Wouter Verhelst: Not currently uploading
https://grep.be/blog//en/life/debian/Not_currently_uploading/
August 30, 2022, 11:22 PM
A notorious ex-DD decided
to post garbage on his site in which he links my name to the suicide of
Frans Pop, and mentions that
my GPG key is currently disabled in the Debian keyring, along with some
manufactured screenshots of the Debian NM site that allegedly show I'm
no longer a DD. I'm not going to link to the post -- he deserves to be
ridiculed, not given attention.
Just to set the record straight, however:
Frans Pop was my friend. I never treated him with anything but respect.
I do not kn...
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Jonathan Dowland: Venineth
https://jmtd.net/log/venineth/
August 30, 2022, 11:25 AM
My turntable is temporarily out of action so this post is in lieu of a
crate digging update.
Some time ago, I saw Matt Hoye raving about a
little indie game called
Venineth. I think he said it was
the perfect little game to relax to. I don’t regularly play games but I could
sometimes do with some help relaxing. I was reminded about Venineth when I saw
some buzz about Exo One, a similar-looking game, so
I thought I’d give Venineth a go.
A scene near the start of Venineth
It’s gre...
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John Goerzen: The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10417-the-pc-internet-revolution-in-rural-america
August 30, 2022, 1:22 AM
Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a desire to get this down for my kids, I figure it’s time to write a bit about living through the PC and Internet revolution where I did: outside a tiny town in rural Kansas. And, as I’ve been back in that same area for the past 15 years, I reflect some on the challenges that continue to play out.
Although the stories from the others were primarily about getting online, I want to start by sett...
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Emmanuel Kasper: Moving blog from blogger.com to wordpress.com
https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2022/08/29/moving-blog-from-blogger-com-to-wordpress-com/
August 29, 2022, 8:05 AM
I switched from blogger.com the Google Blog platform to the hosted wordpress.com of Automaticc, the WordPress blog engine main authors.
I thus gain:
markdown formatting when writing blog entries, finally !
running on a opensource core, that I can move locally to my own server if I ever want to fiddle with MySQL and PHP.
I lose:
free CNAME redirect using my own domain name
a bit of advertising-free space. The blog at wordpress.com has a prominent header indicating I am using the free plan, but...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: littler 0.3.16 on CRAN: Package Updates
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/08/28#littler-0.3.16
August 28, 2022, 10:54 PM
The seventeenth release of littler as a CRAN package just landed, following in the now sixteen year history (!!) as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later.
littler is the first command-line interface for R as it predates Rscript. It allows for piping as well for shebang scripting via #!, uses command-line arguments more consistently and still starts faster. It also always loaded the methods package which Rscript only started to do in recent years.
littler lives on ...
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Andrew Cater: Debian Barbeque, Cambridge 2022
http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2022/08/debian-barbeque-cambridge-2022.html
August 28, 2022, 8:07 PM
 And here we are: second day of the barbeque in Cambridge. Lots of food - as always - some alcohol, some soft drinks, coffee.Lots of good friends, and banter and good natured argument. For a couple of folk, it's their first time here - but most people have known each other for years. Lots of reminiscing, some crochet from two of us. Multiple technical discussions weaving and overlappingNot just meat and vegetarian options for food: a fresh loaf, gingerbread of various sorts, fresh Belgian-style...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: AV1 live streaming: Muxing and streaming
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2022-08-28-10-51_av1_live_streaming_muxing_and_streaming.txt.html
August 28, 2022, 9:51 AM
Following up on my previous posts, I've finally gotten to the part of the
actual streaming (which includes muxing). It's not super-broad over all
possible clients, but it probably gives enough information to tell roughly
where we are.
First, the bad news: There is no iOS support for AV1. People had high
hopes after it turned out the latest iOS 16 betas support AVIF, and
even embedded a copy of dav1d
to do so, but according to my own testing, this doesn't extend to video
at all. Not as standalon...
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Antoine Beaupré: How to nationalize the internet in Canada
https://anarc.at/blog/2022-08-26-nationalize-internet/
August 26, 2022, 4:56 PM
Rogers had a catastrophic failure in July
2022. It affected emergency services (as in: people couldn't call 911,
but also some 911 services themselves failed), hospitals (which
couldn't access prescriptions), banks and payment systems (as payment
terminals stopped working), and regular users as well. The outage
lasted almost a full day, and Rogers took days to give any technical
explanation on the outage, and even when they did, details were
sparse. So far the only detailed account is from outsi...
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Jonathan Dowland: Replacement nosecone for Janod Rocket
https://jmtd.net/log/janod_rocket/
August 26, 2022, 3:28 PM
My youngest has a cute little wooden Rocket puzzle, made by a French company
called Janod.
Sadly, at some point, we lost the nose cone part, so I designed and printed a
replacement.
It's substantially based on one module from an OpenSCAD "Nose Cone Library" by
Garrett
Goss,
which he kindly released to the public domain.
I embellished the cone with a top pointy bit and a rounded brim. I also
hollowed out the bottom to make space for a magnet. Originally I designed an
offset-from-centre ...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RApiSerialize 0.1.2 on CRAN: Small Bugfix
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/08/25#rapiserialize_0.1.2
August 25, 2022, 11:27 PM
A new bug fix release 0.1.2 of RApiSerialize got onto CRAN earlier. It follows on the 0.1.1 release from earlier this month, and addresses a minor build issue where an error message, only in the case of missing long vector support, tried to use an i18n macro that is not supplied by the build.
The RApiSerialize package is used by both my RcppRedis as well as by Travers excellent qs package. Neither one of us has a need to switch to format 3 yet so format 2 remains the default. But along with othe...
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Antoine Beaupré: One dead Purism laptop
https://anarc.at/blog/2022-08-25-one-dead-purism-laptop/
August 25, 2022, 7:28 PM
The "série noire" continues. I ordered my first Purism Librem 13v4
laptop in April 2019 and it arrived, unsurprisingly, more than three
weeks later. But more surprisingly, it did not work at all: a problem
eerily similar to this post talking about a bricked Purism
laptop. Thankfully, Purism was graceful enough to cross-ship a
replacement, and once I paid the extra (gulp) 190$ Fedex fee, I had my
new elite laptop read.
Less than a year later, the right USB-A port breaks: it would deliver
power,...
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Jonathan Dowland: IKEA HEMNES Shoe cabinet repair
https://jmtd.net/log/shoe_cabinet_repair/
August 25, 2022, 10:16 AM
Over time the screw hole into the wooden front section of our IKEA HEMNES Shoe
cabinet
had worn out and it was not possible to secure a screw at that position any
more. I designed a little 'wedge' of plastic to sit over the fitting with and
provide some offset screw holes.
At the time, I had a very narrow window of access to our office 3d printer, so I
designed it almost as a "speed coding" session in OpenSCAD: in between 5-10 minutes,
guessing about the exact dimensions for the plastic bit t...
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Jonathan Dowland: dues (or blues)
https://jmtd.net/log/hledger/dues/
August 25, 2022, 10:00 AM
After I wrote hledger, I got some good feedback, both from a friend
in-person and also on Twitter.
My in-person friend asked, frankly, do I really try to manage money like
this: tracking every single expense? Which affirms my suspicion, that many
people don't, and that it perhaps isn't essential to do so.
Combined with the details below, 3/4 of the way through my experiment with
using hledger, I'm not convinced that it has been a good idea.
I'm quoting my Twitter feedback here in order to res...
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Jonathan Dowland: Our Study, 2022
https://jmtd.net/log/study/2022/
August 24, 2022, 3:41 PM
Two years ago I blogged a photo of my study. I'd been planning
to revisit that for a while but I'd been somewhat embarrassed by the state of
it, but I've finally decided to bite the bullet.
Fisheye shot of my home office, 2022
What's changed
The supposedly-temporary 4x4 KALLAX has become a permanent feature. I managed
to wedge it on the right-hand side far wall, next to the bookcase. They fit
snugly together. Since I'd put my turntable on top, I've now dedicated the top
row of four sp...
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Emmanuel Kasper: Investigating database replication in different availability zones
https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2022/08/24/investigating-database-replication-in-different-availability-zones/
August 24, 2022, 3:09 PM
Investigating today what is AWS Relational Database Service with two readable standbys
Considering your current read/write server is in Availability Zone AZ1, this is basically postgres 14 with synchronous_standby_names = ANY 1 (az2, az3) and synchronous_commit = on.
In regards to safety of data, it looks similar to the raft algorithm used by etcd with three members as a write is only ack’ed if it has been fsynced by two servers, the difference is that raft has a leader election, whereas in P...
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Ian Jackson: prefork-interp - automatic startup time amortisation for all manner of scripts
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/12367.html
August 23, 2022, 9:30 AM
The problem I had - Mason, so, sadly, FastCGI
Since the update to current Debian stable, the website for YARRG, (a play-aid for Puzzle Pirates which I wrote some years ago), started to occasionally return “Internal Server Error”, apparently due to bug(s) in some FastCGI libraries.
I was using FastCGI because the website is written in Mason, a Perl web framework, and I found that Mason CGI calls were slow. I’m using CGI - yes, trad CGI - via userv-cgi. Running Mason this way would “compil...
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Jonathan Wiltshire: Team Roles and Tuckman’s Model, for Debian teams
https://www.jwiltshire.org.uk/2022/08/22/team-roles-and-tuckmans-model-for-debian-teams/
August 22, 2022, 8:26 PM
When I first moved from being a technical consultant to a manager of other consultants, I took a 5-day course Managing Technical Teams – a bootstrap for managing people within organisations, but with a particular focus on technical people. We do have some particular quirks, after all…
Two elements of that course keep coming to mind when doing Debian work, and they both relate to how teams fit together and get stuff done.
Tuckman’s four stages model
In the mid-1960s Bruce W. Tuckma...
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Antoine Beaupré: Alternative MPD clients to GMPC
https://anarc.at/blog/2022-08-22-gmpc-alternatives/
August 22, 2022, 5:17 PM
GMPC (GNOME Music Player Client) is a audio player based on MPD
(Music Player Daemon) that I've been using as my main audio player for
years now.
Unfortunately, it's marked as "unmaintained" in the official list of
MPD clients, along with basically every client available in
Debian. In fact, if you look closely, all but one of the 5
unmaintained clients are in Debian (ario, cantata, gmpc, and
sonata), which is kind of sad. And none of the active ones are
packaged.
GMPC status and features
GMPC...
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Wouter Verhelst: Remote notification
https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/play/Remote_notification/
August 22, 2022, 2:15 PM
Sometimes, it's useful to get a notification that a command has finished
doing something you were waiting for:
make my-large-program && notify-send "compile finished" "success" || notify-send "compile finished" "failure"
This will send a notification message with the title "compile finished",
and a body of "success" or "failure" depending on whether the command
completed successfully, and allows you to minimize (or otherwise hide)
the terminal window while you do something else, which...
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Simon Josefsson: Static network config with Debian Cloud images
https://blog.josefsson.org/2022/08/22/static-network-config-with-debian-cloud-images/
August 22, 2022, 10:09 AM
I self-host some services on virtual machines (VMs), and I’m currently using Debian 11.x as the host machine relying on the libvirt infrastructure to manage QEMU/KVM machines. While everything has worked fine for years (including on Debian 10.x), there has always been one issue causing a one-minute delay every time I install a new VM: the default images run a DHCP client that never succeeds in my environment. I never found out a way to disable DHCP in the image, and none of the documented wa...
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Russ Allbery: Review: And Shall Machines Surrender
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-60701-533-1.html
August 22, 2022, 3:29 AM
Review: And Shall Machines Surrender, by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Series:
Machine Mandate #1


Publisher:
Prime Books


Copyright:
2019


ISBN:
1-60701-533-1


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
86

Shenzhen Sphere is an artificial habitat wrapped like complex ribbons
around a star. It is wealthy, opulent, and notoriously difficult to
enter, even as a tourist. For Dr. Orfea Leung to be approved for a
residency permit was already a ...
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Junichi Uekawa: Somehow my email in emacs/wl shows right justified.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2022-Aug-21.html.en#2022-Aug-21-18:34:08
August 21, 2022, 9:34 AM
Somehow my email in emacs/wl shows right justified. Seems like some emails are detected as RTL language for some reason. Now how do I configure this...
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Russ Allbery: Review: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-250-23624-X.html
August 21, 2022, 4:08 AM
Review: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, by Becky Chambers

Series:
Monk & Robot #2


Publisher:
Tordotcom


Copyright:
2022


ISBN:
1-250-23624-X


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
151

A Prayer for the Crown Shy is the second novella in the Monk &
Robot series and a direct sequel to A
Psalm for the Wild-Built. Don't start here.
I would call this the continuing adventures of Sibling Dex and Mosscap the
robot, except adven...
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Iustin Pop: Note to self: Don't forget Qemu's discard option
https://k1024.org/posts/2022/2022-08-21-do-not-forget-qemu-unmap/
August 21, 2022, 12:00 AM
This is just a short note to myself, and to anyone who might run VMs
via home-grown scripts (or systemd units). I expect modern VM managers
to do this automatically, but for myself, I have just a few hacked
together scripts.
By default, QEMU (at least as of version 7.0) does not honour/pass
discard requests from block devices to the underlying storage. This is
a sane default (like lvm’s default setting), but with long-lived VMs
it can lead to lots of wasted disk space. I keep my VMs on SSDs, w...
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Emmanuel Kasper: Everything markdown with pandoc
https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2022/08/19/everything-markdown-with-pandoc/
August 19, 2022, 7:02 PM
Using a markdown file , this style sheet and this simple command,
pandoc couronne.md --standalone --css styling.css
--to html5 --table-of-contents > couronne.html
I feel I will never need a word processor again. It produces this nice looking document without pain....
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 0.11.2.3.1 on CRAN: Double Update
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/08/18#rcpparmadillo_0.11.2.3.1
August 19, 2022, 12:51 AM
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 language–and is widely used by (currently) 1005 packages other packages on CRAN (as celebrated in t...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 221 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-221-released/
August 19, 2022, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 221. This version includes the following changes:
* Don't crash if we can open a PDF file with PyPDF but cannot parse the
annotations within. (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#311)
* Depend on the dedicated xxd package, not vim-common.
* Update external_tools.py to reflect xxd/vim-common change.
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Bits from Debian: Debian turns 29!
https://bits.debian.org/2022/08/debian-turns-29.html
August 16, 2022, 11:00 AM
Today is Debian's 29th anniversary. We recently wrote
about some ideas to celebrate the DebianDay,
and several events have been planned in more than 14 locations.
You can join the party or organise something yourselves too!
Today is also an opportunity for you to start or resume your
contributions to Debian. For example, you can have a look at our
list of Debian Teams,
install the how-can-i-help package
and see if there is a bug in any of the software that you use that you can help to fix,
sta...
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John Goerzen: The Joy of Easy Personal Radio: FRS, GMRS, and Motorola DLR/DTR
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10406-the-joy-of-easy-personal-radio-frs-gmrs-and-motorola-dlr-dtr
August 15, 2022, 2:02 PM
Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not just the usefulness, but even the joy, of having our own radios. For instance:
When traveling to national parks or other wilderness areas, family and friends can keep in touch even where there is no cell coverage.
It is a lot faster to just push a button and start talking than it is to unlock a phone, open the phone app, select a person, wait for the call to connect, wait for the other person ...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo used by 1001 CRAN Packages
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/08/14#rcpparmadillo_at_1001
August 14, 2022, 2:08 PM
It is with a mix of pride and joy, but also some genuine astonishment and amazement, that we can share that the counter of reverse dependencies at CRAN for our RcppArmadillo package for R just crossed 1000 packages [1]:
Conrad actually posted this a few weeks ago, by my count we were then still a few packages shy. In any event, having crossed this marker this summer, either then or now, and after more than a dozen years of working on the package is a really nice moment. Google Scholar counts ne...
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Jamie McClelland: Web caching is hard
https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2022/web-caching-is-hard/
August 14, 2022, 12:27 PM
Web caching is hard. And also, maybe I’m not that good under pressure? In any
event, I made the following mistakes while trying to debug a web site using our
nginx cache that bit the dust under heavy load today:
Action: I ran curl -I https://website.org/ and it hung.
Wrong assumption: Something is wrong with nginx. Why else would it just hang?
Reconsidered conclusion: The resource (the home page) is a MISS, so nginx has
to retrieve it from the origin, but the origin is over-loaded and timing o...
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Sergio Durigan Junior: Debuginfod is coming to Ubuntu
https://blog.sergiodj.net/2022/08/14/debuginfod-is-coming-to-ubuntu.html
August 14, 2022, 4:00 AM
These past couple of months I have been working to bring
debuginfod to
Ubuntu. I thought it would be a good idea to make this post and
explain a little bit about what the service is and how I'm planning to
deploy it.
A quick recap: what's debuginfod?
Here's a good summary of what debuginfod is:
debuginfod is a new-ish project whose purpose is to serve
ELF/DWARF/source-code information over HTTP. It is developed under the
elfutils umbrella. You can find more information about it here:
https...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Still Not Safe
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-19-027128-0.html
August 14, 2022, 3:38 AM
Review: Still Not Safe, by Robert L. Wears & Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

Publisher:
Oxford University Press


Copyright:
November 2019


ISBN:
0-19-027128-0


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
232

Still Not Safe is an examination of the recent politics and history
of patient safety in medicine. Its conclusions are summarized by the
opening paragraph of the preface:
The American moral and social philosopher Eric Hoffer reportedly said
...
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Shirish Agarwal: Mum and Books
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/mum-and-books/
August 12, 2022, 6:33 PM
The last day
The first lesson I would like everybody to know and have is to buy two machines, especially a machine to check low blood pressure. I had actually ordered one from Amazon but they never delivered. I hope to sue them in consumer court in due course of time. The other one is a blood sugar machine which I ordered and did get, but the former is more important than the latter, and the reason why will be known soon.
Mum had stopped eating solids and was entirely on liquids for the ...
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Wouter Verhelst: Upgrading a Windows 10 VM to Windows 11
https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/Upgrading_a_Windows_10_VM_to_Windows_11/
August 12, 2022, 3:00 PM
I run Debian on my laptop (obviously); but occasionally, for $DAYJOB, I
have some work to do on Windows. In order to do so, I have had a Windows
10 VM in my libvirt configuration that I can use.
A while ago, Microsoft issued Windows 11. I recently found out that all
the components for running Windows 11 inside a libvirt VM are available,
and so I set out to upgrade my VM from Windows 10 to Windows 11. This
wasn't as easy as I thought, so here's a bit of a writeup of all the
things I ran against...
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Guido Günther: On a road to Prizren with a Free Software Phone
https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/On_a_road_to_Prizren_with_a_Free_Software_Phone.html
August 12, 2022, 2:06 PM
Since people are sometimes slightly surprised that you can go onto a
multi week trip with a smartphone running free sofware so only I
wanted to share some impressions from my recent trip to Prizren/Kosovo
to attend Debconf 22 using a Librem 5. It's a mix of things that
happend and bits that got improved to hopefully make things more fun
to use. And, yes, there won't be any big surprises like being stranded
without the ability to do phone calls in this read because there
weren't and there shouldn...
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Ben Hutchings: Debian LTS work, July 2022
https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/debian-lts-work-july-2022.html
August 12, 2022, 12:27 PM
In July I was assigned 24 hours of work by Freexian's Debian LTS
initiative. I worked 3 hours and will carry over the rest to
August.
In July, no Debian release was in LTS status. However, I spent some
time finishing the DLA text for my upload of linux at the end of
June. I also attended the LTS BoF at DebConf and the regular team
meeting.
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Shirish Agarwal: Mum, Samsung Galaxy M-52
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2022/08/11/mum-samsung-galaxy-m-52/
August 10, 2022, 7:44 PM
Mum
I dunno from where to start. While I’m not supposed to announce it, mum left this earth a month ago (thirteen days when I started to write this blog post) ago. I am still in part denial, part shock, and morose. Of all the seasons in a year, the rainy season used to be my favorite, now would I ever be able to look and feel other than the emptiness that this season has given me? In some senses, it is and was very ironic, when she became ill about last year, I had promised myself I would ...
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Russell Coker: TSIG Error From SSSD
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/08/10/tsig-error-sssd/
August 10, 2022, 3:03 AM
A common error when using the sssd daemon to authenticate via Active Directory on Linux seems to be:
sssd[$PID]: ; TSIG error with server: tsig verify failure
This is from sssd launching the command “nsupdate -g” to do dynamic DNS updates. It is possible to specify the DNS server in /etc/sssd/sssd.conf but that will only be used AFTER the default servers have been attempted, so it seems impossible to stop this error from happening. It doesn’t appear to do any harm as the correct server is ...
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Bits from Debian: Debian Day 2022 - call for celebration
https://bits.debian.org/2022/08/debianday2022-call-for-celebration.html
August 8, 2022, 3:00 PM
Every year on August 16th, the anniversary of the Debian Project takes place.
And several communities around the world celebrate this date by organizing local
meetings in an event called "Debian Day".
So, how about celebrating the 29th anniversary of the Debian Project in 2022 in
your city?
We invite you and your local community to organize Debian Day by hosting an
event with talks, workshops, bug squashing party,
OpenPGP keysigning, etc.
Or simply holding a meeting between people who like Debia...
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Adnan Hodzic: atuf.app: Amsterdam Toilet & Urinal Finder
https://foolcontrol.org/?p=4393
August 8, 2022, 9:48 AM
Amsterdam is a great city to enjoy a beer, or two. However, after you had your beers and you’re strolling down the streets, you might...
The post atuf.app: Amsterdam Toilet & Urinal Finder appeared first on FoolControl: Phear the penguin.
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Ian Jackson: dkim-rotate - rotation and revocation of DKIM signing keys
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/12191.html
August 8, 2022, 12:20 AM
Background
Internet email is becoming more reliant on DKIM, a scheme for having mail servers cryptographically sign emails. The Big Email providers have started silently spambinning messages that lack either DKIM signatures, or SPF. DKIM is arguably less broken than SPF, so I wanted to deploy it.
But it has a problem: if done in a naive way, it makes all your emails non-repudiable, forever. This is not really a desirable property - at least, not desirable for you, although it can be nice for som...
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Aurelien Jarno: GNU libc 2.34 in unstable
https://blog.aurel32.net/glibc-2.34-unstable.html
August 7, 2022, 9:25 PM
The GNU libc version 2.34 has just been
accepted
into unstable. Getting it ready has been more challenging than other versions,
as this version integrates a few libraries (libpthread, libdl, libutil,
libanl) into libc. While this is handled transparently at runtime, there are a
few corner cases at build time:
For backwards compatibility, empty static archives (e.g. libpthread.a) are
provided, so that the linker options keep working. However a few cmake
files shipped in some packages st...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RApiSerialize 0.1.1 on CRAN: Updates
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/08/07#rapiserialize_0.1.1
August 7, 2022, 4:38 PM
A new release 0.1.1 of RApiSerialize is now on CRAN. While this is the first release in seven years (!!), it brings mostly minor internal updates along with the option of using serialization format 3.
The package is used by both my RcppRedis as well as by Travers excellent qs package. Neither one of us has a need to switch to format 3 yet so format 2 remains the default. But along with other standard updates to package internals, it was straightforward to offer the newer format so that is what w...
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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in July 2022
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2022/08/my-debian-activities-in-july-2022/
August 5, 2022, 3:43 PM
FTP master
This month I accepted 420 and rejected 44 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 422.
I am sad to write the following lines, but unfortunately there are people who rather take advantage of others instead of doing a proper maintenance of their packages.
So, in order to find time slots for as much packages in NEW as possible, I no longer write a debian/copyright for others. I know it is a boring task to collect the copyright information, but our policy still requ...
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Jamie McClelland: Fine tuning Thunderbird's end-to-end encryption
https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2022/thunderbird-and-openpgpg/
August 4, 2022, 10:27 PM
I love that Thunderbird really tackled OpenPGP head on and incorporated it
directly into the client. I know it’s been a bit rough for some users, but I
think it’s a good long term investment.
And to demonstrate I’ll now complain about a minor issue :).
I replied to an encrypted message but couldn’t send the response using
encryption. I got an error message indicating that “End-to-end encryption
requires resolving certificate issues for” … and it listed the recipient
email address.
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Jamie McClelland: Fine tuning Thunderbird's end-to-end encryption
https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2022/thunderbird-and-openpgp/
August 4, 2022, 10:27 PM
I love that Thunderbird really tackled OpenPGP head on and incorporated it
directly into the client. I know it’s been a bit rough for some users, but I
think it’s a good long term investment.
And to demonstrate I’ll now complain about a minor issue :).
I replied to an encrypted message but couldn’t send the response using
encryption. I got an error message indicating that “End-to-end encryption
requires resolving certificate issues for” and it listed the recipient
email address.
I ...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in July 2022
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2022-07/
August 4, 2022, 3:35 PM
Welcome to the July 2022 report from the Reproducible Builds project!
In our reports we attempt to outline the most relevant things that have been going on in the past month. As a brief introduction, the reproducible builds effort is concerned with ensuring no flaws have been introduced during this compilation process by promising identical results are always generated from a given source, thus allowing multiple third-parties to come to a consensus on whether a build was compromised. As ever, i...
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Abhijith PA: Trip to misty mountains in Munnar
https://abhijithpa.me/2022/Trip-to-misty-mountains-in-munnar/
August 4, 2022, 9:53 AM
Munnar is a hill station in Idukki district of Kerala, India. Home to
2nd largest tea plantation in the country. Lot of people
visit here on summer and in winter as well. I live in the neighboring district of Munnar though I never made a visit. In my mind I pictured Munnar as a Tourist trap
with lots of garbage lying around.
I recently made a visit and it changed my perception of this place.
Little background
I never liked tea much. I am also not a coffee person either. But if I
have to ...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: AV1 live streaming: The bitrate difference
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2022-08-02-23-11_av1_live_streaming_the_bitrate_difference.html
August 2, 2022, 10:11 PM
As part of looking into AV1, I wanted to get a feel for what kind of bitrate
to aim for. Of course, Intel and others have made exquisite graphs containing
results for many different encoders (although they might have wanted to spend
a little more pixels on that latest one…), but you always feel suspicious
that the results might be a bit cherry-picked. In particular, SVT-AV1 always
seems to run on pretty wide machines (in this case, 48 cores/96 threads),
and I wondered whether this was the prim...
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Bastian Venthur: Keychron keyboards fixed on Linux
https://venthur.de/2022-08-01-keychron-keyboards-fixed-on-linux.html
August 1, 2022, 8:00 PM
Last year, I wrote about on how to get my
buggy Keychron C1 keyboard working properly on Linux by setting a kernel module
parameter. Afterwards, I contacted Hans de Goede since he was the last
one that contributed a major patch to the relevant kernel module. After some
debugging, it turned out that the Keychron keyboards are indeed misbehaving
when set to Windows mode. Almost a year later, Bryan Cain provided a
patch fixing the behavior, which has now been merged to the Linux kernel in
5.19.
Tha...
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Sergio Talens-Oliag: Using Git Server Hooks on GitLab CE to Validate Tags
https://blogops.mixinet.net/posts/using_git_server_hooks/
August 1, 2022, 11:00 AM
Since a long time ago I’ve been a
gitlab-ce user, in fact I’ve set
it up on three of the last four companies I’ve worked for (initially I installed
it using the omnibus packages on a
debian server but on the last two places I moved to
the docker based installation,
as it is easy to maintain and we don’t need a big installation as the teams
using it are small).
On the company I work for now (kyso) we are using it
to host all our internal repositories and to do all the CI/CD work (the
auto...
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Junichi Uekawa: August.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2022-Aug-1.html.en#2022-Aug-1-09:07:37
August 1, 2022, 12:07 AM
August. I think I finally understood what's going on in io_uring.
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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities July 2022
http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2022/08/01/floss-activities/
July 31, 2022, 11:02 PM
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus.
I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
SPTAG:
print error reason
duck:
add
(1
2),
sort
indicator phrases
aptitude:
fix GCC 12 FTBFS
Debian security tracker:
link GitHub advisories
Debian packages website:
sync contact footer
Debian sysadmin scripts:
use TLS not StartTLS
Debian BTS usertags:
fix some Hurd, ftp-master and release manager usertags
Debian package uploads:
tldextract,
sptag
Debian wiki pages:
Arturo_Teslao,
DebConf
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Russell Coker: Links July 2022
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/07/31/links-july-2022/
July 31, 2022, 11:51 AM
Darren Hayes wrote an interesting article about his battle with depression and his journey to accepting being gay [1]. Savage Garden had some great songs, Affirmation is relevant to this topic.
Rorodi wrote an interesting article about the biggest crypto lending company being a Ponzi scheme [2]. One thing I find particularly noteworthy is how obviously scammy it is, even to the extent of having an ex porn star as an executive! Celsuis is now in the process of going bankrupt, 7 months after that ...
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Joachim Breitner: The Via Alpina red trail through Slovenia
http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/791-The_Via_Alpina_red_trail_through_Slovenia
July 31, 2022, 9:19 AM
This July my girlfriend and I hiked the Slovenian part of the Red Trail of the Via Alpina, from the edge of the Julian Alps to Trieste, and I’d like to share some observations and tips that we might have found useful before our trip.
Our most favorite camp spot
Getting there
As we traveled with complete camping gear and wanted to stay in our tent, we avoided the high alpine parts of the trail and started just where the trail came down from the Alps and entered the Karst. A great way to get ...
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Russell Coker: Workstations With ECC RAM
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/07/31/workstations-ecc-ram/
July 31, 2022, 8:27 AM
The last new PC I bought was a Dell PowerEdge T110II in 2013. That model had been out for a while and I got it for under $2000. Since then the CPI has gone up by about 20% so it’s probably about $2000 in today’s money. Currently Dell has a special on the T150 tower server (the latest replacement for the T110II) which has a G6405T CPU that isn’t even twice as fast as the i3-3220 (3746 vs 2219) in the T110II according to passmark.com (AKA cpubenchmark.net). The special price is $2600. I can�...
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Mike Hommey: Announcing git-cinnabar 0.5.10
https://glandium.org/blog/?p=4284
July 30, 2022, 9:35 PM
Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.
Get it on github.
These release notes are also available on the git-cinnabar wiki.
What’s new since 0.5.9?
Fixed exceptions during config initialization.
Fixed swapped error messages.
Fixed correctness issues with bundle chunks with no delta node.
This is probably the last 0.5.x release before 0.6.0....
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Ian Jackson: chiark’s skip-skip-cross-up-grade
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/11840.html
July 30, 2022, 11:27 AM
Two weeks ago I upgraded chiark from Debian jessie i386 to bullseye amd64, after nearly 30 years running Debian i386. This went really quite well, in fact!
Background
chiark is my “colo” - a server I run, which lives in a data centre in London. It hosts ~200 users with shell accounts, various websites and mailing lists, moderators for a number of USENET newsgroups, and countless other services. chiark’s internal setup is designed to enable my users to do a maximum number of exciting things...
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Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2022)
https://bits.debian.org/2022/07/new-developers-2022-06.html
July 29, 2022, 2:00 PM
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
Geoffroy Berret (kaliko)
Arnaud Ferraris (aferraris)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
Alec Leanas
Christopher Michael Obbard
Lance Lin
Stefan Kropp
Matteo Bini
Tino Didriksen
Congratulations!...
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