Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries tagged english

It is said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, a quote often attributed to the American philosopher George Santayana.

After seeing a video a few months ago demonstrating how a proprietary CAM solution uses machine learning and large language models to automatically generate CNC instructions, and successfully testing it on a real CNC, I began wondering if the same could be

A while back, I came across the AI Fabric system created by Daniel Miessler.

At last, I can run my own large language model artificial idiocy generator at home on a Debian testing host using Debian packages directly from the Debian archive.

The LinuxCNC project continues to thrive.

On Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending a presentation organized by the Norwegian Unix Users Group on implementing RISC-V using a small FPGA.

I guess it is about time I posted a new summary of the free software and open culture activites and projects I have been involved in the last year.

After some days of effort, I am happy to report that the great interactive application firewall OpenSnitch got a new version in Trixie, now with the Linux kernel based ebpf sniffer included for better accuracy.

Sadly, the interactive application firewall OpenSnitch have in practice been unmaintained in Debian for a while.

A few months ago, I found myself in the unfortunate position that I had to try to recover the password used to encrypt a Linux hard drive.

Following the 1.2.0beta1 release two weeks ago, a final 1.2.0 release of theora was wrapped up today.

When I a few days ago discovered that a security problem reported against the theora library last year was still not fixed, and because I was already up to speed on Xiph development, I decided it was time to wrap up a new theora release.

Since my motivation boost in the beginning of the month caused me to wrap up a new release of liboggz, I have used the same boost to wrap up new editions of libfishsound, liboggplay and libkate too.

It is a while since I posted a summary of the free software and open culture activities and projects I have worked on.

A little over a week ago, I noticed the liboggz package on my Debian dashboard had not had a new upstream release for a while.

For some years now, I have been working on a automatic hardware based package recommendation system for Debian and other Linux distributions.

Seven and twelve years ago, I measured what the most supported MIME type in Debian was, first by analysing the desktop files in all packages in the archive, then by analysing the DEP-11 AppStream data set.

The LinuxCNC project is trotting along.

The rumors of the death of the lsdvd project is slightly exaggerated.

In April, I started migrating orphaned Debian packages without any version control system listed in debian/control to git.

The Norwegian The LinuxCNC developer gathering 2024 is over.

The LinuxCNC project is still going strong.

Nine days ago, I started migrating orphaned Debian packages with no version control system listed in debian/control of the source to git.

I am happy to report that the megactl package, useful to fetch RAID status when using the LSI Megaraid controller, now is available in Debian.

There are several packages in Debian without a associated git repository with the packaging history.

A while back I wrote a small script to extract the Bitcoin transactions in a wallet in the ledger plain text accounting format.

The last few days I have revisited RAID setup using the LSI Megaraid controller.

Today, the animation figure Mickey Mouse finally was released from the corporate copyright prison, as the 1928 movie Steamboat Willie entered the public domain in USA.

The other day I uploaded a new version of the VLC bittorrent plugin to Debian, version 2.14-4, to fix a few packaging issues.

For a while now I wanted to have direct access to the Signal database of messages and channels of my Desktop edition of Signal.

The chrpath package provide a simple command line tool to remove or modify the rpath or runpath of compiled ELF program.

All the books I have published so far has been using DocBook somewhere in the process.

I still enjoy Kodi and LibreELEC as my multimedia center at home.

With yesterdays release of Debian 12 Bookworm, I am happy to know the the interactive application firewall OpenSnitch is available for a wider audience.

There is a European standard for reading utility meters like water, gas, electricity or heat distribution meters.

The LinuxCNC project is making headway these days.

A bit delayed, the interactive application firewall OpenSnitch package in Debian now got the latest fixes ready for Debian Bookworm.

While visiting a convention during Easter, it occurred to me that it would be great if I could have a digital Dictaphone with transcribing capabilities, providing me with texts to cut-n-paste into stuff I need to write.

Today I finally found time to track down a useful radio frequency scanner for my software defined radio.

Thanks to the efforts of the OpenSnitch lead developer Gustavo Iñiguez Goya allowing me to sponsor the upload, the interactive application firewall OpenSnitch is now available in Debian Testing, soon to become the next stable release of Debian.

Linux desktop systems have standardized how programs present themselves to the desktop system.

While reading a blog post claiming MacOS X recently started scanning local files and reporting information about them to Apple, even on a machine where all such callback features had been disabled, I came across a description of the Little Snitch applicat…

I watched a 2015 video from Andreas Schiffler the other day, where he set up LinuxCNC to send status information to the MQTT broker IBM Bluemix.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Recently I have been looking at how to control and collect data from a handful IP cameras using Linux.

(The picture is of the previous edition.)

While working on a CNC with servo motors controlled by the LinuxCNC PID controller, I recently had to learn how to tune the collection of values that control such mathematical machinery that a PID controller is.

I guess it is time to bring some light on the various free software and open culture activities and projects I have worked on or been involved in the last year and a half.

Back in oktober last year, when I started looking at the LinuxCNC system, I proposed to change the documentation build system make life easier for translators.

Recently I wanted to upgrade the firmware of my thinkpad, and located the firmware download page from Lenovo (which annoyingly do not allow access via Tor, forcing me to hand them more personal information that I would like).