Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

Suddenly pondering putting metal in a DC. Anyone have any recommendations for privacy-minded co-location facilities in the EU?

Decided to finish some minor restoration tasks on this antique spinning wheel I picked up at the kringloopwinkel. Now I guess I’ll be spinning the rest of this wool on the new old wheel. Much different feeling to spin on this old single treadle wheels versus my new ball-bearing equipped double treadle wheel.

Fairly productive and enjoyable day today. Got in some good violin practice, spun more yarn, cleaned up a bit around the house, knocked out day 5 of Advent of Code. May give day 6 a look later, or save it for tomorrow.

Started the 2020 Advent of Code today in #Rust. Better late than never, but I've finally reached a point where I have time to think about such things.

https://gitlab.com/anthonyjmartinez/advent-of-code-2020

Updated SSH Tunnel Manager to support both nmap-ncat and legacy netcat, and fix a bug that resulted in an infinite loop in one of the connection status checkers. So far it's been performing nicely for the last few hours with several network events thrown its way from the local and remote sides of the tunnel. Not mad about it at all.

https://gitlab.com/anthonyjmartinez/ssh-tunnel-manager

And finished todays bit of spinning and plying. I still have quite a lot of wool left to go overall but I’ll get through it one step at a time.

And we’re off to a good start on the new yarn.

Just publicly released a new project: SSH Tunnel Manager as a Bash-driven solution to keep track of a persistent background SSH connection with Local, Remote, or Dynamic forwards. Additional details in the readme.

https://gitlab.com/anthonyjmartinez/ssh-tunnel-manager

Non-tech project of the new week. Spin another bobbin of yarn from this really nice BFL roving. When that’s done, I’ll ply the two together and get started on the next bunch. I’ve got some plans to probably use this in a cardigan at some point.

Renamed one of my projects today, and moved the hosting to GitLab. I'll be updating everything over the coming days but for now here's `staart`, a tail-like library/binary crate using only #rust stdlib. Staart is "tail" in Dutch, and since I wrote this while living in The Netherlands I think that's more fitting than the old project name.

https://crates.io/crates/staart

Work has kept me quite busy in the #Python and #Bash realms and as such I have had almost no time to work on any #Rust projects. Hoping to have some time to change that soon. I may even do Advent of Code super late just for the practice.

If you happen to be using Azure Active Directory Login for Linux in your Azure VMs, do not update the aadlogin package. It is broken for both Ubuntu and CentOS. The change to aad_certhandler in the latest version, released 2020-12-15, will break your AAD login. Rolling back to the previous version works for now.

Got most of the way through a migration from Fedora based TemplateVMs to Debian based ones. Having been at this whole Linux thing for quite a while it doesn’t really matter that much to me whether I’m using dpkg or rpm, but in general when the majority of machines I must manage for work are on a specific platform my personal use follows suit.

Today, the first production EV charger was provisioned into life using the security-focused service infrastructure I was originally brought to The Netherlands to design and implement. Now that this milestone has passed, I may have some time to finally do a write up of the process so perhaps others can reduce their IoT attack surface, and move devices into line with the principle of least privilege rather than the Everyone’s An Admin philosophy that seems to guide so many places.