Shirish Agarwal: RISC, Chips Act, Burning of Books
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/07/19/risc-chips-act-burning-of-books/
July 19, 2023, 1:30 PM
RISC Motherboard, SBC
While I didn’t want to, a part of me is hyped about this motherboard. This would probably be launched somewhere in November. There are obvious issues in this, the first being unlike regular motherboards you wouldn’t be upgrade as you would do.You can’t upgrade your memory, can’t upgrade the CPU (although new versions of instructions could be uploaded, similar to BIOS updates) but as the hardware is integrated (the quad-core SiFive Performance P550 core complex) i...
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Ian Jackson: Installing Debian bookworm without systemd
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/15336.html
July 19, 2023, 1:26 PM
Instructions
Get the official installation image from the usual locations. I got the netinst CD image via BitTorrent.
Boot from the image and go through the installation in the normal way.
You may want to select an alternative desktop environment (and unselect GNOME). These steps have been tested with MATE.
Stop when you are asked to remove the installation media and reboot.
Press Alt + Right arrow to switch to the text VC. Hit return to activate the console and run the following commands (an...
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Sergio Talens-Oliag: Testing cilium with k3d and kind
https://blogops.mixinet.net/posts/testing_cilium_with_k3d_and_kind/
July 18, 2023, 5:00 PM
This post describes how to deploy cilium (and
hubble) using docker on a Linux system with
k3d or kind to test it as
CNI and
Service Mesh.
I wrote some scripts to do a local installation and evaluate cilium to use it
at work (in fact we are using cilium on an EKS
cluster now), but I thought it would be a good idea to share my original
scripts in this blog just in case they are useful to somebody, at least for
playing a little with the technology.
LinksAs there is no point on explaining here all t...
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Jamie McClelland: What am I missing about AI?
https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2023/what-am-i-missing/
July 18, 2023, 12:27 PM
Last month I blogged about how the mainstream
media is focusing on the wrong parts of the Artificial Intelligence/ChatGPT
story.
One of the comments left on the post was:
I encourage you to dig a little deeper. If LLM’s were just probability
machines, no one would be raising any flags.
Hinton, Bengio, Tegmark and many others are not simpletons. It is the fact that
the architecture and specific training (deep NN, back prop / gradient descend)
produces a system with emergent properties, beyond ...
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Jonathan Dowland: Bea's 3D printer
https://jmtd.net/log/bea_printer/
July 18, 2023, 9:50 AM
My daughter Beatrice asked for me to print her a 3D printer.

Bea's 3D printer
Most of the model is from https://www.printables.com/model/355917-miniature-3d-printer-model-toy,
and the unicorn is from https://www.printables.com/model/385926-unicorn....
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Lukas Märdian: A declarative approach to Linux networking with Netplan
https://blog.slyon.de/2023/07/18/a-declarative-approach-to-linux-networking-with-netplan/
July 18, 2023, 9:15 AM
Photo by Taylor Vick (Unsplash)
Linux networking can be confusing due to the wide range of technology stacks and tools in use, in addition to the complexity of the surrounding network environment. The configuration of bridges, bonds, VRFs or routes can be done programmatically, declaratively, manually or with automated with tools like ifupdown, ifupdown2, ifupdown-ng, iproute2, NetworkManager, systemd-networkd and others. Each  of these tools use different formats and locations to store thei...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Legends & Lattes
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-250-88609-0.html
July 18, 2023, 4:34 AM
Review: Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree

Series:
Legends & Lattes #1


Publisher:
Tor


Copyright:
2022


ISBN:
1-250-88609-0


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
293

Legends & Lattes is a sword and sorcery fantasy novel of the
RPG-inspired, post-Dungeons-and-Dragons subtype. It was Travis
Baldree's first novel.
Viv is an orc, the heavy muscle for a roving band of adventurers who take
jobs for hire in a way fam...
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Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in June 2023
https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/foss-activity-in-june-2023.html
July 17, 2023, 8:52 PM
I uploaded
sgt-puzzles to unstable. This brought in the new upstream
version previously in experimental. I incorporated an updated
German translation from Helge Kreutzmann, and made translation
updates less tricky to do.


I made some changes to the nfs-utils package:


Completed
the transition from setting command-line options
in /etc/default to /etc/nfs.conf.d.


Made
its shell scripts shellcheck-clean and added shellcheck to
CI. (Than...
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Shirish Agarwal: WordPress Cookies, Debdelta, RISC, Manipur, Libraries in Kerala.
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/07/17/wordpress-cookies-debdelta-risc-manipur-libraries-in-kerala/
July 17, 2023, 12:20 PM
WordPress Cookies, Debdelta
One of the most irritating things about WordPress is whenever I start a firefox session, WordPress aks for cookie selection. I make my choices but it’s not persistent. The next session the same thing happens again. It does keep my identity but for some unknown reason doesn’t respect the Cookie selection. I usually use Firefox ESR (102.13.0esr-1) on Testing.
Also, for more than a week I have found debdelta not working as it should. To give a brief history, t...
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Russ Allbery: Review: The Unkindest Tide
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-7564-1255-2.html
July 17, 2023, 2:57 AM
Review: The Unkindest Tide, by Seanan McGuire

Series:
October Daye #13


Publisher:
DAW


Copyright:
2019


ISBN:
0-7564-1255-2


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
355

This is the 13th book in the long-running October Daye urban fantasy
series. There is a strong series arc and a plot that builds on previous
books, so this is a series with both significant spoilers and significant
confusion if read out of order. The Unkindest T...
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Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, June 2023 (by Roberto C. Sánchez)
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2023-06/
July 15, 2023, 12:00 AM
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.
Debian LTS contributors
In June, 17 contributors have been paid to work on Debian
LTS, their reports are available:
Abhijith PA
did 12.0h (out of 6.0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 2.0h to the next month.
Adrian Bunk
did 28.0h (out of 0h assigned and 34.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 6.5h to the next month.
Anton Gladky
did 5.0h (out of 6.0h assigned and 9.0h from pre...
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Aurelien Jarno: Goodbye Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
https://blog.aurel32.net/goodbye-kfreebsd.html
July 14, 2023, 4:14 PM
Over the years, the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
port has gone through various
phases. After many years of development, it was released as technology
preview with the release of
Squeeze and eventually became an
official architecture with the release of
Wheezy. However it ceased being an
official architecture a couple of years later with the release of Jessie,
although a
jessie-kfreebsd
suite was available in the official archive. Some years later, it was moved to
the debian-ports
archive, where it
slowl...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 244 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-244-released/
July 14, 2023, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 244. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Address compatibility with python-libarchive-c version 5.
(Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#344)
* Testsuite changes:
- Mark that test_dex::test_javap_14_differences requires procyon.
- Fix "test skipped" textual reason generation in the case of a required
version being outside of the required range.
- Temporarily mark some And...
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Emmanuel Kasper: Debian 11 to Debian 12 (Bookworm) Upgrade Report
https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2023/07/13/debian-11-to-debian-12-bookworm-upgrade-report/
July 13, 2023, 7:30 PM
Laptop + Workstation
My workstation was initially installed with Debian 8 back in the day, so I might have carried a lot of configuration cruft.
Indeed. I followed the recommended upgrades documentation (apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs followed by apt full-upgrade).
And when executing apt full-upgrade I had the following error:
Preparing to unpack .../71-python3-numpy_1%3a1.24.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking python3-numpy (1:1.24.2-1) over (1:1.19.5-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpk...
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Junichi Uekawa: Spent 2 hours migrating my chrome extension to manifest v3.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2023-Jul-13.html.en#2023-Jul-13-17:54:23
July 13, 2023, 8:54 AM
Spent 2 hours migrating my chrome extension to manifest v3.
Two parts that didn't make sense at first, browser_action to action migration, and executeScript.
First, browser_action to action manifest change was straightforward. However it didn't occur to me that I had to rewrite chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener to chrome.action.onClicked.addListener. It doesn't say anything on the web page, well maybe the less than equal to MV2. If you deprecate something please say what you repla...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in June 2023
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2023-06/
July 12, 2023, 1:17 PM
Welcome to the June 2023 report from the Reproducible Builds project
In our reports, we outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As always, if you are interested in contributing to the project, please visit our Contribute page on our website.
We are very happy to announce the upcoming Reproducible Builds Summit which set to take place from October 31st — November 2nd 2023, in the vibrant city of Hamburg, Germany.
Our summits are a unique gathering...
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Matt Brown: 2023 Mid Year Review
https://www.mattb.nz/w/2023/07/13/2023-mid-year-review/
July 12, 2023, 12:44 PM
I’m six months into my journey of building a business which means its time to reflect and review the goals I set for the year.
No further investment in co2mon.nz
In March I made the decision to focus on completing the market research for co2mon.nz. The results of that research led to two key conclusions:
Indoor air quality/ventilation is not a problem many people are actively thinking about or looking to spend money to improve.
Even when introduced to the problem and educated about the need, ...
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Jonathan Carter: Debian 12
https://jonathancarter.org/2023/07/12/debian-12/
July 12, 2023, 11:04 AM
Last month, the Debian project released Debian 12, with the usual low-key fanfare that Debian usually announces a release with. Even though we shipped with some bugs we’d rather not have (which are at least fixable over the next point releases), the feedback for Debian 12 has been nothing short of overwhelmingly good. From users to the independent Linux blogs to the YouTubers to the tech news sites, the vast majority of feedback so far is that it’s not just one of Debian’s most important r...
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John Goerzen: Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10535-backing-up-and-archiving-to-removable-media-dar-vs-git-annex
July 12, 2023, 1:53 AM
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts:
In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and git-annex were my leading options.
In part 2, I took a deep dive into git-annex and simulated using it for this project.
In part 3, I did the same with dar.
And in this part, I want to put it together to come up with an initia...
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Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: /usr-merge updates, DebConf Bursary prep, and more! (by Utkarsh Gupta)
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-06-2023/
July 12, 2023, 12:00 AM
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.
/usr-merge, by Helmut Grohne, et al
The work on /usr-merge continues from
May. The lengthy
discussion was condensed into a still lengthy
rewrite of DEP17 listing all known
problems and proposed mitigations. An initial
consensus call
did not reso...
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Simon Josefsson: Coping with non-free Debian
https://blog.josefsson.org/2023/07/11/coping-with-non-free-debian/
July 11, 2023, 1:27 PM
A personal reflection on how I moved from my Debian home to find two new homes with Trisquel and Guix for my own ethical computing, and while doing so settled my dilemma about further Debian contributions.
Debian‘s contributions to the free software community has been tremendous. Debian was one of the early distributions in the 1990’s that combined the GNU tools (compiler, linker, shell, editor, and a set of Unix tools) with the Linux kernel and published a free software operating system...
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Matthew Garrett: Roots of Trust are difficult
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66907.html
July 11, 2023, 7:58 AM
The phrase "Root of Trust" turns up at various points in discussions about verified boot and measured boot, and to a first approximation nobody is able to give you a coherent explanation of what it means[1]. The Trusted Computing Group has a fairly wordy definition, but (a) it's a lot of words and (b) I don't like it, so instead I'm going to start by defining a root of trust as "A thing that has to be trustworthy for anything else on your computer to be trustworthy".(An aside: when I say "trustw...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.14 on CRAN: Upstream Update
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/07/10#rcppspdlog_0.0.14
July 11, 2023, 1:11 AM
Version 0.0.14 of RcppSpdlog is now
on CRAN and has just been
uploaded to Debian. RcppSpdlog
bundles spdlog, a
wonderful header-only C++ logging library with all the bells and
whistles you would want that was written by Gabi Melman, and also includes fmt by Victor Zverovich. You can learn
more at the nice package
documention site.
This release simply brings an update to the just release spdlog 1.12.0 from a few
days ago.
The NEWS entry for this release follows.
Changes in
RcppSpdlog version 0.0...
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Shirish Agarwal: PLIO, Mum, Debconf, Pressure Cooker, RISC-V,
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2023/07/10/plio-mum-debconf-pressure-cooker-risc-v/
July 10, 2023, 3:54 PM
PLIO
I have been looking for an image viewer that can view images via modification date by default. The newer, the better. Alas, most of the image viewers do not do that. Even feh somehow fails. What I need is default listing of images as thumbnails by modification date. I put it up on Unix Stackexchange couple of years ago. Somebody shared ristretto but that just gives listing and doesn’t give the way I want it. To be more illustrative, maybe this may serve as a guide to what I mean.
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Lukas Märdian: Netplan and systemd-networkd on Debian Bookworm
https://blog.slyon.de/2023/07/10/netplan-and-systemd-networkd-on-debian-bookworm/
July 10, 2023, 9:44 AM
Debian’s cloud-images are using systemd-networkd as their default network stack in Bookworm. A slim and feature rich networking daemon that comes included with Systemd itself. Debian’s cloud-images are deploying Netplan on top of this as an easy-to-use, declarative control layer.
If you want to experiment with systemd-networkd and Netplan on Debian, this can be done easily in QEMU using the official images. To start, you need to download the relevant .qcow2 Debian cloud-image from: https:...
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Michael Ablassmeier: Java timezone sheanigans
https://abbbi.github.io//timezone/
July 10, 2023, 12:00 AM
While running CI tests for a application that is implemented in C and Java,
some configuration scripts set the current timezone. The C implemented parts
catch the change just nicely, but the java related parts still report the
default image timezone.
A simple example:
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
class simpleTest
{
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