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Jonathan Dowland: haskell streaming libraries

21.02.2025 12:52

For my PhD, my colleagues/collaborators and I built a distributed stream-processing system using Haskell. There are several other Haskell stream-processing systems. How do they compare? First, le...

Luke Faraone: I'm running for the OSI board... maybe

21.02.2025 11:35

The Open Source Initiative has two classes of board seats: Affiliate seats, and Individual Member seats. In the upcoming election, each affiliate can nominate a candidate, and each affiliate can ...

Russell Coker: Links February 2025

21.02.2025 09:00

Oliver Lindburg wrote an interesting article about Designing for Crisis [1]. Bruce Schneier blogged about how to cryptographically identify other humans in advance of AT technology allowing faking p...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 289 released

21.02.2025 01:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 289. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Catch CalledProcessError when calling html2te...

Michael Ablassmeier: virtnbdbackup 2.21

21.02.2025 01:00

Yesterday i released a new version of virtnbdbackup with a nice improvement. The new version can now detect zeroed regions in the bitmaps by comparing the block regions against the state within the...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: Rcpp now used by 3000 CRAN packages!

20.02.2025 22:14

As of today, Rcpp stands at 3001 reverse-dependencies on CRAN. The graph on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo, but excluding Suggests) over ...

Paul Tagliamonte: boot2kier

20.02.2025 15:40

I can’t remember exactly the joke I was making at the time in my work’s slack instance (I’m sure it wasn’t particularly funny, though; and not even worth re-reading the thread to work out)...

Evgeni Golov: Unauthenticated RCE in Grandstream HT802V2 and probably others using gs_test_server DHCP vendor option

20.02.2025 12:38

The Grandstream HT802V2 uses busybox' udhcpc for DHCP. When a DHCP event occurs, udhcpc calls a script (/usr/share/udhcpc/default.script by default) to further process the received data. On the HT...

Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Snaps are broken, sorry lights out for now

19.02.2025 15:17

All core22 KDE snaps are broken. There is not an easy fix. We have used kde-neon repos since inception and haven’t had issues until now. libEGL fatal: DRI driver not from this Mesa build (...

Thomas Lange: The secret maze of Debian images

19.02.2025 15:01

TL;DR It's difficult to find the right Debian image. We have thousands of ISO files and cloud images and we support multiple CPU architectures and several download methods. The directory structur...

Dima Kogan: When are the days getting longer the fastest?

19.02.2025 03:47

We're way past the winter solstice, and approaching the equinox. The sun is noticeably staying up later and later every day, which raises an obvious question: when are the days getting longer the f...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppDE 0.1.8 on CRAN: Maintenance

19.02.2025 00:27

A maintenance release of our RcppDE package arrived at CRAN. RcppDE is a “port” of DEoptim, a package for derivative-free optimisation using differential evolution, from plain C to C++. By usi...

Steinar H. Gunderson: MySQL hypergraph optimizer talk

18.02.2025 23:14

Norvald Ryeng, my old manager, held a talk on the MySQL hypergraph optimizer (which was my main project before I left a couple of years ago) at a pre-FOSDEM event; it's pretty interesting if you w...

Bálint Réczey: Wireshark on Ubuntu: Stay Ahead with the Latest Releases and Nightly Builds

18.02.2025 10:57

Wireshark is an essential tool for network analysis, and staying up to date with the latest releases ensures access to new features, security updates, and bug fixes. While Ubuntu’s official rep...

Jonathan Dowland: printables.com feed

14.02.2025 10:29

I wanted to follow new content posted to Printables.com with a feed reader, but Printables.com doesn't provide one. Neither do the other obvious 3d model catalogues. So, I started building one. I...

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2025 (by Roberto C. Sánchez)

14.02.2025 01:00

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

Jonathan Dowland: 10 years at Red Hat

13.02.2025 12:25

I've just passed my 10th anniversary of starting at Red Hat! As a personal milestone, this is the longest I've stayed in a job: I managed 10 years at Newcastle University, although not in on...

Russell Coker: Browser Choice

13.02.2025 12:04

Browser Choice and Security Support Google seems to be more into tracking web users and generally becoming hostile to users [1]. So using a browser other than Chrome seems like a good idea. The prob...

Bits from Debian: DebConf25 Logo Contest Results

13.02.2025 10:00

Last November, the DebConf25 Team asked the community to help design the logo for the 25th Debian Developers' Conference and the results are in! The logo contest received 23 submissions and we tha...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppUUID 1.2.0 on CRAN: Adding Clock-based UUIDs

12.02.2025 21:55

The RcppUUID package on CRAN has been providing UUIDs (based on the underlying Boost library) for several years. Written by Artem Klemsov and maintained in this gitlab repo, the package is a very ...

Evgeni Golov: Authenticated RCE via OpenVPN Configuration File in Grandstream HT802V2 and probably others

12.02.2025 17:58

I have a Grandstream HT802V2 running firmware 1.0.3.5 and while playing around with the VPN settings realized that the sanitization of the "Additional Options" field done for CVE-2020-5739 is not ...

Jonathan Dowland: FOSDEM 2025

12.02.2025 17:55

I'm going to FOSDEM 2025! As usual, I'll be in the Java Devroom for most of that day, which this time around is Saturday. Please recommend me any talks! This is my shortlist so far: no more b...

Ian Jackson: derive-deftly 1.0.0 - Rust derive macros, the easy way

11.02.2025 22:16

derive-deftly 1.0 is released. derive-deftly is a template-based derive-macro facility for Rust. It has been a great success. Your codebase may benefit from it too! Rust programmers will appreciate ...

Bálint Réczey: Supercharge Your Installs with apt-eatmydata: Because Who Needs Crash Safety Anyway? 😈

11.02.2025 18:04

Tired of waiting for apt to finish installing packages? Wish there were a way to make your installations blazingly fast without caring about minor things like, oh, data integrity? Well, today is ...

Kentaro Hayashi: Breaking compatibility, upgrade from createrepo-c 0.17.3 to 1.2.0

11.02.2025 11:15

Recently createrepo-c on Debian unstable was updated from 0.17.3 to 1.2.0. It introduces breaking compatibility about metadata (repodata/*). In the previous versions, generated metadata was compr...

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Python 3.13 as the default Python 3 version, Fixing qtpaths6 for cross compilation, sbuild support for Salsa CI, Rails 7 transition, DebConf preparations and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

11.02.2025 01:00

Debian Contributions: 2025-01 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 ...

Petter Reinholdtsen: Some of my 2024 free software activities

10.02.2025 09:30

It is a while since I posted a summary of the free software and open culture activities and projects I have worked on. Here is a quick summary of the major ones from last year. I guess the biggest...

Russ Allbery: Review: The Scavenger Door

10.02.2025 05:03

Review: The Scavenger Door, by Suzanne Palmer Series: Finder Chronicles #3 Publisher: DAW Copyright: 2021 ISBN: 0-7564-1516-0 Format:...

Philipp Kern: 20 years

10.02.2025 00:43

20 years ago, I got my Debian Developer account. I was 18 at the time, it was Shrove Tuesday and - as is customary - I was drunk when I got the email. There was so much that I did not know - which...

Dave Hibberd: Radio Activity 10-16 Feb 2025

09.02.2025 21:00

It’s been quite the week of radio related nonsense for me, where I’ve been channelling my time and brainspace for radio into activity on air and system refinements, not working on Debian. POTA, ...

Antoine Beaupré: A slow blogging year

09.02.2025 17:19

Well, 2024 will be remembered, won't it? I guess 2025 already wants to make its mark too, but let's not worry about that right now, and instead let's talk about me. A little over a year ago, I was ...

Antoine Beaupré: Qalculate hacks

09.02.2025 05:09

This is going to be a controversial statement because some people are absolute nerds about this, but, I need to say it. Qalculate is the best calculator that has ever been made. I am not going to ...

Petter Reinholdtsen: New oggz release 1.1.2 after 15 years

09.02.2025 01:15

A little over a week ago, I noticed the liboggz package on my Debian dashboard had not had a new upstream release for a while. A closer look showed that its last release, version 1.1.1, happened in...

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in January 2025

08.02.2025 19:41

Debian LTS This was my hundred-twenty-seventh month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: ...

Erich Schubert: Azul’s State-of-Java report is nonsense

08.02.2025 16:50

Azul’s State-of-Java report is full of nonsense, and no worth looking at. The report claims various stuff about the adoption of AI in the Java ecosystem. But its results do not make any sense ...

Emmanuel Kasper: Wireless headset dongle not detected by PulseAudio

07.02.2025 16:29

For whatever reason, when I plug and unplug my Wireless Headset dongle over USB, it is not always detected by the PulseAudio/Pipewire stack which is running our desktop sound Linux those days. But...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: zigg 0.0.2 on CRAN: Micromaintenance

07.02.2025 15:29

The still very new package zigg which arrived on CRAN a week ago just received a micro-update at CRAN. zigg provides the Ziggurat pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) for Normal, Exponential and...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 288 released

07.02.2025 01:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 288. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Add 'asar' to DIFFOSCOPE_FAIL_TESTS_ON_MISSIN...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 14.2.3-1 on CRAN: Small Upstream Fix

06.02.2025 15:35

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...

Dominique Dumont: Drawbacks of using Cookiecutter with Cruft

06.02.2025 14:49

Hi Cookiecutter is a tool for building coding project templates. It’s often used to provide a scaffolding to build lots of similar project. I’ve seen it used to create Symfony projects and se...

Bits from Debian: Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25

06.02.2025 11:50

We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use Open Source server software. The product portfolio fro...

Alberto García: Keeping your system-wide configuration files intact after updating SteamOS

05.02.2025 17:13

Introduction If you use SteamOS and you like to install third-party tools or modify the system-wide configuration some of your changes might be lost after an OS update. Read on for details on why...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in January 2025

05.02.2025 12:49

Welcome to the first report in 2025 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...

Dominique Dumont: Azure API throttling strikes back

04.02.2025 14:23

Hi In my last blog, I explained how we resolved a throttling issue involving Azure storage API. In the end, I mentioned that I was not sure of the root cause of the throttling issue. Even thoug...

Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities January 2025

04.02.2025 03:43

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble. Changes zygolophodon: support Iceshrimp URLs reportbug: arch menu fixes Debian website: add arch d...

Valhalla's Things: Conference Talk Timeout Ring, Part One

04.02.2025 01:00

Posted on February 4, 2025 Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits A few ago I may have accidentally bought a ring of 12 RGB LEDs; I sold...

Bits from Debian: Bits from the DPL

03.02.2025 00:00

Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for January. Sovereign Tech Agency I was recently pointed to Technologies and Projects supported by the Sovereign Tech Agency which is financed by the ...

Dave Hibberd: SOTA Trip Reports: Feb 02, 2025 - Bennachie

02.02.2025 21:00

This was originally posted on SOTA Forums. It’s here for completeness of my writing. To Quote @MM0EFI and the GM0ESS gang, today was a particularly Amateur showing! Having spent all weekend locke...

Colin Watson: Free software activity in January 2025

02.02.2025 20:48

Most of my Debian contributions this month were sponsored by Freexian. If you appreciate this sort of work and are at a company that uses Debian, have a look to see whether you can pay for any of...

Joachim Breitner: Coding on my eInk Tablet

02.02.2025 16:07

For many years I wished I had a setup that would allow me to work (that is, code) productively outside in the bright sun. It’s winter right now, but when its summer again it’s always a bit. th...

Anuradha Weeraman: DeepSeek-R1, at the cusp of an open revolution

02.02.2025 15:37

DeepSeek R1, the new entrant to the Large Language Model wars has created quite a splash over the last few weeks. Its entrance into a space dominated by the Big Corps, while pursuing asymmetric and ...

Junichi Uekawa: February.

02.02.2025 06:56

February. This is entrance exam season for Tokyo Junior High Schools. Good luck to those who are going through it now. ...

Guido Günther: Free Software Activities January 2025

01.02.2025 12:24

Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Mostly focused on quality of life improvements in phosh and cleaning up and improving phoc this time around (including catching ...

Gunnar Wolf: ChatGPT is bullshit

31.01.2025 19:52

This post is an unpublished review for ChatGPT is bullshit As people around the world understand how LLMs behave, ...

Daniel Lange: Seagate old hard disks sold as new, smartmontools v7.4 for Debian Bullseye and Bookworm

31.01.2025 18:42

Apparently somebody managed to resell Seagate hard disks that have 2-5 years of operations on them as brand new. They did this by using some new shrink wrap bags and resetting the used hard disk ...

Russell Coker: Links January 2025

31.01.2025 14:36

Aaron Quigley’s Everything Open lecture about Intelligent Interfaces is one of the most interesting research reports I’ve seen in a long time [1]. This one can be understood and appreciated by p...

Divine Attah-Ohiemi: Seeking Opportunities: Building a Career in Software Engineering and Beyond

31.01.2025 03:35

My journey in CS has always been driven by curiosity, determination, and a deep love for understanding software solutions at its tiniest, most complex levels. Taking ALX Africa Software Engineer tr...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 287 released

31.01.2025 01:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 287. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Drop an unused subprocess import. * Update co...

Daniel Lange: Printing labels with the DYMO LabelWriter Wireless (and LabelWriter 5xx) on Debian Linux

30.01.2025 22:00

In 2020 my company bought a DYMO LabelWriter Wireless. It is an awesome little device for thermal printing a wide variety of labels. The labels are easily available both from DYMO and from third p...

Keith Packard: picolibc-i18n

29.01.2025 22:48

Internationalization support in Picolibc There are two major internationalization APIs in the C library: locales and iconv. Iconv is an isolated component which only performs charset conversion i...