Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

Baseline charging rate for my Librem 14 over USB-C while running Qubes OS is.. 10W.

That may explain why the laptop died while charging from a low battery under load... I'll get some more data and see which rabbit holes that leads me down. Note that the same power supply handles all day heavy use on my work laptop without any decrease in battery status, so it can most certainly give more than 10W if asked.

https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202125-001-librem14

#librem14 #purism

On a train to add France to the list of countries I’ve physically traveled to in order to fix someone’s router...

Released v0.1.0 of check-tls-suites to provide some tooling to those who might want to check their cipher suites.

This takes the list of suites maintained by IANA, and uses them to check either a hex stream, or a list of integers like one might get from a TLS Client Hello in Wireshark or tshark. Each cipher is marked either as recommened, or not recommended.

Suites that are not recommended are wrapped in '!' characters.

https://crates.io/crates/check-tls-suites

#Rust #FOSS #cli

Given that A Rust Site Engine was written for my better half, it appears another feature has been added to the 1.0 roadmap: an image gallery/slideshow.

Initial and simple POC is done... in JavaScript. It's not my favorite language, and it never will be, but I see how/why it's popular and useful.

ARSE 0.9.1 has been released

One step closer to 1.0.

Rust crate at: https://crates.io/crates/arse

Powering:
- https://ajmartinez.com
- https://anxioushousewife.one
- https://some.bullsh.art

#Rust #FOSS #ARustSiteEngine

Though other times I do update tech-y things: https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202123-001-fedora-pcsc

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.

Sometimes I do things that aren't computer related: https://ajmartinez.com/craft/posts/202124-001-spinning

#handspun #yarn

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.

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

https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202123-002-librem14

#purism #librem14 #qubes-os

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: https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202123-001-fedora-pcsc

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.

Back in NL.

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.

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.

https://crates.io/crates/arse

#Rust #FOSS

Snagged a BatPower P120B USB-C PD charger, and a VAVA VA-UC020 8-in-1 USB-C hub for my #Librem14 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.