Junichi Uekawa: Reading through intrusive-collections.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jan-11.html.en#2023-Jan-11-10:16:00
January 11, 2023, 1:16 AM
Reading through intrusive-collections. My eyes are not quite used to reading macro packages and they don't quite make sense to me yet. Error messages look strange too.
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Daniel Lange: Happy tenth birthday, dear Thunar bug
https://daniel-lange.com/archives/177-Happy-tenth-birthday,-dear-Thunar-bug.html
January 10, 2023, 11:00 PM
Thunar, the Xfce4 file manager, has a bug that is underflows the time remaining for a file copy since ten years now (bugzilla, gitlab). Happy birthday!...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppTOML 0.2.0: TOML 1.0.0 rewrite with toml++
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/01/10#rcpptoml_0.2.0
January 10, 2023, 1:19 PM
A few years since the last
release in late 2020, the RcppTOML
package is now back with a new and shiny CRAN release 0.2.0. It is now
based on the wonderful toml++ C++17 library
by Mark Gillard and gets us (at
long last!) full TOML v1.0.0
compliance for use with R.
TOML is a file format that is most
suitable for configurations, as it is meant to be edited by
humans but read by computers. It emphasizes strong readability
for humans while at the same time supporting strong typing
as well as immedia...
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Matthew Garrett: Integrating Linux with Okta Device Trust
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/64311.html
January 10, 2023, 5:48 AM
I've written about bearer tokens and how much pain they cause me before, but sadly wishing for a better world doesn't make it happen so I'm making do with what's available. Okta has a feature called Device Trust which allows to you configure access control policies that prevent people obtaining tokens unless they're using a trusted device. This doesn't actually bind the tokens to the hardware in any way, so if a device is compromised or if a user is untrustworthy this doesn't prevent the token e...
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Junichi Uekawa: Uploaded Debian packages, since a long time.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jan-9.html.en#2023-Jan-9-16:39:00
January 9, 2023, 7:39 AM
Uploaded Debian packages, since a long time.
enumn and remain are rust packages, and needed for crosvm. Working slowly through the dependency chain.
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Russ Allbery: Review: Black Stars
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-5420-3272-5.html
January 9, 2023, 5:54 AM
Review: Black Stars, edited by Nisi Shawl & Latoya Peterson

Publisher:
Amazon Original Stories


Copyright:
August 2021


ISBN:
1-5420-3272-5


ISBN:
1-5420-3270-9


ISBN:
1-5420-3271-7


ISBN:
1-5420-3273-3


ISBN:
1-5420-3268-7


ISBN:
1-5420-3269-5


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
168

This is a bit of an odd duck from a metadata standpoint. Black
Stars is a series of sho...
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Gunnar Wolf: Back to Xochicalco
https://gwolf.org/2023/01/back-to-xochicalco.html
January 9, 2023, 5:20 AM
In Mexico, we have the great luck to live among vestiges of long-gone
cultures, some that were conquered and in some way got adapted and
survived into our modern, mostly-West-Europan-derived society, and
some that thrived but disappeared many more centuries ago. And
although not everybody feels the same way, in my family we have always
enjoyed visiting archaeological sites — when I was a child and today.
Some of the regulars that follow this blog (or its syndicators) will
remember Xochicalco,...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: spdl 0.0.4 on CRAN: Adding Stopwatch
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/01/08#spdl_0.0.4
January 8, 2023, 6:42 PM
Another quick update to the still new-ish package spdl is now om CRAN, and
in Debian. The key focus of spdl is a offering the
same interface from both R and C++ for logging by relying on spdlog via my RcppSpdlog
package.
This release add support for the stopwatch() facility.
One can now instantiate such an object, and referencing it in a log
message shows the elapsed time. No more, no less, and it works the same
way in R and C++.
The short NEWS entry follows.
Changes in spdl
version 0.0.4 (2023...
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Petter Reinholdtsen: LinuxCNC MQTT publisher component
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/LinuxCNC_MQTT_publisher_component.html
January 8, 2023, 6:30 PM
I watched a 2015
video from Andreas Schiffler the other day, where he set up
LinuxCNC to send status
information to the MQTT broker IBM Bluemix. As I also use MQTT for
graphing, it occured to me that a generic MQTT LinuxCNC component
would be useful and I set out to implement it. Today I got the first
draft limping along and submitted as
a patch to the
LinuxCNC project.
The simple part was setting up the MQTT publishing code in Python.
I already have set up other parts submitting data to my M...
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Anuradha Weeraman: Parallelizing and running distributed builds with distcc
https://anuradha.medium.com/parallelizing-and-running-distributed-builds-with-distcc-61f3470c0f69?source=rss-ade561389abc------2
January 8, 2023, 4:23 PM
Parallelizing the compilation of a large codebase is a breeze with distcc, which allows you to spread the load across multiple nodes and speed up the compilation time.Here’s a sample network topology for a distributed build:Install distcc on the three Debian/Ubuntu-based nodes:# apt install distccEdit /etc/default/distcc and set:STARTDISTCC="true"# Customize for your environmentALLOWEDNETS="192.168.2.0/24"# Specify your network deviceLISTENER="192.168.2.146"Additionally, the JOBS and NICE var...
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Scarlett Gately Moore: Debian: Coming soon! MycroftAI! KDE snaps update.
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/debian-coming-soon-mycroftai-kde-snaps-update/
January 8, 2023, 3:31 PM
About Mycroft
I am excited to announce that I have joined the MycroftAI team in Salsa and working hard to get this packaged up and released in Debian. You can track our progress here:
https://salsa.debian.org/mycroftai-team
Snaps are on temporary hold while we get everything switched over to core22. This includes the neon-extension, that requires merges and store requests to be honored. Hopefully folks are returning from holidays and things will start moving again. Thank you for your p...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RVowpalWabbit 0.0.18: Maintenance
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/01/08#rvowpalwabbit_0.0.18
January 8, 2023, 3:09 PM
A new maintenance release, now at version 0.0.18, of the RVowpalWabbit
package arrived on CRAN. It improves several sprintf()
calls by changing them to snprintf() (though there is a
remaining one creeping in from a linked-to library).
As noted before, there is a newer package rvw based on the excellent
GSoC 2018 and beyond work by Ivan Pavlov (mentored by James
and myself) so if you are into VowpalWabbit from R go check it
out.
CRANberries
provides a summary of changes to the previous
version. M...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Postwar
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-4406-2476-3.html
January 8, 2023, 3:49 AM
Review: Postwar, by Tony Judt

Publisher:
Penguin Books


Copyright:
2005


ISBN:
1-4406-2476-3


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
835

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was a British-American historian and Erich Maria
Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University.
Postwar is his magnum opus, a history of Europe from 1945 to 2005.
A book described as a history of Europe could be anything from a textbook
to a political analysis, so t...
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Charles Plessy: Could somebody patch Firefox to display Markdown files?
http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debi%C3%A2neries/markdown/
January 8, 2023, 12:18 AM
When Firefox receives a file with media type text/markdown, it prompts the
user to download it, while other browsers display it as plain text. In the
ticket 1319262, it is proposed to display Markdown files by default, but
there needs a patch…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.12 on CRAN: Added Stopwatch
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/01/07#rcppspdlog_0.0.12
January 7, 2023, 11:42 PM
Version 0.0.12 of RcppSpdlog is now
on CRAN and in 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.
This release adds support for the stopwatch object, a
simple container around a std::chrono object. It makes
(simple) time measurements of routines and code segments trivially easy.
Instantiate a stopwatch object, and ‘formatting’ it in a
logg...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in December 2022
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2022-12/
January 7, 2023, 3:22 PM
Welcome to the December 2022 report from the Reproducible Builds project.
We are extremely pleased to announce that the dates for the Reproducible Builds Summit in 2023 have been announced in 2022 already:
When: October 31st, November 1st, November 2nd 2023.
Where: Dock Europe, Hamburg, Germany.
We plan to spend three days continuing to the grow of the Reproducible Builds effort. As in previous events, the exact content of the meeting will be shaped by the participants. And, as ment...
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Jonathan Carter: What are the most important improvements that Debian need to make?
https://jonathancarter.org/2023/01/07/what-are-the-most-important-improvements-that-debian-need-to-make/
January 7, 2023, 12:19 PM
“What are the most important improvements that Debian need to make?” – I decided to see what all the fuss is about and asked ChatGPT that exact question.
It’s response:
The list of potential improvements for Debian that I provided is based on my understanding of the challenges and opportunities that software projects like Debian typically face, as well as my understanding of the goals and values of the Debian project. It is not based on any specific information about the current p...
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Matthew Garrett: Asking ChatGPT to write my security-sensitive code for me
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/64090.html
January 7, 2023, 9:09 AM
I have a patchset that makes it safe to use hibernation under Linux even in a secure boot world but it relies on preventing userland from using one of the TPM PCRs[1] that would otherwise be available to it. TPM 2 devices support emulating PCRs in NVRAM, which would obviously be beneficial in not taking away a scare resource, but the docs suggest there's no way to tie a key generation to an NVRAM value which makes this more complicated.So, why not ask a computer to do this for me? I asked ChatGP...
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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in December 2022
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2023/01/my-debian-activities-in-december-2022/
January 6, 2023, 4:34 PM
FTP master
This month I accepted 276 and rejected 27 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 288.
Debian LTS
This was my hundred-second 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 but due to Christmas I managed only to do 10h.
During that time I uploaded:
[DLA 3256-1] xorg-server security update for six CVEs
[DLA 3255-1] mplayer security update for ten CVEs
Debian ELTS
...
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Jonathan McDowell: Finally making use of bpftrace
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2023/01/finally-using-bpftrace.html
January 6, 2023, 8:29 AM
I am old enough to remember when BPF meant the traditional Berkeley Packet Filter, and was confined to filtering network packets. It’s grown into much, much, more as eBPF and getting familiar with it so that I can add it to the suite of tips and tricks I can call upon has been on my to-do list for a while. To this end I was lucky enough to attend a live walk through of bpftrace last year. bpftrace is a high level tool that allows the easy creation and execution of eBPF tracers under Linux.
Re...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 231 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-231-released/
January 6, 2023, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 231. This version includes the following changes:
* Improve "[X] may produce better output" messages. Based on a patch by
Helmut Grohne. (Closes: #1026982)
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Kentaro Hayashi: Rebuild mozc with Mozc UT Dictionary
https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2023/01/05/205537
January 5, 2023, 11:55 AM
When rebuilding mozc with Mozc UT Dictionary, it may be better to build in docker container because you don't want install unused IM development packages.
In beforehand, download latest Mozc UT dictionary here.
osdn.net
In a debian/sid container, you need to do it:
# apt install -y devscripts
# (enable deb-src, modify /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources)
# apt source mozc
# cat mozcdic-ut-20221230/mozcdic-ut-20221230.txt >> mozc-2.28.4715.102+dfsg/src/data/dictionary_oss/dictionary0...
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Matthew Garrett: Changing firmware config that doesn't want to be changed
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/63787.html
January 5, 2023, 4:28 AM
Update: There's actually a more detailed writeup of this here that I somehow missed. Original entry follows:Today I had to deal with a system that had an irritating restriction - a firmware configuration option I really wanted to be able to change appeared as a greyed out entry in the configuration menu. Some emails revealed that this was a deliberate choice on the part of the system vendor, so that seemed to be that. Thankfully in this case there was a way around that.One of the things UEFI int...
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Enrico Zini: Staticsite redesign
http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2023/ssite/staticsite-redesign
January 4, 2023, 2:03 PM
These are some notes about my redesign work in staticsite 2.x.
Maping constraints and invariants
I started keeping notes of constraints and invariants,
and this helped a lot in keeping bounds on the cognitive efforts of design.
I particularly liked how mapping the set of constraints added during site
generation has helped breaking down processing into a series of well defined
steps. Code that handles each step now has a specific task, and can rely on
clear assumptions.
Declarative page metadata
...
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Junichi Uekawa: debcargo rust repository and some observations.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jan-4.html.en#2023-Jan-4-15:28:59
January 4, 2023, 6:28 AM
debcargo rust repository and some observations.
It's been about a week since I first started looking at Debian rust packages and adding some packages in preparation for crosvm.
Some things that don't work quite well right now yet.
My local branches disappeared. I don't have access and everything is through a merge request, presumably that is not a generally supported workflow and the team members are using branches to manage pending works.
./release.sh is optimized for updates and f...
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Anton Gladky: Boost 1.81 in Debian Testing
https://gladk.de/posts/202301_boost_181/
January 4, 2023, 4:16 AM
The latest version of Boost, version 1.81, is now available in Debian Testing.
As contributors to Boost, we highly encourage you to consider building your package
against Boost 1.81 in order to facilitate a smooth transition. Installing the -dev
Boost packages from the experimental repository is simple, as shown in the following
command:
sudo apt install libboost-dev -t experimental
If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for improvement, please do not
hesitate to file bugs or prepare m...
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Enrico Zini: Released staticsite 2.x
http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2023/ssite/release-staticsite-2-x
January 4, 2023, 12:30 AM
In theory I wanted to announce the release of
staticsite 2.0, but then I found
bugs that prevented me from writing this post, so I'm also releasing
2.1 2.2 2.3 :grin:
staticsite is the static site generator that I ended up writing after giving
other generators a try.
I did a big round of cleanup of the code, which among other things allowed me
to implement incremental builds.
It turned out that staticsite is fast enough that incremental builds are not
really needed, however, a bug in caching ren...
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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities December 2022
http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2023/01/04/floss-activities/
January 3, 2023, 11:02 PM
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus.
I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
devscripts:
allow rmadison to query archived releases, unofficial ports
debiman:
update prerequisites
reportbug:
drop cruft,
add tags based on subject
debbugs:
fix usertag validation
Debian DDPO:
better syntax error messages
Debian madison:
allow querying
archived releases,
unofficial ports
Debian ftp-master website:
typos
Debian mirrors list:
fix debian.co.il
Debian mirror status:
fix
cra...
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Enrico Zini: Things I learnt in December 2022
http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2022/debian/til-2022-12
January 3, 2023, 9:00 PM
Python: typing.overload
typing.overload
makes it easier to type functions with behaviour that depends on input types.
Functions marked with @overload are ignored by Python and only used by the
type checker:
@overload
def process(response: None) -> None:
...
@overload
def process(response: int) -> tuple[int, str]:
...
@overload
def process(response: bytes) -> str:
...
def process(response):
# <actual implementation>
Python's multiprocessing and deadlocks
Python's ...
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Jonathan Dowland: Tex Shinobi first impressions
https://jmtd.net/log/tex_shinobi/
January 3, 2023, 3:22 PM
Happy New Year!
Older IBM Ultranav keyboard
For the last 13 years I've been using standalone versions of the Lenovo
(formerly IBM) Thinkpad keyboard design — with integrated trackpoint — as my
main computer input devices.
My latest ("ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II") was starting to fail so I decided
to look into alternatives for a replacement. The sticking point was I really like
the trackpoint as a mouse replacement, and very few other manufacturers offer that.
I've thus far mana...
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Russell Coker: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/01/03/note-10-1-2014/
January 3, 2023, 2:37 AM
In May 2014 I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition tablet (wikipedia page [1]) with 32G of RAM. It’s display is 2560×1600 resolution which still compares well to the latest tablets. The Galaxy Tab S8 [2] is the latest high-end tablet series from Samsung and the 11 inch tablet in that series also has a 2560×1600 giving it a slightly lower DPI! The latest series also has 12.4″ and 14.6″ tablets with resolutions of 2800×1752 and 2960×1848 respectively. Obviously if you want a 14...
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Gunnar Wolf: Refueling the blog
https://gwolf.org/2023/01/refueling-the-blog.html
January 2, 2023, 6:48 PM
So, it’s this weird time of year where we make a balance and share
with the world some ideas about the future. And… yes, it’s time to
take care of this blog, as its activity has dropped once
again. So… maybe it’d be nice to start this post by checking how
much have I blogged over the years:
2004: 27
2005: 92
2006: 65
2007: 83
2008: 64
2009: 62
2010: 48
2011: 25
2012: 27
2013: 29
2014: 37
2015: 18
2016: 19
2017: 20
2018: 19
2019: 19
2020: 14
2021:...
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Ben Hutchings: Debian LTS work, December 2022
https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/debian-lts-work-december-2022.html
January 2, 2023, 5:33 PM
In December I was assigned 15 hours by Freexian's Debian LTS
initiative and carried over 9 hours from November. I worked
all of those hours.
I merged the latest bullseye point release into the linux-5.10
package, uploaded that, and issued
DLA-3244-1.
I also updated the linux (4.19) package to the latest stable and
and stable-rt versions, uploaded it, and issued
DLA-3245-1....
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Emmanuel Kasper: Ensuring someone is listening before telling a joke
https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2023/01/02/ensuring-someone-is-listening-before-telling-a-joke/
January 2, 2023, 3:42 PM
Alice (speaking to Bob): Bob, I have a good joke to tell, can I call you at 12:00 ?
Bob (turns head towards Alice): OK, fine for me, but can we make it at 13:00 ?
Alice (nodding): Works for me.
At 13:00, Alice starts telling a joke.
Did you recognize the three way TCP handshake ?
Protagonists:
Alice: Client
Bob: Server
Dialog:
I have a good joke to tell: TCP segment with SYN flag
12:00: initial sequence number
OK: TCP segment with SYN and ACK flag
13:00: acknowledgment number (initial sequ...
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Jonathan McDowell: Free Software Activities for 2022
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2023/01/a-year-in-free-software.html
January 1, 2023, 7:34 PM
There is a move to Bring Back Blogging and having recently sorted out my own FreshRSS install I am completely in favour of such a thing. RSS feeds with complete posts, for preference, not just a teaser intro sentence/paragraph.
It’s also a reminder to me that I should blog more, and what better way to start 2023 than with my traditional recap of my Free Software activities in 2022. For previous years see 2019, 2020 + 2021
Conferences
I attended DebConf22 in Prizen, Kosova this year, and fin...
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Russ Allbery: 2022 Book Reading in Review
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2023-01/001.html
January 1, 2023, 5:20 PM
In 2022, much to my surprise, I finished and reviewed 51 books, a
substantial increase over last year and once again the best year for
reading since 2012. (I read 60 books that year, so it's a hard mark to
equal.) Reading throughout the year was a bit uneven; I avoided the
summer slump this year, but still slowed down in early spring and
September. As always, the tail end of the year was prime reading time.
The best book of the year was the third and concluding book of Naomi
Novik's Scholo...
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Junichi Uekawa: Challenges in getting a Debian package.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jan-1.html.en#2023-Jan-1-15:27:23
January 1, 2023, 6:27 AM
Challenges in getting a Debian package.
Debian Rust packaging team has a great collection of scripts for maintaining Debian Rust packages, but that depended on schroot and other tools that I haven't used usually.
Getting that working first was a challenging.
I had to get out of my podman container running sid inside user namespace, because schroot didn't work due to not being able to create devices files. That was okay, and I went back to my old chroot script which was doing something s...
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C.J. Adams-Collier: State of the racks, 20221231
https://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1838
January 1, 2023, 5:31 AM
Hi friends!
I haven’t written in a while. I’ve been caught up in work. But between working, I’ve put together some new equipment in a couple of new racks. I bought an audio dampened 15U rack a couple of years ago or so, and into it I’ve placed the RAID array and an HP desktop form-factor ML110 server to drive the disks. The disk array controller is a two-port Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3. I’ve been thinking about getting the four-port variant, since I like t...
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Junichi Uekawa: 2023 started.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jan-1.html.en#2023-Jan-1-09:23:39
January 1, 2023, 12:23 AM
2023 started. I'm still stuck at home due to COVID-19 and therefore I have more than usual time on hacking on Debian stuff.
I've learnt schroot does most of what I have been doing with my home grown tools.
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Chris Lamb: Favourite films of 2022
https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/favourite-films-of-2022
December 31, 2022, 5:04 PM
In my four most recent posts, I went over the memoirs and biographies, the non-fiction, the fiction and the 'classic' fiction I enjoyed reading in 2022.
But in the very last of my roundup posts—and in relatively less detail—I'll be quickly sketching out the favourite movies that were new to me in 2022:
§
La Ronde (1950)
An all-knowing narrator (Adolf Wohlbrück) guides us through a series of vignettes in 1900s Vienna — a soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening, and later he h...
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Guido Günther: Phosh 2022 in retrospect
https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Phosh_2022_in_retrospect.html
December 31, 2022, 3:55 PM
I wanted to look back at what changed in phosh in 2022 and figured I
could share it with you. I'll be focusing on things very close to the
mobile shell, for a broader overview see Evangelos upcoming FOSDEM
talk.
Some numbers
We're usually aiming for a phosh release at the end of each month. In
2022 We did 10 releases like that, 7 major releases (bumping the
middle version number) and three betas. We skipped the April and
November releases. We also did one bug fix relesae out of line
(bumping t...
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Chris Lamb: Favourite books of 2022: Non-fiction
https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/favourite-books-of-2022-non-fiction
December 30, 2022, 8:20 PM
In my three most recent posts, I went over the memoirs and biographies, classics and fiction books that I enjoyed the most in 2022. But in the last of my book-related posts for 2022, I'll be going over my favourite works of non-fiction.
Books that just missed the cut here include Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost (1998) on the role of Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo Free State, Johann Hari's Stolen Focus (2022) (a personal memoir on relating to how technology is increasingly fragmenting ...
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Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in December 2022
https://utkarsh2102.com/posts/foss-in-dec-22/
December 30, 2022, 5:41 AM
Here’s my (thirty-ninth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world.
Debian
This was my 48th 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:
Some DebConf work.
Sponsoring stuff for non-DDs.
Mentoring for newcomers.
Moderation of -project mailing list.
Ubuntu
This was my 23rd month of a...
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Russ Allbery: Last 2022 haul
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2022-12/003.html
December 30, 2022, 5:19 AM
It's been a while since I posted a haul, and I've been reading primarily
recent purchases, so I've already read and reviewed a bunch of these.
Ilona Andrews — Sweep of the Heart (sff)
Becky Chambers — A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (sff)
Lauren Groff — Matrix (mainstream)
Tendai Huchu — The Library of the Dead (sff)
N.K. Jemisin — The World We Make (sff)
Courtney Milan — The Governess Affair (romance)
Tamsyn Muir — Nona the Ninth (sff)
Naomi Novik — The Golden Enclaves (sff)
Rebec...
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Simon Josefsson: Preseeding Trisquel Virtual Machines Using “netinst” Images
https://blog.josefsson.org/2022/12/30/preseeding-trisquel-virtual-machines-using-netinst-images/
December 30, 2022, 12:24 AM
I’m migrating some self-hosted virtual machines to Trisquel, and noticed that Trisquel does not offer cloud-images similar to the Debian Cloud and Ubuntu Cloud images. Thus my earlier approach based on virt-install --cloud-init and cloud-localds does not work with Trisquel. While I hope that Trisquel will eventually publish cloud-compatible images, I wanted to document an alternative approach for Trisquel based on preseeding. This is how I used to install Debian and Ubuntu in the old days, ...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 230 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-230-released/
December 30, 2022, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 230. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Fix compatibility with file(1) version 5.43; thanks, Christoph Biedl.
[ Jelle van der Waa ]
* Support Berkeley DB version 6.
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Chris Lamb: Favourite books of 2022: Memoir/biography
https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/favourite-books-of-2022-memoir-and-biography
December 29, 2022, 4:23 PM
In my two most recent posts, I listed the fiction and classic fiction I enjoyed the most in 2022.
I'll leave my roundup of general non-fiction until tomorrow, but today I'll be going over my favourite memoirs and biographies, in no particular order.
Books that just missed the cut here include Roisin Kiberd's The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet (2019), Steve Richards' The Prime Ministers (2019) which reflects on UK leadership from Harold Wilson to Boris Johnson, Robert Graves ...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Sweep of the Heart
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-64197-239-4.html
December 29, 2022, 2:59 AM
Review: Sweep of the Heart, by Ilona Andrews

Series:
Innkeeper Chronicles #6


Publisher:
NYLA Publishing


Copyright:
2022


ISBN:
1-64197-239-4


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
440

Sweep of the Heart is the sixth book of the sci-fi urban fantasy,
kitchen-sink-worldbuilding Innkeeper series by husband and wife writing
pair Ilona Andrews, assuming one counts the novella
Sweep with Me as a full entry (which I
do). It's a dire...
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Chris Lamb: Favourite books of 2022: Classics
https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/favourite-books-of-2022-classics
December 28, 2022, 9:28 PM
As a follow-up to yesterday's post detailing my favourite works of fiction from 2022, today I'll be listing my favourite fictional works that are typically filed under classics.
Books that just missed the cut here include: E. M. Forster's A Room with a View (1908) and his later A Passage to India (1913), both gently nudged out by Forster's superb Howard's End (see below). Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard (1958) also just missed out on a write-up here, but I can definitely recommend it ...
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Jonathan Dowland: dark mode
https://jmtd.net/log/dark_mode/
December 28, 2022, 7:45 AM
A few weeks ago I added a “dark mode” to this site. I’d been planning to do it
for a while but hadn’t the time to look into how it worked. In the end it was
simpler than I thought: the the hard part was choosing colours I liked.
I now think I prefer the dark theme; I might make it the default.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the crux of the
technical side was to define
“alternate stylesheets”, something I was playing around with 20 years ago. If
your browser supports it (Fi...
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Russell Coker: Links December 2022
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/12/28/links-december-2022/
December 28, 2022, 7:28 AM
Charles Stross wrote an informative summary of the problems with the UK monarchy [1], conveniently before the queen died.
The blog post “To The Next Mass Shooter, A Modest Proposal” is a well written suggestion to potential mass murderers [2].
The New Yorker has an interesting and amusing article about the former CIA employee who released the “Vault 7” collection of CIA attack software [3]. This exposes the ridiculously poor hiring practices of the CIA which involved far less background ...
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Chris Lamb: Favourite books of 2022: Fiction
https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/favourite-books-of-2022-fiction
December 27, 2022, 9:15 PM
This post marks the beginning my yearly roundups of the favourite books and movies that I read and watched in 2022 that I plan to publish over the next few days.
Just as I did for 2020 and 2021, I won't reveal precisely how many books I read in the last year. I didn't get through as many books as I did in 2021, though, but that's partly due to reading a significant number of long nineteenth-century novels — in particular, a fair number of those books that American writer Henry James once refe...
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Ian Wienand: Redirecting webfinger requests with Apache
https://www.technovelty.org/web/redirecting-webfinger-requests-with-apache.html
December 27, 2022, 8:51 PM
If you have a personal domain, it is nice if you can redirect
webfinger requests so you
can be easily found via your email. This is hardly a new idea, but
the growth of Mastodon recently
has made this more prominent.
I wanted to redirect webfinger endpoints to a Mastondon host I am
using, but only my email and only standard Apache rewrites. Below,
replace xxx@yyy.com with your email and zzz.social with the
account to be redirected to. There are a couple of tricks in being
able to inspect the...
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Steve Kemp: A summary of the year.
https://blog.steve.fi/a_summary_of_the_year_.html
December 27, 2022, 5:15 PM
This year had a lot of things happen in it, world-wide, as is always the case.
Being more selfish here are the things I remember, in brief unless there are comments/questions:
I learned more Finnish.
Lots of things with our child.
I helped teach him to swim.
He learned to tell the time with an analog clock/watch.
I took him to a circus for the first (only) time ever.
He cut his hair for the first time in six years.
He spent his a birthday with my parents, in the UK - His languages skills w...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: The ultimate single-page app
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2022-12-27-00-07_the_ultimate_single_page_app.html
December 26, 2022, 11:07 PM
I run a chess analysis site as a hobby.
It's not a big thing (usually ~1k simultaneous viewers when it's broadcasting,
peak at ~27k during the London WCC), and the surface functionality
is also pretty basic: It's a single-page app picking up a JSON (updated via long-poll)
from a backend containing a chess position and computer analysis,
and then presents it to the viewer.
I won't go into detail for why this isn't as simple as it seems,
but there's one thing I've always prided myself in: Making ...
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Vincent Bernat: Managing infrastructure with Terraform, CDKTF, and NixOS
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2022-cdktf-nixos
December 26, 2022, 3:18 PM
A few years ago, I downsized my personal infrastructure. Until 2018, there were
a dozen containers running on a single Hetzner server.1 I migrated
my emails to Fastmail and my DNS zones to Gandi. It left me with only my
blog to self-host. As of today, my low-scale infrastructure is composed of 4
virtual machines running NixOS on Hetzner Cloud and Vultr, a handful
of DNS zones on Gandi and Route 53, and a couple of Cloudfront
distributions. It is managed by CDK for Terraform (CDKTF), while Ni...
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David Bremner: Why won't crusty old host recognize my shiny new terminal emulator?
https://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//blog/posts/sendterminfo/
December 25, 2022, 4:30 PM
Spiffy new terminal emulators seem to come with their own terminfo
definitions. Venerable hosts that I ssh into tend not to know about
those. kitty comes with a thing to transfer that definition, but it
breaks if the remote host is running tcsh (don't ask). Similary the
one liner for alacritty on the arch wiki seems to assume the remote
shell is bash. Forthwith, a dumb shell script that works to send the
terminfo of the current terminal emulator to the remote host.
EDIT: Jakub Wilk worked out t...
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Simon Josefsson: OpenPGP key on FST-01SZ
https://blog.josefsson.org/2022/12/24/openpgp-key-on-fst-01sz/
December 24, 2022, 1:36 PM
I use GnuPG to compute cryptographic signatures for my emails, git commits/tags, and software release artifacts (tarballs). Part of GnuPG is gpg-agent which talks to OpenSSH, which I login to remote servers and to clone git repositories. I dislike storing cryptographic keys on general-purpose machines, and have used hardware-backed OpenPGP keys since around 2006 when I got a FSFE Fellowship Card. GnuPG via gpg-agent handles this well, and the private key never leaves the hardware. The ZeitCon...
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Petter Reinholdtsen: ONVIF IP camera management tool finally in Debian
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ONVIF_IP_camera_management_tool_finally_in_Debian.html
December 24, 2022, 7:00 AM
Merry Christmas to you all. Here is a small gift to all those with
IP cameras following the ONVIF
specification. There is finally a nice command line and GUI tool
in Debian to manage ONVIF IP cameras. After working with upstream for
a few months and sponsoring the upload, I am very happy to report that
the libonvif package
entered Debian Sid last night.
The package provide a C library to communicate with such cameras, a
command line tool to locate and update settings of (like password) the
c...
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Scarlett Gately Moore: Debian uploads, Core22 KDE snap content pack and more!
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/debian-uploads-core22-kde-snap-content-pack-and-more/
December 23, 2022, 6:55 PM
I have been quite busy! I have been working on several projects so my cover image is a lovely sunset where I live.
Debian:
I have updated and uploaded several packages and working on more.
Umbrello
Squashfuse with the help of Scott Moser ( Thanks! )
libappimage
plasma-bigscreen WIP
KDE Snaps:
I have reworked the CI to now do Core22 snaps! They will publish to the beta channel until we get them tested. First snap completed is the ever important KDE Frameworks / QT conte...
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