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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A new minor release of our ttdo package arrived on CRAN a few days ago. The...
A new minor release of our ttdo package arrived on CRAN a few days ago. The ttdo package extends the excellent (and very minimal / zero depends) unit testing package tinytest by Mark van der Loo with the very clever and well-done diffobj package by Brodie Gaslam to give us test results with visual diffs (as shown in...
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The Arduous Luxembourg Visa Process

ravidwivedi.in

blog gokarna hugo luxembourg schengen-visa
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Steinar H. Gunderson

sesse.net

Pretty much exactly a year ago, I posted about how I was trying out this bcachefs...
Pretty much exactly a year ago, I posted about how I was trying out this bcachefs thing, being cautiously optimistic (but reminding you to keep backups). Now I'm going the other way; I've converted my last bcachefs filesystem to XFS, and I don't intend to look at it again in the near future. What changed in the mean...
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Progress Report: First Half of My Outreachy Internship

dev.to

Hello everyone!, I’m excited to share a progress report on my Outreachy internship with the Debian...
Hello everyone!, I’m excited to share a progress report on my Outreachy internship with the Debian community. As I reach the halfway point of this journey, I want to reflect on what I’ve accomplished so far and outline my modified goals for the second half of the internship. In truth, there wasn’t a strict timeline ...

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jmtd → log → dsafilter → dsafilter 20th Anniversary

jmtd.net
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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Blocking comment spammers on an Ikiwiki blog

cloud.geek.nz
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Petter Reinholdtsen: 121 packages in Debian mapped to hardware for automatic recommendation

hungry.com

121 packages in Debian mapped to hardware for automatic recommendation19th January 2025For some years now, I...
121 packages in Debian mapped to hardware for automatic recommendation19th January 2025For some years now, I have been working on a automatic hardware based package recommendation system for Debian and other Linux distributions. The isenkram system I started on back in 2013 now consist of two subsystems, one locatin...
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Petter Reinholdtsen: What is the most supported MIME type in Debian in 2025?

hungry.com

What is the most supported MIME type in Debian in 2025?18th January 2025Seven and twelve years...
What is the most supported MIME type in Debian in 2025?18th January 2025Seven and twelve years ago, I measured what the most supported MIME type in Debian was, first by analysing the desktop files in all packages in the archive, then by analysing the DEP-11 AppStream data set. I guess it is time to repeat the measur...
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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

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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...

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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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