James Valleroy @jvalleroy@fosstodon.org

I'm in the process of installing #debian and #freedombox on another machine right now. Anyone else use it?

My Pioneer edition FreedomBox running on in-built battery backup during a minor power outage today.

I have minor power outages of a few minutes a day at my place during the rainy season. When I was running FreedomBox on a bare Raspberry Pi 2 earlier, I had to replace the microSD card once a year due to damage. The Pioneer edition has solved this problem for me.

#Debian #FreedomBox #HomeServer #Olimex #SelfHosting

26 years strong! Happy Anniversary! Happy #DebianDay!
Debian celebrates 26 years! https://bits.debian.org/2019/08/debian-turns-26.html

#whichman is a set of fault tolerant search programs.

whichman contains three file search utilities which can match files by an approximate name. The package's namesake, whichman, searches the #man (#manual) DB for a manual page, #ftff searches the current directory for matching files, and #ftwhich searches the PATH for matching files.

Website 🔗️: http://linuxfocus.org/~guido/#whichman

apt 📦️: whichman

#free #opensource #foss #fossmendations #sysadmin

New blog post: APT Patterns

If you have ever used aptitude a bit more extensively on the command-line, you’ll probably have come across its patterns. This week I spent some time implementing (some) patterns for apt, so you do not need aptitude for that, and I want to let you in on the details of this merge request !74.

https://blog.jak-linux.org/2019/08/15/apt-patterns/

#dh-make the Debian package that makes other Debian packages got it's first update for the year.

Not terribly exciting changes, just a bump of the Debian standards and debhelper versions mostly.

#freesw #debian

#nheko #matrix client 0.6.4 is now available in buster backports. It does not have all the features of #riot but it supports end to end encryption (though in alpha) and its lighter. There is also #revolt available in buster which just acts as a wrapper for riot.im web app. So that is two options to use matrix with official repos of Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1054131/accepted-nheko-064-2bpo101-source-amd64-into-buster-backports-buster-backports/

TIL #jazzband

https://jazzband.co/

#python #community #code

A (recent?) trend to blame mass shooting on mental illness is disturbing, worrisome and plain wrong.
It's reasonable to say a person engaging in mass shooting(s) is emotionally *disturbed*. That is not the same as mentally ill.

People who have a mental illness are FAR more likely to be a victim of violence then a perpetrator of it.

Sadly, and unsurprisingly, DemocracyNow! is the only or one of the few pointing this out.
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/8/mental_illness_gun_violence_suicide_risk

For the new release of the #debiensourceslistgenerator I'm looking for someone who would be willing to create a small logo. Colors should be based on the #Debian logo colors. Unfortunately, I can not pay you anything and would be grateful if it were a public service and under the #MIT license, like the rest of the source code.

#debiansourceslistgenerator #opensource #freedom

Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/were-stuck-inside-the-universe-lee-smolin-has-an-idea-for-how-to-study-it-anyway-20190627/

#haveged is an #entropy daemon.

haveged uses the HAVEGE algorithm to inject randomness into the #Linux random number generator. HAVEGE gathers entropy from slight timing differences from processor branches and calls. Since haveged only requires a processor it is great for headless servers that exhaust their entropy quickly.

Website 🔗️: https://issihosts.com/haveged/

apt 📦️: haveged

#free #opensource #foss #fossmendations #security #sysadmin

New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2019) https://bits.debian.org/2019/08/new-developers-2019-06.html

Finally a decent Linux RSS reader

https://gitlab.com/gabmus/gnome-feeds

We got a tiny step closer to fully end-to-end encrypted message content in #XMPP.
Version 0.0.1 of XEP-420: Stanza Content Encryption (#SCE) just got published.
Still it is a long way till we're there.

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0420.html

#sce #xmpp #jabber #xsf #encryption #e2ee #420

My new hobby: Adding public drinking fountains (and toilets, but it's mostly fountains that are missing so far) to #OpenStreetMap. This is so important for people to find, but still so few are marked in #OSM. At least here in Norway. It's a shame, really. And the hotter the climate gets, the more important it will become. @openstreetmap