A new minor release 0.4.22 of RQuantLib arrived at CRAN earlier today, and has been uploaded to Debian . QuantLib is a rather comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative finance....
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2024/04/25#rquantlib_0.4.22
Nine days ago, I started migrating orphaned Debian packages with no version control system listed in debian/control of the source to git. At the time there were 438 such packages. Now there are 3...
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/45_orphaned_Debian_packages_moved_to_git__391_to_go.html
With local recursive DNS and a 5G modem in place the next thing was to work on some sort of automatic failover when the primary FTTP connection failed. My wife works from home too and I sometim...
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2024/04/backup-internet-failover.html
I've been enjoying Biosphere as the soundtrack to my recent "concentrated work" spells. Knives by Biosphere I remember seeing their name on playlists of yester-year: axioms , bluemars 1 , and ...
With the work that has been done in the debian-installer/netcfg merge-proposal !9 it is possible to install a standard Debian system, using the normal Debian-Installer (d-i) MINI.ISO images, tha...
https://blog.slyon.de/2024/04/25/creating-a-netplan-enabled-system-through-debian-installer/
Review: Nation, by Terry Pratchett Publisher: Harper Copyright: 2008 Printing: 2009 ISBN: 0-06-143303-9 Format: Trade paperback Pages: 369 Nation is a stand-alone young adult...
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-06-143303-9.html
The XKCD comic Code Quality inspired me to test out emoji in source. I really should have done this years ago when that XKCD was first published. The following code compiles in gcc and runs i...
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2024/04/24/source-code-with-emoji/
When using Bubblewrap (the bwrap command) to create a container in Ubuntu 24.04 you can expect to get one of the following error messages: bwrap: loopback: Failed RTM_NEWADDR: Operation no...
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2024/04/24/ubuntu-24-04-bubblewrap/
The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election has ended. Please join us in congratulating Andreas Tille as the new Debian Project Leader. The new term for the project leader started ...
Version 3.3 brings in new features, including reverse Laplace transforms and fits, pH fits, commands for picking points from a dataset, averaging points with the same X value, or perform singula...
https://vince-debian.blogspot.com/2024/04/qsoas-version-33-is-out.html
Review: The Stars, Like Dust, by Isaac Asimov Series: Galactic Empire #2 Publisher: Fawcett Crest Copyright: 1950, 1951 Printing: June 1972 Format: Mass market Pages: 192 The...
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/stars-like-dust.html
I am upstream and Debian package maintainer of python-debianbts , which is a Python library that allows for querying Debian’s Bug Tracking System (BTS). python-debianbts is used by reportbug, ...
Time really flies when you are really busy you have fun! Our Montréal Debian User Group met on Sunday March 31st and I only just found the time to write our report :) This time around, 9 of us...
https://veronneau.org/montreals-debian-stuff-march-2024.html
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 265. This version includes the following changes: * Ensure that tests with ">=" version constraints�...
Having setup recursive DNS it was time to actually sort out a backup internet connection. I live in a Virgin Media area, but I still haven’t forgiven them for my terrible Virgin experiences ...
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2024/04/backup-internet-5g.html
Posted on January 9, 2024 Tags: debian , free software , life I wanted to report this issue in chromiums issue tracker , but it gave me: > “Something went wrong, please try again�...
https://blog.koch.ro/posts/2024-01-09-chromium-gtk-filechooser-preview-size.html
Posted on January 16, 2024 Tags: debian , free software , nix , life The nix package manager is available in Debian since May 2020 . Why would one use it in Debian? learn about nix instal...
https://blog.koch.ro/posts/2024-01-16-using-nix-package-manager-in-debian.html
Posted on January 20, 2024 Tags: debian , free software , life , search , decentralization Finally there is a thing people can agree on: 2023-08-28, OSNews: The end of the Googleverse 2023...
https://blog.koch.ro/posts/2024-01-20-rebuild-search-with-trust.html
Posted on January 2, 2024 Tags: debian , free software , life Just a little while ago (10 years) I proposed the addition of a state folder to the XDG basedir specification and expanded t...
https://blog.koch.ro/posts/2024-01-02-good-things-state-folder.html
Posted on March 17, 2024 Tags: debian , free software , nix Joachim Breitner wrote about a Convenient sandboxed development environment and thus reminded me to blog about MicroVM . I’ve ...
https://blog.koch.ro/posts/2024-03-17-minimal-vms-nix-microvm.html
Review: Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchett Series: Discworld #37 Publisher: Harper Copyright: October 2009 Printing: November 2014 ISBN: 0-06-233500-6 Format: Mass market ...
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-06-233500-6.html
This is my very first post, just to make sure everything is working as expected. Made with Zola and the Abridge theme .
I am happy to report that the megactl package , useful to fetch RAID status when using the LSI Megaraid controller, now is available in Debian. It passed NEW a few days ago, and is now available ...
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAID_status_from_LSI_Megaraid_controllers_in_Debian.html
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 c...
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2024/04/16#rcpparmadillo_0.12.8.2.1
I have mailed to a Debian bug on allegro4.4 describing my reasoning regarding the allegro libraries – in short, allegro4.4 is pretty much dead upstream, and my interest was basically to keep a...
https://www.gusnan.se/blog/programming/status-update-for-allegro-packaging-in-debian/
There are several packages in Debian without a associated git repository with the packaging history. This is unfortunate and it would be nice if more of these would do so. Quote a lot of these ar...
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_to_move_orphaned_Debian_packages_to_git.html
With the release of Libntlm version 1.8 the release tarball can be reproduced on several distributions. We also publish a signed minimal source-only tarball, produced by git-archive which is th...
https://blog.josefsson.org/2024/04/13/reproducible-and-minimal-source-only-tarballs/
Years ago, at what I think I remember was DebConf 15, I hacked for a while on debhelper to write build-ids to debian binary control files , so that the build-id (more specifically, the ELF note ....
When I first started studying computer science setting up a programming project was easy, write source code files and a Makefile and that was it. IRC was the only IM system and email was the only...
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2024/04/13/software-needed-for-work/
It has been a very busy couple of weeks as we worked against some major transitions and a security fix that required a rebuild of the $world. I am happy to report that against all odds we have a ...
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kubuntu-noble-numbat-beta-available-qt6-snaps-coming-soon/
I tried to upgrade bullseye machien to bookworm, so I got the following error: > File > “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/contrib/auth/mixins.py”, > line 5, in > from django.con...
http://blog.daionet.gr.jp/knok-e/2024/04/12/mailman3-web-error-when-upgrading-to-bookworm/
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 264. This version includes the following changes: * Don't crash on invalid zipfiles, even if we en...
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 subscribin...
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering . DEBIAN LTS CONTRIBUTORS In March, 19 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS , their reports are...
I work from home these days, and my nearest office is over 100 miles away, 3 hours door to door if I travel by train (and, to be honest, probably not a lot faster given rush hour traffic if I dri...
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2024/04/backup-internet-rdns.html
WELCOME TO THE MARCH 2024 REPORT FROM THE REPRODUCIBLE BUILDS PROJECT! In our reports, we attempt to outline what we have been up to over the past month, as well as mentioning some of the im...
Last year a Debian Developer blogged about writing Haskell code to give a bad result for LLMs that were trained on it. I forgot who wrote the post and I’d appreciate the URL if anyone has it. ...
Getting the Belgian eID to work on Linux systems should be fairly easy, although some people do struggle with it. For that reason, there is a lot of third-party documentation out there in the ...
https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/eID/OpenSC_and_the_Belgian_eID/
CEB and I are members of the Derril Water Solar Park cooperative . We were recently invited to vote on whether the coop should bid for a Contract for Difference, in a government green electri...
Now that we are back from our six month period in Argentina, we decided to adopt a kitten, to bring more diversity into our lives. Perhaps this little girl will teach us to think outside the box!...
https://gwolf.org/2024/04/think-outside-the-box-welcome-eclipse.html
Those of you who haven’t been in IT for far, far too long might not know that next month will be the 16th(!) anniversary of the disclosure of what was, at the time, a fairly earth-shattering r...
https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/04/09/how-i-tripped-over-the-debian-weak-keys-vuln.html
Python includes some helping support for classes that are designed to just hold some data and not much more: Data Classes . It uses plain Python type definitions to specify what you can have and ...
FTP MASTER This month I accepted 147 and rejected 12 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 151. If you file an RM bug, please do check whether there are reverse depend...
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2024/04/my-debian-activities-in-march-2024/
It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate ...
Trying to explain analogue clock. It's hard to explain. Tried adding some things for affordance, and it is still not enough. So it's not obvious which arm is the hour and which arm is the minute....
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2024-Apr-6.html.en#2024-Apr-6-12:37:09
FOCUS This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble. CHANGES gt: use standard systemd usb-gadget.target SWH docs: add FAQ item reportbug: allow o...
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 c...
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2024/04/05#rcpparmadillo_0.12.8.2.0
The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the DPL. The Project Leader is the official representative of The Debian Project tasked with managing th...
https://bits.debian.org/2024/04/dpl-interview-AndresTille.html
The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the DPL. The DPL is the official representative of representative of The Debian Project tasked with mana...
https://bits.debian.org/2024/04/dpl-interview-SruthiChandran.html
Here are my notes about copying PGP keys to external hardware devices such as Yubikeys. Let me begin by saying that the gpg tools are pretty bad at this. MAKE A COUPLE OF BACKUPS OF ~/.gnupg/ T...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 263. This version includes the following changes: * Add support for the zipdetails(1) tool included�...
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz . There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: > The problem here is with Open Source Softw...
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10642-the-xz-issue-isnt-about-open-source
New “netplan status –diff” subcommand, finding differences between configuration and system state As the maintainer and lead developer for Netplan, I’m proud to announce the general ava...
We are pleased to announce that PROXMOX has committed to sponsor DebConf24 as a PLATINUM SPONSOR. Proxmox provides powerful and user-friendly open-source server software. Enterprises of a...
https://bits.debian.org/2024/04/proxmox-platinum-debconf24.html
A short status update of what happened on my side last month. I spent quiet a bit of time reviewing new, code (thanks!) as well as maintenance to keep things going but we also have some improveme...
https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_March_2024.html
Was the ssh backdoor the only goal that "Jia Tan" was pursuing with their multi-year operation against xz? I doubt it, and if not, then every fix so far has been incomplete, because everything ...
First, thanks to Samuel Henrique for giving notice of recent Firefox CVEs in Debian testing/unstable. At the time I didn't want to upgrade my system (Debian Sid) due to the ongoing t64 transit...
https://arnaudr.io/2024/04/03/firefox-moving-from-the-debian-package-to-the-flatpak-app-long-term/
Happy to share that ulid is now (back) on CRAN . It provides universally unique identifiers that are lexicographically sortable, which improves over the more well-known uuid generators. ulid ...
I recently came a cross a x509 P(rivate)KI Root Certificate which had a pathLen constrain set on the (self signed) Root Certificate. Since that is not commonly seen I looked a bit around to get a...
Dear Debianites This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and send whatever I have by 18:00 local time. Here it is, barely proof read, along with all it's warts and grammar mis...
https://bits.debian.org/2024/04/bits-from-the-dpl-april.html