I was not aware that one can write bad Markdown, since Markdown has such a
simple syntax, that I thought you just write, and it’s fine. Naïve, I know!
I’ve started editing the files for this bl...
I find the case of the .UA country code top level domain (ccTLD) interesting simply because of the different name server secondaries they have now. Post Russian invasion, the cyber warfare peaked, a...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 298. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Handle RPM's HEADERSIGNATURES and HEADERIMMUT...
Welcome to post 50 in the R4 series.
Today we reconnect to a previous post, namely #36
on pub/sub for live market monitoring with R and Redis. It
introduced both Redis as well as the
(then fairly ...
A long, long time ago…
I have a few pictures on this blog, mostly in earlier years, because even with
small pictures, the git repository became 80MiB soon—this is not much in
absolute terms, but...
If you ever face the need to activate the PROXY Protocol in HaProxy
(e.g. if you're as unlucky as I'm, and you have to use Google Cloud TCP
proxy load balancer), be aware that there are two ways to ...
I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of my machines.
The last one that needed this was my Raspberry Pi hooked up to my DEC vt510 terminal...
KDE Mascot
Release notes: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.2/
Now available in the snap store!
Along with that, I have fixed some outstanding bugs:
Ark: now can open/save files i...
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.
Debian LTS contributors
In May, 22 contributors have been paid to work on Debian
LTS, their reports are availa...
Debian Contributions: 2025-05
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 ...
Debian LTS
This was my hundred-thirty-first 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:
...
My Debian contributions this month were all
sponsored by
Freexian. Things were a bit quieter than usual, as for the most part I was
sticking to things that seemed urgent for the upcoming trixie ...
Back in 2020 I posted about my desk setup at home.
Recently someone in our #remotees channel at work asked about WFH setups and given quite a few things changed in mine, I thought it's time to pos...
Welcome to our 5th report from the Reproducible Builds project in 2025! Our monthly reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, and highlight items of news from elsewhere in the i...
Welcome to post 49 in the R4 series.
The Two Cultures is a term first used by C.P. Snow in a 1959
speech and monograph focused on the split between humanities and the
sciences. Decades later, the ...
As I wrote in my last post, Twitter's new encrypted DM infrastructure is pretty awful. But the amount of work required to make it somewhat better isn't large.When Juicebox is used with HSMs, it su...
(Edit: Twitter could improve this significantly with very few changes - I wrote about that here. It's unclear why they'd launch without doing that, since it entirely defeats the point of using HSM...
This post is an unpublished review
for The subjective value of privacy • Assessing individuals' calculus of costs and benefits in the context of state ...
I saw this document on running DeepSeek R1 [1] and decided to give it a go. I downloaded the llama.cpp source and compiled it and downloaded the 131G of data as described. Running it with the defaul...
Another short status update of what happened on my side last
month. Larger blocks besides the Phosh 0.47 release are on screen
keyboard and cell broadcast improvements, work on separate volume
str...
I have bought myself an expensive ARM64 workstation, the System 76 Thelio Astra that I intend to use as my main desktop computer for the next 15 years, running Debian.
The box is basically a serve...
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus.
I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
ArchiveBot:
link pending page
Debian wiki pages:
Hardware/Wanted
Issues
Crash/privacy/...
Christopher Biggs gave an informative Evrything Open lecture about voice recognition [1]. We need this on Debian phones.
Guido wrote an informative blog post about booting a custom Android kernel on...
Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you had no or
anonymized logs and still wanted to figure out where your traffic was
coming from?
Or you have multiple upstreams and are looking t...
Marco wrote a blog post opposing hyperscale systems which included “We want to use an hyperscaler cloud because our developers do not want to operate a scalable and redundant database just means t...
I just read an interesting blog post about ML security recommended by Bruce Schneier [1].
This approach of having 2 AI systems where one processes user input and the second performs actions on quara...
Here’s my 68th monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world.
Debian
This was my 77th month of actively contributing to Debian.
I became a DM in late March 2019...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 297. This version includes the following changes:
[ Will Hollywood ]
* Add a LZMA comparator and tests.
You fi...
Welcome to post 48 in the R4 series, and to
video 8 in this series.
Last week I had the honour of giving the opening talk at the 11eme Rencontres R at the Université de Mons in Belgium as
an invi...
RcppDate wraps
the featureful date
library written by Howard
Hinnant for use with R. This header-only modern C++ library has been
in pretty wide-spread use for a while now, and adds to C++11/C++14...
Debian 13 "Trixie" full freeze has started 2025-05-17, so this is
a good time to take a look at some of the features, that this release
will bring. Here we will focus on packages related to XMPP,...
I’ve been part of the Debian Project since 2019, when I attended DebConf held in Curitiba, Brazil. That event sparked my interest in the community, packaging, and how Debian works as a distributio...
I’ve been part of the Debian Project since 2019, when I attended DebConf held in Curitiba, Brazil. That event sparked my interest in the community, packaging, and how Debian works as a distributio...
I've been working on a multi-label email classification model.
It's been a frustrating slog, fraught with challenges, including
a lack of training data. Labeling emails is labor-intensive and
err...
I've been refreshing myself on the low-level guts of Linux
container technology. Here's some notes on mount namespaces.
In the below examples, I will use more than one root shell
simultaneously. ...
As a small addendum to the last post, here are the relevant
commands #debci helpfully provided.
First, you need to install the autopkgtest package,
obviously:
# apt install autopkgtest
Then you ne...
We are very excited to announce that Debian has selected nine contributors to
work under mentorship on a variety of
projects with us during the
Google Summer of Code.
Here is a list of the projec...
Each year on August the 16th, we celebrate the Debian Project Anniversary.
Several communities around the world join us in celebrating "Debian Day" with
local events, parties, or gatherings.
So, h...
In November 2024, Badri and I applied for a Singapore visa to visit the country. To apply for a Singapore visa, you need to visit an authorized travel agent listed by the Singapore High Commission o...
I’ve just got a second hand Nissan LEAF. It’s not nearly as luxurious as the Genesis EV that I test drove [1]. It’s also just over 5 years old so it’s not as slick as the MG4 I test drove [2...
This is a bug fix and minor feature release over INN 2.7.2, and the
upgrade should be painless. You can download the new release from
ISC or
my personal INN pages. The latter also has
links to the ...
In this post, I demonstrate the optimal workflow for creating new Debian packages in 2025, preserving the upstream git history. The motivation for this is to lower the barrier for sharing improvem...
I just released yesterday a new version of Corydalis
(https://demo.corydalis.io,
https://github.com/iustin/corydalis). To me personally, it’s a major
improvement, since the native (my own) image v...
In this post, I demonstrate the optimal workflow for creating new Debian packages in 2025, preserving the upstream git history. The motivation for this is to lower the barrier for sharing improvem...
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two
months:
Moritz Schlarb (moschlar)
Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior (cipriano)
Mario Anthony Limonciello (superm1)...
A discussion the other day made me remember some of the demoparty stream
“first” that I'm still proud of, most of which still haven't been matched:
Live voting user counts during the compo
(...
As you may recall from previous posts and elsewhere I have been busy writing a new solver for APT.
Today I want to share some of the latest changes in how to approach solving.
The idea for the solve...
For a while, the strongSwan Debian package had an autopktest.
The initial version was proposed by Christian Ehrhardt in 2016
(presumably especially for downstream use in Ubuntu) and updated in
201...
Mainly relevant for the few who still run their own mail server and use Postfix + pflogsumm.
Few weeks back Jim contacted me that he's going to pick up work on
pflogsumm again, and as first step
wa...
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...
We are pleased to announce that EDF has committed to
sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor.
EDF is a leading global utility company focused on
low-carbon power generation. The group uses advanc...
Dietmar Rabich,
Cape Town (ZA), Sea Point, Nachtansicht — 2024 — 1867-70 –
2,
CC BY-SA 4.0
This post was originally published in the Wikimedia Tech blog, authored by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez...
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