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[[!meta updated="2015-01-21"]]

Since the move to Trisquel, one of the things missing was the daily backups I
had on Debian. 2 days ago I brought the daily backup back. It works just like
before, and normally any daily state from the last 2 weeks can be restored.

The SSL certificates aren't updated yet. It shouldn't be difficult, I just
didn't yet take the time to take care of them. I do have Bitlbee and Prosody
and everything else running - they're become "secure" again soon.

This server/laptop machine is connected to the Internet through a modem/router
device running proprietary software, as far as I know. Thanks to the work on
LibreCMC and ThinkPenguin, it became possible to get a freedom respecting wifi
router (but not a modem yet). So I got one of those too, and very soon it will
replace the proprietary router, which will act as a modem only. Hopefully there
will be free modems too in the future.

The C++ work is on hold. I'm not sure I'll go back to it. Perhaps just small
things like making a tarball and uploading the generated documentation, but not
serious development. If anyone is interested in that code, feel free to take
over its maintenance. I hope I at least got some experience while writing it,
and ideas I could use in other places. In particular, the build scripts support
Doxygen usage in a portable way, i.e. POSIX features only (apart from one
feature that's very common and is going to be added to POSIX), which may be
useful to projects whose scripts are like `mm-common`'s one, i.e. specific to
GNU Make.

I started learning Haskell and I'm working on a tutorial for the Idan language,
after which I'll write a bit more formal definition of it and a parser in
Haskell.

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