Review: Nation by Terry Pratchett
Nation is a stand-alone young adult fantasy novel. It was published in the gap between Discworld...
Review: The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
The Stars, Like Dust is usually listed as the first book in Asimov's lesser-known Galactic Empire...
Sorting out backup internet #2: 5G modem
Having setup recursive DNS it was time to actually sort out a backup internet connection. I...
Review: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Unseen Academicals is the 37th Discworld novel and includes many of the long-standing Ankh-Morpork cast, but...
Reproducible and minimal source-only tarballs – Simon Josefsson's blog
With the release of Libntlm version 1.8 the release tarball can be reproduced on several distributions....
Domo Arigato, Mr. debugfs
Years ago, at what I think I remember was DebConf 15, I hacked for a while...
Software Needed for Work
When I first started studying computer science setting up a programming project was easy, write source...
Sorting out backup internet #1: recursive DNS
I work from home these days, and my nearest office is over 100 miles away, 3...
Reproducible Builds in March 2024 — reproducible-builds.org
Welcome to the March 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds project! In our reports, we attempt...
ML Training License
Last year a Debian Developer blogged about writing Haskell code to give a bad result for...
Thinking inside the box
Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It...
apt install dpl-candidate: Andreas Tille
The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the...
apt install dpl-candidate: Sruthi Chandran
The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the...
PGP keys on Yubikey, with a side of Mutt
Here are my notes about copying PGP keys to external hardware devices such as Yubikeys. Let...
The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes...
Netplan v1.0 paves the way to stable, declarative network management – SlyBlog
New “netplan status –diff” subcommand, finding differences between configuration and system state As the maintainer and...
Firefox: Moving from the Debian package to the Flatpak app (long-term?)
Wed 03 April 2024 First, thanks to Samuel Henrique for giving notice of recent Firefox CVEs...
PKIX: pathLen Constrain on Root Certificates
I recently came a cross a x509 P(rivate)KI Root Certificate which had a pathLen constrain set...
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debianites This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and send whatever...
Towards reproducible minimal source code tarballs? On *-src.tar.gz – Simon Josefsson's blog
While the work to analyze the xz backdoor is in progress, several ideas have been suggested...
Kubecon and CloudNativeCon 2024 Europe summary
This blog post shares my thoughts on attending Kubecon and CloudNativeCon 2024 Europe in Paris. It...
