Verified Reproducible Tarballs – Simon Josefsson's blog
Remember the XZ Utils backdoor? One factor that enabled the attack was poor auditing of the...
Petter Reinholdtsen: Gearing up OpenSnitch for a 1.6.8 release in Trixie
Gearing up OpenSnitch for a 1.6.8 release in Trixie17th April 2025Sadly, the interactive application firewall OpenSnitch...
My experience in the Debian LTS and ELTS projects
Last year, I decided to start participating in the Debian LTS and ELTS projects. It was...
What Desktop PCs Need
It seems to me that we haven’t had much change in the overall design of desktop...
Storage Trends 2025
It’s been almost 15 months since I blogged about Storage Trends 2024 [1]. There hasn’t been...
sanitizer-fun
Both GCC and Clang support the -fsanitize=undefined flag which instruments the generated code to detect places...
Reproducible Builds in March 2025 — reproducible-builds.org
Welcome to the third report in 2025 from the Reproducible Builds project. Our monthly reports outline...
DebConf25 Registration and Call for Proposals are open
On Fri 11 April 2025 with tags debconf debconf25 Written by Anupa Ann Joseph, Sahil Dhiman...
My Debian Activities in March 2025
This was my hundred-twenty-ninth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started...
Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network | The Changelog
From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link,...
Debian Contributions: Preparations for Trixie, Updated debvm, DebConf 25 registration website updates and more!
Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian...
Petter Reinholdtsen: Some notes on Linux LUKS cracking
Some notes on Linux LUKS cracking 8th April 2025A few months ago, I found myself in...
HP z840
Many PCs with DDR4 RAM have started going cheap on ebay recently. I don’t know how...
Steinar H. Gunderson
I needed this recently, so I took a trip into Ghidra and learned enough to pass...
More About the HP ML110 Gen9 and z640
In May 2021 I bought a ML110 Gen9 to use as a deskside workstation [1]. I...
naming things is hard
I got a new laptop (a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 12, more on that later)...
qmpbackup 0.46 - add image fleecing
I’ve released qmpbackup 0.46 which now utilizes the image fleecing technique for backup. Usually, during backup,...
Thinking inside the box
Version 0.3.16 of the Rblpapi package arrived on CRAN today. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between...
Thinking inside the box
Version 0.3.16 of the Rblpapi package arrived on CRAN today. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between...
On Binary Distribution Rebuilds – Simon Josefsson's blog
I rebuilt (the top-50 popcon) Debian and Ubuntu packages, on amd and arm64, and compared the...
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...
