Fixing mate-terminal URL highlighting
Update 2020-04-17: Both of my patches have been included upstream and in the Debian package 1.4.0-3, so I removed the packages from my own space. One of the recent updates in Debian swept in...
Author: Norbert Preining
Brave broken (on Debian?)
Update a few hours later: an update came in, version 1.7.62, which fixed this misbehavior!!!! I have been using the Brave browser now for many months without any problem, in particular I use the...
Okular and restoration of tabs (plus Debian packages)
I have the need to restore my okular tab setup on restart, since I often have quite a lot of pdfs open to view at the same time. Unfortunately, the current okular doesn’t provide...
Changing cinnamon’s lockscreen background
Recently I want to have a different background image on the desktop and the lock screen. With my preferred desktop environment, Cinnamon, I found that this is not planned for, how disappointing. Searching the...
Gaming: The Turing Test
In a world without Portal and The Talos Principle, The Turing Test would have been a great game. Fortunately there is Portal and The Talos Principle, which leaves The Turing Test as an interesting...
QOwnNotes for Debian
QOwnNotes is a cross-platform plain text and markdown note taking application. By itself, it wouldn’t be something to talk about, we have vim and emacs and everything in between. But QOwnNotes integrates nicely with...
Okular update for Debian
Update 20200304: okular is updated in Debian, so I rebased my packages onto the Debian work, added my tab-restore patch, and made new packages! The quest for a good tabbed pdf viewer lead me...
MuPDF, QPDFView and other Debian updates
Update 2020-02-24: The default Debian packages for pupdf and pymupdf have been updated to the current version (or newer), and thus I have removed the packages from my repo. Thanks to the maintainers for...
CafeOBJ 1.6.0 released
We have released version 1.6.0 of CafeOBJ, an algebraic specification and verification language. This release incorporates the following changes: CITP is officially renamed to PTCalc documents are not updated yet PTCalc(CITP) enhancements :init defined...
Debian package updates preining.info: Digikam (6.4 and 7), Elixir, Kitty, Certbot
Update 2020-02-20: I have removed digikam (version 6.4 and 7) since they are all now available in Debian itself. I have updated some of the Debian packages distributed at https://www.preining.info/debian/, the complete list as...
SUSI.AI release 20200120: Desktop and Smart Speaker
More than a month has passed, but the winter holidays allowed me to update, fix, and stream line a lot of corners in SUSI.AI. And above all, work on a desktop version that can...
Switching audio output devices for OpenAL based software
When playing a few rounds of Talos Principle, I realized I cannot get the sound output to my USB headphones. Selecting a different sink never worked. It was only in a forum post that...
Let’s Encrypt on Debian/Buster: switching from acmetool to certbot
I have been using acmetool on my Buster server for quite some time. When choosing a client I liked that it is written in Go, that it is small and not overboarding with features,...
Debian and the privileged “gender class” some privileged people
I realized that I was doing the same failure as others attacking me of being transphobe because I criticize one trans person, that is extrapolating from one bad example to a larger class. I...
Debian breaking Unison (again)
Congratulations – Debian/sid now contains a unison binary that is incompatible with Debian/buster, the stable release. That means, everyone who relies on unison for file synchronization across servers (running buster) and development machines (running...
Python 3 deprecation imminent
OSS Journal, November 2026. In less than two month, with the end of the year 2026, Python 3 will be deprecated and will not obtain any further security updates. Despite the announcement of deprecation...
