Kentaro Hayashi: How to setup DMARC policy for subdomain on debian.net
https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2023/08/09/191841
August 9, 2023, 10:18 AM
For setting up subdomain on debian.net, we usually use LDAP Gateway. [1]
db.debian.org
[1] https://db.debian.org/doc-mail.html
With changing dnsZoneEntry, we can set up each subdomain of debian.net.
For example, you can customize SPF TXT record for example.debian.net.
example IN TXT v=spf1 a:example.debian.net ~all
But when you setup DMARC policy for dnsZoneEntry, it may cause the trouble. LDAP Gateway returns the following error:
Command is not understood. Halted - no changes committed
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James Valleroy: FreedomBox backport automatic update issue
https://jvalleroy.me/wordpress/?p=60
August 8, 2023, 11:36 PM
When run on Debian stable, FreedomBox has an optional feature called “Frequent Feature Updates”. If this feature is enabled, it has 2 effects:
The stable-backports repository is added to the system.
Apt pinning is configured so that FreedomBox itself, and a small number of other carefully selected packages, will be kept updated to the latest version available in the backports repository.
However for bookworm-backports, there was a small change in the repository for bookworm-backpo...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: dtts 0.1.1 on CRAN: Enhancements
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/08/08#dtts_0.1.1
August 8, 2023, 11:05 PM
Leonardo and I are happy to
announce the release of a first follow-up release 0.1.1 of our dtts package
which got to [CRAN][cran] in its initial upload last year.
dtts
builds upon our nanotime
package as well as the beloved data.table to bring
high-performance and high-resolution indexing at the
nanosecond level to data frames. dtts aims to
bring the time-series indexing versatility of xts (and zoo) to the immense
power of data.table while
supporting highest nanosecond resolution.
This release f...
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Matthew Garrett: Updating Fedora the unsupported way
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/67126.html
August 8, 2023, 5:54 AM
I dug out a computer running Fedora 28, which was released 2018-04-01 - over 5 years ago. Backing up the data and re-installing seemed tedious, but the current version of Fedora is 38, and while Fedora supports updates from N to N+2 that was still going to be 5 separate upgrades. That seemed tedious, so I figured I'd just try to do an update from 28 directly to 38. This is, obviously, extremely unsupported, but what could possibly go wrong?Running sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=38...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RQuantLib 0.4.19 on CRAN: More Maintenance
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/08/07#rquantlib_0.4.19
August 7, 2023, 11:12 PM
A new release 0.4.19 of RQuantLib
arrived at CRAN earlier today,
and has already been uploaded to Debian too.
QuantLib is a rather
comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative
finance. RQuantLib
connects it to the R environment and language, and has been part of CRAN for more than twenty years
(!!)
This release of RQuantLib
brings a small update to three unit tests as very recent 1.31 release QuantLib brought a subtle change to
some fixed income payment schedules and dates. On a sadde...
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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in July 2023
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2023/08/my-debian-activities-in-july-2023/
August 7, 2023, 5:10 PM
FTP master
This month I accepted 408 and rejected 40 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 412.
Debian LTS
This was my hundred-ninth 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 3505-1] gst-plugins-good1.0 security update for one CVE
[DLA 3503-1] gst-plugins-bad1.0 security update for one CVE
[DLA 3504-1] gst-plugins-base1.0 security u...
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Sam Hartman: AI Tools
https://hartmans.dreamwidth.org/100775.html
August 6, 2023, 10:25 PM
I wrote
about how I’m exploring the role of AI in human connection and intimacy.
The first part of that journey has been all about learning the software
and tools for approaching large language models.
The biggest thing I wish I had known going in was not to focus on the
traditional cloud providers. I was struggling until I found runpod.io. I kind of assumed that if you
were willing to pay for it and had the money, you could go to Amazon on
or google or whatever and get the compute resources y...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: RIP Bram Moolenaar
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2023-08-05-17-36_rip_bram_moolenaar.html
August 5, 2023, 4:00 PM
It was with surprise that I learned that Bram Moolenaar, author of
the Vim editor, had died two days ago.
I cannot say we were ever friends, but I sat next to Bram for a year or so in the
Google Zurich office and learned to recognize his ways and his work in Google
(he worked on, among others, autocorrecting searches in Google Apps).
He didn't talk much about Vim (not to me, anyway), but even at work, he kept
up his life-long advocacy of the ICCF
charity, helping children in Uganda.
I am fairly...
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Bits from Debian: Debian Project Bits Volume 1, Issue 1
https://bits.debian.org/2023/08/debian-project-bits1.html
August 5, 2023, 10:30 AM
Debian Project Bits
Volume 1, Issue 1
August 05, 2023
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Debian Project Bits!
Those remembering the Debian Weekly News (DwN) will recognize some of the sections here which served as our inspiration.
Debian Project Bits posts will allow for a faster turnaround of some project
news on a monthly basis. The Debian Micronews
service will continue to share shorter news items, the Debian Project News
remains as our official newsletter which may move to a biannual archive ...
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John Goerzen: Try the Last Internet Kermit Server
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10555-try-the-last-internet-kermit-server
August 4, 2023, 10:51 PM
$ grep kermit /etc/services
kermit 1649/tcp
What is this mysterious protocol? Who uses it and what is its story?
This story is a winding one, beginning in 1981. Kermit is, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest actively-maintained software package with an original developer still participating. It is also a scripting language, an Internet server, a (scriptable!) SSH client, and a file transfer protocol.
And my first use of it was talking to my HP-48GX calculator over a 9600bps ser...
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Shirish Agarwal: License Raj 2.0, 2023
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/license-raj-2-0-2023/
August 4, 2023, 8:56 PM
About a week back Jio launched a laptop called JioBook that will be manufactured in China –
The most interesting thing is that the whole thing will be produced in Hunan, China. Then 3 days later India mandates a licensing requirement for Apple, Dell and other laptop/tablet manufacturers. And all of these in the guise of ‘Make in India’. It is similar how India has exempted Adani and the Tatas from buying as much solar cells as are needed and then sell the same in India. Reliance wi...
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Shirish Agarwal: Birth Control, Consent, Rape & Violence.
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/birth-control-consent-rape-violence/
August 4, 2023, 7:19 PM
Consent, Violence, Sexual Abuse
This again would be somewhat of a mature post. So children, please refrain from reading.
When I hear the above words, my first thought goes to Aamir Khan’s Season 1 Episode 2 in Satyamev Jayate. This was the first time that the topic of child sexual abuse was bought in the forefront in the hall rather than a topic to be discussed in the corner. Unfortunately, that episode is still in Hindi and no English subtitles available even today shows a lack of sens...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in July 2023
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2023-07/
August 4, 2023, 3:32 PM
Welcome to the July 2023 report from the Reproducible Builds project. In our reports, we try to outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As ever, if you are interested in contributing to the project, please visit the Contribute page on our website.
Marcel Fourné et al. presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Francisco, CA on The Importance and Challenges of Reproducible Builds for Software Supply Chain Security.
As summarised in...
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Louis-Philippe Véronneau: pymonitair: Air Quality Monitoring Display with MicroPython
https://veronneau.org/pymonitair-air-quality-monitoring-display-with-micropython.html
August 4, 2023, 4:00 AM
I've never been a fan of IoT devices for obvious reasons: not only do they tend
to be excellent at being expensive vendor locked-in machines, but far too often,
they also end up turning into e-waste after a short amount of time.
Manufacturers can go out of business or simply decide to shut down the cloud
servers for older models, and then you're stuck with a brick.
Well, this all changes today, as I've built my first IoT device and I love it.
Introducing pymonitair.
What
pymonitair is a MicroPyt...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 247 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-247-released/
August 4, 2023, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 247. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Fix compataibility with file(1) version 5.45.
* Use assert_diff in test_uimage and test_cpio.
[ Roland Clobus ]
* xb-tool has moved in Debian bookworm.
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in July 2023
https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/foss-activity-in-july-2023.html
August 3, 2023, 3:23 PM
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