Fixed a major crash bug in our apps that use webengine, I also went ahead and updated these to core https: bugs.launchpad.net snapd bug andhttps: bugs.kde.org show bug.cgi id Fixed okular Can’t import certificates to digitally sign in Okular https: bugs.kde.org show bug.cgi...

   I’m going to FOSDEM As usual, I’ll be in the Java Devroom for most of that day, which this time around is Saturday. Please recommend me any talks This is my shortlist so far: no more boot loader: boot using the Linux kernel aerc, an email client for the discerning hacker Supersonic...

   As most here know, I’m totally blind. One of my roles involves a contract for the US Government, under which I have a government email account. The department recently received a message talking about our work to end, to the maximum extend permitted by law, all diversity, equity, inclusion, and...

   The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version . This version includes the following changes: Chris Lamb Bug fixes: When passing files on the command line, don’t call specialize .. before we’ve checked that the files are identical. In the...

   The fourteenth release of the qlcal package arrivied at CRAN today, following the QuantLib . release two days ago. qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib. It is provided for the R package as a set of included files, so the package is self contained and does not depend on an external...

   For a long time I’ve been using the Terminator terminal emulator on Linux machines, but last week I read a LWN article about a new emulator called Ghostty that looked interesting and I decided to give it a try. The author sells it as a fast, feature rich and cross platform terminal emulator that...

   I watch a lot of films. Since completing the IMDB Top back in I’ve kept an eye on it, and while I don’t go out of my way to watch the films that newly appear in it I generally sit at over watched. I should note I don’t consider myself a film buff critic, however. I watch things for...

   A new minor release of our ttdo package arrived on CRAN a few days ago. The ttdo package extends the excellent and very minimal zero depends unit testing package tinytest by Mark van der Loo with the very clever and well done diffobj package by Brodie Gaslam to give us test results with visual...

   In , I was sponsored by The Document Foundation TDF to attend the LibreOffice annual conference in Luxembourg from the th to the th of October. Being an Indian passport holder, I needed a visa to visit Luxembourg. However, due to my Kenya trip coming up in September, I ran into a dilemma...

   Pretty much exactly a year ago, I posted about how I was trying out this bcachefs thing, being cautiously optimistic but reminding you to keep backups . Now I’m going the other way; I’ve converted my last bcachefs filesystem to XFS, and I don’t intend to look at it again in the near future. What...

   Hello everyone , I’m excited to share a progress report on my Outreachy internship with the Debian community. As I reach the halfway point of this journey, I want to reflect on what I’ve accomplished so far and outline my modified goals for the second half of the internship. In truth, there wasn’t...

   Happy th birthday, dsafilter dsafilter is a mail filter I wrote two decades ago to solve a problem I had: I was dutifully subscribed to debian security announce to learn of new security package updates, but most were not relevant to me. The filter creates a new, summarizing mail, reporting on...

   Another maintenance release of RcppMsgPack got onto CRAN today. MessagePack itself is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it is faster and smaller. Small integers are encoded into a single byte, and typical short strings...

   Despite comments on my ikiwiki blog being fully moderated, spammers have been increasingly posting link spam comments on my blog. While I used to use the blogspam plugin, the underlying service was likely retired circa and its public repositories are all archived. It turns out that there is a...

   For some years now, I have been working on a automatic hardware based package recommendation system for Debian and other Linux distributions. The isenkram system I started on back in now consist of two subsystems, one locating firmware files using the information provided by apt file, and one...

   Seven and twelve years ago, I measured what the most supported MIME type in Debian was, first by analysing the desktop files in all packages in the archive, then by analysing the DEP AppStream data set. I guess it is time to repeat the measurement, only for unstable as last time: Debian...

   Hi This issue was quite puzzling, so I’m sharing how we investigated this issue. I hope it can be useful for you. My client informed me that he was no longer able to install new instances of his application. k s showed that only some pods could not be created, only the ones that created...

   What is HMAC HMAC stands for Hash Based Message Authentication Code. It’s a specific way to use a cryptographic hash function like SHA, SHA , etc. along with a secret key to produce a unique fingerprint of some data. This fingerprint allows someone else with the same key to verify that...

   A feature of systemd is the ability to reduce the access that daemons have to the system. The restrictions include access to certain directories, system calls, capabilities, and more. The systemd.exec man page describes them all . To see an overview of the security of daemons run systemd...

   The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version . This version includes the following changes: Chris Lamb Validate css command line argument. Thanks to Daniel Schmidt SRLabs for the report. Closes: Prevent XML entity expansion attacks...

   Due to circumstances: sshcont: ssh daemon that starts and enters a throwaway docker container for testing

   It’s been years since I created auto cpufreq. Today, it has over stars on GitHub, attracting contributors, releasing versions, and reaching what...

   I’ve always been a fan of template engines that work with text files, mainly to work with static site generators, but also to generate code, configuration files, and other text based files. For my own web projects I used to go with Jinja , as all my projects were written in Python, while for static...

   A new minor release of RcppFastFloat just arrived on CRAN. The package wraps fast float, another nice library by Daniel Lemire. For details, see the arXiv preprint or published paper showing that one can convert character representations of numbers’ into floating point at rates at or exceeding...

   The new years starts with a FAI release. FAI . . is available and contains many small improvements. A new feature is that the command fai cd can now create ISOs for the ARM architecture. The FAIme service uses the newest FAI version and the Debian most recent point release . . The FAI CD...

   A new maintenance release . . of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN earlier today, about one year after the previous update. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers ProtoBuf data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed very widely in...

   Another year of data from Société de Transport de Montréal, Montreal’s transit agency A few highlights this year: The closure of the Saint Michel station had a drastic impact on D’Iberville, the station closest to it. The opening of the Royalmount shopping center nearly doubled the traffic ...

   Since Dec , there is a compatibility issue with linux image . and nvidia driver . . . nvidia driver: crash in drm open helper on Linux . . Debian Bug report logs It seems that the upstream was already fixed this issue in newer release, but not available yet on Debian...

   Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In December, contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Abhijith PA did . h out of . h assigned . Adrian Bunk did . h out of . h assigned...

   Hey everyone It’s Divine Attah Ohiemi here, and I’m excited to share what I’ve been up to in my internship with the Debian community. It’s been a month since I began this journey, and if you’re thinking about applying for Outreachy, let me give you a glimpse into my project and the amazing people...

   Last year, I analyzed the popularity of build backends used in pyproject.toml files over time. This post is the update for . Analysis Like last year, I’m using Tom Forbes’ fantastic dataset containing information about every file within every release uploaded to PyPI. To get the current dataset...

   I have a self hosted XMPP chat server through Prosody. Earlier, I struggled with certificate renewal and generation for Prosody because I have Nginx and a bunch of other services running on the same server which binds to Port . Due to this, Certbot wasn’t able to auto renew through HTTP...

   We’re part way through the testing of release media. RattusRattus, Isy, Sledge, smcv and Helen in Cambridge, a new tester Blew in Manchester, another new tester MerCury m and also highvoltage in South Africa.Everything is going well so far and we’re chasing through the test schedule.Sorry not to...

   The LinuxCNC project is trotting along. And I believe this great software system for numerical control of machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma cutters, routers, cutting machines, robots and hexapods, would do even better with more in person developer gatherings, so we plan to organise...

   On recent weeks I’ve had some time to scratch my own itch on matters related to tools I use daily on my computer, namely the desktop window manager and my text editor of choice. This post is a summary of what I tried, how it worked out and my short and medium term plans related to them. Desktop ...

   Posted on January , Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:painting, medium:acrylic A few days ago I wanted to paint, but I didn’t know what to paint, so I did a few more colour tests to find out which green combinations I can get out of the...

   I was very sad to hear that Steve Langasek, aka vorlon, has passed away from cancer. I hadn’t talked to him in many years, but I did meet him at Debconf a couple of times, and more importantly: I was there when he was Release Manager for Debian. Steve stepped up as one of the RMs at a point where...

   I have released more core snaps to edge for your testing pleasure. If you find any bugs please report them at bugs.kde.org and assign them to me. Thanks Kdenlive our amazing video editor Moved to core . Fixed icon missing bug https: bugs.kde.org show bug.cgi id ...

   Welcome to the December report from the Reproducible Builds project Our monthly reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month and highlight items of news from elsewhere in the world of software supply chain security when relevant. As ever, however, if you are interested in...

   Debian Contributions: 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 subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services. Tracker.debian...

   Posted on January , Tags: madeof:bits Some time ago I installed minidlna on our media server: it was pretty easy to do, but quite limited in its support for the formats I use most, so I ended up using other solutions such as mounting the...

   In light of this week’s announcement by Meta Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc , I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech oriented And, more to the point, why an I...

   If you go on reddit.com via browser, on the left column you can see a section called RECENT with the list of the last communities recently visited.If you want to remove them, say for privacy reasons shared device, etc. , there’s no simple way to do so: there’s not X button next to it, your...

   These days it’s straightforward to have reasonably secure, automatic decryption of your root filesystem at boot time on Debian . Here’s how I did it on an existing system which already had a stock kernel, secure boot enabled, grub and an encrypted root filesystem with the passphrase in key slot...

   Debian LTS This was my hundred twenty sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. I worked on updates for ffmpeg and haproxy in all releases. Along the way I marked more CVEs as not affected than I had to fix. So finally there was...

   I upgraded to Debian testing trixie, and my network printer stopped appearing in print dialogs. These are notes from the debugging session. Check firewall configuration I tried out kde, which installed plasma firewall, which installed firewalld, which closed by default the ports used for printing....

   Hi The file fill.copyright.blanks.yml is used to fill missing copyright information when running cme update dpkg copyright. This file can contain a comment field that is used for book keeping. Here’s an example from libuv : README.md: comment: the license from this file is used as a...

   I tailed off on blog posts towards the end of the year; I blame a bunch of travel personal business , catching the flu, then December being its usual busy self. Anyway, to try and start off the year a bit better I thought I’d do my annual recap of my Free Software activities. For previous...

   I use borg and restic to backup files in my system. Sometimes I run a huge download or clone a large git repo and forget to mark it with CACHEDIR.TAG, and it gets picked up slowing the backup process and wasting backup space uselessly. I would like to occasionally audit the system to have an idea...

   Fixed okular pdf printing https: bugs.kde.org show bug.cgi id Fixed kwave recording https: bugs.kde.org show bug.cgi id please run sudo snap connect kwave:audio record :audio record until auto connect gets approved here: https: forum.snapcraft.io t kde auto connect our two...