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I was trying to package #FlexiBLAS for #Gentoo, and to be honest, it doesn't look that good.
The first red flag is lack of an open bug tracker. Apparently, there is the tracker on GitLab that's limited to "members of their group and selected external contributors", but it doesn't seem to be used much. So it's "send us an email", and wonder how many people sent us the same bug report before.
The git repository is currently at something tagged 3.4.80 that seems to be prerelease, and its build system is quite broken. Not exactly the best path to verify that the bugs you are hitting are still there.
Now, upstream seems to insist on either using vendored netlib #LAPACK, or statically linking to the system library (we don't install the static libraries). Apparently I can specify the shared libraries instead, but it doesn't work — and it's unclear to me whether it doesn't work because I'm using the shared libraries, or because it doesn't support my LAPACK version. If I build LAPACK without deprecated symbols, it refuses to load it at runtime because of missing symbols. And if I build it with deprecated symbols, it fails to find some symbols at CMake time.
Honestly, I feel like I've spent too much time on this project already, especially given that its future is entirely unclear to me — the current git is quite broken, I have no clue how many issues were reported already and whether my bug reports will receive any reply. It definitely doesn't fare well for a package that we might start to rely heavily on. We don't want a cathedral there.
https://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/projects/flexiblas
https://gitlab.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/software/flexiblas-release

How are the #Perseids 2025 doing so far? Here are the current live plots from two different video camera network data published by https://globalmeteornetwork.org/flux/ and https://meteorflux.org/ resp. and from radio echo data published in https://jpn.iprmo.org/post/flash/per-2025.html - the peak is still ahead (and should arrive in a few hours).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
A$AP Rocky:
🎵 LVL
#A$APRocky
https://benjachochang.bandcamp.com/album/a-ap-rocky-lvl-el-benji-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/787rCZF9i4L1cXGMkdyIk4

Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky unveils the Pebble Time 2 in four colors with a 1.5" e-paper display, multicolor RGB backlighting, and 30-day battery life (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/758592/pebble-time-2-final-design-we…

Here’s a look at the final Pebble Time 2 design
Pebble is Pebble again, and the new Time 2 sports a sleeker profile and RGB backlighting.

heise | Foto-Sync-Speicher selber bauen mit Raspi und Syncthing
Keine Zeit und keine Lust, nur für ein paar Handyfotos eine eigene Nextcloud einzurichten? Mit Syncthing und einem egal wie alten Raspi gehts im Handumdrehen.

This is a really good recipe. Next time, more ginger & maybe a little more cinnamon, but even exactly as written, #YUM !
https://thebusybaker.ca/ginger-molasses-cookies-better-than/

Best Ever Ginger Molasses Cookies (better than Starbucks!)
These Best Ever Ginger Molasses Cookies are better than Starbucks'! They're sweet and chewy and irresistible with a delicious ginger flavour!

Austerity is coming to colleges
-- boxed in by Trump’s cuts and their own troubles.
As they lay off workers,
cut majors and take other steps,
the changes will inevitably be felt in classrooms.
https://www.

How College Financial Troubles Could Reshape Student Life
Austerity is coming to colleges boxed in by President Trump’s cuts and their own troubles. As they lay off workers, cut majors and take other steps, the changes may eventually be felt in classrooms.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Röyksopp:
🎵 What Else Is There (Jacques LuCont Radio Mix)
#NowPlaying #Röyksopp
https://royksopp.bandcamp.com/album/what-else-is-there-ft-fever-ray-true-electric-dj-tennis-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2cTOee6bTauDFK1QuDS1BD

On Website Technicals (2025-06) - Tech updates: Junited - Rigby to Buttersafe - GPTBot badness, captions, diversion delay, under-volt, X11 fossil. #Junited2025 - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-tech

On Website Technicals (2025-06)
Tech updates: Junited - Rigby to Buttersafe - GPTBot badness, captions, diversion delay, under-volt, X11 fossil... #Junited2025

I am deeply disappointed in researchers who choose to include hidden instructions in paper submissions telling LLMs to give a positive review.
This shows an embarrassing lack of imagination. If I were submitting a paper, I’d tell the LLM to emit the review in the form of a limerick, or include a recipe involving fermented clam paste.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/scientists-reportedly-hiding-ai-text-prompts-in-academic-papers-to-receive-positive-peer-reviews