So a common theme on the Internet about Debian is so old. And right, I am getting close to the stage that I feel a little laggy: I am using a bunch of backports for packages I need, and I’m missing a bunch of other packages that just landed in unstable and didn’t make it to backports for various...

   I am getting increasingly frustrated by Fira Mono’s lack of italic support so I am looking at alternative fonts again. Commit Mono This time I seem to be settling on either Commit Mono or Space Mono. For now I’m using Commit Mono because it’s a little more compressed than Fira and does have a...

   Note: I’ve been awfully silent here for the past ... checks notes oh dear, months But that’s not because I’ve been idle, quite the contrary, I’ve been very busy but just didn’t have time to write about anything. So I’ve taken it upon myself to write something about my work this week, and...

   Roadkiller was a Soekris net router I used as my main gateway between and for réseau and téléphone . It was upgraded to FreeBSD . p and pkgng. It was retired in favor of octavia around . Roughly years later , I found it in a drawer and, to my...

   So this blog is now celebrating its st birthday or if you count from zero, or if you want to be pedantic , and I figured I would do this yearly thing of reviewing how that went. Number of posts was the official th anniversary in any case, and that was one of my best years on...

   I have accidentally rewritten screentest, an old X GTK program that I was previously using to, well, test screens. Screentest is dead It was removed from Debian in May but had already missed two releases Debian bullseye and bookworm due to release critical bugs. The stated...

   Now this was quite a tease For those who haven’t seen it, I encourage you to check it out, it has a nice photo of a Debian t shirt I did not know about, to quote the Fine Article: Today, when going through a box of old T shirts, I found the shirt I was looking for to bring to the occasion: ... ...

   This is a short announcement to say that I have changed my main OpenPGP key. A signed statement is available with the cryptographic details but, in short, the reason is that I stopped using my old YubiKey NEO that I have worn on my keyring since . I now have a YubiKey which supports ED ...

   The computer world has a tendency of reinventing the wheel once in a while. I am not a fan of that process, but sometimes I just have to bite the bullet and adapt to change. This post explains how I adapted to one particular change: the netstat to sockstat transition. I used to do this to show...

   I have just filed a complaint with the CRTC about my phone provider’s outrageous fees. This is a copy of the complaint. I am traveling to Europe, specifically to Ireland, for a days for a work meeting. I thought I could use my phone there. So I looked at my phone provider’s services in Europe,...