Even Rouault

@EvenRouault
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Open-source geospatial software developer (GDAL, PROJ, QGIS, MapServer, ...).
Creator of https://sozip.org
My opinions reflect the ones of my employer, not necessarily mine.
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
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14749 should make GDAL users' life easier (provided the run it from us-west-2 EC2 instances...)
/vsis3/: add support for NASA Earthdata credentials by rouault · Pull Request #14749 · OSGeo/gdal

/vsis3/ and NASA Earthdata login (EDL) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Starting with GDAL 3.14, it is possible to automatically retrieve S3 credentials for resources protected by `NASA Eart...

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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
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.[email protected]/ to improve that isn't very convincing. A mere 3% improvement
[RFC PATCH v1 00/13] exec: add spawn templates for repeated executable startup [LWN.net]

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.
Interesting post in https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/advancing-future-open-geospatial-t-kartor-tvxie/ showing a collaboration that lead to improvements in GDAL, to address topics that used to be reserved to proprietary specialized commercial software. To the best of our knowledge, GDAL is now the only open source implementation of a CADRG writer. T-Kartor is an example of contributor at several levels: sponsor of the GDAL sponsorship program, direct code contributor and hiring GDAL experts. Effective open-source is all about active participation.
Advancing the Future of Open Geospatial

How T-Kartor engineers are contributing new capabilities to the GDAL ecosystem. Over the last several weeks, the T-Kartor Product team worked with the GDAL core committers to merge two key enhancements back to the open source GDAL community repository.

[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.13.1 is released

Apparently that's called Adversarial Attacks on LLMs : https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-10-25-adv-attack-llm/
Adversarial Attacks on LLMs

The use of large language models in the real world has strongly accelerated by the launch of ChatGPT. We (including my team at OpenAI, shoutout to them) have invested a lot of effort to build default safe behavior into the model during the alignment process (e.g. via RLHF). However, adversarial attacks or jailbreak prompts could potentially trigger the model to output something undesired. A large body of ground work on adversarial attacks is on images, and differently it operates in the continuous, high-dimensional space. Attacks for discrete data like text have been considered to be a lot more challenging, due to lack of direct gradient signals. My past post on Controllable Text Generation is quite relevant to this topic, as attacking LLMs is essentially to control the model to output a certain type of (unsafe) content.

Imagine what subtle instructions state level actors could inject in open source, that wouldn't be spotted by human eyes but would be understood by LLMs, to do real harm in a much stealthier way. If you use autonomous agents, beware of the consequence of their credulity!

https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/28/protestware-for-coding-agents.html

Protestware for coding agents

printMessageForCodingAgents()

Andrew Nesbitt

I would actually suggest that contributors should mail a drop of blood or tear as a proof they are humans:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1074534/

Arias: Human proof for FOSS contributions

Rodrigo Arias Mallo, maintainer of the Dillo web browser, has written a blog post with a propos [...]

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