Matthew Garrett: PKCS#11. hardware keystores, and Apple frustrations
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/64968.html
January 18, 2023, 5:26 AM
There's a bunch of ways you can store cryptographic keys. The most obvious is to just stick them on disk, but that has the downside that anyone with access to the system could just steal them and do whatever they wanted with them. At the far end of the scale you have Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), hardware devices that are specially designed to self destruct if you try to take them apart and extract the keys, and which will generate an audit trail of every key operation. In between you have t...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Forward
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-5420-9206-X.html
January 18, 2023, 3:28 AM
Review: Forward, edited by Blake Crouch

Publisher:
Amazon Original Stories


Copyright:
September 2019


ISBN:
1-5420-9206-X


ISBN:
1-5420-4363-8


ISBN:
1-5420-9357-0


ISBN:
1-5420-0434-9


ISBN:
1-5420-4363-8


ISBN:
1-5420-4425-1


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
300

This is another Amazon collection of short fiction, this time mostly at
novelette length. (The longer ones m...
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Arnaud Rebillout: Build container images in GitLab CI (iptables-legacy at the rescue)
https://arnaudr.io/2023/01/18/build-container-images-in-gitlab-ci-iptables-legacy-at-the-rescue/
January 18, 2023, 12:00 AM
It's 2023 and these days, building a container image in a CI pipeline should be
straightforward. So let's try.
For this blog post we'll focus on GitLab SaaS only, that is,
gitlab.com, as it's what I use for work and for personal
projects.
To get started, we just need two files in our Git repository:
a Containerfile (or Dockerfile if you prefer to name it this way) that
defines how to build a container image.
a .gitlab-ci.yml file that defines what the CI should do. In the example
below, w...
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Thomas Lange: FAI 6.0 released and new ISO images using Debian 12 bookworm/testing
http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/fai6/
January 17, 2023, 4:20 PM
After more than a year, a new major FAI release is ready to download.
Following new features are included:
add support for release specification in package_config via release=<name>
the partitioning tool now supports partition labels with GPT
support partition labels and partition uuids in fstab
support for Alpine Linux and Arch Linux package managers in install_packages
Ubuntu 22.04 and Rocky Linux 9 support added
add support for NVme devices in fai-kvm
add ssh key for root remote acce...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Night and Silence
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-698-18353-3.html
January 17, 2023, 3:34 AM
Review: Night and Silence, by Seanan McGuire

Series:
October Daye #12


Publisher:
DAW Books


Copyright:
2018


ISBN:
0-698-18353-3


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
353

Night and Silence is the 12th book in Seanan McGuire's long-running
October Daye Celtic-inspired urban fantasy series. This is a "read the
books in order" sort of series; you definitely do not want to start here.
Gillian, Toby's estranged daughter, has be...
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Gunnar Wolf: Back to Understanding Computers and Cognition
https://gwolf.org/2023/01/back-to-understanding-computers-and-cognition.html
January 16, 2023, 4:29 AM
As many of you know, I work at UNAM, Mexico’s largest university. My
work is split in two parts: My “full-time” job is to be the systems
and network administrator at the Economics Research
Institute, and I do some hours of teaching
at the Engineering Faculty.
At the Institute, my role is academic — but although I have tried to
frame my works in a way amenable to analysis grounded on the Social
Sciences (Construcción Colaborativa del
Conocimiento, Hecho con Creative
Commons, Mecanismos ...
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Russ Allbery: Review: The Truth
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-06-230736-3.html
January 16, 2023, 2:51 AM
Review: The Truth, by Terry Pratchett

Series:
Discworld #25


Publisher:
Harper


Copyright:
November 2000


Printing:
August 2014


ISBN:
0-06-230736-3


Format:
Mass market


Pages:
435

The Truth is the 25th Discworld novel. Some reading order guides
group it loosely into an "industrial revolution" sequence following
Moving Pictures, but while there are
thematic similarities I'll talk about in a moment, ...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 0.11.4.3.1 on CRAN: Updates
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/01/15#rcpparmadillo_0.11.4.3.1
January 16, 2023, 12:39 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) 1034 packages other packages on CRAN, downloaded 27.6 mi...
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Matthew Garrett: Blogging and microblogging
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/64660.html
January 15, 2023, 10:40 PM
Long-term Linux users may remember that Alan Cox used to write an online diary. This was before the concept of a "Weblog" had really become a thing, and there certainly weren't any expectations around what one was used for - while now blogging tends to imply a reasonably long-form piece on a specific topic, Alan was just sitting there noting small life concerns or particular technical details in interesting problems he'd solved that day. For me, that was fascinating. I was trying to figure out h...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RApiDatetime 0.0.8 on CRAN: Maintenance
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/01/14#rapidatetime_0.0.8
January 14, 2023, 9:17 PM
A new release of our RApiDatetime
package is now on CRAN.
RApiDatetime
provides a number of entry points for C-level functions of the R API for
Date and Datetime calculations. The functions
asPOSIXlt and asPOSIXct convert between long
and compact datetime representation, formatPOSIXlt and
Rstrptime convert to and from character strings, and
POSIXlt2D and D2POSIXlt convert between
Date and POSIXlt datetime. Lastly,
asDatePOSIXct converts to a date type. All these functions
are rather useful, but ...
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Kentaro Hayashi: bibata cursor theme is available on Debian (unstable)
https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2023/01/14/151612
January 14, 2023, 6:16 AM
Recently bibata cursor theme is available on Debian (unstable)
github.com
You can install via sudo apt install -y bibata-cursor-theme.
After you installed its theme, you can configure the cursor theme via desktop configuration. (budgie desktop screenshot)
Set bibata-cursor-theme
In bibata-cursor-theme, you can choose the following cursor themes:
Bibata Original Amber: Yellowish and sharp edge bibata cursors.
Bibata Modern Amber: Yellowish and rounded edge bibata cursors.
Bibata Original C...
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Ian Jackson: SGO (and my) VPN and network access tools - in bookworm
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/14161.html
January 14, 2023, 12:41 AM
Recently, we managed to get secnet and hippotat into Debian. They are on track to go into Debian bookworm. This completes in Debian the set of VPN/networking tools I (and other Greenend) folks have been using for many years.
The Sinister Greenend Organisation’s suite of network access tools consists mainly of:
secnet - VPN.
hippotat - IP-over-HTTP (workaround for bad networks)
userv ipif - user-created network interfaces
secnet
secnet is our very mature VPN system.
Its basic protocol idea is...
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Matt Brown: Rebooting...
https://www.mattb.nz/w/2023/01/14/rebooting.../
January 14, 2023, 12:00 AM
Hi!
After nearly 7 years of dormancy, I’m rebooting this website and have a goal to write regularly on a variety of topics going forward. More on that and my goals in a coming post…
For now, this is just a placeholder note to help double-check that everything on the new site is working as expected and the letters are flowing through the “pipes” in the right places.
Technical Details
I’ve migrated the site from Wordpress, to a fully static configuration using Hugo and TailwindCSS for he...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppGSL 0.3.13 on CRAN: Mandated Update
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/01/12#rcppgsl_0.3.13
January 13, 2023, 12:10 AM
A new release 0.3.13 of RcppGSL is
now on CRAN. The RcppGSL
package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL by relying on the
Rcpp
package.
This release contains one change (made at the request of a CRAN email
in light of possible future changes for C standard C17 and then C23) and
removes a compiler-check from configure.ac. It is both a
fair point as our src/Makevars does not actually set a
compiler yet also a little … marginal?
The NEWS entry follows:
Changes in version 0.3.13
(2023-01-...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 232 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-232-released/
January 13, 2023, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 232. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Allow ICC tests to (temporarily) fail.
* Update debian/tests/control after the addition of PyPDF 3 support.
[ FC Stegerman ]
* Update regular expression for Android .APK files.
[ Sam James ]
* Support PyPDF version 3.
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RDieHarder 0.2.5 on CRAN: Mandated Update
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/01/12#rdieharder_0.2.5
January 12, 2023, 11:36 PM
An new version 0.2.5 of the random-number generator tester RDieHarder
(based on the DieHarder
suite developed / maintained by Robert Brown with contributions by David
Bauer and myself along with other contributors) is now on CRAN.
This release contains one change (made at the request of a CRAN email
in light of possible future changes for C standard C17 and then C23) and
removes a compiler-check from configure.ac. It is both a
fair point as our src/Makevars does not actually set a
compiler yet a...
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Jonathan McDowell: Building a read-only Debian root setup: Part 1
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2023/01/debian-read-only-root-part1.html
January 12, 2023, 9:38 PM
I mentioned in the post about upgrading my home internet that part of the work I did was creating a read-only Debian root with a squashfs image. This post covers the details of how I boot with that image; a later post will cover how I build the squashfs image.
First, David Reader kindly pointed me at his rodebian setup, which was helpful in making me think about the whole problem but ultimately not the direction I went. Primarily because on the old router (an RB3011) I am space constrained, wit...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: linl 0.0.5 on CRAN: Extended Background Support
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/01/11#linl_0.0.5
January 12, 2023, 3:37 AM
A new release of our linl package for
writing LaTeX letters with (R)markdown is now on CRAN. linl makes it easy to
write letters in markdown, with some extra bells and whistles thanks to
some cleverness chiefly by Aaron.
This version add extended header and footer placement support thanks
to an included copy of wallpaper.sty as added in a nice PR
by Iñaki. As the previous
release was well over three years ago, we also enhanced continuous
integration in the process. The repository README.md
show...
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Junichi Uekawa: Reading through intrusive-collections.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jan-11.html.en#2023-Jan-11-10:16:00
January 11, 2023, 1:16 AM
Reading through intrusive-collections. My eyes are not quite used to reading macro packages and they don't quite make sense to me yet. Error messages look strange too.
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Daniel Lange: Happy tenth birthday, dear Thunar bug
https://daniel-lange.com/archives/177-Happy-tenth-birthday,-dear-Thunar-bug.html
January 10, 2023, 11:00 PM
Thunar, the Xfce4 file manager, has a bug that it underflows the time remaining for a file copy since ten years now (bugzilla, gitlab). Happy birthday!...
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Matthew Garrett: Integrating Linux with Okta Device Trust
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/64311.html
January 10, 2023, 5:48 AM
I've written about bearer tokens and how much pain they cause me before, but sadly wishing for a better world doesn't make it happen so I'm making do with what's available. Okta has a feature called Device Trust which allows to you configure access control policies that prevent people obtaining tokens unless they're using a trusted device. This doesn't actually bind the tokens to the hardware in any way, so if a device is compromised or if a user is untrustworthy this doesn't prevent the token e...
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Junichi Uekawa: Uploaded Debian packages, since a long time.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jan-9.html.en#2023-Jan-9-16:39:00
January 9, 2023, 7:39 AM
Uploaded Debian packages, since a long time.
enumn and remain are rust packages, and needed for crosvm. Working slowly through the dependency chain.
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Russ Allbery: Review: Black Stars
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-5420-3272-5.html
January 9, 2023, 5:54 AM
Review: Black Stars, edited by Nisi Shawl & Latoya Peterson

Publisher:
Amazon Original Stories


Copyright:
August 2021


ISBN:
1-5420-3272-5


ISBN:
1-5420-3270-9


ISBN:
1-5420-3271-7


ISBN:
1-5420-3273-3


ISBN:
1-5420-3268-7


ISBN:
1-5420-3269-5


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
168

This is a bit of an odd duck from a metadata standpoint. Black
Stars is a series of sho...
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Gunnar Wolf: Back to Xochicalco
https://gwolf.org/2023/01/back-to-xochicalco.html
January 9, 2023, 5:20 AM
In Mexico, we have the great luck to live among vestiges of long-gone
cultures, some that were conquered and in some way got adapted and
survived into our modern, mostly-West-Europan-derived society, and
some that thrived but disappeared many more centuries ago. And
although not everybody feels the same way, in my family we have always
enjoyed visiting archaeological sites — when I was a child and today.
Some of the regulars that follow this blog (or its syndicators) will
remember Xochicalco,...
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Petter Reinholdtsen: LinuxCNC MQTT publisher component
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/LinuxCNC_MQTT_publisher_component.html
January 8, 2023, 6:30 PM
I watched a 2015
video from Andreas Schiffler the other day, where he set up
LinuxCNC to send status
information to the MQTT broker IBM Bluemix. As I also use MQTT for
graphing, it occured to me that a generic MQTT LinuxCNC component
would be useful and I set out to implement it. Today I got the first
draft limping along and submitted as
a patch to the
LinuxCNC project.
The simple part was setting up the MQTT publishing code in Python.
I already have set up other parts submitting data to my M...
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Anuradha Weeraman: Parallelizing and running distributed builds with distcc
https://anuradha.medium.com/parallelizing-and-running-distributed-builds-with-distcc-61f3470c0f69?source=rss-ade561389abc------2
January 8, 2023, 4:23 PM
Parallelizing the compilation of a large codebase is a breeze with distcc, which allows you to spread the load across multiple nodes and speed up the compilation time.Here’s a sample network topology for a distributed build:Install distcc on the three Debian/Ubuntu-based nodes:# apt install distccEdit /etc/default/distcc and set:STARTDISTCC="true"# Customize for your environmentALLOWEDNETS="192.168.2.0/24"# Specify your network deviceLISTENER="192.168.2.146"Additionally, the JOBS and NICE var...
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Scarlett Gately Moore: Debian: Coming soon! MycroftAI! KDE snaps update.
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/debian-coming-soon-mycroftai-kde-snaps-update/
January 8, 2023, 3:31 PM
About Mycroft
I am excited to announce that I have joined the MycroftAI team in Salsa and working hard to get this packaged up and released in Debian. You can track our progress here:
https://salsa.debian.org/mycroftai-team
Snaps are on temporary hold while we get everything switched over to core22. This includes the neon-extension, that requires merges and store requests to be honored. Hopefully folks are returning from holidays and things will start moving again. Thank you for your p...
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Antoine Beaupré: 20 years blogging
https://anarc.at/blog/2023-01-07-bring-back-blogging/
January 8, 2023, 4:09 AM
Many folks have woken up to the dangers of commercialization and
centralisation of this very fine internet we have around here. For
many of us, of course, it's one big "I told you so"...
(To fair, I stopped "telling you so" because evangelism is pretty
annoying. It's certainly dishonest coming from an atheist, so I preach
by example now. I often wonder what works better. But I digress.)
Colleagues have been posting about getting back into blogging. This
post from gwolf, in particular, reviews ...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Postwar
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-4406-2476-3.html
January 8, 2023, 3:49 AM
Review: Postwar, by Tony Judt

Publisher:
Penguin Books


Copyright:
2005


ISBN:
1-4406-2476-3


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
835

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was a British-American historian and Erich Maria
Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University.
Postwar is his magnum opus, a history of Europe from 1945 to 2005.
A book described as a history of Europe could be anything from a textbook
to a political analysis, so t...
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Charles Plessy: Could somebody patch Firefox to display Markdown files?
http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debi%C3%A2neries/markdown/
January 8, 2023, 12:18 AM
When Firefox receives a file with media type text/markdown, it prompts the
user to download it, while other browsers display it as plain text. In the
ticket 1319262, it is proposed to display Markdown files by default, but
there needs a patch…
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in December 2022
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2022-12/
January 7, 2023, 3:22 PM
Welcome to the December 2022 report from the Reproducible Builds project.
We are extremely pleased to announce that the dates for the Reproducible Builds Summit in 2023 have been announced in 2022 already:
When: October 31st, November 1st, November 2nd 2023.
Where: Dock Europe, Hamburg, Germany.
We plan to spend three days continuing to the grow of the Reproducible Builds effort. As in previous events, the exact content of the meeting will be shaped by the participants. And, as ment...
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Jonathan Carter: What are the most important improvements that Debian need to make?
https://jonathancarter.org/2023/01/07/what-are-the-most-important-improvements-that-debian-need-to-make/
January 7, 2023, 12:19 PM
“What are the most important improvements that Debian need to make?” – I decided to see what all the fuss is about and asked ChatGPT that exact question.
It’s response:
The list of potential improvements for Debian that I provided is based on my understanding of the challenges and opportunities that software projects like Debian typically face, as well as my understanding of the goals and values of the Debian project. It is not based on any specific information about the current p...
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Matthew Garrett: Asking ChatGPT to write my security-sensitive code for me
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/64090.html
January 7, 2023, 9:09 AM
I have a patchset that makes it safe to use hibernation under Linux even in a secure boot world but it relies on preventing userland from using one of the TPM PCRs[1] that would otherwise be available to it. TPM 2 devices support emulating PCRs in NVRAM, which would obviously be beneficial in not taking away a scare resource, but the docs suggest there's no way to tie a key generation to an NVRAM value which makes this more complicated.So, why not ask a computer to do this for me? I asked ChatGP...
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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in December 2022
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2023/01/my-debian-activities-in-december-2022/
January 6, 2023, 4:34 PM
FTP master
This month I accepted 276 and rejected 27 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 288.
Debian LTS
This was my hundred-second 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 but due to Christmas I managed only to do 10h.
During that time I uploaded:
[DLA 3256-1] xorg-server security update for six CVEs
[DLA 3255-1] mplayer security update for ten CVEs
Debian ELTS
...
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Jonathan McDowell: Finally making use of bpftrace
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2023/01/finally-using-bpftrace.html
January 6, 2023, 8:29 AM
I am old enough to remember when BPF meant the traditional Berkeley Packet Filter, and was confined to filtering network packets. It’s grown into much, much, more as eBPF and getting familiar with it so that I can add it to the suite of tips and tricks I can call upon has been on my to-do list for a while. To this end I was lucky enough to attend a live walk through of bpftrace last year. bpftrace is a high level tool that allows the easy creation and execution of eBPF tracers under Linux.
Re...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 231 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-231-released/
January 6, 2023, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 231. This version includes the following changes:
* Improve "[X] may produce better output" messages. Based on a patch by
Helmut Grohne. (Closes: #1026982)
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Kentaro Hayashi: Rebuild mozc with Mozc UT Dictionary
https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2023/01/05/205537
January 5, 2023, 11:55 AM
When rebuilding mozc with Mozc UT Dictionary, it may be better to build in docker container because you don't want install unused IM development packages.
In beforehand, download latest Mozc UT dictionary here.
osdn.net
In a debian/sid container, you need to do it:
# apt install -y devscripts
# (enable deb-src, modify /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources)
# apt source mozc
# cat mozcdic-ut-20221230/mozcdic-ut-20221230.txt >> mozc-2.28.4715.102+dfsg/src/data/dictionary_oss/dictionary0...
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Matthew Garrett: Changing firmware config that doesn't want to be changed
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/63787.html
January 5, 2023, 4:28 AM
Update: There's actually a more detailed writeup of this here that I somehow missed. Original entry follows:Today I had to deal with a system that had an irritating restriction - a firmware configuration option I really wanted to be able to change appeared as a greyed out entry in the configuration menu. Some emails revealed that this was a deliberate choice on the part of the system vendor, so that seemed to be that. Thankfully in this case there was a way around that.One of the things UEFI int...
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Enrico Zini: Staticsite redesign
http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2023/ssite/staticsite-redesign
January 4, 2023, 2:03 PM
These are some notes about my redesign work in staticsite 2.x.
Maping constraints and invariants
I started keeping notes of constraints and invariants,
and this helped a lot in keeping bounds on the cognitive efforts of design.
I particularly liked how mapping the set of constraints added during site
generation has helped breaking down processing into a series of well defined
steps. Code that handles each step now has a specific task, and can rely on
clear assumptions.
Declarative page metadata
...
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Junichi Uekawa: debcargo rust repository and some observations.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jan-4.html.en#2023-Jan-4-15:28:59
January 4, 2023, 6:28 AM
debcargo rust repository and some observations.
It's been about a week since I first started looking at Debian rust packages and adding some packages in preparation for crosvm.
Some things that don't work quite well right now yet.
My local branches disappeared. I don't have access and everything is through a merge request, presumably that is not a generally supported workflow and the team members are using branches to manage pending works.
./release.sh is optimized for updates and f...
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Anton Gladky: Boost 1.81 in Debian Testing
https://gladk.de/posts/202301_boost_181/
January 4, 2023, 4:16 AM
The latest version of Boost, version 1.81, is now available in Debian Testing.
As contributors to Boost, we highly encourage you to consider building your package
against Boost 1.81 in order to facilitate a smooth transition. Installing the -dev
Boost packages from the experimental repository is simple, as shown in the following
command:
sudo apt install libboost-dev -t experimental
If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for improvement, please do not
hesitate to file bugs or prepare m...
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Enrico Zini: Released staticsite 2.x
http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2023/ssite/release-staticsite-2-x
January 4, 2023, 12:30 AM
In theory I wanted to announce the release of
staticsite 2.0, but then I found
bugs that prevented me from writing this post, so I'm also releasing
2.1 2.2 2.3 :grin:
staticsite is the static site generator that I ended up writing after giving
other generators a try.
I did a big round of cleanup of the code, which among other things allowed me
to implement incremental builds.
It turned out that staticsite is fast enough that incremental builds are not
really needed, however, a bug in caching ren...
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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities December 2022
http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2023/01/04/floss-activities/
January 3, 2023, 11:02 PM
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus.
I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
devscripts:
allow rmadison to query archived releases, unofficial ports
debiman:
update prerequisites
reportbug:
drop cruft,
add tags based on subject
debbugs:
fix usertag validation
Debian DDPO:
better syntax error messages
Debian madison:
allow querying
archived releases,
unofficial ports
Debian ftp-master website:
typos
Debian mirrors list:
fix debian.co.il
Debian mirror status:
fix
cra...
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Enrico Zini: Things I learnt in December 2022
http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2022/debian/til-2022-12
January 3, 2023, 9:00 PM
Python: typing.overload
typing.overload
makes it easier to type functions with behaviour that depends on input types.
Functions marked with @overload are ignored by Python and only used by the
type checker:
@overload
def process(response: None) -> None:
...
@overload
def process(response: int) -> tuple[int, str]:
...
@overload
def process(response: bytes) -> str:
...
def process(response):
# <actual implementation>
Python's multiprocessing and deadlocks
Python's ...
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Jonathan Dowland: Tex Shinobi first impressions
https://jmtd.net/log/tex_shinobi/
January 3, 2023, 3:22 PM
Happy New Year!
Older IBM Ultranav keyboard
For the last 13 years I've been using standalone versions of the Lenovo
(formerly IBM) Thinkpad keyboard design — with integrated trackpoint — as my
main computer input devices.
My latest ("ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II") was starting to fail so I decided
to look into alternatives for a replacement. The sticking point was I really like
the trackpoint as a mouse replacement, and very few other manufacturers offer that.
I've thus far mana...
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Russell Coker: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/01/03/note-10-1-2014/
January 3, 2023, 2:37 AM
In May 2014 I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition tablet (wikipedia page [1]) with 32G of RAM. It’s display is 2560×1600 resolution which still compares well to the latest tablets. The Galaxy Tab S8 [2] is the latest high-end tablet series from Samsung and the 11 inch tablet in that series also has a 2560×1600 giving it a slightly lower DPI! The latest series also has 12.4″ and 14.6″ tablets with resolutions of 2800×1752 and 2960×1848 respectively. Obviously if you want a 14...
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Gunnar Wolf: Refueling the blog
https://gwolf.org/2023/01/refueling-the-blog.html
January 2, 2023, 6:48 PM
So, it’s this weird time of year where we make a balance and share
with the world some ideas about the future. And… yes, it’s time to
take care of this blog, as its activity has dropped once
again. So… maybe it’d be nice to start this post by checking how
much have I blogged over the years:
2004: 27
2005: 92
2006: 65
2007: 83
2008: 64
2009: 62
2010: 48
2011: 25
2012: 27
2013: 29
2014: 37
2015: 18
2016: 19
2017: 20
2018: 19
2019: 19
2020: 14
2021:...
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Ben Hutchings: Debian LTS work, December 2022
https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/debian-lts-work-december-2022.html
January 2, 2023, 5:33 PM
In December I was assigned 15 hours by Freexian's Debian LTS
initiative and carried over 9 hours from November. I worked
all of those hours.
I merged the latest bullseye point release into the linux-5.10
package, uploaded that, and issued
DLA-3244-1.
I also updated the linux (4.19) package to the latest stable and
and stable-rt versions, uploaded it, and issued
DLA-3245-1....
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Emmanuel Kasper: Ensuring someone is listening before telling a joke
https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2023/01/02/ensuring-someone-is-listening-before-telling-a-joke/
January 2, 2023, 3:42 PM
Alice (speaking to Bob): Bob, I have a good joke to tell, can I call you at 12:00 ?
Bob (turns head towards Alice): OK, fine for me, but can we make it at 13:00 ?
Alice (nodding): Works for me.
At 13:00, Alice starts telling a joke.
Did you recognize the three way TCP handshake ?
Protagonists:
Alice: Client
Bob: Server
Dialog:
I have a good joke to tell: TCP segment with SYN flag
12:00: initial sequence number
OK: TCP segment with SYN and ACK flag
13:00: acknowledgment number (initial sequ...
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Jonathan McDowell: Free Software Activities for 2022
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2023/01/a-year-in-free-software.html
January 1, 2023, 7:34 PM
There is a move to Bring Back Blogging and having recently sorted out my own FreshRSS install I am completely in favour of such a thing. RSS feeds with complete posts, for preference, not just a teaser intro sentence/paragraph.
It’s also a reminder to me that I should blog more, and what better way to start 2023 than with my traditional recap of my Free Software activities in 2022. For previous years see 2019, 2020 + 2021
Conferences
I attended DebConf22 in Prizen, Kosova this year, and fin...
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Junichi Uekawa: Challenges in getting a Debian package.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jan-1.html.en#2023-Jan-1-15:27:23
January 1, 2023, 6:27 AM
Challenges in getting a Debian package.
Debian Rust packaging team has a great collection of scripts for maintaining Debian Rust packages, but that depended on schroot and other tools that I haven't used usually.
Getting that working first was a challenging.
I had to get out of my podman container running sid inside user namespace, because schroot didn't work due to not being able to create devices files. That was okay, and I went back to my old chroot script which was doing something s...
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C.J. Adams-Collier: State of the racks, 20221231
https://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1838
January 1, 2023, 5:31 AM
Hi friends!
I haven’t written in a while. I’ve been caught up in work. But between working, I’ve put together some new equipment in a couple of new racks. I bought an audio dampened 15U rack a couple of years ago or so, and into it I’ve placed the RAID array and an HP desktop form-factor ML110 server to drive the disks. The disk array controller is a two-port Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3. I’ve been thinking about getting the four-port variant, since I like t...
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Junichi Uekawa: 2023 started.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jan-1.html.en#2023-Jan-1-09:23:39
January 1, 2023, 12:23 AM
2023 started. I'm still stuck at home due to COVID-19 and therefore I have more than usual time on hacking on Debian stuff.
I've learnt schroot does most of what I have been doing with my home grown tools.
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Chris Lamb: Favourite films of 2022
https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/favourite-films-of-2022
December 31, 2022, 5:04 PM
In my four most recent posts, I went over the memoirs and biographies, the non-fiction, the fiction and the 'classic' fiction I enjoyed reading in 2022.
But in the very last of my roundup posts—and in relatively less detail—I'll be quickly sketching out the favourite movies that were new to me in 2022:
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La Ronde (1950)
An all-knowing narrator (Adolf Wohlbrück) guides us through a series of vignettes in 1900s Vienna — a soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening, and later he h...
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Guido Günther: Phosh 2022 in retrospect
https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Phosh_2022_in_retrospect.html
December 31, 2022, 3:55 PM
I wanted to look back at what changed in phosh in 2022 and figured I
could share it with you. I'll be focusing on things very close to the
mobile shell, for a broader overview see Evangelos upcoming FOSDEM
talk.
Some numbers
We're usually aiming for a phosh release at the end of each month. In
2022 We did 10 releases like that, 7 major releases (bumping the
middle version number) and three betas. We skipped the April and
November releases. We also did one bug fix relesae out of line
(bumping t...
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Chris Lamb: Favourite books of 2022: Non-fiction
https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/favourite-books-of-2022-non-fiction
December 30, 2022, 8:20 PM
In my three most recent posts, I went over the memoirs and biographies, classics and fiction books that I enjoyed the most in 2022. But in the last of my book-related posts for 2022, I'll be going over my favourite works of non-fiction.
Books that just missed the cut here include Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost (1998) on the role of Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo Free State, Johann Hari's Stolen Focus (2022) (a personal memoir on relating to how technology is increasingly fragmenting ...
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Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in December 2022
https://utkarsh2102.com/posts/foss-in-dec-22/
December 30, 2022, 5:41 AM
Here’s my (thirty-ninth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world.
Debian
This was my 48th month of actively contributing to Debian.
I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! o/
There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month:
Some DebConf work.
Sponsoring stuff for non-DDs.
Mentoring for newcomers.
Moderation of -project mailing list.
Ubuntu
This was my 23rd month of a...
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Simon Josefsson: Preseeding Trisquel Virtual Machines Using “netinst” Images
https://blog.josefsson.org/2022/12/30/preseeding-trisquel-virtual-machines-using-netinst-images/
December 30, 2022, 12:24 AM
I’m migrating some self-hosted virtual machines to Trisquel, and noticed that Trisquel does not offer cloud-images similar to the Debian Cloud and Ubuntu Cloud images. Thus my earlier approach based on virt-install --cloud-init and cloud-localds does not work with Trisquel. While I hope that Trisquel will eventually publish cloud-compatible images, I wanted to document an alternative approach for Trisquel based on preseeding. This is how I used to install Debian and Ubuntu in the old days, ...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 230 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-230-released/
December 30, 2022, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 230. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Fix compatibility with file(1) version 5.43; thanks, Christoph Biedl.
[ Jelle van der Waa ]
* Support Berkeley DB version 6.
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Chris Lamb: Favourite books of 2022: Memoir/biography
https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/favourite-books-of-2022-memoir-and-biography
December 29, 2022, 4:23 PM
In my two most recent posts, I listed the fiction and classic fiction I enjoyed the most in 2022.
I'll leave my roundup of general non-fiction until tomorrow, but today I'll be going over my favourite memoirs and biographies, in no particular order.
Books that just missed the cut here include Roisin Kiberd's The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet (2019), Steve Richards' The Prime Ministers (2019) which reflects on UK leadership from Harold Wilson to Boris Johnson, Robert Graves ...
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