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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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Stuck watching my daughter's cats for a bit... There are worse fates.
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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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Reply to @ljs@mastodonapp.uk
@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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Reply to @ljs@mastodonapp.uk
@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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Reply to @federicomena@mstdn.mx
@federicomena We have a 2019 Bolt, maintenance has been rotating the tires, really nothing else. Regenerative braking means you don't go through a lot of brake pads either.

The maintenance story is one of the great things about EV that folks don't yet appreciate.
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I have heard of similar things happening at other companies. Call me old fashioned, but to me it seems that a company that judges its employees based on how many AI tokens they consume has badly lost its way.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/
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I'm back from LSFMM+BPF (and a rather longer sojourn in Europe). Still tired. I'm now well into the process of writing articles about the discussions I was part of, which is a lot of typing. In the immortal words of Ringo Starr: "I'VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!"

LSFMM remains one of the most intense, technically challenging, and interesting events in the kernel space, and this year's gathering didn't disappoint. It was, though, somewhat overshadowed by the rounds of layoffs happening in the industry. There were developers present who had lost their jobs, or feared losing their jobs, or were working for companies that have decreed that they are no longer interested in upstream development. That added to the general sense of darkness that overlays much of life these days.

Things will get better soon, right?
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Reply to @jorge@hachyderm.io
@jorge @zonker Credit-card banks treat "donations" rather differently than they treat sales of a service; soliciting donations could land us in the worst kind of trouble. We've been there, many years ago, and it nearly killed LWN altogether.

Thank you for your support!
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Reply to @ljs@mastodonapp.uk
@ljs @david And we have Jeff Law ready to pick up the rest :)
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Reply to @paulmckrcu
@paulmckrcu @ljs Weird ... I would think that a full-house model would be an *ideal* time to flee the country... :)
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Reply to @ljs@mastodonapp.uk
@ljs Certainly I did not intend to leave anybody out, I apologize if it felt that way. In retrospect I guess I should have spent a bit longer on that article in general.
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Reply to @monsieuricon
@monsieuricon what is this "snow or rain" thing of which you speak? It sounds wonderful...
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Reply to @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run
re: very lengthy response where i have to reverse engineer of the article's inverse-coded statements
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@hipsterelectron @bkuhn @lwn @conservancy Wow. I must confess that I have almost no clue of what you are trying to communicate here. Other than you didn't like the article, that is.

Which articles do you claim we have purged? You should certainly be able to point to them in the Wayback Machine?
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Reply to @archiloque@felin.social
@archiloque Well, the coreutils 9.7 release fixed a relevant bug: "'cat' would fail with "input file is output file" if input and output are the same terminal device and the output is append-only. [bug introduced in coreutils-9.6]" But the cat-related news has been rather scarce since then.
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It's almost enough to make me want to get a cat.

https://soranews24.com/2026/03/27/japan-now-has-a-special-desk-for-people-who-work-at-home-with-a-pet-catphotos/
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I see on HN that John Bradley, the creator of xv, has died:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534086

The real announcements, alas, come from sources that I am unwilling to link to.

Xv, an image viewer/editor, is one of those tools that hit a peak of usability that really hasn't been matched since. It supports a wide range of image-manipulation functions, and has an interface that gets the job done quickly. I've sort of moved away from it over the years, but I still keep it around.

RIP, John, you made something good.
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Reply to @monsieuricon
@monsieuricon @ljs I agree ... and we are absolutely unprepared for it.

I've been getting a bunch of stuff from this creature:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260321181511.11706-1-rito@ritovision.com/

Somehow I'm supposed to accept 1000 lines of uncommented JavaScript and Jinja2 - to run in the browser of everybody who pulls up the kernel docs - from a new contributor who summoned it from a machine.

I grow weary of this timeline sometimes.
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Reply to @ljs@mastodonapp.uk
@ljs Interesting, I didn't see that this entity had graduated from wanting to be the lib/ maintainer to generating memory-tiering modules for DAMON. Quite the flexible guy! And here I was getting irritated because "he" thought that sending Acked-by responses to random typo-fix documentation patches was somehow helpful...
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Reply to @monsieuricon
@monsieuricon @jani @Logical_Error I've seen a patch circulating to clue checkpatch in
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