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🔗 David Sommerseth

The #TrumpRegime is pulling #USA back towards the 60s ...

Austin Fowler was fired from #Google for working on a #quantumcomputing topics (#TQEC) and made a related #compiler being #opensource.

Google was concerned this open source work involves «people from certain countries». This is #scaremongering.

linkedin.com/posts/austin-fowl

www.linkedin.comGitHub - tqec/tqec: Design automation software tools for Topological… | Austin Fowler | 59 commentsWhy I got fired from Google on Tuesday May 27. Dear all, I've had a few days to process this, and to be clear moving forward I'll just be focusing on the business I started building over two decades ago (https://lnkd.in/gHn4sYhD), so I'm fine, but I'd like to explain how a 10+ year position at Google came to a sudden end. The beginning of the story was my desire to work on an open source quantum compiler based on the surface code (https://lnkd.in/gdyiGsnW). The associated Google group discussing topological quantum error correction (TQEC) has attracted nearly a thousand participants (https://lnkd.in/gY62gBJr), and this is fed by a free Coursera course on quantum error correction that has attracted over 14,000 participants (https://lnkd.in/gyWRdeZZ). So what's the problem? The problem is that apparently it is not okay anymore to work at Google and be associated with a project that involves people from certain countries. The whole point of the project is of course to involve people from every country, and this was seen as an unacceptable security risk. My desire to try to find a way to keep doing this while at Google made them see my continued employment there an unacceptable security risk. So what now? Right now my involvement in all things quantum is on a pause since I do not know if, while residing in the US, it is legal for me to be associated with the TQEC project. I'm on a green card, and we are in the process of renewing those green cards, so the last thing I desire is to be in trouble with the federal government. The laws on export control seem to extend to quantum software these days. If you work at an institution in the US that has an opinion on how to conduct an open source project involving people from all over the world working on a quantum compiler in a safe and legally compliant manner, please reach out to me. Without a US institution and lawyers to defend the activity, at the moment I cannot safely participate in quantum computing research. Best, Austin. | 59 comments on LinkedIn
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🔗 David Sommerseth

Linus has merged the net-next changes for the 6.16 #Linux kernel version.

This is huge for #OpenVPN, as the Data Channel Offload kernel module is now officially merged and will appear as the ovpn kernel module.

git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/k

The OpenVPN community project has also released the 2.7_alpha1 release, which is required to make use of this new upstreamed ovpn kernel module.

community.openvpn.net/Download

There is also a parallel kernel module project running, to be able to test this new ovpn kernel module on older Linux kernels

github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-backpo

FYI: @corbet @jzb @sjvn

#ovpn-dco #DCO #foss #oss

git.kernel.orgMaking sure you're not a bot!
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developer.overheid.nl

📰 Nieuwe homepage!

Wij hebben afgelopen maanden hard gewerkt aan nieuwe features zoals de zoekfunctie en het blokken-overzicht.

Dit alles met als doel om jou als developer zo snel mogelijk bij het juiste artikel te krijgen.

Wat vinden jullie van de nieuwe thema's? Missen jullie nog artikelen of tools?

Als dat zo is nodigen we jullie uit om een issue in te schieten:
github.com/developer-overheid-

Andere manieren van bijdragen vind je hier: developer.overheid.nl/contribu

De nieuwe homepage van developer.overheid.nl.
#oss#developerportal
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Matthias

@mvexel@en.osm.town I found the community around #Codeberg to be much more welcoming and the project itself to be very much worth supporting.
It not only has a familiar interface that is more aligned with #GitHub and #GitLab, which many people might be used to, but it also provides a lot of options for more technical users (like CI).

It offers an easy way to migrate from existing #Git forges and mirror them back in case you still want to keep your #OSS accessible on the former platform. I did this with most of my GitHub repos and bow only use GH if I want to contribute to other projects which are still on there.

Codeberg really is just a branded #ForgeJo instance so everything about it is #OpenSource.

Also, the community as well as the German NGO behind Codeberg itself and the way they have communicated with their members since I had become one, has been great!

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