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Meeting Reminder! Next Meeting Nov 12th, 2026: Topic: FOSS CAD
by Tim Keller Nov. 10, 2026

Nov. 10, 2026

Hey Everybody, Meeting Details: Date & Time: Nov 12th, 2026 @ 7PM Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: FOSS CAD Presenter: Kevin Harrington, me, likely others. As many of you are aware, WLUG Member Kevin Harrington has found great success with his FOSS CAD software CaDoodle <https://cadoodlecad.com/>. As Linux finds wider adoption at least in the more technical end of the user base, the need for great non proprietary cad software is needed more than ever. Kevin will be showing off the latest iteration of CaDoodle. Kevin's software is written to replace TinkerCAD. I'll be showing off SolidCraft <https://solidcraft.io/>. A modeler written in Rust that has filled my needs as an alternative to OnShape. As usual after the meeting we'll head off to dinner to keep the conversation going. Later, Tim. We've got a meeting next week on November 12th at 7PM

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Thanks everybody, last night was awesome!
by Tim Keller Oct. 9, 2026

Oct. 9, 2026

Hey Everybody, Last night was awesome. The 7th floor was definitely a better space to be in. A bit less public, but also a lot less noisy. Ian's presentation was great and I learned a lot about the inner workings of some of these hacker groups as well as how fractious and nihilistic the while thing is. It was also interesting to learn that Cloudflare is such a bad actor. Thanks, Tim.

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WLUG Meeting Oct 8th, 2026: Topic: Tracking ShinyHunters! Speaker: Ian Campbell
by Tim Keller Oct. 8, 2026

Oct. 8, 2026

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting THIS Thursday! Date / Time: October 8th, 2026 @ 7PM Location: Techncopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Speaker: Ian Campbell Topic: Tracking ShinyHunters! Ian Campbell is a new member of WLUG and is a Threat Researcher that has spent months tracking ShinyHunters activity across web infrastructure as well as other data. In this vendor-agnostic talk he'll highlight the methods used and lessons learned when integrating human and signals intelligence with DNS and domain data. As always, after the meeting we'll all head out to dinner and continue the conversation. Later, Tim.

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Reminder: Meeting Tonight!! Topic: Andy's Ham Radio, Location: Techncopia at 7PM!
by Tim Keller Sept. 15, 2026

Sept. 15, 2026

Hey Everybody, Here's the details for our meeting tonight!! Date / Time: 2026-09-10 @7PM Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland Ave, Worcester MA. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Andy's Ham Radio Linux Speaker: Andy Stewart WLUG Founder Andy Stewart will be giving a talk about "Andy's Ham Radio Linux", a popular collection of Free and Open Source Software related to ham radio. You need not know much (if anything) about ham radio to benefit from this talk. Andy will present a high level overview of things that are done with ham radios, and how Linux software helps with the enjoyment of the hobby. Andy Stewart holds an Amateur Extra class ham radio license (KB1OIQ), and has been active in that hobby for 20 years. He has been a Linux enthusiast since the late 1990s. After retiring from a long and successful career as a digital logic verification engineer in 2024, Andy has spent a lot more time promoting Linux and ham radio. As usual after the meeting we'll head off for dinner to keep the conversation going! A couple people have asked about parking.. You can park in the parking lot next to Technocopia that has the loading docks. Thanks, Tim.

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

Sept. 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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Next Meeting!! Sept. 10th, 2026: Topic: Andy's Ham Radio Linux! Speaker: Andy Stewart
by Tim Keller Sept. 3, 2026

Sept. 3, 2026

Hey Everybody, Here's the details for our next meeting: Date / Time: 2026-09-10 @7PM Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland Ave, Worcester MA. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Andy's Ham Radio Linux Speaker: Andy Stewart WLUG Founder Andy Stewart will be giving a talk about "Andy's Ham Radio Linux", a popular collection of Free and Open Source Software related to ham radio. You need not know much (if anything) about ham radio to benefit from this talk. Andy will present a high level overview of things that are done with ham radios, and how Linux software helps with the enjoyment of the hobby. Andy Stewart holds an Amateur Extra class ham radio license (KB1OIQ), and has been active in that hobby for 20 years. He has been a Linux enthusiast since the late 1990s. After retiring from a long and successful career as a digital logic verification engineer in 2024, Andy has spent a lot more time promoting Linux and ham radio. As usual after the meeting we'll head off for dinner to keep the conversation going! A couple people have asked about parking.. You can park in the parking lot next to Technocopia that has the loading docks. Thanks, Tim.

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Reminder! WLUG Meeting This Thursday (August 13th), Topic: Kali Linux
by Tim Keller Aug. 12, 2026

Aug. 12, 2026

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting this week! Date & Time: August 13th, 2026 @ 7PM Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Kali Linux You need to hack yourself! Seriously. You only need to look at the news to see that every attack surface that can be touched and exploited is actively being targeted. Sure you could go find a dozen different tools and get them all installed and configured.. Or.. you could use Kali Linux: https://www.kali.org/ This is a one-stop-shop for pen testing. I'm going to show off some of the tools and features. As usual, after the meeting we'll head off to dinner and keep the conversation going. Thanks, Tim.

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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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