21 years ago today I wrote my first blog post. Did I think I’d still be writing all this time later? I’ve no idea to be honest. I’ve always had the impression my readership is small, and peo...
exfatprogs 1.3.0 added a new defrag.exfat utility which
turned out to be not reliable
and cause data loss.
exfatprogs 1.3.1 disabled the utility,
and I followed that decision with the upload to Debi...
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...
I recently won a lawsuit against Roy and Rianne Schestowitz, the authors and publishers of the Techrights and Tuxmachines websites. The short version of events is that they were subject to an onli...
Today, the Debusine developers launched
Debusine repositories,
a beta implementation of PPAs. In the announcement, Colin remarks that
"[d]iscussions about this have been happening for long enough th...
I wish more pages on the Internet were like Lichess.
It's fast. It feels like it only does one thing (even though it's really
more like seven or eight)—well, perhaps except for the weird blogs.
...
We’re happy to announce that
Debusine can now be used
to maintain APT-compatible add-on package repositories for Debian. This
facility is available in public beta to Debian developers and maint...
The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering]
(https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for
November.
Activity summary
During the month of No...
We recently bought some Govee Glide Hexa Light Panels, because they have a local LAN API that is well integrated into Home Assistant.
Or so we thought.
Our network is not that complicated, but the...
Boost is a very large and
comprehensive set of (peer-reviewed) libraries for the C++ programming
language, containing well over one hundred individual libraries. The BH package provides a
sizeabl...
I was wondering if there was some debian thread and noticed maybe something is broken in my mail setup. The amount of emails I am receiving seems to be very small.
...
Debian Contributions: 2025-11
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 ...
Welcome to post 56 in the R4 series.
The recent post #54
reviewed a number of earlier posts on r-ci, our small (but very
versatile) runner for continunous integration (CI) with R. The post also
in...
Debian LTS/ELTS
This was my hundred-thirty-seventh month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian and my eighty-eighth ELTS month.
As the LTS- ...
Hello there . I am a software developer and tester. Some of my interests include bash scripting , website full-stack development and also open source software contribution.
Outreachy is dedicated...
I started learning Go this year. First, I picked a Perl project I wanted to rewrite,
got a good book and ignored AI tools since I thought they would do nothing but interfere with learning.
Eventuall...
By now, the /usr-merge is an old transition.
Effectively, it turns top-level directories such as /bin into symbolic links pointing below /usr.
That way the entire operating system can be contained...
Go’s embed feature lets you bundle static assets into an executable, but it
stores them uncompressed. This wastes space: a web interface with documentation
can bloat your binary by dozens of megab...
Yeah, again three months have passed since my last (trivial) post, and I really
don’t know where the time has flown.
I suppose the biggest problem was the long summer vacation, which threw me
off-...
Around a year ago I wrote about Guix Container Images for GitLab CI/CD and these images have served the community well. Besides continous use in CI/CD, these Guix container images are used to confir...
It's done! It's over!
I've graduated, I have the scroll, I'm staring at
the eye-watering prices for the official photographer snap, I'm
adjusting to post-thesis life.
My PhD thesis revisions have...
I created the latest Wikipedia language edition, the Toki Pona Wikipedia, last month.
Unlike most other wikis which start their lives in the Wikimedia Incubator
before the full wiki is created, in t...
My Journey Through the LFX Linux Kernel Mentorship Program When I first decided to apply for the Linux Foundation’s LFX kernel mentorship program, I knew it would be tough. At the beginning, there...
My Debian contributions this month were all
sponsored by
Freexian. I had a bit less time than usual, because Freexian collaborators
gathered in Marseille this month for our yearly sprint, doing s...
Welcome to the report for November 2025 from the Reproducible Builds project!
These monthly reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, highlighting items of news from elsewhere ...
As with libvirt 11.10 a new flag for backup operation has been
inroduced: VIR_DOMAIN_BACKUP_BEGIN_PRESERVE_SHUTDOWN_DOMAIN.
According to the documentation
“It instructs libvirt to avoid terminati...
Last week I published Guix on Debian container images that prepared for today’s announcement of Guix on Trisquel/Ubuntu container images.
I have published images with reasonably modern Guix for...
A new release of the still-recent duckdb extension for mlpack, the C++ header-only library for
machine learning, was merged into the duckdb community
extensions repo today, and has been updated at...
I started this month with a week of vacation which was followed by a small
planned surgery and two weeks of sick leave. Nonetheless, I packaged and
uploaded new releases of a couple of packages:
sw...
The recent Turris OS update from 7.2.3 to
9.0.0 took down my
WiFi entirely. The wired network still works fine, but wireless is
completely broken.
Factory reset
It turns out the Omnia has an exten...
Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Hand holding the
release machinery for Phosh 0.51.0 but
there's more:
See below for details on the above and more:
phosh
Bet...
Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world.
Debian
Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here are still a few things that I worked on:
Did a few...
I am a huge fan of Git, as I have witnessed how it has made software development so much more productive compared to the pre-2010s era. I wish all Debian source code were in Git to reap the full b...
The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS
offering, is pleased to report
its activities for October.
Activity summary
During the month of October, 21 contributors have been
paid to w...
One of the servers to which I SSH ratcheted up its public key
requirements and thus the Monkeysphere key I've been using for 15
years stopped working.
Unfortunately, monkeysphere gen-subkey hardc...
The debian-with-guix-container project build and publish container images of Debian GNU/Linux stable with GNU Guix installed.
The images are like normal Debian stable containers but have the guix...
Aliexpress has a 4 port 2.5gbit switch with 2*SFP+ sockets for $34.35 delivered [1]. 4 ports isn’t very good for the more common use cases (if daisy chaining them then it’s only
2 available for ...
I’ve had a Pine Time for just over 2 years [1]. About a year ago I had a band break and replaced it from a spare PineTime and now I just had another break. Having the band only last one year isn...
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two
months:
Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras (devrts)
Andrea Bolognani (abologna)
The following contributors were added as Debi...
Another maintenance release of the tidyCpp
package arrived on CRAN this morning, the first in about two years. The
packages offers a clean C++ layer (as well as one small C++ helper
class) on top ...
I previously blogged about buying a refurbished Hisense 65u80g 8K TV with the aim of making it a large monitor [1] and about searching for a suitable video card for 8k [2]. After writing the second ...
Transferring a Signal account between two Android devices
I spent far too much time recently trying to get a Signal Private Messenger account to transfer from one device to another.
What I eventua...
Well, you are right, you can’t. At least not directly. This is well documented in many projects relying on interposing binaries, like faketime.
But what if we could write something...
Last week, our university held a «Mega Vaccination Center». Things cannot
be small or regular with my university, ever! According to the official
information, during last week ≈31,000 people w...
SLES 16 has been released. In the past, SUSE offered ready built vagrant
images. Unfortunately that’s not the case anymore, as with more recent
SLES15 releases the official images were gone.
In t...
Just like a ship needs an anchor to stabilize and hold it to port, humans too, I feel, have and require anchors to hold them in life. It could be an emotional anchor, a physical anchor, an anchor th...
A Call for Public Discussion about App Store Oligopoly
Over on the ACLU's Free Future blog,
I just published an article titled Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Governm...
It has been a long time since I published any update in this space. Since this
was a year of colossal changes for me, maybe it is also time for me to make
something different with this blog and publ...
In 2013, I finished Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
(on emulator), which I'd first played the summers of 1992 and 1993 (or
thereabouts). At ~20 years between first start and first finish, it's
a k...
I haven't posted a book haul in forever, so lots of stuff stacked up,
including a new translation of Bambi that I really should get
around to reading.
Nicholas & Olivia Atwater — A Matter ...
I haven't been blogging as much as I used to. For a while, I've been hosting my
blog on a single-core DigitalOcean droplet, which cost me around $7 per month.
It also hosted my mail server. Most o...
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