today's leftovers
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Built With a Purpose: Puppet in Debian
At the Tor Project, we're always on the lookout for opportunities to contribute back to the communities around the platforms and tools we depend on to keep the lights on. Puppet and Debian are two such projects, so we're happy to announce that the upcoming Debian stable release, codename bookworm, will deliver an up-to-date suite of Puppet software thanks to the efforts of the Tor Project!
A year ago, TPA (AKA Tor Project sysadmin Team) started planning an upgrade of our fleet of nearly 100 Debian machines to the latest stable release, bullseye. One item of concern was that not only were the Puppet packages in Debian bullseye already nearly end-of-life (version 5.5), but the PuppetDB package was also now missing entirely from the distribution. At this point it seemed the only feasible option would be to migrate our entire Puppet infrastructure to the vendor-supplied packages.
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Raspberry Pi Adds Second Laptop Monitor
If you have a cheap laptop and you realize you can’t connect a second monitor to it, what do you do? Well, if you are [Pierre Couy], you grab a Raspberry Pi and put together a virtual screen solution.
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Despite What You’ve Heard, Open Source 101 Isn’t Just for Newbies
If you live within driving distance of Charlotte, North Carolina and don’t have any plans for next Thursday (that’s March 23), you might want to make plans to attend Open Source 101 2023. It’s a single day conference, meaning that if you’re coming from Raleigh, Greensboro, or Asheville you won’t have to stay away from home overnight.
Don’t let the fact that it’s being billed as an “introduction to open source” event keep you away. By my way of thinking, if you’re like most of us, there are probably plenty of aspects to open source that are not generally in your everyday wheelhouse. Here’s your chance to do some catching up in these areas, without needing to have a whole lot of knowledge when walking in the door.
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2023 Edition
Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to quash at least 74 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and software. Two of those flaws are already being actively attacked, including an especially severe weakness in Microsoft Outlook that can be exploited without any user interaction.