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  7th day of strike. 7 is the smallest whole number whose square root cannot be found as the distance between 2 vertices of a set of contiguous unit cubes.

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  More interesting use of my time than being in front of a computer.

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  Accenture pour aller taper sur les doigts des vilains employés d'Anthropic qui n'arrivent pas à controler leur monstre. Quel cirque... https://www.lefigaro.fr/secteur/high-tech/avoir-un-acces-aux-employes-et-pouvoir-les-embeter-des-consultants-d-accenture-bientot-chez-anthropic-pour-controler-la-securite-de-ses-modeles-20260921?utm_source=firefox-newtab-fr-fr

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  8th day of strike. 8 like in octogon, the name of the bar in the student residence where we dreamt of a better world.

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  9th day of strike: your last chance to join the protest before the counter increases to two digits.

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  The irony is that while being on strike and effectively doing nothing one could argue that I'm still doing something since I've been told that the role of an open source maintainer is to mostly reject contributions (especially in those LLM polluted days)

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  Au lieu de subventionner les carburants fossiles, ne serait il pas plus pertinent que les finances publiques servent à financer l'achat de véhicules électriques ?

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  0xA th day of strike

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  /me checking we're not April 1st: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Inference-Portal

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  Petite info utile à quiconque se rend à la déchetterie de Montesson: il est tout à fait possible de répondre "un cadavre" à la question "qu'amenez vous ?" de l'employé à l'accueil, et pouvoir entrer tranquillement.

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  One the few advantages of software security being mostly AI detection driven nowadays is that there is no more any reason to treat vulnerability reports privately, including reproducer. If someone reports to you an issue, 100 other people have found it already.

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  AI coding agents try so many sub-commands (rg, grep, sed, awk, etc.) that apparently the fork()+exec() paradigm to spawn processes is not fast enough when they need hundreds of spawns per second! That said the attempt at https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260528095235.2491226-1-me@linux.beauty/ to improve that isn't very convincing. A mere 3% improvement

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  I suspect the complexity of accessing Nasa products on S3 through their Earthdata login system is just to have statistics of which part of their datasets is used. Or just to annoy users maybe

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  Anyone knows which consortium has won the HORIZON-CL6-2026-03 tender (6 million euros for Open-source geospatial software)? https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-06

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  #GDAL #Icechunk read-only driver queued at https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14755

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  Is GDAL really a big beast ? It can, but you can also tame it: - Minimal build with only Zarr, Icechunk and VSI support: libgdal.so.39.3.14.0: 14.6 MB - vs equivalent Python/Rust stack "du venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/icechunk venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/zarr venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/numcodecs": 87.3 MB

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  Not promising at all to satisfy dreams, but what is the GDAL driver that you have dreamed about and that has never materialized? (humoristic answers accepted)

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  We officially got our first vibe coded pull request where the bot proudly identified itself with ridiculous emoji as instructed in CONTRIBUTING.md . Deep sigh... What a fucked up world. https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14586

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  J'écoute Arthur Mensch expliquer à l'assemblée nationale qu'il faudrait que la France produise 40 GW d’électricité pour l'IA (1 kW par personne) ) à horizon de 5 ans. Si je lis correctement https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lectricit%C3%A9_en_France, la production actuelle nucléaire française est de 63 GW. Donc en gros il faudrait augmenter la production nucléaire de 63% rien que pour faire des "tokens". A écouter à https://youtu.be/kKWOkWv6pJ...

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  17 pull requests submitted by one "person" in a hour to GitLab (by a GitLab employee). What can go wrong ? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/?sort=created_date&state=opened&first_page_size=50

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  Nothing better than preparing my #FOSS4GE2026 workshop to file new fix/improvement issues #dogfooding

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  Let's see if bots get the message: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14612

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  Wondering if I'm not breaching code of conduct writing in a OGC venue that something is over-engineered 😂 https://github.com/opengeospatial/geotiff/issues/56#issuecomment-4496478301

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  I'd be interested in testimonies of other "semi-maintainers". I consider myself as a "semi-maintainer" of OpenJPEG (maybe "25%-maintainer" would be more accurate), given there is no complementary half/75%. That is I only care about fixing issues that directly affect me/my customers, occasionally merging a "trivial" pull request or doing minimal work to keep CI working. But I'm generally not willing to dig in...

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  What am I doing ? dd if=test-dataset/repo of=/dev/stdout bs=1 skip=39 | zstdcat -d > repo.bin && flatc --raw-binary --json repo.fbs -- repo.bin && cat repo.json

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  Japanese geodetic datum JGD2011 just got renamed JGD2024. It is the "same" (same code, etc). What could go wrong ? Maybe just call it "JGDNOW", or "JGDCURRENT" or "JGDWHOCARES" to be really future proof

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  If you are a student filing low quality LLM assisted bug reports to one of my projects, I will email your supervisor (I just dit!). Besides that, I'm generally a sympathetic guy

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gdal/116353864267753547 It is so great to have community members that take with so much serious the challenge of georeferencing the Hello World picture from Artemis II. A promise is a promise: GDAL 3.13 will add that georeferencing automatically 🥳

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  The new "gdal" command line utility that will make its prime appearance in GDAL 3.11 has now a quite substantial number of commands ported to it: https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/index.html#gdal-application

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  The main skill of a human compared to a LLM ? The ability to say "I don't know" and deal with that inability