I've got some updates and ideas for the upcoming meetings!
I've reached out to Daniel Moghimi about doing a talk regarding his work on
the various security issues he's found in modern CPUs. He's agreed to speak
either March or April. I'll work to finalize the details with him.
I'm definitely interested in doing a Keysigning party, we'll just have to
work out the logistics and what additional presentations that we'd like to
go along with it. I know a while a go Eric Martin showed off a cool keyfob
that had his key stored in it.
I recently stumbled across a cool technology called "Node Red" which people
are using to do automation stuff with IoT and MTQQ. https://www.nodered.org It
allows you to create flows using their graphing engine.
Another piece of software that people might find interesting is subsonic
<http://www.subsonic.org/>. It lets you run your own music streaming
service. This way you're not subjected to whatever algorithm spotify /
pandora / etc wants to subject you to! I recently helped a buddy build a
home nas to run it and it's pretty damn slick.
Let me know if you have any more ideas for meeting topics!
Later,
Tim.
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Hey Gang,
This is my usual reminder that we've got a meeting next week.
Here's the details...
Date & Time: February 13th, 2020 @ 7PM
Location: WPI Campus Center Room 304 (Peterson Conference Room)
Presenter: Joshua Stone
Topic: Modernizing the Linux Desktop with Silver/Blue, Toolbox and Flatpak
Our speaker this month is Joshua Stone. He's going to giving a talk about a
couple of cool technologies in Fedora! Josh provided me some details about
these innovations so I've mashed them up and included them below.
Silverblue: https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/
Toolbox: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/toolbox/
Flatpaks: https://flatpak.org/
*Silverblue* s a Fedora variant designed around immutability where a new
system image is committed as the new /sysroot without affecting the state
of the running system. This is reminiscent of Android A/B updates, although
the update backend -- ostree -- has elements of a version control system
like git.
*Toolbox* is also interesting as it lets you switch into an unprivileged
development environment that can be built up and torn down without
affecting the host as tools are installed inside a container.
*Flatpak* uses the same file storage backend as Silverblue to manage apps
and shared
runtimes. This app distribution technology allows you to decouple apps and
operating systems as everything is built and run inside a sandbox, making
upgrades easier. Compare needing only one version of an app to package as a
flatpak, versus packaging for different versions.
As usual, snacks and refreshments will be provided and afterwards we'll
head off for dinner to continue the conversation.
Thanks,
Tim Keller
WLUG President
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I saw that one of the researchers for the https://zombieloadattack.com/ Zombie
Load attack is working on a Ph.d at WPI!
Would this be something that people might be interested in? If so I'll
reach out and see if he'd like to give a talk at WLUG.
Later,
Tim.
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Tim> I've come into possession of a brother embroidery machine!
Very neat! Should be emminently hackable at some point. Can you post
more details? What sort of interface does it have?
Tim> I'd like to get it working with linux, but I'll just be happy to
Tim> start putting WLUG and the tux penguin on a polo shirt!
Tim> Hopefully for the Feb. meeting I'll have something!
Very cool. Please don't have a meeting 17-21 of Feb week... that's
school vacation week!
Right, you have to create your key and submit it to the organizers BEFORE the actual keysigning meeting, so that
at the keysigning other people will have a copy of your public key fingerprint to compare with the copy of your
key that they later download or get emailed to them.
So we should have a PGP meeting first, then a keysigning party the next month or whatever.
Here's my ancient slides on the topic, but if someone else wants to update this, feel free:
http://www.wlug.org/files/pgp-slides/
Using "caff" is a good idea:
https://wiki.debian.org/caffhttps://wiki.debian.org/Keysigninghttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/KeySigningParty
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:08:03AM -0500, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:
> Ian,
>
> That would be a fantastic idea. I think part and parcel with doing the
> Keysigning should be a presentation on how to *actually* use the PGP key
> you've now created...
> How do you integrate your key into gmail / etc.
>
> Tim.
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:29 AM Gelman, Ian S. via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I keep noticing several encrypted emails flying back and forth on the WLUG
> > listserv. It occurred to me that we haven't done a PGP keysigning party in
> > a couple of years - maybe we're due for another? It could also be a way to
> > introduce some new student members to the group.
I recently did up a pretty shitty WLUG icon tile for the meetup group. I
thought that would look pretty cool on a T-shirt.
https://imgur.com/a/1CmyhDG
If people have better ideas I'll take them!
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:08 PM Joel <joelgroup(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> If successful, a tux penguin
> polo could be "Geek Chic".
>
> Tag line could be, swim like a bird!
>
> Joel
>
>
>
> On January 24, 2020 12:03:11 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I've come into possession of a brother embroidery machine!
>>
>> I'd like to get it working with linux, but I'll just be happy to start
>> putting WLUG and the tux penguin on a polo shirt!
>>
>> Hopefully for the Feb. meeting I'll have something!
>>
>> Later,
>> Tim.
>>
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>> constituents as "consumers".
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If successful, a tux penguin
polo could be "Geek Chic".
Tag line could be, swim like a bird!
Joel
On January 24, 2020 12:03:11 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote:
> I've come into possession of a brother embroidery machine!
>
> I'd like to get it working with linux, but I'll just be happy to start putting WLUG and the tux penguin on a polo shirt!
>
> Hopefully for the Feb. meeting I'll have something!
>
> Later,
> Tim.
>
>
> --
>
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I've come into possession of a brother embroidery machine!
I'd like to get it working with linux, but I'll just be happy to start
putting WLUG and the tux penguin on a polo shirt!
Hopefully for the Feb. meeting I'll have something!
Later,
Tim.
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constituents as "consumers".
I sure do miss Doug.
I definitely remember the installfests and I even have a couple cd's that a
I burned and made use of the cd printing machine we had at Stratus.
The two I definitely remember were done in the education center at Stratus.
As for Bob I see that he's joined the meetup WLUG group!
Tim.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:11 AM Andy Stewart <kb1oiq(a)mval.net> wrote:
> On 1/23/20 12:08 PM, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:
> > One of my favorite anecdotes is from one of our installfests at Stratus
> where
> > Doug Wade tripped over the power cord *just* as the install had
> finished, but
> > before the MBR/LILO could be written to the disk.
> > It was cool to see a bunch of linux hackers stand around and get
> Mandrake to
> > properly boot on this persons machine.
> >
> > Good times.
> >
> > Tim.
>
> Definitely good times! I remember when Doug Waud tripped on that power
> cord.
> At the time, we somewhat affectionately said that the machine had been
> "Doug'd".
>
> I remember a talk that Doug Waud gave about computer networking. His
> first
> example of a network was a string with a cup at either end.
>
> Does anybody else remember that install fest we held at Stratus Computer?
> I
> think we installed Linux on 20 computers that day. I remember using a
> shoe
> horn to get it installed on two separate hard drives for Bob Evans, who I
> still
> see at ham radio club meetings.
>
> Andy
>
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> Vice President: PART of Westford, MA (WB1GOF)
> Founder: Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group
> Founder: Worcester Linux Users' Group
>
>
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On 1/23/20 12:08 PM, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:
> One of my favorite anecdotes is from one of our installfests at Stratus where
> Doug Wade tripped over the power cord *just* as the install had finished, but
> before the MBR/LILO could be written to the disk.
> It was cool to see a bunch of linux hackers stand around and get Mandrake to
> properly boot on this persons machine.
>
> Good times.
>
> Tim.
Definitely good times! I remember when Doug Waud tripped on that power cord.
At the time, we somewhat affectionately said that the machine had been "Doug'd".
I remember a talk that Doug Waud gave about computer networking. His first
example of a network was a string with a cup at either end.
Does anybody else remember that install fest we held at Stratus Computer? I
think we installed Linux on 20 computers that day. I remember using a shoe
horn to get it installed on two separate hard drives for Bob Evans, who I still
see at ham radio club meetings.
Andy
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Vice President: PART of Westford, MA (WB1GOF)
Founder: Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group
Founder: Worcester Linux Users' Group
