FFmpeg – tips and tricks
Over the years, and in particular with preparing videos of a conference for publication on YouTube, I have accumulated a few reminders how to do things with FFmpeg. It is such a fantastic beast...
KDE/Plasma for Debian – Update 2022/11
Monthly update on KDE/Plasma on Debian: Updates to Frameworks and KDE Gears Short summary of recent changes and updates: Frameworks updated to 5.99.0 Plasma 5.24 LTS (repo plasma524) has been updated to the latest...
Debian complaining to KDE …
So now some Debian boohoos are complaining about my blog which is aggregated at Planet KDE, directly to KDE, how nice. They were bothered by the following statement: Usual disclaimer: (1) Considering that I...
KDE/Plasma for Debian – Update 2022/8
Monthly update on KDE/Plasma on Debian: Updates to Frameworks and KDE Gears I have packaged KDE Gears 22.08 as well as the latest frameworks, and Plasma got a point release. The status is as...
Enrico Zini on DAM and “responsability”
The one single person within Debian who has worked for years to get me ostracized and thrown out of Debian is … Enrico Zini. Probably because I made a joke about him and his...
KDE/Plasma for Debian – Update 2022/7
(Update 2022-07-14: Plasma 5.25 now also available for Debian/stable) Long time I haven’t posted a lot about KDE/Plasma for Debian, most people will know the reason. But I have anyway updated my repos at...
Key validity extension of OBS repository
Yesterday, the signing key of my OBS repositories has expired (I didn’t know they do). I have the validity extended now. To fix errors with access to the repos, please download the updated key...
KDE Gears 22.04 and Plasma 5.24.5 for Debian
I have updated my OBS builds to contain the new KDE Gears 22.04 as well as the last point release of KDE Plasma 5.24.5. As usual, the packages are provided via my OBS builds....
TLContrib on CTAN
Since a few years I am also managing tlcontrib – the supplementary TeX Live package repository. It contains quite a lot of packages which cannot make it into TeX Live proper out of various...
TeX Live 2022 released
Get the Champagne ready, we have released the final images of TeX Live 2022. This year’s TeX Live release was one of the most unspectacular I can remember. No big problems, not last minute...
Packages for Debian: KDE/Plasma, RSSguard, et al
As mentioned in this post, most of my activity around Debian has come to a complete halt (Send your thanks to da-manager@debian.org!). Since I still have a few computers running Debian, I keep maintaining...
NVEnc for Arch Linux
I have been using NVEnc – a NVIDIA hardware based encoder – for quite some time now. Mostly because I was pointed to it by FastFlix, one of the best video en/recoding frontend programs...
KDE/Plasma 5.24 for Debian
Yesterday, KDE released version 5.24 of the Plasma desktop with the usual long list of updates and improvements. This release will be considered a LTS release. And Plasma 5.24 is now available for all...
Mechanical keyboards: Pulsar PCMK
Mechanical keyboards – the big fat rabbit hole you can disappear … I started using mechanical keyboards about a year ago, with a Drevo Blademaster Pro (review coming up), but recently got a Pulsar...
Future of “my” packages in Debian
After having been (again) demoted (timed perfectly to my round birthday!) based on flimsy arguments, I have been forced to rethink the level of contribution I want to do for Debian. Considering in particular...
