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Meeting this Thursday! July 9th, 2026 @7PM, Topic: Rust!
by Tim Keller July 7, 2026

July 7, 2026

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting this week! Date / Time: Thursday July 9th @7PM Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Rust Programming Language! Long time WLUGer Evan White will be giving a talk on the Rust programming language. Rust recently became a first class citizen in the linux kernel. Designed from the ground up to be type and memory safe it's the new cool kid on the block. Evan will be showing off what he's been doing with rust to wildly extend the functionality of the kobo e-reader. This talk will be oriented towards people who've never used rust before so he'll be getting into the brass tacks and showing us all why we should all abandon our crappy unsafe languages and go all in on rust! As usual after the meeting we'll head out for dinner and keep up the conversation. I hope to see you all there! Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Reminder! WLUG Meeting June 11th @ 7PM Location: Techncopia
by Tim Keller June 9, 2026

June 9, 2026

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting this Thursday, June 11th @7PM. Topic: TBD (Hit me up here or on Signal) Location: Technocopia Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA We'll definitely be talking about the continuing spate of Linux kernel vulnerabilities. Supply chain attacks on npm / pypi / etc. As usual, we'll head out for dinner and keep the conversation going. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Keith's mail issue
by Dick Goodman May 31, 2026

May 31, 2026

>>I already have an SPF record which says: v=spf1 mx ~all, what's wrong with that? LOTS. It doesn't specify a valid server. try this "v=spf1 a:fcx2.keithdiane.us include:_spf.google.com ~all" Dick

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Meeting Tomorrow!! May 21st. Topic: Cisco hardware hacking / Claude
by Tim Keller May 20, 2026

May 20, 2026

Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting tomorrow! Time: 7pm Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic(s): Alex will talk about hacking Cisco hardware. Jenson will then talk about how he's using Claude in his workflow these days. I suspect we'll also talk about copy.fail and the other serious LPE's that have been discovered lately using AI tools. As usual it'll be a ruckus affair and lots of fun! After the meeting we'll head off for dinner amd keep the conversation going. Later, Tim.

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May meeting moved to 21st.
by Tim Keller May 6, 2026

May 6, 2026

Hey Everybody, I've got a scheduling conflict for the 14th, so this month's meeting will be on the 21st. Thanks, Tim.

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Reminder!!! Meeting tomorrow! Topic: Macropads + Matrix + lots of other stuff!
by Tim Keller April 9, 2026

April 9, 2026

We've got a meeting tomorrow!! Date and TIme: March 12th 2026 @ 7PM Physical Location: Techncopia, 44 Portland Ave. Worcester MA Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic(s): 1. I'm going to show off the macropad I bought at Microcenter running QMK and how you go about flashing it and some of its really useful features. 2. Matrix stuff! Venus was gracious enough to get a matrix chat going, the next decision is if we stick with signal, stick with matrix or do we roll our own matrix? It's clear we need to "pick a lane" otherwise we've got 11 different chats everywhere.. 3. California's AB 1043 Age verification bullshit being pushed by idiots.. I know people have feelings.. I definitely do. 4. Kernel 7.0 right over the horizon!! 5. I guess we can talk about Kent Overstreet's AI girlfriend? Rather not.. I may or may not have a funky keyboard to show off as well..we'll see. As always after the meeting we'll head out to dinner and keep talking! 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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WLUG Meeting Tomorrow Thursday (4/9/2026) Topic: Ubuntu FIPS for you!
by Tim Keller April 9, 2026

April 9, 2026

We've got a meeting Tomorrow! (4/9/2026) Date & Time: 4/9/2026 @ 7PM Location: Techncopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA 01453 Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Ubuntu FIPS for you! Speaker: Alex Wlug member Alex will be showing off his Ubuntu laptop running in full FIPS mode . What it does, how it does it and how you can do it too! We'll also be talking about the new website, merch and other fun stuff I'm sure! As usual, we'll head off for dinner afterwards and 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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WLUG Meeting THIS Thursday! Topic: Security Oriented Linux
by Tim Keller April 7, 2026

April 7, 2026

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting this Thursday (4/9/2026) Time: 7PM Location: Techncopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA 01453 Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Security Oriented Linux Speaker: Alex Wlug member Alex will be showing off his security oriented linux laptop. What it does, how it does it and how you can do it too! We'll also be talking about the new website, merch and other fun stuff I'm sure! As usual, we'll head off for dinner afterwards and 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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Meeting next week!
by Tim Keller March 11, 2026

March 11, 2026

Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting next week. Date and TIme: March 12th 2026 @ 7PM Physical Location: Techncopia, 44 Portland Ave. Worcester MA Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic(s): 1. I'm going to show off the macropad I bought at Microcenter running QMK and how you go about flashing it and some of it's really useful features. 2. Matrix stuff! Venus was gracious enough to get a matrix chat going, the next decision is if we stick with signal, stick with matrix or do we roll our own matrix? It's clear we need to "pick a lane" otherwise we've got 11 different chats everywhere.. 3. California's AB 1043 Age verification bullshit being pushed by idiots.. I know people have feelings.. I definitely do. 4. Kernel 7.0 right over the horizon!! 5. I guess we can talk about Kent Overstreets AI girlfriend? Rather not.. I may or may not have a funky keyboard to show off as well..we'll see. As always after the meeting we'll head out to dinner and keep talking! I hope to see you there! Tim.

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Reminder: WLUG Meeting Feb 12th, 2026: Topic: DNS Interception.
by Tim Keller Feb. 18, 2026

Feb. 18, 2026

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting! Date/Time: February 12th, 2026 @ 7PM Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: DNS Interception. Speaker: Steve Thibault At every turn, companies are looking for ways to monetize data. It should be no surprise that DNS is one of these. Recently a fellow WLUG member Steve Thibault discovered that their upstream provider was intercepting his DNS queries and worked to fight against this. Steve is going to tell us his story of how he discovered what his provider was doing and what he did to foil their prying eyes. As usual, after the meeting we'll head out for dinner and keep the conversation going! Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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