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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities April 2025

01.05.2025 06:00

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble. Changes swh-web: set GitLab pipeline names Debian wiki pages: DebianRepository/Setup, Exploits, Ha...

Russ Allbery: Review: Beyond Pain

01.05.2025 05:46

Review: Beyond Pain, by Kit Rocha Series: Beyond #3 Publisher: Kit Rocha Copyright: December 2013 ASIN: B00GIA4GN8 Format: Kindle...

Russell Coker: Links April 2025

30.04.2025 14:25

Asianometry has an interesting YouTube video about elecrolytic capacitors degrading and how they affect computers [1]. Keep your computers cool people! Biella Coleman (famous for studying the Anthro...

Jonathan Dowland: Korg Minilogue XD

30.04.2025 12:40

I didn't buy the Arturia Microfreak or the Behringer Model-D; I bought a Korg Minilogue XD. Korg Minilogue XD, and Zoom R8 I wanted an all-in-one unit which meant a built-in keyboard. I ...

Simon Josefsson: Building Debian in a GitLab Pipeline

30.04.2025 11:25

After thinking about multi-stage Debian rebuilds I wanted to implement the idea. Recall my illustration: Earlier I rebuilt all packages that make up the difference between Ubuntu and Trisquel...

Petter Reinholdtsen: OpenSnitch 1.6.8 is now in Trixie

29.04.2025 16:30

After some days of effort, I am happy to report that the great interactive application firewall OpenSnitch got a new version in Trixie, now with the Linux kernel based ebpf sniffer included for bett...

Daniel Lange: Weird times ... or how the New York DEC decided the US presidential elections

29.04.2025 12:55

November 2024 will be known as the time when killing peanut, a pet squirrel, by the New York State DEC swung the US presidential elections and shaped history forever. The hundreds of millions of ...

Freexian Collaborators: Freexian partners with Invisible Things Lab to extend security support for Xen hypervisor

29.04.2025 02:00

Freexian is pleased to announce a partnership with Invisible Things Lab to extend the security support of the Xen type-1 hypervisor version 4.17. Three years after its initial release, Xen 4.17, t...

Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Snaps and life. Spirits are up, but I need a little help please

28.04.2025 15:04

I was just released from the hospital after a 3 day stay for my ( hopefully ) last surgery. There was concern with massive blood loss and low heart rate. I have stabilized and have come home. Un...

Sergio Talens-Oliag: ArgoCD Autopilot

28.04.2025 09:50

For a long time I’ve been wanting to try GitOps tools, but I haven’t had the chance to try them for real on the projects I was working on. As now I have some spare time I’ve decided I’m go...

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, March 2025 (by Roberto C. Sánchez)

28.04.2025 02:00

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In March, 20 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are avai...

Valhalla's Things: POLARVIDE modular jacket

28.04.2025 02:00

Posted on April 28, 2025 Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing Years ago I made myself a quick dressing gown from a white fleece IKEA t...

Marco d'Itri: On the use of SaaS in systems engineering

27.04.2025 16:55

We want to use an hyperscaler cloud because it is cheaper to delegate operating a scalable and redundant database to an hyperscaler is something that can be debated from business and technical poi...

Steinar H. Gunderson: Random IS-IS interop notes

27.04.2025 11:51

Some random stuff about running IS-IS between FRR (on Linux) and IOS-XE (Cisco 3650 in my case): Cisco uses the newer “key chain” idea, but FRR doesn't for IS-IS yet (it's supported for OSPF,...

Valhalla's Things: Stickerses

27.04.2025 02:00

Posted on April 27, 2025 Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:graphics, topic:stickers After just a few years of procrastination,...

John Goerzen: Memoirs of the Early Internet

26.04.2025 20:22

The Internet is an amazing place, and occasionally you can find things on the web that have somehow lingered online for decades longer than you might expect. Today I’ll take you on a tour of some ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 14.4.2-1 on CRAN: Another Small Upstream Fix

26.04.2025 15:33

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...

John Goerzen: NNCPNET Can Optionally Exchange Internet Email

26.04.2025 03:01

A few days ago, I announced NNCPNET, the email network based atop NNCP. NNCPNET lets anyone run a real mail server on a network that supports all sorts of topologies for transport, from Internet to...

Simon Josefsson: GitLab Runner with Rootless Privilege-less Podman on riscv64

25.04.2025 20:30

I host my own GitLab CI/CD runners, and find that having coverage on the riscv64 CPU architecture is useful for testing things. The HiFive Premier P550 seems to be a common hardware choice. The P550...

Ian Wienand: Avoiding layer shift on Ender V3 KE after pause

25.04.2025 13:30

With (at least) the V1.1.0.15 firmware on the Ender V3 KE 3d printer the PAUSE macro will cause the print head to run too far on the Y axis, which causes a small layer shift when the print returns. ...

Bits from Debian: Debian Project Leader election 2025 is over, Andreas Tille re-elected!

25.04.2025 12:05

The voting period and tally of votes for the Debian Project Leader election has just concluded and the winner is Andreas Tille, who has been elected for the second time. Congratulations! Out of a ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RQuantLib 0.4.26 on CRAN: Small Updates

25.04.2025 00:27

A new minor release 0.4.26 of RQuantLib arrived on CRAN this morning, and has just now been uploaded to Debian too. QuantLib is a rather comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative fin...

Jonathan McDowell: Local Voice Assistant Step 1: An ATOM Echo voice satellite

24.04.2025 20:34

Back when I setup my home automation I ended up with one piece that used an external service: Amazon Alexa. I’d rather not have done this, but voice control is extremely convenient, both for us,...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.0.15 on CRAN: Calendar Updates

23.04.2025 20:12

The fifteenth release of the qlcal package arrivied at CRAN today, following the QuantLib 1.38 release this morning. qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib. It is provided (for the R pac...

Thomas Lange: FAI 6.4 and new ISO images available

23.04.2025 15:21

The new FAI release 6.4 comes with some nice new features. It now supports installing the Xfce edition of Linux Mint 22.1 'Xia'. There's now an additional Linux Mint ISO [1] which does an unatten...

Steinar H. Gunderson: Recommended VCL

23.04.2025 13:52

In line with this bug, and after losing an hour of sleep, here's some VCL that I can readily recommend if you happen to run Varnish: sub vcl_recv { ... if (req.http.user-agent ~ "Scrapy") { ...

Michael Prokop: Lessons learned from running an open source project for 20 years @ GLT25

23.04.2025 08:11

Time flies by so quickly, it’s >20 years since I started the Grml project. I’m giving a (german) talk about the lessons learned from 20 years of running the Grml project this Saturday, 2025...

Russell Coker: Last Post About the Yoga Gen3

23.04.2025 07:11

Just over a year ago I bought myself a Thinkpad Yoga Gen 3 [1]. That is a nice machine and I really enjoyed using it. But a few months ago it started crashing and would often play some music on boot...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RInside 0.2.19 on CRAN: Mostly Maintenance

23.04.2025 02:40

A new release 0.2.19 of RInside arrived on CRAN and in Debian today. RInside provides a set of convenience classes which facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications and programs, using th...

Melissa Wen: 2025 FOSDEM: Don't let your motivation go, save time with kworkflow

22.04.2025 21:30

2025 was my first year at FOSDEM, and I can say it was an incredible experience where I met many colleagues from Igalia who live around the world, and also many friends from the Linux display stack ...

Joey Hess: offgrid electric car

22.04.2025 18:45

Eight months ago I came up my rocky driveway in an electric car, with the back full of solar panel mounting rails. I didn't know how I'd manage to keep it charged. I got the car earlier than plann...

Gunnar Wolf: Want your title? Here, have some XML!

21.04.2025 20:33

As it seems ChatGPT would phrase it… Sweet Mother of God! I received a mail from my University’s Scholar Administrative division informing me my Doctor degree has been granted and emitted (ya...

Louis-Philippe Véronneau: One last Bookworm for the road — report from the Montreal 2025 BSP

21.04.2025 07:00

Hello, hello, hello! This report for the Bug Squashing Party we held in Montreal on March 28-29th is very late ... but better late than never? We're now at our fifth BSP in a row1, which is both n...

Russ Allbery: Review: Up the Down Staircase

20.04.2025 05:43

Review: Up the Down Staircase, by Bel Kaufman Publisher: Vintage Books Copyright: 1964, 1991, 2019 Printing: 2019 ISBN: 0-525-56566-3 ...

Ahmed Siam: My first post and writing plans

19.04.2025 11:52

This is my first post in this blog and I think it will be useful to share what I will write about during the next months. Here are some titles: My Debian experimental internship experience as an ...

Sven Hoexter: Trixie Upgrade and X11 Clipboard Manager Madness

18.04.2025 19:00

Due to my own laziness and a few functionality issues my "for work laptop" is still using a 15+ year old setup with X11 and awesome. Since trixie is now starting its freeze, it's time to update that...

Simon Josefsson: Verified Reproducible Tarballs

17.04.2025 21:24

Remember the XZ Utils backdoor? One factor that enabled the attack was poor auditing of the release tarballs for differences compared to the Git version controlled source code. This proved to be a u...

Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Applications 25.04 Snaps and Kubuntu Plucky Puffin 25.04 Released!

17.04.2025 21:00

Very busy releasetastic week! The versions being the same is a complete coincidence https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0 Which can be downloaded here: https://snapcraft.io/publisher...

Petter Reinholdtsen: Gearing up OpenSnitch for a 1.6.8 release in Trixie

17.04.2025 19:50

Sadly, the interactive application firewall OpenSnitch have in practice been unmaintained in Debian for a while. A few days ago I decided to do something about it, and today I am happy with the res...

Jonathan Dowland: Hledger UI themes

17.04.2025 11:35

Last year I intended to write an update on my use of hledger, but that was waylaid for various reasons and I need to revisit how (if) I'm using it, so that's put off for longer. I do want to menti...

Arturo Borrero González: My experience in the Debian LTS and ELTS projects

17.04.2025 11:00

Last year, I decided to start participating in the Debian LTS and ELTS projects. It was a great opportunity to engage in something new within the Debian community. I had been following these proje...

Otto Kekäläinen: Going Full-Time as an Open Source Developer

16.04.2025 02:00

After careful consideration, I’ve decided to embark on a new chapter in my professional journey. I’ve left my position at AWS to dedicate at least the next six months to developing open source...

Jonathan Dowland: submitted

15.04.2025 17:43

Today I submitted my PhD thesis, 8 years since I started (give or take). Next step, Viva. Normal service may resume shortly… ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: AsioHeaders 1.30.2-1 on CRAN: New Upstream

15.04.2025 13:05

Another new (stable) release of the AsioHeaders package arrived at CRAN just now. Asio provides a cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming. It is also included in Boost...

Russell Coker: What Desktop PCs Need

15.04.2025 12:19

It seems to me that we haven’t had much change in the overall design of desktop PCs since floppy drives were removed, and modern PCs still have bays the size of 5.25″ floppy drives despite havin...

Russell Coker: Storage Trends 2025

15.04.2025 10:45

It’s been almost 15 months since I blogged about Storage Trends 2024 [1]. There hasn’t been much change in this time (in Australia at least – I’m not tracking prices in other countries). The...

Keith Packard: sanitizer-fun

13.04.2025 23:24

Fun with -fsanitize=undefined and Picolibc Both GCC and Clang support the -fsanitize=undefined flag which instruments the generated code to detect places where the program wanders into parts of t...

Michael Prokop: OpenSSH penalty behavior in Debian/trixie #newintrixie

13.04.2025 16:05

This topic came up at a customer of mine in September 2024, when working on Debian/trixie support. Since then I wanted to blog about it to make people aware of this new OpenSSH feature and behavio...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in March 2025

13.04.2025 06:38

debian-kernel mailing list: replied to “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-03-05” posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-03-26” (and once more i...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in February 2025

13.04.2025 06:30

debian-events-eu mailing list: posted “Debian BSP in Leuven, March/April” debian-kernel mailing list: posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in January 2025

13.04.2025 06:27

debian-kernel mailing list: posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-01-15” (and once more in that thread) debian-lts-announce mailing list: post...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in December 2024

13.04.2025 06:25

Debian cdrom bugs: updated #1090340: cdrom: Debian 12 missing drivers for HyperV 2008 R2 debian-kernel mailing list: posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeti...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in November 2024

13.04.2025 06:23

debian-boot mailing list: posted “partman recipes and deprecation of ext2” (and once more in that thread) posted “Moving kernel modules under /usr/lib in installer” ...

Kalyani Kenekar: Nextcloud Installation HowTo: Secure Your Data with a Private Cloud

12.04.2025 20:30

Nextcloud is an open-source software suite that enables you to set up and manage your own cloud storage and collaboration platform. It offers a range of features similar to popular cloud services...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in March 2025

12.04.2025 00:00

Welcome to the third report in 2025 from the Reproducible Builds project. Our monthly reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, and highlight items of news from elsewhere in the...

Bits from Debian: Bits from the DPL

12.04.2025 00:00

Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for March (sorry for the delay, I was waiting for some additional input). Conferences In March, I attended two conferences, each with a distinct motiva...

Gunnar Wolf: Culture as a positive freedom

11.04.2025 16:41

This post is an unpublished review for La cultura libre como libertad positiva Please note: This review is not m...

Bits from Debian: DebConf25 Registration and Call for Proposals are open

11.04.2025 12:00

The 26th edition of the Debian annual conference will be held in Brest, France, from July 14th to July 20th, 2025. The main conference will be preceded by DebCamp, from July 7th to July 13th. We i...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 294 released

11.04.2025 02:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 294. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Correct longstanding issue where many ">"-...

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in March 2025

11.04.2025 00:42

Debian LTS This was my hundred-twenty-ninth 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: ...