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free software maintainer complaints
by Brian E. Lavender 02 Oct '26

02 Oct '26

LibXml2 seems to be one of those un glorious packages to maintain. I saw the following posted by a project maintainer. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913 His observations on disclosing security vulnerabilities seem to be interesting. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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September social meetup
by Brian E. Lavender 16 Sep '26

16 Sep '26

We will meet at Kupros this month. https://www.saclug.org/articles/2026/september-2026.html 1217 21st Street Sacramento, CA 95811 6:30pm Tuesday, September 15, 2026 See you there. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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hyperkitty now has the local time for archived messages
by Brian E. Lavender 23 Aug '26

23 Aug '26

I was looking at messages on the web archive for lug-nuts and the times were shown in UTC. I put in the local timezone TIME_ZONE = 'America/Los_Angeles' Messages show as posted as our local timezone. My most recent post. https://bigbrie.com/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/lug-nuts@bigbrie.com/thread/O2… woo hoo Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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scale java app
by Brian E. Lavender 20 Aug '26

20 Aug '26

Java swing apps such as the MARS assembly simulator show tiny when I run it on my 2k screen. I found the following will scale it. https://dpetersanderson.github.io/index.html scale java app ``` java -jar -Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2.0 Mars4_5.jar ``` I think there is another way to scale it? Someone know. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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irc channel
by Brian E. Lavender 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

I created #saclug on libera chat. I am not sure if I created it correctly. Check it out! -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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systemd-nspawn
by Gary 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

I had this security model where everything internet facing was in a VM. Multiple VM's. Banks and other financial institutions are starting to lock me out because they are fingerprinting me and see that I am in a VM. I managed to confirm that, for example, Etrade, looks at WebGL and my vidio card/GPU, as a minimum. I've been looking around and systemd-nspawn looks like it might be a good option. Does anyone have any experience with it? -Gary

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August saclug meeting
by Brian E. Lavender 16 Aug '26

16 Aug '26

SacLUG meetup is Tuesday at Kupros starting at 6:30pm. See you there. https://www.saclug.org/articles/2026/august-2026.html I will bring my notes on the Debian update from Bullseye to Bookworm. brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Coder consortium tonight
by Kevin Brisson 06 Aug '26

06 Aug '26

6:30 - 8:30 bloom work spaces I will be there. Kevin

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another update to exim4 for mailman
by Brian E. Lavender 03 Aug '26

03 Aug '26

Can someone attempt to post from a gmail account? I updated some tls settings for the letsencrypt certs that mailman is using. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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proxmox
by Brian E. Lavender 29 Jul '26

29 Jul '26

One of our new members, forget his name, works with proxmox. https://proxmox.com/en/ I have not worked with it, yet I see that it is built upon Debian. Any comments? I thought that it looked interesting. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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