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@… filmfriend.de is an offer by german public libraries to stream a large number of films for free (limited to card holders of german libraries. If your residence is outside germany, you can create a free account with Goethe Institut, than register online with the public library of Goethe Institut, than login into filmfriend.de). If you try to stream a fi…

@… filmfriend.de is an offer by german public libraries to stream a large number of films for free (limited to card holders of german libraries. If your residence is outside germany, you can create a free account with Goethe Institut, than register online with the public library of Goethe Institut, than login into filmfriend.de). If you try to stream a fi…

Is it just me or is the one thing missing on the Microsoft #Windows10 ISO download page the ISO download? 🤔
"You’ve been routed to this page because the operating system you’re using won’t support the Windows 10 media creation tool and we want to make sure you can download Windows 10. To use the media creation tool, visit the Microsoft Software Download Windows 10 page from a Windows 7…

Somerset County NJ has ordered a State of Emergency and Shelter in Place for everyone due to Flash Flooding.
#nj #flood #FlashFlood

All Somerset County residents and businesses are the SHELTER IN PLACE. No one is to travel. Roads ... from Somerset County Public Safety : Nixle
All Somerset County residents and businesses are the SHELTER IN PLACE. No one is to travel. Roads are flooded and conditions are extremely. An emergency has been declared and request all residents ...

I do not like how Haskell’s antagonism towards cyclic imports leads me to put all my `data` declarations in one file, and then distribute the functionality everywhere.
You don’t have to have classes to benefit from information hiding a la object-oriented programming.

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted

Auch der #owncloud Hosting Service https://owncloud.online wurde nun auch weggegeben. Gab wohl noch Kunden, die nicht auf die proprietäre

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
Should AI coding be taught in undergrad CS education?
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I teach undergraduate computer science labs, including for intro and more-advanced core courses. I don't publish (non-negligible) scholarly work in the area, but I've got years of craft expertise in course design, and I do follow the academic literature to some degree. In other words, In not the world's leading expert, but I have spent a lot of time thinking about course design, and consider myself competent at it, with plenty of direct experience in what knowledge & skills I can expect from students as they move through the curriculum.
I'm also strongly against most uses of what's called "AI" these days (specifically, generative deep neutral networks as supplied by our current cadre of techbro). There are a surprising number of completely orthogonal reasons to oppose the use of these systems, and a very limited number of reasonable exceptions (overcoming accessibility barriers is an example). On the grounds of environmental and digital-commons-pollution costs alone, using specifically the largest/newest models is unethical in most cases.
But as any good teacher should, I constantly question these evaluations, because I worry about the impact on my students should I eschew teaching relevant tech for bad reasons (and even for his reasons). I also want to make my reasoning clear to students, who should absolutely question me on this. That inspired me to ask a simple question: ignoring for one moment the ethical objections (which we shouldn't, of course; they're very stark), at what level in the CS major could I expect to teach a course about programming with AI assistance, and expect students to succeed at a more technically demanding final project than a course at the same level where students were banned from using AI? In other words, at what level would I expect students to actually benefit from AI coding "assistance?"
To be clear, I'm assuming that students aren't using AI in other aspects of coursework: the topic of using AI to "help you study" is a separate one (TL;DR it's gross value is not negative, but it's mostly not worth the harm to your metacognitive abilities, which AI-induced changes to the digital commons are making more important than ever).
So what's my answer to this question?
If I'm being incredibly optimistic, senior year. Slightly less optimistic, second year of a masters program. Realistic? Maybe never.
The interesting bit for you-the-reader is: why is this my answer? (Especially given that students would probably self-report significant gains at lower levels.) To start with, [this paper where experienced developers thought that AI assistance sped up their work on real tasks when in fact it slowed it down] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089) is informative. There are a lot of differences in task between experienced devs solving real bugs and students working on a class project, but it's important to understand that we shouldn't have a baseline expectation that AI coding "assistants" will speed things up in the best of circumstances, and we shouldn't trust self-reports of productivity (or the AI hype machine in general).
Now we might imagine that coding assistants will be better at helping with a student project than at helping with fixing bugs in open-source software, since it's a much easier task. For many programming assignments that have a fixed answer, we know that many AI assistants can just spit out a solution based on prompting them with the problem description (there's another elephant in the room here to do with learning outcomes regardless of project success, but we'll ignore this over too, my focus here is on project complexity reach, not learning outcomes). My question is about more open-ended projects, not assignments with an expected answer. Here's a second study (by one of my colleagues) about novices using AI assistance for programming tasks. It showcases how difficult it is to use AI tools well, and some of these stumbling blocks that novices in particular face.
But what about intermediate students? Might there be some level where the AI is helpful because the task is still relatively simple and the students are good enough to handle it? The problem with this is that as task complexity increases, so does the likelihood of the AI generating (or copying) code that uses more complex constructs which a student doesn't understand. Let's say I have second year students writing interactive websites with JavaScript. Without a lot of care that those students don't know how to deploy, the AI is likely to suggest code that depends on several different frameworks, from React to JQuery, without actually setting up or including those frameworks, and of course three students would be way out of their depth trying to do that. This is a general problem: each programming class carefully limits the specific code frameworks and constructs it expects students to know based on the material it covers. There is no feasible way to limit an AI assistant to a fixed set of constructs or frameworks, using current designs. There are alternate designs where this would be possible (like AI search through adaptation from a controlled library of snippets) but those would be entirely different tools.
So what happens on a sizeable class project where the AI has dropped in buggy code, especially if it uses code constructs the students don't understand? Best case, they understand that they don't understand and re-prompt, or ask for help from an instructor or TA quickly who helps them get rid of the stuff they don't understand and re-prompt or manually add stuff they do. Average case: they waste several hours and/or sweep the bugs partly under the rug, resulting in a project with significant defects. Students in their second and even third years of a CS major still have a lot to learn about debugging, and usually have significant gaps in their knowledge of even their most comfortable programming language. I do think regardless of AI we as teachers need to get better at teaching debugging skills, but the knowledge gaps are inevitable because there's just too much to know. In Python, for example, the LLM is going to spit out yields, async functions, try/finally, maybe even something like a while/else, or with recent training data, the walrus operator. I can't expect even a fraction of 3rd year students who have worked with Python since their first year to know about all these things, and based on how students approach projects where they have studied all the relevant constructs but have forgotten some, I'm not optimistic seeing these things will magically become learning opportunities. Student projects are better off working with a limited subset of full programming languages that the students have actually learned, and using AI coding assistants as currently designed makes this impossible. Beyond that, even when the "assistant" just introduces bugs using syntax the students understand, even through their 4th year many students struggle to understand the operation of moderately complex code they've written themselves, let alone written by someone else. Having access to an AI that will confidently offer incorrect explanations for bugs will make this worse.
To be sure a small minority of students will be able to overcome these problems, but that minority is the group that has a good grasp of the fundamentals and has broadened their knowledge through self-study, which earlier AI-reliant classes would make less likely to happen. In any case, I care about the average student, since we already have plenty of stuff about our institutions that makes life easier for a favored few while being worse for the average student (note that our construction of that favored few as the "good" students is a large part of this problem).
To summarize: because AI assistants introduce excess code complexity and difficult-to-debug bugs, they'll slow down rather than speed up project progress for the average student on moderately complex projects. On a fixed deadline, they'll result in worse projects, or necessitate less ambitious project scoping to ensure adequate completion, and I expect this remains broadly true through 4-6 years of study in most programs (don't take this as an endorsement of AI "assistants" for masters students; we've ignored a lot of other problems along the way).
There's a related problem: solving open-ended project assignments well ultimately depends on deeply understanding the problem, and AI "assistants" allow students to put a lot of code in their file without spending much time thinking about the problem or building an understanding of it. This is awful for learning outcomes, but also bad for project success. Getting students to see the value of thinking deeply about a problem is a thorny pedagogical puzzle at the best of times, and allowing the use of AI "assistants" makes the problem much much worse. This is another area I hope to see (or even drive) pedagogical improvement in, for what it's worth.
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Syncthing 2.0 Launches With Major Database Overhaul
https://linuxiac.com/syncthing-2-0-launches-with-major-database-overhaul/

When `#git submodule` tells you to use `--force` option, and then you get:
```
Changes to be committed:
(use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
new file: --force
modified: .gitmodules
```

Der #Leapmotor T03 scheint die Leute hier anzusprechen. In #Jena sehe ich in letzter Zeit sehr viele davon.
#eauto

And <sigh/> no, the #debian13trixie upgrade saga isn't (yet) complete. The Gnome file manager -- still known to #debian as 'nautillus', for historical reasons -- was missing on my laptop.
apt install --reinstall nautillus
fixed that, and also brought in a bunch of oth…

This flight from Paris to Dublin has landed. The aircraft is scheduled to fly from Dublin to Hartford CT next. #AerLingus #Palestine https://

Sources: India's Billionbrains Garage, parent of investment app Groww, plans to file for an India IPO next week, seeking $650M-$800M at an ~$8B valuation (Rajesh Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

While you're shaking your fist at the Epstein files situation...
...Trump's DOJ is exploring how to file criminal charges against election officials who don't bend the vote toward MAGA.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g6zrpwmibpk…

A vulnerability was identified in NASM Netwide Assember 2.17rc0. This issue affects the function assemble_file of the file nasm.c. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
CVE-2025-8845 (GCVE-0-2025-8845)
#nasm

Kiedy `#git submodule` każe użyć opcji `--force`, i dostajesz:
```
Changes to be committed:
(use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
new file: --force
modified: .gitmodules
```

gnutella: Gnutella p2p networks (2002)
A sequence of 9 snapshots of the Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing network from 5-31 August 2002. Nodes are hosts in the Gnutella network topology and edges are connections between them.
This network has 36682 nodes and 88328 edges.
Tags: Technological, Peer-to-peer, Unweighted
https://

Impact-driven Context Filtering For Cross-file Code Completion
Yanzhou Li, Shangqing Liu, Kangjie Chen, Tianwei Zhang, Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05970 https://

Impact-driven Context Filtering For Cross-file Code Completion
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has recently demonstrated considerable potential for repository-level code completion, as it integrates cross-file knowledge with in-file preceding code to provide comprehensive contexts for generation. To better understand the contribution of the retrieved cross-file contexts, we introduce a likelihood-based metric to evaluate the impact of each retrieved code chunk on the completion. Our analysis reveals that, despite retrieving numerous chunks, only a sma…

@… oh fascinating. Yeah, I would love to explore more about the tensions there. Specifically if individual file syntax weighs more than the bundler? Like that original decision to require a preprocessor for JSX (where if it were to be designed today I would hope it would use template literals instead). Or how .astro files (last I saw) were pretty tightly coupled to Vite. And ho…

Browns' Judkins won't face charge for July arrest https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45980655/browns-quinshon-judkins-face-formal-battery-charge

IT WORKS! ZOMG IT WORKS!!!!
🥳
Turns out, I have to use `internal/runtime/atomic` instead of sync/atomic`` for the `atomic.Bool`.
Then this here will _not_ happen lol:
https://gist.github.com/orangecms/7f985ef19398544114599430b79868f7#file-lol-…

Golang 32-bit Linux futex fixing for year 2038
Golang 32-bit Linux futex fixing for year 2038. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

User1: *can't access files* *panics*
Mela: *asks User1 to open a terminal and check file permissions*
User1: "Just changed the permissions. Works again."
User2: "Apple does Apple things."
Mela: "*nods in 'has hacked the apple rescue system and force-chowned a whole account'*"
#SzenenEinerExSysAdmin

A malicious Jira ticket can cause Cursor to exfiltrate secrets from the repository or local file system. But this is not just a problem with Cursor: GitHub MCP connections can also be exploited to expose private repository data, and a vulnerability in GitLab Duo allowed private information to be exposed through automatically rendered HTML code.

AgentFlayer: When a Jira Ticket Can Steal Your Secrets
TL;DR: A 0click attack through a malicious Jira ticket can cause Cursor to exfiltrate secrets from the repository or local file system.

@… Just hit a similar problem, mutual recursion forcing me to put everything in one file.
I know .hs-boot can help here but (a) I have never made it work successfully and (b) I DON’T WANNA

#NewRule – if you write an app or service that uses a #directory to save important files, and you generate #errors in your logs about the files in said directory, but don't document what, if anything the user can do about it…

New Rule: Thou Shalt Document Any Magic File Your Code Complains Or Warns The User About
From the And ANOTHER thing... department.. ok, #NewRule - if you write an app or service that uses a #directory to save important file...

GOA to File "One Big Beautiful Lawsuit" Against NFA Registry as "One Big Beautiful Bill" Heads to President's Desk (Felisha Bull/GOA)
https://www.gunowners.org/goa-to-file-one-big-beautiful-lawsuit-against-nfa-registry-as-one-big-beautiful-bill-heads-to-presidents-desk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p73#a250704p73

Been so zeroed in on making the preseed file work that I forgot I have an actual website I need to finish

Iris RESTful Server and IrisTileSource: An Iris implementation for existing OpenSeaDragon viewers
Ryan Erik Landvater, Navin Kathawa, Mustafa Yousif MD, Ulysses Balis MD
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06615

Iris RESTful Server and IrisTileSource: An Iris implementation for existing OpenSeaDragon viewers
The Iris File Extension (IFE) is a low overhead performance-oriented whole slide image (WSI) file format designed to improve the image rendering experience for pathologists and simplify image management for system administrators. However, static hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) file servers cannot natively stream subregions of high-resolution image files, such as the IFE. The majority of contemporary WSI viewer systems are designed as browser-based web applications and leverage OpenSeaDragon …

We are strongly "encouraged" to use Copilot at work. OK, fine.
I asked it for Python code to convert a Parquet file to a SAS data set, and it responded confidently with code to do so.
Only one problem. It hallucinated the method pandas.DataFrame.to_sas() into existence. There is no such method.
#LLM

For the first time in the history of the United States,
asylum seekers will have to pay to file an asylum application.
The so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” or OBBA, mandates new minimum fees for immigration and visa applications.
The legislation authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Attorney General to raise fees above the minimum,
and all fees are subject to an annual inflation adjustment starting in fiscal year 2026.

Asylum Seekers Now Have to Pay to File Immigration Claims
The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” imposes unprecedented fees on asylum seekers.

At one of my previous jobs the Executive Director (who also had a law degree) once lost hours of work because they were writing a letter and not once saved the file.
Some applications require you to hit "Save" or to at least turn on the "auto-save" feature. They did neither of those things.
I use an online spreadsheet and while the (exported) file is just 2.6MB I got a warning that the history data was taking up over 600MB!
Our world has become ineffici…

Automated Visualization Makeovers with LLMs
Siddharth Gangwar, David A. Selby, Sebastian J. Vollmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05637 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Automated Visualization Makeovers with LLMs
Making a good graphic that accurately and efficiently conveys the desired message to the audience is both an art and a science, typically not taught in the data science curriculum. Visualisation makeovers are exercises where the community exchange feedback to improve charts and data visualizations. Can multi-modal large language models (LLMs) emulate this task? Given a plot in the form of an image file, or the code used to generate it, an LLM, primed with a list of visualization best practices,…

This is also included in a PDF file attached to my LinkedIn post:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_comparing-european-v2g-offers-ugcPost-7371872402932244480-zJxf

A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…

Accelerating Data Chunking in Deduplication Systems using Vector Instructions
Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Abdelrahman Baba, Samer Al-Kiswany
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05797 https:…

Accelerating Data Chunking in Deduplication Systems using Vector Instructions
Content-defined Chunking (CDC) algorithms dictate the overall space savings that deduplication systems achieve. However, due to their need to scan each file in its entirety, they are slow and often the main performance bottleneck within data deduplication. We present VectorCDC, a method to accelerate hashless CDC algorithms using vector CPU instructions, such as SSE / AVX. Our evaluation shows that VectorCDC is effective on Intel, AMD, ARM, and IBM CPUs, achieving 8.35x - 26.2x higher throughpu…

Previously mentioned the write-up capabilities of the FreeBSD community. Over the last months I've taken hints and tips from this page. Thanks a lot Wison !
https://github.com/wisonye/freebsd-handbook?tab=readme-ov-file

Let’s be crystal clear about what this law actually accomplishes: It makes it harder for adults to access perfectly legal (and often helpful) information and services. It forces people to create detailed trails of their online activit…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Let’s be crystal clear about what this law actually accomplishes: It makes it harder for adults to access perfectly legal (and often helpful) information and services. It forces people to create detailed trails of their online activit…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Bookmarked: calfa-co/hye-tesseract: Open OCR model for Armenian #Armenisch_OCR_Tesseract

Senator Wants to File Bribery Charges Over Paramount's Hush Money to Trump
https://gizmodo.com/senator-wants-to-file-bribery-charges-over-paramounts-hush-money-to-trump-2000623400

CleanQRL: Lightweight Single-file Implementations of Quantum Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Georg Kruse, Rodrigo Coelho, Andreas Rosskopf, Robert Wille, Jeanette Miriam Lorenz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07593

CleanQRL: Lightweight Single-file Implementations of Quantum Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
At the interception between quantum computing and machine learning, Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) has emerged as a promising research field. Due to its novelty, a standardized and comprehensive collection for QRL algorithms has not yet been established. Researchers rely on numerous software stacks for classical Reinforcement Learning (RL) as well as on various quantum computing frameworks for the implementation of the quantum subroutines of their QRL algorithms. Inspired by the CleanRL l…

Pattern-Based File and Data Access with Python Glob: A Comprehensive Guide for Computational Research
Sidney Shapiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08843 https://

Pattern-Based File and Data Access with Python Glob: A Comprehensive Guide for Computational Research
Pattern-based file access is a fundamental but often under-documented aspect of computational research. The Python glob module provides a simple yet powerful way to search, filter, and ingest files using wildcard patterns, enabling scalable workflows across disciplines. This paper introduces glob as a versatile tool for data science, business analytics, and artificial intelligence applications. We demonstrate use cases including large-scale data ingestion, organizational data analysis, AI datas…

Spent 30 minutes to discover #Python's csv module, which I've used often for years, defaults to CRLF on output regardless of what the source file's line endings are and what your local environment is.
I was converting a TSV to CSV and puzzling over why the resulting file was larger.
I will have to remember to set lineterminator='\n' going forward. Lossless compres…

Most crossplatformy way to create the random fortune-motd file seems to be to use fuse to create the special file and just symlink it to /etc/motd. 66 lines of Python, and ta-daaa:

Got slammed by an unidentified but certainly "#AI"-related #distributed #crawler this week, it drove one site's traffic to 10× average. Today I tired of playing Whac-a-Mole and blocked the two bigge…

A treasure trove of neat little #macOS Tools. Also a great blog with many insights about macOS https://eclecticlight.co/dintch/

Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, DropSum, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
Spundle – create, resize and compact sparse bundles Updated. Simple utility to create sparse bundles of any maximum size, choose from six different file systems, and custom band sizes. Also r…

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted

I'm starting to play with an Epson HX-20; interesting little portable from the early 80s.
I've just figured out the tape has a file from August 1984. It's a basic file called TILL, now if I can get the serial working reliably I can dump it, but I'm having a problem of it complaining about battery voltage which seems common on it. Some playing needed.
#retrocomputing

Disa: Accurate Learning-based Static Disassembly with Attentions
Peicheng Wang, Monika Santra, Mingyu Liu, Cong Sun, Dongrui Zeng, Gang Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07246

Disa: Accurate Learning-based Static Disassembly with Attentions
For reverse engineering related security domains, such as vulnerability detection, malware analysis, and binary hardening, disassembly is crucial yet challenging. The fundamental challenge of disassembly is to identify instruction and function boundaries. Classic approaches rely on file-format assumptions and architecture-specific heuristics to guess the boundaries, resulting in incomplete and incorrect disassembly, especially when the binary is obfuscated. Recent advancements of disassembly ha…

@… I don’t take a lot of notes, but when I do, it’s in obsidian.
Because it spits out plan text files I can organize and manipulate in the file system like I’m used to.

"We simply don’t know to defend against these attacks. We have zero agentic AI systems that are secure against these attacks.[…] It’s an existential problem that, near as I can tell, most people developing these technologies are just pretending isn’t there."
https://www.

Local search engine is up and running, now to add a couple of caches with LMDB to replace my crude memoization and add loading of actual documents instead of just text file directories, and adding back-links. Crazy what one can do with just a hundred lines of C

And <sigh/> no, the #debian13trixie upgrade saga isn't (yet) complete. The Gnome file manager -- still known to #debian as 'nautillus', for historical reasons -- was missing on my laptop.
apt install --reinstall nautillus
fixed that, and also brought in a bunch of oth…

This is a really well thought-out survey on redesigns for an updated autistic pride flag! I believe it's open to everyone but obviously the input of autistic and neurodivergent people is especially significant. (I also like this survey because it takes the possible overlap with the Metis flag seriously)
Symbols matter, so consider contributing!
#autism

Autistic pride flag survey round 2!
In this survey, I'm going to ask you to rate 13 flag designs that have been proposed as autistic pride flags. You will get to see the results of the survey upon submitting. No questions are mandatory so if you run out of steam feel free to submit a partial response. You may edit your response after submitting but you will need to save the special URL google will provide you in order to do so. When you hit submit, right click "edit your response" and save that URL into a text file or somewher…

Azerbaijan to file international lawsuits against Russia over downed plane, Aliyev says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/20/azerbaijan-to-file-international-lawsuits.html

from my link log —
How to open a file in Emacs.
https://www.murilopereira.com/how-to-open-a-file-in-emacs
saved 2025-06-23

How to open a file in Emacs
A short story about Lisp, technology, and human progress.

A standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data
Carlo Bevilacqua, Sebastian Hambura, Pierre Bouvet, Salvatore La Cavera III, Kareem Elsayad, Robert Prevedel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07566

A standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data
Brillouin microscopy is rapidly emerging as a powerful technique for imaging the mechanical properties of biological specimens in a label-free, non-contact manner. We present a standardized file format and open-source tools to facilitate the uptake and analysis of Brillouin microscopy related data and to unify this growing field.

Using Large Language Models to Study Mathematical Practice
William D'Alessandro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02873 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02873

Using Large Language Models to Study Mathematical Practice
The philosophy of mathematical practice (PMP) looks to evidence from working mathematics to help settle philosophical questions. One prominent program under the PMP banner is the study of explanation in mathematics, which aims to understand what sorts of proofs mathematicians consider explanatory and what role the pursuit of explanation plays in mathematical practice. In an effort to address worries about cherry-picked examples and file-drawer problems in PMP, a handful of authors have recently…

Tired of copying `src/file/name.ext:42:5` from a compiler's output, carefully stripping the `:42:5` line and column number, opening the file in your favorite #VIm variant and then pressing `42G` (provided you remembered the line number)?
Vm Script 2184 "file:line" has you covered, <

I'm putting together notes for novices to do simple data analysis with R and the fact that I'm telling them to "cut and paste this inscrutable block of code at the start of your file" reminds me of nothing so much as when I worked for the ESRI in Dublin in the mid 1980s and we used to run SPSS analyses remotely on UCD's Amdahl by sandwiching our SPSS code (on punch cards) between two decks of IBM Job Control Language cards of which we understood nothing whatsoever.

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social Again and again, I experience that tcpip-connections become unavailable over Wifi (Freifunk). Datagrams do work, ip-packets do work with mobile connection. Only remedy i found is to reboot, after reboot ip-connections with wifi will work again until it stops again needing another reboot.

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social Again and again, I experience that tcpip-connections become unavailable over Wifi (Freifunk). Datagrams do work, ip-packets do work with mobile connection. Only remedy i found is to reboot, after reboot ip-connections with wifi will work again until it stops again needing another reboot.

A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…

«In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure!»
oh fuckin' hell, makes you wonder how their non-public stuff is being made 🫠
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/02/protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-encrypted-not-open-source/

Funny how you can make a totally empty GitHub repo with a catchy name and still get stars in the first week. I guess people just see it in their feed and click. Mine only has a .gitignore file 😏 Now comes the hard part = living up to the name 🙈

Well, this is an encouraging resolution, and I, for one, will be urging my Supervisor to support it - If you're in SF, I urge you to do the same.
"Resolution urging state legislators to champion legislation allowing cities and counties to decide if they want to implement local wealth and progressive income taxes."
And thanks to the Sponsors: #ChyanneChen,

Well, this is an encouraging resolution, and I, for one, will be urging my Supervisor to support it - If you're in SF, I urge you to do the same.
"Resolution urging state legislators to champion legislation allowing cities and counties to decide if they want to implement local wealth and progressive income taxes."
And thanks to the Sponsors: #ChyanneChen,

Fr James Martin:
In an extraordinary move, the Bishop of San Bernardino has "dispensed" (freed a person) from the obligation to attend Masses on Sunday and Holy Days of Obligation if the person fears ICE. Bishop Rojas (wisely) says that he is guided by the desire to extend pastoral care to all in his diocese, particularly those who "face fear and hardship."
#catholic

Lots of good replies to this poll - many many #Immich fans and a fair few honourable mentions for @… #Ente
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115163409667189331
Ruth_Mottram - If you are using nextcloud as your main file and photo backup (for personal files, not work!), what are you using for organising your photos?
Photoprism? Memories? Something else?

Wrote up a nice little macro in @… to illustrate "anonymous recursive functions" Š la PowerShell.
https://github.com/shriram/anonymous-r

GitHub - shriram/anonymous-recursive-function: Anonymous recursive functions in Racket
Anonymous recursive functions in Racket. Contribute to shriram/anonymous-recursive-function development by creating an account on GitHub.

lol 🤦‍♂️ https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/commit/965bcc44dc6b5c5fa9d013b32da3cc9f8fdce93a

gnutella: Gnutella p2p networks (2002)
A sequence of 9 snapshots of the Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing network from 5-31 August 2002. Nodes are hosts in the Gnutella network topology and edges are connections between them.
This network has 26518 nodes and 65369 edges.
Tags: Technological, Peer-to-peer, Unweighted
https://

The Structure of a #PDF File
https://medium.com/@jberkenbilt/the-structure-of-a-pdf-file-6f08114a58f6

Context Engineering for Multi-Agent LLM Code Assistants Using Elicit, NotebookLM, ChatGPT, and Claude Code
Muhammad Haseeb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08322 https://

Context Engineering for Multi-Agent LLM Code Assistants Using Elicit, NotebookLM, ChatGPT, and Claude Code
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating code generation and software engineering tasks, yet they often struggle with complex, multi-file projects due to context limitations and knowledge gaps. We propose a novel context engineering workflow that combines multiple AI components: an Intent Translator (GPT-5) for clarifying user requirements, an Elicit-powered semantic literature retrieval for injecting domain knowledge, NotebookLM-based document synthesis for contextual unde…

Giambattista Nolli (or Giovanni Battista) (April 9, 1701 – July 3, 1756),
was an Italian architect and surveyor.
He is best known for his ichnographic plan of Rome,
the Pianta Grande di Roma
which he began surveying in 1736 and engraved in 1748,
and now universally known as the Nolli Map.
The map is composed of 12 copper plate engravings that together measure 176 centimetres by 208 centimetres.
It was produced and published in response to the comm…

Giambattista Nolli - Wikipedia

Customize what happens when you start R: #rstats #environment

Has anyone used Windhawk?
https://windhawk.net/
It's a tweak/mod installer for Windows. Like Cydia or SIMBL or Application Enhancer. Released in 2022.
I'm impressed by the number of mods they have listed. Each mod has visible source code, a single file with metadata in comments, l…

MCNP-GO: A python package for assembling MCNP input files with a systems engineering approach
Alexandre Friou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05659 https://

MCNP-GO: A python package for assembling MCNP input files with a systems engineering approach
This article introduces MCNP-GO (https://github.com/afriou/mcnpgo), a Python package designed to manipulate and assemble MCNP input files, allowing users to assemble a set of independent objects, each described by a valid MCNP file, into a single cohesive file. This tool is particularly useful for applications where precise modeling and positioning of equipment are crucial. The package addresses the challenges of managing large databases of MCNP input files, ensuring reliability and traceabilit…

🔧 #ccundo – Intelligent undo for Claude Code sessions
* Reads directly from Claude Code session files to track operations
* Provides granular undo/redo with cascading safety & detailed previews
* Supports file edits, creations, deletions & bash commands
* Zero configuration – works out of the box

NJ Dept of Health signs order allowing anybody over 6 months old to receive a COVID vaccine regardless of federal rules
#covid #nj #vaccine

State Health Department Issues Executive Directive, Standing Order to Ensure Access to COVID-19 Vaccines in New Jersey
State Health Department Issues Executive Directive, Standing Order to Ensure Access to COVID-19 Vaccines in New Jersey

#PSA #feditips It seems that Nepal has blocked access to (some?) Mastodon sites.
With domain fronting the blocking of many fediverse sites can be circumvented.
This is based on the fact that many websites share the same IP number. Therefore a government blocking access to a website can in many cases only block the domain, but not the IP of the site, otnerwise many other websites would be blocked too.
By either configuring a proxy in the mastodon app or on the device or by usin…

#PSA #feditips It seems that Nepal has blocked access to (some?) Mastodon sites.
With domain fronting the blocking of many fediverse sites can be circumvented.
This is based on the fact that many websites share the same IP number. Therefore a government blocking access to a website can in many cases only block the domain, but not the IP of the site, otnerwise many other websites would be blocked too.
By either configuring a proxy in the mastodon app or on the device or by usin…

Groups File Suit to Declare Montana’s Right to Abortion Is Unconstitutional
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/08/08/groups-sue-over-montana-abortion-initiative/

Github copilot (at least through VS Code) has this new "Agent" mode with some of the AI copilot models. Instead of just answering questions or reviewing your code and pointing out where to copy/paste the slop, agent mode GOES AHEAD AND MODIFYS YOUR CODE..
On one hand its hecka fast. On the other hand its alarming as shit.
The number of times it iterates iteself into a corner, goes "oh this file is crap, Ima throw it out and rewrite it from scratch" is alarmin…

Far right and far left in EU Parliament to file separate von der Leyen no-confidence motions at midnight (Max Griera/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-far-left-eu-parliament-von-der-leyen-no-confidence-motion-midnight/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p30#a250910p30

A Study on Messaging Trade-offs in Data Streaming for Scientific Workflows
Anjus George, Michael J. Brim, Christopher Zimmer, Tyler J. Skluzacek, A. J. Ruckman, Gustav R. Jansen, Sarp Oral
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07199

A Study on Messaging Trade-offs in Data Streaming for Scientific Workflows
Memory-to-memory data streaming is essential for modern scientific workflows that require near real-time data analysis, experimental steering, and informed decision-making during experiment execution. It eliminates the latency bottlenecks associated with file-based transfers to parallel storage, enabling rapid data movement between experimental facilities and HPC systems. These tightly coupled experimental-HPC workflows demand low latency, high throughput, and reliable data delivery to support …

Network-level Censorship Attacks in the InterPlanetary File System
Jan Matter, Muoi Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06626

Network-level Censorship Attacks in the InterPlanetary File System
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) has been successfully established as the de facto standard for decentralized data storage in the emerging Web3. Despite its decentralized nature, IPFS nodes, as well as IPFS content providers, have converged to centralization in large public clouds. Centralization introduces BGP routing-based attacks, such as passive interception and BGP hijacking, as potential threats. Although this attack vector has been investigated for many other Web3 protocols, such as…

football_tsevans: NCAA college football 2000 (corrected metadata)
A network of American football games between Division IA colleges during regular season Fall 2000. This version contains some corrections made by T. S. Evans, in particular:.
This network has 115 nodes and 613 edges.
Tags: Social, Sports, Unweighted
https://

Three HBCU colleges on lockdown and/or canceled classes due to threats after Charlie Kirk’s death. No, the suspect in the photo circulated by law enforcement is not black, he’s apparently white.
#HBCU #lockdown #threat

Three Historically Black Colleges and Universities on lockdown for 'terroristic threats': reports
Alabama State University, Hampton University and Virginia State University locked down the morning of Sept. 11 after threats were made against all three campuses.

football_tsevans: NCAA college football 2000 (corrected metadata)
A network of American football games between Division IA colleges during regular season Fall 2000. This version contains some corrections made by T. S. Evans, in particular:.
This network has 115 nodes and 613 edges.
Tags: Social, Sports, Unweighted
https://

Adaptive Parallel Downloader for Large Genomic Datasets
Rasman Mubtasim Swargo, Engin Arslan, Md Arifuzzaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05511 https://arxiv…

Adaptive Parallel Downloader for Large Genomic Datasets
Modern next-generation sequencing (NGS) projects routinely generate terabytes of data, which researchers commonly download from public repositories such as SRA or ENA. Existing download tools often employ static concurrency settings, leading to inefficient bandwidth utilization and prolonged download times due to their inability to adapt to dynamic network conditions. We introduce FastBioDL, a parallel file downloader designed for large biological datasets, featuring an adaptive concurrency con…

Automated File-Level Logging Generation for Machine Learning Applications using LLMs: A Case Study using GPT-4o Mini
Mayra Sofia Ruiz Rodriguez, SayedHassan Khatoonabadi, Emad Shihab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04820

Automated File-Level Logging Generation for Machine Learning Applications using LLMs: A Case Study using GPT-4o Mini
Logging is essential in software development, helping developers monitor system behavior and aiding in debugging applications. Given the ability of large language models (LLMs) to generate natural language and code, researchers are exploring their potential to generate log statements. However, prior work focuses on evaluating logs introduced in code functions, leaving file-level log generation underexplored -- especially in machine learning (ML) applications, where comprehensive logging can enh…


The Republican House will soon be forced into the position of issuing a subpoena for the voluminous criminal file on deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein
— putting the Trump administration in the equally uncomfortable position of deciding how to respond.

Three Republicans joined Democrats this week in voting to subpoena the records from the Justice Department,
as well as to demand testimony from prominent figures from Republican and Democratic administrations
as …

A House panel must subpoena the Epstein files. Here’s what to know.
As chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) is obligated, under House rules, to issue the subpoena to the Justice Department. But he has not said when he will do so.

Our new corporate owners' IT rules have changed the #retentionpolicy on Microsoft #Teams. Instead of years, now two months.
I relish screams of "oh no the IMPORTANT FILE is gone!" - I kept telling people `Teams/Slack/Discord/Matrix is NOT a document repository! Stop storing important shit i…

1. There is no “transgender ideology”. Just people trying to be themselves.
2. Antifascist ideology is what most of us learned in school as “being a good citizen”
#CharlieKirk #uspol #bullet

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted

gnutella: Gnutella p2p networks (2002)
A sequence of 9 snapshots of the Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing network from 5-31 August 2002. Nodes are hosts in the Gnutella network topology and edges are connections between them.
This network has 6301 nodes and 20777 edges.
Tags: Technological, Peer-to-peer, Unweighted
https://

football_tsevans: NCAA college football 2000 (corrected metadata)
A network of American football games between Division IA colleges during regular season Fall 2000. This version contains some corrections made by T. S. Evans, in particular:.
This network has 115 nodes and 613 edges.
Tags: Social, Sports, Unweighted
https://