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Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE: Snaps 24.12.1 Release, Kubuntu Plasma 5.27.12 Call for testers

09.01.2025 14:24

I have released more core24 snaps to –edge for your testing pleasure. If you find any bugs please report them at bugs.kde.org and assign them to me. Thanks! Kdenlive our amazing video edito...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in December 2024

09.01.2025 13:00

Welcome to the December 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds project! Our monthly reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month and highlight items of news from elsewhere in the...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppGetconf 0.0.4 on CRAN: Updates

08.01.2025 22:37

A minor package update, the first in over six years, for the RcppGetconf package for reading system configuration — not unlike getconf from the libc library — is now on CRAN The changes are al...

John Goerzen: Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook

08.01.2025 15:59

In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and e...

Jonathan Wiltshire: Using TPM for Automatic Disk Decryption in Debian 12

08.01.2025 00:03

These days it’s straightforward to have reasonably secure, automatic decryption of your root filesystem at boot time on Debian 12. Here’s how I did it on an existing system which already had a s...

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in December 2024

07.01.2025 13:29

Debian LTS This was my hundred-twenty-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. I worked on updates for ffmpeg and haproxy in al...

Enrico Zini: Debugging printing to a remote printer

07.01.2025 12:40

I upgraded to Debian testing/trixie, and my network printer stopped appearing in print dialogs. These are notes from the debugging session. Check firewall configuration I tried out kde, which instal...

Dominique Dumont: cme: new field in fill.copyright.blanks.yml for Debian copyright file

05.01.2025 18:09

Hi The file fill.copyright.blanks.yml is used to fill missing copyright information when running cme update dpkg-copyright. This file can contain a comment field that is used for book-keeping. ...

Jonathan McDowell: Free Software Activities for 2024

05.01.2025 17:10

I tailed off on blog posts towards the end of the year; I blame a bunch of travel (personal + business), catching the ‘flu, then December being its usual busy self. Anyway, to try and start off ...

Enrico Zini: ncdu on files to back up

05.01.2025 16:09

I use borg and restic to backup files in my system. Sometimes I run a huge download or clone a large git repo and forget to mark it with CACHEDIR.TAG, and it gets picked up slowing the backup proces...

Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE: Snap hotfixes and updates

04.01.2025 14:36

Fixed okular pdf printing https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498065 Fixed kwave recording https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442085 please run sudo snap connect kwave:audio-record :audio-reco...

Kentaro Hayashi: Tips when building debian-installer

04.01.2025 14:32

Recently, I'm trying to fix d-i Han-Unification issue for Japanese. This issue was not fixed for a long time since Debian 9 (stretch). #1037256 - debian-installer: GUI font for Japanese was incor...

Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Montreal's Debian & Stuff - December 2024

04.01.2025 03:15

Our Debian User Group met on December 22nd for our last meeting of 2024. I wasn't sure at first it was a good idea, but many people showed up and it was great! Here's what we did: pollo: migrated...

Bits from Debian: Bits from the DPL

04.01.2025 00:00

Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for December. Happy New Year 2025! Wishing everyone health, productivity, and a successful Debian release later in this year. Strict ownership of packa...

Taavi Väänänen: Automatically updating reverse DNS entries for my Hetzner servers

03.01.2025 01:00

Some parts of my infrastructure run on Hetzner dedicated servers. Hetzner's management console has an interface to update reverse DNS entries, and I wanted to automate that. Unfortunately there's no...

Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities December 2024

02.01.2025 11:54

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble. Changes myrepos: fix link OSC8-Adoption: status updates, list features ikiwiki: fix quotes ktexted...

Martin-Éric Racine: On the future of i386 on Debian

02.01.2025 09:02

Before we proceed, let's emphasize a few things: My Testing hardware is i386 simply because I have plenty of leftovers from older days. These are hosts that I can afford to see randomly break d...

Matthew Garrett: The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM

02.01.2025 02:14

As part of their "Defective by Design" anti-DRM campaign, the FSF recently made the following claim:Today, most of the major streaming media platforms utilize the TPM to decrypt media streams, for...

Colin Watson: Free software activity in December 2024

02.01.2025 01:16

Most of my Debian contributions this month were sponsored by Freexian, as well as one direct donation via Liberapay (thanks!). OpenSSH I issued a bookworm update with a number of fixes that had a...

Tim Retout: Strauss as Pop Music

02.01.2025 00:36

While watching the Vienna New Year’s Concert today, reading about its perhaps somewhat problematic origins, I was struck by the observation that the Strauss family’s polkas were seen as pop musi...

Russ Allbery: 2024 Book Reading in Review

01.01.2025 21:11

In 2024, I finished and reviewed 46 books, not counting another three books I've finished but not yet reviewed and which will therefore roll over to 2025. This is slightly fewer books than the last...

Guido Günther: Free Software Activities December 2024

01.01.2025 10:09

Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. The larger blocks are the Phosh 0.44 release and landing the initial Cell Broadcast support in phosh. The rest is all just small...

Louis-Philippe Véronneau: 2024 — A Musical Retrospective

01.01.2025 06:00

Another musical retrospective. If you enjoy this, I also did a 2022 and a 2023 one. Albums In 2024, I added 88 new albums to my collection — that's a lot! This year again, I bought the vast majo...

Junichi Uekawa: Happy New Year.

01.01.2025 04:55

Happy New Year. Spending most of my time in work and family. Kids are taking my time. ...

Russ Allbery: Review: Driving the Deep

01.01.2025 03:36

Review: Driving the Deep, by Suzanne Palmer Series: Finder Chronicles #2 Publisher: DAW Copyright: 2020 ISBN: 0-7564-1512-8 Format: ...

Chris Lamb: Favourites of 2024

31.12.2024 16:58

Here are my favourite books and movies that I read and watched throughout 2024. It wasn't quite the stellar year for books as previous years: few of those books that make you want to recommend and...

Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE: Application snaps 24.12.0 release and more

31.12.2024 15:34

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.12.0 I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! Your present from me is shiny new application snaps! There are several new qt6 ports in this release. Pleas...

Russell Coker: Links December 2024

31.12.2024 13:26

Interesting video about the hack of Andrew Tate’s The Real World site [1]. Informative video about Nick Fuentes covering the racism, anti-semitism, misogyny, and how he is clearly in denial about ...

Steinar H. Gunderson: git.sesse.net goes IPv6-only

31.12.2024 09:48

Following Dennis Schubert's post on how LLM bots are scraping the Internet continuously at full speed, I decided to take a look at my own server. If you exclude my chess site which naturally has a...

Russ Allbery: Review: Metal from Heaven

31.12.2024 04:12

Review: Metal from Heaven, by August Clarke Publisher: Erewhon Copyright: November 2024 ISBN: 1-64566-099-0 Format: Kindle Pages: ...

kpcyrd: 2024 wrapped

31.12.2024 01:00

Dear blog. This post is inspired by an old friend of mine who has been writing these for the past few years. I meant to do this for a while now, but ended up not preparing anything, so this post is ...

Steve Kemp: The CP/M emulator runs on Windows, maybe!

30.12.2024 21:45

Today I made a new release of my CP/M emulator and I think that maybe now it will run on Microsoft Windows. Unfortunately I cannot test it! A working CP/M implementation needs to provide facilit...

Russ Allbery: Review: House in Hiding

30.12.2024 04:54

Review: House in Hiding, by Jenny Schwartz Series: Uncertain Sanctuary #2 Publisher: Jenny Schwartz Copyright: October 2020 Printing: September...

Emmanuel Kasper: Accessing Atari ST disk images on Linux

29.12.2024 21:26

This post leverages support for Atari Hard Disk Interface Partition (AHDI) partition tables in the Linux kernel, activated by default in Debian, and in the parted partition editor. Accessing the c...

Russ Allbery: Review: The Last Hour Between Worlds

29.12.2024 04:40

Review: The Last Hour Between Worlds, by Melissa Caruso Series: The Echo Archives #1 Publisher: Orbit Copyright: November 2024 ISBN: 0-316-3036...

Thomas Goirand: Running a Lenovo Legion pro 7 laptop under Debian

28.12.2024 15:55

As I was tired of long build times, so I convinced my boss to buy me a Lenovo Legion pro 7. The reason is: this laptop has an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX that has 16 cores (32 threads). This reduces a lot ...

Enrico Zini: Disable spellchecker popup on Android

28.12.2024 13:47

On Android, there's a spellchecker popup that occasionally appears over the keyboard, getting very annoyingly in the way. See for example this unanswered question with screenshots. It looks like a f...

Wouter Verhelst: Writing an extensible JSON-based DSL with Moose

27.12.2024 12:39

At work, I've been maintaining a perl script that needs to run a number of steps as part of a release workflow. Initially, that script was very simple, but over time it has grown to do a number o...

Guido Günther: Phosh 2024 in Retrospect

27.12.2024 12:21

As in 2023 I took another look back at what changed in Phosh in 2024 and instead of just updating my notes why not again share it here. The Phosh developers focus from day one was to make devices ...

Kentaro Hayashi: How to check what matches linux-any?

26.12.2024 13:29

Usually Architecture: any is recommended in debian/control except upstream explicitly doesn't/won't support that architecture. In practical use case, linux-any is useful to exclude hurd architec...

Divine Attah-Ohiemi: Seamless Transitions: Mastering Apache Redirects for a Smooth Hugo Migration

24.12.2024 16:54

This week, I dove into setting up redirects with Apache to make the transition to Hugo's multilingual system smoother. The challenge? Ensuring that all those old links still worked while I migrated ...

Sahil Dhiman: Debian Mirrors Hierarchy

23.12.2024 16:32

After finding AlmaLinux mirror sync capacity at Tier 0 (or Tier 1, however you look at it) is around 140 Gbps, I wanted to find source and hierarchy in Debian mirroring systems. There are two main t...

Joey Hess: the twenty-fifth year of my free software career

23.12.2024 15:57

I've been lucky to be able to spend twenty! five! years! developing free software and making a living on it, and this was a banner year for that career. To start with, there was the Distribits co...

Thomas Lange: Happy Birthday FAI!

23.12.2024 12:45

A Brief History of FAI, Which Began 25 Years Ago On Dec 21st, 1999 version 1.0 of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) was announced. That was 25 years ago. Some months before, the computer scienc...

Simon Josefsson: OpenSSH and Git on a Post-Quantum SPHINCS+

23.12.2024 01:44

Are you aware that Git commits and tags may be signed using OpenSSH? Git signatures may be used to improve integrity and authentication of our software supply-chain. Popular signature algorithms inc...

Steinar H. Gunderson: Kernel adventures: When two rights make a wrong

22.12.2024 09:50

My 3D printer took me on another adventure recently. Or, well, actually someone else's 3D printer did: It turns out that building a realtime system (with high-speed motors controlling to a 300-deg...

Benjamin Mako Hill: Thug Life

22.12.2024 00:06

My current playlist is this diorama of Lulu the Piggy channeling Tupac Shakur in a toy vending machine in the basement of New World Mall in Flushing Chinatown. ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: anytime 0.3.11 on CRAN: Maintenance

21.12.2024 21:35

A follow-up release 0.3.11 to the recent 0.3.10 release release of the anytime package arrived on CRAN two days ago. The package is fairly feature-complete, and code and functionality remain matur...

Joey Hess: aiming at December

21.12.2024 06:00

I have been working all year on a solar upgrade aimed at December. Now here it is, midwinter, and my electric car is charging on a cloudy day from my offgrid solar fence. I lived happily enough w...

Steve Kemp: The CP/M emulator runs on Windows?

21.12.2024 00:00

Today I made a new release of my CP/M emulator and I think that maybe now it will run on Microsoft Windows. Unfortunately I cannot test it! A working CP/M implementation needs to provide facilit...

Michael Prokop: Grml 2024.12 – codename Adventgrenze

20.12.2024 19:05

We did it again™! Just in time, we’re excited to announce the release of Grml stable version 2024.12, code-named ‘Adventgrenze’! (If you’re not familiar with Grml, it’s a Debian-based...

Noah Meyerhans: Local Development VM Management

20.12.2024 15:40

A coworker asked recently about how people use VMs locally for dev work, so I figured I’d take a few minutes to write up a bit about what I do. There are many use cases for local virtual machines ...

Gregory Colpart: MiniDebConf Toulouse 2024

19.12.2024 10:18

After the MiniDebConf Marseille 2019, COVID-19 made it impossible or difficult to organize new MiniDebConfs for a few years. With the gradual resumption of in-person events (like FOSDEM, DebCo...

Benjamin Mako Hill: Being a bread torus

19.12.2024 03:49

A concerned nutritional epidemiologist in Tokyo realizes that if you are what you eat, that means… It’s a similar situation in Seoul, albeit with less oil and more confidence. ...

Simon Josefsson: Guix Container Images for GitLab CI/CD

18.12.2024 19:43

I am using GitLab CI/CD pipelines for several upstream projects (libidn, libidn2, gsasl, inetutils, libtasn1, libntlm, …) and a long-time concern for these have been that there is too little testi...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: BH 1.87.0-1 on CRAN: New Upstream

17.12.2024 23:34

Boost is a very large and comprehensive set of (peer-reviewed) libraries for the C++ programming language, containing well over one hundred individual libraries. The BH package provides a sizeabl...

Gunnar Wolf: The science of detecting LLM-generated text

17.12.2024 12:23

This post is a review for Computing Reviews for The science of detecting LLM-generated text , a article published in C...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: #45: Some r-ci Updates

16.12.2024 23:57

Welcome to post 45 in the $R^4 series! We introduced r-ci here in post #32 here nearly four years ago. It has found pretty widespread use and adoption, and we received a few kind words then (in t...

Russell Coker: Hisense 65U80G 65″ Inch 8K ULED Android TV (2021)

15.12.2024 02:40

The Aim I just bought a Hisense 65U80G 65″ Inch 8K ULED Android TV (2021 model) for $1,568 including delivery. I got that deal by googling refurbished 8K TVs and finding the cheapest one I could b...

Russell Coker: OnePlus 6 Debian

15.12.2024 02:39

I recently got a OnePlus 6 for the purpose of running Debian, here’s the Debian wiki page about it [1]. It runs Debian nicely and the basic functions all work, but the problem I’m having now is ...