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Planet FSFE

Automatic Updates

We have instructions for setting up new Tor relays on Debian. The only time the word “upgrade” is mentioned here is: Be sure to set your ContactInfo line so we can contact you if you need to upgrade or something goes wrong. This isn’t great. We should have some decent instructions for keeping your relay up to date too. I’ve been compiling a set of documentation for enabling automatic updates on various Linux distributions, here’s a taste of what I have so far:

Free Software Efforts (2017W40)

Here’s my weekly report for week 40 of 2017. In this week I have looked at censorship in Catalonia and had my “deleted” Facebook account hacked (which made HN front page). I’ve also been thinking about DRM on the web. Debian I have prepared and uploaded fixes for the measurement-kit and hamradio-maintguide packages. I have also sponsored uploads for gnustep-base (to experimental) and chkservice. I have given DM upload privileges to Eric Heintzmann for the gnustep-base package as he has shown to care for the GNUstep packages well.

Tor Relays on Twitter

A while ago I played with a Twitter bot that would track radio amateurs using a packet radio position reporting system, tweet their location and a picture from Flickr that was taken near to their location and a link to their packet radio activity on aprs.fi. It’s really not that hard to put these things together and they can be a lot of fun. The tweets looked like this: [tweet missing]