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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in August 2026
Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-forty-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. Unfortunately the number of distributed working hours had been rather low this month, so the list contains much less entries than normal. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [ DLA 4713-1 ] sslh…
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Paul Tagliamonte: IP over Avian Carriers (Part 12/12) 🕊️
🕊️ This post is part of a series called "Pigeon". If this is the first post you've found, it'd be worth reading the intro post first and then looking over all posts in the series . The final step to all of this was to tie together all my PHY RF code, Link layer parsers, and my background with operating systems to make this all feel like a normal thing my…
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Paul Tagliamonte: can you hear me now? good! (Part 11/12) 🕊️
🕊️ This post is part of a series called "Pigeon". If this is the first post you've found, it'd be worth reading the intro post first and then looking over all posts in the series . If you're looking for it, the intro to the Link (layer 2) that this belongs at a high level and listing of the parts that make it up (including this one) is on the link post…
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Paul Tagliamonte: You would never break the chain (Part 10/12) 🕊️
🕊️ This post is part of a series called "Pigeon". If this is the first post you've found, it'd be worth reading the intro post first and then looking over all posts in the series . Now that we have a working Layer 1, we have a way to send a block of bits from one place to anyone who cares to listen to us. This is very welcome news, but we are now facing a…
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Paul Tagliamonte: Mode A (Part 9/12) 🕊️
🕊️ This post is part of a series called "Pigeon". If this is the first post you've found, it'd be worth reading the intro post first and then looking over all posts in the series . If you're looking for it, the intro to the PHY (layer 1) that this belongs at a high level and listing of the parts that make it up (including this one) is on the phy post…
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Paul Tagliamonte: wrapping it all up (Part 8/12) 🕊️
🕊️ This post is part of a series called "Pigeon". If this is the first post you've found, it'd be worth reading the intro post first and then looking over all posts in the series . If you're looking for it, the intro to the PHY (layer 1) that this belongs at a high level and listing of the parts that make it up (including this one) is on the phy post . The…
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Enrico Zini: Financial risks in 2026
I asked the banker who is my reference at the bank something like this: Give that we are talking about the consequences of the tantrum of a fascist foreign government, what happened to them (who are also people close and dear to me), in some future can very well happen to me. Suddenly my risk profile shot up under the roof. What do you suggest me to do?…
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Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2026)
The following contributor got their Debian Developer account in the last two months: Nicolas Peugnet (nicolasp) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Antoine Lassagne Ivan Hu Jesse Rhodes Haolin Xue Léo Haf Rony João de Sousa Luke Yasuda Darshaka Pathirana Congratulations!
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Colin Watson: Free software activity in August 2026
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian. You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors . Personal note This month, my Dad unexpectedly passed away after a short illness. As a result I obviously got less work done than usual, and I still have a lot to take care of (since I’m the executor of his will, as well…
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Daniel Lange: Getting AVIF thumbnails in XFCE4 thunar (Debian Trixie)
The AVIF image format gets more and more popular in the web dev community, so I needed to teach XFCE4's thunar (file manager) and Ristretto (image viewer) to thumbnail these. Luckily that is not too hard: Debian Trixie separates its gdk-pixbuf libraries slightly differently than previous versions. That's why it is not "automatically there". Ensure you have…
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Vincent Bernat: Sidenotes with CSS anchor positioning
I am a heavy user of sidenotes: 1 they keep optional content next to the text instead of sending the reader to the bottom of the page and back. Tufte CSS renders them without JavaScript but only accepts inline content. CSS anchor positioning , now supported by recent browsers, 2 is an elegant alternative. Sidenotes can hold several blocks, still without…
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Freexian Collaborators: Debusine can now hand you debug symbols! (by Jugal Patel)
Contributor: Jugal Patel (Jugal59) Organization: Debian Project: Provide debuginfod server Mentor: Colin Watson About the project and me Your program crashes. You open gdb and get ?? instead of a stack trace. So you go find the right -dbgsym package, for the right version, for the right architecture, install it, and start again. Debuginfod removes that…
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Iustin Pop: AI agents aha moment
Looking at the reactions to the Debian AI vote, I think some people still think the clock can be turned back, as if that ever worked in history. Rather than cry about spilled milk, I prefer to find a path forward in the new world. There are many ways to use LLMs, some of them are straightforward, others not so much. One of the “not so clear” areas for me is…
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Russell Coker: CoMaps
I have just tried CoMaps, a free mapping program released under the Apache license [1] . I have tried it on Android on a Pixel 6a but it also runs on Linux so I’ll try it on a PinePhone or similar at some convenient time. On Android it is in the F-Droid repository among others and for Linux there’s a Flatpak package. The data it uses is from Open Street Map…
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Enrico Zini: Migrating away from .org/.net/.com domains
After having witnessed how easy it is for good people to lose a .org domain over a fascist tantrum (you can follow the Autistici/Inventati story here and here ), I've started moving all my infrastructure to differently managed TLDs . enricozini.org and enricozini.com will keep being functional for the time being, as dropping a domain makes it available for…
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Steinar H. Gunderson: plocate 1.1.25 released
I've released version 1.1.25 of plocate . This time around, there's two security issues of unknown severity; if you chain them with other bugs, they could lead to being able to list files (but of course not their contents) that you should not normally be able to see. So an update is probably in order; you can never be too safe these days. The full changelog…
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Michael Stapelberg: Debian Code Search: Fast TurboPFor with Go SIMD
This August, I accomplished what I wanted for many years: I deleted the last cgo dependency in Debian Code Search! This was made possible by Go’s recently introduced SIMD support, because now we can implement the TurboPFor integer compression format as efficiently — more efficiently, in fact, by using the newer AVX512 instruction set! — as the reference…
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Emmanuel Kasper: Isolated VSCode/VSCodium development environment in a Virtual Machine
Following the previous steps , we are now interested in getting a graphical environment with a VSCodium, the opensource rebuild of the VSCode IDE. Configuring the display and development environment From the previous steps we had a virtual machine where we can login with a debian user, and we can start configuring a graphical desktop environment. Install…
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Junichi Uekawa: Summer Vacation for my kids is over.
Summer Vacation for my kids is over. And Peace is back to my life. AI is transforming how I operate and view things. It was very different a few months back. AI (as a product) is useful in generating code, useful in analysing things. It seems to be able to retrieve and show me information relatively quickly, doesn't need me to scan the search results to…
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Michael Ablassmeier: virtnbdbackup - backup target plugins
I’ve released a new version of virtnbdbackup . The new version adds a small plugin system layer that allows users to extend the backup targets by creating plugins. Past feature requests asked for backup to S3 or adding encryption features, which i dont need and do not want to maintain within the project scope. Users can now extend the utility with plugins…
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Ludovic Rousseau: New version of PyKCS11: 1.5.20
I just released a new version of PyKCS11 , a Python wrapper above the PKCS#11 API. See PyKCS11 introduction or PyKCS11’s documentation . The project is registered at Pypi: https://pypi.org/project/PyKCS11/ Explanation This version only fixes a problem on Windows. In version 1.5.19, I upgraded the PKCS#11 header file pkcs11.h to version PKCS#11 3.2…
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Simon Josefsson: Soft-launching the DiffOS project
Today marks the day of soft-launching of my Debian derivative, which I’ve been using on several of my own machines for the past year or so. This is still work in progress, but I wanted to establish a launch date of the project so below is the DiffOS manifesto as motivation for continued work. DiffOS is For Freedom! DiffOS is the Debian Increment For Freedom…
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Andy Simpkins: A quick experiment with vibe coding
I spent 6 hours working with an AI to write a bash script that would show me both active & inactive reserved DHCP addresses, as well as active leases from pool. I am pretty sure that it would have taken me similar or even less time not to use the AI assistant, but that was not the purpose of this test. Instead I wanted to see how the AI flow worked and get…
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Birger Schacht: Status update, July + August 2026
Debian Related Work Uploaded cage 0.3.1-1 to unstable Uploaded swaylock 1.8.6-1 to unstable Uploaded scdoc 1.11.5-1 to unstable Uploaded xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 0.8.4-1 to unstable Uploaded swayimg 5.5-1 to unstable Uploaded fyi 1.0.4-2 to unstable Uploaded labwc 0.20.2-1 to unstable Uploaded yambar 1.11.0-2 to unstable, but that got removed because it…
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Russ Allbery: Review: Too Like the Lightning
Review: Too Like the Lightning , by Ada Palmer Series: Terra Ignota #1 Publisher: Tor Copyright: May 2016 ISBN: 1-4668-5874-5 Format: Kindle Pages: 432 Too Like the Lightning is a science fantasy (?) novel and the first of a four-book series. It was nominated for a Hugo and a Locus award, won the Compton Crook award, and won Ada Palmer the Astounding Award…