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January 17

diffoscope 285 released

diffoscope.org
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January 16

Command line tools to process templates

mixinet.net

I’ve always been a fan of template engines that work with text files, mainly to work...
I’ve always been a fan of template engines that work with text files, mainly to work with static site generators, but also to generate code, configuration files, and other text-based files.For my own web projects I used to go with Jinja2, as all my projects were written in Python, while for static web sites I used t...

templates
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January 15

Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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January 15

FAI 6.2.5 and new ISO available

fai-project.org
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January 14

Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A new maintenance release 0.4.23 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN earlier today, about one year after...
A new maintenance release 0.4.23 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN earlier today, about one year after the previous update. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed very widely in numerous projects as ...
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January 14

Louis-Philippe Véronneau - Montreal Subway Foot Traffic Data, 2024 edition

veronneau.org
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January 13

Stick to boot from 6.11 linux-image - ひとりしずかに。

hatenablog.jp

planetdebian
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January 13

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2024

freexian.com

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian...
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In December, 19 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Abhijith PA did 14.0h (out of 14.0h assigned). Adrian Bunk did 47.75h (out of 53.0h assigned and 47.0h from previo...
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January 12

My 30-Day Outreachy Experience with the Debian Community

dev.to

Hey everyone! It’s Divine Attah-Ohiemi here, and I’m excited to share what I’ve been up to...
Hey everyone! It’s Divine Attah-Ohiemi here, and I’m excited to share what I’ve been up to in my internship with the Debian community. It’s been a month since I began this journey, and if you’re thinking about applying for Outreachy, let me give you a glimpse into my project and the amazing people I get to work with...

coding community development engineering inclusive
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January 12

Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

The Rcpp Core Team is once again thrilled, pleased, and chuffed (am I doing this right...
The Rcpp Core Team is once again thrilled, pleased, and chuffed (am I doing this right for LinkedIn?) to announce a new release (now at 1.0.14) of the Rcpp package. It arrived on CRAN earlier today, and has since been uploaded to Debian. Windows and macOS builds should appear at CRAN in the next few days, as will bu...
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January 12

Investigating the popularity of Python build backends over time (II) | Bastian Venthur's Blog

venthur.de

published on 2025-01-12 · tagged with #pypi, #pyproject.toml and #python Last year, I analyzed the popularity...
published on 2025-01-12 · tagged with #pypi, #pyproject.toml and #python Last year, I analyzed the popularity of build backends used in pyproject.toml files over time. This post is the update for 2024. Analysis Like last year, I’m using Tom Forbes’ fantastic dataset containing information about every file within eve...
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January 12

Prosody Certificate Management With Nginx and Certbot

sahilister.in
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January 11

20250111 Release media testing for Debian 12.9

flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com
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January 10

Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

Another minor update 0.3.11 for our nanotime package is now on CRAN. nanotime relies on the...
Another minor update 0.3.11 for our nanotime package is now on CRAN. nanotime relies on the RcppCCTZ package (as well as the RcppDate package for additional C++ operations) and offers efficient high(er) resolution time parsing and formatting up to nanosecond resolution, using the bit64 package for the actual integer...
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January 10

Testing New User Tools

mixinet.net

On recent weeks I’ve had some time to scratch my own itch on matters related to...
On recent weeks I’ve had some time to scratch my own itch on matters related to tools I use daily on my computer, namely the desktop / window manager and my text editor of choice.This post is a summary of what I tried, how it worked out and my short and medium-term plans related to them.On the desktop / window manag...

desktop editors
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January 10

Valhalla's Things — Winter

trueelena.org
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January 9

Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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January 9

Steinar H. Gunderson

sesse.net
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January 9

KDE: Snaps 24.12.1 Release, Kubuntu Plasma 5.27.12 Call for testers – Scarlett Gately Moore

scarlettgatelymoore.dev
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January 9

Reproducible Builds in December 2024 — reproducible-builds.org

reproducible-builds.org

← View all our monthly reports Welcome to the December 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds...
← View all our monthly reports Welcome to the December 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds project! Our monthly reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month and highlight items of news from elsewhere in the world of software supply-chain security when relevant. As ever, however, if you are interest...
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January 8

Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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January 8

Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook | The Changelog

complete.org

In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering...
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to the point, why an I — a person that ha...
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January 7

Using TPM for Automatic Disk Decryption in Debian 12

jwiltshire.org.uk

These days it’s straightforward to have reasonably secure, automatic decryption of your root filesystem at boot...
These days it’s straightforward to have reasonably secure, automatic decryption of your root filesystem at boot time on Debian 12. Here’s how I did it on an existing system which already had a stock kernel, secure boot enabled, grub2 and an encrypted root filesystem with the passphrase in key slot 0. There’s no need...
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January 7

My Debian Activities in December 2024

alteholz.eu

This was my hundred-twenty-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started...
This was my hundred-twenty-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. I worked on updates for ffmpeg and haproxy in all releases. Along the way I marked more CVEs as not-affected than I had to fix. So finally there was no upload needed for haproxy anymore....
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