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Steinar H. Gunderson: Some demoparty stream firsts
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-05-24-15-08_some_demoparty_stream_firsts.html
Published: May 24, 2025 13:30
A discussion the other day made me remember some of the demoparty stream “first” that I'm still proud of, most of which still haven't been matched: Live voting user counts during the compo (example, at the bottom). A combination of gamification and…
Julian Andres Klode: A SomewhatMaxSAT Solver
https://blog.jak-linux.org/2025/05/24/somewhatmax-sat-solver/
Published: May 24, 2025 10:14
As you may recall from previous posts and elsewhere I have been busy writing a new solver for APT. Today I want to share some of the latest changes in how to approach solving. The idea for the solver was that manually installed packages are always…
Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (March and April 2025)
https://bits.debian.org/2025/05/new-developers-2025-05.html
Published: May 24, 2025 07:30
Status: published The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Moritz Schlarb (moschlar) Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior (cipriano) Mario Anthony Limonciello (superm1) The following contributor was added as…
Yves-Alexis Perez: strongSwan autopkgtests
http://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1613
Published: May 23, 2025 14:49
For a while, the strongSwan Debian package had an autopktest. The initial version was proposed by Christian Ehrhardt in 2016 (presumably especially for downstream use in Ubuntu) and updated in 2019, but since then not much at least in Debian. With the…
Sven Hoexter: pflogsumm 1.1.6
http://sven.stormbind.net/blog/posts/deb_pflogsum_116_experimental/
Published: May 23, 2025 11:52
Mainly relevant for the few who still run their own mail server and use Postfix + pflogsumm. Few weeks back Jim contacted me that he's going to pick up work on pflogsumm again, and as first step wanted to release 1.1.6 to incorporate patches from the…
Simon Quigley: Bootstrapping and Bikeshedding
Published: May 22, 2025 15:03
When you learn to write, one of the major pieces is writing an introduction. You could say quite a bit about the formal process and the way formal writing is typically structured.That being said, I’m not your typical writer. I didn’t exactly plan to be in…
Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 14.4.3-1 on CRAN: Small Upstream Bug Fix
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/05/22#rcpparmadillo_14.4.3-1
Published: May 22, 2025 13:19
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…
Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Application Snaps 25.04.1 with Major Bug Fix!,Life ( Good news finally!)
Published: May 22, 2025 12:49
Snaps! I actually released last week I haven’t had time to blog, but today is my birthday and taking some time to myself!This release came with a major bugfix. As it turns out our applications were very crashy on non-KDE…
Simon Quigley: Motivation and Perseverance
https://medium.com/@tsimonq2/motivation-and-perseverance-10ba0e2d4b14?source=rss-abe8950a00ea------2
Published: May 22, 2025 11:13
First off, my members-only post is much happier. Members-only posts continue until “open source Medium” becomes available. Don’t worry, if you write to me privately, I can give you a copy on request.Here are a few donuts for…
Simon Quigley: Just donuts, I promise!
https://medium.com/@tsimonq2/just-donuts-i-promise-23a59e547fc1?source=rss-abe8950a00ea------2
Published: May 22, 2025 10:12
Hey folks! Ope, you might need the Midwest Voice Translator on this one. Read this one in a heavy Midwest accent, and tell your folks I…Continue reading on Medium »
Simon Quigley: Fences and Values
https://medium.com/@tsimonq2/fences-and-values-03d7ae4d2f79?source=rss-abe8950a00ea------2
Published: May 21, 2025 19:47
“Don’t knock the fence down before you know why it’s up.” I repeat this phrase over and over again, yet the (metaphorical) Homeowner’s Association still decides my fence is the wrong color.Well, now you get to know why the fence is up. If anyone’s actually…
Simon Quigley: Loose Cannons and Orwellian Tactics
Published: May 21, 2025 14:13
I’d like to start this post by saying that I am indeed well. I’ve thought so from the very beginning, and it’s been confirmed by professionals as such. That being said, there is still this perception that people are still believing the other person that…
Russell Coker: Digital Sovereignty and Email
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/05/21/digital-sovereignty-and-email/
Published: May 21, 2025 08:11
Running Your Own Email Srever I run my own mail server. I have run it since about 1995, initially on a 28k8 modem connection but the connection improved as technology became cheaper and now I’m running it on a VM on a Hetzner server which is also running…
Simon Quigley: AI and what it actually means
Published: May 21, 2025 06:22
A popular topic of public conversation in 2025 is balance. How do we balance budgets, how do we balance entities, and how do we balance perspectives? How do we balance the right of free expression with our ability to effectively convey a message?Here’s…
Arturo Borrero González: Wikimedia Cloud VPS: IPv6 support
https://ral-arturo.org/2025/05/20/wmcs-ipv6.html
Published: May 20, 2025 13:00
Dietmar Rabich, Cape Town (ZA), Sea Point, Nachtansicht — 2024 — 1867-70 – 2, CC BY-SA 4.0 This post was originally published in the Wikimedia Tech blog, authored by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez. Wikimedia Cloud VPS is a service offered by the Wikimedia…
Simon Quigley: Donuts and 5-Star Restaurants
Published: May 20, 2025 12:57
In my home state of Wisconsin, there is an incredibly popular gas station called Kwik Trip. (Not to be confused with Quik Trip.) It is legitimately one of the best gas stations I’ve ever been to, and I’m a frequent customer.What makes it that great?Well,…
Melissa Wen: A Look at the Latest Linux KMS Color API Developments on AMD and Intel
https://melissawen.github.io/blog/2025/05/19/drm-info-with-kms-color-api
Published: May 19, 2025 21:05
This week, I reviewed the last available version of the Linux KMS Color API. Specifically, I explored the proposed API by Harry Wentland and Alex Hung (AMD), their implementation for the AMD display driver and tracked the parallel efforts of Uma Shankar…
Simon Quigley: Coffee and Adapting to your Environment
Published: May 19, 2025 12:30
This morning, I went to make my usual cup of coffee. I was given an espresso machine for Christmas, and I’ve developed this technique for making a warm drink that hits the spot every time.I’ll start by turning on my espresso machine and starting a single…
Simon Quigley: Toolboxes and Hammers — Be You
Published: May 19, 2025 04:03
Toolboxes and Hammers — Be YouEveryone has a story. We all started from somewhere, and we’re all going somewhere.Ten years ago this summer, I first heard of Ubuntu. It took me time to learn how to properly pronounce the word, although I’m glad I learned…
Andrew Cater: Debian 12.11 - testing completed, images being signed and we'll be back for the next point release on ???
http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/debian-1211-testing-completed-images.html
Published: May 17, 2025 18:00
All finished and wrapping up. The bug I thought was fixed has been identified on two distinct sets of hardware. There are workarounds: the most sensible is *not* to use i386 without a modeset parameter but to just use amd64 instead. amd64 works on the…
Andrew Cater: Debian 12.11 testing - and we're nearly there
http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/debian-1211-testing-and-were-nearly.html
Published: May 17, 2025 15:31
Almost finished the testing we're going to do at 15:29 UTC. It's all been good - we've found that at least one of the major bug reports from 12.10 is not reproducible now. All good - and many thanks to all testers: Sledge, rattusrattus, egw, smcv (and me).
Russell Coker: DDR4 RAM Size
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/05/18/ddr4-ram-size/
Published: May 17, 2025 15:29
I’ve been looking at computer hardware on AliExpress a lot recently and I saw an advert for a motherboard which can take 256G DDR4 RDIMMs (presumably LRDIMMs). Most web pages about DDR4 state that 128G is the largest possible. The Wikipedia page for DDR4…
Andrew Cater: Debian 12.11 images testing - progress
http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/debian-1211-images-testing-progress.html
Published: May 17, 2025 13:10
We're now well under way: Been joined by a Simon McVittie (smcv) and we're almost through testing most of the standard images. Live image testing is being worked through. All good so far without identifying problems other than mistyping :)
John Goerzen: How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10815-how-to-use-ssh-with-fido2-u2f-security-keys
Published: May 17, 2025 12:53
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was…
Andrew Cater: 20250517 - Debian point release - Bookworm 12.11 today
http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/20250517-debian-point-release-bookworm.html
Published: May 17, 2025 11:51
In Cottenham with Andy and the usual suspects. The point release update files are already on the servers - anyone can do an "apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade" and update any running machine. This machine has just been upgraded and "just worked".Here…
Daniel Lange: Polkitd (Policy Kit Daemon) in Trixie ... getting rid of "Authentication is required to create a color profile"
Published: May 17, 2025 10:09
On the way to Trixie, polkitd (Policy Kit Daemon) has lost the functionality to evaluate its .pkla (Polkit Local Authority) files. $ zcat /usr/share/doc/polkitd/NEWS.Debian.gz policykit-1 (121+compat0.1-2) experimental; urgency=medium This version of…
Michael Prokop: Grml 2025.05 – codename Nudlaug
https://michael-prokop.at/blog/2025/05/16/grml-2025-05-codename-nudlaug/
Published: May 16, 2025 16:42
Debian hard freeze on 2025-05-15? We bring you a new Grml release on top of that! 2025.05 🚀 – codename Nudlaug. There’s plenty of new stuff, check out our official release announcement for all the details. But I’d like to highlight one feature that I…
Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 296 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-296-released/
Published: May 16, 2025 00:00
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 296. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Don't rely on zipdetails' --walk functionality to be available; only add that argument after testing…
Yves-Alexis Perez: New laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad X13 Gen 5
http://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1612
Published: May 15, 2025 20:19
After more than ten years on my trusted X250, and with a lot of financial help for Debian (which I really thank, more on that later), I finally jumped on a new ThinkPad, an X13 Gen 5. The migration path was really easy: I'm doing daily backups with borg of…