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Michael Ablassmeier: proxmox backup nbdkit plugin
https://abbbi.github.io//nbdkit-pbs/
February 25, 2025, 12:00 AM
nbdkit is a really powerful NBD
toolkit.
Lately, i wanted to access VM backups from a Proxmox Backup Server via network (not by using the proxmox-backup-client map function..)
For example, to test-boot a virtual machine snapshot directly from a backup. NBD suits that usecase quite well, so i quickly put a nbdkit plugin together that can be used for this.
The available golang
bindings for the proxmox
backup client API, made that quite easy.
As nbdkit already comes with a neat COW plugin, its ...
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Russ Allbery: Review: A Little Vice
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/a-little-vice.html
February 24, 2025, 5:04 AM
Review: A Little Vice, by Erin E. Elkin
Publisher:
Erin Elkin
Copyright:
June 2024
ASIN:
B0CTHRK61X
Format:
Kindle
Pages:
398
A Little Vice is a stand-alone self-published
magical girl novel. It
is the author's first novel.
C is a high school student and frequent near-victim of monster attacks.
Due to the nefarious work of Avaritia Wolf and her allies, his high school
is constantly attacked by Beasts, who are magical co...
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Valhalla's Things: Hexagonal Pattern Weights
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/02/24-pattern_weights/index.html
February 24, 2025, 12:00 AM
Posted on February 24, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:3dprint, craft:sewing
For quite a few years, IrCOve been using pattern weights instead of pins
when cutting fabric, starting with random objects and then mostly using
some big washers from the local hardware store.
However, at about 22 g per washer, I needed quite a few of them, and
dealing with them tended to get unwieldy; I donrCOt remember how it
happened, but one day I decided to make ...
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Colin Watson: Qalculate time-ahacks
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/qalculate-time-hacks.html February 23, 2025, 8:00 PM
Anarcat recently wrote about Qalculate, and I think IrCOm a convert, even though
IrCOve only barely scratched the-asurface.
The thing I almost immediately started using it for is time calculations.
When I started tracking my time, I
quickly found that Timewarrior was good at
keeping all the data I needed, but I often found myself extracting bits of
it and reprocessing it in variously clumsy ways. For example, I often donrCOt finish a task in one sitting; maybe I take breaks, or I switch back an... --------------------
Iustin Pop: Still alive, but this blog not really
https://k1024.org/posts/2025/2025-02-24-still-alive/
February 23, 2025, 3:20 PM
Sigh, sometimes I really donrCOt understand time. And I donrCOt mean, in
the physics sense.
ItrCOs just, the days have way fewer hours than 10 years ago, or thererCOs
way more stuff to do. Probably the latter Efy
No time for real open-source work, but I managed to do some minor
coding, released a couple of minor version (as upstream), and packaged
some refreshes in Debian. The later only because I got involved,
against better judgement, into some too heated discussions, but they
ended well, som...
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Kentaro Hayashi: Short journey to Mozc 2.29.5160.102+dfsg-1
https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2025/02/23/221455
February 23, 2025, 1:14 PM
Introduction
This is just a note-taking about how to upgrading Mozc package for up-coming trixie ready (with many restrictions) last year.
Maybe Mozc 2.29.5160.102+dfsg-1.3 will be shipped for Debian 13 (trixie).
FTBFS with Mozc 2.28.4715.102+dfsg-2.2
In May 2024, I've found that Mozc was removed from testing, and still in FTBFS. #1068186 - mozc: FTBFS with abseil 20230802: ../../base/init_mozc.cc:90:29: error: rCyabsl::debian5::flags_internal::ArgvListActionrCO has not been declared - Debi...
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Valhalla's Things: Water Resistant Hood
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/02/23-water_resistant_hood/index.html February 23, 2025, 12:00 AM
Posted on February 23, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
Many years ago I made myself a vest with lots of pockets
1 in a few layers of cheap cotton, and wore the hell out of it,
for the added warmth, but most importantly for the convenience provided
by the pockets.
Then a few years ago the cheap cotton had started to get worn, and I
decided I needed to replace it. I found a second choice (and thus
cheaper :) ) version of a ...
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Jonathan Dowland: haskell streaming libraries
https://jmtd.net/log/haskell_streaming/
February 21, 2025, 11:52 AM
For my PhD, my colleagues/collaborators and I built a distributed stream-processing system using Haskell.
There are several other Haskell stream-processing systems. How do they
compare?
First, let's briefly discuss and define streaming in this context.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs introduces Streams
as an analogue of lists, to support delayed evaluation. In brief, the
inductive list type (a list is either an empty list or a head element pre-pended to another list) is repla...
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Luke Faraone: I'm running for the OSI board... maybe
https://blog.luke.wf/2025/02/im-running-for-osi-board-maybe.html
February 21, 2025, 10:35 AM
The Open Source Initiative has two classes of board seats: Affiliate seats, and Individual Member seats.-aIn the upcoming election, each affiliate can nominate a candidate, and each affiliate can cast a vote for the Affiliate candidates, but there's only 1 Affiliate seat available. I initially expressed interest in being nominated as an Affiliate candidate via Debian. But since Bradley Kuhn is also running for an Affiliate seat with a similar platform to me, especially with regards to the OSAID,...
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Russell Coker: Links February 2025
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/02/21/links-february-2025/
February 21, 2025, 8:00 AM
Oliver Lindburg wrote an interesting article about Designing for Crisis [1]. Bruce Schneier blogged about how to cryptographically identify other humans in advance of AT technology allowing faking people you know [2].
Anarcat has an interesting review of qalc which is a really good calculator, IrCOll install it on all my workstations [3]. It even does furlongs per fortnight! This would be good to be called from a LLM system when someone asks about mathematical things.
Krebs has an informative ar...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 289 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-289-released/
February 21, 2025, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 289. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Catch CalledProcessError when calling html2text.
* Update copyright years.
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Michael Ablassmeier: virtnbdbackup 2.21
https://abbbi.github.io//virtnbdbackup-sparse/
February 21, 2025, 12:00 AM
Yesterday i released a new version of
virtnbdbackup with a nice
improvement.
The new version can now detect zeroed regions in the bitmaps by comparing the block regions against the state within the base bitmap during incremental backup.
This is helpful if virtual machines run fstrim, as it results in less backup footprint. Before the incremental backups could grow the same amount of size as fstrimmed data regions.
I also managed to enhance the tests by using the arch linux cloud images. The a...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: Rcpp now used by 3000 CRAN packages!
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/02/20#rcpp_3000_packages
February 20, 2025, 9:14 PM
As of today, Rcpp stands at 3001
reverse-dependencies on CRAN.
The graph on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo, but excluding Suggests) over time.
Rcpp was first released in November 2008. It took seven year years to
clear 500
packages in late October 2015 after which usage of R and Rcpp accelerated: 1000 packages in April 2017, 1500
packages in November 2018, 2000
packages in July 2020, and 2500
package in February 2022. The chart extends to...
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Paul Tagliamonte: boot2kier
https://notes.pault.ag/boot2kier/
February 20, 2025, 2:40 PM
I canrCOt remember exactly the joke I was making at the time in my
workrCOs slack instance (IrCOm sure it wasnrCOt particularly
funny, though; and not even worth re-reading the thread to work out), but it wound up with me writing a UEFI binary for the punchline. Not to spoil the ending but it worked - no pesky kernel, no messing around with rCLuserlandrCY. I
guess the only part of this you really need to know for the setup here is that it was a Severance joke,
which is some fantastic TV. If you ...
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Evgeni Golov: Unauthenticated RCE in Grandstream HT802V2 and probably others using gs_test_server DHCP vendor option
https://www.die-welt.net/2025/02/unauthenticated-rce-in-grandstream-ht802v2-and-probably-others-using-gs_test_server-dhcp-vendor-option/
February 20, 2025, 11:38 AM
The Grandstream HT802V2 uses busybox' udhcpc for DHCP.
When a DHCP event occurs, udhcpc calls a script (/usr/share/udhcpc/default.script by default) to further process the received data.
On the HT802V2 this is used to (among others) parse the data in DHCP option 43 (vendor) using the Grandstream-specific parser /sbin/parse_vendor.
rCa
[ -n "$vendor" ] && {
VENDOR_TEST_SERVER="`echo $vendor | parse_vendor | grep gs_test_server | cut -d' ' -f2`"
if [...
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Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Snaps are broken, sorry lights out for now
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-snaps-are-broken-sorry-lights-out-for-now/
February 19, 2025, 2:17 PM
All core22 KDE snaps are broken. There is not an easy fix. We have used kde-neon repos since inception and havenrCOt had issues until now.
libEGL fatal: DRI driver not from this Mesa build (rCy23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3rCO vs rCy23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2rCO)
Apparently Jammy had a mesa update?
Option 1: Rebuild our entire stack without neon repos ( fails due to dependencies not in Jammy, would require tracking down all of these and build from source )
Option 2: Finish the transition...
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Thomas Lange: The secret maze of Debian images
http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/cdimages-maze/
February 19, 2025, 2:01 PM
TL;DR
It's difficult to find the right Debian image. We have thousands of
ISO files and cloud images and we support multiple CPU architectures
and several download methods. The directory structure of our main image server is like a maze, and our web pages for downloading are also confusing.
Most important facts from this blog post
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/
The newest netinst ISO
Newest Debian live testing with GNOME
There's no official Debian stable ISO using the backports kernel
T...
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Dima Kogan: When are the days getting longer the fastest?
http://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2025/02/18_when-are-the-days-getting-longer-the-fastest.html
February 19, 2025, 2:47 AM
We're way past the winter solstice, and approaching the equinox. The
sun is noticeably staying up later and later every day, which raises
an obvious question: when are the days getting longer the fastest?
Intuitively I want to say it should happen at the equinox. But does it
happen exactly at the equinox? I could read up on all the gory
details of this, or I could just make some plots. I wrote this: #!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
import datetime
import astral.sun
lat = 34.
year = 2025
cit...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppDE 0.1.8 on CRAN: Maintenance
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/02/18#rcppde_0.1.8
February 18, 2025, 11:27 PM
A maintenance release of our RcppDE package arrived
at CRAN. RcppDE is a rCLportrCY of
DEoptim, a
package for derivative-free optimisation using differential evolution,
from plain C to C++. By using RcppArmadillo the
code became a lot shorter and more legible. Our other main contribution
is to leverage some of the excellence we get for free from using Rcpp, in particular the ability to
optimise user-supplied compiled objective functions which can
make things a lot faster than repeatedly evaluati...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: MySQL hypergraph optimizer talk
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-02-18-23-14_mysql_hypergraph_optimizer_talk.html
February 18, 2025, 10:14 PM
Norvald Ryeng, my old manager, held a talk on the MySQL hypergraph optimizer (which was my main project before I left a couple of years ago)
at a pre-FOSDEM event; it's pretty interesting if you want to know
the basics of how an SQL join optimizer works.
The talk doesn't go very deep into the specifics of the hypergraph
optimizer, but in a sense, that's the point; an optimizer isn't
characterized by one unique trick that fixes everything, it's about
having a solid foundation and then iterating ...
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B|ilint R|-czey: Wireshark on Ubuntu: Stay Ahead with the Latest Releases and Nightly Builds
https://balintreczey.hu/blog/wireshark-on-ubuntu-stay-ahead-with-the-latest-releases-and-nightly-builds/
February 18, 2025, 9:57 AM
Wireshark is an essential tool for network analysis, and staying up to date with the latest releases ensures access to new features, security updates, and bug fixes. While UbunturCOs official repositories provide stable versions, they are often not the most recent.
Wearing both WiresharkCore Developer and Debian/Ubuntu package maintainer hats, IrCOm happy to help the Wireshark team in providing updated packages for all supported Ubuntu versions through dedicated PPAs. This post outlines how ...
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Jonathan Dowland: printables.com feed
https://jmtd.net/log/printables_feed/
February 14, 2025, 9:29 AM
I wanted to follow new content posted to Printables.com
with a feed reader, but Printables.com doesn't provide one. Neither do the other
obvious 3d model catalogues. So, I started building one.
I have something that spits out an Atom feed and a couple of beta testers gave me some valuable feedback. I had planned to make it public, with the ultimate goal being to convince Printables.com to implement feeds themselves.
Meanwhile, I stumbled across someone else who has done basically the same thin...
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Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2025 (by Roberto C. S|inchez)
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-01/
February 14, 2025, 12:00 AM
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by FreexianrCOs Debian LTS offering.
Debian LTS contributors
In January, 20 contributors have been paid to work on Debian
LTS, their reports are available:
Abhijith PA
did 8.0h (out of 14.0h assigned), thus carrying over 6.0h to the next month. Adrian Bunk
did 36.5h (out of 47.75h assigned and 52.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 63.5h to the next month.
Andrej Shadura
did 11.0h (out of 11.0h assigned and 4.0h from previous period), th... --------------------
Jonathan Dowland: 10 years at Red Hat
https://jmtd.net/log/redhat/10/
February 13, 2025, 11:25 AM
I've just passed my 10th anniversary of starting at
Red Hat! As a personal milestone, this is the longest
I've stayed in a job: I managed 10 years at Newcastle University,
although not in one continuous role.
I haven't exactly worked in one continuous role at Red Hat either, but it
feels like what I do Today is a logical evolution from what I started doing, whereas in Newcastle I jumped around a bit.
I've seen some changes: in my time here, we changed the logo from Shadow Man; we transitioned ...
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Russell Coker: Browser Choice
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/02/13/browser-choice/
February 13, 2025, 11:04 AM
Browser Choice and Security Support
Google seems to be more into tracking web users and generally becoming hostile to users [1]. So using a browser other than Chrome seems like a good idea. The problem is the lack of browsers with security support. It seems that the only browser engines with the quality of security support we expect in Debian are Firefox and the Chrome engine. The Chrome engine is used in Chrome, Chromium, and Microsoft Edge. Edge of course isnrCOt an option and Chromium still h...
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Bits from Debian: DebConf25 Logo Contest Results
https://bits.debian.org/2025/02/debconf25-logo-contest-results.html
February 13, 2025, 9:00 AM
Last November, the DebConf25 Team
asked
the community to help design the logo for the 25th
Debian Developers' Conference and the results
are in! The logo contest received
23 submissions
and we thank all the 295 people who took the time to participate in the
survey. There were several amazing proposals, so choosing was not easy.
We are pleased to
announce
that the winner of the logo survey is 'Tower with red Debian Swirl originating from blue water' (option L), by Juliana Camargo and licensed CC ... --------------------
Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppUUID 1.2.0 on CRAN: Adding Clock-based UUIDs
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/02/12#rcppuuid_1.2.0
February 12, 2025, 8:55 PM
The RcppUUID package
on CRAN has been providing
UUIDs (based on the underlying Boost
library) for several years. Written by Artem Klemsov and maintained
in this gitlab
repo, the package is a very nice example of clean and
straightforward library binding. As it had dropped off CRAN over a relatively minor
issue, I descided to adopted it with the previous 1.1.2
release made quite recently.
This release adds new high-resolution clock-based UUIDs accordingt to
the v7 spec. Internally 100ns increment...
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Evgeni Golov: Authenticated RCE via OpenVPN Configuration File in Grandstream HT802V2 and probably others
https://www.die-welt.net/2025/02/authenticated-rce-via-openvpn-configuration-file-in-grandstream-ht802v2-and-probably-others/
February 12, 2025, 4:58 PM
I have a Grandstream HT802V2 running firmware 1.0.3.5 and while playing around with the VPN settings realized that the sanitization of the "Additional Options" field done for CVE-2020-5739 is not sufficient.
Before the fix for CVE-2020-5739, /etc/rc.d/init.d/openvpn did
echo "$(nvram get 8460)" | sed 's/;/n/g' >> ${CONF_FILE}
After the fix it does
echo "$(nvram get 8460)" | sed -e 's/;/n/g' | sed -e '/script-security/d' -e '/^[ ]*down /d' -e '/^[ ]*up /d' -e '/^[ ]*learn-address /d' -e...
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Jonathan Dowland: FOSDEM 2025
https://jmtd.net/log/fosdem/2025/
February 12, 2025, 4:55 PM
I'm going to FOSDEM 2025!
As usual, I'll be in the Java Devroom for most of that day, which this
time around is Saturday.
Please recommend me any talks!
This is my shortlist so far:
no more boot loader: boot using the Linux kernel
aerc, an email client for the discerning hacker
Supersonic retro development with Docker
Raiders of the lost hard drive
Rediscovering the fun of programming with the Game Boy
Fixing CVEs on Debian: almost everything you should know about it
Building the Future: Un...
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Ian Jackson: derive-deftly 1.0.0 - Rust derive macros, the easy way
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/19395.html
February 11, 2025, 9:16 PM
derive-deftly 1.0 is released.
derive-deftly is a template-based derive-macro facility for Rust. It has been a great success. Your codebase may benefit from it too!
Rust programmers will appreciate its power, flexibility, and consistency, compared to macro_rules; and its convenience and simplicity, compared to proc macros.
Programmers coming to Rust from scripting languages will appreciate derive-deftlyrCOs convenient automatic code generation, which works as a kind of compile-time introspection...
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B|ilint R|-czey: Supercharge Your Installs with apt-eatmydata: Because Who Needs Crash Safety Anyway? Efye
https://balintreczey.hu/blog/supercharge-your-installs-with-apt-eatmydata-because-who-needs-crash-safety-anyway/
February 11, 2025, 5:04 PM
Tired of waiting for apt to finish installing packages? Wish there were a way to make your installations blazingly fast without caring about minor things like, oh, data integrity? Well, today is your lucky day!
IrCOm thrilled to introduce apt-eatmydata, now available for Debian and all supported Ubuntu releases!
What Is apt-eatmydata?
If yourCOve ever used libeatmydata, you know itrCOs a nifty little hack that disables fsync() and friends, making package installations way faster by sk...
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Kentaro Hayashi: Breaking compatibility, upgrade from createrepo-c 0.17.3 to 1.2.0
https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2025/02/11/191558
February 11, 2025, 10:15 AM
Recently createrepo-c on Debian unstable was updated from 0.17.3 to 1.2.0.
It introduces breaking compatibility about metadata (repodata/*).
In the previous versions, generated metadata was compressed in gz format, newer version use zst compression instead.
This kills some yum client to work because old yum client can't handle newer metadata format correctly.
At least, (as far as I know) it affects on Amazon Linux 2 for example.
To keep compatibility with such a old platform, need to specify ... --------------------
Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Python 3.13 as the default Python 3 version, Fixing qtpaths6 for cross compilation, sbuild support for Salsa CI, Rails 7 transition, DebConf preparations and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-01-2025/
February 11, 2025, 12:00 AM
Debian Contributions: 2025-01
Contributing to Debian
is part of FreexianrCOs mission. This article
covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting
services.
Python 3.13 is now the default Python 3 version in Debian, by Stefano Rivera and Colin Watson
The Python 3.13 as default transition has now completed. The next step is to remove Python 3.12 from the archive, which s...
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Petter Reinholdtsen: Some of my 2024 free software activities
http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Some_of_my_2024_free_software_activities.html February 10, 2025, 8:30 AM
It is a while since I posted a summary of the free software and
open culture activities and projects I have worked on. Here is a
quick summary of the major ones from last year.
I guess the biggest project of the year has been migrating orphaned
packages in Debian without a version control system to have a git
repository on salsa.debian.org. When I started in April around 450
the orphaned packages needed git. I've since migrated around 250 of
the packages to a salsa git repository, and around...
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Russ Allbery: Review: The Scavenger Door
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-7564-1516-0.html
February 10, 2025, 4:03 AM
Review: The Scavenger Door, by Suzanne Palmer
Series:
Finder Chronicles #3
Publisher:
DAW
Copyright:
2021
ISBN:
0-7564-1516-0
Format:
Kindle
Pages:
458
The Scavenger Door is a science fiction adventure and the third
book of the Finder Chronicles. While each of the books of this series
stand alone reasonably well, I would still read the series in order. Each
book has some spoilers for the previous book.
Fer...
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Philipp Kern: 20 years
https://debblog.philkern.de/2025/02/20-years.html
February 9, 2025, 11:43 PM
20 years ago, I got my Debian Developer account. I was 18 at the time, it was Shrove Tuesday and - as is customary - I was drunk when I got the email. There was so much that I did not know - which is also why the process took 1.5 years from the time I applied. I mostly only maintained a package or two. I'm still amazed that Christian Perrier and Joerg Jaspert put sufficient trust in me at that time. Nevertheless now feels like a good time for a personal reflection of my involvement in Debian.Dur...
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Dave Hibberd: Radio Activity 10-16 Feb 2025
https://www.foxk.it/blog/radio-w6-2025/
February 9, 2025, 8:00 PM
ItrCOs been quite the week of radio related nonsense for me, where IrCOve been channelling my time and brainspace for radio into activity on air and system refinements, not working on Debian.
POTA, Antennas and why do my toys not work?
Having had my interest piqued by
Ian at mastodon.radio, I
looked online and spotted a couple of parks within stumbling distance of my house, thatrCOs good news! It looks like the list has been refactored and expanded
since I last looked at it, so there are now mor...
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Antoine Beaupr|-: A slow blogging year
https://anarc.at/blog/2025-02-09-one-failed-year/
February 9, 2025, 4:19 PM
Well, 2024 will be remembered, won't it? I guess 2025 already wants to
make its mark too, but let's not worry about that right now, and
instead let's talk about me.
A little over a year ago, I was gloating
over how I had such a great blogging year in 2022, and was considering
2023 to be average, then went on to gather more stats and traffic
analysis... Then I said, and I quote:
I hope to write more next year. I've been thinking about a few posts I
could write for work, about how things work be...
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Antoine Beaupr|-: Qalculate hacks
https://anarc.at/blog/2025-02-08-qalculate-hacks/
February 9, 2025, 4:09 AM
This is going to be a controversial statement because some people are
absolute nerds about this, but, I need to say it.
Qalculate is the best calculator that has ever been made.
I am not going to try to convince you of this, I just wanted to put
out my bias out there before writing down those notes. I am a total
fan.
This page will collect my notes of cool hacks I do with
Qalculate. Most examples are copy-pasted from the command-line
interface (qalc(1)), but I typically use the graphical inte... --------------------
Petter Reinholdtsen: New oggz release 1.1.2 after 15 years
http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/New_oggz_release_1_1_2_after_15_years.html February 9, 2025, 12:15 AM
A little over a week ago, I noticed
the liboggz
package on my Debian dashboard had not had a new upstream release
for a while. A closer look showed that its last release, version
1.1.1, happened in 2010. A few patches had accumulated in the Debian
package, and I even noticed that I had passed on these patches to
upstream five years ago. A handful crash bugs had been reported
against the Debian package, and looking at the upstream repository I
even found a few crash bugs reported there too. T...
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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in January 2025
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2025/02/my-debian-activities-in-january-2025/
February 8, 2025, 6:41 PM
Debian LTS
This was my hundred-twenty-seventh 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:
[DLA 4014-1] gnuchess security update to fix one CVE related to arbitrary code execution via crafted PGN (Portable Game Notation) data.[DLA 4015-1] rsync update to fix five CVEs related leaking information from the server or writing files outside of the clientrCOs intended destination.[DLA 4015-2...
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Erich Schubert: AzulrCOs State-of-Java report is nonsense
https://www.vitavonni.de/blog/202502/20250208azul-state-of-java-report.html February 8, 2025, 3:50 PM
AzulrCOs State-of-Java report is full of nonsense, and no worth looking at.
The report claims various stuff about the adoption of AI in the Java ecosystem. But its results do not make any sense when looked at in detail.
For example (in the AI section):
Figure 21 (rCLwhich programming languages to code AIrCY) has more bars in the chart than labels.
Figure 22 (rCLwhich Java AI librariesrCY) clearly is nonsense, because, e.g.:
top-ranked rCLJavaMLrCY is not even on maven, and ha... --------------------
Emmanuel Kasper: Wireless headset dongle not detected by PulseAudio
https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/wireless-headset-dongle-not-detected-on-by-pulseaudio/
February 7, 2025, 3:29 PM
For whatever reason, when I plug and unplug my Wireless Headset dongle over USB,
it is not always detected by the PulseAudio/Pipewire stack which is
running our desktop sound Linux those days. But we can fix that with a restart of the handling daemon, see below.
In PulseAudio terminology an input device (microphone) is called a source, and an output device a sink.
When the headset dongle is plugged in, we can see it on the USB bus:
$ lsusb | grep Headset
Bus 001 Device 094: ID 046d:0af7 Logitec...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: zigg 0.0.2 on CRAN: Micromaintenance
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/02/07#zigg_0.0.2
February 7, 2025, 2:29 PM
The still very new package zigg which
arrived on CRAN a week ago just
received a micro-update at CRAN. zigg provides
the Ziggurat
pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) for Normal, Exponential and
Uniform draws proposed by Marsaglia and
Tsang (JSS, 2000),
and extended by Leong et al.-a(JSS, 2005). This PRNG
is lightweight and very fast: on my machine speedups for the
Normal, Exponential, and Uniform are on the order of 7.4, 5.2 and 4.7
times faster than the default generators in R as illustrated ... --------------------
Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 288 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-288-released/
February 7, 2025, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 288. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Add 'asar' to DIFFOSCOPE_FAIL_TESTS_ON_MISSING_TOOLS. (Closes: #1095057)
* Update minimal 'black' version.
* Update copyright years.
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 14.2.3-1 on CRAN: Small Upstream Fix
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/02/06#rcpparmadillo_14.2.3-1
February 6, 2025, 2:35 PM
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 close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research code into production environments. RcppArmadillo
integrates this library with the R environment and languagerCoand is
widely used by (currently) 1215 other packages on CRAN, downloaded 38.2 million tim...
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Dominique Dumont: Drawbacks of using Cookiecutter with Cruft
https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/drawbacks-of-using-cookiecutter-with-cruft/
February 6, 2025, 1:49 PM
Hi
Cookiecutter is a tool for building coding project templates. ItrCOs often used to provide a scaffolding to build lots of similar project. IrCOve seen it used to create Symfony projects and several cloud infrastructures deployed with Terraform. This tool was useful to accelerate the creation of new projects.
Since these templates were bound to evolve, the teams providing these template relied on cruft to update the code provided by the template in their userrCOs code. In other words, the...
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Bits from Debian: Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25
https://bits.debian.org/2025/02/proxmox-platinum-debconf25.html
February 6, 2025, 10:50 AM
We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has
committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a
Platinum Sponsor.
Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use Open Source server software. The product portfolio from Proxmox, including server virtualization, backup, and email security, helps companies of any size, sector, or industry to simplify their IT infrastructures. The Proxmox solutions are based on the great Debian platform, and we are happy that we can give back to the community by sponsoring DebConf25.
Wit...
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Alberto Garc|!a: Keeping your system-wide configuration files intact after updating SteamOS
https://blogs.igalia.com/berto/2025/02/05/keeping-your-system-wide-configuration-files-intact-after-updating-steamos/
February 5, 2025, 4:13 PM
Introduction
If you use SteamOS and you like to install third-party tools or modify the system-wide configuration some of your changes might be lost after an OS update. Read on for details on why this happens and what to do about it.
As you all know SteamOS uses an immutable root filesystem and users are not expected to modify it because all changes are lost after an OS update.
However this does not include configuration files: the /etc directory is not part of the root filesystem i...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in January 2025
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2025-01/
February 5, 2025, 11:49 AM
Welcome to the first report in 2025 from the Reproducible Builds project!
Our monthly reports outline what werCOve been up to over the past month and highlight items of news from elsewhere in the world of software supply-chain security when relevant. As usual, though, if you are interested in contributing to the Reproducible Builds project, please visit our Contribute page on our website.
Table of contents:
reproduce.debian.net
Two new academic papers
Distribution work
On our mailing...
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Dominique Dumont: Azure API throttling strikes back
https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/azure-api-throttling-strikes-back/ February 4, 2025, 1:23 PM
Hi
In my last blog, I explained how we resolved a throttling issue involving Azure storage API. In the end, I mentioned that I was not sure of the root cause of the throttling issue.
Even though we no longer had any problem in dev and preprod cluster, we still faced throttling issue with prod. The main difference between these 2 environments is that we have about 80 PVs in prod versus 15 in the other environments. Given that we manage 1500 pods in prod, 80 PVs does not look like a lot.
To...
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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities January 2025
http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2025/02/04/floss-activities/
February 4, 2025, 2:43 AM
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus.
I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
zygolophodon:
support Iceshrimp URLs
reportbug:
arch menu fixes
Debian website:
add arch data reportbug sync note
Debian wiki pages:
DeveloperNews,
Exploits,
PortsDocs/New,
Teams/Debbugs/ArchitectureTags
Sponsors
All work was done on a volunteer basis....
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Valhalla's Things: Conference Talk Timeout Ring, Part One
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/02/04-conference_talk_timeout_ring_part_one/index.html
February 4, 2025, 12:00 AM
Posted on February 4, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits
A few ago I may have accidentally bought a ring of 12 RGB LEDs; I soldered temporary leads on it, connected it to a CircuitPython supported board
and played around for a while.
They we had a couple of friends come over to remote FOSDEM together, and
I had talked with one of them about WS2812 / NeoPixels, so I brought
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Bits from Debian: Bits from the DPL
https://bits.debian.org/2025/02/bits-from-the-dpl-february.html
February 2, 2025, 11:00 PM
Dear Debian community,
this is bits from DPL for January.
Sovereign Tech Agency
I was recently pointed to Technologies and Projects supported by the
Sovereign Tech Agency which is financed by the German Federal
Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. It is a subsidiary of
the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, SPRIND GmbH.
It is worth sending applications there for distinct projects as that is
their preferred method of funding. Distinguished developers can also
apply for a fello...
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Dave Hibberd: SOTA Trip Reports: Feb 02, 2025 - Bennachie
https://www.foxk.it/blog/bennachie-sota-25/
February 2, 2025, 8:00 PM
This was originally posted on SOTA
Forums.
ItrCOs here for completeness of my writing.
To Quote @MM0EFI and the GM0ESS gang, today was a particularly Amateur showing! Having spent all weekend locked in the curling rink ruining my knees and inflicting mild liver damage in the Aberdeen City Open competition, I needed some outside time away from people to stretch the legs and loosen my knees.
With my teammates/guests shipped off early on account of our quality performance and the days fair drawinr...
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Colin Watson: Free software activity in January-a2025
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2025-01.html February 2, 2025, 7:48 PM
Most of my Debian contributions this month were
sponsored by
Freexian. If you appreciate this sort of work and are at a company that
uses Debian, have a look to see whether you can pay for any of
FreexianrCys services; as well as the direct
benefits, that revenue stream helps to keep Debian development sustainable
for me and several other lovely
people.
You can also support my work directly via
Liberapay.
Python-ateam
We finally made Python 3.13 the default version in testing! I fixed various
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Joachim Breitner: Coding on my eInk Tablet
https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/815-Coding_on_my_eInk_Tablet
February 2, 2025, 3:07 PM
For many years I wished I had a setup that would allow me to work (that is, code) productively outside in the bright sun. ItrCOs winter right now, but when its summer again itrCOs always a bit. this weekend I got closer to that goal.
TL;DR: Using code-server on a beefy machine seems to be quite neat.
Passively lit coding
Personal history
Looking back at my own old blog entries I find one from 10 years ago describing how I bought a Kobo eBook reader with the intent of using it as an external m...
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Anuradha Weeraman: DeepSeek-R1, at the cusp of an open revolution
https://weeraman.com/deepseek-r1-at-the-cusp-of-an-open-revolution/
February 2, 2025, 2:37 PM
DeepSeek R1, the new entrant to the Large Language Model wars has created quite a splash over the last few weeks. Its entrance into a space dominated by the Big Corps, while pursuing asymmetric and novel strategies has been a refreshing eye-opener.GPT AI improvement was starting to show signs of slowing down, and has been observed to be reaching a point of diminishing returns as it runs out of data and compute required to train, fine-tune increasingly large models. This has turned the focus towa...
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Junichi Uekawa: February.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2025-Feb-2.html.en#2025-Feb-2-14:56:37
February 2, 2025, 5:56 AM
February. This is entrance exam season for Tokyo Junior High Schools. Good luck to those who are going through it now.
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Guido G|+nther: Free Software Activities January 2025
https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_January_2025.html February 1, 2025, 11:24 AM
Another short status update of what happened on my side last
month. Mostly focused on quality of life improvements in phosh and
cleaning up and improving phoc this time around (including catching up
with wlroots git) but some improvements for other things like
phosh-osk-stub happened on the side line too.
phosh
Fix crash when switching bitween some fractional scales (MR)
Make layer surface code more flexible and fade in system modal dialogs (MR) Auto close quick setting status pages (MR)
Clea...
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