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Russ Allbery: Review: Ode to the Half-Broken
Review: Ode to the Half-Broken , by Suzanne Palmer Publisher: DAW Copyright: May 2026 ISBN: 0-7564-2013-X Format: Kindle Pages: 441 Ode to the Half-Broken is a standalone post-apocalyptic (sort of) science fiction novel. As this novel opens, the unnamed first-person protagonist is waking up in a bathtub in an abandoned building. They are covered in…
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 331 released
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 331 . This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Support radare2 >= 5.9.0. (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#432) * Update debian/tests/control. * Update copyright years. [ Christopher Baines ] * Add support for .nar files via Guix. You find out…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppFastAD 0.0.5 on CRAN: Maintenance
A new release 0.0.5 of the RcppFastAD package is now on CRAN , has been built for r2u , and updated at r-universe . This comes (to the day) two years after the preceding 0.0.4 release. RcppFastAD wraps the FastAD header-only C++ library by James which provides a C++ implementation of both forward and reverse mode of automatic differentiation. It offers an…
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Russell Coker: Links September 2026
Bjorn Stahl of the Arcan project wrote an insightful blog post The Day of a new Command-Line Interface: Shell [1] . He does a really good job of identifying problems and strategies for dealing with them, the UI of the results isn’t suitable to what I do though. Using sqlite as an executable format (replacement for ELF) is one of the wildest ideas I’ve seen…
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Mike Gabriel: Looking for Golang + Fullstack Developer with interest in Civic Tech
Who? Fre(i)e Software GmbH is looking for a senior Golang + fullstack developer who can handwrite code and act as meticulous code review partner for another senior developer in the company. What? Most of your work would result in Open Source contributions to the Voxit project [1], an online civic tech tool for digital participation. How and Where? The work…
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 330 released
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 330 . This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Don't Build-Depend on apksigcopier as it has been removed from testing. (Closes: #1146852) You find out more by visiting the project homepage .
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Vincent Bernat: Bot-free self-hosted analytics with GoatCounter on NixOS
In 2016, I removed Google Analytics from this blog to avoid being complicit in feeding the biggest machine for harvesting personal data. Instead, I relied on GoAccess to analyze my server logs. 1 For the past couple of years, the statistics have made no sense, despite my attempts to filter bots: AI scrapers inflate the number of visitors to around 2,000 per…
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Andrew Cater: Debian 11 is at end of life from Long Term Support
Lots of posts in the debian-user mailing list complaining about updates with Debian 11.11 suddenly failing. See Debian 11 Long Term Support reaches end-of-life August 31st, 2026 The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 11 bullseye support has reached its end-of-life today, 31 August 2026, five years after its initial release on…
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Ludovic Rousseau: New version of libccid: 1.8.4
I have just released version 1.8.4 of libccid the Free Software CCID class smart card reader driver. Changes: 1.8.4 - 20 September 2026, Ludovic Rousseau Add support of THALES PKI Transaction Pad fix some minor issues found by an AI tool Some other minor improvements
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Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, August 2026 (by Thorsten Alteholz)
The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering , is pleased to report its activities for August. Activity summary During the month of August, 19 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below). The team released 58 DLAs fixing 1885 CVEs. Debian 11 (“bullseye”), which has reached…
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Ludovic Rousseau: New version of pcsc-lite: 2.5.2
I have just released a new version of pcsc-lite 2.5.2 . pcsc-lite is a Free Software implementation of the PC/SC (also known as WinSCard) API for Unix systems. It provides an API for using smart cards and smart card readers. Changes: 2.5.2: Ludovic Rousseau 19 September 2026 hotplug_libudev: rescan "serial" readers in HPReCheckSerialReaders() fix minor…
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Kentaro Hayashi: Building with dh-bazel, buildsystem support for debhelper experiment updates
Introduction After bazel-bootstrap 7.7.1 was landed into Debian unstable, I'm working on packaging newer Mozc (Most famous Japanese input method editor) with Bazel. Here is the blog entry initial efforts to build Mozc with Bazel at that time. kenhys.hatenablog.jp Then, I've shared implementing PoC dh-bazel experiment. See why dh-bazel is needed, and…
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Paul Tagliamonte: Why Write?
As a graduate of a liberal arts university, I wound up, unsurprisingly, taking a lot of classes in every possible academic discipline. Thinking back to the person that I was going into university, I don’t think I would have chosen to take them – after all, my degree was in the sciences; I’d have been stoked to do nothing more than wall-to-wall computer…
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Petter Reinholdtsen: Long term storage of Mattermost messages with Noark 5 XML
It is said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, a quote often attributed to the American philosopher George Santayana. And to remember the past, records must be maintained and kept accessible to learn from. With this in mind, it is no wonder that archivists worldwide consider it crucial to ensure the archival records are both…
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Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Fake Cash: The World Trade Game
This is a new series 1 I'm starting on the tools I have been crafting and buying to play pedagogical games in my Economics classes. These games, aside from being just plain fun for the students, often aim to teach them a lesson via interactive play. Unsurprisingly, it is much easier for them to grok a particular concept this way. Moreover, many students…
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Kentaro Hayashi: Building Mozc with dh-bazel, buildsystem support for debhelper
Introduction After bazel-bootstrap 7.7.1 was landed into Debian unstable, I'm working on packaging newer Mozc (Most famous Japanese input method editor) with Bazel. Here is the blog entry initial efforts to build Mozc with Bazel at that time. kenhys.hatenablog.jp Why dh-bazel? After that, newer Mozc packages are uploaded into experimental and moved to…
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Russell Coker: Nheko DBUS
Nheko is my current favourite client for the Matrix IM system, which is my favourite IM system. Matrix is an open system with end to end encryption and Nheko is free software and runs well on Linux desktops and phones. The Nheko client allows interaction with dbus which could be good for automating things, EG you could change the status message when…
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Paul Tagliamonte: DESFire EV3
I’ve long been interested in hardware key material storage devices. I’ve been a fan of yubikeys (I still remember when my fancy new NEO-N showed up), PIV (and its associated smattering of additional fields ), SaaS HSMs , the kernel keyring , some tooling I’ve fairly satisfied with the design of at prior companies, and of course, our dear friend, the TPM…
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Yves-Alexis Perez: IKEv1 protocol disabled in strongSwan package for Debian unstable
Heads up, Debian IKE/IPsec users. Starting with strongSwan 6.1.0-1 (currently in Debian unstable and targeted at Debian 14 Forky), the IKEv1 protocol has been disabled. This is aligned with upstream decision . Considering IKEv2 is already nearly old enough to drink in the USA ( RFC 4306 will turn 21 next December) and IKEv1 has weaknesses, the disabling is…
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Reproducible Builds: Supporter spotlight: Jochen Sprickerhof on ... Reproducible Builds!
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 ninth installment in a series featuring the projects, companies and individuals who support the Reproducible Builds project. We started…
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Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Security-tracker git performance, OpenSSH GSS-API split, Incus replacing lxc in Debian CI and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)
Debian Contributions: 2026-08 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 . Replacing lxc with Incus for Debian CI, by Antonio Terceiro At the…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: td 0.0.7 on CRAN: New Features and Updates
A new version 0.0.7 of the td package for accessing the twelvedata API for financial is now on CRAN , and has been built for r2u . This release combines the standard set of maintenance changes that accrue in a four and a half year period (!!) as that much time has past since the previous release. But it also contains two contributed functions to retried…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: sanitizers 0.1.2 on CRAN: Maintenance
The third release (in twelve years !!) of the sanitizers package is now on CRAN . sanitizers provides ‘true positives’ for programming errors detected by the Address Sanitizer and friends such as the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer. This permits validation of the setup when chasing such bug reports: it allows us to ascertain that the compiler (and instrumented…
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in August 2026
Welcome to the August 2026 report from the Reproducible Builds project! In our reports, we try to outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As a quick recap about what problem our project intends to solve, whilst anyone may inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, almost all software is distributed…
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Matthias Klumpp: JPEG-XL as default in AppStream, and better media processing
Two weeks ago, I released AppStream 1.2.0. This release contains a lot of great changes, but one of the most important ones concerns how media are being handled, and AppStream’s default image export format. AppStream is a Freedesktop metadata standard to describe software components. That can be anything from system services over fonts to console and…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RDieHarder 0.2.8 on CRAN: Minor Maintenance
An new maintenance version 0.2.8 of the random-number generator tester RDieHarder (based on the DieHarder suite developed / maintained by Robert Brown with contributions by David Bauer and myself along with other contributors) is now on CRAN and available via r2u . This release contains only internal maintenance changes: continuous integration was updated a…
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Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in August 2026
There’s not a whole lot to report here. During August I spent some time on holiday and also had less work time available for Debian LTS. Debian packages: firmware-nonfree : Bugs : replied to #1143446: firmware-nonfree: split Lontium firmware into a separate binary package Merge requests: closed !152: lontium: create new package containing firmware for…
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Raju Devidas: Installing Ubuntu on intel Macbook Pro 2017 with touchbar
Just some notes about fixing some issues while installing Ubuntu on Macbook Pro 2017 Fix Audio Audio is not working by default after a fresh install. GitHub - davidjo/snd_hda_macbookpro: Kernel audio driver for Macs with 8409 HDA chip + MAX98706/SSM3515 amps Kernel audio driver for Macs with 8409 HDA chip + MAX98706/SSM3515 amps - davidjo/snd_hda_macbookpro…
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Russ Allbery: podlators v6.1.1
podlators is the package containing Pod::Man, Pod::Text, and other tools for converting POD documentation into manual pages and simple text documents. This release fixes a long-standing bug in Pod::Text and subclasses where a pathological level of indentation could cause the wrapping code to go into an infinite loop. Thanks to Jitka Plesnikova for the…
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Matthew Garrett: SystemIO conflicts are not firmware bugs
I’m looking at something entirely unrelated, but tripped over some search results that made me realise that a lot of people still think getting errors like ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001828-0x000000000000182F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001800-0x000000000000187F indicate a firmware bug. This is generally untrue. We need to dive a…