No LLMs, please
The various large-language models (LLMs1) from pick-your-favorite-company are getting pretty fancy and are capable of so...
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Incus Debian updates
Last month, Incus 7.0 LTS was released. 🎉 I figured this would be a good excuse to give an update about the state of Inc...
Debian trixie released!
Debian trixie has been released! 🎉 Some highlights of this release include: lxc and lxcfs 6.0 LTS Incus 6.0 LTS included...
Open Source Activities for July 2025
Debian trixie is currently scheduled for release on August 9th! As we’ve been getting closer to the full freeze, l...
Open Source Activities for June 2025
We’re well into trixie’s hard freeze, which means significantly less packaging activity in June. That’...
Open Source Activities for May 2025
The trixie hard freeze began on May 15, and most of my work last month focused on making sure the packages I help mainta...
Open Source Activities for April 2025
The first half of April was focused on the new LTS releases of lxc and incus, as well as making the final significant up...
Google doesn't like IPv6?
For the past week or so, when trying to search Google I’ve encountered the following message several times a day: ...
Open Source Activities for March 2025
March 15th marked the first of the trixie freeze milestones. I updated several packages and performed various cleanup an...
Open Source Activities for February 2025
February was a bit of a lighter month, due to travel and other activities. I spent some time polishing up LXD to help en...
Open Source Activities for January 2025
The trixie freeze dates were announced earlier this month, which means we’re getting closer to the release. The ne...
Wireguard's minimum MTU for IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels
Recently while traveling, I went to activate my wireguard VPN connection, but it failed with the error RTNETLINK answers...
Open Source Activities for December 2024
Even though the trixie freeze dates haven’t yet been announced, this past month my focus began to shift to prepari...
Open Source Activities for November 2024
In addition to the work below, I’ve been testing the KDE Plasma 6 packages from experimental, and at the end of No...
ChatGPT spam is here
Well, ChatGPT spam has found its way to my blog’s comments. Yay. 😑 A while back I received a flurry of comments th...
Fuck
Seems like an appropriate response….
Open Source Activities for October 2024
Had a fairly productive month with lots of packaging and BTS work. Highlights OpenRCT2 v0.4.15 was uploaded to unstable ...
Open Source Activities for September 2024
September didn’t present a lot of time for open source work, as I was busy helping put on the Duke City Hamfest an...
Open Source Activities for August 2024
A few updates from last month; I sponsored a couple packages and updated a handful of others. Debian packaging work Spon...
Open Source Activities for July 2024
Last month was busier than normal, as I attended DebConf24 and was therefore able to spend quite a bit of focused time o...
The Path to Incus in Debian
A Brief Recap It’s been an interesting six months or so in the Linux Containers world. Just a month after the Debi...
Annular eclipse
This weekend, an annular eclipse passed directly over Albuquerque, and it was quite a sight! The weather was beautiful, ...
Happy 30th Birthday, Debian!
Today marks Debian’s thirtieth anniversary! Happy birthday, Debian, and many more to come!
Debian bookworm released!
Debian bookworm has been released! 🎉 Some highlights of the work I performed during the bookworm release cycle include: ...
A new laptop
After about 14 years, it’s time to say goodnight to my trusty T61 ThinkPad. It’s quite a testament to the qu...
OpenZFS is Awesome!
I’ve been a long time OpenZFS user, and for the past couple of years it’s been pretty much the only file sys...
OpenRCT2 Available in bullseye-backports
This week openrct2 was accepted into bullseye-backports; as such, I will no longer be hosting/providing openrct2 package...
A Debian Developer
It’s been a bit over a month since becoming official, but I’m now a full-fledged Debian Developer! Greetings...
Return to Monkey Island
Earlier this week, Return to Monkey Island was finally released on Steam and other platforms! Monday evening I started p...
LXD accepted into Debian
Earlier today, LXD was accepted into Debian unstable! This completes the saga of getting LXD into Debian, and barring an...
lxd_5.0.0-1_amd64.changes is NEW
LXD has finally been uploaded to the NEW queue! It’s been about nine months since I seriously started looking at g...
Some apt Repo Statistics
I host a small, personal apt repo, primarily for my own use and convenience as I work on preparing packages for inclusio...
James Webb Space Telescope First Photos
Southern Ring Nebula as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (credit to NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI) Yesterday we fin...
LXD Packaging Report, 5.0 LTS edition
Progress on getting LXD packaged for Debian continues, although at a bit slower rate the past couple of months due to re...
A new Debian Maintainer
As of today, it’s official – I’m now a Debian Maintainer! The following changes to the debian-maintain...
LXD Packaging Report, New Year's edition
Happy 2022 everyone! This will be the year that LXD finally, properly lands in Debian. The packaging work for LXD is fai...
LXD Packaging Report, 32bit edition
We’ll start today with a PSA: 32bit architectures still exist. Similar to C, golang has an int variable type whose...
OpenRCT2 Accepted into Debian
Today, after 252 days in the NEW queue, OpenRCT2 was finally accepted into Debian! openrct2_0.3.4.1 ds-1_amd64.changes A...
LXD Packaging Report, Wild West edition
Well, I’m calling this the “Wild West” edition of my LXD packaging report, as I have been reminded onc...
LXD Packaging Report, Nov 11
A quick update on my progress of packaging all the dependencies for LXD in Debian. NEW packages pending ftpmaster review...
Marching on to LXD in Debian: First report
Last week I began looking into the status of the long-lived ITP to get LXD properly into Debian. I’d really like i...
B-29 Doc in Albuquerque
This weekend we had a bit of aviation history here in Albuquerque: the B-29 “Doc” was down at the Sunport. I...
LXD 4.0 LTS Properly Packaged for Debian bullseye
In celebration of tomorrow’s release of Debian bullseye, I have updated my packaging of the LXD 4.0 LTS release an...
Ingenuity's First Flight
Early this morning, Ingenuity successfully made its first flight…. pretty amazing! Oh, and that helicopter is Lin...
A Decade of Portal 2
Hard to believe it’s been a full ten years since Portal 2 launched! It was one of a select number of items I&rsquo...
A Warning about the High Desert Amateur Radio Club
This is something I never thought I’d have to write about, but due to the events of the past few weeks, I need to ...
Good (and Bad) Customer Service
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had a higher than normal number of interactions with various online companies. ...
Perseverance's Descent and Touchdown
I think we might be living in the future… we’ve got a satellite (the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) snapping ...
UniFi AC Pro and IPv6 RAs
For a while now, I’ve been running an IPv4/IPv6 dual stack network on my main wired LAN. IPv6 availability has com...
One Month Since the Capitol Insurrection
Yesterday marked one month since insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol building. One month since the Confederate battl...