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Viridien Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25

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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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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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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in the now nineteen year history (!!) as a (initially non-CRAN) package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R as it predates Rscript. It allows for piping ...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in the now nineteen year history (!!) as a (initially non-CRAN) package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R as it predates Rscript. It allows for piping ...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in the now nineteen year history (!!) as a (initially non-CRAN) package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R as it predates Rscript. It allows for piping ...
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Debian Salsa CI in Google Summer of Code 2025

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continuous integration debian gitlab gsoc mentorship
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Who pays the cost of progress in software?

earth.li

I am told, by friends who have spent time at Google, about the reason Google Reader...
I am told, by friends who have spent time at Google, about the reason Google Reader finally disappeared. Apparently it had become a 20% Project for those who still cared about it internally, and there was some major change happening to one of it upstream dependencies that was either going to cause a significant amou...
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New Debian Developers and Maintainers (January and February 2025)

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Reproducible Software Releases – Simon Josefsson's blog

josefsson.org

Around a year ago I discussed two concerns with software release archives (tarball artifacts) that could...
Around a year ago I discussed two concerns with software release archives (tarball artifacts) that could be improved to increase confidence in the supply-chain security of software releases. Repeating the goals for simplicity: Release artifacts should be built in a way that can be reproduced by others It should be p...
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Buid container images with buildah/podman in GitLab CI

arnaudr.io
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Ringlet software updates (2025-03-23) - Vortices of Extelligence

ringlet.net
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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

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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

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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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