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From 600 Tools to 1 Console: A UX-Driven Transformation
Mariann Kornelia Smith, Jacqueline Meijer-Irons, Andrew Millar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16107 htt…

From 600 Tools to 1 Console: A UX-Driven Transformation
In 2021 the Technical Infrastructure (TI) User Experience (UX) team sent a survey to 10,000 Google Developers (Googlers) and uncovered that Google's internal infrastructure tools were fragmented and inefficient, hindering developers' productivity. Using user centered research and design methodologies the team first created a story map and service blueprint to visualize the relationship between internal applications, then formulated a strategic vision to consolidate tools, streamline workflows, …

It's too soon to test a complete upgrade from 14 to 16.0-CURRENT, because recently created <https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:16:amd64/> does not yet serve FreeBSD-ports and FreeBSD-ports-kmods repo configurations.

War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."

A Survey on Medical Image Compression: From Traditional to Learning-Based
Guofeng Tong, Sixuan Liu, Yang Lv, Hanyu Pei, Feng-Lei Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10615

A Survey on Medical Image Compression: From Traditional to Learning-Based
The exponential growth of medical imaging has created significant challenges in data storage, transmission, and management for healthcare systems. In this vein, efficient compression becomes increasingly important. Unlike natural image compression, medical image compression prioritizes preserving diagnostic details and structural integrity, imposing stricter quality requirements and demanding fast, memory-efficient algorithms that balance computational complexity with clinically acceptable reco…

The new Compendium is here, and it’s more than just data. [Part 1]
Created by and for the #NREN community, this year’s edition brings the 2024 survey results to life through stories, context, and reflections from NRENs and expert contributors.
🔗 Read the report and explore the data:

Phonon interference effects in GaAs-GaP superlattice nanowires
Chaitanya Arya, Johannes Trautvetter, Jose M. Sojo-Gordillo, Yashpreet Kaur, Valentina Zannier, Fabio Beltram, Tommaso Albrigi, Alicia Ruiz-Caridad, Lucia Sorba, Riccardo Rurali, Ilaria Zardo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09556

Phonon interference effects in GaAs-GaP superlattice nanowires
Fine-tuning the functional properties of nanomaterials is crucial for technological applications. Superlattices, characterized by periodic repetitions of two or more materials in different dimensions, have emerged as a promising area of investigation. We present a study of the phonon interference effect on thermal transport in GaAs-GaP superlattice nanowires with sharp interfaces between the GaAs and GaP layers, as confirmed by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. We performed ther…

Demystifying Strange O VI Line Widths with Hydrodynamic Simulations
Chen Wang, Eric Goetz, Robin Shelton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11351 https://arxiv.org…

Demystifying Strange O VI Line Widths with Hydrodynamic Simulations
We present a survey of O VI line widths obtained from hydrodynamic simulations that model the mixing between High Velocity Clouds and the circumgalactic medium and track the non-equilibrium ionization populations of the ions. We run 10 simulations with various physical conditions of the clouds and ambient environments, so that our results can be compared to observations of various cloud environments. Synthetic spectra are created for the simulated sight lines that contain O VI. The range of our…

Model Context Protocols in Adaptive Transport Systems: A Survey
Gaurab Chhetri, Shriyank Somvanshi, Md Monzurul Islam, Shamyo Brotee, Mahmuda Sultana Mimi, Dipti Koirala, Biplov Pandey, Subasish Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19239

Model Context Protocols in Adaptive Transport Systems: A Survey
The rapid expansion of interconnected devices, autonomous systems, and AI applications has created severe fragmentation in adaptive transport systems, where diverse protocols and context sources remain isolated. This survey provides the first systematic investigation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a unifying paradigm, highlighting its ability to bridge protocol-level adaptation with context-aware decision making. Analyzing established literature, we show that existing efforts have impli…

Understanding Privacy Norms Around LLM-Based Chatbots: A Contextual Integrity Perspective
Sarah Tran, Hongfan Lu, Isaac Slaughter, Bernease Herman, Aayushi Dangol, Yue Fu, Lufei Chen, Biniyam Gebreyohannes, Bill Howe, Alexis Hiniker, Nicholas Weber, Robert Wolfe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06760

Understanding Privacy Norms Around LLM-Based Chatbots: A Contextual Integrity Perspective
LLM-driven chatbots like ChatGPT have created large volumes of conversational data, but little is known about how user privacy expectations are evolving with this technology. We conduct a survey experiment with 300 US ChatGPT users to understand emerging privacy norms for sharing chatbot data. Our findings reveal a stark disconnect between user concerns and behavior: 82% of respondents rated chatbot conversations as sensitive or highly sensitive - more than email or social media posts - but nea…

52 responses.
Numbers of participants:
— 13 in the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey
— 12 in the 2025 Laptop and Desktop Workgroup survey
— 20 in the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey.
36 of 52 found the poll in Reddit.(I inadvertently created a fourth choice by changing "The" to "the".)