Elena ``of Valhalla''

Another couple of gpg-related URLs

2016-07-11T07:25:54Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

* https://wiki.debian.org/GnuPG/AirgappedMasterKey
* https://wiki.debian.org/GnuPG/SmartcardSubkeys

#gnupg

2016-07-10T08:23:50Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a 1960s time capsule

"Burn, baby! BURN!"

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2016-07-09T19:22:41Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

note by Marcelo Santana - Identi.ca

All recorded DebConf16 sessions have already been reviewed and published by our video team, you can find them here: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/debconf16/

And don't forget, now the Subtitles team NEEDS YOU!

@Debian @Gruppo Linux Como #debconf

2016-07-07T11:36:32Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

Derivation: publishing by Glénat

Nicolas Forsans, project manager at Glénat, met the Pepper&Carrot website 8 month ago. He was seduced with the concept and decided to build an internal dossier about it. After months of work, meeting and review, Glénat decided to add Pepper&Carrot to their official catalog to print and distribute the comic in France.

Especially noteworthy is the part about how Glénat adapted some of its workflow to work with the open standard files generated with Krita, Inkscape etc. while still using the Adobe tools they are used to.

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Debconf video are being published right now

2016-07-06T14:39:00Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

DebConf16 videos already available! - Identi.ca

Thanks video team, numerous videos from the DebConf16 talks are already available for download and watch. DebConf16 continues all along the week; today is the DayTrip; talks and BoFs will resume on Thursday.

Grab the videos from meetings-archive.debian.net, or even better try to help the Video Team (some tasks can be done remotely, including subtitling, which can also be done online, and even for just part of one video).

#debconf @Gruppo Linux Como @Debian

2016-07-04T10:09:49Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

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And I just made my last pet project public. It's a program to help storytellers (esp. of interactive or semi-improvised stories, like in role-playing games) integrate images and music into their stories. Check it out:

https://emanchado.github.io/lyre/

Hat tip to Marek, who might want to check it again #freesoftware #storytelling #rpg #roleplayingLyre by emanchado

2016-07-04T07:57:49Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

Confirming all use of an SSH agent

For a long time I’ve wanted an ssh-agent setup that would ask me before every use, so I could slightly more comfortably forward authentication over SSH without worrying that my session might get hijacked somewhere at the remote end (I often find myself wanting to pull authenticated git repos on...

My favourite user interface would be "enter passphrase/pin once after login (or card removal/reinsert), press a button on the smartcard reader / device for every use", but this is already starting to look interesting.

(of course, most of the times I'm working from a place where there is nobody else who could press that button)

#gnupg

2016-07-04T07:41:58Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

DebConf16 Open Festival day 1

Today was day one of the DebConf16 Open Festival and I attended the open hardware panel, part of the talk about Code For South Africa, shirish's experiences and the DebConf new folks session. The open hardware panel was a wide ranging discussion between bdale, Andy and indiebio. bdate talked ...

I've followed the open hardware panel streaming and as soon as it will be available I can recommend watching the video both if you're already interested in open hardware and if you're just wondering what is this all about.

Debconf streaming and kudos to the video team

2016-07-03T13:57:01Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

With Debconf being in South Africa, a lot of people (like me) probably weren't able to attend and are missing the cheese and wine party, mao games and general socialization that is happening there.

One thing we don't have to miss, however, are the talks: as usual the video team is doing a great job recording and streaming all talks so that people can still participate a bit from their home.

What they do, however, requires a lot of manpower, so if you are attending Debconf please consider volunteering to help: from my experience last year they are very nice people who are welcoming towards new contributors and they have periodical training sessions to help people getting started with the various tasks. More informations about video team meetings and training session are in the topic of the IRC channel, #debconf-video@OFTC.

I don't think there are cookies involved (which just proves that the video team isn't evil), but you may get a t-shirt and you will get a warm fuzzy feeling of having helped people around the world.

@Debian #debconf

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2016-07-02T07:40:17Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

DebConf16 starts today! - Identi.ca

DebConf16 starts today, with the Debian Open Festival, aimed to the general public. Join us if you are in Cape Town! Or follow the live streaming at https://debconf16.debconf.org/video/live-streaming/
(Thanks Valessio Brito for the Open Festival flyer!)

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Busy/idle status indicator

2016-07-01T16:24:43Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

About one year ago, during my first Debconf, I've felt the need for some way to tell people whether I was busy on my laptop doing stuff that required concentration or just passing some time between talks etc. and available for interruptions, socialization or context switches.

One easily available method of course would have been to ping me on IRC (and then probably go on chatting on it while being in the same room, of course :) ), but I wanted to try something that allowed for less planning and worked even in places with less connectivity.

My first idea was a base laptop sticker with two statuses and then a removable one used to cover the wrong status and point to the correct one, and I still think it would be nice, but having it printed is probably going to be somewhat expensive, so I shelved the project for the time being.

Lately, however, I've been playing with hexagonal stickers and decided to design something on this topic, whith the result in the figure above, with the “hacking” sticker being my first choice, and the “concentrating” alternative probably useful while surrounded by people who may misunderstand the term “hacking”.

While idly looking around for sticker printing prices I realized that it didn't necessarly have to be a sticker and started to consider alternatives.

One format I'm trying is inspired by "do not disturb" door signs: I've used some laminating pouches I already had around which are slightly bigger than credit-card format (but credit-card size would also work of course ) and cut a notch so that they can be attached to the open lid of a laptop.

They seem to fit well on my laptop lid, and apart from a bad tendency to attract every bit of lint in a radius of a few meters the form factor looks good. I'll try to use them at the next conference to see if they actually work for their intended purpose.

SVG sources (and a PDF) are available on my website under the CC-BY-SA license.

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Free Software dreams

2016-07-01T13:58:25Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

Tonight I've dreamt I was inside Widelands, as a barbarian being invaded by the atlanteans.

I've had the same thing happening to me a few times with Battle for Wesnoth

Mayyybe it is a sign that lately I've been playing it too much, but I'm quite happy with the fact that free software / culture is influencing my dreams.

Thanks to everybody who is involved into Free Culture for creating enough content so that this can happen.

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Cool xD

JanKusanagi at 2016-07-01T14:27:52Z

The definition of sweet dreams :)

Arcee at 2016-07-01T14:40:21Z

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it is, except of course for the **** atlanteans conquering my territory and preventing me from mining more iron :)

Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-07-01T16:45:40Z

2016-06-28T11:36:21Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

Bits from Debian - DebConf16 schedule available

DebConf16 will be held this and next week in Cape Town, South Africa, and we're happy to announce that the schedule is already available. Of course, it is still possible for some minor changes to happen!

As usual, streaming and videos will be available for people who is not able to be there, thanks to the great job of the video team (no link yet, however, afaik).

2016-06-25T19:35:57Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

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Economists HATE them: constitutional monarchy discovers one WEIRD trick to lose billions of pounds OVERNIGHT!

#brexit

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2016-06-22T10:19:24Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

mjg59 | I've bought some more awful IoT stuff

I bought some awful WiFi lightbulbs a few months ago. The short version: they introduced terrible vulnerabilities on your network, they violated the GPL and they were also just bad at being lightbulbs. Since then I've bought some other Internet of Things devices, and since people seem to have a bizarre level of fascination with figuring out just what kind of fractal of poor design choices these things frequently embody, I thought I'd oblige.

An entertaining read, if you are entertained by knowing that horrible design choices and GPL violations in this device are not your problem. :)

(it is still a shame that as a community we don't have the resources to do GPL enforcing in the myriad of cases like this.)

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>> Freemor:

“Too bad they were so awful. but sounded like a nice bit of hacking so hopefully that was fun.

Your site being behind Cloudflare definitely not so fun. (I really really hate CF and with good reason).”

my site? do you mean http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/ (that's not my site, just something that I read on planet debian and considered interesting enough to share)

Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-06-22T11:41:51Z

Sorry.. I miss understood.. Thanks for correcting that. :)

Freemor at 2016-06-22T12:18:31Z

How can you tell there aren’t resources to do GPL enforcement?

Kete Foy at 2016-06-23T15:31:31Z

@Kete Foy well, conservancy is still trying to fund their enforcement work and hasn't reached the target, gpl-violations remained in hiatus for a long time, and AFAIK those are the two groups who were doing most of the enforcing from the community POV.

I'm not saying that there aren't resources to do enforcing at all, just that there aren't enough to go against every violator who releases a sell-and-forget device like the ones above on the market.

Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-06-24T07:58:01Z

2016-06-22T10:04:10Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

EU consultation: Which Free Software program shall receive a European Union’s financed audit? – Dreierlei

tl;dr: the The European Union runs a public survey about which Free Software program should receive a financed security audit. Take part!

StickerConstructorSpec compliant swirl

2016-06-18T21:35:52Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

This evening I've played around a bit with the Sticker Constructor Specification and its template, and this is the result:

Now I just have to:

* find somebody in Europe who prints good stickers and doesn't require illustrator (or other proprietary software) to submit files for non-rectangular shapes
* find out which Debian team I should contact to submit the files so that they can be used by everybody interested.

But neither will happen today, nor probably tomorrow, because lazy O:-)

Edit: now that I'm awake I realized I forgot to thank Enrico and MadameZou for their help in combining my two proposals in a better design.

Source svg:

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As I suspected, the link to the svg didn't survive the passage from friendica to pump.io: it should be this one:

http://social.gl-como.it/attach/3

Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-06-18T22:27:13Z

2016-06-17T15:19:59Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

On Snappy and Flatpak: business as usual in the Canonical propaganda department

You may have read some stuff this week about an application delivery mechanism called Snappy and how it’s going to unite all distributions and kill apt and rpm!

This is, to put it diplomatically, a heaping pile of steaming bullshit. You may not be surprised to learn that said pile has been served by the Canonical press department.

Via Sarah Elkins (on pump.io).

Wow, Canonical, nice way to show that you really care about the Free Software community.

#reasons why friends dont let friends use ubuntu
#i still believe installing ISV packaged stuff is bad

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I love the “big list” of distributions supposedly supporting it: Debian, Fedora … and a gazillion *buntus! xD

JMobile at 2016-06-17T19:08:37Z

>> Elena ``of Valhalla'':

“[...] #reasons why friends dont let friends use ubuntu #i still believe installing ISV packaged stuff is bad [...]”

I do want distro maintainers between me and most apps developers. I look at the Android systems and I see lots of unsupervised stuff out there that can seriously subvert your security. About the only thing I install and update from source is Calibre.

B. Ross Ashley at 2016-06-17T22:21:35Z

what is "isv packaged" ?

searches only seem to turn marketing stuff
not sure if its relevant

Michael at 2016-06-19T22:03:38Z

>> Michael:

“what is "isv packaged" ?”

Packaged by "independent software vendors", a.k.a. the original authors of the software.

It's often a term used on proprietary software, but it's being used to discuss the topic on this post.

JanKusanagi at 2016-06-19T22:37:38Z

2016-06-16T13:40:54Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

Maintainers Matter: The case against upstream packaging

While most people are taking about the new future of Universal Linux Packages from a technical standpoint, the social perspective isn't getting much attention. Frankly any technical issue can be solved by a better "universal package" but the social changes can't be improved by emailing a patch. So let's examine the relationship between upstream developers, distribution maintainers and end users. With a focus on how we got here and where we might go next.

This. This. This.

BTW, a few years ago I wrote an article on more or less the same topic, but the one above is a much better read, so feel free to ignore mine :)

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Sarah Elkins at 2016-06-17T13:54:47Z

2016-06-16T07:45:24Z via social.gl-como.it To: Public

Verifying gpg keys

Suppose you have a gpg keyid like 9F6C6333 that corresponds to both key 1AE0322EB8F74717BDEABF1D44BB1BA79F6C6333 and 88BB08F633073D7129383EE71EA37A0C9F6C6333, and you don't know which of the two to use. You go to http://pgp.cs.uu.nl/ and find out that the site uses short key IDs, so the two keys are indistinguishable. Building on Clint's hopenpgp-t...

#gnupg @Gruppo Linux Como @LIFO

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