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"Wreck-less (folk)" added today to the pre-release tracks on Mirlo for my upcoming folk album, HOW TO RISE AND KEEP RISING
#folksong #PreviewRelease

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

The CSA releases Matter 1.4.2 to improve reliability, stability, and cross-platform coordination, like Wi-Fi-only commissioning to cut its Bluetooth dependency (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/matter/757179/matter-1…

Matter’s latest update doubles down on stability and pushes the platforms to play better together
Updates to how Wi-Fi routers work in Matter, how devices connect to the network, and the addition of Wi-Fi commissioning arrive with the latest Matter spec.

Syncthing V2 is out!
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases/tag/v2.0.0
Of all the open source projects I use, this is by far the most useful AND has the most friendly community. Funny how those things go together. If you are at all interested in decouplin…

Release v2.0.0 · syncthing/syncthing
⚠️ First 2.0 release ⚠️ This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏 Major changes in 2.0 Database backend switched from LevelDB to SQ...

I’m getting the distinct sense nobody at Google saw this. Or at least nobody with authority. So if you work there, forward it to your boss.
“My Request to Google on Accessibility”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html…

My Request to Google on Accessibility
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request. My Request Please, if your team cannot explain how the thing satisfies all WCAG Success…

I'm already looking forward to OpenBSD 7.8. KDE 6.4.5 has been announced in the preliminary release notes. Rafael Sadowski previously did a stellar job (with others of course) in porting 6 to OpenBSD, wonder how far they've gotten until now.
#openbsd

When Openness Fails: Lessons from System Safety for Assessing Openness in AI
Tamara Paris, Shalaleh Rismani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10732 https://arxiv.…

When Openness Fails: Lessons from System Safety for Assessing Openness in AI
Most frameworks for assessing the openness of AI systems use narrow criteria such as availability of data, model, code, documentation, and licensing terms. However, to evaluate whether the intended effects of openness - such as democratization and autonomy - are realized, we need a more holistic approach that considers the context of release: who will reuse the system, for what purposes, and under what conditions. To this end, we adapt five lessons from system safety that offer guidance on how …

Testing 1-2-3. Testing 1-2-3.
You grab that iso. New release, KDE 6.4.5 on an immutable Gentoo. Interesting! No wifi enabled ootb? What? 2014? Yes, I know I can. I even know how. But I won't.
2nd one. Reinstall previously used. All well, until i add 3 regular applications. Desktop files (/usr/share/applications) are installed, but don't link to the correct applications at all.Yes, I know I can. I even know how. But I won't.
QA is a lost art and the rise of alph…

#ChatGPT5, it appears, is full of shit.
"#OpenAI’s products are no longer primarily aimed at consumers but at investors. As long as you avoid a full-scale user revolt (which GPT-5 actually did incur…), you can continue to assuage or even attract more backers on your path of relentless e…

GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?
How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.

How much are LLMs changing the language of academic papers after ChatGPT? A multi-database and full text analysis
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09596 h…

How much are LLMs changing the language of academic papers after ChatGPT? A multi-database and full text analysis
This study investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) are influencing the language of academic papers by tracking 12 LLM-associated terms across six major scholarly databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), Dimensions, and OpenAlex) from 2015 to 2024. Using over 2.4 million PMC open-access publications (2021-July 2025), we also analysed full texts to assess changes in the frequency and co-occurrence of these terms before and after ChatGPT's initial public release. Acro…

🎸 BAND-MAID's MIKU Kobato Talks About the Future and How the Band Decides on Album Names
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-07-23/band-maid-miku-kobato-talks-about-the-future-a…

BAND-MAID's MIKU Kobato Talks About the Future and How the Band Decides on Album Names
BAND-MAID is hot off a successful tour and following the recent release of their latest song "What is justice?," we spoke to MIKU about what's next.

The Ultimate Guide to #Git Branching Strategies
https://blog.prateekjain.dev/the-ultimate-guide-to-git-branching-…

"Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in"
' “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.'
And how many Democratic senator…

"Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in"
' “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.'
And how many Democratic senator…

Seen on the NordVPN Linux page. All links but one work. "How to disable IPv6 on Linux" is 404. Couldn't have said it better myself.
#IPv6

"Trump is systematically corrupting our system of justice."
"…Trump’s DOJ simply ignores 35% of substantive rulings in key cases."
"…he…refuses to release federal Epstein files…because they could show just how close the relationship really was."
https://

Behind the Headlines: How Trump Hijacked Justice
From judges to lawyers to media, Trump’s war on justice escalates.

how to make 1 gajillion dollars https://variety.com/2025/film/global/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-final-concert-film-release-2026-1236464523/
(still totally going to see that at a cinema)

Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath's Final Concert Film to Release in 2026
A film of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's final concert, titled "Back to the Beginning: Ozzy's Final Bow," will release in theaters early 2026.

Take-Two reports Q1 net bookings up 17% YoY to $1.42B, net revenue up 12% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.32B est., and raises its FY 2026 net bookings projection (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/take-two-gta-6-pricing-debate-june…

Take-Two Boss on 'GTA 6' Pricing Debate, Latest Earnings
With the "Grand Theft Auto 6" release date no longer in question, exactly how much is this game going to cost?

How-To Use My Release Page – Fun Features #indiemusic #music #originalmusic

How-To Use My Release Page - Fun Features
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

- Don’t overlook how misogyny amplifies the harm of this breach: user base is mostly female, and one can’t understand how this release of photos personal info home addresses carries threats of harassment, assault, and violence without understanding how our society targets women. In a very concrete sense, you need gender theory to understand the practical security implications here.
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Explaining Christian Wilkins' Raiders release: What happened, how do the finances work, and what's next?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/explain…

100% I've never seen graphical glitches this prevalent on any Apple software since I started using MacOS in 2003. Definitely the glitchiest iOS I've ever seen. @… https://pdx.social/@louie/115280388834

“In fact, our new research shows that with the right coordination, cities can transform from energy consumers into flexible energy hubs able to store energy and release it as necessary. This would make it possible to avoid billions of dollars worth of grid upgrades.”
https://

How EVs and electric water heaters are turning cities into giant batteries
Electrification means more demand on the grid. Smart charging of EVs and electric hot water systems could be the solution.

When you are a 52-year old human, every day is Christmas!
https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.2-released/

Swift 6.2 Released
We’re excited to announce Swift 6.2, a release aimed at making every Swift developer more productive, regardless of where or how you write code. From improved tooling and libraries to enhancements in concurrency and performance, Swift 6.2 delivers a broad set of features designed for real-world development at every layer of the software stack.

A Cartography of Open Collaboration in Open Source AI: Mapping Practices, Motivations, and Governance in 14 Open Large Language Model Projects
Johan Lin{\aa}ker, Cailean Osborne, Jennifer Ding, Ben Burtenshaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25397

A Cartography of Open Collaboration in Open Source AI: Mapping Practices, Motivations, and Governance in 14 Open Large Language Model Projects
The proliferation of open large language models (LLMs) is fostering a vibrant ecosystem of research and innovation in artificial intelligence (AI). However, the methods of collaboration used to develop open LLMs both before and after their public release have not yet been comprehensively studied, limiting our understanding of how open LLM projects are initiated, organized, and governed as well as what opportunities there are to foster this ecosystem even further. We address this gap through an …

If — heaven willing — we are in for months and years of sustained protests, we are going to be hearing a whole lots from police about how protestors were “assaulting officers” and “resisting arrest.”
We will unfortunately be hearing about people detained under violent and inhumane conditions “suffering medical distress.”
Please learn to spot the BS right away, from that very first press release, •before• there’s video. Practice that now. Have that mindset at the ready.
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Apparently the absurd timeline cuts both ways. I'm excited to see how this plays out.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/republicans-jeffrey-epstein-files-release

I make a LOT of music, but every time I wanna release some, I can't decide how :') or how to promote #music #art

Explaining Christian Wilkins' grievance against Raiders after his abrupt release https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6515836/2025/07/26/christian-wilkins-grievance-raiders-nflpa/

How does the chemical composition of solids influence the formation of planetesimals?
Konstantinos Odysseas Xenos, Bertram Bitsch, Geoffrey Andama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12864

How does the chemical composition of solids influence the formation of planetesimals?
The formation of planetesimals is a necessary step in the formation of planets. While several mechanisms have been proposed, a local dust-to-gas ratio above unity is a strong requirement to trigger the collapse of pebble clouds into planetesimals. A prime location for this is the water-ice line, where large water-rich pebbles evaporate and release their smaller silicate cores. This enhances the local dust-to-gas ratio due to the different inward drift speeds of large and small pebbles. Previous…

The party whose base believes there's a secret network of politically-connected child-abusers... should probably avoid these headlines.

Explaining Christian Wilkins' grievance against Raiders after his abrupt release https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6515836/2025/07/26/christian-wilkins-grievance-raiders-nflpa/

Functionally-graded drug delivery systems with binding reactions: analytical and stochastic approaches for the fraction of drug released
Obi A. Carwood, Elliot J. Carr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19510 …

Functionally-graded drug delivery systems with binding reactions: analytical and stochastic approaches for the fraction of drug released
Mathematical modelling and computer simulation are increasingly being used alongside experiments to help optimise and guide the design of drug delivery systems. Recent drug delivery research has (i) highlighted the advantages of drug delivery systems constructed using functionally graded materials to achieve target release rates and desired dosage levels over time; and (ii) revealed how it is possible for drug to bind to the carrier material and become irreversibly immobilised within the system…

As expected, they've fallen for it, again.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/18/this-is-a-much-better-place-wsj-bombshell-unites-a-frayed-maga-00464182

Gravitational Waves from First-Order Phase Transitions Assisted by Temperature-Enhanced Scatterings
Arnab Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13135 https:…

Gravitational Waves from First-Order Phase Transitions Assisted by Temperature-Enhanced Scatterings
Scatterings whose cross sections increase as the cosmic temperature decreases, known as temperature-enhanced scatterings, can have a significant impact on the thermal effective potential of scalar fields responsible for driving cosmological first-order phase transitions. In this work, we systematically investigate how the inclusion of temperature-dependent corrections to the effective potential affects key phase transition parameters, including the nucleation temperature, latent heat release, a…

If you're writing a library, you should really avoid #CMake. CMake is designed to lock you in. As in, once you release a #FreeSoftware project using CMake, you can't switch to another build system with causing real trouble to your users. And if you support multiple build systems, as soon as you start supporting CMake, some of your users are going to start locking everyone else in.
That's because CMake uses a custom package discovery mechanism that's hardly compatible with anything else, and that is so complex that it's very hard to reimplement it with any other build system. So when others start relying on the CMake config files being installed (and they naturally will, since that's how CMake does things), you can't stop installing them without actually breaking stuff. And if you want to preserve them without actually using CMake, well, good luck with that.
And if CMake is one of the options you support, then some of your consumers will accidentally start relying on it anyway. And this will be much worse for everyone, because now their projects won't work for people who build your project with any other build system. Which in turn will force more projects to use CMake anyway. Which in turn will make more people rely on CMake being used…
Use #Meson as the build system, it's clean and not designed to lock you in. Use pkg-config for library data; it's simple and portable.
#OpenSource

Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense
Auriane Egal, Denis Vida, Fran\c{c}ois Colas, Brigitte Zanda, Sylvain Bouley, Asma Steinhausser, Pierre Vernazza, Ludovic Ferri\`ere, J\'er\^ome Gattacceca, Mirel Birlan, J\'er\'emie Vaubaillon, Karl Antier, Simon Anghel, Josselin Desmars, K\'evin Bailli\'e, Lucie Maquet, S\'ebastien Bouquillon, Adrien Malgoyre, Simon Jeanne, Ji\v{r}i Borovi\v{c}ka, Pavel Spurn\'y, Hadrien A.…

Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense
Mitigation of the threat from airbursting asteroids requires an understanding of the potential risk they pose for the ground. How asteroids release their kinetic energy in the atmosphere is not well understood due to the rarity of significant impacts. Ordinary chondrites, in particular L chondrites, represent a frequent type of Earth-impacting asteroids. Here, we present the first comprehensive, space-to-lab characterization of an L chondrite impact. Small asteroid 2023 CX1 was detected in spac…