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Reminder! Meeting January 26th at 7pm Topic: Frame.work, passbolt
by Tim Keller Jan. 22, 2023

Jan. 22, 2023

Hey Everybody! Happy 2023! We've got our first meeting of the new year!! Time: 7pm Date: 1/26/2023 Location: WPI Student Center Rm 128 (Taylor Room) Topic(s): frame.work laptop demo, passbolt demo Cara Salter has agreed to come and show off her frame.work laptop. This laptop is designed with upgrade ability in mind. Components such as the motherboard can be easily swapped for more powerful versions, etc. I'm also going to show off passbolt <https://www.passbolt.com/>. This is a FOSS password manager. With the massive breach of lastpass, people may want to think about having total ownership of their password stores. This solves that. As usual snacks and refreshments will be provided and afterwards we'll head off and have dinner can keep the conversation going. I hope to see you there! Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Framework Laptops
by David Glaser Jan. 16, 2023

Jan. 16, 2023

I ran across a laptop company called Framework https://frame.work/ that sells an upgrade-able laptop. Has anyone had any experience with their products? -David -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com

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January meeting date?
by John Stoffel Jan. 6, 2023

Jan. 6, 2023

Where & when are we meeting in January?

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Looking for a good VPS provider
by John Stoffel Dec. 19, 2022

Dec. 19, 2022

Guys, I'm looking for a new provider to host my domain, which is mostly email only. Some small web presense. I'm currently on Linode, but since Charter is blocking all of Linode's IP space from sending email... it kinda makes it hard to keep in touch with neighbors who have @charter.net email addresses. Don't want to spend a ton,but I would like to get something with a dedicated IP and 2gb of RAM, or maybe a little more. Not much more than that. I don't want any management, I'll do it all myself. John

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December WLUG meeting This Thursday! Topic: Tailscale VPN!
by Tim Keller Dec. 18, 2022

Dec. 18, 2022

Hey Everybody!! We've got a wlug meeting this Thursday! Date: December 15th, 2022 Time: 7pm Location: WPI campus center room 129! Topic: Tailscale VPN Not interested in exposing ports on the internet but still want to get to your machine at home? Want to expose services securely? Interested in setting up your own encrypted? Tailscale might do what you need! Food and drinks will be provided and we'll grab dinner and keep the conversation going! Later! Tim.

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We've got a wlug meeting Today!!
by Tim Keller Dec. 15, 2022

Dec. 15, 2022

Hey Everybody!! We've got a wlug meeting Today!! Date: December 15th, 2022 Time: 7pm Location: WPI campus center room 129! Virtual Location: WlugMA Jitsi Meeting! <https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA> Topic: Tailscale VPN Not interested in exposing ports on the internet but still want to get to your machine at home? Want to expose services securely? Tailscale might do what you need! Food and drinks will be provided and we'll grab dinner and keep the conversation going! Later! Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Last meeting mention of connecting to DISPLAY :0
by Chris (wolcen) Thompson Dec. 6, 2022

Dec. 6, 2022

Hi all, Great to see you all in the last meeting :-) I was the skateboarder...who caught me almost falling shortly before I left? LOL ----------- Remote X [Insert name I've forgotten here (sorry!)] mentioned that their users connect to a remote session's root desktop (or whatever you call the initial/primary display :0 deal that you initially/locally get). I would like to do this as well. SSH with port forwarding is probably my preference, but wireguard would be OK as well. I don't think I want to directly expose anything like xrdp. Anyway - could you please refresh my memory as to what was being used? I'm running i3 in this case (started via lightdm). I generally have not loved using VNC-based tools, but if that's what is currently recommended, I guess I'll give it another go. ------------ SSHFS Optimization Also - I referred to using sshfs internally for myself to my NAS, and some optimizations for it. This is my current alias to mount it: sshfs -o cache=yes -o kernel_cache -o Ciphers=aes128-ctr -o Compression=no -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 -o ServerAliveInterval=15 -o reconnect -C -o idmap=user server: /mymountpoint I got a few of the recommended switches from this article that finally convinced me to just forget about NFS: https://blog.ja-ke.tech/2019/08/27/nas-performance-sshfs-nfs-smb.html Thanks! Chris PS - I used to respond here from an account that was at from a riseup.net account. I have since moved to mailbox.org so it at least 'comes from' wolcen.com...I hate/am terrible at managing email servers. Anyway: all those responses/posts therefore were moderated. I'm not sure ANY of those ever made it though, so I was curious if anyone does any checks on moderated messages?

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Next WLUG meeting Dec 15th 2022!
by Tim Keller Dec. 5, 2022

Dec. 5, 2022

Hey Everybody, I'm moving the meeting to the 15th! We brought up a whole bunch of interesting meeting ideas last meeting. QUIK was talked about. We also talked about redoing the KiCAD talk so we could see the full talk (and actually record it!) We also talked about deep diving into the new wifi standards. PiKVM as well as FOSS music players and piCroft. Let me know what you might be interested in talking about. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Happy Thanksgiving and things to discuss around the dinner table.
by Tim Keller Nov. 23, 2022

Nov. 23, 2022

I hope all wlug members have a fantastic Thanksgiving. While you're wondering about what to talk about, they've just introduced some new data measurements. The largest being a quettabyte. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03747-9 I wonder what filesystem you'd even use to manage a quettabyte? We'll have to fork zfs into qfs and make it a 1024 bit file system. Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Reminder: Wlug meeting November 9th: Location: Rec Center Rm 61
by Tim Keller Nov. 10, 2022

Nov. 10, 2022

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting on Wednesday November 9th! Location: Recreation Center Rm 61. This is not our usual location!! This is the big "gym" building on the quad. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Heartbleed, Linux kernel 6.0 getting rusty! FOSS pi based music player. Time: 7pm Snacks and refreshments will be provided and we'll do dinner afterwards! See you there! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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