The page onion.debian.org lists onion services for the Debian project. There are a lot of them, but nothing for:

• bugs.debian.org
• reportbug.debian.org

Part of the problem arises from an unhealthy attitude that bug reporting is a service that benefits the tester. That it is okay to make testers go through cumbersome hoops. Testers are actually contributors. The project should be doing all that it can to make it as easy as possible to submit bug reports because bug reports are inherently labor intensive. Bug reports improve the software for everyone. The tester may or may not even be a stakeholder. They are making a charitable contribution.

The Debian project is unapologetically telling testers to switch to clearnet and mainstream browsers when the bug services discriminate against users based on the network or browser version they use. Yikes. I hate to see Debian go in this direction.

The Debian bug tracker web portal (bugs.debian.org) has become unreachable. Website availability checkers say it’s up. Those test services are never competent enough to do a separate test from Tor. But it looks like Tor users are being flippantly blocked without even the decency to send an error msg.

We can only speculate what is happening because it seems there is no page that tracks the status of all the Debian services.

The Tor block is likely an over-reaction to the flood of spam that has been hitting the email addresses. They have closed the barn doors after the horses have bolted. The web service made no attempt to mask people’s email addresses. There was once a bug report against the bug tracker itself complaining about the exposure of email addresses. IIRC, that bug report was rejected.

Update

It turns out bugs.debian.org is reachable over tor exclusively from Tor Browser. Using a different browser results in a nasty kind of block that silently drops packets.

Anyone know about recent changes to the email servers for bug submissions? It used to be possible to directly submit bugs to reportbug.debian.org. Now it gives “connection refused”.

We’re happy to announce that BusKill can be installed on Linux directly with apt

What is BusKill?

BusKill is a laptop kill-cord. It's a USB cable with a magnetic breakaway that you attach to your body and connect to your computer.

Watch the BusKill Explainer Video for more info youtube.com/v/qPwyoD_cQR4

If the connection between you to your computer is severed, then your device will lock, shutdown, or shred its encryption keys -- thus keeping your encrypted data safe from thieves that steal your device.

Debian

BusKill can be installed on Debian with apt.

To install BusKill in Debian, execute su - and then apt install buskill

To install BusKill on Debian, execute the command

su -
apt install buskill

Read the full article here:

• https://www.buskill.in/apt-debian-install/

Support BusKill

We're looking forward to continuing to improve the BusKill software and looking for other avenues to distribute our hardware BusKill cable to make it more accessible this year.

If you want to help, please consider purchasing a BusKill cable for yourself or a loved one. It helps us fund further development, and you get your own BusKill cable to keep you or your loved ones safe.

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Stay safe,
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Apparently IPFS is having a slow adoption problem -- despite being an important solution to the enshitified gated centralised web.

Debian stands as the most popular among the well-supported distros. Debian has some degree of quality standards that (although not spectacular) relatively far surpass most distros. A package making it into the official Debian repos generally demonstrates that an app is up to scratch -- ready for prime time.

If I have not overstated things, it must be at least somewhat embarrassing for both the IPFS project and Debian that IPFS has no client in the official Debian repos. IPFS should have targetting Debian as a goal to get respect and adoption.. to get on the radar. It’s just a tarball now.

And from Debian’s standpoint, it’s not great that an important protocol to succeed HTTP is missing from official support.

This page says:

6.6. What do I do if my jigdo download gets interrupted? If your download gets interrupted, all you need to do is restart jigdo-lite and hit ENTER at all the question prompts. Jigdo-lite will pick up where it left off.

But when I re-run jigdo, it says:

The temporary directory `./debian-13.2.0-amd64-BD-1.iso.tmpdir' already exists. Its contents ARE GOING TO BE DELETED (possibly after having been copied to the image, if they are of interest for it). If you do not want this to happen, press Ctrl-C now. Otherwise, press Return to proceed.

So which is lying, the tool or the docs?

update

I just realised it was a problem of poorly written text and sloppy reading. I mentally skipped what was in parathesis, which was important.

Strange that it would build a partial image before continuing.