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Russ Allbery: Review: Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail

03.12.2024 04:26

Review: Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, by Ashley Herring Blake Series: Bright Falls #2 Publisher: Berkley Romance Copyright: November 2022 ISBN: 0...

Bits from Debian: Bits from the DPL

03.12.2024 00:00

This is bits from DPL for November. MiniDebConf Toulouse I had the pleasure of attending the MiniDebConf in Toulouse, which featured a range of engaging talks, complementing those from the recent ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: anytime 0.3.10 on CRAN: Multiple Enhancements

02.12.2024 23:01

A new release of the anytime package arrived on CRAN today—the first is well over four years. The package is fairly feature-complete, and code and functionality remain mature and stable, of cour...

Jonathan Dowland: jungle/acid/etc

02.12.2024 23:00

I thought it had been a full year since I last shared a playlist, but it's been two! I had a plan to produce more, but it seems I haven't. Instead here's a few tracks I've discovered recently whic...

Junichi Uekawa: Graph for my furusato tax.

02.12.2024 06:39

Graph for my furusato tax. Exceeding 150-man will inevitably exceed 50-man limit for Ichiji-shotoku. So added some rough calculation there. graph. ...

Russ Allbery: Review: Long Live Evil

02.12.2024 06:26

Review: Long Live Evil, by Sarah Rees Brennan Series: Time of Iron #1 Publisher: Orbit Copyright: July 2024 ISBN: 0-316-56872-4 Forma...

Charles: Hello World

02.12.2024 03:18

Or how it took more than a year for me to set up this website - As the computer science tradition demands, we must start with a Hello World. Though I have to say this hello world took qu...

Guido Günther: Free Software Activities November 2024

01.12.2024 19:55

Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. The larger blocks are the Phosh 0.43 release, the initial file chooser portal, phosh-osk-stub now handling digit, number, phone...

Colin Watson: Free software activity in November 2024

01.12.2024 16:00

Most of my Debian contributions this month were sponsored by Freexian. You can also support my work directly via Liberapay. Conferences I attended MiniDebConf Toulouse 2024, and the MiniDebCamp b...

Junichi Uekawa: Lots of travel and back to Tokyo.

01.12.2024 07:36

Lots of travel and back to Tokyo. Then I got sick. Trying to work on my bass piece, but it's really hard and I am having hard time getting to a reasonable shape. Discussions on Debconf 2026 ...

Russ Allbery: Review: Unexploded Remnants

01.12.2024 04:10

Review: Unexploded Remnants, by Elaine Gallagher Publisher: Tordotcom Copyright: 2024 ISBN: 1-250-32522-6 Format: Kindle Pages: 1...

Sandro Knauß: QML Dependency tracking in Debian

01.12.2024 01:00

Tracking library dependencies work in Debian to resolve from symbols usage to a library and add this to the list of dependencies. That is working for years now. The KDE community nowadays create m...

Dima Kogan: Strava track filtering validation

30.11.2024 23:48

After years of seeing people's strava tracks, I became convinced that they insufficiently filter the data, resulting in over-estimating the effort. Today I did a bit of lazy analysis, and half-conf...

Enrico Zini: New laptop setup

30.11.2024 21:13

My new laptop Framework (Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)) arrived, all the hardware works out of the box on Debian Stable, and I'm very happy indeed. This post has the not...

Aurelien Jarno: UEFI Unified Kernel Image for Debian Installer on riscv64

30.11.2024 10:41

On the riscv64 port, the default boot method is UEFI, with U-Boot typically used as the firmware. This approach aligns more closely with other architectures, which avoid developping riscv64 specif...

Russell Coker: Links November 2024

30.11.2024 03:52

Interesting news about NVidia using RISC-V CPUs in all their GPUs [1]. Hopefully they will develop some fast RISC-V cores. Interesting blog post about using an 8K TV as a monitor, I’m very tempted...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppAPT 0.0.10: Maintenance

29.11.2024 21:19

A new version of the RcppAPT package arrived on CRAN earlier today. RcppAPT connects R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, … commands (and their cache) which powering ...

Raju Devidas: Finding all sub domains of a main domain

29.11.2024 11:31

Problem: Need to know all the sub domains of a main domain, e.g. example.com has a sub domain dev.example.com , I also want to know other sub domains. Solution: Install the package called sublist3r,...

Bits from Debian: Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns

29.11.2024 10:15

Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round. Patrick Noblet Appiah will work...

Bits from Debian: Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns

29.11.2024 10:00

Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round. Patrick Noblet Appiah will work...

Russ Allbery: Review: The Duke Who Didn't

29.11.2024 07:32

Review: The Duke Who Didn't, by Courtney Milan Series: Wedgeford Trials #1 Publisher: Femtopress Copyright: September 2020 ASIN: B08G4QC3JC ...

Freexian Collaborators: Tryton 7.0 LTS reaches Debian trixie (by Mathias Behrle, Raphaël Hertzog and Anupa Ann Joseph)

29.11.2024 01:00

Tryton is a FOSS software suite which is highly modular and scalable. Tryton along with its standard modules can provide a complete ERP solution or it can be used for specific functions of a busin...

Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2024)

28.11.2024 18:00

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Joachim Bauch (fancycode) Alexander Kjäll (capitol) Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis) Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux) Th...

Bits from Debian: OpenStreetMap migrates to Debian 12

27.11.2024 14:01

You may have seen this toot announcing OpenStreetMap's migration to Debian on their infrastructure. 🚀 After 18 years on Ubuntu, we've upgraded the @openstreetmap servers to Debian 12 (Bookworm...

Emanuele Rocca: Building Debian packages The Right Way

26.11.2024 09:34

There is more than one way to do it, but it seems that The Right Way to build Debian packages today is using sbuild with the unshare backend. The most common backend before the rise of unshare was ...

Sandro Knauß: Akademy 2024 in Würzburg

26.11.2024 01:00

In order to prepare for the Akademy I started some days before to give my Librem 5 ( an Open Hardware Phone) another try and ended up with a non starting Plasma 6. Actually this issue was known al...

Steinar H. Gunderson: plocate 1.1.23 released

24.11.2024 23:27

I've just released version 1.1.23 of plocate, almost a year after 1.1.22. The changes are mostly around the systemd unit this time, but perhaps more interestingly is that this is the first release...

Edward Betts: A mini adventure at MiniDebConf Toulouse

24.11.2024 13:42

A mini adventure at MiniDebConf Toulouse Last week, I ventured to Toulouse, for a delightful mix of coding, conversation, and crepes at MiniDebConf Toulouse, part of the broader Capitole du Libre co...

Matthew Palmer: Your Release Process Sucks

22.11.2024 21:15

For the past decade-plus, every piece of software I write has had one of two release processes. Software that gets deployed directly onto servers (websites, mostly, but also the infrastructure th...

Matthew Palmer: Invalid Excuses for Why Your Release Process Sucks

22.11.2024 21:15

In my companion article, I made the bold claim that your release process should consist of no more than two steps: Create an annotated Git tag; Run a single command to trigger t...

Ian Jackson: The Rust Foundation's 2nd bad draft trademark policy

20.11.2024 13:50

tl;dr: The Rust Foundation’s new trademark policy still forbids unapproved modifications: this would forbid both the Rust Community’s own development work(!) and normal Free Software distributio...

Russell Coker: Solving Spam and Phishing for Corporations

20.11.2024 06:22

Centralisation and Corporations An advantage of a medium to large company is that it permits specialisation. For example I’m currently working in the IT department of a medium sized company and be...

Arnaud Rebillout: Installing an older Ansible version via pipx

20.11.2024 01:00

Latest Ansible requires Python 3.8 on the remote hosts ... and therefore, hosts running Debian Buster are now unsupported. Monday, I updated the system on my laptop (Debian Sid), and I got the lates...

Aurelien Jarno: AI crawlers should be smarter

19.11.2024 23:31

It would be fantastic if all those AI companies dedicated some time to make their web crawlers smarter (what about using AI?). Noawadays most of them still stupidly follow every link on a Git fron...

Melissa Wen: Display/KMS Meeting at XDC 2024: Detailed Report

19.11.2024 14:00

XDC 2024 in Montreal was another fantastic gathering for the Linux Graphics community. It was again a great time to immerse in the world of graphics development, engage in stimulating conversations,...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 14.2.0-1 on CRAN: New Upstream Minor

18.11.2024 23:31

Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately cl...

C.J. Collier: Managing HPE SAS Controllers

18.11.2024 20:21

Notes to self. And anyone else who might find them useful. Following are some ssacli commands which I use infrequently enough that they fall out of cache. This may repeat information in other b...

Philipp Kern: debian.org now supports Security Key-backed SSH keys

18.11.2024 17:43

debian.org's infrastructure now supports using Security Key-backed SSH keys. DDs (and guests) can use the mail gateway to add SSH keys of the types sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com and sk-ssh-ed...

Russ Allbery: Review: Delilah Green Doesn't Care

18.11.2024 05:20

Review: Delilah Green Doesn't Care, by Ashley Herring Blake Series: Bright Falls #1 Publisher: Jove Copyright: February 2022 ISBN: 0-593-33641-...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds mourns the passing of Lunar

14.11.2024 16:00

The Reproducible Builds community sadly announces it has lost its founding member. Jérémy Bobbio aka ‘Lunar’ passed away on Friday November 8th in palliative care in Rennes, France. Lunar wa...

Stefano Zacchiroli: In memory of Lunar

14.11.2024 14:56

In memory of Lunar I've had the incredible fortune to share the geek path of Lunar through life on multiple occasions. First, in Debian, beginning some 15+ years ago, where we were fellow developers...

Russell Coker: Modern Sleep

13.11.2024 11:10

Julius wrote an insightful blog post about the “modern sleep” issue with Windows [1]. Basically Microsoft decided that the right way to run laptops is to never entirely sleep, which uses more ba...

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

13.11.2024 00:45

Our Debian User Group met on November 2nd after a somewhat longer summer hiatus than normal. It was lovely to see a bunch of people again and to be able to dedicate a whole day to hacking :) Here ...

Paul Tagliamonte: Complex for Whom?

12.11.2024 21:21

In basically every engineering organization I’ve ever regarded as particularly high functioning, I’ve sat through one specific recurring conversation which is not – a conversation about “c...

Sven Hoexter: fluxcd: Validate flux-system Root Kustomization

12.11.2024 15:19

Not entirely sure how people use fluxcd, but I guess most people have something like a flux-system flux kustomization as the root to add more flux kustomizations to their kubernetes cluster. Here al...

James Bromberger: My own little server

12.11.2024 13:34

In 2004, I was living in London, and decided it was time I had my own little virtual private server somewhere online. As a Debian developer since the start of 2000, it had to be Debian, and it sti...

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2024 (by Roberto C. Sánchez)

12.11.2024 01:00

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In October, 20 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are av...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.19 on CRAN: New Upstream, New Features

11.11.2024 18:47

Version 0.0.19 of RcppSpdlog arrived on CRAN early this morning and has been uploaded to Debian. RcppSpdlog bundles spdlog, a wonderful header-only C++ logging library with all the bells and whist...

Gunnar Wolf: Why academics under-share research data - A social relational theory

11.11.2024 15:53

This post is a review for Computing Reviews for Why academics under-share research data - A social relational theory , a article...

Vincent Bernat: Customize Caddy's plugins with Nix

11.11.2024 08:35

Caddy is an open-source web server written in Go. It handles TLS certificates automatically and comes with a simple configuration syntax. Users can extend its functionality through plugins1 to add f...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: inline 0.3.20: Mostly Maintenance

10.11.2024 20:29

A new release of the inline package got to CRAN today marking the first release in three and half years. inline facilitates writing code in-line in simple string expressions or short files. The pa...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in October 2024

10.11.2024 19:26

Welcome to the October 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds project. Our reports attempt to outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, highlighting news items from elsewhere in tech...

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in October 2024

10.11.2024 01:26

FTP master This month I accepted 398 and rejected 22 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 441. In case your RM bug is not closed within a month, you can assume that e...

Jonathan Dowland: Progressively enhancing CGI apps with htmx

09.11.2024 22:16

I was interested in learning about htmx, so I used it to improve the experience of posting comments on my blog. It seems much of modern web development is structured around having a JavaScript pr...

Thomas Lange: Using NIS (Network Information Service) in 2024

08.11.2024 13:32

The topic of this posting already tells you that an old Unix guy tells stories about old techniques. I'm a happy NIS (formerly YP) user since 30+ years. I started using it with SunOS 4.0, later u...

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: October’s report (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

08.11.2024 01:00

Debian Contributions: 2024-10 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible ...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 283 released

08.11.2024 01:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 283. This version includes the following changes: [ Martin Abente Lahaye ] * Fix crash when objdump is missing w...

Jonathan Dowland: John Carpenter's "The Fog"

07.11.2024 10:51

A gift from my brother. Coincidentally I’ve had John Carpenter’s “Halloween” echoing around my my head for weeks: I’ve been deconstructing it and trying to learn to play it. ...

Daniel Lange: Weird times ... or how the New York DEC decided the US presidential elections

06.11.2024 10:15

November 2024 will be known as the time when killing peanut, a pet squirrel, by the New York State DEC swung the US presidential elections and shaped history forever. The hundreds of millions of ...

Jaldhar Vyas: Making America Great Again

06.11.2024 08:11

Making America Great Again Some interesting takeaways (With the caveat that exit polls are not completely accurate and we won't have the full picture for days.) President...