Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 18

I am sad (but feel my duty) to inform the world that we will not be providing a Drupal 8 package in Debian. I filed an Intent To Package bug a very long time ago, intending to ship it with Jessie; Drupal 8 was so deep a change that it took their community overly long to achieve and stabilize. Still, Drupal 8 was released over a year ago today. I started working on debianizing the package shortly afterwards. There is also some online evidence – As my call for help sent through this same blog. I have been too busy...

At the beginning of this year, Irene Soria invited me to start a series of talks on the topic of hacker ethics, security and surveillance. I presented a talk titled Cryptography and identity: Not everything is anonymity. The talk itself is recorded and available in archive.org (sidenote: I find it amazing that Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana uses archive.org as their main multimedia publishing platform!) But as part of this excercise, Irene invited me to write a chapter for a book covering the series. And, yes, she delivered! So, finally, we will have the book presentation: I know, not...

Given that I started the GR process, and that I called for discussion and votes, I feel somehow as my duty to also put a simple wrap-around to this process. Of course, I’ll say many things already well-known to my fellow Debian people, but also non-debianers read this. So, for further context, if you need to, please read my previous blog post, where I was about to send a call for votes. It summarizes the situation and proposals; you will find we had a nice set of messages in debian-vote@lists.debian.org during September; I have to thank all the involved parties,...

For the non-Debian people among my readers: The following post presents bits of the decision-taking process in the Debian project. You might find it interesting, or terribly dull and boring :-) Proceed at your own risk. My reason for posting this entry is to get more people to read the accompanying options for my proposed General Resolution (GR), and have as full a ballot as possible. Almost three weeks ago, I sent a mail to the debian-vote mailing list. I’m quoting it here in full: Some weeks ago, Nicolas Dandrimont proposed a GR for declassifying debian-private[1]. In the course of...

For the readers of my blog that happen to be in Mexico City, I was invited to give a talk at Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Ciudad Universitaria, UNAM. I will be at Auditorio Marcos Moshinsky, on August 26 starting at 13:00. Auditorio Marcos Moshinsky is where we met for the early (~1996-1997) Mexico Linux User Group meetings. And… Wow. I’m amazed to realize it’s been twenty years that I arrived there, young and innocent, the newest of what looked like a sect obsessed with world domination and a penguin fetish. Attachments llavero_chico.png (221 KB) llavero_orig.png (1678 KB)

Attachments Presentation (PDF) (12348 KB) Sources for the presentation (Emacs org-mode v7 ⇒ LaTeX Beamer) (14856 KB)

As I have said here a couple of times already, I am teaching a diploma course on embedded Linux at UNAM, and one of the modules I’m teaching (with Sandino Araico) is the boot process. We focus on ARM for obvious reasons, and while I have done my reading on the topic, I am very far from considering myself an expert. So, after attending Martin Michlmayr’s «Debian on ARM devices» talk, I decided to do its subtitles as part of my teaching job. This talk gives a great panorama on what actually has to happen in order to get an...

So cheap we didn’t even have to lie about their value! Went through South African customs unmolested.