Once again I had the opportunity to attend the global LibreOffice Conference, this time, its 2026 edition. It was very nice to see some friends again. This time it was held in Pordenone, Italy, hosted by Unipordenone (Consorzio Universitario di Pordenone) and the PNLUG (Pordenone Linux User Group). Thanks to The Document Foundation for the ... Leer más
Read more →En la primera parte de esta serie, vimos cómo un simple one-liner de Bash para limpiar espacio evolucionó hasta convertirse en Smart Backup, una herramienta de más de 400 líneas en Python. Muchos me p
Read more →This post is an unpublished review for The Origins of GPU Computing This article appears in the “Communications of the ACM” magazine as part of a series devoting to showcasing relevant examples of technologies where federal funding of academic research have resulted in widely impacting, clearly identifiable technological advances that have visibly improved –or, at least, changed– life far beyond the technological arena. The road leading from the first parallel computing technologies built...
Read more →Earlier tonight, my desktop fired a notification: upstream had tagged a new release for one of the packages I maintain in Fedora Copr. My background auditor had caught the new release tag from an Atom feed, compared it against my local RPM spec, and alerted me. Yet nothing was committed …
Read more →A veces, un día festivo es el pretexto perfecto para darle mantenimiento a nuestros propios sistemas. Recientemente, mi partición /home llegó a ese crítico 99% de uso, y lo que empezó como un simple o
Read more →Está disponible ALDOS 1.4.22 ( ALDOS-1.4.22-x86_64-20260914.iso ). Este lanzamiento incorpora mejoras relevantes y nuevas funcionalidades en una imagen viva actualizada al 14 de septiembre de 2026. Como es costumbre, los usuarios de ALDOS que actualizan su sistema periódicamente probablemente ya estén utilizando esta versión, ya que ALDOS es una distribución Linux de lanzamiento continuo ( rolling release ). La nueva imagen ISO está destinada...
Read more →I believe that, in the context of Debian voting, we are better off when we know the opinion of our peers, however, since the 2022-001 vote , it is no longer the case. Still, some DDs have disclosed the way they are voting on the 2026-002 General Resolution currently in progress, regarding LLM usage in Debian . So, here goes my vote and reasoning as briefly as possible. This is the ballot I sent to devotee , the Debian Vote Engine : -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines...
Read more →Hoy me topé con un artículo bien fregón publicado por Sreenath en It's FOSS : Looking Beyond Tmux and Screen: 8 Terminal Multiplexers Worth Trying . De entrada, quiero darle todo el crédito a ese gran artículo y a su autor. La neta, te invito a que vayas y le eches un …
Read more →Ohai, I have some pending, encrypted mails to answer. And some of my answers for the next few days (particularly to what pertains to the current in-discussion vote on LLM usage in Debian ) will be unsigned, even though I’d like otherwise. My desktop system at work is showing some data corruption, and I’m slowly backing up my data. Fortunately, it seems I haven’t lost any data, but still, given I’m letting rsync run until it starts spewing I/O errors, then power down and let the machine cool a...
Read more →Dicen que hay dos tipos de usuarios de Linux: los que ya han destruido su tabla de particiones por error y los que están a punto de hacerlo. En su momento, mientras preparaba una imagen para una Raspb
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