practical barriers -- from processing complexity to hidden costs -- create a system that primarily serves well-funded institutions. This study examines accessibility challenges across web crawls, satellite imagery, scientific data, and collaborative projects, revealing a consistent two-tier system where theoretical openness masks practical exclusivity. …

#devops rabbit hole for the weekend; Setting up a dependency analyser for monorepo. Turns out that with the right tools it’s not that difficult, and only costs the price of hosting some docker containers.
The parts of the puzzle are;
htt…

GitHub - CycloneDX/cyclonedx-gradle-plugin: Creates CycloneDX Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from Gradle projects
Creates CycloneDX Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from Gradle projects - CycloneDX/cyclonedx-gradle-plugin

Woohoo new @… podcast! @… introduces me to a great resource: https://mobygrati…

mobygratis - Free Moby music to empower your creative projects
Free music resource designed to empower creative projects by students, non-profits, indie filmmakers, musicians and more.

Machine learning approaches for automatic cleaning of investigative drilling data
Fei Huang (Flinders University), Hongyu Qin (Flinders University), Masoud Manafi (Civil Group), Ben Juett (Civil Group), Ben Evans (Civil Group)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14289

Machine learning approaches for automatic cleaning of investigative drilling data
Investigative drilling (ID) is an innovative measurement while drilling (MWD) technique that has been implemented in various site investigation projects across Australia. While the automated drilling feature of ID substantially reduces noise within drilling data streams, data cleaning remains essential for removing anomalies to enable accurate strata classification and prediction of soil and rock properties. This study employed three machine learning algorithms--IsoForest, one-class SVM, and DB…

projects in the near future:
1. my mac-mini server runs ubuntu server and need apps. I'm thinking about Heimdall and a next cloud instance that I can reach via tailscale. I will also use it as an exit node for my tailscale network.
2. Making the server sleep when not in use and use an old RPi to 'wake it up' also over tailscale.
3. Making a portable router out of a Radxa Rock 4c that also use tailscale as a vpn alternative using the exit node.

America’s Gas Pipeline Buildout Is Mainly for Exports—Not Energy Independence – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/liquid-natural-gas-pipeline-projects-exports-energy-independence/

Was für ein Shit Move von GitHub (Microsoft) https://infosec.exchange/@tomgag/114504958452945090 /via @…

Tommaso Gagliardoni (@tomgag@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess. So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world. I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfy…

What would John von Neumann (Neumann Jšnos Lajos) and Alan Turing say if they see their concepts implemented in a tiny and even flexible micro computer thats more powerful than what was available at their time: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/harshu/rp2040…

A case study: the savings potential thanks to FAIR data in one Materials Science PhD project
Michael Seitz, Nick Garabedian, Ilia Bagov, Christian Greiner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12043

A case study: the savings potential thanks to FAIR data in one Materials Science PhD project
The FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles have gained significant attention as a means to enhance data sharing, collaboration, and reuse across various domains. Here, we explore the potential benefits of implementing FAIR data practices within engineering projects, with a monetary focus in the German context, but by considering aspects which are relatively universal. By examining the FAIR-data aspect of a Materials Science and Engineering PhD project, it becom…

Design and Implementation of Washing Machine HUD Using FPGAs
Norman Stites, D. G. Perera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11287 https://arx…

Design and Implementation of Washing Machine HUD Using FPGAs
In contemporary digital design education, practical field programmable gate array (FPGA) projects are indispensable for bridging theoretical concepts with real-world applications. This project focuses on developing a hardware-based simulation of a domestic washing machine controller using the Xilinx Spartan-3E development board. A critical component of the design is the graphical heads-up display (HUD), which renders real-time information about the machine's operational state and cycle selectio…

Huh? https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issues/1198

Support Atom Over XMPP · Issue #1198 · cheeaun/phanpy
Problem I have XMPP is also a publishing platform. The largest HTML-based platforms to utilize Atom Over XMPP are Libervia and Movim, and I also maintain a couple of projects that are called Blasta...

I have a habbit of making (too) many (small) packages for functionality that might be reused in different context. {box} might be an alternative by making scripts into modlues that can be loaded: #RStats

‘box’: Write Reusable, Composable and Modular R Code
A modern module system for R. Organise code into hierarchical, composable, reusable modules, and use it effortlessly across projects via a flexible, declarative dependency loading syntax.

Seriously, we should have mandatory national service consisting of farm and construction labor. Make rich white kids spend a year under the Central Valley sun learning how to pick radishes from an expert who barely speaks English. Send kids into the Great Plains to detassel corn between HS and college. Put teams of young folks into Habitat For Humanity and similar projects.
It would reduce the disdain so many adults have for migrant & marginalized workers.

This could be great!
Cartoon Network Studios is expanding the beloved “Steven Universe” franchise with a brand-new series, “Steven Universe: Lars of the Stars,” now in development for Prime Video.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/ste

I had ~1000 other art projects I would rather have worked on last night. But this one seemed more important. #nokings protests happening Saturday. There’s probably one near you.

"Waitrose allocates £500k to British farmers for environmental projects"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment #Waitrose

Diving into Godot for some personal projects, and getting my 3D pipeline sorted out and man... the Blender to Godot pipeline is so nice. Just being able to straight up save .blend files complete with modifiers and the like and have it work so seamlessly in Godot is just... (chef's kiss)
#Godot #GameDev

@… it´s hard to find the good between all this stuff. every week we have 100 new projects.....

67,000 homes in Ireland still use peat for heating. However, Bord Na Mona stopped extracting peat last year and closed its last peat power station. Now restoring peatlands which in a dried out, denatured state are carbon emitters. Big wind farms now on former extraction sites too. A great deal of historical damage has been done.
#peat

Introducing the PIT-plot -- a new tool in the portfolio manager's toolkit
Stig-Johan Wiklund, Magnus Ytterstad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12068 https:/…

Introducing the PIT-plot -- a new tool in the portfolio manager's toolkit
Project portfolio management is an essential process for organizations aiming to optimize the value of their R&D investments. In this article, we introduce a new tool designed to support the prioritization of projects within project portfolio management. We label this tool the PIT-plot, an acronym for Project Impact Tornado plot, with reference to the similarity to the Tornado plot often used for sensitivity analyses. Many traditional practices in portfolio management focus on the properties of…

@… https://nealstephenson.substack.com/

Graphomane | Neal Stephenson | Substack
Neal Stephenson's Substack. Mostly about the intersection of tech and art, with some excursions, digressions, and tangents. I will talk about projects I'm actively working on. I have a personal financial interest in some of those. Click to read Graphomane, by Neal Stephenson, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

On a few pitfalls in KL divergence gradient estimation for RL
Yunhao Tang, R\'emi Munos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09477 https://…

On a few pitfalls in KL divergence gradient estimation for RL
We point out a few pitfalls in implementing gradient estimation for KL divergence in RL training for LLM, as seen in a number of open source projects and papers. The first major pitfall is to differentiate through the KL estimate as loss functions to minimize KL divergence. We show that such implementations are generally incorrect and do not produce the desired KL gradient. Secondly, we show that some implementations do not account for the sequential nature of the estimation problem and produce…

Got a new op-ed in LNC/LancasterOnline this morning, on the importance of the curiosity-driven science the National Science Foundation is supposed to support
"For every Thermus aquaticus there are hundreds of scientific projects that end in nothing more than a peer-reviewed research article and some fond memories of fieldwork. But we need those hundreds of curiosity-driven studies to find that one lucky, world-changing discovery."

Nvidia unveils new projects to bolster AI infrastructure across Europe, including expanding its Mistral partnership to use local AI computing, at a Paris event (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Multi-Project Contracts
Tal Alon, Matteo Castiglioni, Junjie Chen, Tomer Ezra, Yingkai Li, Inbal Talgam-Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05705 https://

Multi-Project Contracts
We study a new class of contract design problems where a principal delegates the execution of multiple projects to a set of agents. The principal's expected reward from each project is a combinatorial function of the agents working on it. Each agent has limited capacity and can work on at most one project, and the agents are heterogeneous, with different costs and contributions for participating in different projects. The main challenge of the principal is to decide how to allocate the agents t…

It has become relatively easy & affordable to put together an LED Matrix sign. Recently I put together a 6 panel display using 1/8 scan modules for something much brighter than the 1/16 & 1/32 scan modules I usually use. It's bright enough to carry around in high noon sunlight. (I wish it were brighter still)
For past projects with realtime graphics, I've used hzeller's raspberry pi library. Here I used the Huidu HD-D16 controller board that seems to be ARM FPGA …

Awesome #RaspberryPi
https://github.com/thibmaek/awesome-raspberry-pi

Bookmark this for when you ask yourself why skepticism turns to hatred on the use of unconstrained LLMs.
https://infosec.exchange/@dvandal/114638324336575392

30 years of PHP and I've published my thoughts in the @… blog: https://blog.bitexpert.de/blog/30-years-of-php

30 years of PHP | bitExpert
Reflecting on 30 years of the PHP ecosystem, this blog post celebrates its enduring role in modern web development and how it continues to power significant projects at bitExpert.

The party that was supposed to be good at managing the nation's finances cancelled the second leg of #HS2. Apparently, to save £36 billion, which "would instead be allocated to infrastructure projects to provide better transport links across the north of England." Yet we still do not really know the cancellation cost, or whether anything will really be spent extra on the north of Englan…

My favourite hammock for on our balcony broke and landed me on my ass, last month. Just got around to fixing it with parts of a new lashing strap that's rated for much more weight than me. The hammock itself is still in good shape, so this should last me some more years, now.
(I got the hammock from Kickstarter years ago, in a time when I was still fascinated by that website...

Just found @…'s 2019 blog post looking at the Prisoner's Dilemma as a way to describe Open Source sustainability,
https://dri.es/balancing-makers-and…

Maryland DOT launches new policy of quick-fix road diets with paint & plastic "bollards" after initial test projects work well. Approach is try it for 6-9 months and see if it works in place of long studies.
https://www.

Maryland plans more ‘quick build’ road safety changes, citing success across state
Planners have a menu of traffic calming measures to consider for each site.

Teams of #PurdueFortWayne 🐘 students and faculty presented their projects on data science and industrial consulting at the Indiana Data Mine Symposium at #Purdue #WestLafayette

Satellite Event
AIFoundry invites you to the 2nd edition of the AI Plumbers Conference, a meetup for low-level AI builders who value real conversations over keynote slides and for anyone working in modern data infrastructure, machine learning and open-source software projects. Connect, swap ideas and collaborate, free from the pressure of constant talks.
📅 When: June 15, 2025 – 10 am-5 pm
📍 Where: GLS Event Campus Berlin, Kastanienallee 82 | 10435 Berlin
Register now:

Now that’s a beautiful, free coding typeface by @…:
Server Mono
#web #typography #fonts

Server Mono | French Type Design foundry 🔥 We design fonts for blazing hot projects!
We are a Type Design foundry focused on making Variable Fonts with the easiest Font Licensing around. Our fonts are up to trend and will fit your daily design needs.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SE/new
[1/1]:
Retrieval-augmented code completion for local projects using large language models

The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change
amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world.
The move will cut off what’s likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars for studies that were previously approved and, in most cases, already in the works. 
Affected projects include efforts to develop cleaner …

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
Tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants have been slashed, and scientists fear the US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.

Sad to say, Washington has 6 anti-trans bills.
So far in 2025, there are 701 anti-trans bills making their way through the American legislative bodies. Trans Legislation Tracker monitors this harmful legislation, bill by bill, so that our community can stay informed.
Legislation Dashboard - TransLash Media
https://translash.org/projects/legislation-dashboard/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03437 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Integrating Project Spatial Coordinates into Pavement Management Prioritization
To date, pavement management software products and studies on optimizing the prioritization of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) have been mainly focused on three parameters; the pre-treatment pavement condition, the rehabilitation cost, and the available budget. Yet, the role of the candidate projects' spatial characteristics in the decision-making process has not been deeply considered. Such a limitation, predominately, allows the recommended M&R projects' schedule to involve simu…

A Comprehensive Guide to the U.S. Civil Space Budget
Lindsay DeMarchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11138 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.111…

A Comprehensive Guide to the U.S. Civil Space Budget
This paper presents an overview of the U.S. federal civil space budget between FY23 and proposed spending in FY25, providing a foundational reference dataset for civil space budget analyses. Projects that support, enable, or leverage space activities for civil purposes are found in more than 100 individual line items spread across 17 federal departments and agencies and are funded by 4 different appropriations bills. Across all these elements, civil space-related appropriations total roughly 44…

Minneapolis and Saint Paul are finally launching this BRT line that was already in the planning phase when I last visited in ... 2019.
Good, but if it's gonna take that long, maybe agencies should just incrementally upgrade the buses that exist instead of these big fancy unicorn "BRT" projects?
https://

Creating Buzz for the B Line
The Twin Cities’ newest BRT line is an attractive option that could turn more people into transit users — if they know about it!

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.

A Hetero-functional Graph Theory Perspective of Engineering Management of Mega-Projects
Amirreza Hosseini, Amro M. Farid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24045 h…

A Hetero-functional Graph Theory Perspective of Engineering Management of Mega-Projects
Megaprojects are large-scale, complex, and one-off engineering endeavors that require significant investments from a public or private sector. Such projects generally cost more than a billion dollars, take many years to develop and construct, involve stakeholders both in the public and private sectors, and impact millions of people. Most of the extant megaproject research is concerned with understanding why the engineering management of megaprojects fails so frequently and which dimensions make…

Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library mostly written by Claude, showing how AI handles mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment (Max Mitchell)
https://www.maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares…

Max Mitchell's Personal Portfolio Website
Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.

Engineering teams often get stuck striving for perfection, not out of laziness, but due to an insatiable desire to improve. Join Tim Schmolka next week at Berlin Buzzwords to discover how teams can overcome perfectionism. He will discuss the significance of setting clear boundaries, balancing quality with timely delivery, and focusing on what truly matters.
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The Perfection Trap
Many engineering teams face a common struggle: the desire to deliver perfect solutions can delay projects and limit business impact. This session explores how the familiar Parkinson’s Law is often misunderstood in engineering contexts. Instead of laziness, it’s excessive craftsmanship and relentless perfectionism that extend timelines. Through real-world examples and practical insights, you’ll learn about the “perfection pressure spectrum,” which helps diagnose whether your team is st…

Is PMBOK Guide the Right Fit for AI? Re-evaluating Project Management in the Face of Artificial Intelligence Projects
Alexey Burdakov, Max Jaihyun Ahn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02214

Is PMBOK Guide the Right Fit for AI? Re-evaluating Project Management in the Face of Artificial Intelligence Projects
This paper critically evaluates the applicability of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide framework to Artificial Intelligence (AI) software projects, highlighting key limitations and proposing tailored adaptations. Unlike traditional projects, AI initiatives rely heavily on complex data, iterative experimentation, and specialized expertise while navigating significant ethical considerations. Our analysis identifies gaps in the PMBOK Guide, including its limited focus on data …

Wow, this is a first. A site I actually want to see (archive.ph) is using an IP address on the @… DROP list.
(no, I do NOT think that’s a Spamhaus problem. They are doing their job.) https://

Just found @…'s 2019 blog post looking at the Prisoner's Dilemma as a way to describe Open Source sustainability,
https://dri.es/balancing-makers-and…

#Spring Team on #AOT Cache Handling, Null Safety with #JSpecify, and Support Durations

New Orleans Saints to sign free agent RB Cam Akers after minicamp invitation, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/new-orl…

from my link log —
Gerrit, GitButler, and Jujutsu projects collaborating on a change-id commit footer.
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAESOdVAspxUJKGAA58i0tvks4ZOfoGf1Aa5gPr0FXzdcywqUUw@mail.gmail.com/
saved 2025-…

#ReleaseWednesday — Extracted & extended the LISP-like DSL from an existing #ThingUmbrella example[1] as new small package for better/direct re-use in other projects:

Lightweight, extensible, interpreted Lisp-style DSL for embedding in other projects

Rethinking Citation of AI Sources in Student-AI Collaboration within HCI Design Education
Prakash Shukla, Suchismita Naik, Ike Obi, Jessica Backus, Nancy Rasche, Paul Parson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08467

Rethinking Citation of AI Sources in Student-AI Collaboration within HCI Design Education
The growing integration of AI tools in student design projects presents an unresolved challenge in HCI education: how should AI-generated content be cited and documented? Traditional citation frameworks -- grounded in credibility, retrievability, and authorship -- struggle to accommodate the dynamic and ephemeral nature of AI outputs. In this paper, we examine how undergraduate students in a UX design course approached AI usage and citation when given the freedom to integrate generative tools i…

@… Because I already have 3 projects on the go! That's 2 more than I should!

AIFoundry invites you to the 2nd edition of the AI Plumbers Conference, a meetup for low-level AI builders who value real conversations over keynote slides and for anyone working in modern data infrastructure, machine learning and open-source software projects. Connect, swap ideas and collaborate, free from the pressure of constant talks.
📅 When: June 15, 2025 – 10 am
📍 Where: GLS Event Campus Berlin, Kastanienallee 82 | 10435 Berlin
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AI Plumbers conference: 2nd edition · Luma
AIFoundry is bringing you the AI Plumbers Conference: 2nd edition — an open source meetup for low-level AI builders to dive deep into "the plumbing" of modern…

"Egypt approves four solar, wind projects totaling 400 MW"
#Egypt #SolarPower #WindTurines #Renewables

Egypt approves four solar, wind projects totaling 400 MW
The Egyptian government has approved four solar and wind projects totaling 400 MW, with a combined investment of $388 million. The two solar and two solar-wind hybrid projects will sell energy directly to industrial customers.

Information-Theoretic Detection of Unusual Source Code Changes
Adriano Torres, Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06508

Information-Theoretic Detection of Unusual Source Code Changes
The code base of software projects evolves essentially through inserting and removing information to and from the source code. We can measure this evolution via the elements of information - tokens, words, nodes - of the respective representation of the code. In this work, we approach the measurement of the information content of the source code of open-source projects from an information-theoretic standpoint. Our focus is on the entropy of two fundamental representations of code: tokens and ab…

Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
Ryan Gibb, Patrick Ferris, David Allsopp, Michael Winston Dales, Mark Elvers, Thomas Gazagnaire, Sadiq Jaffer, Thomas Leonard, Jon Ludlam, Anil Madhavapeddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10803

Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
Package managers are everywhere, with seemingly every language and operating system implementing their own solution. The lack of interoperability between these systems means that multi-lingual projects are unable to express precise dependencies across language ecosystems, and external system and hardware dependencies are typically implicit and unversioned. We define HyperRes, a formal system for describing versioned dependency resolution using a hypergraph that is expressive enough to model man…

Understanding Underrepresented Groups in Open Source Software
Reydne Santos, Rafa Prado, Ana Paula de Holanda Silva, Kiev Gama, Fernando Castor, Ronnie de Souza Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00142

Understanding Underrepresented Groups in Open Source Software
Context: Diversity can impact team communication, productivity, cohesiveness, and creativity. Analyzing the existing knowledge about diversity in open source software (OSS) projects can provide directions for future research and raise awareness about barriers and biases against underrepresented groups in OSS. Objective: This study aims to analyze the knowledge about minority groups in OSS projects. We investigated which groups were studied in the OSS literature, the study methods used, their im…