I sometimes use Vagrant to deploy my VM&aposs and recently when I tried to deploy one for Trixie, I could see one available. So I checked the official Debian images on Vagrant cloud at https://p...
Somehow along the way, a feature that I’ve had across DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD, and Linux — and has been present on PCs for more than 40 years — is gone.
That feature, of course, is the 80×25 text ...
If you use HaProxy to e.g. terminate TLS on the frontend and connect via
TLS to a backend, one has to take care of sending the SNI (server name
indication) extension in the TLS handshake sort of man...
If someone hands you an IP:Port of a Google Cloud load balancer, and tells you to
connect there with TLS, but all you receive in return is an F (and a few other
bytes with none printable characters)...
tl;dr: tag2upload (beta) is going well so far, and is already handling around one in 13 uploads to Debian.
Introduction and some stats
Recent UI/UX improvements
Why we are still in betaRetrying on S...
A brand new release 0.1.14 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...
Locking down database access is probably the single most important thing for a system administrator or software developer to prevent their application from leaking its data. As MariaDB 11.8 is the...
It's been a while since the last performance check of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) in Cybertec's PGEE distribution - that was in 2016. Of course, the question is still interesting, so I did s...
Debusine is a tool designed
for Debian developers and Operating System developers in general. This posts
describes our approach to the use of JavaScript, and some practical designs we
came up with...
The latest Proxmox release introduces a new Qemu machine version that seems to
behave differently for how it addresses the virtual disk configuration.
Also, the regular “query-block” qmp comman...
Please consider supporting my work in Debian and elsewhere through Liberapay.
Debian stable updates work through three main channels: point releases, security repositories, and the updates repos...
In my post yesterday, ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V), I described my desire to find ARM hardware with AES instructions to support full-disk encryption, and the poor state of the OS...
My trip to pgday.at started Wednesday at the airport in Düsseldorf. I was there on time, and the plane started with an estimated flight time of about 90 minutes. About half an hour into the fligh...
Just wanted to share… I enjoy reading George V. Neville’s Kode Vicious
column,
which regularly appears on some of ACM’s publications I follow, such as
ACM Queue or
Communications.
Today I w...
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.
Debian LTS contributors
In August, 21 contributors have been paid to work on Debian
LTS, their reports are ava...
Debian Contributions: 2025-08
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 ...
I’ve long been interested in new and different platforms. I ran Debian on an Alpha back in the late 1990s and was part of the Alpha port team; then I helped bootstrap Debian on amd64. I’ve got...
Release 0.2.9 of our RcppSMC package arrived at
CRAN today. RcppSMC
provides Rcpp-based bindings to R for the Sequential Monte Carlo
Template Classes (SMCTC) by Adam
Johansen described in his JSS ...
Kudos to yadd@ (and who
else was involved to make that happen), for the new
watch file v5 format.
Especially templates
for the big git hoster make it much nicer.
Prepared two of my packages to switc...
I’m something of a filesystem geek, I guess. I first wrote about ZFS on Linux 14 years ago, and even before I used ZFS, I had used ext2/3/4, jfs, reiserfs, xfs, and no doubt some others.
I’ve a...
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...
Debian LTS
This was my hundred-thirty-fourth 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:
...
It’s no news that the vagrant license has changed while ago, which resulted
in less motivation to maintain it in Debian (understandably).
Unfortunately this means there are currently no official ...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 306. This version includes the following changes:
[ Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek ]
* Fix compatibility with RPM ...
Here on a summer night in the grass and lilac smell
Drunk on the crickets and the starry sky,
Oh what fine stories we could tell
With this moonlight to tell them by.
A summer night, and you, and pa...
Welcome to the August 2025 report from the Reproducible Builds project!
Welcome to the latest report from the Reproducible Builds project for August 2025. These monthly reports outline what we’...
Yesterday I posted
about the history, in numbers, of the support for autopkgtest in the Debian
archive. I had analyzed the presence of a Testsuite: field in source
packages, from wheezy to trixie, a...
The Release of Debian 13 ("Trixie") last month marked another milestone on the
effort to provide automated test support for Debian packages in their installed
form. We have achieved the mark of 57% ...
There are times when an email based workflow gets really difficult. One of those times is when discussing projects related to spam and malware detection.
noahm@debian.org
host stravinsky.debian.org...
Back in March, with version 4.17.0, Lean introduced partial_fixpoint, a new way to define recursive functions. I had drafted a blog post for the official Lean FRO blog back then, but forgot about ...
CAdES is a digital signature
standard that is used and sometimes mandated, by the Italian Public
Administration.
To be able to do my job, I own a Carta Nazionale dei Servizi
(CNS) with which I
can g...
About 95% of my Debian contributions this month were
sponsored by Freexian.
You can also support my work directly via
Liberapay or GitHub
Sponsors.
Python team
forky is
open!
As a result I’m s...
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus.
I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
Debian wiki pages:
PrivacyIssues,
StaticLinking
Issues
Obsolete conffile in
zmap
All...
For my birthday I was gifted copies of Eno's last two albums, Luminal and
Lateral, both of which are collaborations with Beatie Wolfe.
Let's start with the art. I love this semi-minimalis...
This past month I did setup KGB to send notifications to #debian-lts when new
merge requests were created in the LTS website’s repo and I learned a couple
cool things. I’ve been trying to docume...
Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Released
Phosh 0.49.0
and added some more QoL improvements to Phosh Mobile stack
(e.g. around Cell broadcasts). Also pulled my S...
Due to the freeze I did not do that many uploads in the last few months, so
there were various new releases I packaged once Trixie was released. Regarding
the release of Debian 13, Trixie, I wrote a...
Just a small thing: I’m going to turn down the very simple gitweb interface at
https://git.k1024.org/. Way back, I thought I should have a backup for GitHub,
but the decentralised Git model makes ...
Dimitri John Ledkov wrote an informative blog post about self encrypting disks and UEFI with Linux [1].
This Coffeezilla video highlights an interesting scam, run a broker for day traders and don’...
I’ve noticed that procrastination and inability to be consistently productive at work has become quite common in recent years. This is clearly visible in younger people who have grown up with an...
I needed to bruteforce some passwords that I happened to know that were
generated with the default mode (“pronouncable”) of
pwgen, so I spent a fair amount of time
writing software to help. It...
Motivation
On the 8th of August 2025 (a day before the Debian Trixie release), I was upgrading my personal laptop from Debian Bookworm to Trixie. It was a major update. However, the update didn’t ...
I have been using my Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2015) with PostmarketOS on and off since last year. It serves as a really good e-book reader with KOReader installed on it. Have tried phosh and plasma-mob...
When a Debian cloud VM boots, it typically runs cloud-init at various points in the boot process. Each invocation can perform certain operations based on the host’s static configuration passed by ...
Beyond Debian: Useful for other distros too
Every two years Debian releases a new major version of its Stable series,
meaning the differences between consecutive Debian Stable releases represent
...
Beyond Debian: Useful for other distros too
Every two years Debian releases a new major version of its Stable series,
meaning the differences between consecutive Debian Stable releases represent
...
I’ve just started using zram for swap on VMs. The use of compression for swap in Linux apparently isn’t new, it’s been in the Linux kernel since version 3.2 (since 2012). But until recent year...
Some time ago, I wanted to encrypt a bunch of data in an application I was writing in Rust, mostly to be stored in a database, but also session cookies and sensitive configuration variables.
Since...
Today marks both a milestone and a turning point in my journey with open source software. I’m proud to announce the release of KDE Gear 25.08.0 as my final snap package release. You can find all t...
I use sway as window manager on my main machine. As I prefer dark mode, I looked for a way to enable dark mode everywhere.
For GTK-based this is fairly straightforward: Just install whatever theme y...
As per the previous Polkit blog post the policykit framwork has lost the ability to understand its own .pkla files and policies need to be expressed in Javascript with .rules files now.
To re-ena...
The Problem
Just over 2 years ago my Dell T320 server had a motherboard failure [1]. I recently bought another T320 that had been gutted (no drives, PSUs, or RAM) and put the bits from my one in it....
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 305. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Upload to unstable/sid after the release of t...
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