Bálint Réczey: Improve build time of Rust, Java and Intel Fortran projects with Firebuild’s new release!
https://balintreczey.hu/blog/improve-build-time-of-rust-java-and-intel-fortran-projects-with-firebuilds-new-release/
April 25, 2023, 9:38 PM
Rust is a hugely popular compiled programming language and fully supporting it was an important goal for Firebuild for some time.
Firebuild’s v0.8.0 release finally added Rust support in addition to numerous other improvements including support for Doxygen, Intel’s Fortran compiler and restored javac and javadoc acceleration.
Firebuild’s Rust + Cargo support
Firebuild treats programs as black boxes intercepting C standard library calls and system calls. It shortcuts the program i...
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Bits from Debian: Debian Project Leader Election 2023, Jonathan Carter re-elected
https://bits.debian.org/2023/04/dpl-elections-2023.html
April 24, 2023, 7:00 PM
The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election has ended, with all of the votes tallied we announce the winner is: Jonathan Carter, who has been elected for the forth time.
Congratulations! The new term for the project leader started on 2023-04-21.
279 of 997 Developers voted using the Condorcet method.
More information about the results of the voting are available on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2023 page.
Many thanks all of our Developers for voting....
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Jonathan Dowland: Separate hledgers
https://jmtd.net/log/hledger/separate/
April 24, 2023, 2:29 PM
In a previous blog post I described the use of virtual
postings to track accidental personal/family expenses. I've always been
uncomfortable with that, and in hledger 1yr I outlined a potential scheme
for finally addressing the virtual posting problem.
separate journals
My outline built on top of continuing to maintain both personal and family
financial data in the same place, but I've decided that this can't work,
because the different "directions" (or signs) of accidental transactions
origin...
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Petter Reinholdtsen: Speech to text, she APTly whispered, how hard can it be?
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Speech_to_text__she_APTly_whispered__how_hard_can_it_be_.html
April 23, 2023, 7:40 AM
While visiting a convention during Easter, it occurred to me that
it would be great if I could have a digital Dictaphone with
transcribing capabilities, providing me with texts to cut-n-paste into
stuff I need to write. The background is that long drives often bring
up the urge to write on texts I am working on, which of course is out
of the question while driving. With the release of
OpenAI Whisper, this
seem to be within reach with Free Software, so I decided to give it a
go. OpenAI Whisper...
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Steve Kemp: Managing header-spacing in markdown/org-mode files
https://blog.steve.fi/managing_header_spacing_in_markdown_org_mode_files.html
April 21, 2023, 6:00 AM
It seems I'm having a theme recently on this blog, of making emacs-related posts. Here's another.
I write a bunch of stuff in markdown, such as my emacs init-file, blog-posts and other documents. I try to be quite consistent about vertical spacing, for example a post might look like this:
# header1
Some top-level stuff.
## header2
Some more details.
## header2
Some more things on a related topic.
# header2
Here I'm trying to breakup sections, so there is a "big gap" between H1 and...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 241 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-241-released/
April 21, 2023, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 241. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Add a missing 'raise' statement dropped in 2d95ae41e. Thanks, Mattia!
[ Mattia Rizzolo ]
* document sending out an email upon release
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.0.5 on CRAN: Updates from QuantLib 1.3.0
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/04/20#qlcal-r_0.0.5
April 20, 2023, 11:38 PM
The fifth release of the still new-ish qlcal package
arrivied at CRAN just now.
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 to five calendars fro...
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Simon Josefsson: Sigstore for Apt Archives: apt-cosign
https://blog.josefsson.org/2023/04/20/sigstore-for-apt-archives-apt-cosign/
April 20, 2023, 5:04 PM
As suggested in my initial announcement of apt-sigstore my plan was to look into stronger uses of Sigstore than rekor, and I’m now happy to announce that the apt-cosign plugin has been added to apt-sigstore and the operational project debdistcanary is publishing cosign-statements about the InRelease file published by the following distributions: Trisquel GNU/Linux, PureOS, Gnuinos, Ubuntu, Debian and Devuan.
Summarizing the commands that you need to run as root to experience the great new w...
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Dima Kogan: =numpy.percentile= API update
http://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2023/04/20_numpypercentile-api-update.html
April 20, 2023, 4:57 PM
The numpy devs did a bad thing. Don't be like the numpy devs.
The current (version 1.24) docs for numpy.percentile say this about
the method keyword argument:
Changed in version 1.22.0: This argument was previously called "interpolation" ...
They renamed a keyword argument. So if you had working code that did
np.percentile( ...., interpolation=xxx, ....)
then running it in the most recent numpy would throw lots of
Deprecation warnings at you, and presumably eventually it will sto...
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Jamie McClelland: Electron doesn't like negative layout coordinates
https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2023/electron-doesnt-like-negative-numbers/
April 20, 2023, 12:27 PM
I got a second external monitor. Overkill? Probably, but I like having a
dedicated space to instant messaging (now left monitor) and also a dedicated
space for a web browser (right monitor).
But, when I moved signal-desktop to the left monitor, clicks stopped working. I
moved it back to my laptop screen, clicks started working. Other apps (like
gajim) worked fine. A real mystery.
I spent a lot of time on the wrong thing. I turned this monitor into portrait
mode. Maybe signal doesn’t like portr...
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Ian Jackson: The Rust Foundation's bad draft trademark policy
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/14929.html
April 19, 2023, 4:36 PM
tl;dr
The Rust Foundation’s proposed new trademark policy is far too restrictive, and will cause (more) drama unless it is substantially revised.
Process
Substance
Values
Next steps
Echoes of a dispute from 2006
Process
“Rust” is a trademark owned by the Foundation.
The Rust Foundation still seems to be finding its feet. Evidently, one of the items on its backlog was to update the trademark policy. Apparently they have been working on this for some time, in an informal working group.
In...
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Tim Retout: Data Diodes
https://retout.co.uk/2023/04/18/data-diodes/
April 18, 2023, 10:05 PM
At ArgoCon today, Thomas Fricke gave a nice talk on Cloud Native
Deployments in Air Gapped
Environments
describing container vulnerability scanning in the German energy
sector… and since he didn’t mention data diodes, and since some of
my colleagues at Oakdoor/PA Consulting make data
diodes for a living, I thought this might be interesting to write
about!
It’s one thing to have an air-gapped system, but eventually in order
to be useful you’re going to have to move data into it, and this ...
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Shirish Agarwal: Philips LCD Monitor 22″, 1984, Reaper Man, The Firm.
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/philips-lcd-monitor-22-1984-reaper-man-the-firm/
April 18, 2023, 9:31 AM
PHILIPS PHL 221S8L
Those who have been reading this blog for a long time would perhaps know that I had bought a Viewsonic 19″ almost 12 years ago. The Monitor was functioning well till last week. I had thought to change it to a 24″ monitor almost 3-4 years ago when 24″ LCD Monitors were going for around 4k/- or thereabouts. But the monitor kept on functioning and I didn’t have space (nor do) to have a dual-monitor setup. It just didn’t make sense. Apart from higher electricity charg...
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Matt Brown: co2mon.nz: Ventilation monitoring as a service
https://www.mattb.nz/w/2023/04/18/co2mon.nz/
April 18, 2023, 8:02 AM
Previously, I explained why ventilation monitoring is important, and the opportunity I see to help accelerate deployment of high quality ventilation monitoring for small businesses and organisations.
In this post, I’m going to discuss my plans to tackle that opportunity:
My journey to ventilation monitoring
co2mon.nz: Ventilation monitoring as a service prototype
Areas of development
Next steps
My journey to ventilation monitoring
I started looking into ventilation monitoring in detail las...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: Naguru 2.2.1 released
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2023-04-18-09-07_nageru_2_2_1_released.html
April 18, 2023, 7:15 AM
I've released version 2.2.1 of Nageru, my free
software video mixer. This is pretty much a “bookworm release”; a bunch of
focused fixes for video input-related issues I hadn't seen before (mostly
because the hardware I had accessible to test with didn't happen to stress
these bugs).
The changelog reads:
Nageru and Futatabi 2.2.1, April 17th, 2023
- Work around an issue with OpenGL on Wayland, causing all
displays to be blank.
- Several fixes related to video inputs; in particular...
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Matthew Garrett: PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html
April 18, 2023, 12:26 AM
Here's an article from a French anarchist describing how his (encrypted) laptop was seized after he was arrested, and material from the encrypted partition has since been entered as evidence against him. His encryption password was supposedly greater than 20 characters and included a mixture of cases, numbers, and punctuation, so in the absence of any sort of opsec failures this implies that even relatively complex passwords can now be brute forced, and we should be transitioning to even more se...
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Matthew Palmer: Rutie and Magnus, Two Good Ways to Build Ruby Extensions in Rust
https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2023/04/18/rutie-magnus-rust-extensions-for-ruby.html
April 18, 2023, 12:00 AM
I wrote the Ruby bindings for the Enquo Project, my attempt to bring queryable encryption to all databases, using the Rutie library.
Recently, I’ve rewritten the bindings to use Magnus instead, and I thought I’d put down my thoughts about the whole situation.
The Story So Far
The Enquo Project core cryptography is all written in Rust, as seems to be the vogue these days.
Rust is fast, safe, and easily interoperable with most of the rest of the modern software development ecosystem, making ...
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Simon Josefsson: More on Differential Reproducible Builds: Devuan is 46% reproducible!
https://blog.josefsson.org/2023/04/17/more-on-differential-reproducible-builds-devuan-is-46-reproducible/
April 17, 2023, 3:29 PM
Building on my work to rebuild Trisquel GNU/Linux 11.0 aramo, it felt simple to generalize the tooling to any two apt-repository pairs and I’ve created debdistreproduce as a template-project for doing this through the infrastructure of GitLab CI/CD and meanwhile even set up my own gitlab-runner on spare hardware. I’ve brought over reproduce/trisquel to using debdistreproduce as well, and archived the old reproduce-trisquel project.
After fixing some quirks, building Devuan GNU+Linux 4.0 ...
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Matthew Garrett: Booting modern Intel CPUs
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66109.html
April 17, 2023, 12:04 AM
CPUs can't do anything without being told what to do, which leaves the obvious problem of how do you tell a CPU to do something in the first place. On many CPUs this is handled in the form of a reset vector - an address the CPU is hardcoded to start reading instructions from when power is applied. The address the reset vector points to will typically be some form of ROM or flash that can be read by the CPU even if no other hardware has been configured yet. This allows the system vendor to ship c...
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Iustin Pop: Quick note: nftables and TCP MSS clamping
https://k1024.org/posts/2023/2023-04-16-nftables-tcp-clamp-mss/
April 16, 2023, 4:46 PM
Another short note to myself, and whomever cares/searches later for
nft or nftables, tcp mss clamping.
Somewhat surprising, many/most of the instructions found by Google are
still related to iptables. I guess people stopped writing blog posts
by the time nftables became widely used? 🤷
The only official documentation I can find is in the official
wiki,
but it doesn’t list/explain exactly how does this work/in which
conditions. I think this results in posts like this
one
that suggest addition...
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Simon Josefsson: Sigstore protects Apt archives: apt-verify & apt-sigstore
https://blog.josefsson.org/2023/04/15/sigstore-protects-apt-archives-apt-verify-apt-sigstore/
April 15, 2023, 8:33 AM
Do you want your apt-get update to only ever use files whose hash checksum have been recorded in the globally immutable tamper-resistance ledger rekor provided by the Sigstore project? Well I thought you’d never ask, but now you can, thanks to my new projects apt-verify and apt-sigstore. I have not done proper stable releases yet, so this is work in progress. To try it out, adapt to the modern era of running random stuff from the Internet as root, and run the following commands. Use a conta...
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Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Snaps! Oh so many released! Debian update
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-snaps-oh-so-many-released-debian-update/
April 14, 2023, 6:39 PM
KDE Elisia snap
It has been another very busy couple of weeks! I have released many snaps, fixed a few bugs, started the documentation, and have many snaps in progress. So without further ado here is my status update for KDE snaps:
Fixed two very important Krita bugs:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465307
Fixed several other minor bugs and triaged all the snap bugs I could find on bugs.kde.org. Remember to assign snap bugs to me! It makes my life easier and I see them quicker.
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Russ Allbery: Review: Babel
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-06-302144-7.html
April 14, 2023, 3:10 AM
Review: Babel, by R.F. Kuang

Publisher:
Harper Voyage


Copyright:
August 2022


ISBN:
0-06-302144-7


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
544

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford
Translators' Revolution, to give it its full title, is a standalone
dark academia fantasy
set in the 1830s and 1840s, primarily in Oxford, England. The first book
of R.F. Kuang's previous trilogy, The Poppy War, was nominated for
mul...
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John Goerzen: Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10478-easily-accessing-all-your-stuff-with-a-zero-trust-mesh-vpn
April 14, 2023, 2:47 AM
Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there.
But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around physical location. For instance, a company may have no particular office at all, may have a number of offices plus a number of people working remotely, and so forth. A home network might have, say, a PVR and file...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Once Upon a Tome
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-324-09208-4.html
April 13, 2023, 2:18 AM
Review: Once Upon a Tome, by Oliver Darkshire

Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company


Copyright:
2022


Printing:
2023


ISBN:
1-324-09208-4


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
243

The full title page of this book, in delightful 19th century style, is:
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller,
wherein the theory of the profession is partially explained, with a
variety of insufficient examples, by Ol...
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Thomas Lange: FAI creates your own Ubuntu installation ISO
http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/faime-ubuntu/
April 12, 2023, 7:25 PM
A new service is available on the FAI project website
https://fai-project.org/FAIme
Build your own customized installation ISO for Ubuntu!
You can select if you want to install an Ubuntu LTS 22.04 server or
desktop and enable Ubuntu LTS packages which are also called Hardware
Enablement (HWE). Different disk partition schemes including LVM are
available and you can select a language and keyboard layout and add
your own list of packages which are then automatically installed from
the customized...
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Jonathan Dowland: blog after death
https://jmtd.net/log/blog_after_death/
April 12, 2023, 3:14 PM
I've been pondering what should happen to personal websites once the owner has
passed, or otherwise "moved on". Some time ago I stumbled across a blog by Kev
Quirk, who wrote
I’d need to come up with contingency plans for...This website, and any other
websites and own/manage
I thought it was a strange idea, to have a contingency plan for a personal site
to survive its writer. Even a site such as my own, which (as sites go) would be
trivial to host/mirror (since it's static), who would want...
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Andrej Shadura: Connecting lights to a Swytch e-bike kit
https://blog.shadura.me/2023/04/12/swytch-e-bike-lights/
April 12, 2023, 1:09 PM
Last year I purchased an e-bike upgrade kit for my mother in law. We decided to install it on a bicycle she originally bought back in the 80s, which I fixed and refurbished a couple of years ago and used until September 2022 when I bought myself a Dutch Cortina U4.
When I used this bicycle, I installed a lightweight Shutter Precision dynamo hub and compatible lights, XLC at the front, Büchel at the back. Unfortunately, since Swytch is a front wheel with a built-in electric motor, these lights d...
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Jamie McClelland: Doing whatever Gmail says
https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2023/doing-whatever-gmail-says/
April 12, 2023, 12:27 PM
As we slowly move our members to our new email infrastructure, an unexpected
twist turned up: One member reported getting the Gmail warning:
Be careful with this message The sender hasn’t authenticated this message so Gmail can’t verify that it actually came from them.
They have their email delivered to May First, but have configured Gmail to pull
in that email using the “Check mail from other accounts” feature. It worked
fine on our old infrastructure, but started giving this message ...
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Aurelien Jarno: Backup server upgraded to Bookworm
https://blog.aurel32.net/backup-server-upgraded-to-bookworm.html
April 12, 2023, 9:07 AM
A few months ago, I switched my backup server to an ODROID-M1
SBC. It uses a RK3568 SoC with a
quad-core Cortex-A55 and AES extensions (useful for disk encryption), and I
added a 2 TB NVME SSD to the M2 slot. It also has a SATA connector, but the
default enclosure does not have space for 2.5" drives. It's not the fastest
SBC, but it runs stable and quite well as a backup server, and it's fanless,
and low-power (less than 2 W idle). The support for the SoC has been added
recently to the Linux k...
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Russ Allbery: Review: The Last Hero
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-06-050777-2.html
April 12, 2023, 2:29 AM
Review: The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett

Illustrator:
Paul Kidby


Series:
Discworld #27


Publisher:
Harper


Copyright:
2001, 2002


ISBN:
0-06-050777-2


Format:
Graphic novel


Pages:
176

The Last Hero is the 27th Discworld novel and part of the Rincewind
subseries. This is something of a sequel to Interesting Times and relies heavily on the cast that was built
up in previous books. It's not a good p...
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Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Debian Developer Survey Results, DebConf updates, and more! (by Utkarsh Gupta)
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-03-2023/
April 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.
Results of the Debian Developer Survey, by Roberto C. Sánchez
In 2022, Freexian polled Debian Developers
about the usage of money in Debian. More than 200 Debian Developers
graciously participated, providing useful and constructive answers.
Rob...
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Aurelien Jarno: New website, or kind of...
https://blog.aurel32.net/new-website.html
April 11, 2023, 8:29 AM
For over 15 years, I've hardly made any updates to my website, and it remains
low on my priority list. So I made a radical decision to replace it entirely
with my blog. The content of the website has been reduced to just two
additional pages.
But nothing has been lost: nowadays, Wikipedia is a much better platform for
sharing knowledge than random websites. And it happens that they already cover
all that was on my website about
subaquatic diving in French.
They also offer a multitude of resource...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Circe
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-316-55633-5.html
April 11, 2023, 4:20 AM
Review: Circe, by Madeline Miller

Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company


Copyright:
April 2018


Printing:
2020


ISBN:
0-316-55633-5


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
421

Circe is the story of the goddess Circe, best known as a minor
character in Homer's Odyssey. Circe was Miller's third book
if you count the short novella Galatea. She wrote it after
Song of Achilles, a reworking of part of the Iliad, but as
with Homer, you...
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Simon Josefsson: Trisquel is 42% Reproducible!
https://blog.josefsson.org/2023/04/10/trisquel-is-42-reproducible/
April 10, 2023, 5:36 PM
The absolute number may not be impressive, but what I hope is at least a useful contribution is that there actually is a number on how much of Trisquel is reproducible. Hopefully this will inspire others to help improve the actual metric.
tl;dr: go to reproduce-trisquel.
When I set about to understand how Trisquel worked, I identified a number of things that would improve my confidence in it. The lowest hanging fruit for me was to manually audit the package archive, and I wrote a tool ca...
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Gunnar Wolf: Twenty years
https://gwolf.org/2023/04/twenty-years.html
April 10, 2023, 6:01 AM
Twenty years… A seemingly big, very round number, at least for me.
I can recall several very well-known songs mentioning this
timespan:
«It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to
play», sang four youth idols in 1967 for whom said timespan was
not-quite-but-almost their full lifes so far.
«Si las cosas que uno quiere se pudieran alcanzar, tú me quisieras
lo mismo que veinte años atrás» (if what one wants could be
achieved, you would love me the same as twenty ye...
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Russell Coker: BTRFS Rebuild Time
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/04/10/btrfs-rebuild-time/
April 10, 2023, 5:19 AM
In February I replaced a Dell T320 server with a HP Z640 workstation for a home server/workstation [1]. The T320 has 8*3.5″ drive bays which I had used to put 3*4TB disks in a BTRFS RAID-10 array for 6TB of usable capacity. The Z640 has only 2*3.5″ bays and 4*2.5″ bays, so one option I could have taken was to buy a 4TB 2.5″ SSD and keep the same 3*4TB array as before. Instead I chose to use an 8TB disk I had spare in an array with one of the original 4TB disks and some extra on NVMe devi...
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Marco d'Itri: Installing Debian 12 on a Banana Pi M5
https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_466
April 9, 2023, 1:47 PM
I recently bought a Banana Pi BPI-M5, which uses the Amlogic S905X3 SoC: these are my notes about installing Debian on it.
While this SoC is supported by the upstream U-Boot it is not supported by the Debian U-Boot package, so debian-installer does not work. Do not be fooled by seeing the DTB file for this exact board being distributed with debian-installer: all DTB files are, and it does not mean that the board is supposed to work.
As I documented in #1033504, the Debian kernels are currently...
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Evgeni Golov: Running autopkgtest with Docker inside Docker
https://www.die-welt.net/2023/04/running-autopkgtest-with-docker-inside-docker/
April 8, 2023, 5:39 PM
While I am not the biggest fan of Docker, I must admit it has quite some reach across various service providers and can often be seen as an API for running things in isolated environments.
One such service provider is GitHub when it comes to their Actions service.
I have no idea what isolation technology GitHub uses on the outside of Actions, but inside you just get an Ubuntu system and can run whatever you want via Docker as that comes pre-installed and pre-configured. This especially means you...
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Russell Coker: Storage Trends 2023
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/04/09/storage-trends-2023/
April 8, 2023, 2:46 PM
It’s been 2 years since my last blog post about storage trends [1].
Minimum Storage <=2TB
In 2021 I stated that as MSY had 2TB disks for $72 and 2TB SSD for $245 it was barely worth considering a 2TB disk and anything less than 2TB wasn’t worth considering. Now for 2TB storage from MSY NVMe starts at $129, SATA SSD starts at $143, and hard disks start at $75. I guess that NVMe is slightly cheaper due to some combination of economies of scale for manufacture/sales and having less postage c...
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Petter Reinholdtsen: rtlsdr-scanner, software defined radio frequency scanner for Linux - nice free software
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/rtlsdr_scanner__software_defined_radio_frequency_scanner_for_Linux____nice_free_software.html
April 7, 2023, 9:10 PM
Today I finally found time to track down a useful radio frequency
scanner for my software defined radio. Just for fun I tried to locate
the radios used in the areas, and a good start would be to scan all
the frequencies to see what is in use. I've tried to find a useful
program earlier, but ran out of time before I managed to find a useful
tool. This time I was more successful, and after a few false leads I
found a description of
rtlsdr-scanner
over at the Kali site, and was able to track dow...
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Matthew Palmer: Database Encryption: If It's So Good, Why Isn't Everyone Doing It?
https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2023/04/07/queryable-encryption.html
April 7, 2023, 12:00 AM
Just some of the organisations that leaked data in 2022
It seems like just about every day there’s another report of another company getting “hacked” and having its sensitive data (or, worse, the sensitive data of its customers) stolen.
Sometimes, people’s most intimate information gets dumped for the world to see.
Other times it’s “just” used for identity theft, extortion, and other crimes.
In the least worst case, the attacker gets cold feet, but people suffer stress and inconv...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in March 2023
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2023-03/
April 6, 2023, 1:52 PM
Welcome to the March 2023 report from the Reproducible Builds project.
In these reports we outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As a quick recap, the motivation behind the reproducible builds effort is to ensure no malicious flaws have been introduced during compilation and distributing processes. It does this by ensuring identical results are always generated from a given source, thus allowing multiple third-parties to come to a consensus on whether ...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 0.12.2.0.0 on CRAN: New Upstream Minor
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/04/05#rcpparmadillo_0.12.2.0.0
April 6, 2023, 12:22 AM
Armadillo is a powerful
and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific
computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use,
has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm
development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research code into
production environments. RcppArmadillo
integrates this library with the R environment and language–and is
widely used by (currently) 1052 other packages on CRAN, downloaded 28.6 million
tim...
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Michael Ablassmeier: tracking changes between pypi package releases
https://abbbi.github.io//pypidiff/
April 6, 2023, 12:00 AM
I wondered if there is some tracking for differences between packages
published on pypi, something that stores this information in a format
similar to debdiff..
I failed to find something on the web, so created a little utility which
watches the pypi
changelog for new
releaes and fetches the new and old version.
It uses diffoscope to create reports on the published releases and
automatically pushes them to a github repository:
https://github.com/pypi-diff
Is it useful? I dont know, it may be...
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Valhalla's Things: Fitting Top and Camisole
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/04/05-fitting_top_and_camisole/index.html
April 5, 2023, 12:00 AM
Posted on April 5, 2023




For this summer, I’ve just made a nice sleeveless dress, but that doesn’t mean that I’m planning to go around with bare arms like, I don’t know, a peasant or even somebody with no health issues, perish the thought!
Instead, at the end of last season I’ve bought a remnant of white ramie / viscose jersey that is a bit too transparent to be decent when worn on its own, but should still give some protection from the sun without being unc...
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Adnan Hodzic: “Kubernetes, Resistance is Futile” – KubeCon & KCD 2023 talk
https://foolcontrol.org/?p=4508
April 3, 2023, 2:16 PM
A story to tell As part of my career at ING with my previous team, MLP (Machine Learning Platform). I spent over 2 years leading...
The post “Kubernetes, Resistance is Futile” – KubeCon & KCD 2023 talk appeared first on FoolControl: Phear the penguin....
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Russ Allbery: Review: The Nordic Theory of Everything
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-06-231656-7.html
April 3, 2023, 2:45 AM
Review: The Nordic Theory of Everything, by Anu Partanen

Publisher:
Harper


Copyright:
2016


Printing:
June 2017


ISBN:
0-06-231656-7


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
338

Anu Partanen is a Finnish journalist who immigrated to the United States.
The Nordic Theory of Everything, subtitled In Search of a
Better Life, is an attempt to explain the merits of Finnish approaches to
government and society to a US audience. It was ...
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Matt Brown: Retrospective: Mar 2023
https://www.mattb.nz/w/2023/04/03/retrospective-mar-2023/
April 3, 2023, 2:24 AM
The key decision I made mid-March was to commit to pursuing ventilation monitoring as my primary product development focus.
Prior to that decision, I hoped to use my writing plan to drive a breadth-first survey of the opportunities for each of my product ideas before deciding which had the best business potential to focus on first. Two factors changed my mind:
As noted last month, I’m finding the writing process much slower and harder than I expected – the survey across all the ideas may no...
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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in March 2023
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2023/04/my-debian-activities-in-march-2023/
April 2, 2023, 10:57 AM
FTP master
This month I accepted 78 and rejected 12 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 78.
I still love this calm and peaceful time now within the Debian project, when everybody only cares for RC bugs and NEW does not grow.
Debian LTS
This was my hundred-fifth 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 3358-1] mpv security update ...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: Nearest multiple of a double
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2023-04-02-10-06_nearest_multiple_of_a_double.html
April 2, 2023, 9:06 AM
This problem came up the other day; given doubles (or floats, for that
matter) a >= 0 and b > 0, find the multiples of b that are closest to a,
in both directions.
I was surprised that I could not find anything about this online;
perhaps I just don't know the right term, but there is usually a
pretty vast and completely inscrutinable literature about anything
related to floating-point, usually ending in some magic incantation
you can just paste in (or 2000 lines of FORTRAN). I didn't real...
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David Bremner: Installing Debian using the OVH rescue environment
https://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//blog/posts/rescue-install/
April 2, 2023, 12:34 AM
Problem description(s)
For some of its cheaper dedicated servers, OVH does not provide a KVM
(in the virtual console sense) interface. Sometimes when a virtual
console is provided, it requires a horrible java applet that won't
run on modern systems without a lot of song and dance. Although OVH
provides a few web based ways of installing,
I prefer to use the debian installer image I'm used to and trust, and
I needed some way to debug a broken install.
I have only tested this in the OVH resc...
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Junichi Uekawa: April.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Apr-2.html.en#2023-Apr-2-07:49:17
April 1, 2023, 10:49 PM
April. Cherry blossoms are in full. Beautiful weather.
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Debian Brasil: MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 - 25 a 27 de maio
https://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/minidebconf-brasilia-2023-25-a-27-de-maio/
April 1, 2023, 11:00 AM
Nesse ano a MiniDebConf Brasil está de volta! A comunidade brasileira de
usuários(as) e desenvolvedores(as) Debian convida a todos(as) a participarem da
MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 que acontecerá
durante 3 dias na capital federal.
Nos dias 25 e 26 de maio estaremos no Complexo Avançado da Câmara dos Deputados
- LabHacker/CEFOR, promovendo palestras, oficinas e outras atividades. E, no
- dia 27 de maio (sábado), estaremos em um coworking (local a definir) para
- colocar a mão na massa hac...
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Debian Brasil: Primeira oficina de tradução em 2023 da equipe pt_BR
https://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/primeira-oficina-de-traducao-em-2023-da-equipe-pt-BR/
April 1, 2023, 10:00 AM
The Brazilian translation team debian-l10n-portuguese
realizou a primeira oficina de 2023
em fevereiro, com ótimos resultados:
A oficina foi direcionada para iniciantes, usando o DDTP/DDTSS.
Dois dias de oficina mão-na-massa via Jitsi.
Nos dias seguintes, continuidade dos trabalho de tradução de forma
independente, com o suporte da equipe.
Quantidade de pessoas inscritos(as): 29
Novos(as) contribuidores(as) no DDPT/DDTSS: 22
Traduções dos(as) novos(as) participantes: 175
Revisões dos(as...
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Debian Brasil: First 2023 translation workshop from the pt_BR team
https://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/first-2023-translation-workshop-from-the-pt-BR-team/
April 1, 2023, 10:00 AM
The Brazilian translation team debian-l10n-portuguese
had their first workshop of 2023
in February, with great results:
The workshop was aimed at beginners, working in DDTP/DDTSS.
Two days of a hands-on workshop via Jitsi.
In the following days, translation work continued independently, with team support.
Subscribers: 29
New contributors to DDPT/DDTSS: 22
Translations from new participants: 175
Revisions from new participants : 261
Our focus was to complete the descriptions of the 500 most ...
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Mike Hommey: Announcing git-cinnabar 0.6.0
https://glandium.org/blog/?p=4292
April 1, 2023, 2:17 AM
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 0.5.11?
Full rewrite of the Python parts 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....
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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities March 2023
http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2023/04/01/floss-activities/
April 1, 2023, 1:31 AM
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus.
I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
colord:
update link
ArchiveBot:
add
gitweb
ignoreset
gensim:
gitignore generated file,
fix docs build,
update links
duck:
add indicators
(1
2)
Debian QA services:
drop jessie,
convert errors to SQL commands,
handle timeouts
Debian BTS usertags:
fix BSP, porter, rebootstrap, Python 3 tags
Debian package uploads:
purple-discord
(1
2),
sptag
(1
2)
Debian wiki pages:
CrossGrading,
Hardware/Wan...
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Enrico Zini: Things I learnt in March 2023
http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2023/debian/til-2023-03
March 31, 2023, 10:00 PM
str.endswith()
can take a tuple of possible endings instead of a single string
About JACK and Debian
There are 3 JACK implementations: jackd1,
jackd2, pipewire-jack.
jackd1 is mostly superseded in favour of jackd2, and as far as I understand,
can be ignored
pipewire-jack integrates well with pipewire and the rest of the Linux audio
world
jackd2 is the native JACK server. When started it handles the sound card
directly, and will steal it from pipewire. Non-JACK audio applications will...
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Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Snaps! Many new releases, more to come.
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-snaps-many-new-releases-more-to-come/
March 31, 2023, 5:47 PM
I have been extremely busy the last 2 weeks churning out KDE snaps! All of the have been tested and released on AMD64 and Arm64 architectures. If you run into any problems please file bugs @ http://bugs.kde.org and feel free to assign me. Thanks!
KDE Krita snap
Krita Version 5.1.5
https://apps.kde.org/krita/
KDE Parley snap
Parley Version 22.12.3
https://apps.kde.org/parley/
KDE Kate snap
Kate Version 22.12.3
https://apps.kde.org/kate/
KDE Okular snap
Okular Vers...
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