Open source is the only form of communism that has succeeded
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To give some insights on my broken psychology: please don't mention that some AI tool hallucinated a GDAL option in one of your GDAL tickets. What's the point? Yes, those tools don't understand anything they tell you. There's no better way to deter me from looking at the ticket at all. I'm wondering how many years I'll be able to survive in this field if everybody is so fond of that.
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Definitely killed my X account. I don't care about potential cybersquatting.
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We really live in a fucked world. Yesterday show went well beyond all my "expectations". Faschism, nepotism, climato-negationism, violation of human rights, no hesitation all those terms are deeply adequate. Open you history book about the 30's and you'll see about the same pictures. And our very French billionnaire Bernard Arnault took park to this disgusting farce too. Those guys have absolutely no pride and no shame.
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Is there a Mastodon way of tagging (your own) rant posts. Or should I just go back to X when I'm in that mood ? 😂
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If your project depends on the Breathe package for its technical documentation, they are still seeking for funding its maintenance: https://github.com/breathe-doc/breathe/issues/990#issuecomment-2597871273 . #GDAL made a modest donation to make the ball rolling a bit with the hope others will follow the move.
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I'm officially at 10 unsent emails, written today, in my draft folder with the 3 letters O,G,C in them. I'm seriously considering to write an email filter that will redirect any incoming email with those letters directly to the trashbin, so be careful when emailing me. 😂
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@mdsumner Any idea if any https://gdal.org/en/stable/drivers/raster/r.html or https://gdal.org/en/stable/drivers/raster/rraster.html are used ? Read or write part ?
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I'm never so happy when I axe code from GDAL. I guess I could remove half of the code base and hardly nobody would ever notice
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If you are a heavy user of docker build, and wonder why your disk free space is dangerously reaching 0, remind to run "docker system prune". Just recovered 100 GB with that. Be careful though in particular this removes stopped containers!
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How reasonable it is to try to replace > 600 calls to a couple functions that are potentially dangerous (maybe 1% of them are in practice) by calls to their safe versions...
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Anybody from Japan who has contacts at Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) to help sorting out licensing issues about Japanese geodetic grid shift files? This is quite annoying for Japanese @qgis users. See https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/osgeojapan-discuss/2025-January/003513.html for context
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Pro-tip: if you want to get helpful advice from OSS developers, don't start your message by saying the license they chose is a "poison": https://github.com/libgeos/geos/issues/1219
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I'm very excited by the Bash completion for the new "gdal" CLI I've worked on recently. Self-completion of creation options and their enumerated values, dreaded configuration options, files in /vsis3/ and the like:
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11563
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Our current heavy use of various kind of analyzers to cope with the deficiencies of the C/C++ universe is probably still the best solution in terms of benefits vs cost/complexity.
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Interesting feedback on experience from trying to put a bit of Rust into libcurl: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/113690440903297732 . I've been imagining for some time we might need some Rust in GDAL some day, but there are many hurdles that prevent that from happening currently. Poor C++/Rust bidirectional bridging capabilities, lack of experience from current GDAL devs (speaking about myself at least), making code base more complex to approach, having to deal with both C/C++ & Rust distribution channels, etc.
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Sorry for my shitting about OGC. Feel free to unsubscribe. So basically it turns out that PROJJSON is a "mistake". No that's a design decision. OK a decision made by someone involved into the successor of "PROJ.4 which has been to open geospatial what Internet Explorer 4 has been to web standards".
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Having a hard time refraining from violating OGC CoC. Damnit!
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Troubling coincidence with worrying news, just found @ignfrance use of advanced #PROJ capabilities (deformation model) applied to Mayotte: https://geodesie.ign.fr/contenu/fichiers/documentation/grilles/outremer/defMayotte/
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Another issue is that a number of people involved in OGC working groups seem only to do that for the purpose of doing that, or earning testbed money, and at best will provide just toy implementations, but they have no business critical dependency on what they produce. A "nice looking" standard may not translate into a well working software.
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