Security concerns regarding OpenSSH mac sha1 in Debian
What is HMAC? HMAC stands for Hash-Based Message Authentication Code. It’s a specific way to use...
Systemd Hardening and Sending Mail
A feature of systemd is the ability to reduce the access that daemons have to the...
Command line tools to process templates
I’ve always been a fan of template engines that work with text files, mainly to work...
Thinking inside the box
A new maintenance release 0.4.23 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN earlier today, about one year after...
Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2024
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian...
My 30-Day Outreachy Experience with the Debian Community
Hey everyone! It’s Divine Attah-Ohiemi here, and I’m excited to share what I’ve been up to...
Thinking inside the box
The Rcpp Core Team is once again thrilled, pleased, and chuffed (am I doing this right...
Investigating the popularity of Python build backends over time (II) | Bastian Venthur's Blog
published on 2025-01-12 · tagged with #pypi, #pyproject.toml and #python Last year, I analyzed the popularity...
Thinking inside the box
Another minor update 0.3.11 for our nanotime package is now on CRAN. nanotime relies on the...
Testing New User Tools
On recent weeks I’ve had some time to scratch my own itch on matters related to...
Reproducible Builds in December 2024 — reproducible-builds.org
← View all our monthly reports Welcome to the December 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds...
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook | The Changelog
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering...
Using TPM for Automatic Disk Decryption in Debian 12
These days it’s straightforward to have reasonably secure, automatic decryption of your root filesystem at boot...
My Debian Activities in December 2024
This was my hundred-twenty-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started...
Debugging printing to a remote printer
I upgraded to Debian testing/trixie, and my network printer stopped appearing in print dialogs. These are...
Free Software Activities for 2024
I tailed off on blog posts towards the end of the year; I blame a bunch...
ncdu on files to back up
I use borg and restic to backup files in my system. Sometimes I run a huge...
Louis-Philippe Véronneau - 2024 — A Musical Retrospective
2025-01-01 - Louis-Philippe Véronneau Another musical retrospective. If you enjoy this, I also did a 2022...
Review: Driving the Deep by Suzanne Palmer
Driving the Deep is science fiction, a sequel to Finder (not to be confused with Finders,...
Steinar H. Gunderson
Following Dennis Schubert's post on how LLM bots are scraping the Internet continuously at full speed,...
Review: Metal from Heaven by August Clarke
Metal from Heaven is industrial-era secondary-world fantasy with a literary bent. It is a complete story...
