Planet Debian

A new version of the RcppAPT package interfacing from R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, … commands and their cache powering Debian, Ubuntu and the like arrived o...

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2021/04/17#rcppapt_0.0.7

Previously in George Orwell travel posts: Sutton Courtenay , Marrakesh , Hampstead , Paris , Southwold & The River Orwell . § Wallington is a small village in Hertfordshire, approximately f...

https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/tour-de-orwell-wallington

In the past, I've talked about building a Z80-based computer. I made some progress towards that goal, in the sense that I took the initial (trivial steps) towards making something: I built a cloc...

https://blog.steve.fi/having_fun_with_cp_m_on_a_z80_single_board_computer_.html

A new website containing introductory videos and slide decks is now available for your perusal at ess-intro.github.io . It provides a series of introductions to the excellent Emacs Speaks Statist...

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2021/04/15#announcing_ess_intros

There is a serious problem with Dreamwidth, which is impeding access for many RSS reader tools. This started at around 0500 UTC on Wednesday morning, according to my own RSS reader cron job. A...

https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/7930.html

I released version 2.5 of ledger2beancount , a ledger to beancount converter. Here are the changes in 2.6: Round calculated total if needed for price==cost comparison Add narration_tag config v...

https://www.cyrius.com/blog/beancount/ledger2beancount26/

Firstly a disclaimer, I’m not an expert on this and I’m not trying to instruct anyone who is aiming to become an expert. The aim of this blog post is to help someone who has a single kernel i...

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2021/04/15/basics-linux-kernel-debugging/

Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use with a syntax deliberately close to a Matlab. RcppArmad...

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2021/04/13#rcpparmadillo_0.10.4.0.0

Due to what I suspect is disk corruption error due to a faulty RAM module or network interface on my GnuBee , my restic backup failed with the following error: $ restic check using temporar...

http://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/deleting-non-decryptable-restic-snapshots/

First up, I am alive and well. I have been receiving calls from friends for quite sometime but now that I have become deaf, it is a pain and the hearing aids aren’t all that useful. But moreove...

https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2021/04/13/what-to-write/

I’ve just setup the Yama LSM module on some of my Linux systems. Yama controls ptrace which is the debugging and tracing API for Unix systems. The aim is to prevent a compromised process from u...

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2021/04/13/yama/

“All comments on this article will now be moderated. The bar to pass moderation will be high, it's really time to think about something else. Did you all see that we have an exciting article on...

http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2021-04-13-00-24_squirrel.html

Who are the voting members of the Free Software Foundation ? Posted on 2021-04-12 Tags: barks

https://xana.scru.org/posts/barks/profoundlackofjudgment.html

I’ve been watching the show Riverdale on Netflix recently. It’s an interesting modern take on the Archie comics. Having watched Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space when I was younger I wa...

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2021/04/12/riverdale/

THE VIABILITY OF SMALL DISKS Less than a year ago I wrote a blog post about storage trends . My main point in that post was that disks smaller than 2TB weren’t viable then and 2TB disks would...

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2021/04/12/storage-trends-2021/

The Debian Janitor is an automated system that commits fixes for (minor) issues in Debian packages that can be fixed by software. It gradually started proposing merges in early December. The fir...

https://www.jelmer.uk/upstream-ontologist.html

Host to Kanchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain peak and the endangered Red Panda, Sikkim is a state in northeastern India. Nestled between Nepal, Tibet (China), Bhutan and West Bengal...

http://vishalgupta.me/sikkim/

Following on from 2020 in Fiction : In 2020 I read a couple of collections of short fiction from some of my favourite authors. I started the year with Christopher Priest's Episodes. The sto...

https://jmtd.net/log/2020_in_short_fiction/

Wrote a timezone checker page. timezone. Shows the current time in blue line. I haven't made anything configurable but will think about it later.

http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2021-Apr-11.html.en#2021-Apr-11-11:06:56

Debian Bullseye will provide the command /usr/bin/open for your greatest comfort at the command line. On a system with a graphical desktop environment, the command should have a similar result as...

http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debi%C3%A2neries/open/

There may be some "If it could be ..." ideas for Debian Project. If idea is concreate and worth to make things forward, it should make a proposal for Project Funding. salsa.debian.org But i...

https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2021/04/10/221301

It all started with the big bang! We nearly lost 33 of 36 disks on a Proxmox /Ceph Cluster; this is the story of how we recovered them. At the end of 2020, we eventually had a long outstand...

https://michael-prokop.at/blog/2021/04/09/a-ceph-war-story/

One of my goals for Consfigurator is to make it capable of installing Debian to my laptop, so that I can stop booting to GRML and manually partitioning and debootstrapping a basic system, only t...

https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/consfigurator-live-build/

FTP MASTER Things never turn out the way you expect, so this month I was only able to accept 38 packages and rejected none. Due to the freeze, the overall number of packages that got accepted w...

http://blog.alteholz.eu/2021/04/my-debian-activities-in-march-2021/

I recently discovered SDF ’s PiDP-8 . You can access it over SSH and watch the blinkenlights over its twitch stream . It runs TSS/8, a time-sharing operating system written in 1967 by Adrian va...

https://rak.ac/blog/2021-04-07-writing-basic-8-on-the-tss-8/

Debian has work-in-progress packages for Kubernetes, which work well enough enough for a testing and learning environement. Bootstraping a cluster with the kubeadm deployer with these packages is...

http://meta.libera.cc/2021/03/manually-install-single-node-kubernetes.html

Two months have passed since the last status update, but not much has changed since Debian is more or less frozen for the release of Bullseye, and only critical bugfixes are allowed. As reported ...

https://www.preining.info/blog/2021/04/debian-kde-plasma-and-digikam-status-2021-04-07/

The Debian Janitor is an automated system that commits fixes for (minor) issues in Debian packages that can be fixed by software. It gradually started proposing merges in early December. The fir...

https://www.jelmer.uk/deb-fix-build.html

Previously: v5.8 Linux v5.9 was released in October, 2020. Here’s my summary of various security things that I found interesting: SECCOMP USER_NOTIF FILE DESCRIPTOR INJECTION Sargun Dhill...

https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2021/04/05/security-things-in-linux-v5-9/

Currently, Debian has two running votings: DPL election 2021 and GR about RSM . If you want to use the command line only for sending the filled ballot per email, there are a couple of helpers....

https://gladk.de/posts/202104_vote_per_command_line/

READING BUILD LOGS Build logs for Debian packages can be quite long and difficult for a human to read. Anybody who has looked at these logs trying to figure out why a build failed will have spen...

https://www.jelmer.uk/buildlog-consultant.html

A couple of days ago I wrote on debian-vote@ that a junior analyst could study the tally sheets of our general resolutions and find the cracks in our community. In the end, with a quite naïve ...

http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debi%C3%A2neries/DebianAnalytica/

Haven't done one of these posts in a while. We're well into award season now, plus the early pre-orders for 2021 have come in. A few in here I've already read and reviewed. C.L. Clark — The...

https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2021-04/001.html

Review: Prince Caspian, by C.S. Lewis Illustrator: Pauline Baynes Series: Chronicles of Narnia #2 Publisher: Collier Books Copyright: 1951 Printing: 1979 ISBN: 0-02-044240-8 ...

https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-02-044240-8.html

Note: This is the continuation of part 1 , part 2 and part 3 . You can get the full document as a single PDF . Feel free to share this document to anyone that might be interested to work towards...

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2021/04/02/challenging-times-for-freexian-4/

I've released version 1.1.6 of plocate with some minor fixes; changelog follows. plocate 1.1.6, April 2nd, 2021   - Support searching multiple plocate databases, including the L...

http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2021-04-02-14-27_plocate_1_1_6_released.html

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 172. This version includes the following changes: * If zipinfo(1) shows a difference but we cannot ...

https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-172-released/

Note: This is the continuation of part 1 and part 2 . GOING FORWARD: GROWING FREEXIAN PART 2: EXTENDING THE TEAM By all accounts, Freexian is still a small company which relies largely on me...

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2021/04/01/challenging-times-for-freexian-3/

The now renamed Bullseye Project stopped all further development moments after it deemed its own code as perfection. There is not much information to share at this time other than to say an err...

https://bits.debian.org/2021/04/bullseye-sentience.html

A client asked me to develop a system for “censoring” images from an automatic camera. The situation is that we have a camera taking regular photos from a fixed location which includes part o...

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2021/04/01/censoring-images/

Here’s my (eighteenth) monthly update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. DEBIAN This was my 27th month of active contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 201...

https://utkarsh2102.com/posts/foss-in-march-21/

April, new year for schools in Japan. What am I learning these days?

http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2021-Apr-1.html.en#2021-Apr-1-11:25:26

FOCUS This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble. CHANGES git-remote-hg: fix imports , install , test dep /python /umask usage, tmp dir handlin...

http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2021/04/01/floss-activities/

As of today, Rcpp stands at 2255 reverse-dependencies on CRAN . The graph on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo, but excluding Suggests) ov...

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2021/03/31#rcpp_2250_packages

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 relea...

https://glandium.org/blog/?p=4273

Following up with my previous post , it seems the FSF’s board is taking good care of undermining the FSF itself. Over few days, it has: Lost support from tens of organizations and companies, se...

https://gwolf.org/2021/03/and-what-does-the-fsf-have-anyway.html

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world during March 2021 (previous month ): Reviewed and merged a number of contributions from Dan Palmer for my d...

https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/free-software-activities-in-march-2021

Note: This is the continuation of part 1 where I presented Freexian and its purpose. GOING FORWARD: GROWING FREEXIAN PART 1: FROM “DEBIAN LTS” TO “DEBIAN FOR THE ENTERPRISE” Freexian...

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2021/03/31/challenging-times-for-freexian-2/

In March I was assigned 16 hours of work by Freexian's Debian LTS initiative and carried over 12.25 hours from earlier months. I worked 25.75 hours and will carry over the remainder. I eventu...

https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/debian-lts-work-march-2021.html

I'm a big fan of Makefiles . Almost all my side projects are using them, and I've been advocating their usage at work too. Makefiles give your contributors an entry point on how to do certain ...

https://venthur.de/2021-03-31-python-makefiles.html

Google Pixel phones support what they call ”Motion Photo” which is essentially a photo with a short video clip attached to it. They are quite nice since they bring the moment alive, especiall...

http://losca.blogspot.com/2021/03/motionphoto-microvideo-file-formats-on.html

Review: Paladin's Strength, by T. Kingfisher Series: The Saint of Steel #2 Publisher: Red Wombat Studio Copyright: 2021 ASIN: B08WWKXXVY Format: Kindle Pages: 474 Paladin's S...

https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/paladins-strength.html

A new release 1.1.39-3 of x13binary , of the X-13ARIMA-SEATS program by the US Census Bureau (with upstream release 1.1.39) is now on CRAN . The x13binary package takes the pain out of instal...

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2021/03/30#x13binary_1.1.39-3

TLDR: Freexian’s success means that we have resources to invest into Debian projects. Plainly offering money has not worked so far, so I am looking to hire a “project manager” whose work wo...

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2021/03/30/challenging-times-for-freexian-1/

Kubernetes is moving aways from docker to alternative container engines presenting a smaller core having just the functionality needed. The two most populars alternatives are: containerd, a subs...

http://meta.libera.cc/2021/03/playing-with-cri-o-container-runtime.html

HOW CAN YOU HELP FREE SOFTWARE? Aside from donating to the excellent free software nonprofits out there, and contributing to a project by building software or other resources, there are things y...

http://deblanc.net/blog/2021/03/30/helping/

I wrote this blog post with Kaylea Champion and a version of this post was originally posted on the Community Data Science Collective blog. Critical software we all rely on can silently crumbl...

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/identifying-underproduced-software

LTS This is my first (beside test time last year) official month of working for LTS. I was assigned 12 hrs and worked all of them. I could relatively easy set up the development environment for ...

https://gladk.de/posts/202103_floss/

Free speech and censorship are critically important issues. And, using them to defend Richard Stallman's return to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board is just plain wrong. Richard Stallman...

http://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2021/stallman/

Review: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, by David Flanagan Publisher: O'Reilly Copyright: May 2020 ISBN: 1-4919-5202-4 Format: Trade paperback Pages: 665 JavaScript: The Defini...

https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-4919-5202-4.html