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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A new release 0.1.7 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R. This marks...
A new release 0.1.7 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R. This marks 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 distribution. The package provides a simple C++ wrappe...
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Losing the war for the free internet - anarcat

anarc.at

Warning: this is a long ramble I wrote after an outage of my home internet. You'll...
Warning: this is a long ramble I wrote after an outage of my home internet. You'll get your regular scheduled programming shortly. I didn't realize this until relatively recently, but we're at war. Fascists and capitalists are trying to take over the world, and it's bringing utter chaos. We're more numerous than the...
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Minor outage at Teksavvy business - anarcat

anarc.at

This morning, internet was down at home. The last time I had such an issue was...
This morning, internet was down at home. The last time I had such an issue was in February 2023, when my provider was Oricom. Now I'm with a business service at Teksavvy Internet (TSI), in which I pay 100$ per month for a 250/50 mbps business package, with a static IP address, on which I run, well, everything: email...
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Jamie McClelland | AI's Actual Impact

workingdirectory.net

Two years after OpenAI launched ChatGPT 3.5, humanity is not on the cusp of extinction and...
Two years after OpenAI launched ChatGPT 3.5, humanity is not on the cusp of extinction and Elon Musk seems more responsible for job loss than any AI agent. However, ask any web administrator and you will learn that large language models are having a significant impact on the world wide web (or, for a less technical ...
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diffoscope 290 released

diffoscope.org
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diffoscope 291 released

diffoscope.org
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Installing a desktop environment on the HP Omen

c9h.org

`dmidecode | grep -A8 ‘^System Information’` tells me that the Manufacturer is HP and Product Name...
`dmidecode | grep -A8 ‘^System Information’` tells me that the Manufacturer is HP and Product Name is OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb0xxx I’m provisioning a new piece of hardware for my eng consultant and it’s proving more difficult than I expected. I must admit guilt for some of this difficulty. Instead of insta...
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Purpose A Wellbeing Economies Film

stormbind.net
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k8s deployment build-in preStop sleep

stormbind.net
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Seoul Trail revamp

sirena.org.uk
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Captcha Check

dreamwidth.org
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15th Anniversary of My First Debian Upload

kvr.at

Time flies! 15 years ago, on 2010-03-18, my first upload to the Debian archive was accepted....
Time flies! 15 years ago, on 2010-03-18, my first upload to the Debian archive was accepted. Debian had replaced Windows as my primary OS in 2005, but it was only when I saw that package zd1211-firmware had been orphaned that I thought of becoming a contributor. I owned a Zyxel G-202 USB WiFi fob that needed said fi...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It...
Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research code into producti...
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Using actions to build this site

mixinet.net

As promised on my previous post, on this entry I’ll explain how I’ve set up forgejo...
As promised on my previous post, on this entry I’ll explain how I’ve set up forgejo actions on the source repository of this site to build it using a runner instead of doing it on the public server using a webhook to trigger the operation.The first thing I’ve done is to disable the forgejo webhook call that was used...

asciidoctor continuous-integration forgejo forgejo-actions hugo
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Eigen macro specializations crashes

secretsauce.net

There's an issue in the Eigen linear algebra library where linking together objects compiled with different...
There's an issue in the Eigen linear algebra library where linking together objects compiled with different flags causes the resulting binary to crash. Some details are written-up in this mailing list thread. I just encountered a situation where a large application sometimes crashes for unknown reasons, and needed a...
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Configuring forgejo actions

mixinet.net

Last week I decided I wanted to try out forgejo actions to build this blog instead...
Last week I decided I wanted to try out forgejo actions to build this blog instead of using webhooks, so I looked the documentation and started playing with it until I had it working as I wanted.This post is to describe how I’ve installed and configured a forgejo runner, how I’ve added an oci organization to my inst...

continuous-integration docker forgejo forgejo-actions
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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What’s New for FreedomBox in Debian 13 “trixie” – James Valleroy

fbx.one

FreedomBox is a Debian blend that makes it easier to run your own server. Approximately every...
FreedomBox is a Debian blend that makes it easier to run your own server. Approximately every two years, there is a new stable release of Debian. This year’s release will be called Debian 13 "trixie". This post will provide an overview of changes between FreedomBox 23.6 (the version that shipped in Debian 12 "bookwo...
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Offline PKI using 3 YubiKeys and an ARM single board computer

bernat.ch
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Article Recommendations via FOSS

coker.com.au

Google tracking everything we read is bad, particularly since Google abandoned the “don’t be evil” plan...
Google tracking everything we read is bad, particularly since Google abandoned the “don’t be evil” plan and are presumably open to being somewhat evil. The article recommendations on Chrome on Android are useful and I’d like to be able to get the same quality of recommendations without Google knowing about everythin...
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KDE snaps fixed, Thank you for your support – Scarlett Gately Moore

scarlettgatelymoore.dev
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Getting precise timings out of RS-232 output

secretsauce.net

For uninteresting reasons I need very regular 58Hz pulses coming out of an RS-232 Tx line:...
For uninteresting reasons I need very regular 58Hz pulses coming out of an RS-232 Tx line: the time between each pulse should be as close to 1/58s as possible. I produce each pulse by writing an \xFF byte to the device. The start bit is the only active-voltage bit being sent, and that produces my pulse. I wrote this...
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Libreoffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg

ravidwivedi.in

Last year, I attended the annual LibreOffice Conference in Luxembourg with the help of a generous...
Last year, I attended the annual LibreOffice Conference in Luxembourg with the help of a generous travel grant by The Document Foundation (TDF). It was a three-day event from the 10th to the 12th of October 2024, with an additional day for community meetup on the 9th. Luxembourg is a small (twice as big as Delhi) co...

blog conference europe gokarna hugo
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Filing tax this year was really painful.

netfort.gr.jp
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