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Security concerns regarding OpenSSH mac sha1 in Debian

c9h.org

What is HMAC? HMAC stands for Hash-Based Message Authentication Code. It’s a specific way to use...
What is HMAC? HMAC stands for Hash-Based Message Authentication Code. It’s a specific way to use a cryptographic hash function (like SHA-1, SHA-256, etc.) along with a secret key to produce a unique “fingerprint” of some data. This fingerprint allows someone else with the same key to verify that the data hasn’t been...
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Systemd Hardening and Sending Mail

coker.com.au

A feature of systemd is the ability to reduce the access that daemons have to the...
A feature of systemd is the ability to reduce the access that daemons have to the system. The restrictions include access to certain directories, system calls, capabilities, and more. The systemd.exec(5) man page describes them all [1]. To see an overview of the security of daemons run “systemd-analyze security” and...
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diffoscope 285 released

diffoscope.org
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sshcont

abbbi.github.io
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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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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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FAI 6.2.5 and new ISO available

fai-project.org
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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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Louis-Philippe Véronneau - Montreal Subway Foot Traffic Data, 2024 edition

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

hatenablog.jp

planetdebian
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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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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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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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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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Prosody Certificate Management With Nginx and Certbot

sahilister.in
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20250111 Release media testing for Debian 12.9

flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com
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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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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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Valhalla's Things — Winter

trueelena.org
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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Steinar H. Gunderson

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

scarlettgatelymoore.dev
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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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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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