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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from May 2023</title>
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  10                 <title>The 2023 LinuxCNC Norwegian developer gathering</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The LinuxCNC project is making headway these days.  A lot of
  15 patches and issues have seen activity on
  16 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/&quot;&gt;the project github
  17 pages&lt;/a&gt; recently.  A few weeks ago there was a developer gathering
  18 over at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tormach.com/&quot;&gt;Tormach&lt;/a&gt; headquarter in
  19 Wisconsin, and now we are planning a new gathering in Norway.  If you
  20 wonder what LinuxCNC is, lets quote Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;
  21
  22 &lt;blockquote&gt;
  23 &quot;LinuxCNC is a software system for numerical control of
  24 machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma cutters, routers,
  25 cutting machines, robots and hexapods. It can control up to 9 axes or
  26 joints of a CNC machine using G-code (RS-274NGC) as input. It has
  27 several GUIs suited to specific kinds of usage (touch screen,
  28 interactive development).&quot;
  29 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  30
  31 &lt;p&gt;The Norwegian developer gathering take place the weekend June 16th
  32 to 18th this year, and is open for everyone interested in contributing
  33 to LinuxCNC.  Up to date information about the gathering can be found
  34 in
  35 &lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/p/emc/mailman/emc-developers/thread/sa64jp06nob.fsf%40hjemme.reinholdtsen.name/#msg37837251&quot;&gt;the
  36 developer mailing list thread&lt;/a&gt; where the gathering was announced.
  37 Thanks to the good people at
  38 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;,
  39 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.redpill-linpro.com/&quot;&gt;Redpill-Linpro&lt;/a&gt; and
  40 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuugfoundation.no/no/&quot;&gt;NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt;, we
  41 have enough sponsor funds to pay for food, and shelter for the people
  42 traveling from afar to join us.  If you would like to join the
  43 gathering, get in touch.&lt;/p&gt;
  44
  45 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  46 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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  52                 <title>OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time</title>
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  55                 <pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
  56                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A bit delayed,
  57 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/opensnitch&quot;&gt;the interactive
  58 application firewall OpenSnitch&lt;/a&gt; package in Debian now got the
  59 latest fixes ready for Debian Bookworm.  Because it depend on a
  60 package missing on some architectures, the autopkgtest check of the
  61 testing migration script did not understand that the tests were
  62 actually working, so the migration was delayed.  A bug in the package
  63 dependencies is also fixed, so those installing the firewall package
  64 (opensnitch) now also get the GUI admin tool (python3-opensnitch-ui)
  65 installed by default.  I am very grateful to Gustavo Iñiguez Goya for
  66 his work on getting the package ready for Debian Bookworm.&lt;/p&gt;
  67
  68 &lt;p&gt;Armed with this package I have discovered some surprising
  69 connections from programs I believed were able to work completly
  70 offline, and it has already proven its worth, at least to me.  If you
  71 too want to get more familiar with the kind of programs using
  72 Internett connections on your machine, I recommend testing &lt;tt&gt;apt
  73 install opensnitch&lt;/tt&gt; in Bookworm and see what you think.&lt;/p&gt;
  74
  75 &lt;p&gt;The package is still not able to build its eBPF module within
  76 Debian.  Not sure how much work it would be to get it working, but
  77 suspect some kernel related packages need to be extended with more
  78 header files to get it working.&lt;/p&gt;
  79
  80 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  81 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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