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These days it’s straightforward to have reasonably secure, automatic decryption of your root filesystem at boot time on Debian 12. Here’s how I did it on an existing system which already had a stock kernel, secure boot enabled, grub2 and an encrypted root filesystem with the passphrase in key slot 0. There’s no need...

This was my hundred-twenty-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. I worked on updates for ffmpeg and haproxy in all releases. Along the way I marked more CVEs as not-affected than I had to fix. So finally there was no upload needed for haproxy anymore....

I upgraded to Debian testing/trixie, and my network printer stopped appearing in print dialogs. These are notes from the debugging session.I tried out kde, which installed plasma-firewall, which installed firewalld, which closed by default the ports used for printing.For extra fun, appindicators are not working in G...