You might have seen Policy will reject signature within a year warnings in apt(-get) update runs like this:
root@424812bd4556:/# apt update
Get:1 http://foo.example.org/debian demo InRelease [4229...
Snow coming. I'm tuned into the local 24 hour slop weather stream. AI
generated, narrated, up to the minute radar and forecast graphics. People
popping up on the live weather map with questions "s...
Part
3: Building the Keystone – Dataproc Custom Images for Secure Boot &
GPUs
In Part 1, we established a secure, proxy-only network. In Part 2, we
explored the enhanced install_gpu_driver.s...
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two
months:
Aquila Macedo (aquila)
Peter Blackman (peterb)
Kiran S Kunjumon (hacksk)
Ben Westover (bjw)
The following c...
Part
2: Taming the Beast – Deep Dive into the Proxy-Aware GPU Initialization
Action
In Part 1 of this series, we laid the network foundation for running
secure Dataproc clusters. Now, let’s zo...
Part
1: Building a Secure Network Foundation for Dataproc with GPUs &
SWP
Welcome to the first post in our series on running GPU-accelerated
Dataproc workloads in secure, enterprise-grade envi...
With TLS 1.3 more parts of the handshake got encrypted
(e.g. the certificate), but sometimes it's still helpful to look
at the complete handshake.
curl uses the somewhat standardized env variable f...
Query
Debian changelogs by keyword with the FTP-Master API
In my post about tracking my
Debian uploads, I used the ProjectB database directly
to retrieve how many uploads I had so far.
I was pleasan...
In 2017, I led a series of workshops aimed at teaching
beginners a better understanding of encryption, how the internet works, and
their digital security. Nearly a decade later, there is still a gre...
Ubuntu Pro is a subscription offering for Ubuntu users who want to pay for the assurance of getting quick and high-quality security updates for Ubuntu. I tested it out to see how it works in pract...
Finally, some light at the end of the tunnel!
As I have said in this
blog
and elsewhere, after putting quite a bit of work into generating the Debian
Raspberry Pi images between late
2018
and 202...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 311. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Fix test compatibility with u-boot-tools 2026...
In part 1,
we discovered the problem of rewriting git history in the presence of
nontrivial merges. Today, we'll discuss the workaround I chose.
As I previously mentioned, and as Julia Evans' exc...
Somehow this whole DevOps thing is all about generating the wildest things from some (usually equally wild) template.
And today we're gonna generate YAML from ERB, what could possibly go wrong?!
W...
Back in December, I was working to help organize multiple different conferences. One has already happened; the rest are still works in progress. That’s when the thought struck me: why so many conf...
A new (micro) maintenance release of our RApiDatetime
package is now on CRAN, coming
only a good week after the 0.0.10
release which itself had a two year gap to its predecessor
release.
RApiDatet...
Halfway There
Hurray! I have officially reached the 6-week mark, the halfway point of my Outreachy internship. The time has flown by incredibly fast, yet it feels short because there is still so...
Highlights
Hello world . I am an intern here at Outreachy working with Debian OpenQA Image testing team. The work consists of testing Images with OpenQA. The internship has reached midpoint and ...
I'm going to FOSDEM 2026!
I'm presenting in the Containers dev room. My talk is Java Memory Management
in Containers
and it's scheduled as the first talk on the first day. I'm the warm-up act!
T...
After experimenting at home, the very first professional-grade NAS from
Terramaster arrived at work, too, with 12 HDD bays and possibly a pair of M2s.
NVME cards. In this case, I again installed a p...
The Aim
I have just got a Furilabs FLX1s [1] which is a phone running a modified version of Debian. I want to have a phone that runs all apps that I control and can observe and debug. Android is ver...
Standard RAID solutions waste space when disks have different sizes. Linux
software RAID with LVM uses the full capacity of each disk and lets you grow
storage by replacing one or two disks at a tim...
mrcal 2.5 is out: the release notes. Once again, this is mostly a bug-fix
release en route to the big new features coming in 3.0.
One cool thing is that these tools have now matured enough to no...
I’ve been using rsnapshot to take backups of around 10 servers and laptops for well over 15 years, and it is a remarkably reliable tool that has proven itself many times. Rsnapshot uses rsync over...
No man’s Sky (or as it’s known in our house, "spaceship game") is a space
exploration/sandbox game that was originally released 10 years ago. Back then I
tried it on my brother‘s PS4 but I c...
This post covers my friend Badri and my experiences in Brunei. Brunei — officially Brunei Darussalam — is a country in Southeast Asia, located on Borneo island. It is one of the few remaining ab...
Version 0.0.26 of RcppSpdlog arrived
on CRAN moments ago, and will
be uploaded to Debian and built for
r2u shortly. The (nice)
documentation
site has been refreshed too. RcppSpdlog
bundles spdlog,...
Introduction
I'm one of a Budgie Desktop user since 2020. (Budgie Desktop 10.5 or so)
Recently Budgie Desktop 10.10 had been available from
Debian experimental.
I've tried it and realized that ...
Via (I think) @mcc on the Fediverse, I
learned of GetMusic: a sort-of "clearing house"
for Free Bandcamp codes. I think the way it works is, some artists
release a limited set of download codes fo...
The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering]
(https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for
December.
Activity summary
During the month of De...
Version 0.0.25 of RcppSpdlog arrived
on CRAN right now, and will be
uploaded to Debian and built for r2u shortly along with a
minimal refresh of the documentation site. RcppSpdlog
bundles spdlog, ...
A brand new release 0.1.15 of the RcppSimdJson
package is now on CRAN.
RcppSimdJson
wraps the fantastic and genuinely impressive simdjson library by Daniel Lemire and collaborators. Via
very cleve...
An update to the gunsales package is
now on CRAN. As in the last
update nine years ago (!!), changes are mostly internal. An upcoming
dplyr change requires a switch from the old and soon
to-be-rem...
I've released version 1.1.24 of plocate,
as usual dominated by small patches from external contributors. The
changelog is below:
plocate 1.1.24, January 13th, 2026
- Improve error handling on ...
Following up on my initial announcement about Debian Libre Live I am happy to report on continued progress and the release of Debian Libre Live version 13.3.0.
Since both this and the previous 13...
Two years of midsize electric sedan experience
This February (2026) marks a full 10 years since I started working for BMW, and a key employment bonus is the ability to drive a company car on speci...
Debian Contributions: 2025-12
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 ...
In the past few years, the size of the kernel images in Debian have been
steadily growing. I don't see this as a problem per se, but it has been causing
me trouble, as my /boot partition has becom...
Xterm misses the convenient option to resize the fonts with Ctrl+<plus> and Ctrl+<minus> like xfce4-terminal or gnome-terminal do out of the box.
This feature can be added on Debian s...
A recent article in The Atlantic makes the case that
very large language models effectively contain much of the works they're trained on.
This article is an attempt to popularize the insights in t...
Secrets Manager for Homelab
For a few years, I’ve been managing the configuration of a bunch of self-hosted
services using Ansible Playbooks. Each playbook needed at least one secret —
the sud...
I just read this informative article on ANSI terminal security [1]. The author has written a tool named vt-houdini for testing for these issues [2]. They used to host an instance on their server but...
If you care about supporting open source software, and still use MySQL in 2026, you should switch to MariaDB like so many others have already done.
The number of git commits on github.com/mysql/my...
Inspiration
In November I watched a short documentary about a guy who grew pearl oyster mushrooms in his backyard.
They used pallet boxes (half of a europallet, 60x80x20 cm) as box to keep the subst...
A short but sweet note to say I am coming out of my short retirement to help with snaps again. My time is extremely limited, however we are working hard on getting snaps on CI and I have some ne...
One of my holiday projects was to understand and gain more trust in how Debian binaries are built, and as the holidays are coming to an end, I’d like to introduce a new research project called Deb...
About 6 months ago I got a Nissan LEAF ZE1 (2019 model) [1]. Generally it’s going well and I’m happy with most things about it.
One issue is that as there isn’t a lot of weight in the front wi...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 310. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Reference the Debian 'ocaml' package instead ...
Welcome to the December 2025 from the Reproducible Builds project!
Our monthly reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, highlighting items of news from elsewhere in the increa...
Like the title says, I just packaged Meshroom (and all the adjacent
dependencies) for Debian! This is a fancy photogrammetry toolkit that uses
modern software development methods. "Modern" meaning ...
I'm not hanging around on IRC a lot these days, but when I do I used
hexchat (and xchat before). Probably a bad habbit of clinging to what I got used
to for the past 25 years. But in the light of th...
Disclaimer: The goal of this post is not to attack Riseup. In fact, I love Riseup and support their work.
Story
Riseup is an email provider, known for its privacy-friendly email service. The service...
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