@jaredwhite Haha, not yet. They were sad about the wasted time and tokens.

If you maintain or work on a codebase related to @cwl please consider filling out this survey about Open Standards participation by F/OSS maintainers https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/116056808593765766
For the question "Which SDO(s)?", select "Other" and write "Common Workflow Language project"

Sadly relevant to me today, I just had to turn down a large LLM assisted contribution to one of the projects I'm a maintainer for. While it was disclosed as being a port from another code base with a compatible license, I thought the porting was done by hand and not by 'bot.

https://zomglol.wtf/@jamie/116059523957674208

We are not powerless! Last month, the administration reversed massive cuts to to SAMHSA and CDC after public and congressional outcry. We can do that again. Call your representatives!

4/4

#CDC #PublicHealth

This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

How to disable the “Agents” tab in your GitHub repositories: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/185364#discussioncomment-15623590

via https://bsky.app/profile/rschristian.dev/post/3mdmhbggyak2s

Dear FOSS Community 👋,

I’m researching Open Source funds and support programs that directly pay FOSS maintainers or contributors (not just offering mentorship), similar to the Fellowship program by @sovtechfund

I’m especially looking for programs that:
- are aimed at FOSS maintainers or contributors (not only students),
- focus on paid support and
- offer funding for at least 3 months.

If you know of any funds, organizations, or initiatives like this, please comment (or boost). Thanks :)

As requested, here is a @freexian hosted `.deb` repository for gcc-16 (snapshot 20260119) backported to Debian Trixie (the current stable Debian release) for amd64 and arm64: https://deb.debusine.debian.net/debian/r-crusoe-gcc-16-debian-13-trixie/
List of packages available: https://debusine.debian.net/debian/r-crusoe-gcc-16-debian-13-trixie/collection/debian:suite/trixie-gcc-16-debian-13-trixie/search/?category=debian:binary-package
Need additional architectures, or the cross-compilers? Just ask!

Packaging source is managed at https://salsa.debian.org/crusoe/gcc/-/tree/trixie-gcc-16

1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software (#TagTeam) on which it runs.

Details in this Google doc:
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

Contact me <peter.suber@gmail.com> if you have any questions or any level of interest.

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenSource #ScholComm

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The compiler crash I found: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123584

I'm getting better at making reduced test cases, so please ask if you want help!

The development of GCC version 16 is in Stage 4, so a release candidate is likely in April.

Now is a great time to test your project against this new compiler! With SIMDe I found a new crash, and I'm likely to make another bug report.

Reporting bugs in compilers early means they get fixed before official release, and then you don't have to carry a workaround for the bug.

To assist with testing on popular CI services, I backported packages of a recent GCC-16 snapshot to Ubuntu 24.04 (including the cross compilers): https://launchpad.net/~misterc/+archive/ubuntu/gcc-snapshot-latest-lts

More about GCC-16 status: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2026-January/247347.html

Official Debian Experimental packages for gcc-16 https://packages.debian.org/experimental/gcc-16

Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute packages for gcc-16 https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test

I can make backports to Debian stable or more recent Ubuntu releases, just ask me!

@nilesh happy anniversary!

Turns out German farmers grew too much potatoes last year, so now all the extra potatoes have to be consumed (the alternative is just burning them for biodiesel).
This means free potatoes for everyone in Berlin! :boost_ok:
They accept applications for batches over 1 ton until Monday; and also on Thursday and Friday there will be multiple distribution points across Berlin for picking up smaller amounts for personal consumption, measured in kilos.
https://www.4000-tonnen.de

De Capitani, C., ‘Rainbow Families and the Right to Freedom of Movement – the V.М.А.v Stolichna Obshtina, Rayon “Pancharevo” Case’ (EU Law Analysis, 11 January 2022) <http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/01/rainbow-families-and-right-to-freedom.html>

@j2 @smveerman Huzzah!

#SigStore / #PyPI attestations: #PGP is hard! We must invent a new signing scheme that's so much easier on users.

The tools, after I've spent hours *integrating* them into #Gentoo, and getting them working for everything before:
* Verifying google_auth-2.46.0.tar.gz ...
Provenance signed by a Google Cloud account, but no service account provided; use '--gcp-service-account'

Yeah, I'm sure that's *so much simpler* than PGP.

#security

@j2 @smveerman still illegal, but it doesn't solve your situation; sorry!

@j2 @smveerman that is super illegal! https://finance.ec.europa.eu/consumer-finance-and-payments/payment-services/payment-services/iban-discrimination_en

new (review/position) paper: "Challenges and Future Directions in Assessing the Quality and Completeness of Advanced Materials Safety Data for Re‐Usability: A Position Paper From the Nanosafety Community" https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202500567

"While the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable) principles aim to promote data re-use, they do not address data quality, essential for data re-use for advancing sustainable and safe innovation."

Is there such a miracle as funding for a "roll your own" PhD in EU, UK, Canada, NZ?

I'm finding that most funded PhDs in plant science are slanted towards computation (either bioinformatics or remote sensing or AI) and that's not my forte nor my interest. I'd really like to be able to construct a research topic of my own given I'm not finding what I'm hoping for in advertised PhDs.

I'll never know if I don't ask, right?

#AcademicChatter #Science #PlantScience #Botany #Pomology