Review: Ghostdrift by Suzanne Palmer
Ghostdrift is a science fiction adventure and the fourth (and possibly final) book of the Finder...
Steinar H. Gunderson
Berge Schwebs Bjørlo, aged 40, died on March 4th in an avalanche together with his friend...
Thinking inside the box
A new release 0.1.8 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R, following up...
Thinking inside the box
A new release 0.1.8 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R, following up...
Review: Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas
Cascade Failure is a far-future science fiction adventure with a small helping of cyberpunk vibes. It...
Captcha Check
Rust, and resistance to it in some parts of the Linux community, has been in my...
Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible | The Changelog
As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger...
Thinking inside the box
A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one...
Thinking inside the box
A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one...
Thinking inside the box
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
Thinking inside the box
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
Thinking inside the box
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
Who pays the cost of progress in software?
I am told, by friends who have spent time at Google, about the reason Google Reader...
Reproducible Software Releases – Simon Josefsson's blog
Around a year ago I discussed two concerns with software release archives (tarball artifacts) that could...
Thinking inside the box
A new release 0.1.7 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R. This marks...
Losing the war for the free internet - anarcat
Warning: this is a long ramble I wrote after an outage of my home internet. You'll...
Minor outage at Teksavvy business - anarcat
This morning, internet was down at home. The last time I had such an issue was...
Jamie McClelland | AI's Actual Impact
Two years after OpenAI launched ChatGPT 3.5, humanity is not on the cusp of extinction and...
Installing a desktop environment on the HP Omen
`dmidecode | grep -A8 ‘^System Information’` tells me that the Manufacturer is HP and Product Name...
15th Anniversary of My First Debian Upload
Time flies! 15 years ago, on 2010-03-18, my first upload to the Debian archive was accepted....
Thinking inside the box
Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It...
Using actions to build this site
As promised on my previous post, on this entry I’ll explain how I’ve set up forgejo...
Eigen macro specializations crashes
There's an issue in the Eigen linear algebra library where linking together objects compiled with different...
Configuring forgejo actions
Last week I decided I wanted to try out forgejo actions to build this blog instead...
What’s New for FreedomBox in Debian 13 “trixie” – James Valleroy
FreedomBox is a Debian blend that makes it easier to run your own server. Approximately every...
Article Recommendations via FOSS
Google tracking everything we read is bad, particularly since Google abandoned the “don’t be evil” plan...
Getting precise timings out of RS-232 output
For uninteresting reasons I need very regular 58Hz pulses coming out of an RS-232 Tx line:...
Libreoffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg
Last year, I attended the annual LibreOffice Conference in Luxembourg with the help of a generous...
Extrinsic termination proofs for well-founded recursion in Lean – Blog – Joachim Breitner's Homepage
A few months ago I explained that one reason why this blog has become more quiet...
My Debian Activities in February 2025
This was my hundred-twenty-eighth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started...
