Sven Drieling sdrieling@identi.ca

Finally time for another minor release of Dianara, my desktop application for the Pump.io social network.

Changelog

Changes since v1.4.1 are mostly small fixes, and include:

• Changed OK/Cancel buttons in several dialogs to follow your environment's style.
• Fixed a corner case where a post deleted by its author, while a comment was being composed, would block timeline updates until program restart.
• When a post is cancelled, abort possible ongoing file upload immediately.
• Fixed Cancel button being disabled while sending a comment.
• Fixed a pagination bug that would set the wrong page number if a timeline update had failed previously.

Release post: https://jancoding.wordpress.com/2018/11/18/dianara-1-4-2-is-out/

Cheers! 🙋

identi.ca is fixed =)

Updated Debian 9: 9.4 released https://www.debian.org/News/2018/20180310

WebAssembly partial backend announced for GCC

Get ready, Debian Stretch will release on June 17!

GitLab.com Database Incident - 2017/01/31 (docs.google.com)

So in other words, out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place.

/via https://lobste.rs/s/zdmvy5

Verify your backups, people.

My fight against CDN libraries

A very nice writeup and awesome work by David Revoy of the Pepper & Carrot webcomic:

A CDN ( acronym for Content Delivery Network ) library is often a single line of code proposed "generously" by an external service to let you link and embed a complex features, the easy way. A common example is Google Web Fonts:

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet">

Paste this line in the header of your website and 'tadaaa!', you can use the font 'Lobster' to decorate all your texts. Easy, quick, efficient and fast to load. Merci Google. So, what's the problem?

Well a big one: Privacy of the readers of Pepper&Carrot. In our example, users of Google Web Fonts are bound by Google's privacy policy. It allows Google to collect a large amount of data about readers: log data (e.g. browser version), location data (the IP address of your site's visitors) and more because they can track your path or history threw all the website using their other networks of CDN.

... And I didn't had a CDN only for Google Web Font. I had also a CDN for Addthis (easy social-networks buttons), Gravatar (easy avatars), Font-awesome (easy icons), etc... As many, many website around!

Read the full post at his blog!

#privacy #web #openculture #comics
My fight against CDN libraries

Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free/libre and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.

"Who Will Command the Robot Armies?" is maybe the best talk you'll read all year.

Guile now ships with HTTPS support out of the box! Exciting! I need this for my own projects. :)

Thanks to Andy Wingo and Ludovic Courtès for helping me get this one in. :)

Debian stretch has just entered its transition freeze https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/11/msg00002.html

New mailing list created for porting Debian to free and open RISC-V CPU arch https://lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/

"softWaves" will be the default theme for Debian 9 https://bits.debian.org/2016/10/softwaves-will-be-the-default-theme-for-debian-9.html

Misc Developer News issue #42 released

Hello all!

You're invited to join the next Pump.io community meeting next Friday, 2016/09/16 at 20:00 UTC.

Agenda is at: https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/wiki/Meeting-2016-09-16.

Join us on the #pump.io channel on the Freenode IRC network (chat.freenode.net), which is also mirrored to the pump.io@muc.jappix.com jabber/XMPP MUC room, and available via web access.

As usual, the meeting will be logged and we will REDACT the nicks of the people who ask for it. The log and a summary of the outcomes will be posted here and in the meeting wiki page.

Have a look at our Community wiki page for further info.

See you there!

Hey there, Pumpers! o/

Today I tagged the development version of my Pump.io client, Dianara, as "alpha", in preparation for the next release by the end of the month.

The most noticeable changes, as illustrated in the screenshot, are:

• Items highlighted due to filtering rules will show reason for highlighting. As visible on the left side of the screenshot, that post was highlighted due to it matching the words "Pump.io" and "Security" in the post contents, which I had configured as a filtering rule previously.
• After downloading an attachment, a button will appear, to open the file using the default program from the user's desktop environment. So if a post has audio attached, after saving it, an "Open" button will appear (right side of the screenshot), and clicking it will open the file with Amarok, Qmmp, VLC, or whatever your default audio player is =)
• Added buttons to rotate images in the image viewer. Also via keyboard, with Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right. This is mostly for the case of images uploaded upside down, or not taken in the right direction for whatever reason. (Lower part of the screenshot)

Also, building Dianara with Qt 5 is officially supported now. Note that your system will need a Qt 5 build of the QOAuth library, which most GNU/linux distributions still don't provide. Mageia 6 does, and so does openSUSE (in a separate repository).

If your system's language is German, you'll also have a full German translation, thanks to @Bd Sn, who got the translation up to date again!

As always, code here: gitlab.com/dianara/dianara-dev, and instructions to build in the INSTALL file.

Testing and feedback is appreciated =)

Cheers!

Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project created to extend the life of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years.

Thanks to the LTS sponsors, Debian's buildd maintainers and the Debian FTP Team are excited to announce that two new architectures, armel and armhf, are going to be supported in Debian 7 Wheezy LTS. These architectures along with i386 and amd64 will receive two additional years of extended security support.

Security updates for Debian LTS are not handled by the native Debian Security Team, but instead by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success.

Wheezy's LTS period started a few weeks ago and more than thirty updates have been announced so far. If you use Debian 7 Wheezy, you do not need to change anything in your system to start receiving those updates.

More information about how to use Debian Long Term Support and other important changes regarding Wheezy LTS is available at https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using

A moment of nostalgia…



Inspired by a comment from one of our reader, Ivan Petrushev

Petter Reinholdtsen recently blogged about ZFS availability in Debian. Many people have worked hard on getting ZFS support available in Debian and we would like to thank everyone involved in getting to this point and explain what ZFS in Debian means.

The landing of ZFS in the Debian archive was blocked for years due to licensing problems. Finally, the inclusion of ZFS was announced slightly more than a year ago, on April 2015 by the DPL at the time, Lucas Nussbaum who wrote "We received legal advice from Software Freedom Law Center about the inclusion of libdvdcss and ZFS in Debian, which should unblock the situation in both cases and enable us to ship them in Debian soon.". In January this year, the following DPL, Neil McGovern blogged with a lot of more details about the legal situation behind this and summarized it as "TLDR: It’s going in contrib, as a source only dkms module."

ZFS is not available exactly in Debian, since Debian is only what's included in the "main" section archive. What people really meant here is that ZFS code is now in included in "contrib" and it's available for users using DKMS.

Many people also mixed this with Ubuntu now including ZFS. However, Debian and Ubuntu are not doing the same, Ubuntu is shipping directly pre-built kernel modules, something that is considered to be a GPL violation. As the Software Freedom Conservancy wrote "while licensed under an acceptable license for Debian's Free Software Guidelines, also has a default use that can cause licensing problems for downstream Debian users".

Hello there!

If you're new to the Pump network, take a look at our basic user guide (work in progress)!

From there, you can access other documentation, like the frequently asked questions, or the list of clients and services, which will let you get a lot more out of your Pump account!

Cheers!