We are very excited to announce that Debian has been assigned seven contributors
to work under mentorship on a variety of
projects with us during the
Google Summer of Code.
Here is a list of the ...
The eight release of the binb package,
and first in two years, is now on CRAN and in r2u. binb regroups
four rather nice themes for writing LaTeX Beamer
presentations much more easily in (R)Markdo...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 318. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Upload to test PyPI integration.
* Bump Stand...
My experience at
MiniDebConf Campinas 2026
Last week, I spent the entire week in Campinas attending MiniDebConf
and MiniDebCamp. The Debian Brazil community organizes this event every
year, and this...
Charles Stross wrote an interesting blog post about the apparent desire of super rich people to kill the poor, it seems that the people in power want to make all the conspiracy theories come true [1...
How to build
reverse dependencies using Salsa CI
Last week, I attended MiniDebConf Campinas, and one of my favorites
talks was "Salsa CI,
showing features that almost nobody knows" by Aquila Macedo....
I mentor several people in Debian, and have been repeatedly asked to offer an opportunity to ask questions on a live call. I have now started a recurring video call for exactly that, which I call ...
If I had been patient, it would have saved me time. One such instance
is following.
From my early blogs, you might know I am using mutt to do email. Just
after I get along with mutt, I started usin...
On the 7th of September 2025, my friend Dione and I had a day trip to Vienna—the capital of Austria. We were attending a conference in Budapest, Hungary, which is 250 km from Vienna. So, it was a ...
Yesterday, I had to add support for running KVM virtual machines inside an LXC container. More as a reminder to myself, in case I ever have to do this again, here the simple recipe:
LXC Container...
Weekly notes is a genre where people chronicle their week on their blogs. Weekly notes are like a window. I love going through these, as they’re a steady stream of week on week happenings and prog...
A new maintenance release 0.4.27 of RProtoBuf
arrived on CRAN today. RProtoBuf
provides R with bindings for the
Google Protocol Buffers
(“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization library use...
The SpacemiT K1 is a rather
interesting RISC-V SoC, found for instance on boards like the Banana Pi
BPI-F3 board. It's one
of those platforms that looked promising on paper, but took a bit of time...
The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering]
(https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for
March.
Activity summary
During the month of March...
Leonardo and I are happy to
announce another maintenance release 0.1.4 of our dtts package
which has been on CRAN for four
years now. dtts builds upon
our nanotime
package as well as the beloved d...
Over the past few weeks I’ve been developing and using a personal command-line
tool called gwt (Git Worktree) to manage Git repositories using worktrees.
This article explains what the tool does...
Another minor update 0.3.14 for our nanotime
package is now on CRAN, and has
compiled for r2u (and
will have to wait to be uploaded to Debian until dependency bit64 has been
updated there). nanoti...
Vertical rhythm aligns lines to a consistent spacing cadence down the page. It
creates a predictable flow for the eye to follow. Thanks to the rlh CSS unit,
vertical rhythm is now easier to implemen...
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...
Lomiri Codefest in Tilburg NL (May 16-17 2026)
Just a quick invitation to an in-person event in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
All people interested in the Lomiri Operating Environment are invited to...
How to view the Debian
Upload Queue
Some people may not know this, but the Debian Upload Queue is public
and very easy to access:
$ curl ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue/
drwxr-sr-x 18 ...
FBReader
After my previous blog post about eBook readers in Debian [1] a reader recommended FBReader. I tried it and it’s now my favourite reader. It works nicely on laptop and phone and takes sig...
In September 2025, I attended the LibreOffice Conference in Budapest, Hungary, on the 4th and the 5th, and a community meeting on the 3rd. Thanks to The Document Foundation (TDF) for sponsoring my t...
The voting period and tally of votes for the Debian Project Leader election
has just concluded, and the winner is Sruthi Chandran. Congratulations!
347 out of 1,039 Developers voted using the
Cond...
I recently released version 0.3.0 of my recipe manager application Kookbook – find it in git in KDE Invent or as released tarballs in https://download.kde.org/stable/kookbook/
Changes since last...
I was hosted for a long time, free of charge, on https://www.branchable.com/
by Joey and Lars. Branchable and Ikiwiki were wonderful ideas that never
took off as much as they deserved. To avoid be...
If you have recently installed a very up-to-date Linux distribution with a desktop environment, or upgraded your system on a rolling-release distribution, you might have noticed that your home direc...
A while ago, CommBank started asking for MFA confirmation on its mobile app for every NetBank login on a browser. Previously, there was an option to use SMS for MFA, which isn’t as secure as I wou...
Prices
On the 19th of March I got a home battery system installed. The government has a rebate scheme so it had a list price of about $22k for a 40kWh setup and cost me about $12k. It seems that 40K...
It started with a thought: to understand people’s perspectives on life and its meaning. So I texted folks, “What is life (to you)?”. Each of the following list items (-) is a response from a d...
Interested in future updates? Follow me on mastodon at
@paul@soylent.green. Posts about
hz.tools will be tagged
#hztools.
🐶 Want to jump right to the draft? I'll be maintaining ARF going forw...
Connected via serial console. Does not have a package manager, web or ssh server, but can play tetris in the terminal (bsdgames in Debian have the same tetris version packaged).
...
Debian Contributions: 2026-03
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 ...
It seems my own plans and life's plans diverged this spring,
so I am in the market for a new job. So if you're looking for
someone with a long track record making your code go brrr
really fast, gi...
At last, I can run my own large language model artificial idiocy
generator at home on a Debian testing host using Debian packages
directly from the Debian archive. After months of polishing the
lla...
I’ve been using the Furilabs FLX1s phone [1] as my daily driver for 6 weeks, it’s a decent phone, not as good as I hoped but good enough to use every day and rely on for phone calls about job in...
The annual LibreOffice conference 2025 was held in Budapest, Hungary, from the 3rd to the 6th of September 2025. Thanks to the The Document Foundation (TDF) for sponsoring me to attend the conferenc...
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors.
OpenSSH
I fixed CVE-2026-3497 in unstable, thanks to a f...
The Shift in Software Consumption
Historically, I have been a "distribution-first" user. Sticking to tools
packaged within the Debian archives provides a layer of trust; maintainers
validate lice...
Welcome to the March 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 increasi...
A colleague asked me if we should move all our money to our pillow cases after
reading the latest AI editorial from Thomas
Friedman.
The article reads like a press release from Anthropic, repeating ...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 317. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Limit python3-guestfs Build-Dependency to !i3...
I recently decided to upgrade the CPU in my workstation, the E5-2696 v3 CPU was OK (passmark 2045 for single thread and 21,380 for multi thread) [1] but I felt like buying something better so I got ...
In January 2025,
as a pre-requisite for something else, I published a minimal neovim
plugin called nvim-µwiki. It's essentially just the features from
vimwiki that I regularly use, which is a sma...
Debian LTS/ELTS
This was my hundred-forty-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 o...
It’s been about a month since I wrapped up my Outreachy internship, but my journey with Debian is far from over. I planned to keep contributing and exploring the community, and these past few ...
The Tour de Los Padres is coming! The race organizer post the route on
ridewithgps. This works, but has convoluted interfaces for people not wanting to
use their service. I just wrote a simple scri...
Haven’t written here about it, but last March we finally started on
our journey to get our own house build, so we can move out of the
rented flat here.
That will be a big step, both the actual bu...
tl;dr
Starting with curl 8.17.0-1.amzn2023.0.2 in Amazon Linux 2023, you can now use HTTP/3.
dnf swap -y libcurl-minimal libcurl-full
dnf swap -y curl-minimal curl-full
curl --http3-only https://...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 316. This version includes the following changes:
[ Jelle van der Waa ]
* Fix compatibility with LLVM version 22...
Per my policies,
I need to ban every employee and contractor of Anthropic Inc from ever
contributing code to any of my projects. Anyone have a list?
Any project that requires a Developer Certific...
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