Steinar H. Gunderson: Faster accurate range reduction
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2023-06-06-22-14_faster_accurate_range_reduction.html
June 6, 2023, 9:00 PM
Pretty much everybody who learns geometry and trigonometry starts off
by representing angles in degrees. One circle is 360 degrees; it's a
bit of a strange number, but it's highly composite (so a lot of fractions can
be represented as whole numbers) and has traditions supposedly going
back to the Babylonians.
However, there's nothing “natural” about 360; you could just as well
use e.g. 3600 and nothing would really get easier or harder. When going
into trigonometry, thus eventually most peo...
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Russell Coker: PinePhonePro First Impression
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/06/06/pinephonepro-first-impression/
June 6, 2023, 1:24 PM
Hardware
I received my PinePhone Pro [1] on Thursday, it seems in many ways better than the Purism Librem 5 [2] that I have previously written about. The PinePhone is thinner, lighter, and yet has a much longer battery life. A friend described the Librem5 as “the CyberTruck phone” and not in a good way.
In a test I had my PinePhone and my Librem5 fully charged, left them for 4.5 hours without doing anything much with them, and then the PinePhone was at 85% and the Librem5 was at 57%. So the ...
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Russell Coker: Dell 32″ 4K Monitor and DisplayPort Switch
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/06/06/dell-32-4k-displayport-switch/
June 6, 2023, 8:41 AM
After determining that the Philips 43″ monitor was too large for my taste as well as not having a clear enough display [1] I bought a Dell 32″ 4K monitor for $499 on the 1st of July 2022. That monitor has been working nicely for almost a year now, for DisplayPort it’s operation is perfect and 32″ seems like an ideal size for my use. There is one problem that both HDMI ports will sometimes turn off for about half a second, I’ve tested on both ports and on multiple computers as well as a...
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Shirish Agarwal: Odisha Train Crash and Coverup, Demonetization 2.0 & NHFS-6 Survey
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/06/06/odisha-train-crash-and-coverup-demonetization-2-0-nhfs-6-survey/
June 6, 2023, 7:12 AM
Just a few days back we came to know about the horrific Train Crash that happened in Odisha (Orissa). There are some things that are known and somethings that can be inferred by observance. Sadly, it seems the incident is going to be covered up . Some of the facts that have not been contested in the public domain are that there were three lines. One loop line on which the Goods Train was standing and there was an up and a down line. So three lines were there. Apparently, the signalling system a...
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Michael Ablassmeier: updating to bookworm
https://abbbi.github.io//bookworm/
June 6, 2023, 12:00 AM
Just updated to bookworm. Only thing that gave me headaches was OpenVPN
refusing to accept the password/username combination specified via
“auth-user-pass” option..
Mystery was solved by adding “providers legacy default” to the
configuration file used.
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in May 2023
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2023-05/
June 5, 2023, 5:35 PM
Welcome to the May 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.
Holger Levsen gave a talk at the 2023 edition of the Debian Reunion Hamburg, a semi-informal meetup of Debian-related people in northern Germany. The slides are available online.
In April, Holger Levsen gave...
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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in May 2023
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2023/06/my-debian-activities-in-may-2023/
June 4, 2023, 10:43 AM
FTP master
This month I accepted 157 and rejected 22 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 160.
Debian LTS
This was my hundred-seventh 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 3430-1] cups-filters security update for one CVE
[DSA 5407-1] cups-filters security update for one CVE
[unstable] upload of cups-filters to fix CVE-2023-2480...
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Debian Brasil: Oficina de tradução do Manual do(a) Administrador(a) Debian em 13 de junho
https://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/oficina-traducao-manual-administrador-debian/
June 4, 2023, 10:00 AM
A equipe de tradução do Debian para o português do Brasil
realizará, no dia 13 de junho a partir das 20h, uma oficina de tradução do
Manual do(a) Administrador(a) Debian (The Debian Administrator's Handbook).
O objetivo é mostrar aos(às) iniciantes como colaborar na tradução deste
importante material, que existe desde 2004 e vem sendo traduzido para o
português ao longo dos anos. Agora a tradução precisa ser atualizada para a
versão 12 do Debian (bookworm), que será
lançada este...
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Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in May 2023
https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/foss-activity-in-may-2023.html
June 3, 2023, 4:50 PM
Several users reported problems in building and testing patched
kernels using the instructions in the
Debian
Kernel Handbook and the test-patches script
included in the source package for this purpose:
#871216,
#1022061,
and #1023773.


The test-patches script hadn't been updated to follow
the past few years' packaging changes, and produced somewhat
broken packages. It was also not robust to being interrupted
and restarte...
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Jelmer Vernooij: Porting Python projects to Rust
https://www.jelmer.uk/port-py-to-rust.html
June 2, 2023, 5:00 PM
I’ve recently been working on porting some of my Python code to rust, both for performance reasons, and because of the strong typing in the language. As a fan of Haskell, I also just really enjoy using the language.
Porting any large project to a new language can be a challenge. There is a temptation to do a rewrite from the ground-up in idiomatic rust and using all new fancy features of the language.
Porting in one go
However, this is a bit of a trap:
It blocks other work. It can take a...
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Matt Brown: Calling time on DNSSEC: The costs exceed the benefits
https://www.mattb.nz/w/2023/06/02/calling-time-on-dnssec/
June 2, 2023, 12:20 AM
I’m calling time on DNSSEC. Last week, prompted by a change in my DNS hosting setup, I began removing it from the few personal zones I had signed. Then this Monday the .nz ccTLD experienced a multi-day availability incident triggered by the annual DNSSEC key rotation process. This incident broke several of my unsigned zones, which led me to say very unkind things about DNSSEC on Mastodon and now I feel compelled to more completely explain my thinking:
For almost all domains and use-cases, the ...
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Gunnar Wolf: Cheatable e-voting booths in Coahuila, Mexico, detected at the last minute
https://gwolf.org/2023/06/cheatable-e-voting-booths-in-coahuila-mexico-detected-at-the-last-minute.html
June 1, 2023, 4:22 PM
It’s been a very long time I haven’t blogged about e-voting, although
some might remember it’s been a topic I have long worked with;
particularly, it was the topic of my 2018 Masters
thesis, plus some five articles I
wrote in the 2010-2018 period. After the thesis, I have to admit I got
weary of the subject, and haven’t pursued it anymore.
So, I was saddened and dismayed to read that –once again, as it has
already happened– the electoral authorities would set up a pilot
e-voting pro...
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Holger Levsen: 20230601-developers-reference-translations
http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20230601-developers-reference-translations/
June 1, 2023, 1:39 PM
src:developers-reference translations wanted
I've just uploaded developers-reference 12.19, bringing the German
translation status back to 100% complete, thanks to Carsten Schoenert. Some
other translations however could use some updates:
$ make status
for l in de fr it ja ru; do
if [ -d source/locales/$l/LC_MESSAGES ] ; then
echo -n "Stats for $l: " ;
msgcat --use-first source/locales/$l/LC_MESSAGES/*.po | msgfmt --statistics - 2>&1 ;
fi ; ...
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Russell Coker: Do Desktop Computers Make Sense?
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/06/01/desktop-computers-sense/
June 1, 2023, 12:38 PM
Laptop vs Desktop Price
Currently the smaller and cheaper USB-C docks start at about $25 and Dell has a new Vostro with 8G of RAM and 2*USB-C ports for $788. That gives a bit over $800 for a laptop and dock vs $795 for the cheapest Dell desktop which also has 8G of RAM. For every way of buying laptops and desktops (EG buying from Officeworks, buying on ebay, etc) the prices for laptops and desktops seem very similar. For all those comparisons the desktop will typically have a faster CPU and more...
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Jamie McClelland: Enough about the AI Apocalypse Already
https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2023/enough-about-ai/
June 1, 2023, 12:27 PM
After watching Democracy Now’s segment on
artificial
intelligence I
started to wonder - am I out of step on this topic?
When people claim artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence and
thus threaten humanity with extinction, they seem to be referring specifically
to advances made with large language models.
As I understand them, large language models are probability machines that have
ingested massive amounts of text scraped from the Internet. They answer
questions based on the pr...
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Junichi Uekawa: Already June.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jun-1.html.en#2023-Jun-1-11:23:10
June 1, 2023, 2:23 AM
Already June.
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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities May 2023
http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2023/06/01/floss-activities/
June 1, 2023, 12:09 AM
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus.
I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
gensim:
cancel obsolete GitHub jobs
i2c-tools:
fix links
notmuch-mutt:
fix
data loss,
encoding
foxtrotgps:
gpsd API bump
flower:
drop bootstrap/celery branding
pass-otp:
fix typos, links, errors, warnings, safety
git-imerge:
fix
tests,
typo,
lists of
versions,
distros
duck:
indicators
Debian website:
recommend pseudo-header for X-Debbugs-CC
Debian screenshots:
deleted
pypy (just website)
...
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Arturo Borrero González: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 Athens summary
https://ral-arturo.org/2023/05/31/hackathon.html
May 31, 2023, 12:11 PM
During the weekend of 19-23 May 2023 I attended the Wikimedia hackathon 2023 in Athens,
Greece. The event physically reunited folks interested in the more technological aspects of the Wikimedia movement in person for the
first time since 2019. The scope of the hacking projects include (but was not limited to)
tools, wikipedia bots, gadgets, server and network infrastructure, data and other technical systems.
My role in the event was two-fold: on one hand I was in the event because of my role as...
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Russell Coker: Links May 2023
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/05/31/links-may-2023/
May 31, 2023, 11:05 AM
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote an interesting blog post about their work on packaging speech to text for Debian [1]. The work of the Debian Deep Learning Team seems really interesting and I look forward to playing with this sort of thing after the release of Bookworm (the packages in question will NOT go in Bookworm but I’ll run at least one system on Testing after Bookworm). It would be nice to get more information on the hardware used for running such programs, the minimum hardware needed for rea...
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Russell Coker: Genesis GV60
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/05/31/genesis-gv60/
May 31, 2023, 11:03 AM
I recently test drove a Genesis GV70, but the GV60 [1] which I didn’t test drive is a nicer car.
The GV70 and GV60 are all electric so they are quiet and perform well. The GV70 has a sun-roof that opens, it was the first car I’ve driven like that and I decided I don’t like it. Having the shade open so I can see the sky while stuck in a traffic jam is nice though. The GV60 has a non-opening sun-roof with a shade that can be retracted, this is a feature I’d really like to have in my next c...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Night Watch
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-06-230740-1.html
May 31, 2023, 2:51 AM
Review: Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett

Series:
Discworld #29


Publisher:
Harper


Copyright:
November 2002


Printing:
August 2014


ISBN:
0-06-230740-1


Format:
Mass market


Pages:
451

Night Watch is the 29th Discworld novel and the sixth Watch novel.
I would really like to tell people they could start here if they wanted
to, for reasons that I will get into in a moment, but I think I would be
doing yo...
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Russ Allbery: Review: The Mimicking of Known Successes
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-250-86051-2.html
May 30, 2023, 2:09 AM
Review: The Mimicking of Known Successes, by Malka Older

Series:
Mossa and Pleiti #1


Publisher:
Tordotcom


Copyright:
2023


ISBN:
1-250-86051-2


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
169

The Mimicking of Known Successes is a science fiction mystery
novella, the first of an expected series. (The second novella is
scheduled to be published in February of 2024.)
Mossa is an Investigator, called in after a man disappears from t...
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Shirish Agarwal: Pearls of Luthra, Dahaad, Tetris & Discord.
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/05/30/pearls-of-luthra-dahaad-tetris-discord/
May 29, 2023, 11:49 PM
Pearls of Luthra
Pearls of Luthra is the first book by Brian Jacques and I think I am going to be a fan of his work. This particular book you have to be wary of. While it is a beautiful book with quite a few illustrations, I have to warn that if you are somebody who feels hungry at the very mention of food, then you will be hungry throughout the book. There isn’t a single page where food isn’t mentioned and not just any kind of food, the kind of food that is geared towards sweet tooth. S...
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John Goerzen: Recommendations for Tools for Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10500-recommendations-for-tools-for-backing-up-and-archiving-to-removable-media
May 29, 2023, 4:57 PM
I have several TB worth of family photos, videos, and other data. This needs to be backed up — and archived.
Backups and archives are often thought of as similar. And indeed, they may be done with the same tools at the same time. But the goals differ somewhat:
Backups are designed to recover from a disaster that you can fairly rapidly detect.
Archives are designed to survive for many years, protecting against disaster not only impacting the original equipment but also the original person th...
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Jonathan Carter: MiniDebConf Germany 2023
https://jonathancarter.org/2023/05/29/minidebconf-germany-2023/
May 29, 2023, 12:48 PM
This year I attended Debian Reunion Hamburg (aka MiniDebConf Germany) for the second time. My goal for this MiniDebConf was just to talk to people and make the most of the time I have there. No other specific plans or goals. Despite this simple goal, it was a very productive and successful event for me.
Tuesday 23rd:
Arrived much later than planned after about 18h of travel, went to bed early.
Wednesday 24th:
Was in a discussion about individual package maintainership.
Was ...
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Russ Allbery: Book haul
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2023-05/001.html
May 29, 2023, 4:31 AM
I think this is partial because I also have a stack of other books that I
missed recording. At some point, I should stop using this method to track
book acquisitions in favor of one of the many programs intended for this
purpose, but it's in the long list of other things I really should do one
of these days.
As usual, I have already read and reviewed a few of these. I might be
getting marginally better at reading books shortly after I acquire them?
Maybe?
Steven Brust — Tsalmoth (sff)
...
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Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Python 3.11, pip and (breaking) system packages
https://veronneau.org/python-311-pip-and-breaking-system-packages.html
May 29, 2023, 4:00 AM
As we get closer to Debian Bookworm's release, I thought I'd share
one change in Python 3.11 that will surely affect many people.
Python 3.11 implements the new PEP 668, Marking Python base environments
as “externally managed”1. If you use pip regularly on Debian, it's
likely you'll eventually hit the externally-managed-environment error:
error: externally-managed-environment
× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
pyth...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 0.12.4.0.0 on CRAN: New Upstream Minor
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/05/27#rcpparmadillo_0.12.4.0.0
May 27, 2023, 9:35 PM
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) 1074 other packages on CRAN, downloaded 29.3 million
tim...
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Valhalla's Things: Late Victorian Combinations
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/05/26-late_victorian_combinations/index.html
May 26, 2023, 12:00 AM
Posted on May 26, 2023




Some time ago, on an early Friday afternoon our internet connection died. After a reasonable time had passed we called the customer service, they told us that they would look into it and then call us back.
On Friday evening we had not heard from them, and I was starting to get worried. At the time in the evening when I would have been relaxing online I grabbed the first Victorian sewing-related book I found on my hard disk and started to read it...
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Valhalla's Things: Correspondence Book
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/05/26-correspondence_book/index.html
May 26, 2023, 12:00 AM
Posted on May 26, 2023




I write letters. The kind that are written on paper with a dip pen 1 and ink, stamped and sent through the post, spend a few days or weeks maturing like good wine in a depot somewhere2, and then get delivered to the recipient.
Some of them (mostly cards) are to people who will receive them and thank me via xmpp (that sounds odd, but actually works out nicely), but others are proper letters with long texts that I exchange with penpals.
Most of th...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.0.6 on CRAN: More updates from QuantLib
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/05/25#qlcal-r_0.0.6
May 25, 2023, 10:33 PM
The sixth release of the still new-ish 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 to a few calendars which...
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Jonathan Carter: Upgraded this host to Debian 12 (bookworm)
https://jonathancarter.org/2023/05/25/upgraded-this-host-to-debian-12-bookworm/
May 25, 2023, 10:10 AM
I upgraded the host running my blog to Debian 12 today. My website has existed in some form since 1997, it changed from pure html to a Python CGI script in the early 2000s, and when blogging became big around then, I migrated to WordPress around 2004.
This WordPress instance ran on Ubuntu up until 2010, and then on Debian ever since. Upgrades are just too easy. I did end up hitting one small bug with today’s upgrade though, I run the PHP fast process manager on the Apache MPM event server, ...
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Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (March and April 2023)
https://bits.debian.org/2023/05/new-developers-2023-04.html
May 25, 2023, 10:00 AM
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
James Lu (jlu)
Hugh McMaster (hmc)
Agathe Porte (gagath)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
Soren Stoutner
Matthijs Kooijman
Vinay Keshava
Jarrah Gosbell
Carlos Henrique Lima Melara
Cordell Bloor
Congratulations!...
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Jonathan McDowell: RIP Brenda McDowell
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2023/05/rip-brenda-mcdowell.html
May 24, 2023, 7:02 PM
My mother died earlier this month. She’d been diagnosed with cancer back in February 2022 and had been through major surgery and a couple of rounds of chemotherapy, so it wasn’t a complete surprise even if it was faster at the end than expected. That doesn’t make it easy, but I’m glad to be able to say that her immediate family were all with her at home at the end.
I was touched by the number of people who turned up, both to the wake and the subsequent funeral ceremony. Mum had done a l...
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Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Gear 23.04.1 Snaps Released! Snapcraft updates and more.
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-gear-23-04-1-snaps-released-snapcraft-updates-and-more/
May 24, 2023, 6:27 PM
Kweather Snap
I have completed the 23.04.1 KDE Gear applications release for snaps! With this release comes several new KDE Snaps!
Kweather
Krecorder
Kclock
Alligator
Ghostwriter
Kasts
Tokodon
Plus many long outdated / broken snaps are updated and or fixed!
Check them all out here:
https://snapcraft.io/search?q=KDE
I have been busy triaging and squashing bugs in regards to snaps on https://bugs.kde.org
Snapcraft:
Updated the kde-neon extension for the ...
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Jonathan Carter: Debian Reunion MiniDebConf 2022
https://jonathancarter.org/2023/05/24/debian-reunion-minidebconf-2022/
May 24, 2023, 1:32 PM
It wouldn’t be inaccurate to say that I’ve had a lot on my plate in the last few years, and that I have a *huge* backlog of little tasks to finish. Just last week, I finally got to all my keysigning from DebConf22. This week, I’m at MiniDebConf Germany in Hamburg. It’s the second time I’m here! And it’s great already. Last year I drafted a blog entry, but never got around to publishing it. So, in order to mentally tick off yet another thing, here follows a somewhat imperfect (I had t...
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Craig Small: Devices with cgroup v2
https://dropbear.xyz/2023/05/23/devices-with-cgroup-v2/
May 23, 2023, 12:13 PM
Docker and other container systems by default restrict access to devices on the host. They used to do this with cgroups with the cgroup v1 system, however, the second version of cgroups removed this controller and the man page says:
Cgroup v2 device controller has no interface files and is implemented on top of cgroup BPF.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
That is just awesome, nothing to see here, go look at the BPF documents if you have cgroup v2.
Wit...
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Jonathan Dowland: neovim plugins and distributions
https://jmtd.net/log/neovim/
May 23, 2023, 11:04 AM
I've been watching the neovim community for a while and what seems like a
cambrian explosion of plugins emerging. A few weeks back I decided to spend
most of a "day of learning" on investigating some of the plugins and
technologies that I'd read about: Language Server
Protocol,
TreeSitter,
neorg (a grandiose organiser plugin),
etc.
It didn't go so well. I spent most of my time fighting version
incompatibilities or tracing through scant documentation or code to figure out
what plugin was incompa...
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Bits from Debian: proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf23
https://bits.debian.org/2023/05/proxmox-platinum-debconf23.html
May 23, 2023, 9:17 AM
We are pleased to announce that Proxmox
has committed to sponsor DebConf23 as a
Platinum Sponsor.
Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use open-source server software.
The product portfolio from Proxmox, including server virtualization, backup,
and email security, helps companies of any size, sector, or industry to
simplify their IT infrastructures. The Proxmox solutions are based on the
great Debian platform, and we are happy that we can give back to the
community by sponsoring DebConf23.
Wit...
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Sergio Durigan Junior: Using WireGuard to host services at home
https://blog.sergiodj.net/posts/using-wireguard-host-services-home/
May 23, 2023, 4:56 AM
It’s been a while since I had this idea to leverage the power of
WireGuard to self-host stuff at home. Even though I pay for a proper
server somewhere in the world, there are some services that I don’t
consider critical to put there, or that I consider too critical to
host outside my home.
It’s only NATural
With today’s ISP packages for end users, I find it very annoying the
amount of trouble they create when you try to host anything at home.
Dynamic IPs, NAT/CGNAT, port-blocking, traff...
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Russ Allbery: Review: A Half-Built Garden
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-250-21097-6.html
May 23, 2023, 2:46 AM
Review: A Half-Built Garden, by Ruthanna Emrys

Publisher:
Tordotcom


Copyright:
2022


ISBN:
1-250-21097-6


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
340

The climate apocalypse has happened. Humans woke up to the danger, but a
little bit too late. Over one billion people died. But the world on the
other side of that apocalypse is not entirely grim. The corporations
responsible for so much of the damage have been pushed out of society and
isol...
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Adnan Hodzic: rpi-microk8s-bootstrap: Automate RPI device conversion into Kubernetes cluster nodes with Terraform
https://foolcontrol.org/?p=4555
May 22, 2023, 10:44 AM
Considering I’ve created my own private cloud in my home as part of: wp-k8s: WordPress on privately hosted Kubernetes cluster (Raspberry Pi 4 + Synology)....
The post rpi-microk8s-bootstrap: Automate RPI device conversion into Kubernetes cluster nodes with Terraform appeared first on FoolControl: Phear the penguin....
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Russ Allbery: Review: Tsalmoth
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-4668-8970-5.html
May 22, 2023, 2:39 AM
Review: Tsalmoth, by Steven Brust

Series:
Vlad Taltos #16


Publisher:
Tor


Copyright:
2023


ISBN:
1-4668-8970-5


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
277

Tsalmoth is the sixteenth book in the Vlad Taltos series and (some
fans of the series groan) yet another flashback novel to earlier in Vlad's
life. It takes place between Yendi and
the interludes in Dragon (or, perhaps
more straightforwardly, between Yendi and Jhereg. Most o...
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Bits from Debian: Infomaniak First Platinum Sponsor of DebConf23
https://bits.debian.org/2023/05/infomaniak-platinum-debconf23.html
May 21, 2023, 12:08 PM
We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak
has committed to sponsor DebConf23 as a
Platinum Sponsor.
Infomaniak is a key player in the European Cloud and the leading developer of
Web technologies in Switzerland. It aims to be an independent European
alternative to the web giants and is committed to an ethical and sustainable
Web that respects privacy and creates local jobs. Infomaniak develops cloud
solutions (IaaS, PaaS, VPS), productivity tools for online collaboration and
video and radio stre...
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Petter Reinholdtsen: wmbusmeters, parse data from your utility meter - nice free software
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/wmbusmeters__parse_data_from_your_utility_meter___nice_free_software.html
May 19, 2023, 7:50 PM
There is a European standard for reading utility meters like water,
gas, electricity or heat distribution meters. The
Meter-Bus standard
(EN 13757-2, EN 13757-3 and EN 13757–4) provide a cross vendor way
to talk to and collect meter data. I ran into this standard when I
wanted to monitor some heat distribution meters, and managed to find
free software that could do the job. The meters in question broadcast
encrypted messages with meter information via radio, and the hardest
part was to trac...
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Antoine Beaupré: A terrible Pixel Tablet
https://anarc.at/blog/2023-05-18-terrible-pixel-tablet/
May 18, 2023, 3:59 PM
In a strange twist of history, Google finally woke and thought "I know
what we need to do! We need to make a TABLET!".
So some time soon in 2023, Google will release "The tablet that only
Google could make", the Pixel Tablet.
Having owned a Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e
for a few years, I was very curious to see how this would pan out and
especially whether it would be easier to flash than the Samsung. As an
aside, I figured I would give that a shot, and within a few days
managed to completely brick ...
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Jamie McClelland: Cranky old timers should know perl
https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2023/cranky-old-timers-should-know-perl/
May 17, 2023, 12:27 PM
I act like an old timer (I’ve been around linux for 25 years and I’m cranky
about new tech that is not easily maintained and upgraded) yet somehow I don’t
know perl. How did that happen?
I discovered this state when I decided to move from the heroically packaged yet
seemingly upstream
un-maintained
opendmarc package to
authentication_milter.
It’s written in perl. And, alas, not in
debian.
How hard could this be?
The instructions for installing seemed pretty straight forward: cpanm Mail::...
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Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, April 2023 (by Roberto C. Sánchez)
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2023-04/
May 16, 2023, 12:00 AM
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.
Debian LTS contributors
In April, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian
LTS, their reports are available:
Abhijith PA
did 6.0h (out of 0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
Adrian Bunk
did 18.0h (out of 16.5h assigned and 24.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 22.5h to the next month.
Anton Gladky
did 8.0h (out of 9.5h assigned and 5.5h from ...
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Sven Hoexter: GCP: Private Service Connect Forwarding Rules can not be Updated
http://sven.stormbind.net/blog/posts/gcp_psc_forwarding_rule_terraform/
May 15, 2023, 7:21 AM
PSA for those foolish enough to use Google Cloud and try to use private service connect:
If you want to change the serviceAttachment your private service connect forwarding
rule points at, you must delete the forwarding rule and create a new one. Updates
are not supported. I've done that in the past via terraform, but lately encountered
strange errors like this:
Error updating ForwardingRule: googleapi: Error 400: Invalid value for field 'target.target':
'<https://www.googleapis.com/compute/...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSimdJson 0.1.10 on CRAN: New Upstream
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/05/14#rcppsimdjson_0.1.10
May 15, 2023, 12:41 AM
We are happy to share that the RcppSimdJson
package has been updated to release 0.1.10.
RcppSimdJson
wraps the fantastic and genuinely impressive simdjson library by Daniel Lemire and collaborators. Via
very clever algorithmic engineering to obtain largely branch-free code,
coupled with modern C++ and newer compiler instructions, it results in
parsing gigabytes of JSON parsed per second which is quite
mindboggling. The best-case performance is ‘faster than CPU speed’ as
use of parallel SIMD ...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: Joining files with FFmpeg
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2023-05-14-22-54_joining_files_with_ffmpeg.html
May 14, 2023, 9:54 PM
Joining video files (back-to-back) losslessly with FFmpeg is a surprisingly cumbersome
operation. You can't just, like, write all the inputs on the command line
or something; you need to use a special demuxer and then
write all the names in a text file and override the security for that file,
which is pretty crazy.
But there's one issue I had that I crashed into and which random searching
around didn't help for, namely this happening sometimes on switching files
(and the resulting files just ha...
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Petter Reinholdtsen: The 2023 LinuxCNC Norwegian developer gathering
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_2023_LinuxCNC_Norwegian_developer_gathering.html
May 14, 2023, 6:30 PM
The LinuxCNC project is making headway these days. A lot of
patches and issues have seen activity on
the project github
pages recently. A few weeks ago there was a developer gathering
over at the Tormach headquarter in
Wisconsin, and now we are planning a new gathering in Norway. If you
wonder what LinuxCNC is, lets quote Wikipedia:
"LinuxCNC is a software system for numerical control of
machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma cutters, routers,
cutting machines, robots and hexapod...
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Holger Levsen: 20230514-fwupd
http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20230514-fwupd/
May 14, 2023, 3:20 PM
How-To use fwupd
As one cannot use fwupd on Qubes OS
to update firmwares this is a quick How-To for
using fwupd on Grml for future me. (Qubes 4.2 will bring qubes-fwupd.)
boot into Grml.
mkdir /efi ; mount /boot/efi to /efi or set OverrideESPMountPoint=/boot/efi/EFI if you mount to the usual path.
apt update ; apt install fwupd fwupd-amd64-signed udisks2 policykit-1
fwupdmgr get-devices
fwupdmgr refresh
fwupdmgr get-updates
fwupdmgr update
reboot into Qubes OS....
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C.J. Collier: Early Access: Inserting JSON data to BigQuery from Spark on Dataproc
https://wp.c9h.org/cj/?p=1931
May 14, 2023, 3:52 AM
Hello folks!
We recently received a case letting us know that Dataproc 2.1.1 was unable to write to a BigQuery table with a column of type JSON. Although the BigQuery connector for Spark has had support for JSON columns since 0.28.0, the Dataproc images on the 2.1 line still cannot create tables with JSON columns or write to existing tables with JSON columns.
The customer has graciously granted permission to share the code we developed to allow this operation. So if you are interested in worki...
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Sergio Durigan Junior: Ubuntu debuginfod and source code indexing
https://blog.sergiodj.net/posts/ubuntu-debuginfod-source-code-indexing/
May 13, 2023, 8:43 PM
You might remember that in my last post about the Ubuntu debuginfod
service I talked about wanting to extend it and make it index and
serve source code from packages. I’m excited to announce that this is
now a reality since the Ubuntu Lunar (23.04) release.
The feature should work for a lot of packages from the archive, but
not all of them. Keep reading to better understand why.
The problem
While debugging a package in Ubuntu, one of the first steps you need
to take is to install its source ...
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Petter Reinholdtsen: OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenSnitch_in_Debian_ready_for_prime_time.html
May 13, 2023, 10:10 AM
A bit delayed,
the interactive
application firewall OpenSnitch package in Debian now got the
latest fixes ready for Debian Bookworm. Because it depend on a
package missing on some architectures, the autopkgtest check of the
testing migration script did not understand that the tests were
actually working, so the migration was delayed. A bug in the package
dependencies is also fixed, so those installing the firewall package
(opensnitch) now also get the GUI admin tool (python3-opensnitch-ui)
ins...
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Holger Levsen: 20230512-Debian-Reunion-Hamburg-2023
http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20230512-Debian-Reunion-Hamburg-2023/
May 12, 2023, 2:28 PM
Small reminder for the Debian Reunion Hamburg 2023 from May 23 to 30
As in previous years there will be a rather small Debian Reunion Hamburg 2023 event taking place from May 23rd until the 30th (with the 29th being a public holiday in Germany and elsewhere).
We'll have days of hacking (inside and outside), a day trip and a small cheese & wine party, as well as daily standup meetings to learn what others are doing, and there shall also be talks and workshops. At the moment there are even s...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: crc32c 0.0.2 on CRAN: Build Fixes
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/05/11#crc32c_0.0.2
May 12, 2023, 12:37 AM
A first follow-up to the initial
announcement just days ago of the new crc32c
package. The package offers cyclical checksum with parity in
hardware-accelerated form on (recent enough) intel cpus as well as on
arm64.
This follow-up was needed because I missed, when switching to a
default static library build, that newest compilers would
complain if -fPIC was not set. gcc-12 on my
box was happy, gcc-13 on recent Fedora as used at CRAN was
not. A second error was assuming that saying
SystemRequirem...
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Valhalla's Things: I hate proprietary software
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/05/12-i_hate_proprietary_software/index.html
May 12, 2023, 12:00 AM
Posted on May 12, 2023



Even when it’s m/.
Years ago I watched my SO play Brütal Legend and of course loved it, but I’ve been only using used computers for a long time, and none of them was really able to run modern games.
Admittedly, he told me that I could use his computer to play the game while he wasn’t home (and I do have an account on that computer, that I’ve sporadically used to do computationally intensive stuff, but always remotely), but it was a hass...
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Simon Josefsson: Streamlined NTRU Prime sntrup761 goes to IETF
https://blog.josefsson.org/2023/05/12/streamlined-ntru-prime-sntrup761-goes-to-ietf/
May 11, 2023, 10:03 PM
The OpenSSH project added support for a hybrid Streamlined NTRU Prime post-quantum key encapsulation method sntrup761 to strengthen their X25519-based default in their version 8.5 released on 2021-03-03. While there has been a lot of talk about post-quantum crypto generally, my impression has been that there has been a slowdown in implementing and deploying them in the past two years. Why is that? Regardless of the answer, we can try to collaboratively change things, and one effort that appea...
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