Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one
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I like to work with my hands. That may mean hammering out solutions to complex problems in #Python or #Rust, building things in my shop, or spinning yarn to knit something warm. You’ll likely see some of all of that here. By day (and sometimes night) I keep >13k nodes and services alive in the Electric Vehicle sector.
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Joined Jun 2020
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.
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.
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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. https://twitter.com/ACLU_WA/status/1399827349927985152
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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That scene in The Dark Knight where Batman turns everyone's cellphones into a massive surveillance network, was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a project roadmap.
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Guest Blogger @ajmartinez has written up a great technical guide on how to use Qubes's advanced isolation features on his Librem 14 to manage and store GPG keys securely on a pair of Librem Keys. https://puri.sm/posts/guest-post-librem-14-librem-keys-and-qubes-os/
My notes on extending the Qubes OS Split GPG feature to include SSH Agent support:
https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202121-003-split-ssh
Now my network-attached qubes no longer have any private keys on disk, and since my subkeys are also loaded on both of my Librem Keys as mentioned in an earlier post, I can still access my remote systems as long as I have one of my physical tokens.
As promised yesterday, here's a walkthrough on using Qubes OS disposable VMs, opensc, hybrid encryption, and USB security tokens (Librem Key) on my Librem 14 to create redundant hardware tokens from the encrypted backup of my GPG keyring:
https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202121-002-gpg
None of this is groundbreaking, but these steps do not seem to exist in any one document that I could find so I wrote one.
My second (backup) Librem Key has arrived. Tomorrow, I’ll write up how I’m using network-isolated qubes for GnuPG related tasks and how that feeds into making a backup key so the loss of my primary isn’t a major show stopping event.
Building a 4TB RAID1 array over USB2 on slow spinning rust is *hilariously* slow.
Another week with the @purism Librem 14 and I’m quite pleased.
Anyone have a USB-C dock recommendation? Needs DP or HDMI 2.0 and some USB3.1 ports. Ethernet would be nice.
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Now that cars have become rolling smartphones, it's been pretty disappointing to see them copy some of the worst practices from the smartphone world. I wrote an article that talks about some of those problems. [CW: Tesla negativity] https://puri.sm/posts/locked-in-a-remote-control-car/
Another look at my @purism Librem 14 - this time on the battery life front in Qubes OS doing basic tasks:
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Managed to hurt my shoulder somehow (being old I guess is enough) but that’s not stopping me from enjoying my vacation.
Somehow, despite many years of international travel and expat assignments, I never noticed that indeed everyone else’s periodic tables do say Aluminium. It’s we Americans doing it wrong, and the hard line I drew in the sand about this manipulation of the name of an ELEMENT was based on a web of lies. This may be as close to an existential crisis as I ever get. I am shook.
First impressions of my new Librem 14 from @purism. In just before I take a vacation inside my vacation!
https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202119-001-librem14
More to follow in a few weeks once I've had more time on the machine.
- Matrix
- @ajmartinez:txrx.staart.one
- Pixelfed
- https://pixelfed.social/ajmartinez
I like to work with my hands. That may mean hammering out solutions to complex problems in #Python or #Rust, building things in my shop, or spinning yarn to knit something warm. You’ll likely see some of all of that here. By day (and sometimes night) I keep >13k nodes and services alive in the Electric Vehicle sector.
PGP: FCBF 31FD B34C 8555 027A D1AF 0AD2 E852 9F5D 85E1
Joined Jun 2020
