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I’ve had a record player for some time now, but the listening situation has improved in the past year with the upgrade of my speakers. The new speakers truly fill the room with sound, and they’re perfectly happy to be driven at as high a volume as I’m interested in hearing. With the introduction of the new speakers, I pretty quickly exhaused my existing collection of records. Thus, over the past several months, I’ve made a few trips to various record stores, primarily The Record Connection, a self-described “eclectic experience” walkable from my house.
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False Positives

There are times when an email based workflow gets really difficult. One of those times is when discussing projects related to spam and malware detection. noahm@debian.org host stravinsky.debian.org [2001:41b8:202:deb::311:108] SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 550-malware detected: Sanesecurity.Phishing.Fake.30934.1.UNOFFICIAL: 550 message rejected submit@bugs.debian.org host stravinsky.debian.org [2001:41b8:202:deb::311:108] SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 550-malware detected: Sanesecurity.Phishing.Fake.30934.1.UNOFFICIAL: 550 message rejected This was, in fact, a false positive.
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Determining Network Online Status of Dualstack Cloud VMs

When a Debian cloud VM boots, it typically runs cloud-init at various points in the boot process. Each invocation can perform certain operations based on the host’s static configuration passed by the user, typically either through a well known link-local network service or an attached iso9660 drive image. Some of the cloud-init steps execute before the network comes up, and others at a couple of different points after the network is up.
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