And yet another maintenance release of the tidyCpp
package arrived on CRAN this morning, just days after previous release
which itself came a mere week and a half after its predecessor. It has
bee...
Between July and November 2025, the Debian pt_BR translation team received
five students for an online mentoring program. The initiative was carried
out in partnership with the Federal University ...
Wikimedia Nederland organised a new type of event this year, the
Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026, which was held last
weekend in Arnhem, the Netherlands. And I'm very happy they did,
si...
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...
Another minor maintenance release version 0.1.4 of package RcppClassicExamples
arrived earlier today on CRAN,
and has been built for r2u. This package
illustrates usage of the old and otherwise de...
my prints kept turning into gunge
View of heatblock, with snapped nozzle
Oh dear! I've been suffering print reliability issues on my Prusa
Mini+ for quite a while, roughly since th...
On Friday May the 13th OpenSSL project has published advisory details for CVE-2026-2673. The CVE is treated as non-important by the project. The patches are only provided as commits on the stable b...
Regression Tracking
Debusine is a tool designed for Debian developers and Operating
System developers in general.
Debusine can run QA pipelines to check that Debian packages are ready to
upload.
T...
The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering]
(https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for
February.
Activity summary
During the month of Fe...
On our way to Austria last week, on March 6th, we left my daughter's laptop on a train: ICE 1201 (Hamburg-Harburg to Bludenz).
The laptop is a Lenovo X230 notebook. The most obvious distinguishin...
A maintenance release 0.9.14 of the RcppClassic
package arrived earlier today on CRAN, and has been built for r2u. This package
provides a maintained version of the otherwise deprecated initial Rc...
The Radxa Orion O6 seems to be the
arm64 device I've always wanted. Finally!
Because it supports UEFI boot, Debian can be installed with the vanilla
installation media. Neither custom images, nor ad...
Yet another maintenance release of the tidyCpp
package arrived on CRAN this morning, a mere week and a half after the
previous release. It has been built for r2u as well. The package
offers a clea...
Recently I found myself with a few hours to kill, but with the only
available connectivity provided by an annoying firewall which would
normally allow requests only to a few very specific web site...
Introduction
With various forms of IM becoming so prevalent and a lot of communication that used to be via email happening via IM I’ve been thinking about the differences between Email and IM.
I t...
What led to this experiment? Well, for one, Well, for one, there was a thought
shared by Andrej Karpathy regarding the shift towards "Agentic" workflows.
"The future of software is not just 'tool...
When I wrote about the redhat logo in a shell prompt,
a commenter said it would be nice to achieve something similar for Debian, and
suggested "🍥" (U+1F365 FISH CAKE WITH SWIRL DESIGN) which, i...
As an opportunity to rewire my brain from "docker" to "podman" and "buildah"
I started to create an image build with an ECH enabled curl at
https://gitlab.com/hoexter/ech.
Not sure if it helps anyo...
Hello world. I have been doing a lot after my internship with Outreachy. We are still working on some tasks :
I am working on running locales for my native language in live images.
I am also...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 314. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Don't run "test_code_is_black_clean" test in ...
Welcome to the February 2026 report from the Reproducible Builds project!
These reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, highlighting items of news from elsewhere in the incre...
On 25th Oct 2025, I announced via my personal blog and on Mastodon that Fre(i)e Software GmbH was hiring. The hiring process was a mix of asking developers I know and waiting for new people to app...
Now that ECH is standardized I started to look into it to understand what's coming.
While generally desirable to not leak the SNI information, I'm not sure if it will
ever make it to the masses of (...
We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has
committed to sponsor DebConf26 as a Platinum
Sponsor.
Infomaniak is an independent, employee-owned Swiss technology company that
designs, develops, ...
Debian Contributions: 2026-02
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 ...
So you want to join Outreachy but you don’t understand it, you’re scared, or you don’t know what open source is about.
What is FOSS anyway?
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) refers ...
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors.
OpenSSH
openssh: Please remove/replace usage of dh_mov...
If you want the latest pflogsumm
release form unstable on your Debian trixie/stable mailserver
you've to rely on pining (Hint for the future: Starting with apt 3.1 there is
a new Include and Exclude...
There's a logic puzzle that goes like this: A king has a thousand bottles of
wine, where he knows that one is poisoned. He also has ten disposable
servants that could taste the wine, but for whate...
Debian LTS/ELTS
This was my hundred-fortieth 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: ...
Krebs has an interesting article about the Kimwolf botnet which uses residential proxy relay services [1].
cory Doctorow wrote an insightful blog post about code being a liability not an asset [2].
...
Today I have made the tough decision of retiring the Wallabako
project. I have rolled out a final (and trivial) 1.8.0 release which
fixes the uninstall procedure and rolls out a bunch of dependency
...
Introduction
tag2upload allows authorised Debian contributors to upload to Debian simply by pushing a signed git tag to Debian’s gitlab instance, Salsa.
We have recently announced that tag2upload...
Akvorado, a network flow collector, relies on Traefik, a reverse HTTP
proxy, to expose HTTP endpoints for its Docker Compose services. Docker
labels attached to each service define the routing rules...
I miss the US more and more, and have recently been trying to perfect Southern
Biscuits using British ingredients. It took me eight or nine tries before I
was consistently getting good results. ...
We recently launched tag2upload, aka cloud dgit or dgit-as-a-service.
This was something of a culmination of work I’ve been doing since 2016 towards
modernising Debian workflows, so I thought I...
Mathmos had a sale on spare Lava lamp bottles around Christmas, so I
bought a couple of new-to-me colour combinations.
The lamp I have came with orange wax in purple liquid, w...
A lot of hardware runs non-free software. Sometimes that non-free software is in ROM. Sometimes it’s in flash. Sometimes it’s not stored on the device at all, it’s pushed into it at runtime ...
If you take backups using the proxmox-backup-client and you wondered what
backup may include a specific file, the only way to find out is to mount the
backup and search for the files.
For regular f...
Twelve weeks ago, I stepped into the Debian ecosystem as an Outreachy intern with a curiosity for Quality Assurance. It feels like just yesterday, and time has flown by so fast! Now, I am wrappi...
Hello world . I’m Hellen Chemtai, an intern at Outreachy working with the Debian OpenQA team on Images Testing. This is the final week of the internship. This is just a start for me as I will cont...
Debian Lomiri for Debian 13 (previous project)
In our previous project around Debian and Lomiri (lasting until July
2025), we achieved to get Lomiri 0.5.0 (and with it another 130
packages) into ...
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:
Uploaded ...
The Debian project releases a new stable version of its Linux distribution approximately every two years. During its life time, a stable release usually gets security updates only, but in general ...
On Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending a presentation organized
by the Norwegian Unix Users Group on
implementing
RISC-V using a small FPGA. This project is the result of a
university teacher...
National Knowledge Network (NKN) is one of India’s main National Research and Educational Network (NREN). The other being the less prevalent Education and Research Network (ERNET).
This post grew ...
Earlier this week a colleague of mine, Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias, shared a demo of something he built as an experiment, and I felt the desire to share this and add a bit of reflection. (Not keen...
Our Debian User Group met on February 22nd for our first meeting of
the year!
Here's what we did:
pollo:
reviewed and merged Lintian contributions:
salsa MR !664
salsa MR !665
salsa MR !666
rel...
I just made up a Debian trixie setup that has no need for a GUI. In fact, I rarely use the text console either. However, because the machine is dual boot and also serves another purpose, it’s co...
This is a copy of an email I used to send internally at work and now
made public. I'm not sure I'll make a habit of posting it here,
especially not twice a year, unless people really like it. Right
...
When the Free Software movement started in the 1980s, most of the world
had just made a transition from free university-written software to
non-free, proprietary, company-written software. Because...
Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for ...
The AI hype is based on the assumption that the frontier AI labs are producing better and better foundational models at an accelerating pace. Is that really true, or are people just in sort of a m...
I want to get back into the habit of blogging, but I've struggled.
I've had several ideas of topics to try and write about, but I've
not managed to put aside the time to do it. I thought I'd try a...
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