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Next wlug meeting on the 16th of Feb.. not tonight.
by Tim Keller Feb. 9, 2023

Feb. 9, 2023

Hey Gang, Considering that we just had a WLUG meeting the last Thursday of January, the next meeting will be on the 16th and then we'll go back to the regular second Thursday of the month for March. Sorry for the confusion about when meetings are. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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M-DISC 1000-year DVD and Blu-Ray
by Chuck Anderson Jan. 31, 2023

Jan. 31, 2023

Last night we were talking about long-term storage media that won't degrade or fail. What you want is M-DISC: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-1000-year-dvd-is-here/ https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-98913-M-Disc-100GB-Surface/dp/B017H13DFS

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Reminder! WLUG Meeting Tomorrow Jan 26th 2023: Topic Frame.work laptop demo!
by Tim Keller Jan. 26, 2023

Jan. 26, 2023

Hey Everybody, This is a reminder that we've got a meeting tomorrow at WPI! Time: 7pm Location: WPI Student Center Room 128 (Taylor Room) Down below the stairs. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: 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 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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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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