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@gnomon The latter — I know matplotlib well enough to crank out some plots, but I am not deeply versed in all of its options. This one I was totally unaware of.
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@dangillmor @Salty The story of the reverse-engineering of the Fisker Ocean firmware is an encouraging point in all of this. The manufacturer disappeared, so the owners took things into their own hands.

https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-after-bankruptcy/
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Jonathan Corbet

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An offer of "free" LLM use made to developers in the GCC and glibc communities, which are full of developers who feel strongly about free software, was never going to be received with universal acclaim...

https://lwn.net/ml/all/aac20a98-a70e-4268-a758-316ac0407a16@redhat.com

It will be an interesting day when, after the inevitable rugpull happens, these tools cease being available for use without charge. Hopefully we will still remember how to write and review code.
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And so it begin's....

"You are not a person or entity that is: (a) located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in any country or territory that is the target of comprehensive U.S. sanctions; (b) a prohibited or restricted party under U.S. or other applicable sanctions and export control laws and regulations; or (c)...."

https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.7-June-04-2026-diff.pdf

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@mntmn @Hex It's not just those bozos ... some folks at opscloudio.com asked if they could run banners on our site selling the same sort of SDK. We declined...
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Jonathan Corbet

I've been slowly working my way through _Behave_ by Robert M. Sapolsky, a fascinating book on how our brains work. Just hit this quote:

"This recalls a remarkable finding — stick subjects in a room with a smelly garbage can, and they become more socially conservative. If your insula is gagging from the smell of dead fish, you're more likely to decide that a social practice of an Other that is merely different is, instead, just plain wrong."

Life in this part of the world in the last decade has been like having several reeking dumpsters in the room. Perhaps this is not accidental.
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@liw @baldur Hey, some of us aren't dead yet! A few dinosaurs still roam, for now...
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Edited 14 days ago

Leave Tridge alone. Seriously. Just mind your own business. Various people stirring up drama, with a cohort of seemingly terrible followers. Fork it and do the work yourself, if you can think you can do better. If not, STFU, and let the man cook however he wants.

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@monsieuricon The first one of those I had scared the crap out of me...now I just wait until I can read my screen again.
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@dirkhh I don't think we have yet (yet!) reached the point where the transfer of an asset like the NCAR supercomputing center would proceed in the presence of an injunction prohibiting it.

One thing we've seen over the last year and a half is that this administration, when it runs into concerted opposition, often just backs down, perhaps declaring victory on the way. Hopefully that will happen here.
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Jonathan Corbet

US District Court issues an injunction preventing the government from tearing apart the National Center for Atmospheric Research — for now, at least.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496922/47/university-corporation-for-atmospheric-research-v-national-science/

"The Court finds that UCAR is likely to succeed on its claim that NSF’s decision to divest it of stewardship over the NWSC was “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
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@mjg59 That is quite the collection of WTF to start the day with...
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Jonathan Corbet

So, seemingly, somebody's Fedora and proprietary-forge credentials were compromised and used by some sort of LLM-driven bot to take over a lot of Fedora bugs:

https://lwn.net/ml/all/bf38c0fd4537c2908a84b4a4b1fcec8083925918.camel@fedoraproject.org

This person is now claiming to have regained access to the accounts, but it seems that not everybody is buying it.

What a world we have made for ourselves...
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@ariadne LJ has been full-time slop for a while now. Truly a sad development.
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What the US Would Lose If It Eliminates the National Center for Atmospheric Research

“I think there's a great loss for the wrong reasons. There's no good reason for dismantling this or tearing it down,” a former NASA chief scientist says

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16052026/dismantling-the-national-center-for-atmospheric-research/

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Jonathan Corbet

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Stuck watching my daughter's cats for a bit... There are worse fates.
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Jonathan Corbet

So it seems I got talked into doing a "live maintainer session" with the Linux Foundation on June 2:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/my-life-as-a-linux-kernel-developer-and-maintainer-with-jonathan-corbet?hsLang=en

I will doubtless have all kinds of witty things to say ... mark your calendars ...
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@ljs @lwn @david Somehow you managed to evade the LF photographer as well, not sure how you achieved that...

Nice to see you too!
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@ljs @lwn @david I have a couple of similar photos, chose not to use them.

The podium in that room was relatively high, leading to a situation where a number of talks were presented by a pair of eyes peeking out over a laptop screen.
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