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Dirk Eddelbuettel: littler 0.3.21 on CRAN: Lots Moar Features!

25.03.2025 19:58

The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in the now nineteen year history (!!) as a (initially non-CRAN) package started by Jeff in 2006, and joine...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RQuantLib 0.4.25 on CRAN: Fix Bashism in Configure

25.03.2025 14:33

A new minor release 0.4.25 of RQuantLib arrived on CRAN this morning, and has just now been uploaded to Debian too. QuantLib is a rather comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative fin...

Otto Kekäläinen: Debian Salsa CI in Google Summer of Code 2025

25.03.2025 01:00

Are you a student aspiring to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2025? Would you like to improve the continuous integration pipeline used at salsa.debian.org, the Debian GitLab instance, to ...

Jonathan McDowell: Who pays the cost of progress in software?

24.03.2025 22:11

I am told, by friends who have spent time at Google, about the reason Google Reader finally disappeared. Apparently it had become a 20% Project for those who still cared about it internally, and t...

Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (January and February 2025)

24.03.2025 16:00

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Bo Yu (vimer) Maytham Alsudany (maytham) Rebecca Natalie Palmer (mpalmer) The following contributors were a...

Simon Josefsson: Reproducible Software Releases

24.03.2025 12:09

Around a year ago I discussed two concerns with software release archives (tarball artifacts) that could be improved to increase confidence in the supply-chain security of software releases. Repeat...

Arnaud Rebillout: Buid container images with buildah/podman in GitLab CI

24.03.2025 01:00

Oh no, it broke again! Today, this .gitlab-ci.yml file no longer works in GitLab CI: build-container-image: stage: build image: debian:testing before_script: - apt-get update - apt-get...

Peter Pentchev: Ringlet software updates (2025-03-23)

23.03.2025 17:54

Ringlet software updates (2025-03-23)Recent initial releases of [Ringlet software][r-site] (a fancy name for my pet projects):[docker-scry][r-docker-scry] version [0.1.0][r-docker-scry-0.1.0] - exam...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppZiggurat 0.1.7 on CRAN: New Generators, Many Updates

22.03.2025 18:25

A new release 0.1.7 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R. This marks the first release in four and a half years. The RcppZiggurat package updates the code for the Ziggurat generator b...

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

22.03.2025 17:30

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 ...

Antoine Beaupré: Losing the war for the free internet

22.03.2025 05:25

Warning: this is a long ramble I wrote after an outage of my home internet. You'll get your regular scheduled programming shortly. I didn't realize this until relatively recently, but we're at war....

Antoine Beaupré: Minor outage at Teksavvy business

22.03.2025 05:25

This morning, internet was down at home. The last time I had such an issue was in February 2023, when my provider was Oricom. Now I'm with a business service at Teksavvy Internet (TSI), in which I p...

Jamie McClelland: AI's Actual Impact

21.03.2025 13:27

Two years after OpenAI launched ChatGPT 3.5, humanity is not on the cusp of extinction and Elon Musk seems more responsible for job loss than any AI agent. However, ask any web administrator and you...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 291 released

21.03.2025 01:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 291. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Make two required adjustments for the new ver...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 290 released

21.03.2025 01:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 290. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Also consider .aar files as APK files for the...

C.J. Collier: Installing a desktop environment on the HP Omen

21.03.2025 00:06

`dmidecode | grep -A8 ‘^System Information’` tells me that the Manufacturer is HP and Product Name is OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb0xxx I’m provisioning a new piece of hardware for my e...

Sven Hoexter: Purpose A Wellbeing Economies Film

20.03.2025 16:04

The film is centered around the idea of establishing an alternative to the GDP as the metric to measure success of a country/society. The film follows mostly Katherine Trebeck on her journey of conv...

Sven Hoexter: k8s deployment build-in preStop sleep

20.03.2025 14:42

Seems in the k8s world there are sufficient enough race conditions in shutting down pods and removing those from endpoint slices in time. Thus people started to do all kind of workarounds like addin...

Mark Brown: Seoul Trail revamp

19.03.2025 01:18

I regularly visit Seoul, and for the last couple of years I&aposve been doing segments from the Seoul Trail, a series of walks that add up to a 150km circuit around the outskirts of Seoul. If yo...

Matthew Garrett: Failing upwards: the Twitter encrypted DM failure

19.03.2025 00:58

Almost two years ago, Twitter launched encrypted direct messages. I wrote about their technical implementation at the time, and to the best of my knowledge nothing has changed. The short story is ...

Christian Kastner: 15th Anniversary of My First Debian Upload

19.03.2025 00:16

Time flies! 15 years ago, on 2010-03-18, my first upload to the Debian archive was accepted. Debian had replaced Windows as my primary OS in 2005, but it was only when I saw that package zd1211-firm...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 14.4.0-1 on CRAN: New Upstream

18.03.2025 21:02

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...

Sergio Talens-Oliag: Using actions to build this site

18.03.2025 20:00

As promised on my previous post, on this entry I’ll explain how I’ve set up forgejo actions on the source repository of this site to build it using a runner instead of doing it on the public s...

Petter Reinholdtsen: New theora release 1.2.0beta1 after almost 15 years

18.03.2025 08:30

When I a few days ago discovered that a security problem reported against the theora library last year was still not fixed, and because I was already up to speed on Xiph development, I decided it wa...

Dima Kogan: Eigen macro specializations crashes

18.03.2025 04:52

There's an issue in the Eigen linear algebra library where linking together objects compiled with different flags causes the resulting binary to crash. Some details are written-up in this mailing l...

Sergio Talens-Oliag: Configuring forgejo actions

17.03.2025 20:00

Last week I decided I wanted to try out forgejo actions to build this blog instead of using webhooks, so I looked the documentation and started playing with it until I had it working as I wanted. ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppExamples 0.1.10: New factor Example, Other Updates

17.03.2025 17:33

A new version 0.1.10 of the RcppExamples package is now on CRAN, and marks the first release in five and half years. RcppExamples provides a handful of short examples detailing by concrete working...

James Valleroy: What’s New for FreedomBox in Debian 13 “trixie”

17.03.2025 13:40

FreedomBox is a Debian blend that makes it easier to run your own server. Approximately every two years, there is a new stable release of Debian. This year’s release will be called Debian 13 "trix...

Vincent Bernat: Offline PKI using 3 YubiKeys and an ARM single board computer

17.03.2025 09:12

An offline PKI enhances security by physically isolating the certificate authority from network threats. A YubiKey is a low-cost solution to store a root certificate. You also need an air-gapped env...

Russell Coker: Article Recommendations via FOSS

16.03.2025 05:19

Google tracking everything we read is bad, particularly since Google abandoned the “don’t be evil” plan and are presumably open to being somewhat evil. The article recommendations on Chrome on...

Bits from Debian: Debian Med Sprint in Berlin

16.03.2025 00:00

Debian Med sprint in Berlin on 15 and 16 February The Debian Med team works on software packages that are associated with medicine, pre-clinical research, and life sciences, and makes them availab...

Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE snaps fixed, Thank you for your support

15.03.2025 13:52

KDE Mascot Thank you everyone for keeping the lights on for a bit longer. KDE snaps have been restored. I also released 24.12.3! In addition, I have moved “most” snaps to core24. The remainin...

Ravi Dwivedi: Libreoffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg

14.03.2025 17:18

Last year, I attended the annual LibreOffice Conference in Luxembourg with the help of a generous travel grant by The Document Foundation (TDF). It was a three-day event from the 10th to the 12th of...

Dima Kogan: Getting precise timings out of RS-232 output

14.03.2025 13:47

For uninteresting reasons I need very regular 58Hz pulses coming out of an RS-232 Tx line: the time between each pulse should be as close to 1/58s as possible. I produce each pulse by writing an \x...

Junichi Uekawa: Filing tax this year was really painful.

14.03.2025 02:27

Filing tax this year was really painful. But mostly because my home network. It was ipv4 over ipv6 was not working correctly. First I swapped the Router which was trying to reinitialize the MAP...

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Debian.Social administration, DebConf 25 preparations, Fixing Time-based test failure in Python requests package and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

11.03.2025 01:00

Debian Contributions: 2025-02 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 ...

Joachim Breitner: Extrinsic termination proofs for well-founded recursion in Lean

10.03.2025 18:47

A few months ago I explained that one reason why this blog has become more quiet is that all my work on Lean is covered elsewhere. This post is an exception, because it is an observation that is (...

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in February 2025

10.03.2025 16:33

Debian LTS This was my hundred-twenty-eighth 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: ...

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer: Bahía Blanca floods - Mother nature says: no Nuremberg for you today

09.03.2025 19:35

Update 20250309 13:20-03:00 - How to help A friend of mine living in the USA sent me this link to help the flood victims: Support Bahía Blanca (Argentina) Flood Victims Original blog post These a...

Niels Thykier: Improving Debian packaging in Kate

09.03.2025 13:05

The other day, I noted that the emacs integration with debputy stopped working. After debugging for a while, I realized that emacs no longer sent the didOpen notification that is expected of it, whi...

Gunnar Wolf: The author has been doctored.

08.03.2025 19:31

Almost exactly four years after I started with this project, yesterday I presented my PhD defense. My thesis was what I’ve been presenting advances of all around since ≈2022: «A certif...

Debian Brasil: MiniDebConf Belo Horizonte 2024 - a brief report

08.03.2025 18:28

From April 27th to 30th, 2024, MiniDebConf Belo Horizonte 2024 was held at the Pampulha Campus of UFMG - Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte city. This was the fifth time that...

Vincent Bernat: Auto-expanding aliases in Zsh

08.03.2025 10:58

To avoid needless typing, the fish shell features command abbreviations to expand some words after pressing space. We can emulate such a feature with Zsh: # Definition of abbrev-alias for auto-expan...

Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana: Bits from FOSDEM 2025

07.03.2025 15:00

This year I was at FOSDEM 2025, and it was the fifth edition in a row that I participated in person (before it was in 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024). The event took place on February 1st and 2nd, as a...

Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities February 2025

07.03.2025 08:26

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble. Changes swh-web: block empty GitLab instances for Add Forge Now Debian wiki pages: Exploits, Socia...

Valhalla's Things: MOAR Slippers

07.03.2025 01:00

Posted on March 7, 2025 Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear A couple of years ago, I made myself a pair of slippers in...

Antoine Beaupré: Nix Notes

06.03.2025 21:44

Meta In case you haven't noticed, I'm trying to post and one of the things that entails is to just dump over the fence a bunch of draft notes. In this specific case, I had a set of rough notes abou...

Russell Coker: 8k Video Cards

06.03.2025 11:53

I previously blogged about getting an 8K TV [1]. Now I’m working on getting 8K video out for a computer that talks to it. I borrowed an NVidia RTX A2000 card which according to it’s specs can do...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in February 2025

05.03.2025 14:31

Welcome to the second 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 th...

Dima Kogan: Shop scheduling with PuLP

05.03.2025 13:02

I recently used the PuLP modeler to solve a work scheduling problem to assign workers to shifts. Here are notes about doing that. This is a common use case, but isn't explicitly covered in the case...

Otto Kekäläinen: Will decentralized social media soon go mainstream?

05.03.2025 01:00

In today’s digital landscape, social media is more than just a communication tool — it is the primary medium for global discourse. Heads of state, corporate leaders and cultural influencers no...

Paul Tagliamonte: Reverse Engineering (another) Restaurant Pager system 🍽️

04.03.2025 16:00

Some of you may remember that I recently felt a bit underwhelmed by the last pager I reverse engineered – the Retekess TD-158, mostly due to how intuitive their design decions were. It was prett...

Bits from Debian: Bits from the DPL

04.03.2025 00:00

Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for February. Ftpmaster team is seeking for new team members In December, Scott Kitterman announced his retirement from the project. I personally regre...

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer: Going to Embedded World 2025 in Nuremberg

03.03.2025 14:44

This year I'll be participating of Embedded World 2025 in Nuremberg, representing the company I work for, ICS. You will be able to find me at the Automotive Grade Linux booth on hall 4, 4-209. If ...

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer: PGP/GPG transition from 0x6286A7D0 to 0xB48C1072

03.03.2025 00:16

I am currently transitioning my GPG/GPG key from D/4096 0x12DDFA84AC23B2BBF04B313CAB645F406286A7D0 to D/4096 0xA94C9FBFA49AA7CD4F40BB9F5E9030CCB48C1072. Let's put this in plain text, signed with b...

Jonathan McDowell: RIP: Steve Langasek

02.03.2025 17:56

[I’d like to stop writing posts like this. I’ve been trying to work out what to say now for nearly 2 months (writing the mail to -private to tell the Debian project about his death is one of t...

Colin Watson: Free software activity in February 2025

02.03.2025 14:49

Most of my Debian contributions this month were sponsored by Freexian. You can also support my work directly via Liberapay. OpenSSH OpenSSH upstream released 9.9p2 with fixes for CVE-2025-26465 a...

Junichi Uekawa: Network is unreliable.

01.03.2025 23:01

Network is unreliable. Seems like my router is trying to reconnect every 20 seconds after something triggers. ...

Debian Brasil: MiniDebConf Belo Horizonte 2024 - a brief report

01.03.2025 18:40

title: MiniDebConf Belo Horizonte 2024 - a brief report description: by Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls) published: true date: 2025-03-01T17:40:50.904Z tags: blog, english editor: markdown ...

Debian Brasil: Debian Day 2024 in Santa Maria - Brazil

01.03.2025 18:39

by por Andrew Gonçalves Debian Day in Santa Maria - RS 2024 was held after a 5-year hiatus from the previous version of the event. It took place on the morning of August 16, in the Blue Hall of ...