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Re: Meeting Thursday August 11th 2022! Topic: "Infrastructure as Code website with free hosting"

by Chuck Anderson

Who is planning on going to be in-person at WPI for this meeting? I will make the trek out if it is going to happen, but "Possibly" doesn't inspire confidence :-) On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 10:45:50PM -0400, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: > Hey Everybody, > > We've got a meeting on Thursday August 11th 2022 > Topic: Infrastructure as Code website with free hosting. > Physical Location: Possibly the Mid-Century Room at WPI! > Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA > Speaker: Althea Shaheen > > The days of websites simply being static pages of HTML are behind us. As > the web changes and the technologies underpinning complex websites grow and > evolve, managing all this by hand becomes nearly impossible. Load > balancers, database servers.. Now what if this website also needs to be > scaled across cloud providers and on prem? > > What happens when your favorite cloud company whose data center is just a > bunch of shipping containers burns to the ground? How easily could you > reconstitute your website and all the underpinnings? > > Althea is going to speak to how they deploy their website and manages the > entire process as code. > > I'd like to thank Chuck for facilitating getting Althea in contact with us. > If you know people who'd like to speak, please let me know. > > Yes, it's quite possible we'll be able to meet in our old haunt. When I > know more, you'll know more! > > Unfortunately as I've been in close contact with someone with covid, I'll > be unable to make it physically to the meeting, but I will be attending > virtually. > > Thanks, > Tim.

1 month, 3 weeks

Meeting Thursday August 11th 2022! Topic: "Infrastructure as Code website with free hosting"

by Tim Keller

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting on Thursday August 11th 2022 Topic: Infrastructure as Code website with free hosting. Physical Location: Possibly the Mid-Century Room at WPI! Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Speaker: Althea Shaheen The days of websites simply being static pages of HTML are behind us. As the web changes and the technologies underpinning complex websites grow and evolve, managing all this by hand becomes nearly impossible. Load balancers, database servers.. Now what if this website also needs to be scaled across cloud providers and on prem? What happens when your favorite cloud company whose data center is just a bunch of shipping containers burns to the ground? How easily could you reconstitute your website and all the underpinnings? Althea is going to speak to how they deploy their website and manages the entire process as code. I'd like to thank Chuck for facilitating getting Althea in contact with us. If you know people who'd like to speak, please let me know. Yes, it's quite possible we'll be able to meet in our old haunt. When I know more, you'll know more! Unfortunately as I've been in close contact with someone with covid, I'll be unable to make it physically to the meeting, but I will be attending virtually. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

1 month, 3 weeks

Re: Last meeting mention of connecting to DISPLAY :0

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris (wolcen) Thompson via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: Chris> Great to see you all in the last meeting :-) I was the Chris> skateboarder...who caught me almost falling shortly before I Chris> left? LOL It was good to meet you, hopefully face to face sometime. And I hope you're all staying cool today, it's been a scorcher! Chris> [Insert name I've forgotten here (sorry!)] mentioned that their Chris> users connect to a remote session's root desktop (or whatever Chris> you call the initial/primary display :0 deal that you Chris> initially/locally get). Chris> I would like to do this as well. SSH with port forwarding is Chris> probably my preference, but wireguard would be OK as well. I Chris> don't think I want to directly expose anything like xrdp. Chris> Anyway - could you please refresh my memory as to what was Chris> being used? I'm running i3 in this case (started via Chris> lightdm). I generally have not loved using VNC-based tools, but Chris> if that's what is currently recommended, I guess I'll give it Chris> another go. For a long time I was using NX (or FreeNX) on my work desktop so I could connect between a windows box and a linux desktop using Synergy to map the keyboard/mouse between systems as I moved the mouse between my desktops. That was using the 'nomachine.com' software, though I used the freenx stuff. But after a while it got to be too painful, and now that I mostly work on a windows laptop for work (due to the work VPN requirements) I don't tend to do anything beyond lots of putty sessions in which I run screen. I've tried MobaXterm, but never really liked it, even though it does offer native X display, so you can fire up remote graphical tools. This would work better if I wasnt' 80-100 miliseconds of lag (basically across the entire US) distant from the remote systems I manage and work on. Much as I hate to say it, I've sometimes just fallen back to VNC when I need to fire up a web browser to download a 5-10gb ISO image to do a system install. Chris> ------------ Chris> SSHFS Optimization Chris> Also - I referred to using sshfs internally for myself to my NAS, and Chris> some optimizations for it. This is my current alias to mount it: Chris> sshfs -o cache=yes -o kernel_cache -o Ciphers=aes128-ctr -o Chris> Compression=no -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 -o ServerAliveInterval=15 -o Chris> reconnect -C -o idmap=user server: /mymountpoint Chris> I got a few of the recommended switches from this article that finally Chris> convinced me to just forget about NFS: Chris> https://blog.ja-ke.tech/2019/08/27/nas-performance-sshfs-nfs-smb.html This is a great set of info, because I too have used sshfs at times but cursed to slow speed. I'll definitely try this out. It would be nice if the windows client also supported these options as well at times. Cheers! Joohn

2 months, 1 week

Last meeting mention of connecting to DISPLAY :0

by Chris (wolcen) Thompson

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?

2 months, 2 weeks

Re: [EXT] Who was that guy?

by Gelman, Ian

Sultan Jilani! Absolute legend Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: Richard Klein via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2022 5:07:15 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Cc: Richard Klein <rich(a)richardklein.org> Subject: [EXT] [WLUG] Who was that guy? They're looking to hire a mechanical engineer where I work, and talking about how a lot of the best candidates have been from WPI. That got me thinking about one guy who'd been at several meetings, and graduated maybe 2 years ago, though I don't think he was an engineering major. He had a legendary appetite and I think he moved to Nashua. I'm pretty sure his name had 2 syllables and started with 'S'. I keep thinking "Salman", but I'm pretty sure that's wrong. Who was that guy? -- Rich

2 months, 2 weeks

Who was that guy?

by Richard Klein

They're looking to hire a mechanical engineer where I work, and talking about how a lot of the best candidates have been from WPI. That got me thinking about one guy who'd been at several meetings, and graduated maybe 2 years ago, though I don't think he was an engineering major. He had a legendary appetite and I think he moved to Nashua. I'm pretty sure his name had 2 syllables and started with 'S'. I keep thinking "Salman", but I'm pretty sure that's wrong. Who was that guy? -- Rich

2 months, 2 weeks

Re: July WLUG Meeting will be online tonight @7pm

by Chuck Anderson

Suggested topic of discussion: https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/retbleed/ Retbleed: Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions Retbleed (CVE-2022-29900 and CVE-2022-29901) is the new addition to the family of speculative execution attacks that exploit branch target injection to leak information, which we call Spectre-BTI. Unlike its siblings, who trigger harmful branch target speculation by exploiting indirect jumps or calls, Retbleed exploits return instructions. This means a great deal, since it undermines some of our current Spectre-BTI defenses. On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:15:19PM -0400, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: > Hey Gang, > > I'd like to start by apologizing. There's been some illness and other stuff > going on and I've focused a bit less on WLUG than I'd like. Thankfully > things are getting sorted out at my end and I will be focusing much more on > WLUG. > > Tonight the meeting is going to be online. With the late announcement > combined with only myself and John in person, it makes more sense to just > have it online for this month. I plan on reaching out to the WPI people and > seeing about doing in person meetings there for August hopefully. I'd also > like to have a WLUG bbq at some point as well. > > We'll have our meeting at the same time and same place and like usual, it's > going to be awesome. > Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA > Time: 7pm > > Later, > Tim.

2 months, 2 weeks

July WLUG Meeting will be online tonight @7pm

by Tim Keller

Hey Gang, I'd like to start by apologizing. There's been some illness and other stuff going on and I've focused a bit less on WLUG than I'd like. Thankfully things are getting sorted out at my end and I will be focusing much more on WLUG. Tonight the meeting is going to be online. With the late announcement combined with only myself and John in person, it makes more sense to just have it online for this month. I plan on reaching out to the WPI people and seeing about doing in person meetings there for August hopefully. I'd also like to have a WLUG bbq at some point as well. We'll have our meeting at the same time and same place and like usual, it's going to be awesome. Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Time: 7pm Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

2 months, 2 weeks

Re: WLUG Meeting July 14th at the Hudson Public Library!

by Robert N. Evans

I am remote and hopefully can be on Jitsi for some of the meeting. Bob Evans -----Original Message----- From: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Sent: Jul 13, 2022 6:14 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Cc: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> Subject: [WLUG] WLUG Meeting July 14th at the Hudson Public Library! Hey Gang, We've got a meeting tomorrow night at the Hudson Public Library! As a quick show of hands, who'll be coming out? I'm debating doing it online since I'm a bit late in sending out the notice. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers". _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/2YFCW…

2 months, 2 weeks

Re: WLUG Meeting July 14th at the Hudson Public Library!

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "hammerron" == hammerron via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: I can make the meeting tonight, since I just got back from Vacation, but it looks like just two of us would meet in person? Not sure... hammerron> Sadly, I will not. The location is a bit harder for me hammerron> than the Worcester one was. hammerron> On 7/13/22 18:14, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: hammerron> Hey Gang, hammerron> We've got a meeting tomorrow night at the Hudson Public Library! hammerron> As a quick show of hands, who'll be coming out? I'm debating doing it online since I'm a bit hammerron> late in sending out the notice. hammerron> Thanks, hammerron> Tim. hammerron> -- hammerron> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as hammerron> "consumers". hammerron> _______________________________________________ hammerron> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org hammerron> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org hammerron> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ hammerron> Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ hammerron> Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/2YFCW… hammerron> _______________________________________________ hammerron> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org hammerron> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org hammerron> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ hammerron> Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ hammerron> Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/4KEQE…

2 months, 2 weeks

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