For some time, Pure Data (Pd) has a package manager (deken). While the package manager can be installed as an addon, since Pd-0.47 it is included in the main application itself.

Here's an overview on which version of the package manager is shipped with which Pd.

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My beloved Pure Data (Pd) used Tcl/Tk as it's GUI engine. Whenever I hack on the Pd-GUI, I wonder which Tcl/Tk compatibility I need to take care of.
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We've been using Mailman to host our mailing lists for decades. Since Mailman2 has become obsolete a while ago, it's time to move to Mailman3.
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Yesterday's post discussed our first version of virt-clonefast, implemented in POSIX shell. For better error handling and option parsing, here's an implementation in our favourite programming language ...
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We are currently in the process of migrating our VM-based builders from VirtualBox to libvirt/KVM. Our target VMs are some Windows10 hosts that have a 100GB harddisk. Using virt-clone to duplicate our master VM for the actual build process needs to copy the entire disk, which takes much too long, even on decent …
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For building Windows binaries on our CI infrastructure, we are using VirtualBox VMs on an oldish Linux host.

While this works, building takes forever...

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Before my GPG-Key expired, I need to refresh it's expiration date. And push the changed key to various places (local and online).

My key fingerprint is 7405E745574809734800156DB65019C47F7A36F8,

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Gmail recently blocked a legit email originating from my server. It seems they have again raised the bar to be able to use their services, and it's time to setup DKIM signing for my private server (running Exim4).
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Due to the increasing amount of classic mail providers (including, e.g. gmail) requiring a proper SPF/DKIM/DMARC setup to accept mails, the DSA team (the Debian System Administrators, that run the Debian infrastructure) has set up an SMTP submission server. This blog explains how to use it with Exim4.
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Brief aus Osimgrad

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