This is somehow the featured website on https://earlyweblinks.com/ this week.
Read all about my web site here!
https://earlyweblinks.com/site-of-the-week/joey-hess
Kind of reminds me of back in ...
Very happy to share that a new package rspdlite arrived on
CRAN today in its inaugural
version 0.1.0-1. It wraps and provides the (header-only) C++20 library
spdlite which its author
describes (ap...
The next Ubuntu Touch major release is approaching rapidly, yesterday we reached a major step in the preparation of the upcoming Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 release: The branching-off (see below on wha...
In 2008, I landed my second job, in the network team at Orange Portails, the
division behind the websites and search engine of the French telecom operator
Orange. The place ran like clockwork: a c...
I have proposed the deletion of an obsolete
script,
but it makes me feel complicated feelings so I’m going to try and
express those. This particular script was written in 2014, but the
concept go...
Quick note to share that rbenchmark
is back on CRAN! The rbenchmark
package makes it easy to benchmark (and compare) simple R
expressions.
This package has been on CRAN for many years. At one poin...
Debian Contributions: 2026-05
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 ...
First Light box
My youngest daughter and I recently started playing the tabletop game
HeroQuest. Specifically, the recently-issued, cut-down variant
HeroQuest: First Light. This is quite ad...
For almost two decades, the PackageKit package management abstraction layer has shipped with pkcon as its command-line client. pkcon does its job, but it was always kind of a “testing” front-end...
Today we went to see a theater play in UNAM’s Cultural Center, very near
our home. No, not inside any of the theaters — in the square just between
Sala Nezahualcóyotl, Foro Sor Juana and Sala...
In the process of preparing a major Ubuntu Touch release (v24.04-2.0, coming soon...) we will also update Ayatana Indicators in Ubuntu Touch.
Last week various new features have been added to som...
I have been looking at seL4 some more recently, and had a small
patch
merged today to remove a legacy Python module from a helper script.
(I was trying to run the script on a system without that mod...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 319. This version includes the following changes:
[ Jochen Sprickerhof ]
* Improve header detection for Sphinx d...
I’ve been asked a few times if it would be possible to use
virtnbdbackup as some kind of
“replication” utility, to keep cold standby virtual machines on other libvirt
hosts.
Usually i would t...
Some of you might have noticed that the recent (or rather: previous) version of libayatana-appindicator (v0.5.94) notified users and developers of the library being deprecated.
This short post is...
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors.
OpenSSH
I backported various security fixes from 10.3 to...
AI slop is invading the web. A recent story about disallowing LLM-generated
submissions on Lobsters triggered a lot of debate. My personal worst
offenders are LinkedIn articles with AI-generated ima...
Official announcement
European Voxit community strengthens digital sovereignty: shared codebase completed.
Read the official announcement at:
https://www.voxit.org/european-voxit-community-stren...
The RISC-V CPU architecture has been gaining a lot of popularity since it launched in 2014, and now that the industry is standardizing on the RVA23 level that includes vector support as a mandator...
A new minor release 0.4.27 of RQuantLib,
the first in over a year, arrived on CRAN a couple of minutes ago, has
just now been uploaded to Debian,
and is being built for r2u as well.
QuantLib is a ...
I finally carved out some time today to prepare and release debsecan-mcp v0.1.2 to PyPI. During this release, I
integrated PyPI's trusted publisher mechanism, which authenticates directly via
GitH...
A while back, I got my first subwoofer (a surprisingly nice addition to
the movie experience, just like rear speakers were). But I live in an
apartment, and I don't want to annoy my neighbors at n...
Debian LTS/ELTS
This was my hundred-forty-third 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...
I previously
wrote some
advice for developers and distributions about the upcoming
Microsoft CA Rollover, and I hope that was useful for people.
I've now also added some user-facing documentation...
Introduction
I have just bought a HP Z4 G4 with W-2125 CPU for $320 and I decided it was a good time to do some benchmarks on Debian package building to see which system I should use for that.
The W...
Debian Related Work
Uploaded labwc 0.9.7-1 to unstable;
labwc 0.20 was released upstream since then, but it requires wlroots 0.20.1
which has not landed in Debian yet
Uploaded usbguard 1.1.4+ds-3 &...
Welcome to the May 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 increasing...
It's been ten years since I configured mount on demand backups to reduce
the risk of my backups being zapped by mistake. Way back then I wanted to go
one step further and use dedicated mount names...
The Steam command line client, which I need to download the game data for the Doom3 BFG shooter, is only available as an Linux i386 binary.
As my main home computer is an arm64 box, this could be ...
This was a particularly busy month for me in terms of Debian
contributions.
It started with a week in Hamburg for the MiniDebConf. I talked to
many colleagues face-to-face and worked on various ...
This was a particularly busy month for me in terms of Debian
contributions.
It started with a week in Hamburg for the MiniDebConf. I talked to
many colleagues face-to-face and worked on various ...
Hello and welcome to my May 2026 free software activities report.
A lot's been going on in my life offline so I took a bit of a hiatus
from doing these reports, but I've had a fairly productive mon...
Ron Garrett wrote an interesting blog post about the mathematical possibility of abiogenesis [1].
Cory Doctorow wrote an interesting blog post about the way the current antics of right wing extremis...
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...
In September 2025, I attended the annual LibreOffice conference in Budapest, Hungary. This gave me an opportunity to explore the city, which I will cover in this post.
Let’s start with the currenc...
Zswap vs Zram
Last year I blogged about using Zram for VMs [1]. That setup is still working well for VMs and for phones and laptops with no swap device.
I have just read Chris Down’s insightful bl...
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...
To associate routing information—like AS paths or BGP communities—to flows,
Akvorado can import routes through the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP). As
the Internet routing table contains more than...
We have a new Linux exploit called PinTheft [1]. I did some tests of it with Debian kernel 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64.
user_t
When I run the exploit as user_t I see the following in the audit log:
type=P...
A while back, I came across
the AI Fabric
system created by Daniel Miessler. I liked its approach of
providing command-line tools for filtering text using artificial
idiocy services, allowing stepw...
In the recent weeks I've been engaging Prot as a coach to help review
my new ffs package for GNU Emacs as I worked on preparing it for
inclusion in GNU ELPA, as well as discussing other Emacs- and
...
I am a teacher. Since January 2013, I have been teaching the “Operating
Systems” course at the Engineering Faculty of
UNAM. And yes, that means May and
November are highly stressful months, wh...
Background
I'm a member of the EFI team in Debian, and I've done much of the
work for Debian to support UEFI Secure Boot (SB) in recent years. We
have included that support for a number of releas...
ffs provides a minor mode for simple plain text presentations in
Emacs, where the slides are separated using the page-delimiter, by
default the form feed character (^L).
I wrote ffs in early 202...
Another very minor update, now at 0.3.15, for our nanotime
package is now on CRAN, and has
been built for r2u and
Debian. nanotime
relies on the RcppCCTZ
package (as well as the RcppDate
package f...
I was getting “<XF86AudioPlay> is undefined” in the status bar of Emacs displayed every 2-3 seconds. Nowhere else I noticed any misbehavior or problems, and also couldn’t find any rela...
Following the series of various Linux exploits of the last three weeks, the bug of today is PinTheft [CVE-2026-43494] which is local root privilege escalations.
The vulnerability can be mitigated ...
I've heard "containers are not a security boundary" enough times that it's started to feel like received wisdom, and my honest read (after 13+ years) is that it's technically defensible but practica...
HMS Blueberry
Royals are my favourite ships in No Man's Sky. The HMS Blueberry is not my
first Exotic/Royal ship (that was the Gravity Hirakao XVI, and a story for
another time).
After yea...
Back when we started with a signed shim in Debian, the tooling was
Windows-only and required me to do a reboot dance and it was all quite
tedious. Over time, more and more of the tooling has migr...
I have been helping co-maintain the Debian curl package for a few
years now, and even though Samuel and Charles do most of the work, I'm
happy to jump in and help when needed. This is one of those ...
I have been helping co-maintain the Debian curl package for a few
years now, and even though Samuel and Charles do most of the work, I'm
happy to jump in and help when needed. This is one of those ...
Being persistent, sticking to a plan and showing up to work every day is generally valued highly across all cultures as virtuous behavior. It is obvious that anything of value and worth achieving ...
I have been battling Large Language Models (LLM1) for the past
couple of weeks and have struggled to think about what it means and
how to deal with its fallout.
Because the fight has come from many...
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two
months:
Filip Strömbäck (fstromback)
Arthur Diniz (arthurbd)
Manuel Traut (manut)
Xiyue Deng (manphiz)
kpcyrd (kpc...
I just tested out the ssh-keysign-pwn exploit [1] on Debian kernel 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64 which was released before these exploits.
When sshkeysign_pwn is run as user_t the following is logged in the...
In the recent weeks I've been engaging Prot as an Emacs coach to help
with doing review passes over my upcoming ffs package as I work on
polishing and documenting it in preparation for offering it ...
After the Linux local root privilege escalations of the last two weeks, the bug of today is ssh-keysign-pwn [CVE-2026-46333] which allows to read root-owned files as an unprivileged user.
Exploiti...
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