Enrico Zini: Mysterious DNS issues
http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2023/debian/mysterious-dns-issues
July 26, 2023, 9:16 AM
Uhm, salsa is not resolving:
$ git fetch
ssh: Could not resolve hostname salsa.debian.org: Name or service not known
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
$ ping salsa.debian.org
ping: salsa.debian.org: Name or service not known
But... it is?
$ host salsa.debian.org
salsa.debian.org has address 209.87.16.44
salsa.debian.org has IPv6 address 2607:f8f0:614:1::1274:44
salsa.debian.org mail is handled by 10 mailly.debian.org.
salsa.debian.org mail is handled by 10 mitropoulos.debian.org.
s...
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Shirish Agarwal: Manipur Violence, Drugs, Binging on Northshore, Alaska Daily, Doogie Kamealoha and EU Digital Resilence Act.
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/07/26/manipur-violence-drugs-binging-on-northshore-alaska-daily-doogie-kamealoha-and-eu-digital-resilence-act/
July 26, 2023, 12:46 AM
Manipur Videos
Warning: The text might be mature and will have references to violence so if there are kids or you are sensitive, please excuse.
Few days back, saw the videos and I cannot share the rage, shame and many conflicting emotions that were going through me. I almost didn’t want to share but couldn’t stop myself. The woman in the video were being palmed, fingered, nude, later reportedly raped and murdered. And there have been more than a few cases. The next day saw another vi...
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Valhalla's Things: Elastic Neck Top
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/07/26-elastic_neck_top/index.html
July 26, 2023, 12:00 AM
Posted on July 26, 2023




Since some time I’ve been thinking about making myself a top or a dress with a wide gathered neckline that can be work at different widths, including off-the-shoulders.
A few years ago I’ve been gifted a cut of nice, thin white fabric with a print of lines and lozenges that isn’t uniform along the fabric, but looks like it was designed for some specific garment, and it was waiting in my stash for a suitable pattern.
And a few days ago, du...
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Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Akademy 2023, Sunburns, and KDE Snaps
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-akademy-2023-sunburns-and-kde-snaps/
July 25, 2023, 1:36 PM
KDE Akademy 2023
A big thank you goes out to the Ubuntu Community for making my attendance to the KDE Akademy 2023! This was a very successful conference for me. I had very positive feedback for my speech on “A million reasons why snaps are important. I also had a productive BoF on snapping KDE applications. Most importantly I got to catch up with many old and new friends and got to put faces to the new. There were so many great talks and BoFs, but one of my favorites was the Goals as all t...
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Sam Hartman: AI and Sexuality
https://hartmans.dreamwidth.org/100499.html
July 25, 2023, 1:24 PM
When I began to read about the generative AI revolution, I realized
there was an opportunity to combine two aspects of my life I never
thought I could merge. While I’m not working on the cloud or security, I
work as a sex and intimacy educator, helping people embrace love,
vulnerability and connection.
As I first began to interact with ChatGPT, I saw the potential for AI
to help people explore parts of the world they had not experienced for
themselves. I’m blind. When I write fiction, physic...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: #41: Another r2u Example – Really Simple CI
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/07/23#041_simpler_ci_via_r2u
July 23, 2023, 10:32 PM
Welcome to the 41th post in the $R^4 series. Just
as the previous
post illustrated r2u use to empower
interactive Google
Colab sessions, today we want to look at continuous integration via
GitHub Actions.
Actions are very powerful, yet also intimidating and complex. How
does one know what to run? How does ensure requirements are installed?
What does these other actions do?
Here we offer a much simpler yet fully automatic
solution. It takes advantage of the fact that r2u integrates
fully and auto...
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Aurelien Jarno: Welcome Debian riscv64
https://blog.aurel32.net/welcome-debian-riscv64.html
July 23, 2023, 7:28 PM
After many years of effort, I am happy to announce that Debian
riscv64 is now an official
architecture!
This milestone is not the end of the journey but rather the beginning of a new
one: the port will need to be rebootstrapped in the official archive, build
daemons will have to be reinstalled and handed over to
DSA, many bugs will need to be fixed. If everything
goes well, the architecture will eventually be released with
Trixie. Please note that this
process will be long and will span several...
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Wouter Verhelst: Debconf Videoteam sprint in Paris, France, 2023-07-20 - 2023-07-23
https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/debian/DebConf_Videoteam_Sprint_in_Paris/
July 23, 2023, 12:12 PM
The DebConf video team has been
sprinting in
preparation for DebConf 23 which will
happen in Kochi, India, in September of this year.
Present were Nicolas "olasd" Dandrimont, Stefano "tumbleweed" Rivera,
and yours truly. Additionally, Louis-Philippe "pollo" Véronneau and Carl
"CarlFK" Karsten joined the sprint remotely from across the pond.
Thank you to the DPL for agreeing to fund flights, food, and
accomodation for the team members. We would also like to extend a
special thanks to the Ass...
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Andrew Cater: 20230722 1804 UTC - All signed, all pushed, all done.
http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2023/07/20230722-1804-utc-all-signed-all-pushed.html
July 22, 2023, 6:20 PM
So it's there on  Download on the Debian web site.Thanks to the folk who've done this point release testing. No new major bugs found: a couple of pre-existing ones may still be there.Thanks very much indeed to the new people who have been in IRC on debian-cd, downloading, testing, editing the wiki page.This release has gone very well indeed - I'll see some of the same folk at the BBQ in late August but otherwise we'll be back in September or so for the next point release for Bookworm (and proba...
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Andrew Cater: 20230722 1436 - Happily chunking through release tests
http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2023/07/20230722-1436-happily-chunking-through.html
July 22, 2023, 2:41 PM
Lots of tests being tried and passing. The usual bits of finger trouble / misreading the wiki. People are settling into the rhythm. Almost all of the tests for the standard .iso files are done and we're well into testing live images. All's good
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Andrew Cater: 20230722 - Releasing Debian testing for Debian Bookworm point release 12.1
http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2023/07/20230722-releasing-debian-testing-for.html
July 22, 2023, 1:45 PM
And so we're back at Steve's in Cambridge for release testing. A few testers here: we're now well into testing the various iso images.So we have Sledge, RattusRattus, Isy, smcv and myself. We've also been joined here by Helen who has just done her first install.  Online we've got a couple of new folk - luna, The_Blode. Thanks to everyone involved - we always need all the help we can get.Cold and grey outside: usual warmth in here.  Also the usual snake of cables to trip over across the floor...
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Gunnar Wolf: Road trip through mountain ridges to find the surreal
https://gwolf.org/2023/07/road-trip-through-mountain-ridges-to-find-the-surreal.html
July 21, 2023, 10:51 PM
We took a couple of days of for a family vacation / road trip through
the hills of Central Mexico. The overall trip does not look like
anything out of the ordinary…
…Other than the fact that Google forecasted we’d take approximately
15.5 hours driving for 852Km — that is, an average of almost 55
Km/h. And yes, that’s what we signed up for. And that’s what we
got. Of course, the exact routes are not exactly what Google suggested
(I can say we optimized a bit the route, i.e., by avo...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 245 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-245-released/
July 21, 2023, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 245. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Don't include file size in image metadata; it is, at best, distracting and
it is already in the directory metadata.
* Move to using assert_diff in ICO and JPEG tests.
* Update copyright years.
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.0.7 on CRAN: QuantLib 1.31 Updates
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/07/19#qlcal-r_0.0.7
July 20, 2023, 12:39 AM
The seventh release of the still pretty new qlcal package
arrivied at CRAN today.
qlcal
delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib. It is provided (for the R
package) as a set of included files, so the package is self-contained
and does not depend on an external QuantLib library (which can be
demanding to build). qlcal covers
over sixty country / market calendars and can compute holiday lists, its
complement (i.e. business day lists) and much more.
This release brings updates from the just-relea...
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Joey Hess: become ungoogleable
http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/become_ungoogleable/
July 20, 2023, 12:34 AM
I've removed my website from indexing by Google.
The proximate cause is Google's new effort to
DRM the web,
but there is of course so much more.
This is a unique time, when it's actually feasible to become ungoogleable
without losing much. Nobody really expects to be able to find anything of
value in a Google search now, so if they're looking for me or something I've
made and don't find it, they'll use some other approach.
I've looked over the kind of traffic that Google refers to my website, ...
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Shirish Agarwal: RISC-V, Chips Act, Burning of Books, Manipur
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/07/19/risc-chips-act-burning-of-books/
July 19, 2023, 1:30 PM
RISC -V Motherboard, SBC
While I didn’t want to, a part of me is hyped about this motherboard. This would probably be launched somewhere in November. There are obvious issues in this, the first being unlike regular motherboards you wouldn’t be upgrade as you would do.You can’t upgrade your memory, can’t upgrade the CPU (although new versions of instructions could be uploaded, similar to BIOS updates) but as the hardware is integrated (the quad-core SiFive Performance P550 core complex...
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Ian Jackson: Installing Debian bookworm without systemd
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/15336.html
July 19, 2023, 1:26 PM
Instructions
Get the official installation image from the usual locations. I got the netinst CD image via BitTorrent.
Boot from the image and go through the installation in the normal way.
You may want to select an alternative desktop environment (and unselect GNOME). These steps have been tested with MATE.
Stop when you are asked to remove the installation media and reboot.
Press Alt + Right arrow to switch to the text VC. Hit return to activate the console and run the following commands (an...
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Sergio Talens-Oliag: Testing cilium with k3d and kind
https://blogops.mixinet.net/posts/testing_cilium_with_k3d_and_kind/
July 18, 2023, 5:00 PM
This post describes how to deploy cilium (and
hubble) using docker on a Linux system with
k3d or kind to test it as
CNI and
Service Mesh.
I wrote some scripts to do a local installation and evaluate cilium to use it
at work (in fact we are using cilium on an EKS
cluster now), but I thought it would be a good idea to share my original
scripts in this blog just in case they are useful to somebody, at least for
playing a little with the technology.
LinksAs there is no point on explaining here all t...
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Jamie McClelland: What am I missing about AI?
https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2023/what-am-i-missing/
July 18, 2023, 12:27 PM
Last month I blogged about how the mainstream
media is focusing on the wrong parts of the Artificial Intelligence/ChatGPT
story.
One of the comments left on the post was:
I encourage you to dig a little deeper. If LLM’s were just probability
machines, no one would be raising any flags.
Hinton, Bengio, Tegmark and many others are not simpletons. It is the fact that
the architecture and specific training (deep NN, back prop / gradient descend)
produces a system with emergent properties, beyond ...
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Jonathan Dowland: Bea's 3D printer
https://jmtd.net/log/bea_printer/
July 18, 2023, 9:50 AM
My daughter Beatrice asked for me to print her a 3D printer.

Bea's 3D printer
Most of the model is from https://www.printables.com/model/355917-miniature-3d-printer-model-toy,
and the unicorn is from https://www.printables.com/model/385926-unicorn....
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Lukas Märdian: A declarative approach to Linux networking with Netplan
https://blog.slyon.de/2023/07/18/a-declarative-approach-to-linux-networking-with-netplan/
July 18, 2023, 9:15 AM
Photo by Taylor Vick (Unsplash)
Linux networking can be confusing due to the wide range of technology stacks and tools in use, in addition to the complexity of the surrounding network environment. The configuration of bridges, bonds, VRFs or routes can be done programmatically, declaratively, manually or with automated with tools like ifupdown, ifupdown2, ifupdown-ng, iproute2, NetworkManager, systemd-networkd and others. Each  of these tools use different formats and locations to store thei...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Legends & Lattes
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-250-88609-0.html
July 18, 2023, 4:34 AM
Review: Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree

Series:
Legends & Lattes #1


Publisher:
Tor


Copyright:
2022


ISBN:
1-250-88609-0


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
293

Legends & Lattes is a sword and sorcery fantasy novel of the
RPG-inspired, post-Dungeons-and-Dragons subtype. It was Travis
Baldree's first novel.
Viv is an orc, the heavy muscle for a roving band of adventurers who take
jobs for hire in a way fam...
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Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in June 2023
https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/foss-activity-in-june-2023.html
July 17, 2023, 8:52 PM
I uploaded
sgt-puzzles to unstable. This brought in the new upstream
version previously in experimental. I incorporated an updated
German translation from Helge Kreutzmann, and made translation
updates less tricky to do.


I made some changes to the nfs-utils package:


Completed
the transition from setting command-line options
in /etc/default to /etc/nfs.conf.d.


Made
its shell scripts shellcheck-clean and added shellcheck to
CI. (Than...
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Shirish Agarwal: WordPress Cookies, Debdelta, RISC, Manipur, Libraries in Kerala.
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/07/17/wordpress-cookies-debdelta-risc-manipur-libraries-in-kerala/
July 17, 2023, 12:20 PM
WordPress Cookies, Debdelta
One of the most irritating things about WordPress is whenever I start a firefox session, WordPress aks for cookie selection. I make my choices but it’s not persistent. The next session the same thing happens again. It does keep my identity but for some unknown reason doesn’t respect the Cookie selection. I usually use Firefox ESR (102.13.0esr-1) on Testing.
Also, for more than a week I have found debdelta not working as it should. To give a brief history, t...
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Russ Allbery: Review: The Unkindest Tide
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-7564-1255-2.html
July 17, 2023, 2:57 AM
Review: The Unkindest Tide, by Seanan McGuire

Series:
October Daye #13


Publisher:
DAW


Copyright:
2019


ISBN:
0-7564-1255-2


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
355

This is the 13th book in the long-running October Daye urban fantasy
series. There is a strong series arc and a plot that builds on previous
books, so this is a series with both significant spoilers and significant
confusion if read out of order. The Unkindest T...
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Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, June 2023 (by Roberto C. Sánchez)
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2023-06/
July 15, 2023, 12:00 AM
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.
Debian LTS contributors
In June, 17 contributors have been paid to work on Debian
LTS, their reports are available:
Abhijith PA
did 12.0h (out of 6.0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 2.0h to the next month.
Adrian Bunk
did 28.0h (out of 0h assigned and 34.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 6.5h to the next month.
Anton Gladky
did 5.0h (out of 6.0h assigned and 9.0h from pre...
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Aurelien Jarno: Goodbye Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
https://blog.aurel32.net/goodbye-kfreebsd.html
July 14, 2023, 4:14 PM
Over the years, the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
port has gone through various
phases. After many years of development, it was released as technology
preview with the release of
Squeeze and eventually became an
official architecture with the release of
Wheezy. However it ceased being an
official architecture a couple of years later with the release of Jessie,
although a
jessie-kfreebsd
suite was available in the official archive. Some years later, it was moved to
the debian-ports
archive, where it
slowl...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 244 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-244-released/
July 14, 2023, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 244. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Address compatibility with python-libarchive-c version 5.
(Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#344)
* Testsuite changes:
- Mark that test_dex::test_javap_14_differences requires procyon.
- Fix "test skipped" textual reason generation in the case of a required
version being outside of the required range.
- Temporarily mark some And...
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Emmanuel Kasper: Debian 11 to Debian 12 (Bookworm) Upgrade Report
https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2023/07/13/debian-11-to-debian-12-bookworm-upgrade-report/
July 13, 2023, 7:30 PM
Laptop + Workstation
My workstation was initially installed with Debian 8 back in the day, so I might have carried a lot of configuration cruft.
Indeed. I followed the recommended upgrades documentation (apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs followed by apt full-upgrade).
And when executing apt full-upgrade I had the following error:
Preparing to unpack .../71-python3-numpy_1%3a1.24.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking python3-numpy (1:1.24.2-1) over (1:1.19.5-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpk...
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Junichi Uekawa: Spent 2 hours migrating my chrome extension to manifest v3.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jul-13.html.en#2023-Jul-13-17:54:23
July 13, 2023, 8:54 AM
Spent 2 hours migrating my chrome extension to manifest v3.
Two parts that didn't make sense at first, browser_action to action migration, and executeScript.
First, browser_action to action manifest change was straightforward. However it didn't occur to me that I had to rewrite chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener to chrome.action.onClicked.addListener. It doesn't say anything on the web page, well maybe the less than equal to MV2. If you deprecate something please say what you repla...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in June 2023
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2023-06/
July 12, 2023, 1:17 PM
Welcome to the June 2023 report from the Reproducible Builds project
In our reports, we outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As always, if you are interested in contributing to the project, please visit our Contribute page on our website.
We are very happy to announce the upcoming Reproducible Builds Summit which set to take place from October 31st — November 2nd 2023, in the vibrant city of Hamburg, Germany.
Our summits are a unique gathering...
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Matt Brown: 2023 Mid Year Review
https://www.mattb.nz/w/2023/07/13/2023-mid-year-review/
July 12, 2023, 12:44 PM
I’m six months into my journey of building a business which means its time to reflect and review the goals I set for the year.
No further investment in co2mon.nz
In March I made the decision to focus on completing the market research for co2mon.nz. The results of that research led to two key conclusions:
Indoor air quality/ventilation is not a problem many people are actively thinking about or looking to spend money to improve.
Even when introduced to the problem and educated about the need, ...
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Jonathan Carter: Debian 12
https://jonathancarter.org/2023/07/12/debian-12/
July 12, 2023, 11:04 AM
Last month, the Debian project released Debian 12, with the usual low-key fanfare that Debian usually announces a release with. Even though we shipped with some bugs we’d rather not have (which are at least fixable over the next point releases), the feedback for Debian 12 has been nothing short of overwhelmingly good. From users to the independent Linux blogs to the YouTubers to the tech news sites, the vast majority of feedback so far is that it’s not just one of Debian’s most important r...
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John Goerzen: Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10535-backing-up-and-archiving-to-removable-media-dar-vs-git-annex
July 12, 2023, 1:53 AM
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts:
In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and git-annex were my leading options.
In part 2, I took a deep dive into git-annex and simulated using it for this project.
In part 3, I did the same with dar.
And in this part, I want to put it together to come up with an initia...
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Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: /usr-merge updates, DebConf Bursary prep, and more! (by Utkarsh Gupta)
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-06-2023/
July 12, 2023, 12:00 AM
Contributing to Debian
is part of Freexian’s mission. This article
covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this
is made possible by organizations subscribing to our
Long Term Support contracts and
consulting services.
/usr-merge, by Helmut Grohne, et al
The work on /usr-merge continues from
May. The lengthy
discussion was condensed into a still lengthy
rewrite of DEP17 listing all known
problems and proposed mitigations. An initial
consensus call
did not reso...
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Simon Josefsson: Coping with non-free software in Debian
https://blog.josefsson.org/2023/07/11/coping-with-non-free-debian/
July 11, 2023, 1:27 PM
A personal reflection on how I moved from my Debian home to find two new homes with Trisquel and Guix for my own ethical computing, and while doing so settled my dilemma about further Debian contributions.
Debian‘s contributions to the free software community has been tremendous. Debian was one of the early distributions in the 1990’s that combined the GNU tools (compiler, linker, shell, editor, and a set of Unix tools) with the Linux kernel and published a free software operating system...
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Matthew Garrett: Roots of Trust are difficult
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66907.html
July 11, 2023, 7:58 AM
The phrase "Root of Trust" turns up at various points in discussions about verified boot and measured boot, and to a first approximation nobody is able to give you a coherent explanation of what it means[1]. The Trusted Computing Group has a fairly wordy definition, but (a) it's a lot of words and (b) I don't like it, so instead I'm going to start by defining a root of trust as "A thing that has to be trustworthy for anything else on your computer to be trustworthy".(An aside: when I say "trustw...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.14 on CRAN: Upstream Update
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/07/10#rcppspdlog_0.0.14
July 11, 2023, 1:11 AM
Version 0.0.14 of RcppSpdlog is now
on CRAN and has just been
uploaded to Debian. RcppSpdlog
bundles spdlog, a
wonderful header-only C++ logging library with all the bells and
whistles you would want that was written by Gabi Melman, and also includes fmt by Victor Zverovich. You can learn
more at the nice package
documention site.
This release simply brings an update to the just release spdlog 1.12.0 from a few
days ago.
The NEWS entry for this release follows.
Changes in
RcppSpdlog version 0.0...
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Shirish Agarwal: PLIO, Mum, Debconf, Pressure Cooker, RISC-V,
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/07/10/plio-mum-debconf-pressure-cooker-risc-v/
July 10, 2023, 3:54 PM
PLIO
I have been looking for an image viewer that can view images via modification date by default. The newer, the better. Alas, most of the image viewers do not do that. Even feh somehow fails. What I need is default listing of images as thumbnails by modification date. I put it up on Unix Stackexchange couple of years ago. Somebody shared ristretto but that just gives listing and doesn’t give the way I want it. To be more illustrative, maybe this may serve as a guide to what I mean.
...
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Lukas Märdian: Netplan and systemd-networkd on Debian Bookworm
https://blog.slyon.de/2023/07/10/netplan-and-systemd-networkd-on-debian-bookworm/
July 10, 2023, 9:44 AM
Debian’s cloud-images are using systemd-networkd as their default network stack in Bookworm. A slim and feature rich networking daemon that comes included with Systemd itself. Debian’s cloud-images are deploying Netplan on top of this as an easy-to-use, declarative control layer.
If you want to experiment with systemd-networkd and Netplan on Debian, this can be done easily in QEMU using the official images. To start, you need to download the relevant .qcow2 Debian cloud-image from: https:...
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Michael Ablassmeier: Java timezone sheanigans
https://abbbi.github.io//timezone/
July 10, 2023, 12:00 AM
While running CI tests for a application that is implemented in C and Java,
some configuration scripts set the current timezone. The C implemented parts
catch the change just nicely, but the java related parts still report the
default image timezone.
A simple example:
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
class simpleTest
{ public static void main(String args[])
{
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println("TIME ZONE :"+ cal.getTimeZone()....
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Kentaro Hayashi: Upgraded fabre.debian.net to Debian 12 (bookworm)
https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2023/07/09/212346
July 9, 2023, 12:23 PM
fabre.debian.net - an experiment service that tries to improve user experience with finding Debian related bugs was now upgraded to Debian 12 (bookworm)
Not only migrating to Debian 12, but the backend E-mail subscription and importing bug report mechanism is also a bit modified.
This was some portion of the side effect of recent Gandi.net announcements.
FAQ - New Mailbox service and management of your current mailboxes - Gandi News
fabre.debian.net rely on the old Mailbox service of Gandi.n...
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Russell Coker: Matrix
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/07/09/matrix/
July 9, 2023, 7:53 AM
Introduction
In 2020 I first setup a Matrix [1] server. Matrix is a full featured instant messaging protocol which requires a less stringent definition of “instant”, messages being delayed for minutes aren’t that uncommon in my experience. Matrix is a federated service where the servers all store copies of the room data, so when you connect your client to it’s home server it gets all the messages that were published while you were offline, it is widely regarded as being IRC but without a...
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Vasudev Kamath: Using LUKS-Encrypted USB Stick with TPM2 Integration
https://copyninja.in/blog/luks2_tpm_mount.html
July 9, 2023, 7:47 AM
I use a LUKS-encrypted USB stick to store my GPG and SSH keys, which acts as a
backup and portable key setup when working on different laptops. One
inconvenience with LUKS-encrypted USB sticks is that you need to enter the
password every time you want to mount the device, either through a Window
Manager like KDE or using the cryptsetup luksOpen command. Fortunately, many
laptops nowadays come equipped with TPM2 modules, which can be utilized to
automatically decrypt the device and subsequently m...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: #40: Another r2u Example – Making Colab Easier
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/07/08#040_r2u_used_at_colab
July 8, 2023, 11:26 PM
Welcome to the 40th post in the $R^4 series. This
one will just be a very brief illustration of r2u use in what might be
an unexpected place: Google
Colab. Colab has a strong bent towards Jupyter and Python but has
been supporting R compute kernels for some time (by changing what they
call the ‘runtime’). And with a little exploration one can identify
these are (currently, as of July 2023) running Ubuntu 20.04 aka
‘focal’.
Which is of course one of two system supported by our lovely r2u ...
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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer: Open question: Podman and user/group IDs
https://perezmeyer.com.ar/blog/2023/07/08/podman_and_user_group_ids/
July 8, 2023, 8:45 PM
Here is an open question for Podman users: is there a (ideally simple) way to keep the user/group ID between the real system and the container?
Let me be more verbose.
I use Docker mostly in two "special" cases:
As Yocto build environment: I can use whatever the people I work with/Yocto version wants.
For creating developer environments: I create Docker containers that have the same environments as the CI docker instances I use with GitLab + development tools I run sharing the X socket. In that...
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Russell Coker: Sandboxing Phone Apps
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/07/08/sandboxing-phone-apps/
July 8, 2023, 10:11 AM
As a follow up to Wayland [1]:
A difficult problem with Linux desktop systems (which includes phones and tablets) is restricting application access so that applications can’t mess with each other’s data or configuration but also allowing them to share data as needed. This has been mostly solved for Android but that involved giving up all “legacy” Linux apps. I think that we need to get phones capable of running a full desktop environment and having Android level security on phone apps an...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: digest 0.6.33 on CRAN: Bugfix
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/07/07#digest_0.6.33
July 7, 2023, 11:43 PM
Release 0.6.33 of the digest package
arrived at CRAN today and has
been uploaded to Debian
already.
digest
creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the md5,
sha-1, sha-256, sha-512,
crc32, xxhash32, xxhash64,
murmur32, spookyhash, blake3, and
crc32c algorithms) permitting easy comparison of R language
objects. It is a mature and widely-used (with 58.6 million downloads
just on the partial cloud mirrors of CRAN which keep logs) as many tasks
may involve caching of objects for which it p...
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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in June 2023
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2023/07/my-debian-activities-in-june-2023/
July 6, 2023, 3:09 PM
FTP master
This month I accepted 221 and rejected 33 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 221.
Yeah, Bookworm was released this month. Thanks a lot to everybody who was involved in doing this.
Debian LTS
This was my hundred-eighth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. 
This month my all in all workload has been 14h.
During that time I uploaded:
[DLA 3440-1] cups security update for one CVE (as the CVE was emb...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds Summit 2023 in Hamburg
https://reproducible-builds.org/news/2023/07/05/reproducible-builds-hamburg-meeting/
July 5, 2023, 12:00 AM
We are glad to announce the upcoming Reproducible Builds Summit, set to take place from October 31st to November 2nd, 2023, in the vibrant city of Hamburg, Germany.
This year, we are thrilled to host the seventh edition of this exciting event following the success of previous summits in various iconic locations around the world, including Venice (2022), Marrakesh (2019), Paris (2018), Berlin (2017), Berlin (2016) Athens (2015).
If you’re excited about joining us this year, please make sure t...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: The bestest sine function, redux
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2023-07-01-16-32_the_bestest_sine_function_redux.html
July 1, 2023, 3:32 PM
A small followup to the last post:
Sreepathi Pai pointed out that Z3 isn't the fastest solver when it comes to
floats; CVC5 is faster
but cannot optimize. However, OptiMathSAT,
while non-free, detronizes Z3 on this problem; the minimization time goes
down from eight hours to five minutes! (Pai also pointed to
sat-smt.codes, if you want to read 650+ pages
about SAT/SMT techniques.)
I discovered that the desired range is not [0,16384) but [0,16384];
that is, you need to include 16384. This makes...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: The smallest Pride contribution
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2023-07-01-15-47_the_smallest_pride_contribution.html
July 1, 2023, 2:47 PM
Happy Pride! In lieu of doing something actually useful for the case,
here is a patch
to make screen show the Pride flag emoji correctly.
I hadn't counted on screen literally being from 1987, though. In K&R C!
This patch is for all the LBGT+ users needing Unicode 15.0 support in
the screens running on their SVR4 PDP-11s....
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Bastian Venthur: dotenv-cli update
https://venthur.de/2023-07-01-dotenv-cli-update.html
July 1, 2023, 1:00 PM
Thanks to Nicholas Guriev,
dotenv-cli now uses exec instead of popen to create the new process on
POSIX systems.
As a refresher, dotenv-cli is a package that
provides the dotenv command. dotenv reads the .env file from the current
directory, puts the contents in the environment variables, and executes the
given command with the extra environment variables set.
dotenv comes in handy if you follow the 12 factor app
methodology or just need to run a program locally with specific environment
variabl...
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Debian Brasil: MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 - um breve relato
https://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/minidebconf-brasilia-2023-um-breve-relato/
July 1, 2023, 11:00 AM
No período de 25 a 27 de maio, Brasília foi palco da
MiniDebConf 2023. Esse encontro, composto
por diversas atividades como palestras, oficinas, sprints,
BSP (Bug Squashing Party), assinatura de chaves,
eventos sociais e hacking, teve como principal objetivo reunir a comunidade e
celebrar o maior projeto de Software Livre do mundo: o
Debian.
A MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 foi um sucesso graças à participação de todas e
todos, independentemente do nível de conhecimento sobre o Debian. Valor...
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Debian Brasil: MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 - a brief report
https://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/minidebconf-brasilia-2023-a-brief-report/
July 1, 2023, 11:00 AM
From May 25th to 27th, Brasília hosted the
MiniDebConf 2023. This gathering, composed
of various activities such as talks, workshops, sprints, BSP (Bug Squashing
Party), key signing, social events, and hacking, aimed to bring the community
together and celebrate the world's largest Free Software project: Debian.
The MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 was a success thanks to the participation of
everyone, regardless of their level of knowledge about Debian. We valued the
presence of both beginners who ...
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Junichi Uekawa: New month.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jul-1.html.en#2023-Jul-1-11:50:53
July 1, 2023, 2:50 AM
New month. It's been 15 years since I joined the current company. That's a long time.
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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities June 2023
http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2023/07/01/floss-activities/
July 1, 2023, 12:33 AM
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus.
I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
thermal_daemon:
fix thermal_monitor build,
make power group configurable,
cleanups
trurl:
cleanups
yt-dlp:
improve acast extractor
duck:
add indicator
dpkg:
avoid shell
Debian BTS usertags:
fix release/port usertags
Debian QA services:
more debugging,
update hardcoding
(1
2)
Debian package uploads:
foxtrotgps,
sptag
(1
2 3)
Debian wiki pages:
BookwormGdalPerl,
ChrootOnAndroid,
DebianKernel...
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Abhijith PA: Running Debian on my phone
https://abhijithpa.me/2023/Running-Debian-on-my-phone/
June 30, 2023, 5:53 PM
You might have already read my blog titled ‘Running PostmarketOS on my
phone’. After running pmOS on phone, my mind kept talking “run
Debian”. So I started preparing for that.
At the moment no straight way tool exist in Debian like
postmarketOS’s pmbootstrap. Well I can compile what is already available,
do debootstrap rootfs. But I don’t know how to build the final image
that can be flashed from recovery.
One crooked idea I had is, extract the pmOS image, find the packages
a...
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Russell Coker: Links June 2023
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/06/30/links-june-2023/
June 30, 2023, 9:31 AM
Tablet Magazine has an interesting article about Jewish men who fought in the military for Nazi Germany [1]. I’m surprised that they didn’t frag their colleagues.
Dropbox has an insightful interview with a lawyer about the future of machine learning in the legal profession [2]. This seems like it could give real benefits to society in giving legal assistance to more people and giving less uncertainty about the result of court cases. It could also find unclear laws for legislators who want to...
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Shirish Agarwal: Motherboard battery, Framework, VR headsets, Steam
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/motherboard-battery-framework-vr-headsets-steam/
June 30, 2023, 3:32 AM
Motherboard Battery
You know you have become too old when you get stumped and the solution is simple and fixed by the vendor. About a week back, I was getting CPU Fan Error. It’s a 6 year old desktop so I figured that the fan or the ball bearings on the fan must have worn out. I opened up the cabinet and I could see both the on cpu fan was working coolly as well as the side fan was working without an issue. So I couldn’t figure out what was the issue. I had updated the BIOS/UEFI number of...
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