Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSimdJson 0.1.8 on CRAN: Maintenance
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/10/18#rcppsimdjson_0.1.8
October 18, 2022, 11:27 PM
The RcppSimdJson package was just updated to release 0.1.8 today.
RcppSimdJson wraps the fantastic and genuinely impressive simdjson library by Daniel Lemire and collaborators. Via very clever algorithmic engineering to obtain largely branch-free code, coupled with modern C++ and newer compiler instructions, it results in parsing gigabytes of JSON parsed per second which is quite mindboggling. The best-case performance is ‘faster than CPU speed’ as use of parallel SIMD instructions and caref...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: digest 0.6.30 on CRAN: More Package Maintenance
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/10/18#digest_0.6.30
October 18, 2022, 10:47 PM
Release 0.6.30 of the digest package arrived at CRAN earlier today, and was just uploaded to Debian as well.
digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the md5, sha-1, sha-256, sha-512, crc32, xxhash32, xxhash64, murmur32, spookyhash, and blake3 algorithms) permitting easy comparison of R language objects. It is a mature and widely-used as many tasks may involve caching of objects for which it provides convenient general-purpose hash key generation to quickly identify the various ...
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Scarlett Gately Moore: New KDE Gear snaps in the works
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/new-kde-gear-snaps-in-the-works/
October 17, 2022, 7:53 PM
KDE Extras 22.08.2 was released! https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.08.2/
So… I am working on new snaps! This release also includes a new content snap I made with frameworks 5.98 and Qt 5.15.6. With all the new goodness, I am (Re) testing all snaps to make sure they are working as expected.
You can find a link to all of my snap releases from the KDE Snap Store Releases on the menu above.
Some notable releases that have new fixes and improvements are:
Kalzium: Molecular editor n...
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Dima Kogan: gnuplot output in an FLTK widget
http://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2022/10/17_gnuplot-output-in-an-fltk-widget.html
October 17, 2022, 7:28 PM
Overview
I make a lot of plots, and the fragmentation of tools in this space really
bugs me. People writing Python code mostly use matplotlib, R people use
ggplot2. MS people use the internal Excel thing. I've seen people use
gtkdatabox for GTK widgets, rrdtool for logging, qcustomplot for qt. And
so on. This is really unhelpful, and it would benefit everybody if there was a
single solid plotting backend with lots of bindings to different languages and
tools.
For my own usage, I've been fig...
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Jeremy Bicha: Ubuntu bug fix anniversary
https://jeremy.bicha.net/2022/10/17/ubuntu-bug-fix-anniversary/
October 17, 2022, 1:54 PM
I first installed Ubuntu when Ubuntu 6.06 LTS “Dapper Drake” was released. I was brand new to Linux. This was Ubuntu’s first LTS release; the very first release of Ubuntu was only a year and a half before. I was impressed by how usable and useful the system was. It soon became my primary home operating system and I wanted to help make it better.
On October 15, 2009, I was helping test the release candidates ISOs for the Ubuntu 9.10 release. Specifically, I tested Edubuntu. Edubuntu has ...
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Sven Hoexter: CentOS 9, stunnel, an openssl memory leak and a VirtualBox crash
http://sven.stormbind.net/blog/posts/centos_c9s_stunnel_memleak/
October 16, 2022, 6:24 PM
tl;dr; OpenSSL 3.0.1 leaks memory in ssl3_setup_write_buffer(), seems to be
fixed in 3.0.5. The issue manifests at least in stunnel and keepalived on CentOS 9.
In addition I learned the hard way that running a not so recent VirtualBox version
on Debian bullseye let to dh parameter generation crashing in libcrypto in
bn_sqr8x_internal().
A recent rabbit hole I went down. The actual bug in openssl was nailed down and
documented by
Quentin Armitage on GitHub in keepalived
My bugreport with all bac...
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Colin Watson: Reproducible man-db databases
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/reproducible-man-db-databases.html
October 16, 2022, 3:54 PM
I’ve released man-db 2.11.0
(announcement,
NEWS), and
uploaded it to Debian unstable.
The biggest chunk of work here was fixing some extremely long-standing
issues with how the database is built. Despite being in the package name,
man-db’s database is much less important than it used to be: most uses of
man(1) haven’t required it in a long time, and both hardware and
software
improvements
mean that even some searches can be done by brute force without needing
prior indexing. However, th...
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Aigars Mahinovs: Ryzen 7000 amdgpu boot hang
http://aigarius.com/blog/2022/10/16/ryzen-7000-amdgpu/
October 16, 2022, 2:15 PM
So you decided to build a brand new system using all the latest and coolest tech, so you buy a Ryzen 7000 series
Zen 4 CPU, like the Ryzen 7700X that I picked, with a new mother board and DDR5 memory and all that jazz. But for
now, you don't yet have a fitting GPU for that system (as the new ones will only come out in November), so you are
booting a Debian system using the new build-in video card of the new CPUs (Zen 4 generation has a simple AMD GPU
build-in into every CPU now - great stuff for...
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Vincent Fourmond: Tutorial: analysis of multiwavelength fast kinetics data
https://vince-debian.blogspot.com/2022/10/tutorial-analyse-multiwavelength-fast.html
October 16, 2022, 12:54 PM
The purpose of this post is to demonstrate a first approach to the analysis of multiwavelength kinetic data, like those obtained using stopped-flow data. To practice, we will use data that were acquired during the stopped flow practicals of the MetBio summer school from the FrenchBIC. During the practicals, the student monitored the reaction of myoglobin (in its Fe(III) state) with azide, which yields a fast and strong change in the absorbance spectrum of the protein, which was monitored using a...
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kpcyrd: updlockfiles: Manage lockfiles in PKGBUILDs for upstreams that don't ship them
https://vulns.xyz/2022/10/updlockfiles/
October 16, 2022, 12:00 AM
I’ve released a new tool to manage lockfiles for Arch Linux packages that can’t use a lockfile from the official upstream release. It integrates closely with other Arch Linux tooling like updpkgsums that’s already used to pin the content of build inputs in PKGBUILD.
To use this, the downstream lockfile becomes an additional source input in the source= array of our PKGBUILD (this is already the case for some packages).
source=("git+https://github.com/vimeo/psalm.git#commit=${_commit}"
...
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Jonathan Dowland: podman generate
https://jmtd.net/log/podman_generate/
October 15, 2022, 10:04 AM
I've been working with and on container technology for seven years, but I still
learn new things every day. Recently I read the excellent LWN article Docker
and the OCI container ecosystem and this was
news to me:
Running the docker CLI under a process supervisor only results in supervising
the CLI process. This has a variety of consequences for users of these tools.
For example, any attempt to limit a container's memory usage by running the
CLI as a systemd service will fail; the limits will o...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: Firsts
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2022-10-14-19-00_firsts.html
October 14, 2022, 5:15 PM
Two nice “firsts” for me in tech this month:
First Chromium feature I'm leading (previous work has mostly been
about optimizations): CSS Nesting.
(Note that the CSSWG is still ironing out the exact spec.)
First patch to a Rust project: Function context for Difftastic.
(Not yet processed by upstream.)...
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Shirish Agarwal: Dowry, Racism, Railways
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2022/10/14/dowry-racism-railways/
October 14, 2022, 5:03 PM
Dowry
Few days back, had posted about the movie Raksha Bandhan and whatever I felt about it. Sadly, just couple of days back, somebody shared this link. Part of me was shocked and part of me was not. Couple of acquaintances of mine in the past had said the same thing for their daughters. And in such situations you are generally left speechless because you don’t know what the right thing to do is. If he has shared it with you being an outsider, how many times he must have told the same to th...
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Simon Josefsson: On language bindings & Relaunching Guile-GnuTLS
https://blog.josefsson.org/2022/10/14/on-language-bindings-relaunching-guile-gnutls/
October 14, 2022, 1:58 PM
The Guile bindings for GnuTLS has been part of GnuTLS since spring 2007 when Ludovic Courtès contributed it after some initial discussion. I have been looking into getting back to do GnuTLS coding, and during a recent GnuTLS meeting one topic was Guile bindings. It seemed like a fairly self-contained project to pick up on. It is interesting to re-read the old thread when this work was included: some of the concerns brought up there now have track record to be evaluated on. My opinion that t...
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Gunnar Wolf: Learning some Rust with Lars!
https://gwolf.org/2022/10/learning-some-rust-with-lars.html
October 14, 2022, 5:11 AM
A couple of weeks ago, I read a blog post by former Debian Developer
Lars Wirzenius
offering a free basic (6hr) course on the Rust language to interested
free software and open source software programmers.
I know Lars offers training courses in
programming, and besides knowing him for
~20 years and being proud to consider us to be friends, have worked
with him in a couple of projects (i.e. he is upstream for
vmdb2, which I maintain in
Debian and use for generating
the Raspberry Pi Debian images...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: GitHub Streak: Round Nine
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/10/12#github_oct2021_oct2022
October 13, 2022, 12:59 AM
Eight years ago I referenced the Seinfeld Streak used in an earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery:
This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld’s secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don’t break the streak.
and then showed the first chart of GitHub streaking 366 days:
github activity october 2013 to october 2014
And seven years ago a first follow-up appeared in this post about 731 days:
github activity october 2014 to october 2015
And six years ago we had a followup...
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Ben Hutchings: Debian LTS work, August-September 2022
https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/debian-lts-work-august-september-2022.html
October 11, 2022, 2:33 PM
I have continued to work for Freexian on Debian LTS. In August I
carried over 21 hours from July, and worked 13 hours. In September
I was assigned an additional 17 hours, and worked 16 hours. I will
carry over 9 hours into October.
In August, Debian 10 "buster" entered LTS status. I spent some time
on the backport of Linux 5.10 for buster. While this previously
existed in buster-backports, further changes were required to add it
as an alternative kernel version in buster-sec...
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Ian Jackson: Skipping releases when upgrading Debian systems
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/13087.html
October 10, 2022, 3:48 PM
Debian does not officially support upgrading from earlier than the previous stable release: you’re not supposed to “skip” releases. Instead, you’re supposed to upgrade to each intervening major release in turn.
However, skipping intervening releases does, in fact, often work quite well. Apparently, this is surprising to many people, even Debian insiders. I was encouraged to write about it some more.
My personal experience
I have three conventionally-managed personal server systems (by wh...
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Joachim Breitner: rec-def: Minesweeper case study
http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/796-rec-def__Minesweeper_case_study
October 10, 2022, 8:22 AM
I’m on the train back from MuniHac, where I gave a talk about the rec-def library that I have excessively blogged about recently (here, here, here and here). I got quite flattering comments about that talk, so if you want to see if they were sincere, I suggest you watch the recording of “Getting recursive definitions off their bottoms” (but it’s not necessary for the following).
After the talk, Franz Thoma approached me and told me a story of how we was once implementing the game Mineswe...
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Jonathan Dowland: Focus writing with (despite) LaTeX
https://jmtd.net/log/latex_writing/
October 9, 2022, 7:54 PM
LaTeX — the age-old typesetting system — makes me angry. Not because it's bad.
To clarify, not because there's something better. But because there should
be.
When writing a document using LaTeX, if you are prone to procrastination
it can be very difficult to focus on the task at hand, because there are so
many yaks to shave. Here's a few points of advice.
format the document source for legible reading. Yes, it's the input
to the typesetter, and yes, the output of the typesetter needs to b...
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Emmanuel Kasper: Markdown CMS or Wiki for smallish website
https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2022/10/09/markdown-cms-or-wiki-for-smallish-website/
October 9, 2022, 11:20 AM
Following my markdown craze, I am slowly starting to move my Dokuwiki based homesite to Grav, a flat file Markdown CMS.
PHP will be always be PHP, but the documentation and usage seem sound (all config is either via an admin panel or editing YAML files) and it has professional support.
I intend to use this Debian based Dockerfile and Podman to deploy Grav.
Pandoc the talented document converter, hat support for Dokuwiki syntax, Markdown and PHP Markdown extra, so I expected limited hurdles whe...
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Sergio Talens-Oliag: Shared networking for Virtual Machines and Containers
https://blogops.mixinet.net/posts/shared_networking_for_vms_and_containers/
October 9, 2022, 9:45 AM
This entry explains how I have configured a linux bridge, dnsmasq and
iptables to be able to run and communicate different virtualization systems
and containers on laptops running Debian GNU/Linux.
I’ve used different variations of this setup for a long time with
VirtualBox and KVM for
the Virtual Machines and Linux-VServer,
OpenVZ, LXC and lately
Docker or Podman for the
Containers.
Required packagesI’m running Debian Sid with systemd and network-manager to configure the
WiFi and Ethernet i...
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Russ Allbery: Tie::ShadowHash 2.01
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2022-10/001.html
October 8, 2022, 4:09 PM
Tie::ShadowHash is a small Perl module that allows one to stack an
in-memory modifiable hash on top of a read-only hash obtained from
anywhere you can get a hash in Perl (including a tied hash), functioning
much like an overlay file system with the same benefits.
This release just (hopefully) fixes a few test suite failures, and is
probably not worth announcing except that it bugs me to not announce each
software release.
You can get the latest version from CPAN or the
Tie::ShadowHash dist...
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Steve Kemp: Trivial benchmarks of toy languages
https://blog.steve.fi/trivial_benchmarks_of_toy_languages.html
October 8, 2022, 11:15 AM
Over the past few months (years?) I've posted on my blog about the various toy interpreters I've written.
I've used a couple of scripting languages/engines in my professional career, but in public I think I've implemented
BASIC
https://github.com/skx/gobasic
evalfilter
https://github.com/skx/evalfilter
(Basically the same as the bytecode VM of Monkey).
FORTH
https://github.com/skx/foth
Lisp
https://github.com/skx/yal
Monkey
https://github.com/skx/monkey
TCL
https://github.com...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in September 2022
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2022-09/
October 7, 2022, 9:25 PM
Welcome to the September 2022 report from the Reproducible Builds project! In our reports we try to outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As a quick recap, whilst anyone may inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, almost all software is distributed to end users as pre-compiled binaries. If you are interested in contributing to the project, please visit our Contribute page on our website.
David A. Wheeler reported to us that the ...
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Edward Betts: Fish shell now has underscore as a number separator (my feature request)
https://edwardbetts.com/blog/fish-shell-underscore-number-separator
October 7, 2022, 1:05 PM
In November 2021 I filed a feature request for the fish shell to add underscore as a thousand separator in
numbers. My feature request has been implemented and is available
in fish 3.5.0, released 16 June 2022.
The fish shell supports mathematical operations using the math command.
edward@x1c9 ~> math 2_000 + 22
2022
edward@x1c9 ~>
The underscore can be used as a thousand separator, but there are other uses for a number separator. Here's a list taken
from a post by Mathias Bynens abou...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 224 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-224-released/
October 7, 2022, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 224. This version includes the following changes:
[ Mattia Rizzolo ]
* Fix rlib test failure with LLVM 15. Thanks to Gianfranco Costamagna
(locutusofborg) for the patch.
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: Rblpapi 0.3.14: Updates and Extensions
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/10/06#rblpapi_0.3.14
October 6, 2022, 10:46 PM
Version 0.3.14 of the Rblpapi package arrived on CRAN earlier today. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is required).
This is the fourteenth release since the package first appeared on CRAN in 2016. It comprises a nice PR from Robert Harlow extending support to B-PIPE authentication (for those who have it) along with a few fixes made since the last release in Janu...
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Matthew Garrett: Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/61535.html
October 6, 2022, 8:31 AM
Fast laptops are expensive, cheap laptops are slow. But even a fast laptop is slower than a decent workstation, and if your developers want a local build environment they're probably going to want a decent workstation. They'll want a fast (and expensive) laptop as well, though, because they're not going to carry their workstation home with them and obviously you expect them to be able to work from home. And in two or three years they'll probably want a new laptop and a new workstation, and that'...
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Jonathan Dowland: git worktrees
https://jmtd.net/log/worktrees/
October 6, 2022, 7:04 AM
I work on OpenJDK backports:
taking a patch that was committed to a current version of JDK, and adapting it
to an older one. There are four main OpenJDK versions that I am concerned with:
the current version ("jdk"), 8, 11 and 17. These are all maintained in separate
Git(Hub) repositories.
It's very useful to have access to the other JDKs when working on any
particular version. For example, to backport a patch from the latest version to
17, where the delta is not too big, a lot of the time you ...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RVowpalWabbit 0.0.17: Maintenance
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/10/05#rvowpalwabbit_0.0.17
October 5, 2022, 10:13 PM
Almost to the week one year since the last maintenance release, we can announce another maintenance release, now at version 0.0.17, of the RVowpalWabbit package. The CRAN maintainers kindly and politly pointed out that I was (cough, cough) apparently the last maintainer who had packages that set StagedInstall: no. Guilty as charged.
RVowpalWabbit is one the two packages; the other one will hopefully follow ‘shortly’. And while I long suspected linking aspects to drive this (this is an old pa...
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Jonathan Dowland: rewrite rule representation
https://jmtd.net/log/phd/representation/
October 4, 2022, 8:29 PM
I've begun writing up my phd and, not for the first time, I'm pondering
issues of how best to represent things. Specifically, rewrite rules.
Here's one way of representing an example rewrite rule:
streamFilter g . streamFilter f = streamFilter (g . f)
This is a fairly succinct representation. It's sort-of Haskell, but not
quite. It's an equation. The left-hand side is a pattern: it's intended
to describe not one expression but a family of expressions that match.
The lower case individual let...
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Abhijith PA: Laptop refreshment
https://abhijithpa.me/2022/Laptop-refresh/
October 4, 2022, 9:53 AM
(Sorry if you have read this already, due to a tag mistake, my draft
copy got published)
I recently bought a refurbished thinkpad x260. If you have read my
post of my <a href=”<!DOCTYPE html>





Laptop refreshment



















































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Hello, I'm Abhijith. A Fr...
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Russ Allbery: Review: The Dragon Never Sleeps
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-59780-099-6.html
October 4, 2022, 3:01 AM
Review: The Dragon Never Sleeps, by Glen Cook

Publisher:
Night Shade Books


Copyright:
1988


Printing:
2008


ISBN:
1-59780-099-6


Format:
MOBI


Pages:
449

Canon Space is run, in a way, by the noble mercantile houses, who spread
their cities, colonies, and mines through the mysterious Web that allows
faster-than-light interstellar travel. The true rulers of Canon Space,
though, are the Guardships: enormous, undefe...
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Dima Kogan: mrcal 2.2 released
http://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2022/10/04_mrcal-22-released.html
October 4, 2022, 1:05 AM
Today I released mrcal 2.2 (the release notes are available here). This release
contains lots of medium-important internal improvements, and is a result of
Heavy dogfooding. I use these tools a lot every day, and many things are
nicer, easier and work better in 2.2 than in 2.1
Not-yet-completed cool new functionality. Some of the required internal
improvements for the big new features are being released here.
The biggest single new feature in this release is the interactive graphical too...
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Mike Hommey: Announcing git-cinnabar 0.6.0rc1
https://glandium.org/blog/?p=4286
October 3, 2022, 10:26 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 0.5.10?
Full rewrite of git-cinnabar in Rust.
Push performance is between twice and 10 times faster than 0.5.x, depending on scenarios.
Based on git 2.38.0.
git cinnabar fetch now accepts a --tags flag to fetch tags.
git cinnabar bundle...
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Shirish Agarwal: Death Certificate, Legal Heir, Succession Certificate, and Indian Beaureacracy.
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/death-certificate-legal-heir-succession-certificate-and-indian-beaureacracy/
October 3, 2022, 9:00 PM
Death Certificate
After waiting for almost two, two, and a half months, I finally got mum’s death certificate last week. A part of me was saddened as it felt like I was nailing her or putting nails to the coffin or whatever it is, (even though I’m an Agarwal) I just felt sad and awful. I was told just get a death certificate and your problems will be over. Some people wanted me to give some amount under the table or something which I didn’t want to party of and because of that perhaps i...
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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities September 2022
http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2022/10/03/floss-activities/
October 3, 2022, 12:47 PM
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus.
I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
halibut:
add documentation generator metadata
mpv-mpris:
fix tests
duck:
obsolete site indicators
devscripts:
fix example,
add experimental pseudo-excuses
dpkg-repack:
show dpkg-deb cmd
Debian QA services:
add
experimental pseudo-excuses,
improve excuses page
Debian usertags:
fixed ports, lintian usertags
Debian package uploads:
mpv-mpris backport
Debian wiki pages:
ArchitectureSpecificsMe...
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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in September 2022
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2022/10/my-debian-activities-in-september-2022/
October 3, 2022, 12:01 PM
FTP master
This month I accepted 226 and rejected 33 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 232.
All in all I addressed about 60 RM-bugs and either simply removed the package or added a moreinfo tag. In total I spent 5 hours for this task.
Anyway, I have to repeat my comment from last month: please have a look at the removal page and check whether the created dak command is really what you wanted. It would also help if you check the reverse dependencies and write a commen...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Jingo
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-06-228020-1.html
October 3, 2022, 3:27 AM
Review: Jingo, by Terry Pratchett

Series:
Discworld #21


Publisher:
Harper


Copyright:
1997


Printing:
May 2014


ISBN:
0-06-228020-1


Format:
Mass market


Pages:
455

This is the 21st Discworld novel and relies on the previous Watch novels
for characterization and cast development. I would not start here.
In the middle of the Circle Sea, the body of water between Ankh-Morpork
and the desert empire ...
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Marco d'Itri: Debian bookworm on a Lenovo T14s Gen3 AMD
https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_463
October 3, 2022, 1:12 AM
I recently upgraded my laptop to a Lenovo T14s Gen3 AMD and I am happy to report that it works just fine with Debian/unstable using a 5.19 kernel.
The only issue is that some firmware files are still missing and I had to install them manually.
Updates are needed for the firmware-amd-graphics package (#1019847) for the Radeon 680M GPU (AMD Rembrandt) and for the firmware-atheros package (#1021157) for the Qualcomm NFA725A Wi-Fi card (which is actually reported as a NFA765).
s2idle (AKA "modern...
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Steve McIntyre: Firmware vote result - the people have spoken!
https://blog.einval.com/2022/10/02#firmware-vote-result
October 2, 2022, 2:15 PM
It's time for another update on Debian's firmware GR. I wrote about
the
problem back
in April and about the vote
itself a
few days back.
Voting closed last night and we have
a result!
This is unofficial so far - the official result will
follow shortly when the Project Secretary sends a signed mail to
confirm it. But that's normally just a formality at this point.
A Result!
The headline result is: Choice 5 / Proposal E
won: Change
SC for non-free firmware in installer, one installer. I'm
happy...
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Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE is all about the apps!
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-is-all-about-the-apps/
October 1, 2022, 5:13 PM
Hello everyone. I am back to bringing KDE to your desktops in a variety of formats. I am always working on Debian packages, but now I will be working diligently to get these packages in Debian proper. Along with Debian packaging, I will be working on getting KDE into a variety of new packaging formats that are self contained packages of awesomeness. These formats are Snaps, Appimages and Flatpacks. I am starting with Snaps because I started the effort many years ago, but didn’t have the time t...
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Junichi Uekawa: I've sent a kernel patch.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2022-Oct-1.html.en#2022-Oct-1-22:07:57
October 1, 2022, 1:07 PM
I've sent a kernel patch. It's been 4 years since my last upstream kernel patch it seems.
Time flies.
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Jonathan Dowland: vim-css-color
https://jmtd.net/log/vim_plugins/vim-css-color/
September 30, 2022, 7:48 PM
Last year I wrote about a subset of the vim plugins I was using,
specifically those created by master craftsman Tim
Pope. Off and on since then I've reviewed
the other plugins I use and tried a few others, so I thought I'd
write about them.
automatic colour name colouring
vim-css-color is a simple plugin that
recognised colour names specified in CSS-style: e.g. 'red', '#ff0000',
'#rgb(255,0,0)' etc., and colours them accordingly. True to its name,
once installed it's active when editin...
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Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in September 2022
https://utkarsh2102.com/posts/foss-in-sept-22/
September 30, 2022, 5:41 AM
Here’s my (thirty-sixth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world.
Debian
This was my 45th month of actively contributing to Debian.
I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! o/
There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month:
Debian Uploads
rails (2:6.1.6.1+dfsg-2) - Add patch to allow Symbols in YAML columns, fixes #1018934.
rails (2:6.1.6.1+dfsg-3) - Add patch to remove a...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 223 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-223-released/
September 30, 2022, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 223. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* The cbfstools utility is now provided in Debian via the coreboot-utils
Debian package, so we can enable that functionality within Debian.
(Closes: #1020630)
[ Mattia Rizzolo ]
* Also include coreboot-utils in Build-Depends and Test-Depends so it is
available for the tests.
[ Jelle van der Waa ]
* Add support for file 5.43.
You find out...
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Antoine Beaupré: Detecting manual (and optimizing large) package installs in Puppet
https://anarc.at/blog/2022-09-29-optimizing-puppet-bootstrap/
September 29, 2022, 7:05 PM
Well this is a mouthful.
I recently worked on a neat hack called puppet-package-check. It
is designed to warn about manually installed packages, to make sure
"everything is in Puppet". But it turns out it can (probably?)
dramatically decrease the bootstrap time of Puppet bootstrap when it
needs to install a large number of packages.
Detecting manual packages
On a cleanly filed workstation, it looks like this:
root@emma:/home/anarcat/bin# ./puppet-package-check -v
listing puppet packages...
l...
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Russell Coker: Links September 2022
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/09/29/links-september-2022/
September 29, 2022, 12:55 PM
Tony Kern wrote an insightful document about the crash of a B-52 at Fairchild air base in 1994 as a case study of failed leadership [1].
Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful medium article “We Should Not Endure a King” describing the case for anti-trust laws [2]. We need them badly.
Insightful Guardian article about the way reasonable responses to the bad situations people are in are diagnosed as mental health problems [3]. Providing better mental healthcare is good, but the government should a...
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Jelmer Vernooij: Northcape 4000
https://www.jelmer.uk/northcape4000.html
September 28, 2022, 10:00 PM
This summer, I signed up to participate in the Northcape 4000
<https://www.northcape4000.com/>, an annual 4000km bike ride between Rovereto
(in northern Italy) and the northernmost point of Europe, the North cape.
The Northcape event has been held for several years, and while it always ends
on the North Cape, the route there varies. Last years’ route went through the
Baltics, but this years’ was perhaps as direct as possible - taking us through
Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, th...
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Ian Jackson: Hippotat (IP over HTTP) - first advertised release
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/12934.html
September 28, 2022, 8:12 PM
I have released version 1.0.0 of Hippotat, my IP-over-HTTP system. To quote the README:
You’re in a cafe or a hotel, trying to use the provided wifi. But it’s not working. You discover that port 80 and port 443 are open, but the wifi forbids all other traffic.
Never mind, start up your hippotat client. Now you have connectivity. Your VPN and SSH and so on run over Hippotat. The result is not very efficient, but it does work.
Story
In early 2017 I was in a mountaintop cafeteria, hoping to...
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Vincent Fourmond: Version 3.1 of QSoas is out
https://vince-debian.blogspot.com/2022/09/version-31-of-qsoas-is-out.html
September 28, 2022, 1:29 PM
The new version of QSoas has just been released ! It brings in a host of new features, as the releases before, but maybe the most important change is the following...
Binary images now freely available !
Starting from now, all the binary images for the new versions of QSoas will freely available from the download page. You can download the precompiled versions of QSoas for MacOS or windows. So now, you have no reason anymore not to try !
My aim with making the binaries freely available is also ...
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François Marier: Upgrading from chan_sip to res_pjsip in Asterisk 18
https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/upgrading-from-chan_sip-to-res_pjsip-asterisk-18/
September 27, 2022, 11:30 PM
After upgrading to Ubuntu Jammy and
Asterisk 18.10, I saw the following messages in
my logs:
WARNING[360166]: loader.c:2487 in load_modules: Module 'chan_sip' has been loaded but was deprecated in Asterisk version 17 and will be removed in Asterisk version 21.
WARNING[360174]: chan_sip.c:35468 in deprecation_notice: chan_sip has no official maintainer and is deprecated. Migration to
WARNING[360174]: chan_sip.c:35469 in deprecation_notice: chan_pjsip is recommended. See guides at the Asterisk ...
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Steve McIntyre: Firmware again - updates, how I'm voting and why!
https://blog.einval.com/2022/09/27#firmware-vote
September 27, 2022, 5:46 PM
Updates
Back in April I wrote about
issues
with how we handle firmware in Debian, and I also spoke about it at
DebConf
in July. Since then, we've started the General Resolution process -
this led to a lot of discussion on the
the debian-vote
mailing list and we're now into the second week of
the voting
phase.
The discussion has caught the interest of a few news sites along
the way:
Debian to vote on
its firmware path in Linux Weekly News
Debian
Begins A General Resolution To Decide W...
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Jelmer Vernooij: Northcape 4000
https://www.jelmer.uk/northcape4000.html
September 26, 2022, 10:00 PM
This summer, I signed up to participate in the Northcape 4000
<https://www.northcape4000.com/>, an annual 4000km bike ride between Rovereto
(in northern Italy) and the northernmost point of Europe, the North cape.
The Northcape event has been held for several years, and while it always ends
on the North Cape, the route there varies. Last years’ route went through the
Baltics, but this years’ was perhaps as direct as possible - taking us through
Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, th...
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Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2022)
https://bits.debian.org/2022/09/new-developers-2022-08.html
September 26, 2022, 2:00 PM
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
Sakirnth Nagarasa (sakirnth)
Philip Rinn (rinni)
Arnaud Rebillout (arnaudr)
Marcos Talau (talau)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
Xiao Sheng Wen
Andrea Pappacoda
Robin Jarry
Ben Westover
Michel Alexandre Salim
Congratulations!...
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Sergio Talens-Oliag: Kubernetes Static Content Server
https://blogops.mixinet.net/posts/k8s_static_content_server/
September 25, 2022, 10:12 PM
This post describes how I’ve put together a simple static content server for
kubernetes clusters using a Pod with a persistent volume and multiple
containers: an sftp server to manage contents, a web server to publish them
with optional access control and another one to run scripts which need access
to the volume filesystem.
The sftp server runs using
MySecureShell, the web
server is nginx and the script runner uses the
webhook tool to publish endpoints to call
them (the calls will come from o...
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Shirish Agarwal: Rama II, Arthur C. Clarke, Aliens
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2022/09/25/rama-ii-arthur-c-clarke-aliens/
September 25, 2022, 9:07 AM
Rama II
This would be more of a short post about the current book I am reading. Now people who have seen Arrival would probably be more at home. People who have also seen Avatar would also be familiar to the theme or concept I am sharing about. Now before I go into detail, it seems that Arthur C. Clarke wanted to use a powerful god or mythological character for the name and that is somehow the RAMA series started.
Now the first book in the series explores an extraterrestrial spaceship that...
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Ian Jackson: Please vote in favour of the Debian Social Contract change
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/12581.html
September 24, 2022, 7:08 PM
tl;dr: Please vote in favour of the Debian Social Contract change, by ranking all of its options above None of the Above. Rank the SC change options above corresponding options that do not change the Social Contract.
Vote to change the SC even if you think the change is not necessary for Debian to prominently/officially provide an installer with-nonfree-firmware.
Why vote for SC change even if I think it’s not needed?
I’m addressing myself primarily to the reader who agrees with me that Debi...
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Steve Kemp: Lisp macros are magical
https://blog.steve.fi/lisp_macros_are_magical.html
September 23, 2022, 7:00 PM
In my previous post I introduced yet another Lisp interpreter. When it was posted there was no support for macros.
Since I've recently returned from a visit to the UK, and caught COVID-19 while I was there, I figured I'd see if my brain was fried by adding macro support.
I know lisp macros are awesome, it's one of those things that everybody is told. Repeatedly. I've used macros in my emacs programming off and on for a good few years, but despite that I'd not really given them too much th...
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