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Future of vmdb2: need help
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callisto: free, experimental CI server, initially for Rust projects
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Human vs JSON output formatting: avoid mixing concerns
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Why I use Debian
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riki page names and internal links
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Implementing an ikiwiki subset in Rust
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Using Radicle CI for Development
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Command line interfaces in Rust
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Framework 13 inch AMD and HP Thunderbolt4 Dock G4
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Why does Debian change software?
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Interviewed on the Open Source Security podcast
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Obnam, again
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I don't like Docker or Podman
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Backup software implementation, part 7
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A QEMU question regarding user mode networking
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Backup software implementation, part 6
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Backup software implementation, part 5
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Error messages when running programs in Rust
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Backup software implementation, part 4
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Backup software implementation, part 3
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Ambient, a CI engine
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Backup software implementation, part 2
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Backup software implementation
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Framework 13 AMD, first impressions
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Software supply roles
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Checklist for primary laptop
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Debian Git monorepo
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vmdb2 version 0.40 released
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40 years as a programmer
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Billion file filesystem
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The XY solution
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De-duplicating $PATH
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New PGP key, and practice around it
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Updated my GTD introduction guide
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Why is Debian the way it is?
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Tickets, issues, tasks
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New job: Radicle
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vmdb2 and v-i releases
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Using clap to build nice command line interfaces
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CI annoyances
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'The early days of Linux' on LWN
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Tricking your brain to get things done
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Rant: year of Linux on the desktop
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Can you run your test suite successfully 1000 times in a row?
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Keyboardio Model100 keyboard: review at one month
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Rust training for FOSS devs: November 20
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Rust training for FOSS devs: how did it go?
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Rust training for FOSS programmers
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Not breaking things is hard
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v-i version 0.2: non-interactive Debian installer for bare metal machines
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On home Internet routers
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Obnam 0.8.0 - encrypting backup program
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Rust training
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Unix command line conventions over time
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Release notes: why and how?
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On Linus's Law
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A year of README reviews
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v-i 0.1, a Debian installer using vmdb2
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Insert a million rows into Sqlite, from Rust
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sq stakeholder interviews: summary
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Subplot talk at FOSDEM
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Security ratchet
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My split external brain
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We're breaking Subplot for a while
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A custom Debian installer: v-i
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Obnam 0.6.0 released: encrypting backup program
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Obnam 0.5.0 released: encrypting backup program
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User guide for Sequoia sq: feedback please
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Essay on re-thinking email
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I work on Sequoia-PGP now
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Tilde expansion in Rust
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SSH host identity certification
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Subplot 0.2.2 released—acceptance testing tool
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I installed Debian on a Thinkpad X220
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Please try Subplot, for acceptance criteria
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Obnam version 0.4.0: encrypting backup program
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Sponsored-by proposal
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Vulnerability testing of patch review processes in FOSS
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Book club: Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: An fMRI Study
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Debian disappointment
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Obnam iteration planning: April 18—April 25
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I'd like to review your README
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The leadership problem for free software
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Book club: Hillel Wayne's What we know we don't know
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Obnam version 0.3.0: backup program
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vmadm: helping me manage my local libvirt VMs
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The XDG base directory specification and Rust
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On planning and estimating software development work
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Asymptotic awesomeness
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Obnam2 version 0.2.2, backup program: an alpha version
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Backup interchange format
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Why write Obnam?
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Counting Obnam users
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My test setup for my Ansible roles
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Obnam2 - a new backup system
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On Digital Ocean's Hacktoberfest
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A billion files
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Book club: Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning by Mozilla
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Transfer speeds
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Book club: The communicative value of using Git well
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I miss inboxes
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Rethinking email: the spam problem
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Book club: Latacora -- Stop using encrypted email
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Contractor: build software more securely
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Godwin on empowering people
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What people like or hate about email
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Demo site for how I journal
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Alternative Debian installer based on vmdb2: v-i
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Security isolation in CI engines
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Subplot volunteers? (Acceptance testing tool)
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Why Debian isn't fun for me
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Date formats in international contexts
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Free software development doesn't have to be awful
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Code coverage is almost pointless for tests
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Review: Keyboardio Model 01 keyboard
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The reMarkable tablet: a review
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Subplot - new name for acceptance testing tool
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Fable for acceptance testing
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Debian and the SKS signature flooding attack
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Dijkstra was only partially correct about testing
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Two guys walk into a bar... to talk about debugging
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On learning Rust and Go: migrating away from Python
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On deep, constructive online discussions about technical topics
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Starting new project: Yuck (an identity provider)
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Unit test coverage and confidence
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Thanking authors of the free software you use
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Roadmap visualisation
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Retiring from Debian
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Idea for a Debian QA service: monitoring install size with dependencies
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Rewrote summain from Python to Rust
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On flatpak, snap, distros, and software distribution
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New job: WMF release engineering
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GITR: Parsing Text with Nom; Pain points
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GITR: Object-Orientation in Rust
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GITR: Threads, Networking and Sharing
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GITR: Error Handling
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GITR: Standard Library Containers
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vmdb2 roadmap
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GITR: Modules and Cargo
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A filesystem walker as an iterator
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GITR: Filesystem and Processes
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New website for vmdb2
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GITR: Structs, enums, and matching
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GITR: Introduction, Basics
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A plan to learn Rust
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Learning Rust
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Short-term contracting work?
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Federated CI
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Software freedom for the modern era
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On requiring English in a free software project
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Building Debian packages in CI (ick)
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Ick version 0.53 released: CI engine
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Ick ALPHA-6 released: CI/CD engine
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Hacker Noir developments
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Architecture aromas
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Storing passwords in cleartext: don't ever
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New chapter of Hacker Noir on Patreon
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dpkg maintainer script containerisation
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What is Debian all about, really? Or: friction, packaging complex applications
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Qvisqve - an authorisation server, first alpha release
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Ick: a continuous integration system
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On using Github and a PR based workflow
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The proof is in the pudding
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Unit and integration testing: an analogy with cars
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Debian and the GDPR
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Attracting contributors to a new project
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Retiring Obnam
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Enabling TRIM/DISCARD on Debian, ext4, luks, and lvm
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Dropping Yakking from Planet Debian
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Adding Yakking to Planet Debian
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Obnam 1.22 released (backup application)
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Vmdb2 first alpha release: Debian disk image creation tool
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Using a Yubikey 4 for ensafening one's encryption
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Distix movement
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Ick2 design discussion
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Hacker Noir, chapter 2: Development setup phase
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Improving debugging via email, followup
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Hacker Noir, chapter 1: Negotiation
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Debian miniconf in Cambridge
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Obnam 1.20 released
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A tiny PC as a router
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Thinking about CI, maybe writing ick2
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Linux 25 jubilee symposium
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20 years ago I became a Debian developer
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Debugging over email
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Two-factor auth for local logins in Debian using U2F keys
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New APT signing key for code.liw.fi/debian
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Qvarn Platform announcement
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New job: QvarnLabs
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Obnam user survey, 2016
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Not-platform for Debian project leader elections 2016
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Update on 'Backups as a service in Debian': no news is bad news
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Obnam 1.19.1 released (backup software)
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Obnam survey (January 2016)
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Obnam 1.19 released (backup software)
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Coming back to Finland after five years
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Software Freedom Conservancy donation
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FUUG grant for Obnam development: what happened then
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Obnam 1.18 released (backup software)
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On Norbert Preining, Sage Sharp, and Debian
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FUUG grant for Obnam development
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Obnam 1.17 released (backup software)
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On the cost analysis of dependencies
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Obnam 1.14 released (backup software)
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Obnam 1.13 released (backup software)
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/u/liw no more
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Obnam 1.12 released (backup software)
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Obnam 1.10 released (backup software)
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Software development estimation
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Jessie release part in Helsinki
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DPL elections for 2015 are going on
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Obnam 4.1 released
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Obnam 1.9 released (backup software)
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The shape of a solution
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'It Will Never Work in Theory' and software engineering research
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A vision of backups in Debian
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Matthew Garret and Intel and the so-called gamergate
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45
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On ticketing systems
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Bald again
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Obnam 1.8 (backup program)
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Programming performance art
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Applying the Doctorow method to coding
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Obnam 1.7.4 release (backup software)
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Obnam 1.7.1 and 1.7.2 releases (backup software)
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Obnam 1.7 (backup software)
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Thoughtful, inspiring words from Russ
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Obnam 1.6.1 (backup software) and larch 1.20131130 (B-tree) releases: serious bug fixes
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Debian: developing it wrong
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Configuring gitano
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Moving repositories to git.liw.fi
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My GTD booklet no longer on Amazon
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Ending squeeze support in my software
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Yakking: a new group blog targeting new free software hackers
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fling.yarn
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recompress.yarn
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Yarn, a scenario testing tool
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Obnam 1.5 (backup software) release
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Married
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Consistency in backups
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Oops: Making sure your backups work
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Obnam bug list length
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Who knows what evil lurks in the data of men? Security aspects of backups
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How long is a string: how many backups are enough?
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If it quacks like a duck: what is a backup?
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"Um, I know I should": talking about backups
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On the usefulness of wishlist bugs
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Machine-parseable embedded license summary information
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Two new t-shirt designs
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Obnam 1.4 (backup software) release
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cliapp 1.20130313 released (Python command line utility framework)
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ttystatus 0.22 (terminal status and progress reporting for Python)
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Daniel and the shaved yak
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Thinkpad X200s scroll wheel emulation
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Makefiletab plugin for Gedit 3
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Can the world be saved by coding?
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Kickstarter: Maria Eveliina
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Public libraries bad for authors and publishers?
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Baserock talk at FOSDEM
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Obnam 1.3 (backup software) and other releases
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Made some t-shirt designs
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Tools I use
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Intervewed on FLOSS Weekly about Baserock
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Obnam 1.2 (backup software)
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New format to replace tar: some notes
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Debian discussion culture: what doesn't work
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Dabbling in diplomacy
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Baserock, or what I've been doing at work last year
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Bald
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Obnam 1.1 (backup software)
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Helsingin kaupungilla liikaa rahaa
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In Kindle store: Getting Things Done for Hackers booklet
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GTD for hackers talk
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errno lookups on the command line
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Obnam 1.0 (backup software); a story in many words
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Obnam 0.29 (backup software)
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Larch 1.20120527 (Python B-tree library)
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Summain 0.13 (file manifest/metadata/checksum tool)
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Obnam 0.28 (backup program)
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Quality of discussion in free software development
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Obnam 0.27 released (backup software)
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Obnam 1.0 planning
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Earth 2.0 by Soile Mottisenkangas
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What is a Linux distribution?
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Getting Things Done for Hackers
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World Backup Day
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Obnam 0.26 released (backup software)
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branchable-noncorporate
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New Obnam mailing list
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Soile's Kickstarter campaign a succes
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Copyright as theft
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Obnam 0.25 released (backup software)
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FOSDEM 2012
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MIX 1/2 Albanian Kickstater
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Cafe coding and other productivity hacks
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Like/dislike buttons in free software
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Obnam 0.24 released (backup software)
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Effin lakanakampanja
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#backuphackers and plea for help
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Obnam backup speed to local disk
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Moving from SD to Ikiwiki for bug tracking
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On the future of Linux distributions
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Luxury
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In search of boredom
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Obnam 0.23 released (backup software)
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Entropy key: a review
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File copying and removal benchmarking
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Obnam version 0.22 (backup application)
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Obnam 0.21 released (backup software)
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Linux at 20
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Oh Amazon...
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Linux 20 years: anecdotes from 1998
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Obnam version 0.20 (backup software)
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Missing roles in software: build engineers
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Using OpenPGP subkeys in Debian development
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Obnam 0.19 (backup software)
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Obnam Ubuntu PPA
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Obnam version 0.18
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rm is too slow
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Instapaper versus MAFF
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My first t-shirt design
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strncpy? just say no
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A tiny step towards TDDD and FreedomBox-NAS
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Chunkwise Debian package downloads
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Train coding: summain speed
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Living off freedom
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TDDD systest tool proof of concept
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Obnam 0.17: second BETA release
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TDDD, more thoughts
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vmdebootstrap and FreedomBoxLite
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I'm in the movie business now
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vmdebootstrap, for real
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Beep be gone
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Test driven distribution development
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I'm a digital luddite, me
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python-tracing 0.3
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Obnam 0.16: no longer alpha
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Project Harmony
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cliapp, a Python command line app framework
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Blackmail as an argumentation technique
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World Backup Day
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Obnam version 0.15 and 0.15.1, and btree/larch 0.19
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QR codes for backup?
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DPL elections: candidate counts
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Truth in advertising
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Keep companies honest
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Kaka
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DPL nomination period for 2011
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What's a good name for a Python B-tree library?
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Experiences with SD
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Nokia ja rakennemuutos
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Growing the Debian development community
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Idea: addsysuser
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Edinburgh squeeze release party
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Python B-tree library, 0.16.2
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Egypt blocks all communication: thoughts
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Obnam and btree journal dump
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New job, at Collabora
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DEP5 is CANDIATE
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Micro-optimizing btree
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Obnam 0.14 and btree 0.14
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On PDF restrictions and software freedom
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Shadow of a bug
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On showing respect
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Welcome to my newest blog
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Write intent bitmaps with Linux software RAID
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Debian VM image creation tool?
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Geographical uncertainty
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Distributed bug tracking
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Packaging tutorial for Debian-Women
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Manpage tutorial
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E-kirjoja, kiitos
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In defense of Nicole
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100 things?
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Monopoly variants
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No orange dents
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My Plans for Debian
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Oops, I did it again
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Undo for mail sending in Evolution
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Debian CUT
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Debconf10
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Should I re-join Debian?
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Branchable
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Keyboard for hire
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Obnam version 0.13
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Obnam and btree versions 0.12
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KD:n Maanselkä: pienpuolueiden toiminta lopetettava
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Obnam version 0.11, btree version 0.11
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Obnam 0.10 (ALPHA)
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btree 0.10
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Python profile inspector
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Python library for terminal status updates
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Soile source
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LRU cache for Python
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btree 0.9
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Obnam benchmarking
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Obnam benchmark specification
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Glass's Fact 19 and open source
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B-trees with cloning
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Duplicate data in filesystems
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GUI app to configure locale for GNOME
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Hashlib patch for Enemies of Carlotta
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Server maintenance styles
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Keeping a journal
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Lazyweb: B-tree code review?
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Obnam performance requirement
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Living with limited Internet access: saving web pages instead of bookmarking them
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Autojen GPS-urkinta etenee
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Obnam is feature complete (sort of)
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Cable management while travelling
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Computer driving licenses
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Obnam storage API
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LCA, rest of the week
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LCA2010 Monday
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Collaborative storytelling with audience voting
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Obnam command line interface
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Obnam, or once more a backup program
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On free software parenting
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bzr OO.o support?
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Geotagging news
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Brother P-touch QL-550 with Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)
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Dimbola 0.0.3
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sftpsync
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Ninja school taunting
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Effi sananvapaus-juliste
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Dimbola 0.0.2
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Tags in Dimbola
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Kirja-arvostelu: Elämäpeli, Ville Vuorela
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Stop sending e-mail?
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Street photography
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Retired from Debian
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Viimeinkin jotain rajaa holtittomalle sananvapauden käytölle mediassa!
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The death of parody in Finland
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Sähköautojen vero pois!
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Queue, don't stack
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Phone ringtones and stress
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Dimbola background processing
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My GNOME keyboard shortcuts
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Dimbola prototype: a photo organizer
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Listat eivät ole demokratiaa
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Läpinäkyvä yhteiskunta
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Outi Mäkelä vihaa minua
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Onneksi olkoon, Piraattipuolue
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Automatically connecting signals in PyGTK
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Olen mies, olen siis pedofiili
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Freedom in online services
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Cranes for balconies
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Kernel oops message compression
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Lessons about travelling
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Downloading updates faster
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Bug exchange format
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Semi-retiring from Debian
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Uncluttering my life
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Using zsync for .deb downloads: initial benchmark results
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Giving up on freedom temporarily?
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Rsync in Python
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LRU cache for obnam in Python
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On mono
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IRC proxy for productivity
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Laptop stickers begone!
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Microblogging
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Using mr on my laptop
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Perustuslakituomioistuin Suomeen
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The Pirate Bay kills online music business
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Size of a new window
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On the Okularm DRM feature
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Time machine for logging
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Mäkisen Paja - hyvä idea
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Seurasaari, today
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Kaupan portti sanoo piip!
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Suomalaisen politiikan ongelmat
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Personal data, personal organs
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watch(1)
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Toy Story 3 is coming
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Switching editors
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Stolen laptop, call home!
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Secret Life of Machines
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Online secure timestamping
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Leaving Planet Debian
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Kauhu-aiheinen taidetyöpaja selvästi toiminut hyvin
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A Distributed Internet Witness Service
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Dishwasher mutex
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Declarative .deb maintainer scripts
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Debian Developers per capita
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Control-D confusion
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Copy-on-write files
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Libc is broken. What now?
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Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) released
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256 the movie manuscript
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Saving files reliably under Unix
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Personality conflict
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Perustuslaki: kallis vessapaperi
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Multitasking for humans
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Desktop user logging service
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GTD collection
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Suomi-kalenteritiedosto vuodelle 2009
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Reittiopas ja GPS ne yhteen soppii...
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Manuaalisivujen kirjoittaminen – esitelmä Linux-teemaillassa
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Lait kansatajuisiksi
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Älä kailota edes ilman puhelinta?
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Suvi Lindénin oma pikku maailma
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Valtakoneisto: Ei sananvapaudella ole mitään väliä
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Gartner: mobiles to replace landlines in business use
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UDW session on piuparts
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Still climbing onto the bandwagon
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Masinointia Lex Nokiasta. Perkele.
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Oikean nimen vaatiminen hs.fi:n keskusteluissa
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Editor search continues
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Notifications be gone!
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Renaming a Linux host
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Agree: Disagree Agreeably
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Post-vacation e-mail processing
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Using coverage.py with Python unittests to ensure good test coverage
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Magazines on paper a thing of the past
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Finding trust paths between PGP keys
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PBS: The Machine That Changed The World
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Finhack, 29.11. Forssassa
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Piraattipuolueen kannattajakortit
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system-cleaner in intrepid
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Non-evil music stores
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Huey packaging
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Using KVM for Ubuntu ISO testing
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Anonymity and trust
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Selling my apartment
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Sähköinen äänestäminen ei kelpaa koodaajille
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Reason to become rich, #12765
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CC music spammer
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Privacy for free software development
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Minor things, major obstacles
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Parrot image drawn in pure CSS
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Screensavers are evil
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The Hugenholtz letter
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Stress graph
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Oikeusministerien luotettavuudesta
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Oikeusministeriö on luotettava
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My home directory, my name space
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Python fstab library 1.0
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Doping. Genetics. Blah.
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Head, meet desk. Softly.
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No more movies, music, TV
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Finhack-idea
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Five seconds to display a text message?!
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I got wheels
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Bold Bash prompt
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NRJ Cash or Crash: typerä vai pahis?
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RAID0 on gytha
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edustajamme.fi
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Linux-tekijä 2008
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Scary things first, hard things second
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Remember to uncomment
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Vera on what women really want
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My name is...
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Progress bars everywhere!
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Learning to cook
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GNOME renaming tool
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GNOME currency converter
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Reducing online distractions
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Ouch, or things to remember when setting up a file server
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Qemu/KVM caps lock
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