Russ Allbery: Review: Shutdown
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-593-29756-3.html
December 21, 2022, 4:58 AM
Review: Shutdown, by Adam Tooze

Publisher:
Viking


Copyright:
September 2021


ISBN:
0-593-29756-3


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
305

Shutdown is a history of the world macroeconomic response to
COVID-19, covering 2020 and the very beginning of 2021.
But wait, you might be saying. It's only the end of 2022 right now, and
this book was published in September of 2021. That's not history, that's
journalism. And yes, I think that's ...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppDE 0.1.7 on CRAN: Several Updates
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/12/20#rcppde_0.1.7
December 21, 2022, 12:27 AM
The first fresh release of our RcppDE package in over four years (!!) is now on CRAN.
RcppDE is a “port” of DEoptim, a popular package for derivative-free optimisation using differential evolution optimization, from plain C to C++. By using RcppArmadillo the code becomes a lot shorter and more legible. Our other main contribution is to leverage some of the excellence we get for free from using Rcpp, in particular the ability to optimise user-supplied compiled objective functions which can ma...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Tess of the Road
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-101-93130-2.html
December 20, 2022, 4:19 AM
Review: Tess of the Road, by Rachel Hartman

Series:
Tess of the Road #1


Publisher:
Random House


Copyright:
2018


Printing:
2022


ISBN:
1-101-93130-2


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
536

Tess of the Road is the first book of a YA fantasy duology set in
the same universe as Seraphina and
Shadow Scale.
It's hard to decide what to say about reading order (and I now appreciate
the ambiguous answers I got). Te...
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Ian Jackson: Rust for the Polyglot Programmer, December 2022 edition
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/13884.html
December 20, 2022, 1:47 AM
I have reviewed, updated and revised my short book about the Rust programming language, Rust for the Polyglot Programmer.
It now covers some language improvements from the past year (noting which versions of Rust they’re available in), and has been updated for changes in the Rust library ecosystem.
With (further) assistance from Mark Wooding, there is also a new table of recommendations for numerical conversion.
Recap about Rust for the Polyglot Programmer
There are many introductory materials...
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Freexian Collaborators: Recent improvements to Tryton's Debian Packaging (by Mathias Behrle and Raphaël Hertzog)
https://www.freexian.com/blog/tryton-funded-projects/
December 20, 2022, 12:00 AM
Foreword
Freexian has been using Tryton for a few years
to handle its invoicing and accounting. We have thus also been using
the Debian packages maintained by Mathias
Behrle and
we have been funding some of his work because maintaining an ERP with more
than 50 source packages was too much for him to handle alone on his free
time.
When Mathias discovered our Project
Funding
initiative, it was quite natural for him to consider applying to be able
to bring some much needed improvements to Tryton’...
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 229 released
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-229-released/
December 20, 2022, 12:00 AM
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 229. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Skip test_html.py::test_diff if html2text is not installed.
(Closes: #1026034)
[ Holger Levsen ]
* Bump standards version to 4.6.2, no changes needed.
You find out more by visiting the project homepage....
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Simon Josefsson: Second impressions of Guix 1.4
https://blog.josefsson.org/2022/12/19/second-impressions-of-guix-1-4/
December 19, 2022, 9:38 PM
While my first impression of Guix 1.4rc2 on NV41PZ was only days ago, the final Guix 1.4 release has happened. I thought I should give it a second try, although being at my summer house with no wired ethernet I realized this may be overly optimistic. However I am happy to say that a guided graphical installation on my new laptop went smooth without any problem. Practicing OS installations has a tendency to make problems disappear.
My WiFi issues last time was probably due to a user interfac...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Artifact Space
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-4732-3262-7.html
December 19, 2022, 4:14 AM
Review: Artifact Space, by Miles Cameron

Series:
Arcana Imperii #1


Publisher:
Gollancz


Copyright:
June 2021


ISBN:
1-4732-3262-7


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
483

Artifact Space is a military (mostly) science fiction novel, the
first of an expected trilogy. Christian Cameron is a prolific author of
historical fiction under that name, thrillers under the name Gordon Kent,
and historical fantasy under the name Miles Ca...
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Ian Jackson: Rust needs #[throws]
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/13657.html
December 18, 2022, 11:27 PM
tl;dr:
Ok-wrapping as needed in today’s Rust is a significant distraction, because there are multiple ways to do it. They are all slightly awkward in different ways, so are least-bad in different situations. You must choose a way for every fallible function, and sometimes change a function from one pattern to another.
Rust really needs #[throws] as a first-class language feature. Code using #[throws] is simpler and clearer.
Please try out withoutboats’s fehler. I think you will like it.
Cont...
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Bastian Venthur: The State of Python Packaging in 2022
https://venthur.de/2022-12-18-python-packaging.html
December 18, 2022, 6:15 PM
Every year or so, I revisit the current best practices for Python packaging.
This was my summary for 2021 – here’s the update for 2022.
PyPA
PyPA is still the place to go for information, best practices and tutorials
for packaging Python projects. My only criticism from last year, namely that
PyPA was heavily biased towards their own tooling (e.g. pipenv), has been
addressed: the tool recommendations section lists now several tools
for the same purpose with their own ones not necessarily bei...
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Russell Coker: Wall Facers
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/12/18/wall-facers/
December 18, 2022, 11:13 AM
I’m currently reading the second book of the TriSolar Sci-Fi series by Cixin Liu, I’ve only just started it so this post can’t have spoilers for it and I will also only have minimal spoilers for the first book (nothing more than you will get from pop culture references to it).
In the second book there are people called “Wall Facers” who have broad powers to shape the course of the Human response to an alien invasion in 400+ years time. The idea is that as the aliens have an ability to ...
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Matthew Garrett: Off Twitter for a bit
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/63632.html
December 18, 2022, 3:25 AM
Turns out that linking to several days old public data in order to demonstrate that Elon's jet was broadcasting its tail number in the clear is apparently "posting private information" so for anyone looking for me there I'm actually here comments...
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Charles Plessy: Bad words in Debian.
http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debi%C3%A2neries/grosmot/
December 16, 2022, 1:00 PM
A discussion on the debian-project mailing list caught my attention to an
Italian word meaning something like “would you be so kind to please go
somewhere else?”, but in a more direct and vulgar manner. I then used
http://codesearch.debian.net to study its usage more in detail.
I found it in:
the source code of XEmacs;
a list of bad words to filter conversations in BZflag;
the random sentence generator PolyGen;
the source code of the board game Tagua;
a database of offensive fortunes for ...
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Simon Josefsson: Guix 1.4 on NV41PZ
https://blog.josefsson.org/2022/12/16/guix-1-4-on-nv41pz/
December 16, 2022, 11:09 AM
On the shortlist of things to try on my new laptop has been Guix. I have been using Guix on my rsnapshot-based backup server since 2018, and experimented using it on a second laptop but never on my primary daily work machine. The main difference with Guix for me, compared to Debian (or Trisquel), is that Guix follows a rolling release model, even though they prepare stable versioned installation images once in a while. It seems the trend for operating system software releases is to either fol...
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Reproducible Builds: Supporter spotlight: David A. Wheeler on supply chain security
https://reproducible-builds.org/news/2022/12/15/supporter-spotlight-davidawheeler-supply-chain-security/
December 15, 2022, 12:00 PM
The Reproducible Builds project relies on several projects, supporters and sponsors for financial support, but they are also valued as ambassadors who spread the word about our project and the work that we do.
This is the sixth instalment in a series featuring the projects, companies and individuals who support the Reproducible Builds project. We started this series by featuring the Civil Infrastructure Platform project and followed this up with a post about the Ford Foundation as well as a rec...
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Russell Coker: Pixel 6A
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/12/15/pixel-6a/
December 15, 2022, 11:17 AM
I have just bought a Pixel 6A [1] for my wife. It’s one of the latest Google phones that was released almost at the same time as the Pixel 7 series, so if you want to spend a lot of money on a phone that’s the latest and greatest then the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are the options, but if you want to save some money and don’t need something really high end then the Pixel 6A is a good option.
The one I bought cost $550 when I bought it from Google which seemed like a good deal when it was adve...
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Abhijith PA: Running PostmarketOS on my phone
https://abhijithpa.me/2022/Running-postmarketos-on-my-phone/
December 15, 2022, 9:53 AM
Couple of weeks back I installed PostmarketOS on my idle phone Leeco Le 1s , which was paper weight for
some time now.
It all started with a roadtrip to Pondicherry (I will soon write about
this trip). As I was sitting on the front seat where Praveen’s Librem
5 kept charing on the car dashboard. And we had a small discussion
about
PostmarketOS and how much new ports are available now.
My idle phone came to my mind. After reaching home I started
setting up porting pmOS to this device....
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: spdl 0.0.3 on CRAN: Adding File Logger
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/12/14#spdl_0.0.3
December 15, 2022, 12:00 AM
A second update to the still-new package spdl is now om CRAN, and in Debian. The key focus of spdl is a offering the same interface from both R and C++ for logging by relying on spdlog via my RcppSpdlog package.
This release add support for a simple filesetup() initialiser to direct logging output to a file. For now the console logger and the file logger are exclusive, if there is interest we could borrow a page from upstream and combine them.
The short NEWS entry follows.
Changes in spld versi...
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Russ Allbery: Review: Contact
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-671-43422-5.html
December 14, 2022, 4:21 AM
Review: Contact, by Carl Sagan

Publisher:
Pocket Books


Copyright:
1985


Printing:
October 1986


ISBN:
0-671-43422-5


Format:
Mass market


Pages:
434

Contact is a standalone first-contact science fiction novel. Carl
Sagan (1934–1996) was best known as a non-fiction writer, astronomer, and
narrator of the PBS non-fiction program Cosmos. This is his first
and only novel.
Ellie Arroway is the director of Proje...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.11 on CRAN: Small Enhancement
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/12/13#rcppspdlog_0.0.11
December 13, 2022, 11:53 PM
Version 0.0.11 of RcppSpdlog is now on CRAN and in 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.
This release adds support for a basic file logger as a alternative to the console logger. This can be helpful with code which suppresses or hides console output – as for example unit test code does. We also expose the formatting helper function ...
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Matthew Garrett: Trying to remove the need to trust cloud providers
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/63261.html
December 13, 2022, 9:19 PM
First up: what I'm covering here is probably not relevant for most people. That's ok! Different situations have different threat models, and if what I'm talking about here doesn't feel like you have to worry about it, that's great! Your life is easier as a result. But I have worked in situations where we had to care about some of the scenarios I'm going to describe here, and the technologies I'm going to talk about here solve a bunch of these problems.So. You run a typical VM in the cloud. Who h...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: digest 0.6.31 on CRAN: snprintf Update
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/12/12#digest_0.6.31
December 12, 2022, 10:29 PM
Release 0.6.31 of the digest package arrived at CRAN this weekend, and is being uploaded to Debian as well.
digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the md5, sha-1, sha-256, sha-512, crc32, xxhash32, xxhash64, murmur32, spookyhash, and blake3 algorithms) permitting easy comparison of R language objects. It is a mature and widely-used as many tasks may involve caching of objects for which it provides convenient general-purpose hash key generation to quickly identify the various o...
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Jonathan McDowell: Setting up FreshRSS in a subdirectory
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2022/12/setting-up-freshrss-subdirectory.html
December 12, 2022, 7:30 PM
Ever since the demise of Google Reader I have been looking for a suitable replacement RSS reader. In the past I used to use Liferea but that was when I used a single desktop machine; these days I want to be able to read on my phone and multiple machines. I moved to Feedly and it’s been mostly ok, but I’m hitting the limit of feeds available in the free tier, and $72/year is a bit more than I can justify to myself. Especially when I have machines already available to me where I could self hos...
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Matthew Garrett: Quick update on Pluton and Linux
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/63219.html
December 12, 2022, 12:12 PM
I've been ridiculously burned out for a while now but I'm taking the month off to recover and that's giving me an opportunity to catch up on a lot of stuff. This has included me actually writing some code to work with the Pluton in my Thinkpad Z13. I've learned some more stuff in the process, but based on everything I know I'd still say that in its current form Pluton isn't a threat to free software.So, first up: by default on the Z13, Pluton is disabled. It's not obviously exposed to the OS at ...
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Vasudev Kamath: Installing Debian from GRML Live CD
https://copyninja.info/blog/live_install_debian.html
December 12, 2022, 7:05 AM
I had bought a Thinkpad E470 laptop back in 2018 which was lying unused for
quite some time. Recently when I wanted to use it, I found that the keyboard is
not working, especially some keys and after some time the laptop will hang in
Lenovo boot screen. I came back to Bangalore almost after 2 years from my
hometown (WFH due to Covid) and thought it was the right time to get my laptop
back to normal working state. After getting the keyboard replaced I noticed that
1TB HDD is no longer fast enough...
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Russ Allbery: Review: The Unbroken
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-316-54267-9.html
December 12, 2022, 3:50 AM
Review: The Unbroken, by C.L. Clark

Series:
Magic of the Lost #1


Publisher:
Orbit


Copyright:
March 2021


ISBN:
0-316-54267-9


Format:
Kindle


Pages:
490

The Unbroken is the first book of a projected fantasy trilogy. It
is C.L. Clark's first novel.
Lieutenant Touraine is one of the Sands, the derogatory name for the
Balladairan Colonial Brigade. She, like the others of her squad, are
conscript soldiers, kidn...
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Vincent Bernat: Akvorado: a flow collector, enricher, and visualizer
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2022-akvorado-flow-collector
December 11, 2022, 2:10 PM
Earlier this year, we released Akvorado, a flow collector, enricher, and
visualizer. It receives network flows from your routers using either NetFlow
v9, IPFIX, or sFlow. Several pieces of information are added, like
GeoIP and interface names. The flows are exported to Apache Kafka, a
distributed queue, then stored inside ClickHouse, a column-oriented
database. A web frontend is provided to run queries. A live version is
available for you to play.
Akvorado’s web frontend
Several alternatives e...
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Simon Josefsson: Trisquel 11 on NV41PZ: First impressions
https://blog.josefsson.org/2022/12/10/trisquel-11-on-nv41pz-first-impressions/
December 10, 2022, 7:47 PM
My NovaCustom NV41PZ laptop arrived a couple of days ago, and today I had some time to install it. You may want to read about my purchasing decision process first. I expected a rough ride to get it to work, given the number of people claiming that modern laptops can’t run fully free operating systems. I first tried the Trisquel 10 live DVD and it booted fine including network, but the mouse trackpad did not work. Before investigating it, I noticed a forum thread about Trisquel 11 beta3 ima...
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Timo Jyrinki: Running Cockpit inside ALP
http://losca.blogspot.com/2022/12/running-cockpit-inside-alp.html
December 10, 2022, 1:07 PM
(quoted from my other blog at since a new OS might be interesting for many and this is published in separate planets)ALP - The Adaptable Linux Platform – is a new operating system from SUSE to run containerized and virtualized workloads. It is in early prototype phase, but the development is done completely openly so it’s easy to jump in to try it.For this trying out, I used the latest encrypted build – as of the writing, 22.1 – from ALP images. I imported it in virt-manager as a Gene...
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Simon Josefsson: How to complicate buying a laptop
https://blog.josefsson.org/2022/12/10/how-to-complicate-buying-a-laptop/
December 10, 2022, 11:26 AM
I’m about to migrate to a new laptop, having done a brief pre-purchase review of options on Fosstodon and reaching a decision to buy the NovaCustom NV41. Given the rapid launch and decline of Mastodon instances, I thought I’d better summarize my process and conclusion on my self-hosted blog until the fediverse self-hosting situation improves.
Since 2010 my main portable computing device has been the Lenovo X201 that replaced the Dell Precision M65 that I bought in 2006. I have been incre...
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Matthew Garrett: On-device WebAuthn and what makes it hard to do well
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/62746.html
December 10, 2022, 10:41 AM
WebAuthn improves login security a lot by making it significantly harder for a user's credentials to be misused - a WebAuthn token will only respond to a challenge if it's issued by the site a secret was issued to, and in general will only do so if the user provides proof of physical presence[1]. But giving people tokens is tedious and also I have a new laptop which only has USB-C but does have a working fingerprint reader and I hate the aesthetics of the Yubikey 5C Nano, so I've been thinking a...
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John Goerzen: Music Playing: Both Whole-House and Mobile
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10439-music-playing-both-whole-house-and-mobile
December 10, 2022, 12:28 AM
It’s been nearly 8 years since I last made choices about music playing. At the time, I picked Logitech Media Server (LMS, aka Slimserver and Squeezebox server) for whole-house audio and Ampache with the DSub Android app.
It’s time to revisit that approach. Here are the things I’m looking for:
Whole-house audio: a single control point for all the speakers in the house, which are all connected to some form of Linux (Raspberry Pi or x86). The speakers should be reasonably in sync with eac...
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Matthew Garrett: End-to-end encrypted messages need more than libsignal
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/62598.html
December 9, 2022, 6:17 AM
(Disclaimer: I'm not a cryptographer, and I do not claim to be an expert in Signal. I've had this read over by a couple of people who are so with luck there's no egregious errors, but any mistakes here are mine)There are indications that Twitter is working on end-to-end encrypted DMs, likely building on work that was done back in 2018. This made use of libsignal, the reference implementation of the protocol used by the Signal encrypted messaging app. There seems to be a fairly widespread percept...
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Russell Coker: USB-PD and GaN
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/12/09/usb-pd-gan/
December 9, 2022, 2:00 AM
A recent development is cheap Gallium Nitride based power supplies that provide better efficiency in a smaller space than other technologies. Kogan recently had a special on such devices so I decided to try them out with my new Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 5 [1]. Google searches for power supplies for that Thinkpad included results for 30W PSUs which implies that any 30W USB-C PSU should work.
I bought a 30W charger for $10 that can supply 15V/2A or 20V/1.5A on a single USB-C port or 15W on the USB-C ...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: AsioHeaders 1.22.1-2 on CRAN: Small Update
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/12/08#asioheaders_1.22.1-2
December 9, 2022, 12:49 AM
An new minor revision of the AsioHeaders package arrived at CRAN earlier today. Asio provides a cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming. It is also included in Boost – but requires linking when used as part of Boost. This standalone version of Asio is a header-only C++ library which can be used without linking (just like our BH package with parts of Boost).
This minor update avoid use of (v)sprintf which CRAN now flags in r-devel (for all R builds), following the d...
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John Goerzen: Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10435-building-an-asynchronous-internet-optional-instant-messaging-system
December 8, 2022, 9:12 PM
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why.
How do set it up
I’ve talked about most of the pieces here already:
Delta Chat, which is an IM app that uses mail servers (SMTP and IMAP) as transport, and OpenPGP encryption for security.
One of the items I highlighted in Tools for C...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in November 2022
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2022-11/
December 8, 2022, 5:45 PM
Welcome to yet another report from the Reproducible Builds project, this time for November 2022. In all of these reports (which we have been publishing regularly since May 2015) we attempt to outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As always, if you interested in contributing to the project, please visit our Contribute page on our website.
Reproducible Builds Summit 2022
Following-up from last month’s report about our recent summit in Venice, Italy,...
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Shirish Agarwal: Wayland, Hearing aids, Multiverse & Identity
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2022/12/08/wayland-hearing-aids-multiverse-identity/
December 8, 2022, 5:11 PM
Wayland
First up, I read Antoine Beaupré’s Wayland to Sway migration with interest. While he said it’s done and dusted or something similar, the post shows there’s still quite a ways to go. I wouldn’t say it’s done or whatever till it’s integrated so well that a person installs it and doesn’t really need to fiddle with config files as an average user. For specific use-cases you may need to, but that should be outside of a normal user (layperson) experience.
I have been usi...
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Jonathan Dowland: Portland, Oregon and Beatdown Records, Newcastle
https://jmtd.net/log/portland/
December 8, 2022, 2:28 PM
Powell's frontage
I'm over on the west coast of the States attending 15th IEEE/ACM International
Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
(UCC2022) in Vancouver, WA.
Vancouver is a city on the southern extent of Washington, on the north side of
the Columbia River from the (better known) Portland, Oregon. (Perhaps
more about Vancouver in another post.)
In between conference sessions I've made a couple of trips out to Portland to
see bits and pieces. My friends with experience here all rave...
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Russell Coker: Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/12/08/thinkpad-x1-carbon-gen5/
December 8, 2022, 10:13 AM
Gen1
Since February 2018 I have been using a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen1 [1] as my main laptop. Generally I’ve been very happy with it, it’s small and light, has good performance for web browsing etc, and with my transition to doing all compiles etc on servers it works well. When I wrote my original review I was unhappy with the keyboard, but I got used to that and found it to be reasonably good.
The things that I have found as limits on it are the display resolution as 1600*900 isn’t that gre...
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Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Debian Python Team 2022 Sprint Report
https://veronneau.org/debian-python-team-2022-sprint-report.html
December 8, 2022, 5:00 AM
This is the report for the Debian Python Team remote sprint
that took place on December 2-3-4 2022.
Many thanks to those who participated, namely:
Étienne Mollier (emollier)
Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)
Athos Ribeiro (athos)
Stuart Prescott (stuart)
Louis-Philippe Véronneau (pollo)
Ileana Dumitrescu (ildumi)
James Valleroy (jvalleroy)
Emmanuel Arias (eamanu)
Kurt Kremitzki (kkremitzki)
Mohammed Bilal (rmb)
Stefano Rivera (tumbleweed)
Jeroen Ploemen (jcfp)
Here is a list of issues we worked on:
p...
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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in November 2022
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2022/12/my-debian-activities-in-november-2022/
December 7, 2022, 12:45 PM
FTP master
This month I accepted 292 and rejected 43 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 295.
Debian LTS
This was my hundred-first 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.
During that time I uploaded:
[DLA 3200-1] graphicsmagick security update for one CVE
[DLA 3201-1] ntfs-3g security update for one CVE
[inetutils]found unfixed CVE in latest DLA
I also started ...
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Ben Hutchings: Debian LTS work, November 2022
https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/debian-lts-work-november-2022.html
December 3, 2022, 10:57 PM
In November I was assigned 24 hours by Freexian's Debian LTS
initiative. I worked 9 of those hours and will carry over the
remainder.
I updated the linux (4.19) package to the latest stable update, but
didn't upload it. I attended the monthly LTS team meeting.
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Vincent Bernat: Broken commit diff on Cisco IOS XR
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2022-cisco-show-commit-changes-diff
December 3, 2022, 3:40 PM
TL;DR
Never trust show commit changes diff on Cisco IOS XR.
Cisco IOS XR is the operating system running for the Cisco ASR, NCS, and
8000 routers. Compared to Cisco IOS, it features a candidate
configuration and a running configuration. In configuration mode, you can
modify the first one and issue the commit command to apply it to the running
configuration.1 This is a common concept for many NOS.
Before committing the candidate configuration to the running configuration, you
may want to check...
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Junichi Uekawa: Already December.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2022-Dec-2.html.en#2022-Dec-2-19:13:56
December 2, 2022, 10:13 AM
Already December. Things changed a lot. Six months ago I was at home most of the time. I hope I can keep on going out for a while.
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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities November 2022
http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2022/12/02/floss-activities/
December 2, 2022, 2:13 AM
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus.
I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
vcs-home:
add links
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2)
purple-discord:
link repology
duck:
add indicator
how-can-i-help:
cleanups
libusbgx:
fix C++ build
devscripts:
add error info
debbugs:
allow mbox export of responses,
toggle response display using CSS
Debian website:
drop spam domain
Debian package uploads:
libemail-outlook-message-perl
(backports
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