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Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.0.11 on CRAN: Calendar Updates

27.04.2024 23:58

The eleventh release of the qlcal package arrivied at CRAN today. qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib. It is provided (for the R package) as a set of included files, so the package is...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.17 on CRAN: New Upstream

26.04.2024 23:16

Version 0.0.17 of RcppSpdlog arrived on CRAN overnight following and has been uploaded to Debian. RcppSpdlog bundles spdlog, a wonderful header-only C++ logging library with all the bells and whis...

Steinar H. Gunderson: Continued life with bcachefs

26.04.2024 22:05

This post was supposed to be called “death with bcachefs”, but it sounded a bit too dramatic. :-) Evidently bcachefs-tools in Debian is finally getting an update (although in experimental), so...

Robert McQueen: Update from the GNOME board

26.04.2024 12:39

It’s been around 6 months since the GNOME Foundation was joined by our new Executive Director, Holly Million, and the board and I wanted to update members on the Foundation’s current status an...

Russell Coker: Humane AI Pin

26.04.2024 10:30

I wrote a blog post The Shape of Computers [1] exploring ideas of how computers might evolve and how we can use them. One of the devices I mentioned was the Humane AI Pin, which has just been the re...

Russell Coker: Convergence vs Transference

26.04.2024 09:30

I previously wrote a blog post titled Considering Convergence [1] about the possible ways of using a phone as a laptop. While I still believe what I wrote there I’m now considering the possibility...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RQuantLib 0.4.22 on CRAN: Maintenance

25.04.2024 23:25

A new minor release 0.4.22 of RQuantLib arrived at CRAN earlier today, and has been uploaded to Debian. QuantLib is a rather comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative finance. RQuant...

Petter Reinholdtsen: 45 orphaned Debian packages moved to git, 391 to go

25.04.2024 22:00

Nine days ago, I started migrating orphaned Debian packages with no version control system listed in debian/control of the source to git. At the time there were 438 such packages. Now there are 391...

Jonathan McDowell: Sorting out backup internet #3: failover

25.04.2024 19:38

With local recursive DNS and a 5G modem in place the next thing was to work on some sort of automatic failover when the primary FTTP connection failed. My wife works from home too and I sometimes ...

Jonathan Dowland: Biosphere

25.04.2024 17:15

I've been enjoying Biosphere as the soundtrack to my recent "concentrated work" spells. Knives by Biosphere I remember seeing their name on playlists of yester-year: axioms, bluemars1, and (sti...

Lukas Märdian: Creating a Netplan enabled system through Debian-Installer

25.04.2024 12:19

With the work that has been done in the debian-installer/netcfg merge-proposal !9 it is possible to install a standard Debian system, using the normal Debian-Installer (d-i) mini.iso images, that wi...

Russ Allbery: Review: Nation

25.04.2024 06:18

Review: Nation, by Terry Pratchett Publisher: Harper Copyright: 2008 Printing: 2009 ISBN: 0-06-143303-9 Format: Trade paperback ...

Russell Coker: Source Code With Emoji

24.04.2024 10:03

The XKCD comic Code Quality [1] inspired me to test out emoji in source. I really should have done this years ago when that XKCD was first published. The following code compiles in gcc and runs in t...

Russell Coker: Ubuntu 24.04 and Bubblewrap

24.04.2024 09:46

When using Bubblewrap (the bwrap command) to create a container in Ubuntu 24.04 you can expect to get one of the following error messages: bwrap: loopback: Failed RTM_NEWADDR: Operation not permitte...

Bits from Debian: Debian Project Leader Election 2024, Andreas Tille elected.

22.04.2024 14:00

The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election has ended. Please join us in congratulating Andreas Tille as the new Debian Project Leader. The new term for the project leader started on...

Vincent Fourmond: QSoas version 3.3 is out

22.04.2024 12:50

Version 3.3 brings in new features, including reverse Laplace transforms and fits, pH fits, commands for picking points from a dataset, averaging points with the same X value, or perform singular va...

Russ Allbery: Review: The Stars, Like Dust

22.04.2024 04:22

Review: The Stars, Like Dust, by Isaac Asimov Series: Galactic Empire #2 Publisher: Fawcett Crest Copyright: 1950, 1951 Printing: June 1972 ...

Bastian Venthur: Help needed: creating a WSDL file to interact with debbugs

20.04.2024 13:45

I am upstream and Debian package maintainer of python-debianbts, which is a Python library that allows for querying Debian’s Bug Tracking System (BTS). python-debianbts is used by reportbug, the...

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

19.04.2024 23:45

Time really flies when you are really busy you have fun! Our Montréal Debian User Group met on Sunday March 31st and I only just found the time to write our report :) This time around, 9 of us we...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 265 released

19.04.2024 02:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 265. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Ensure that tests with ">=" version constr...

Jonathan McDowell: Sorting out backup internet #2: 5G modem

18.04.2024 19:21

Having setup recursive DNS it was time to actually sort out a backup internet connection. I live in a Virgin Media area, but I still haven’t forgiven them for my terrible Virgin experiences when...

Thomas Koch: Minimal overhead VMs with Nix and MicroVM

18.04.2024 17:27

Posted on March 17, 2024 Tags: debian, free software, nix Joachim Breitner wrote about a Convenient sandboxed development environment and thus reminded me to blog about...

Thomas Koch: Rebuild search with trust

18.04.2024 17:27

Posted on January 20, 2024 Tags: debian, free software, life, search, decentralization Finally there is a thing people can agree on: 2023-08-28, OSNews: The end of the...

Thomas Koch: Using nix package manager in Debian

18.04.2024 17:27

Posted on January 16, 2024 Tags: debian, free software, nix, life The nix package manager is available in Debian since May 2020. Why would one use it in Debian? learn ...

Thomas Koch: Chromium gtk-filechooser preview size

18.04.2024 17:27

Posted on January 9, 2024 Tags: debian, free software, life I wanted to report this issue in chromiums issue tracker, but it gave me: “Something went wrong, please ...

Thomas Koch: Good things come ... state folder

18.04.2024 17:27

Posted on January 2, 2024 Tags: debian, free software, life Just a little while ago (10 years) I proposed the addition of a state folder to the XDG basedir specificati...

Russ Allbery: Review: Unseen Academicals

18.04.2024 04:37

Review: Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchett Series: Discworld #37 Publisher: Harper Copyright: October 2009 Printing: November 2014 ...

Samuel Henrique: Hello World

18.04.2024 02:00

This is my very first post, just to make sure everything is working as expected. Made with Zola and the Abridge theme. ...

Petter Reinholdtsen: RAID status from LSI Megaraid controllers in Debian

17.04.2024 17:00

I am happy to report that the megactl package, useful to fetch RAID status when using the LSI Megaraid controller, now is available in Debian. It passed NEW a few days ago, and is now available in ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 0.12.8.2.1 on CRAN: Micro Fix

17.04.2024 04:00

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...

Andreas Rönnquist: Status update for Allegro packaging in Debian

15.04.2024 18:10

I have mailed to a Debian bug on allegro4.4 describing my reasoning regarding the allegro libraries – in short, allegro4.4 is pretty much dead upstream, and my interest was basically to keep alex4...

Petter Reinholdtsen: Time to move orphaned Debian packages to git

14.04.2024 09:30

There are several packages in Debian without a associated git repository with the packaging history. This is unfortunate and it would be nice if more of these would do so. Quote a lot of these are...

Simon Josefsson: Reproducible and minimal source-only tarballs

13.04.2024 18:44

With the release of Libntlm version 1.8 the release tarball can be reproduced on several distributions. We also publish a signed minimal source-only tarball, produced by git-archive which is the sam...

Paul Tagliamonte: Domo Arigato, Mr. debugfs

13.04.2024 15:27

Years ago, at what I think I remember was DebConf 15, I hacked for a while on debhelper to write build-ids to debian binary control files, so that the build-id (more specifically, the ELF note .no...

Russell Coker: Software Needed for Work

13.04.2024 09:08

When I first started studying computer science setting up a programming project was easy, write source code files and a Makefile and that was it. IRC was the only IM system and email was the only ot...

Scarlett Gately Moore: Kubuntu: Noble Numbat Beta available! Qt6 snaps coming soon.

12.04.2024 21:29

It has been a very busy couple of weeks as we worked against some major transitions and a security fix that required a rebuild of the $world. I am happy to report that against all odds we have a...

NOKUBI Takatsugu: mailman3-web error when upgrading to bookworm

12.04.2024 15:34

I tried to upgrade bullseye machien to bookworm, so I got the following error: File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/contrib/auth/mixins.py”, line 5, infrom django.contrib.auth.views i...

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

12.04.2024 02:00

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In March, 19 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are avai...

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: SSO Authentication for jitsi.debian.social, /usr-move updates, and more! (by Utkarsh Gupta)

12.04.2024 02:00

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 by organizations subscribing t...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 264 released

12.04.2024 02:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 264. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Don't crash on invalid zipfiles, even if we e...

Jonathan McDowell: Sorting out backup internet #1: recursive DNS

11.04.2024 19:41

I work from home these days, and my nearest office is over 100 miles away, 3 hours door to door if I travel by train (and, to be honest, probably not a lot faster given rush hour traffic if I driv...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in March 2024

11.04.2024 18:49

Welcome to the March 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds project! In our reports, we attempt to outline what we have been up to over the past month, as well as mentioning some of the importan...

Wouter Verhelst: OpenSC and the Belgian eID

11.04.2024 11:33

Getting the Belgian eID to work on Linux systems should be fairly easy, although some people do struggle with it. For that reason, there is a lot of third-party documentation out there in the for...

Ian Jackson: Why we’ve voted No to CfD for Derril Water solar farm

09.04.2024 23:38

ceb and I are members of the Derril Water Solar Park cooperative. We were recently invited to vote on whether the coop should bid for a Contract for Difference, in a government green electricity auc...

Gunnar Wolf: Think outside the box • Welcome Eclipse!

09.04.2024 18:38

Now that we are back from our six month period in Argentina, we decided to adopt a kitten, to bring more diversity into our lives. Perhaps this little girl will teach us to think outside the box! ...

Matthew Palmer: How I Tripped Over the Debian Weak Keys Vulnerability

09.04.2024 02:00

Those of you who haven’t been in IT for far, far too long might not know that next month will be the 16th(!) anniversary of the disclosure of what was, at the time, a fairly earth-shattering rev...

Bastian Blank: Python dataclasses for Deb822 format

08.04.2024 19:00

Python includes some helping support for classes that are designed to just hold some data and not much more: Data Classes. It uses plain Python type definitions to specify what you can have and some...

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in March 2024

07.04.2024 13:56

FTP master This month I accepted 147 and rejected 12 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 151. If you file an RM bug, please do check whether there are reverse dependenc...

John Goerzen: Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas

06.04.2024 16:00

It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change...

Junichi Uekawa: Trying to explain analogue clock.

06.04.2024 05:37

Trying to explain analogue clock. It's hard to explain. Tried adding some things for affordance, and it is still not enough. So it's not obvious which arm is the hour and which arm is the...

Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities March 2024

06.04.2024 01:24

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble. Changes gt: use standard systemd usb-gadget.target SWH docs: add FAQ item reportbug: allow overrid...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 0.12.8.2.0 on CRAN: Upstream Fix

06.04.2024 00:12

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...

Bits from Debian: apt install dpl-candidate: Sruthi Chandran

05.04.2024 20:36

The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the DPL. The DPL is the official representative of representative of The Debian Project tasked with managi...

Bits from Debian: apt install dpl-candidate: Andreas Tille

05.04.2024 20:36

The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the DPL. The Project Leader is the official representative of The Debian Project tasked with managing the ...

Emanuele Rocca: PGP keys on Yubikey, with a side of Mutt

05.04.2024 15:22

Here are my notes about copying PGP keys to external hardware devices such as Yubikeys. Let me begin by saying that the gpg tools are pretty bad at this. MAKE A COUPLE OF BACKUPS OF ~/.gnupg/ TO ...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 263 released

05.04.2024 02:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 263. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Add support for the zipdetails(1) tool includ...

John Goerzen: The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source

05.04.2024 00:07

You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want to ...

Lukas Märdian: Netplan v1.0 paves the way to stable, declarative network management

04.04.2024 17:39

New “netplan status –diff” subcommand, finding differences between configuration and system state As the maintainer and lead developer for Netplan, I’m proud to announce the general a...

Bits from Debian: Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf24

04.04.2024 01:17

We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf24 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox provides powerful and user-friendly open-source server software. Enterprises of all size...

Guido Günther: Free Software Activities March 2024

03.04.2024 12:12

A short status update of what happened on my side last month. I spent quiet a bit of time reviewing new, code (thanks!) as well as maintenance to keep things going but we also have some improvemen...