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Though other times I do update tech-y things: ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/2021

TL;DR - if you're annoyed that using a smartcard with gnupg stops you from later using it with pkcs11 directly the solution is simple: kill gpg-agent.

@aral oh yeah, been cruising with ripgrep (and Rust) for quite a while now. Anytime I'm on a system that doesn't have it I weep a little.

Well at least when I’m stuck in Windows for work I’ve still got Emacs.

Update: I went ahead and tried to boot with my Librem Key plugged into the hub, and that works too.

It takes a while for the keyboard and mouse to come alive again after the login screen loads, and if you do something like disable the onboard panel and then accidentally sleep the machine rather than locking the screen you’ll be power cycling to get back in.

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Pleased to report that all USB-C features offered by the Librem 14 work even when using Qubes OS.

ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/2021

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Got my spare Librem Key working with my NUC today, though I did run into some trouble with pcscd/polkit/Fedora along the way. My solution is here: ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/2021

@ademalsasa both of my personal laptops run Qubes OS and have for quite a while. I’ve got other systems on Fedora and Debian, but the bulk of my development and security work is done on qubes based on the same distros.

Now my old laptop, a T460s, has a kali-rolling Qubes OS template VM with the tools I fancy for testing/investigating. At 17GB it’s the largest template I’ve ever made, but I’ll base a DispVM off it and likely a few normal qubes as well with configurations suited for specific roles. A few posts about what I do, and how, will happen eventually.

T460s running Qubes OS compiles A Rust Site Engine v0.9.0 in 3m15s. Librem 14 configured the same way does it in 1m20s. This is a full release build with flags for crt-static. Not mad about that at all. Now to wipe the T460s and prepare it for other duties.

Sometime this week I’ll be tweaking some Qubes stuff so my UI adapts between my Librem 14 being used with its onboard 1080p panel or my external 2160p.

org.Gtk.MountOperationHandler support coming to so you can open encrypted volumes with swipeable, modal dialogs

@purism

And now we’re at IAH waiting to board. Flights have many more passengers now than they did in any of the other months I’ve flown during the pandemic.

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Heading back to The Netherlands tomorrow. Enjoyed not working at all for a month and getting to see my family and friends. Slightly terrified by what my inbox may hold, but I won’t check until I’m on the clock again.

A Rust Site Engine v0.9.0 is out - adding a route for favicon.ico and redefining the roadmap. Cache is out, RSS feed is in. At this point I've been running my personal site on ARSE for a month and have been pleased with how it's working.

crates.io/crates/arse

Snagged a BatPower P120B USB-C PD charger, and a VAVA VA-UC020 8-in-1 USB-C hub for my and so far so good. I have not even looked at what might be needed to use the HDMI port in Qubes, but the power pass through and data ports all work great.

Huge news out of Washington state. King County, which includes Seattle and is home to Amazon and Microsoft, has voted to ban government use of face surveillance. twitter.com/ACLU_WA/status/139

Updated to fix a mistake in my steps: I did not include the cipher used (chacha20) to encrypt/decrypt and while that won't error out in OpenSSL it will result in you not actually encrypting/decrypting data.

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