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FLOSS Activities March 2025

bonedaddy.net
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Free software activity in March 2025

greenend.org.uk
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Free Software Activities March 2025

sigxcpu.org
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qmpbackup 0.46 - add image fleecing

abbbi.github.io

I’ve released qmpbackup 0.46 which now utilizes the image fleecing technique for backup. Usually, during backup,...
I’ve released qmpbackup 0.46 which now utilizes the image fleecing technique for backup. Usually, during backup, Qemu will use a so called copy-before-write filter so that data for new guest writes is sent to the backup target first, the guest write blocks until this operation is finished. If the backup target is fl...
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NASA has pride across most of the universe | 2025

mister-muffin.de
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

Version 0.3.16 of the Rblpapi package arrived on CRAN today. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between...
Version 0.3.16 of the Rblpapi package arrived on CRAN today. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is required). This is the sixteenth release since the package first appeared on CRAN in...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

Version 0.3.16 of the Rblpapi package arrived on CRAN today. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between...
Version 0.3.16 of the Rblpapi package arrived on CRAN today. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is required). This is the sixteenth release since the package first appeared on CRAN in...
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TIL: OpenPGP Web Key Directory | 2025

mister-muffin.de
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Links March 2025

coker.com.au
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On Binary Distribution Rebuilds – Simon Josefsson's blog

josefsson.org

I rebuilt (the top-50 popcon) Debian and Ubuntu packages, on amd and arm64, and compared the...
I rebuilt (the top-50 popcon) Debian and Ubuntu packages, on amd and arm64, and compared the results a couple of months ago. Since then the Reproduce.Debian.net effort has been launched. Unlike my small experiment, that effort is a full-scale rebuild with more architectures. Their goal is to reproduce what is publis...
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Review: Ghostdrift by Suzanne Palmer

eyrie.org

Ghostdrift is a science fiction adventure and the fourth (and possibly final) book of the Finder...
Ghostdrift is a science fiction adventure and the fourth (and possibly final) book of the Finder Chronicles. You should definitely read this series in order and not start here, even though the plot of this book would stand alone. Following The Scavenger Door, in which he made enemies even more dramatically than he h...
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Steinar H. Gunderson

sesse.net

Berge Schwebs Bjørlo, aged 40, died on March 4th in an avalanche together with his friend...
Berge Schwebs Bjørlo, aged 40, died on March 4th in an avalanche together with his friend Ulf, while on winter holiday. When writing about someone who recently died, it is common to make lists. Lists of education, of where they worked, on projects they did. But Berge wasn't common. Berge was an outlier. A paradox, e...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A new release 0.1.8 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R, following up...
A new release 0.1.8 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R, following up on the 0.1.7 release last week which was 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 (or Exponen...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A new release 0.1.8 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R, following up...
A new release 0.1.8 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R, following up on the 0.1.7 release last week which was 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 (or Exponen...
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Review: Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas

eyrie.org

Cascade Failure is a far-future science fiction adventure with a small helping of cyberpunk vibes. It...
Cascade Failure is a far-future science fiction adventure with a small helping of cyberpunk vibes. It is the first of a (so far) two-book series, and was the author's first novel. The Ambit is an old and small Guild ship, not much to look at, but it holds a couple of surprises. One is its captain, Eoan, who is an AI...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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Petter Reinholdtsen: Theora 1.2.0 released

hungry.com
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Captcha Check

dreamwidth.org

Rust, and resistance to it in some parts of the Linux community, has been in my...
Rust, and resistance to it in some parts of the Linux community, has been in my feed recently. One undercurrent seems to be the notion that Rust is woke (and should therefore be rejected as part of culture wars). I’m going to argue that Rust, the language, is woke. So the opponents are right, in that sense. Of cours...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible | The Changelog

complete.org

As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger...
As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was no problem with Signal here. People were using it because they understood it to be secure, not the other way around. Bot...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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KDE Snap updates, Kubuntu Beta testing, Life updates! – Scarlett Gately Moore

scarlettgatelymoore.dev
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Viridien Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25

debian.org
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one...
A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one of several packages connecting R to the fabulous Redis in-memory datastructure store (and much more). RcppRedis does not pretend to be feature complete, but it may do some things faster than the other interfaces, and also offe...
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