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🎉 Resources 1.9 has just been released, here are the highlights:
• Thanks to the volunteers of GNOME Damned Lies, Resources is now available in many more languages
• Support for the new “xe” driver for Intel GPUs
• Link information is now also shown for Wi-Fi interfaces
• Resources can now halt graphical updates when its window is not in view to save on power
• Update to the GNOME 49 runtime
• Internal changes for less code complexity and clearer architecture…

Resources are depleted, crisis is imminent! Putin's war is draining Russia's economy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/24/resources-are-depleted-crisis-is.html

Infosec game: what is obviously wrong with this #Terraform provider?

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/tenstad/remote/latest/docs/resources/file<…

It is not clear whether the National Capital Planning Commission was consulted or received any meaningful insight prior to the White House’s demolition,
particularly as it has been closed since the government shut down 23 days ago.
“The decisions were made in complete secrecy and undertaken without public disclosure or proper consultation,” 
the ranking members on the House Oversight and Natural Resources committees and the subcommittee on energy on mineral resources wrote T…

Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Can Destroy Entire White House if He Wants
Leavitt dodged a key question on the limits to Donald Trump’s abilities to renovate.

🚨Job Alert! 🚨 "University of Georgia invites applications for two tenure-track positions at the Assistant or Associate Professor level with a focus on critical mineral resources. We especially seek applicants in the areas of #Economic #Geology and in

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Efficient block-encodings require structure
Parker Kuklinski, Benjamin Rempfer, Justin Elenewski, Kevin Obenland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19667 https://a…

Efficient block-encodings require structure
Block-encodings are ubiquitous in quantum computing as a way to represent data within a unitary operator. While several unstructured methods are applicable to arbitrary data, these techniques are burdened by hidden costs and poor accuracy. In this paper, we demonstrate that, even for a small 6-qubit encoding, these structure-agnostic techniques require wildly intractable resources. We compare these resources with an encoding method which respects a mathematical representation of the block, lead…

Had a quick thought about this: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115260431864647847 @…
Found some resources:
- "FEP-8967: Generating link previews …

I really just want a few CLI utilities that essentially present what Puppet resources does as a command.
$ thing package ensure zsh —version 1.2.3
It should have exit code API and json output.
Nothing more, just: package, user, service, exec
Ideally with no dependencies like Ruby
Seems like a lot to ask alas.

Design, modeling and control of a hybrid grid-connected photovoltaic-wind system for the region of Adrar, Algeria
Yassine Kebbati, Lotfi Baghli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19558 …

Design, modeling and control of a hybrid grid-connected photovoltaic-wind system for the region of Adrar, Algeria
The use of fossil energy for electricity production is an evident source of pollution, global warming and climate change. Consequently, researchers have been working to shift toward sustainable and clean energy by exploiting renewable an environmentally friendly resources such as wind and solar energies. On the other hand, energy security can only be achieved by considering multiple resources. Large-scale renewable energy power plants are a key solution for diversifying the total energy mix and…

Everywhere I turn, I stumble over stories - different in details, but similar in implications - of society in decay. These include rapid growth in student food bank use, spiking anxiety among kids, random acts of aggression on public transit, rejection of expertise during crises of health, homelessness, democracy, etc, and on and on. These stories are always accompanied by hand-wringing over cause and remedy, but somehow state provision of financial resources only rarely comes up. Funny that…

Statement in Response to the Proposed Construction of the White House Ballroom (Carol Quillen/@SavingPlaces)
https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/statement-proposed-construction-of-white-house-ballroom
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p48#a251022p48

Massachusetts water resources body punts on permanently dumping sewage into Charles River https://phys.org/news/2025-11-massachusetts-resources-body-punts-permanently.html

Massachusetts water resources body punts on permanently dumping sewage into Charles River
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority may have been caught loving that dirty water a little too much, as its board has halted a proposal that clean water advocates fear would dump sewage into the Charles River forever.

From David Suzuki
The suicidal insanity of non-stop growth
Air, water and land are polluted and degraded as the climate heats to catastrophic levels, yet we continue to burn fossil fuels and devastate carbon sinks.
It’s malignant. It’s suicidal. And it’s unfair. The obscenely wealthy hoard money and resources, amassing billions of dollars, luxury yachts, mansions and private jets while others starve and struggle to survive.

The suicidal insanity of non-stop growth
The planet offers everything we need to survive and thrive, but not if we continue to wastefully exploit it.

Chris Sawyer '75 M.Div. is a conservation leader and Chair Emeritus of the YDS Dean’s Advisory Council. In this episode of "Reflections on Religion and Ecology: Yale Alumni Speak from the Field" Chris joins host Mary Evelyn Tucker to reflect on a lifetime of faith-driven leadership in #landpreservation and community renewal.

TianHui: A Domain-Specific Large Language Model for Diverse Traditional Chinese Medicine Scenarios
Ji Yin, Menglan He, Yujie Zhang, Linshuai Zhang, Tingting Ma, Ce Tian, Jie Wu, Lin Xu, Tao Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19834

TianHui: A Domain-Specific Large Language Model for Diverse Traditional Chinese Medicine Scenarios
Domain-specific LLMs in TCM face limitations in research settings due to constrained adaptability, insufficient evaluation datasets, and limited computational resources. This study presents TianHui, a specialized TCM LLM built through contextual data integration and domain knowledge fusion. We constructed a large-scale TCM corpus (0.97GB unsupervised data + 611,312 QA pairs) and employed a two-stage training strategy with QLoRA, DeepSpeed Stage 2, and Flash Attention 2. Evaluation on 12 benchma…

Do you have a device with an AMD Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that you actively use? I could use your help testing support for monitoring AMD NPUs in Resources!
I'd really appreciate it if you'd check out the amdxdna-support branch of Resources' GitHub repository and check if NPU utilization correctly shows up in Resources.
You can find more info in this GitHub issue:

chainScale: Secure Functionality-oriented Scalability for Decentralized Resource Markets
Mohamed E. Najd, Ghada Almashaqbeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20356 https://

chainScale: Secure Functionality-oriented Scalability for Decentralized Resource Markets
Decentralized resource markets are Web 3.0 applications that build open-access platforms for trading digital resources among users without any central management. They promise cost reduction, transparency, and flexible service provision. However, these markets usually have large workload that must be processed in a timely manner, leading to serious scalability problems. Despite the large amount of work on blockchain scalability, existing solutions are ineffective as they do not account for thes…

What the White House is calling the
"Genesis Mission" is to speed research and scientific discovery
by analyzing massive science, engineering, energy and health care data sets in the federal government, university and private sector
with supercomputing technology.
It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies. 
Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, t…

Trump signs executive order launching "Genesis" mission to expedite scientific discovery using AI
A White House official called Genesis "the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program."

To Stream or Not to Stream: Towards A Quantitative Model for Remote HPC Processing Decisions
Flavio Castro, Weijian Zheng, Joaquin Chung, Ian Foster, Rajkumar Kettimuthu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19532

To Stream or Not to Stream: Towards A Quantitative Model for Remote HPC Processing Decisions
Modern scientific instruments generate data at rates that increasingly exceed local compute capabilities and, when paired with the staging and I/O overheads of file-based transfers, also render file-based use of remote HPC resources impractical for time-sensitive analysis and experimental steering. Real-time streaming frameworks promise to reduce latency and improve system efficiency, but lack a principled way to assess their feasibility. In this work, we introduce a quantitative framework and …

Choosing to Be Green: Advancing Green AI via Dynamic Model Selection
Emilio Cruciani, Roberto Verdecchia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19996 https://arxiv.org…

Choosing to Be Green: Advancing Green AI via Dynamic Model Selection
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly pervasive across domains, with ever more complex models delivering impressive predictive performance. This fast technological advancement however comes at a concerning environmental cost, with state-of-the-art models - particularly deep neural networks and large language models - requiring substantial computational resources and energy. In this work, we present the intuition of Green AI dynamic model selection, an approach based on dynamic model selection…

Open-source Stand-Alone Versatile Tensor Accelerator
Anthony Faure-Gignoux, Kevin Delmas, Adrien Gauffriau, Claire Pagetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19790 https://

Open-source Stand-Alone Versatile Tensor Accelerator
Machine Learning (ML) applications demand significant computational resources, posing challenges for safety-critical domains like aeronautics. The Versatile Tensor Accelerator (VTA) is a promising FPGA-based solution, but its adoption was hindered by its dependency on the TVM compiler and by other code non-compliant with certification requirements. This paper presents an open-source, standalone Python compiler pipeline for the VTA, developed from scratch and designed with certification requirem…

Attention U-Net for all-sky continuous gravitational wave searches
Damon H. T. Cheung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19838 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19838

Attention U-Net for all-sky continuous gravitational wave searches
Detecting continuous gravitational waves is challenging due to the high computational cost of template-based searches across large parameter spaces, particularly for all-sky searches. Machine learning offers a promising solution to perform these searches with reasonable computational resources. In this study, we trained an attention U-Net, a convolutional neural network, on $\approx$ 10.67 days of simulated data with Gaussian noise for all-sky searches at different frequencies within the 20-100…

Keep the #NoKings energy going--locally! Become a #LibraryDefender by getting involved in your #FriendsOfTheLibrary group and protect

Games Are Not Equal: Classifying Cloud Gaming Contexts for Effective User Experience Measurement
Yifan Wang, Minzhao Lyu, Vijay Sivaraman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19669 https:…

Games Are Not Equal: Classifying Cloud Gaming Contexts for Effective User Experience Measurement
To tap into the growing market of cloud gaming, whereby game graphics is rendered in the cloud and streamed back to the user as a video feed, network operators are creating monetizable assurance services that dynamically provision network resources. However, without accurately measuring cloud gaming user experience, they cannot assess the effectiveness of their provisioning methods. Basic measures such as bandwidth and frame rate by themselves do not suffice, and can only be interpreted in the …

Good overview of hybrid warfare by Russia.
#AP

Russia wants to drain Europe's security resources with sabotage campaign, officials say | AP News
The Associated Press has tracked 145 cases of sabotage and disruption that Western officials blame on Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. They say Moscow wants to drain Europe’s investigative resources.

Resources to Learn More About the DPRK (aka North Korea)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fPJjTYGBo4QRuafFkbWTA8imbpr-QP3tD_946Yv_v3A/edit?tab=t.0

Running #Java on #iOS: Gluon Introduces OpenJDK Mobile Resources and Automated Build Pipelines
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/java-on

The Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Challenge
Charles Dansereau, Junior-Samuel Lopez-Yepez, Karthik Soma, Antoine Fagette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19512 https://

The Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Challenge
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is a growing research area which gained significant traction in recent years, extending Deep RL applications to a much wider range of problems. A particularly challenging class of problems in this domain is Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (HeMARL), where agents with different sensors, resources, or capabilities must cooperate based on local information. The large number of real-world situations involving heterogeneous agents makes it an…

Comment on 'Collectively enhanced quantum measurements at the Heisenberg limit'
D. Ballester, Yu. V. Arkhipov, I. M. Tkachenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19518 https://

Comment on 'Collectively enhanced quantum measurements at the Heisenberg limit'
In a seminal paper [8] it was shown that Heisenberg-limited measurements could be achieved without using entangled states by coupling the quantum resources to a common environment that could be measured, at least, in part. The authors also claimed that their method would be robust under decoherence, and, in particular, applied it to derive an analytical expression to measure the change in length of an optical cavity within the Tavis-Cummings model using the superradiance approximation, which wo…

I reject this rationalization for more police and jail funding in Salt Lake County, Mayor Jenny Wilson.
If "homelessness, mental health, trauma and substance use" are problems, then more case workers, social workers, housing, and treatment resources are needed. Police and jails just inflict more pain on people who are already struggling with what problems they have.

SLCo Mayor proposes tax increase, criminal justice focus
Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson unveiled her proposed budget on Tuesday, proposing a property tax increase to keep up

It's pretty ironic that part of the promise of cloud computing & CDNs was some form of geographical decentralization of resources, only then to end up with seemingly half the internet involving us-east-1 alone...
#AWS #Outage

“W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 approved as ISO/IEC international standard”
https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2025/wcag22-iso-pas/
ISO/IEC 40500:2025 (no cost):

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 approved as ISO/IEC international standard
WCAG 2.2 is now ISO/IEC 40500:2025. This standard enables more countries to formally adopt WCAG 2.2. ISO/IEC 40500:2025 is free from the ISO website. Supporting resources and translations are free from the W3C website.

Ukraine update: Bessarabia is being overwhelmed by Russian fuckery, as Kremlin diverts resources to the "Transnistria" region of Moldova.
Rumors took little time to confirm, thanks to a true reporter on the ground in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to befuddle a shockingly ignorant and greedy American populace with the same old tricks, allowing Russia to run rampant...
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and give the world a better chance to glimpse t…

Automated Multi-Agent Workflows for RTL Design
Amulya Bhattaram, Janani Ramamoorthy, Ranit Gupta, Diana Marculescu, Dimitrios Stamoulis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20182 https://…

Automated Multi-Agent Workflows for RTL Design
The rise of agentic AI workflows unlocks novel opportunities for computer systems design and optimization. However, for specialized domains such as program synthesis, the relative scarcity of HDL and proprietary EDA resources online compared to more common programming tasks introduces challenges, often necessitating task-specific fine-tuning, high inference costs, and manually-crafted agent orchestration. In this work, we present VeriMaAS, a multi-agent framework designed to automatically compo…

Fair Vote Canada is pleased to announce the Teacher Resources section of our website. The first teacher resource has now been added.
A Fair Vote? Rights, Responsibilities, and Decision-Making in a Democracy is an exciting new resource for Grade 5 Social Studies teachers, which was developed by the Elementary Teachers of Toronto and Fair Vote Canada.

How do you organize your file system? Are you using a system like #PARA, #Johnny.Decimal, the #Cornell method, or sorting by projects, topics...?
Here is my approach:

Easy Adaptation: An Efficient Task-Specific Knowledge Injection Method for Large Models in Resource-Constrained Environments
Dong Chen, Zhengqing Hu, Shixing Zhao, Yibo Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17771 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17771 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17771
arXiv:2512.17771v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While the enormous parameter scale endows Large Models (LMs) with unparalleled performance, it also limits their adaptability across specific tasks. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has emerged as a critical approach for effectively adapting LMs to a diverse range of downstream tasks. However, existing PEFT methods face two primary challenges: (1) High resource cost. Although PEFT methods significantly reduce resource demands compared to full fine-tuning, it still requires substantial time and memory, making it impractical in resource-constrained environments. (2) Parameter dependency. PEFT methods heavily rely on updating a subset of parameters associated with LMs to incorporate task-specific knowledge. Yet, due to increasing competition in the LMs landscape, many companies have adopted closed-source policies for their leading models, offering access only via Application Programming Interface (APIs). Whereas, the expense is often cost-prohibitive and difficult to sustain, as the fine-tuning process of LMs is extremely slow. Even if small models perform far worse than LMs in general, they can achieve superior results on particular distributions while requiring only minimal resources. Motivated by this insight, we propose Easy Adaptation (EA), which designs Specific Small Models (SSMs) to complement the underfitted data distribution for LMs. Extensive experiments show that EA matches the performance of PEFT on diverse tasks without accessing LM parameters, and requires only minimal resources.
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So far in Russia's hybrid war in Europe, most known acts of sabotage have resulted in minimal damage
— nothing compared to the tens of thousands of lives lost and cities decimated across Ukraine.
But officials say each act
— from vandalism of monuments to cyberattacks to warehouse fires
— sucks up valuable security resources.
The head of one large European intelligence service said investigations into Russian interference now swallow up as much of the agency’…

Russia wants to drain Europe's security resources with sabotage campaign, officials say | AP News
The Associated Press has tracked 145 cases of sabotage and disruption that Western officials blame on Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. They say Moscow wants to drain Europe’s investigative resources.

If you are looking for good privacy respecting messaging and other apps, you could check my slides from @… conference here : https://

Enhancing Robust Multi-Market Participation of Renewable-Based VPPs through Flexible Resources
Hadi Nemati, \'Alvaro Ortega, Pedro S\'anchez-Mart\'in, Lukas Sigrist, Luis Rouco, Ignacio Egido
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12589

Enhancing Robust Multi-Market Participation of Renewable-Based VPPs through Flexible Resources
In the transition toward a sustainable power system, renewable-based Virtual Power Plants (RVPPs) have emerged as a promising solution to the challenges of integrating renewable energy sources into electricity markets. Their viability, however, depends on effective market participation strategies and the ability to manage uncertainties while leveraging flexible resources. This paper analyzes the impact of different flexible resources - such as concentrated solar power plants, hydro plants, biom…

Federal employees crowdsource resources to support each other during shutdown - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/10/federal-employees-crowdsource-resources-support-each-other-during-shutdown/408670/

Anthropic announces Skills for Claude, a tool with folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load to improve performance on some tasks (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/800868/anthro…

Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work
Anthropic has announced a new feature for its Claude AI chatbot called Skills, which should make AI agents more useful.

US CISA
Publication 3.12.2025
Principles for the Secure Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Operational Technology
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/principles-secure-integration-artificial…

"LLMs use fewer resources doing $task than humans so using them isn't an ecological problem."
So what are you arguing for? What happens with the humans we no longer "need"?
That argument leads only to monstrosity.

Apparently quantum physics is taught in gradeschool these days, and why the heck not! I also learned today how Kepler was nearly finished his ultra-laborious book when he learned Lord Napier had just discovered how logarithms would have made those calculations SO much simpler.
Kepler's book, published posthumously, was banned anyway, but whatever…
Quantum Technology : Education Resources
https://resources.perimeterinstitute.ca/products/quantum-technology

The number of Computer Misuse Act 1990 prosecutions hasn't really risen in the last five years, despite the perception of a rise in "cyber crime". Maybe this indicates a ceiling on the resources allocated to investigate and prosecute, or maybe not.
https://questions-state…

The energy market in Europe must get rid of its dependence on Russian resources – says Zelenskyy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/the-energy-market-in-europe.html

Resources for Music Grant seekers, updated for 2025
https://www.musiciansway.com/blog/2012/07/resources-for-grantseekers/

from my link log —
A distributed systems reliability glossary.
https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/
saved 2025-12-03 https://…

A distributed systems reliability glossary
A list of key concepts for building and testing reliable distributed systems, with basic definitions and deep references.

During the #COP30 climate conference in Brazil, Australia's opposition party withdrew from the country's net-zero by 2050 target. It now sees net-zero as a potential 'welcome outcome' of using Australia's resources (coal, gas) plus new energy technologies. Reckless.

Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target
The decision brings the party closer to the Nationals, which ditched its support for the target earlier this month amid internal turmoil over the Coalition's policy.

"Europe needs to recognize this as the crisis it has been waiting for. The continent is in real danger of being sidelined by its most important ally, and its ability to defend itself and secure its future role in the world hinges on its ability to mobilize resources and act collectively.
The EU’s decision last week to extend sanctions on Russian central bank assets—made without unanimous consent—is a good start."

The Anatomy of a macOS App
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is now a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program-Root, thus becoming a central point of contact within the CVE program for national/EU authorities, EU CSIRTs network members, and cooperative partners falling under ENISA’s mandate.
htt…

we are the clapton, always anti-fascist, fuck the terf FA, LET THEM PLAY
#claptoncfc #ccfc #ftfa #fedifc

https://guthrienewspage.com/guthrie-public-schools-shares-resources-for-families-affected-by-snap-interruption/

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

I got to thinking, on @… Hunt's EpsilonTheory podcast today, about how capitalism hates satiation…which reminded me of Leopard Kohr's 70-year-old observations about "remedial consumption"… which I was surprised to find nowhere on the Interwebs…except here, from an almost half as ancient NewBottomLine essay:

ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued https://www.404media.co/ice-says-critical-evidence-in-broadview-abuse-case-was-lost-in-system-crash-a-day-after-it-was-su…

I’ve moved my “Entry to Left Wing Anarchist Reading” to my personal website.
It’s styled to look a lot like Google Docs, that was intentional, regardless, it’s hosted in a more private, self-controlled space.
⭐ Read more here: https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/resources.html ⭐<…

Is it hard to keep up with all the awesome extensions and tools for quarto? Check here for an extensive list of resources: #quarto

GitHub - mcanouil/awesome-quarto: A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome!
A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome! - mcanouil/awesome-quarto

Oops, #Terraform datasources cannot contain write-only attributes, which means you cannot use a sensitive value in a secure way when configuring a datasource... Which leaves us with ephemeral resources which are not always what we want or passing the sensitive value to the provider (assuming the provider can take that value and pass it along to the datasource), which is not always possible...…

The arch wiki, https://wiki.archlinux.org has got to be one of the best open source documentation resources; detailed with examples on most admin commands, and mostly applicable to all distros not just to arch (with minor tweaking). And I don't even use Arch!

Carbon offsets have failed for 25 years, and most should be phased out #carbon

Carbon offsets have failed for 25 years, and most should be phased out
Academics at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the most comprehensive review of evidence on the effectiveness on carbon offsetting to date and concluded the practice is ineffective and riddled with "intractable" problems. The review is published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

It's the end of #BannedBooksWeek, but not the end of book bans. Local involvement with your library is the best way to fight back and defend everyone's access to knowledge. Check out For The People's excellent new Libraries 101 video to learn how!

Dolphins bench Tua Tagovailoa, plus the future for Aaron Rodgers, Giants, Titans and Raiders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6897793/2025/12/17/dolphins-bench-tua-tagovailoa-aaron-rodgers-giants-titans-raiders/

What a world.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Canadian Energy Innovation Call for Proposals
https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/artificial-intelligence-canadian-energy-innovation

Wherever students, researchers or staff are working from, they should have secure access to the resources they need.
#eduVPN makes that possible.
Created by and for the R&E community, it provides secure off-campus access to library systems, journals, specialised databases and more.
Already used by 200 institutions in 20 countries.
🔗 Learn how to get started:

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Checked in XP earlier, looks basically identical to Windows 95, just also mentions Internet resources.
https://mastodon.online/@grumpy_website/115673036992705122

The most Britannica manages to mention of what was actually in that land is this:
❝Much of the territory turned out to contain rich mineral resources, productive soil, valuable grazing land, forests, and wildlife resources of inestimable value.❞
Not a single mention, AFAICT, of the fact that there were already people there.
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👻 Probiert es mal aus, egal ob gruselig oder heilig, der „Geist” erwartet euch (es funktionieren auch andere Suchbegriffe, Notizen oder Bilder 😊 )
🧠 P.S. Für alle #CultureKnowledgeGraph- und #SPARQL-Kenner unter euch, bitte hier entlang 👉

Global #TippingPoints Report 2025: https://global-tipping-points.org/resources-gtp/ (summary and full report) -> Bleaching, Melting, Slowing - New report tracks growing risks of Earth system tipping points: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/files/bleaching-melting-slowing-new-report-tracks-growing-risks-of-earth-system-tipping-points-4 -> The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, landmark report finds: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/13/climate/tipping-points-coral-reef-ice-amoc

Thinking about attending Berlin Buzzwords? Don't miss out! #bbuzz provides many resources and perks, especially for newcomers in data science, AI, and search.
Find out why and register for June 7-9: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/join-bbuzz-rhd/

Kash Patel has reportedly assigned a security detail of SWAT agents to guard his country singer girlfriend,
in the latest chapter of the FBI director’s blatant misappropriation of bureau resources.
A group of elite agents from the FBI Field Office in Nashville have been assigned to protect Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins.
The sources added that those agents, who are typically charged with responding to high-risk situations, would likely be unable to respond in the event o…

Kash Patel Assigns FBI SWAT Team to Protect 26-Year-Old Girlfriend
The latest episode in questionable uses of government resources

How an indirect prompt injection can manipulate Google's Antigravity IDE to invoke a malicious browser subagent and exfiltrate data; Google is working on a fix (PromptArmor)
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data

Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data
An indirect prompt injection in an implementation blog can manipulate Antigravity to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE.

Observability and parameter estimation of a generic model for aggregated distributed energy resources
Bukunmi Gabriel Odunlami, Marcos Netto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10892 htt…

Observability and parameter estimation of a generic model for aggregated distributed energy resources
We propose a novel framework for estimating the parameters of an aggregated distributed energy resources (der_a) model. First, we introduce a rigorous method to determine whether all model parameters are estimable. When they are not, our approach identifies the subset of parameters that can be estimated. The proposed framework offers new insights into the number and specific parameters that can be reliably estimated based on commonly available measurements. It also highlights the limitations of…

Bandits with Single-Peaked Preferences and Limited Resources
Gur Keinan, Rotem Torkan, Omer Ben-Porat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09425 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Bandits with Single-Peaked Preferences and Limited Resources
We study an online stochastic matching problem in which an algorithm sequentially matches $U$ users to $K$ arms, aiming to maximize cumulative reward over $T$ rounds under budget constraints. Without structural assumptions, computing the optimal matching is NP-hard, making online learning computationally infeasible. To overcome this barrier, we focus on \emph{single-peaked preferences} -- a well-established structure in social choice theory, where users' preferences are unimodal with respect to…

This #BannedBooksWeek it is more important than ever to celebrate the freedom to read and step into roles that continue to fight for one of the last free spaces, libraries. We created a Friends of the Library zine so you can learn how! http://www.

Ukraine says it will decide on any new offensive, sees limited 'Kursk-2' possible with current resources: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/17/ukraine-says-it-will-decide.html

UN Emissions Gap Report 2025: new national emission reduction commitments (NDCs) shave another 0.3°C off the projected warming, now at 2.3-2.5°C and 2.8°C based on current policies. The upcoming withdrawal of the Trump regime will mean that 0.1°C is added again.
https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-…

Resources to Learn More About the Ukrainian/Russian Conflict
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Hi1pOYSjJ1umb72CTNzvJ7e4wfhEfk1Hn3AxjGE4go/edit?tab=t.0

A few remarks on "AI" usage and the narrative surrounding it. I think it's about the difference between disconnected creating and embodied making.
(Original title: Something from nothing)
https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/

Something from nothing
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I’m “selfmade” and that my position in society, my access to resources, etc. had nothing […]

Exploring the Viability of the Updated World3 Model for Examining the Impact of Computing on Planetary Boundaries
Nara Guliyeva, Eshta Bhardwaj, Christoph Becker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07634

Exploring the Viability of the Updated World3 Model for Examining the Impact of Computing on Planetary Boundaries
The influential Limits to Growth report introduced a system dynamics-based model to demonstrate global dynamics of the world's population, industry, natural resources, agriculture, and pollution between 1900-2100. In current times, the rapidly expanding trajectory of data center development, much of it linked to AI, uses increasing amounts of natural resources. The extraordinary amount of resources claimed warrants the question of how computing trajectories contribute to exceeding planetary bou…

Proactive and Reactive Autoscaling Techniques for Edge Computing
Suhrid Gupta, Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam, Rajkumar Buyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10166 https://

Proactive and Reactive Autoscaling Techniques for Edge Computing
Edge computing allows for the decentralization of computing resources. This decentralization is achieved through implementing microservice architectures, which require low latencies to meet stringent service level agreements (SLA) such as performance, reliability, and availability metrics. While cloud computing offers the large data storage and computation resources necessary to handle peak demands, a hybrid cloud and edge environment is required to ensure SLA compliance. Several auto-scaling a…

Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was walking to a store in 1981
when two members of the United Klans of America abducted the Black youth,
beat him, cut his throat and hung his body from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama.
Angry that an interracial jury had failed to convict a Black man for killing a white police officer in Birmingham,
the Klansmen selected Donald at random
and lynched him to threaten the Black community.
On the same evening…

Donald v. United Klans of America
Michael Donald Lynching Case Shutting down the notorious United Klans Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was walking to a store in 1981 when two members of the United Klans of America abducted the Black youth, beat him, cut his throat and hung his body from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama. Angry that an interracial jury had failed to convict a Black man for killing a white police officer in Birmingham, the Klansmen selected Donald at random and lynched him to threaten the B…

Internal memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares a "code red" to shift more resources into improving ChatGPT amid rising competition, delaying other plans like ads (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI CEO Declares ‘Code Red’ to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshall more resources to improve ChatGPT as threats rise from Google and other artificial intelligence competitors, according to an internal memo. As a result,OpenAI plans to delay other initiatives, such as ...

OpenTofu v1.11 is out and now supports ephemeral resources and write-only attributes 🎉
I registered my provider in the OpenTofu registry: https://search.opentofu.org/provider/x-cli/remotefs/latest
Enjoy ♥️

OpenTofu Registry
A fast and easy-to-use UI for quickly browsing and viewing OpenTofu modules and providers.

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I'm an anarcho-syndicalist non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns, is bisexual, from Bergen, Norway, and whose posts automatically delete after seven days regardless of likes or boosts, because I have autism and say random shit sometimes.
I talk allot about free software, and I use Secureblue, GrapheneOS and Debian as part of my software setup. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with Linux, especially Debian Testing/Sid, GNOME, and KDE.
As an …

Underground Power Distribution System Restoration Using Inverter Based Resources
Wenlong Shi, Hongyi Li, Zhaoyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08356 https://

Underground Power Distribution System Restoration Using Inverter Based Resources
Underground power distribution systems (PDSs) are increasingly deployed in urban areas. The integration of smart devices including smart switchgears, pad-mounted distribution transformers and inverter-based resources (IBRs) enhance system resilience, however simultaneously introducing unique challenges. The challenges include inrush currents caused by trapped charges in underground cables, ferroresonance in distribution transformers during energization, and three-phase load imbalance resulting …

The AI boom is delaying US municipal projects, as ~$4T in AI infra spending through 2030 shifts skilled construction workers to AI data centers (Brooke Sutherland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/202…

Second Wave of Storm Arrives Late Friday into the Weekend,
Heavier Rain Anticipated for South Santa Barbara County and Santa Ynez Mountains
https://www.readysbc.org/

Reminder--today is the last day to submit comments about the Executive Order designed to distort and restrict historical education. I just sent my statement in, I hope many people do the same! The American Historical Association has compiled a great set of resources to help you take this action! h…

A fire at South Korea's National Information Resources Service's data center shut down 647 government IT systems, disrupting services such as postal banking (Lee Jung-joo/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10584785

Fire at government data center halts 647 systems, disrupts services - The Korea Herald
A fire at the National Information Resources Service’s data center in Daejeon late Friday temporarily shut down 647 government IT systems, according to the Mini

Cars and RVs surged into Yosemite national park throughout the weekend,
as visitors from around the world came to enjoy the crisp autumn weather,
undeterred by a lack of park services and the absence of rangers.
National parks have largely been kept open through the lapse in US federal funding that has left workers furloughed and resources for the parks system more scarce than usual.
But as the US government shutdown enters its third week and legislators warn that the…

Looking forward to presenting tomorrow at Government Information Days 2025 with Rebecca Lindsey of Climate.us. We'll be talking about "Defending Public Information: Resisting Censorship, Rescuing Resources, Ensuring Access" #DefendResearch #Censorship

South Korea confirms that a fire at National Information Resources Service's data center, housing 647 government IT systems, directly damaged 96 of them (Lee Jung-joo/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10585032

Govt. races to restore services after data center blaze; 96 systems confirmed damaged - The Korea Herald
The Ministry of Interior and Safety said Sunday that recovery work is currently in progress at the government-run National Information Resources Service in Daej

Jenna Norton, a program director at the National Institutes of Health, says she has been put on paid leave following the end of the government shutdown.
"I was not given a reason for being put on leave, but I strongly suspect it is because I have been speaking up in my personal capacity about the harms that I have been witnessing inside the National Institutes of Health," she said in a video posted to TikTok.
The notice Norton received from human resources stated that the…