Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

Our PCR tests were nowhere near as bad as I’d be told they would be. Certainly no more painful than spraying a carbonated beverage out one’s nose.

Well, not with these libraries anyway. Can do it in Linux, but not windows.

Last week I figured out how to use the Nitrokey HSM2 for some critical tasks in my team from my Qubes system, and this week I figured out how to accomplish the same from my corporate laptop using PowerShell and git bash.

Today, I will try to hammer out some #Rust to remove the dependency on git bash.

Apologies to everyone being rained on in The Netherlands today. I left the house without an umbrella or rain jacket. This is clearly my fault.

Question for the system programming folks: I have a program that needs to subprocess some tasks to OS built-ins, and would like to have tests validating they work. So far I’ve only managed to take the function in question out and run it stand-alone in a ephemeral VM. Not the most easily automated task unfortunately. I’ve considered perhaps a test harness leveraging a tempdir and chroot, but I’m not sure how sane (or insane) that approach might be. Any suggestions on how to proceed?

2/2 - As a brown man from a state with legendary levels of racist hypocrisy, I understand the response and reaction of the other man. The attendant however appeared to be upholding the standards posted in several languages. In any event, I offered an apology of my own for creating a situation where even the appearance of racial discrimination was possible. This was met with a threat of violence so I broke contact. Battle drill 3 saves the day again, >13 years after my last day of combat...

Just had an interesting experience as one of two individuals exhibiting similar behavior in a public space. I was not corrected - my lack of a face covering was for the ongoing act of drinking water. Another man was approached by the station attendant and told to put a mask on while recording some kind of media on his phone. His response was to loudly insist the same standard be applied to everyone, the implication being racism was why he was asked and I was not. 1/2

Any @purism Librem 14 owners have a USB-C dock recommendation?

Today, I setup a local version of A Rust Site Engine for my significant other. This uncovered a few bugs in the Windows binary, which were addressed in 0.7.1. Then, while setting her machine up so she could make local edits and have them Just Appear live on the site I made another release, 0.8.0, which removed the Credentials struct entirely. My roadmap has been updated accordingly, and I will focus on performance rather than making an admin portal for a minimal site generator.

#Rust

"All that's left...." for A Rust Site Engine on its path to 1.0 is complete documentation, and the admin portal. Just added user-defined bind address/port to the configuration, and spruced up the README, marking another release: 0.7.0

Since I'm taking a long vacation in May, expect me to also start serving more than just my tiny demo site. In fact, with a 10hr flight starting my vacation I might just build a few of them in the air and deploy when I land.

https://crates.io/crates/arse

Long day today in preparation for an upcoming, and much needed, month off. Got to know `-engine pkcs11` as an option to many openssl tools today as I put the trio of Nitrokey HSM 2 modules purchased for my team to use in eliminating single points of failure in the safe storage of critical secrets. Sadly almost none of these tasks are even tangentially documented by Nitrokey, OpenSC, or anyone else - but now that I’ve sorted that out for my team I’ll put something together publicly as well.

Well, I hadn't planned on adding additional features to A Rust Site Engine today but... Two Release Tuesday can be a thing can't it?

https://crates.io/crates/arse 0.6.0 adds accessing individual posts directly. Underneath the feature add was a major refactor of the application's core and the Engine struct itself. While rendering and load times were already very fast, I was previously loading the Tera template for every single request. Now it's done once at startup.

#Rust #FOSS

Released 0.5.0 of A Rust Site Engine today, adding support for custom templates for the rendering engine.

The README has been updated with some information on setting a custom template. Previous users will need to add the template parameter to their [site] config section to upgrade to 0.5.0. This should be the last breaking change for the config before 1.0.

https://crates.io/crates/arse

Since direct inbound is neither necessary nor desirable, I’ve spun a new firewall VM in Qubes with my Wireguard interface. Now the AppVMs are using that VM instead of their own individual tunnels. I didn’t need to free up allocated IPs in my VPN, but now there’s one available for another device if needed. When I am back stateside I will reconfigure my US home network (as it’s needlessly complicated today), and add a peer for my Qubes VM so I can always reach local home assets directly.

WireGuard has really made it extremely easy to join my home networks on both sides of the Atlantic, and my cloud services (private side) together. Syncthing is replicating (note: do not confuse this for backing up - not the same thing) important data between two of my machines, while Borg is maintaining backups in multiple locations. All running smoothly between Qubes VMs, cloud VMs, Fedora and Debian on metal, and even the two iOS devices I still use.

Had a pretty good work week with my team being super efficient and taking a lot of good initiative to get things done before I even assigned it. Ended it all on a high note when I checked my personal email and saw my Librem 14 from @purism has shipped! Just saw a post about running Qubes on it, so when I fly home in a few weeks I will bring my backup with me so I can get things running as soon as possible.

The sun is shining and it’s a long weekend so the whole country (.nl) is out in the park. This has been a post.