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The Linux project's view is that almost all kernel bugs are security vulnerabilities. They don't treat something like this as anything special. I can understand that PoV, but it do…

As far as we can tell, nobody disclosed it to the distributions, only to the kernel security team (who did not reach out to distributions). So the distributions are all scrambling …

Debian has epochs, but it's a bad idea to use them for this purpose. Two reasons: 1. Once you bump the epoch, you have to use it forever. 2. The deb filename often doesn't contain …

If you have a system-level installed pypy, the pypy equivalent is: python3 -m venv -p pypy3 venv source venv/bin/activate python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip python3 -m pip instal…

> What is it with them which makes them feel entitled to have special "dist-packages" vs "site-packages" as is the default? This drives me nuts, when I have a bunch of native packa…

> firmware updates for BIOS among other things There's a growing distro-agnostic solution here, LVFS fwupd https://fwupd.org/

Looks like the problem was somewhere between noris.net and hetzner - so it was unaccessable from some bits of the net.