Enrico's blog
I'm tired, I want to do go bed. I click 'sleep' on gnome shell, nothing happens. Swearwords. I want to go to bed. I might have want to put my laptop in a bag and run to catch a train. I hate when this happens . systemd-inhibit --list --mode=block doesn't help much: $ systemd-inhibit --list --mode = block WHO UID USER PID COMM WHAT WHY MODE enrico 1000 enrico 3042 gsd-power handle-lid-switch…
Fedora 44 is out and I need to add support for it Moncic-CI . What could possibly go wrong? rpmbuild cannot build packages Well, when using systemd-nspawn as a backend, rpmbuild cannot build packages: + rpmbuild -ba --define 'srcarchivename hello' /srv/moncic-ci/source/hello/fedora/SPECS/hello.spec Building target platforms: noarch Building for target noarch setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1748563200…
CAdES is a digital signature standard that is used and sometimes mandated, by the Italian Public Administration. To be able to do my job, I own a Carta Nazionale dei Servizi (CNS) with which I can generate legally binding signatures. Now comes the problem of finding a software to do it. Infocamere Firma4NG InfoCamere are distributing a software called Firma4NG , with a Linux option, which, I'm…
Python's os.path.abspath or Path.absolute are great: you give them a path, which might not exist, and you get a path you can use regardless of the current directory. os.path.abspath will also normalize it, while Path will not by default because with Path s a normal form is less needed. This is great to normalize input, regardless of if it's an existing file you're needing to open, or a new file…
I upgraded to Debian testing/trixie, and my network printer stopped appearing in print dialogs. These are notes from the debugging session. Check firewall configuration I tried out kde, which installed plasma-firewall , which installed firewalld , which closed by default the ports used for printing. For extra fun, appindicators are not working in Gnome and so firewall-applet is currently useless,…
I use borg and restic to backup files in my system. Sometimes I run a huge download or clone a large git repo and forget to mark it with CACHEDIR.TAG , and it gets picked up slowing the backup process and wasting backup space uselessly. I would like to occasionally audit the system to have an idea of what is a candidate for backup. ncdu would be great for this, but it doesn't know about backup…
On Android, there's a spellchecker popup that occasionally appears over the keyboard, getting very annoyingly in the way. See for example this unanswered question with screenshots . It looks like a feature of the keyboard, but it's not, and so I looked and I looked and I could not find how to turn it off. The answer is to look for how to disable the spellchecker in the keyboard section of the…
I climbed on top of a mountain with a beautiful view, and when I started readying my new laptop for a work call (as one does on top of mountains), I realised that I couldn't right click and it kind of spoiled the mood. Clicking on the bottom right corner of my touchpad left-clicked. Clicking with two fingers left-clicked. Alt-clicking, Super-clicking, Control-clicking, left clicked. Here's there…
My new laptop Framework (Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)) arrived, all the hardware works out of the box on Debian Stable, and I'm very happy indeed. This post has the notes of all the provisioning steps, so that I can replicate them again if needed. Installing Debian 12 Debian 12's installer just worked, with Secure Boot enabled no less, which was nice. The only glitch is…
This looks straightforward and is far from it. I expect tool support will improve in the future. Meanwhile, this blog post serves as a step by step explanation for what is going on in code that I'm about to push to my team. Let's take this relatively straightforward python code. It has a function printing an int, and a decorator that makes it argument optional, taking it from a global default if…
Suppose you have a meson project like this: meson.build : project ( 'example' , 'cpp' , version : '1.0' , license : '…' , default_options : [ 'warning_level=everything' , 'cpp_std=c++17' ]) subdir ( 'example' ) example/meson.build : test_example = executable ( 'example-test' , [ 'main.cc' ]) example/string.h : /* This file intentionally left empty */ example/main.cc : #include <cstring> int main (…
Slides Slide sources Talk page (including video) Abstract Debusine manages scheduling and distribution of Debian-related tasks (package build, lintian analysis, autopkgtest runs, etc.) to distributed worker machines. It is being developed by Freexian with the intention of giving people access to a range of pre-configured tools and workflows running on remote hardware. Freexian obtained STF funding…
Slides Talk page (including video) Abstract Although Debian has just turned 30, in my experience it has not yet fully turned adult: we sometimes squabble like boys in puberty, like children we assume that someone takes care of paying the bills and bringing out the trash, we procrastinate on our responsibilities and hope nobody notices. At the same time, we cannot assume that people have the energy…
Debian: when you're more likely to get a virus than your laptop
Uhm, salsa is not resolving: $ git fetch ssh: Could not resolve hostname salsa.debian.org: Name or service not known fatal: Could not read from remote repository. $ ping salsa.debian.org ping: salsa.debian.org: Name or service not known But... it is? $ host salsa.debian.org salsa.debian.org has address 209.87.16.44 salsa.debian.org has IPv6 address 2607:f8f0:614:1::1274:44 salsa.debian.org mail is…