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Review: Ghostdrift by Suzanne Palmer

eyrie.org

Ghostdrift is a science fiction adventure and the fourth (and possibly final) book of the Finder...
Ghostdrift is a science fiction adventure and the fourth (and possibly final) book of the Finder Chronicles. You should definitely read this series in order and not start here, even though the plot of this book would stand alone. Following The Scavenger Door, in which he made enemies even more dramatically than he h...
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Steinar H. Gunderson

sesse.net

Berge Schwebs Bjørlo, aged 40, died on March 4th in an avalanche together with his friend...
Berge Schwebs Bjørlo, aged 40, died on March 4th in an avalanche together with his friend Ulf, while on winter holiday. When writing about someone who recently died, it is common to make lists. Lists of education, of where they worked, on projects they did. But Berge wasn't common. Berge was an outlier. A paradox, e...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A new release 0.1.8 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R, following up...
A new release 0.1.8 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R, following up on the 0.1.7 release last week which was the first release in four and a half years. The RcppZiggurat package updates the code for the Ziggurat generator by Marsaglia and others which provides very fast draws from a Normal (or Exponen...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A new release 0.1.8 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R, following up...
A new release 0.1.8 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R, following up on the 0.1.7 release last week which was the first release in four and a half years. The RcppZiggurat package updates the code for the Ziggurat generator by Marsaglia and others which provides very fast draws from a Normal (or Exponen...
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Review: Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas

eyrie.org

Cascade Failure is a far-future science fiction adventure with a small helping of cyberpunk vibes. It...
Cascade Failure is a far-future science fiction adventure with a small helping of cyberpunk vibes. It is the first of a (so far) two-book series, and was the author's first novel. The Ambit is an old and small Guild ship, not much to look at, but it holds a couple of surprises. One is its captain, Eoan, who is an AI...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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Petter Reinholdtsen: Theora 1.2.0 released

hungry.com
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Captcha Check

dreamwidth.org

Rust, and resistance to it in some parts of the Linux community, has been in my...
Rust, and resistance to it in some parts of the Linux community, has been in my feed recently. One undercurrent seems to be the notion that Rust is woke (and should therefore be rejected as part of culture wars). I’m going to argue that Rust, the language, is woke. So the opponents are right, in that sense. Of cours...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible | The Changelog

complete.org

As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger...
As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was no problem with Signal here. People were using it because they understood it to be secure, not the other way around. Bot...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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KDE Snap updates, Kubuntu Beta testing, Life updates! – Scarlett Gately Moore

scarlettgatelymoore.dev
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Viridien Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25

debian.org
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one...
A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one of several packages connecting R to the fabulous Redis in-memory datastructure store (and much more). RcppRedis does not pretend to be feature complete, but it may do some things faster than the other interfaces, and also offe...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one...
A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one of several packages connecting R to the fabulous Redis in-memory datastructure store (and much more). RcppRedis does not pretend to be feature complete, but it may do some things faster than the other interfaces, and also offe...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in the now nineteen year history (!!) as a (initially non-CRAN) package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R as it predates Rscript. It allows for piping ...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in the now nineteen year history (!!) as a (initially non-CRAN) package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R as it predates Rscript. It allows for piping ...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in the now nineteen year history (!!) as a (initially non-CRAN) package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R as it predates Rscript. It allows for piping ...
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Debian Salsa CI in Google Summer of Code 2025

optimizedbyotto.com

continuous integration debian gitlab gsoc mentorship
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Who pays the cost of progress in software?

earth.li

I am told, by friends who have spent time at Google, about the reason Google Reader...
I am told, by friends who have spent time at Google, about the reason Google Reader finally disappeared. Apparently it had become a 20% Project for those who still cared about it internally, and there was some major change happening to one of it upstream dependencies that was either going to cause a significant amou...
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New Debian Developers and Maintainers (January and February 2025)

debian.org
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Reproducible Software Releases – Simon Josefsson's blog

josefsson.org

Around a year ago I discussed two concerns with software release archives (tarball artifacts) that could...
Around a year ago I discussed two concerns with software release archives (tarball artifacts) that could be improved to increase confidence in the supply-chain security of software releases. Repeating the goals for simplicity: Release artifacts should be built in a way that can be reproduced by others It should be p...
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Buid container images with buildah/podman in GitLab CI

arnaudr.io
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Ringlet software updates (2025-03-23) - Vortices of Extelligence

ringlet.net
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