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  • WordPress 6.9 for Debian

    The Debian packages for WordPress version 6.9 were uploaded today. The upstream website says you can add notes and move graphics around, making for an easier and nicer editing experience. I’m not personally sure about that, generally if things change to much people get annoyed but it seems at least the initial simple stuff has…

  • epoll on pidfd

    The Linux kernel has an interesting file descriptor called pidfd. As the name imples, it is a file descriptor to a pid or a specific process. The nice thing about it is that is guaranteed to be for the specific process you expected when you got that pidfd. A process ID, or PID, has no…

  • Debian WordPress 6.5

    Today I have updated the Debian WordPress packages to version 6.5. Not exactly sure what has changed, but they’re very excited over on the WordPress site about fonts and templates. I don’t think I’m selling it well, so hop over to the WordPress 6.5 Announcement for the real details.

  • Debian WordPress 6.4.1

    Debian WordPress 6.4.1 packages!

  • Devices with cgroup v2

    I was curious to find out how containers have restricted access to devices. For cgroup v1 this is simple, but cgroup v2 uses eBPF. Find out what device access a container has with 3 easy and 1 difficult steps.

  • Fixing iCalendar feeds

    Many sites allow you to synchronize to their calendar loosely following the iCalendar standard. Unforutunately many set the time for all day events, with a quick and dirty PHP script you can fix this.

  • WordPress 6.1

    Debian will soon have WordPress version 6.1 I’m not really sure of the improvements, but there is a new 2023 theme as part of the update. They really weren’t mucking around when they said the 6.0.3 security release would be short-lived. The updates seem to be focused on content creation and making the formatting do…

  • Linux Memory Statistics

    What does Used memory in Linux actually mean and how this concept has changed over the years.

  • WordPress 5.8.2 Debian packages

    After a bit of a delay, WordPress version 5.8.2 packages should be available now. This is a minor update from 5.8.1 which fixes two bugs but not the security bug. The security bug is due to WordPress shipping its own CA store, which is a list of certificates it trusts to sign for websites. Debian…

  • Fediverse Test Three

    This supposedly will go out to the fediverse if I can fix wp-cron.