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The Anarcat ☛ Antoine Beaupré: Encrypting a Debian install with UKI
I originally setup a machine without any full disk encryption, then somehow regretted it quickly after. My original reasoning was that this was a "play" machine so I wanted as few restrictions on accessing the machine as possible, which meant removing passwords, mostly.
I actually ended up having a user password, but disabled the lock screen. Then I started using the device to manage my photo collection, and suddenly there was a lot of "confidential" information on the device that I didn't want to store in clear text anymore.
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Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 14.6.3-1 on CRAN: Minor Upstream Bug Fixes
widely used by (currently) 1268 other packages on CRAN, downloaded 41 million times / vignette) by Conrad and myself has been cited 642 times according
Conrad made three minor bug fix releases since the 4.6.0 release last month. We need to pace releases at CRAN so we do not immediately upload there on each upstream release—and then CRAN also had the usual (and well-deserved) summer rest leading to a slight delay relative to the last upstream. The minor changes in the three releases are summarized below. All our releases are always available via the GitHub repo and hence also via r-universe, and still rigorously tested via our own reverse-dependency checks. We also note that the package once again passed with flying colours and no human intervention which remains impressive given the over 1200 reverse dependencies.
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Ubuntu Family
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LWN ☛ Adding stubble to Ubuntu's generic Arm64 Desktop ISOs
Tobias Heider has written an article that explains changes that are coming for Ubuntu's generic Arm64 desktop ISO images in the 25.10 release. The current solution, Heider says, depends on GRUB features that are unavailable in secure boot mode and require adding device-specific logic to multiple packages. The new solution, called stubble, is derived from systemd-stub: [...]
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