Merry Christmas for Poilievre!
Dec. 12th, 2025 01:26 pmI got much better at spelling his name once I realized it contains "lie".
Embattled CPC leader's Christmas card list gets one name shorter.
Embattled CPC leader's Christmas card list gets one name shorter.
sysutils/gstat-rs - 0.1.7
Dec. 12th, 2025 04:53 pmsysutils/gstat-rs: 0.1.7
The main change is to fix a math error in the kb/r and kb/w columns
https://github.com/asomers/gstat-rs/blob/master/gstat/CHANGELOG.md#017---2025-12-11
Sponsored by: ConnectWise
The main change is to fix a math error in the kb/r and kb/w columns
https://github.com/asomers/gstat-rs/blob/master/gstat/CHANGELOG.md#017---2025-12-11
Sponsored by: ConnectWise
Emergency Network Maintenance - JP-OSA (Osaka, JP)
Dec. 16th, 2025 02:00 pmTHIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Dec 16, 14:00 - 16:00 UTC
Dec 12, 16:44 UTC
Scheduled - We will be performing emergency network maintenance in our JP-OSA (Osaka, JP) Data Center beginning on December 16th, 14:00 UTC until December 16th 16:00 UTC. Customers in this region may experience brief connectivity disruptions during this window.
Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025
Dec. 12th, 2025 12:12 pm
Where to start reading — or rereading — Varley's many series and stories.
Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025
Famously wet
Dec. 12th, 2025 08:22 amTimber Ridge - the place where I live - is in a small kind of bedroom community of Seattle called Issaquah. Issaquah has a population of about 40,000. It's been raining here in the Pacific Northwest. A lot. But, Timber Ridge is on a hill. And, yesterday, I went to the vet's and back and only saw large puddles.
But, last night, I was watching the national news on ABC when all of a sudden they were showing a national news guy standing in water reporting that Issaquah Creek (which runs through the town) had overflowed its banks and folks downtown had been asked to evacuate! Then I saw several photos of places very nearby that I know well that had replaced their parking lots with deep rushing water.
So wild to be so close and so surprised. I do feel isolated here in the cult but I thought that was my imagination. Turns out, nope.
Thinking back yesterday, the vet did ask me if I had had trouble getting there and I just kind of brushed it off as weird. Sorry, Dr. Vet.
So now I'm high and dry as usual but also way grateful.
Biggie seems fine. Normal. Yesterday morning when I got up, I gave him gabapentin which the vet techs really appreciate as he is not very fond of stuff they do to him. Usually, it just makes him a giant stuffy after about 2 hours and he stays that way for the rest of the day. Yesterday, he never really settled down. He was staggering when he walked so I know he had it in his system but he was feisty as ever and the tech did report he was not happy with their working on him. Last night all he wanted was to sit on my lap which is not handy or usual but fine. This morning he seems back to usual. And is still peeing just fine. And eating fine and now waiting for his morning Temptations. Sorry, buddy.
Chewy is being a little slow to fill the order for his new food and it's beginning to piss me off. They need approval from the vet which they got yesterday. And I uploaded again this morning. And still the order says 'pending approval'. Even if they ship it today and it arrives this weekend, it will still be Monday or Tuesday before it gets up here. Maybe I'll go back to the vets and buy some there to tide over. The problem is they only sell 7 lb bags of the kibble. I don't want to store that much. Plus I have 4 pounds being delivered from Chewy. Ok. am in chat with Chewy now...
Hazel stopped by last night. She had somehow gotten her tablet into safe mode. Easy fix. She plays solitaire on it a lot. It's one of the few things left that she can see enough to do. Then she asked me if I'd come help John with his computer. I used to do this quite a bit BUT then their son took over and I was happy to relinquish. I do not know where son is now but Hazel said they had gotten scammed by BECU and gotten it all fixed but then it happened again yesterday. The way she was saying it did not make sense but that's Hazel for you. I told her that no, I would not be able to help. I learned my lesson with Myrna's computer and Myrna's son. She assured me that this was different. But, touching someone's banking on a computer leads to nothing good. I told her to contact Brandon or Michael (our two IT guys) and they would help him. She was ok with that and I was so relieved.
Someone (son?, Timber Ridge?) tried to talk Hazel to moving into Assisted Living. John is still living in the nursing wing. She refused. But she really needs it. She keeps locking herself out of her apartment - multiple times a day. Now they apparently are having banking issues.
While I have sympathy, their problems are not mine to fix. And my trying will only make things worse. I learned my lesson the hard way. But, at least I learned it.
Ok Chewy was able to remove the 4 lb bag from my order so I'll go to the vet's today and buy some there.
But, after I swim. My leg does not hurt today so I need to get back to walking. Walking to the pool counts.

But, last night, I was watching the national news on ABC when all of a sudden they were showing a national news guy standing in water reporting that Issaquah Creek (which runs through the town) had overflowed its banks and folks downtown had been asked to evacuate! Then I saw several photos of places very nearby that I know well that had replaced their parking lots with deep rushing water.
So wild to be so close and so surprised. I do feel isolated here in the cult but I thought that was my imagination. Turns out, nope.
Thinking back yesterday, the vet did ask me if I had had trouble getting there and I just kind of brushed it off as weird. Sorry, Dr. Vet.
So now I'm high and dry as usual but also way grateful.
Biggie seems fine. Normal. Yesterday morning when I got up, I gave him gabapentin which the vet techs really appreciate as he is not very fond of stuff they do to him. Usually, it just makes him a giant stuffy after about 2 hours and he stays that way for the rest of the day. Yesterday, he never really settled down. He was staggering when he walked so I know he had it in his system but he was feisty as ever and the tech did report he was not happy with their working on him. Last night all he wanted was to sit on my lap which is not handy or usual but fine. This morning he seems back to usual. And is still peeing just fine. And eating fine and now waiting for his morning Temptations. Sorry, buddy.
Chewy is being a little slow to fill the order for his new food and it's beginning to piss me off. They need approval from the vet which they got yesterday. And I uploaded again this morning. And still the order says 'pending approval'. Even if they ship it today and it arrives this weekend, it will still be Monday or Tuesday before it gets up here. Maybe I'll go back to the vets and buy some there to tide over. The problem is they only sell 7 lb bags of the kibble. I don't want to store that much. Plus I have 4 pounds being delivered from Chewy. Ok. am in chat with Chewy now...
Hazel stopped by last night. She had somehow gotten her tablet into safe mode. Easy fix. She plays solitaire on it a lot. It's one of the few things left that she can see enough to do. Then she asked me if I'd come help John with his computer. I used to do this quite a bit BUT then their son took over and I was happy to relinquish. I do not know where son is now but Hazel said they had gotten scammed by BECU and gotten it all fixed but then it happened again yesterday. The way she was saying it did not make sense but that's Hazel for you. I told her that no, I would not be able to help. I learned my lesson with Myrna's computer and Myrna's son. She assured me that this was different. But, touching someone's banking on a computer leads to nothing good. I told her to contact Brandon or Michael (our two IT guys) and they would help him. She was ok with that and I was so relieved.
Someone (son?, Timber Ridge?) tried to talk Hazel to moving into Assisted Living. John is still living in the nursing wing. She refused. But she really needs it. She keeps locking herself out of her apartment - multiple times a day. Now they apparently are having banking issues.
While I have sympathy, their problems are not mine to fix. And my trying will only make things worse. I learned my lesson the hard way. But, at least I learned it.
Ok Chewy was able to remove the 4 lb bag from my order so I'll go to the vet's today and buy some there.
But, after I swim. My leg does not hurt today so I need to get back to walking. Walking to the pool counts.

What Stalks the Deep
Dec. 12th, 2025 11:41 amWhat Stalks the Deep, T. Kingfisher, 2025 novella. Damn this one was good; I did not intend to finish it last night but I couldn't put it down. I had some mixed feelings about the second one and I liked this one better as a sequel to the first one, so, I would not abandon the series at two, is my recommendation! Spoilers: ( Read more... )
devel/jenkins-lts - 2.528.3
Dec. 12th, 2025 04:25 pmdevel/jenkins-lts: Update to 2.528.3
Fixes CVE-2025-67635, CVE-2025-67636, CVE-2025-67637, CVE-2025-67638,
CVE-2025-67639
PR: 291580
Security: 2956aba3-1fcb-4c39-9cea-d88a46a3bf93
MFH: 2025Q4
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Fixes CVE-2025-67635, CVE-2025-67636, CVE-2025-67637, CVE-2025-67638,
CVE-2025-67639
PR: 291580
Security: 2956aba3-1fcb-4c39-9cea-d88a46a3bf93
MFH: 2025Q4
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
devel/jenkins - 2.541
Dec. 12th, 2025 04:23 pmdevel/jenkins: Update to 2.541
Fixes CVE-2025-67635, CVE-2025-67636, CVE-2025-67637, CVE-2025-67638,
CVE-2025-67639
PR: 291580
Security: 2956aba3-1fcb-4c39-9cea-d88a46a3bf93
MFH: 2025Q4
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Fixes CVE-2025-67635, CVE-2025-67636, CVE-2025-67637, CVE-2025-67638,
CVE-2025-67639
PR: 291580
Security: 2956aba3-1fcb-4c39-9cea-d88a46a3bf93
MFH: 2025Q4
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
security/vuxml - 1.1_6
Dec. 12th, 2025 04:21 pmsecurity/vuxml: Document Jenkins Security Advisory 2025-12-10
PR: 291580
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
PR: 291580
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Disadvent 10+11+12
Dec. 12th, 2025 10:57 amI haven't been standing still, I've been lying in wait? Or something? Anyways, paid off a couple of days of prep work going through stuff today by taking a) ten more books to the library booksale, b) an outgrown kid's raincoat, hat, and a barely used hat/muffler/glove set to the library children's resale shop, and c) four bags of ripped bottom sheets and worn-out pants and such to textile recycling.
(I know, I know, visible mending, but my pants inevitably wear through in the seat and crotch and I just don't want visible mending there. I can however report that after years of indulgently buying new sheet sets when the bottom sheets got too ragged to use, we have made a new commitment to only buying individual bottom sheets for awhile to get more use out of all these perfectly fine tops. Also knit bottom sheets (like modal or cotton jersey) really do not hold up as well as woven, fyi. Also I'd been holding on to most of these bottom sheets for many years thinking they were big pieces of fabric I might want for a kid costume or craft situation, but the baby's class is touring the high school this morning (!) and the big one is thinking about college visits, so I think that whole phase of my life is winding down, and also in fact nobody has wanted any homemade costuming in a decade or so either.)
One of the things that sucked and continues to suck about the fire (yes I am still sorting through fire stuff, it's an enormous emotionally-fraught job and also the situation keeps evolving as the kids age and become more able to remember to wash their hands) was/is the loss of the opportunity to dispose of things as we would want them disposed of. We've thrown out hundreds of books because we didn't feel good donating them anywhere with smoke contamination, and while we were able to recover a lot of clothing and linens (for professional cleaning) we were paying by the pound and we threw out a lot as well (and some, like the packed-away kid's clothes in the eaves, I just didn't have time to do more with than frantically hunt through for some favorites). Which is all fine - safety always wins, and it's totally fair to optimize for time or money sometimes rather than minimizing waste - but one of the things I like about disadvent-type work is getting to dispose of stuff deliberately rather than waiting for some disaster (or, like, the decisions of others, if my own ownership was suddenly not in the picture) to force some sub-optimal path.
(I know, I know, visible mending, but my pants inevitably wear through in the seat and crotch and I just don't want visible mending there. I can however report that after years of indulgently buying new sheet sets when the bottom sheets got too ragged to use, we have made a new commitment to only buying individual bottom sheets for awhile to get more use out of all these perfectly fine tops. Also knit bottom sheets (like modal or cotton jersey) really do not hold up as well as woven, fyi. Also I'd been holding on to most of these bottom sheets for many years thinking they were big pieces of fabric I might want for a kid costume or craft situation, but the baby's class is touring the high school this morning (!) and the big one is thinking about college visits, so I think that whole phase of my life is winding down, and also in fact nobody has wanted any homemade costuming in a decade or so either.)
One of the things that sucked and continues to suck about the fire (yes I am still sorting through fire stuff, it's an enormous emotionally-fraught job and also the situation keeps evolving as the kids age and become more able to remember to wash their hands) was/is the loss of the opportunity to dispose of things as we would want them disposed of. We've thrown out hundreds of books because we didn't feel good donating them anywhere with smoke contamination, and while we were able to recover a lot of clothing and linens (for professional cleaning) we were paying by the pound and we threw out a lot as well (and some, like the packed-away kid's clothes in the eaves, I just didn't have time to do more with than frantically hunt through for some favorites). Which is all fine - safety always wins, and it's totally fair to optimize for time or money sometimes rather than minimizing waste - but one of the things I like about disadvent-type work is getting to dispose of stuff deliberately rather than waiting for some disaster (or, like, the decisions of others, if my own ownership was suddenly not in the picture) to force some sub-optimal path.
audio/audacity - 3.7.7
Dec. 12th, 2025 04:00 pmaudio/audacity: Update 3.7.6 => 3.7.7
Changelog:
- Hotfix: fixes broken waveform scrolling and selection for some users
introduced in 3.7.6.
- Added checksum to WavPack export.
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-3.7.7
PR: 291601
Changelog:
- Hotfix: fixes broken waveform scrolling and selection for some users
introduced in 3.7.6.
- Added checksum to WavPack export.
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-3.7.7
PR: 291601
textproc/R-cran-yaml - 2.3.12
Dec. 12th, 2025 03:54 pmtextproc/R-cran-yaml: Update to 2.3.12
Update test dependencies.
Changelog: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/yaml/news/news.html
Update test dependencies.
Changelog: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/yaml/news/news.html
A Mouthful of Dust
Dec. 12th, 2025 10:40 amA Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo, 2025 fantasy novella, the sixth in the Singing Hills series. I like this series and I thought this was a good installment. Spoilers: ( Read more... )
Also, because we're now up to six of these novellas, the series as a whole might now be within 10% of the 240,000 word minimum to be considered for Hugo Best Series. My personal guess is that it might still be a little short, but that seems like a job for the committee to figure out and not me, so it will be on my nominating ballot. If it doesn't make it, there's another one coming out next May (2026) and we can try again then.
Also, because we're now up to six of these novellas, the series as a whole might now be within 10% of the 240,000 word minimum to be considered for Hugo Best Series. My personal guess is that it might still be a little short, but that seems like a job for the committee to figure out and not me, so it will be on my nominating ballot. If it doesn't make it, there's another one coming out next May (2026) and we can try again then.
x11-wm/plasma6-kwin - 6.5.4_1
Dec. 12th, 2025 03:33 pmx11-wm/plasma6-kwin: backport upstream patch to fix regression in 6.5.4
KDE BUG: https://bugs.kde.org/513151
KDE BUG: https://bugs.kde.org/513151
deskutils/fet - 7.6.0
Dec. 12th, 2025 03:20 pmdeskutils/fet: Update to 7.6.0
Changelog: https://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/news.html
Changelog: https://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/news.html
devel/kdevelop - 25.12.0
Dec. 12th, 2025 02:53 pmKDE: Update KDE Gear to 25.12.0
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.12.0/
Ports changes:
deskutils/itinerary:
- Require QCoro6
deskutils/kdeconnect-kde:
- Regenerate patches
devel/kpublictransport:
- Require QtLocation
editors/kate:
- Fix shebang
math/rocs:
- Switch to Qt6/KF6
multimedia/kamoso:
- Require KF6KirigamiAddons
multimedia/kdenlive:
- Require KDDockWidgets
science/step:
- Remove stale patch
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.12.0/
Ports changes:
deskutils/itinerary:
- Require QCoro6
deskutils/kdeconnect-kde:
- Regenerate patches
devel/kpublictransport:
- Require QtLocation
editors/kate:
- Fix shebang
math/rocs:
- Switch to Qt6/KF6
multimedia/kamoso:
- Require KF6KirigamiAddons
multimedia/kdenlive:
- Require KDDockWidgets
science/step:
- Remove stale patch
devel/kf5-kfilemetadata - 5.116.0_5
Dec. 12th, 2025 02:53 pmdevel/kf5-kfilemetadata: remove broken MOBIPOCKET option
graphics/kdegraphics-mobipocket - 25.08.3
Dec. 12th, 2025 02:53 pmgraphics/kdegraphics-mobipocket: remove Qt5 flavor in preparation for 25.12.0 update.
25.08 was the last release with Qt5 support.
25.08 was the last release with Qt5 support.
