“I just realized that instead of storing my GPG keyring to disk, I could be just using my Yubikey for that! I followed the (very clear!) steps over at https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide and got my key up and running in moments (I skipped a few steps that weren’t in my threat model).
I might go back and even consider hardening the keys I have set up.”
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“The engine of internet culture is chugging along, changed. ”
“I love music. I need it in my life and for a number of decades, there was more music in my life than there was not. When I was 13 I used to have a paper round that paid £11 on the Saturday morning. I would head to town that afternoon and buy a new album from the store and immediately listen to it o…”
“Data portability is friendly to consumers, but it has very little to do with encouraging competition, at least relative to interoperability.”
It somewhat tickles me that the Gaelic word for ‘small’ is ‘beag’, pronounced more-or-less as “big”
“Step one: Ignore insidious competition culture.”
“New technology means museums can return items to their countries of origin while still representing those cultures in fair, interesting ways.”
“The Santa myth tells us more about adults than children.”
“This past weekend, just before everything slowed down for Thanksgiving, I got a chance to reflect on my photographic journey. While it is easy to quantify the technological and social success of a …”
“I’m always happy for a friend when they start a job at Apple — but I’m also sad when it means they have to stop their community activities: no more podcasting and blogging, developer meetup organizing, presenting at conferences, writing side-project apps, contributing to open source things.”
“Hans Calmeyer was a left-wing German lawyer — his law license was temporarily suspended when he was accused of being a Communist — who was inducted into the German army under the Nazis, who put him in charge of an office that determined which Dutch people would be deported to Auschwitz during the Nazi occupation.”
“Influencers and regular users are reckoning with what Instagram has done to them. Now Instagram wants us to love it again. “
” I was on campus at UCI today to sign the paperwork to confirm that I’ll be teaching my Game Design class again next year. It also …”
“So…the end of Praetorian of Dorn is something of a controversy. And because I feel like indulging in a fluff discussion, I figured I’d post something that I’ve been mulling over e…”
By posting today, I managed my first complete year on the year/month archive view since 2005. Here’s hoping there’s many more in the future!
“Ciaran Iòsaph MacAonghais – a Primary Teacher from Fort William and co-creator of the Scottish Gaelic Duolingo course – takes us through Scottish Gaelic’s journey to Duolingo. [fo…”
I do wish they’d taught us Scottish Gaelic at school when I was a kid, or at least given us the option as an elective course. I’m hoping to find some time to devote to learning it in the new year; one of those “20 for ’20” kind of things. This Duolingo course seems as good a way as any!
“What hardware are you running on? I’ve found it often doesn’t work “out of the box” because the hardware manufacturers don’t Open Source/upstream their drivers so it can’t be released as part of the core distro offering. It is definitely a pain for users, as it’s not like ie Dell would say “don’t bu…”
CC: Jacky.
The hardware is a Broadcom-based chip built in to my Asus ROG motherboard. Broadcom are known to not play well with Linux, so there’s that. The thing is, it used to work fine out of the box on older kernels, which I guess is when my expectations were set. It wasn’t until sometime during 4.x and onwards I started having these sorts of issues on fresh installs.
That said, it’s nowhere near as bad as the old days of Intel Centrino and the kludge that was ndiswrapper. At least I don’t have to recompile my kernel from source these days!
Went to try a live image of the latest Ubuntu. WiFi didn’t work “out of the box.” WiFi issues on almost every software update is one of the reasons I’m looking to switch distro, so it looks like Ubuntu might not make the shortlist. Fedora is next to try. If WiFi doesn’t work on that I might need to get a dongle instead of using the onboard adapter.
Sign me up to all of this.
