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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Here's a demo of the #mgmtconfig wireguard module. No central secret store required, private keys never leave the machine, and rotation happens in under 1000ms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z91TQPbJ-SU (I've showed this privately, and now I've got a public live demo! Feedback welcome please! If you or your company is interested in this, please reach out.)

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems You are doing $DEITY's work.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@adamsdesk@fosstodon.org @OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social @controlc@mstdn.ca I read the survey, but TBQH I want to see modern, technologist-designed ideas.

For example a legal mandate from the government that:

businesses/banks can't require email or non-end-to-end encrypted messaging
real 2FA not SMS nonsense
fines they pay, you get, when businesses lose or misuse your data
fair access to government/public services without requiring an app from one of two U.S. companies
minimum data collection required, eg: why DOB?
etc...

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@whack@hachyderm.io When someone introduced me the Helm, I was like, what? Why? So much of our tech is not being driven by thoughtful design.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

Not entirely convinced on this point but that's why we have #CfgMgmtCamp! Good conversations.

Great talk thanks Michael!

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org Test the battery life on Linux and improve your product and customer support quality and I'll buy!

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Thanks to @whack@hachyderm.io who found and reported a previously unnoticed bug in our use of the package kit API in #mgmtconfig.

Every great report adds extra beautiful polish!

https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/commit/28d81c6a06c30f263182f66e0a9dac91ae50d5c5

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@uecker@mastodon.social That's great news although it certainly has been a long while. Fedora needs to do this ASAP. Arch too.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@hughsie Doing great work keep it up!

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@adamsdesk@fosstodon.org @OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social @controlc@mstdn.ca About a month ago, my bank (I do not have an email or phone number on file) sent me a letter telling me they're mandating a cell phone number for SMS as a 2FA option. No they don't support TOTP. Why is my service becoming less secure? This is Scotia Bank btw. Anywhere works there or can fight this, please lmk!

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@aphyr@woof.group 100% It's terrible. There are worse episodes, but it also has some really brilliant ones that I am thankful for. When I realized this I started rating every single episode so I would know what I wanted to re-watch, and what I would never want to re-see. Happy to share recommendations if you're looking!

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@geerlingguy We want a 802.3bt version of this to charge a phone (and get a wired connection) with PoE. 1G is fine though... Can't find one.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@whack@hachyderm.io @mxk@hachyderm.io Unfortunately I bought the 4k version because I wanted a nice screen and the drivers are so bad that I can't get usable performance on it. Have to lower it to *less* than 2k even to make it not lag. For sale if someone wants to play with drivers or install windows.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@jzb@hachyderm.io I do agree and your last paragraph here is 💯 on the mark. Sadly I'm not convinced that Debian is a good user experience. We're losing the quality/features/experience war because a shiny mac book actually has really good battery life and a pretty good user experience. People unwilling to pay for Free Software is a major unsolved problem. I think I know a lot about this space both with #mgmtconfig and also with working because of working at AWS. It's sad :(

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org Change license to AGPL and you'll get offers from three different companies tomorrow.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

I'll be in #Halifax, #NovaScotia in 1.5 weeks from now if anyone wants to do nerd things, hack on #mgmtconfig or get some free stickers!

Suggestions welcome for good food and non-touristy things if you've got any!

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

OH: "dragging a slider and having the server respond to do Weird Stuff immediately was ... delightful"

#mgmtconfig from the brilliant and elocutionary @whack@hachyderm.io

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@hughsie Does this include any servers?

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@adamsdesk@fosstodon.org @OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social @controlc@mstdn.ca All I could really fit into the char limit, but could be more clearly expanded and I'd love to see a government that actually wants to "do it right".

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@dneary@mastodon.ie dnf info tmate

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@carlopiana@mastodon.uno @ubuntu@ubuntu.social just use Fedora or maybe arch

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@hughsie Yes please! While you've done great work in the laptop/desktop space, I feel there is a large hole in the server/enterprise space. What's going on there, and definitely an FU story to any vendor who's not developed a great plan.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@Turre@mementomori.social @dragosr@chaos.social Since it seems it was all vibe coded, it's possible copyright doesn't apply to it, depending on various pending court cases... Of course these models stole the worlds copyleft and other open source code, so...

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@whack@hachyderm.io Lenovo was selling some high end (and outrageously priced) ARM64 laptop which I considered buying before I realized drivers and other things on Linux would probably be very sub par. Even a brand new "Fedora preinstalled" thinkpad has a ton of driver issues.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@whack@hachyderm.io I only hope that some day I'll have such an experience on GNU+Linux :( I'd love to be able to coffee shop without needing to sit next to and outlet :/

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@dthompson@toot.cat Don't you dare implement any compiler optimizations in #mgmtconfig, especially not the ones with open issues being tracked!!

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@dneary@mastodon.ie tmate

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@carlopiana@mastodon.uno @ubuntu@ubuntu.social I was a long time aptitude user and was sad to move off it but Debian just has too much slow movement and legacy for modern laptops. Still love the project but I need the usability.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@aphyr@woof.group you're my hero

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@deobald@fantastic.earth In this video the black tea leaves are boiling for ~5 min... And then you add milk and boil longer... Why isn't this ruining the beverage by over cooking the tea? (Making the whole product bitter!)

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@koenvh Neat! Do you handle the Newfoundland scenario ?

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@whack@hachyderm.io I'm suspicious of that viewer. I'd be curious to know if this reproduces when accessing the vm via virt-manager for example.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

A friend of mine, Dave Kempe, has kicked off the shorewall-nft project, to continue the legacy of the brilliant iptables frontend (really an API/spec) that Tom Eastep started over 25+ years ago. https://github.com/sol1/shorewall-nft There's no better way to do Linux firewalling, and I'll be migrating all of my projects to this. Yes there's even an #mgmtconfig shorewall module: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/master/modules/shorewall

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@djb I read all your posts, but I'm not a cryptographer. My personal biased recommendation for someone missing a lot of context would be an "ELI5" summary to make certain story telling more obvious. Eg: "IETF chair is pushing agenda X or Y b/c I think they are being coerced by Z" or whatever

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@fn0rd What's the number of people?

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@nullr0ute@fosstodon.org @fedora@fosstodon.org We want the cameras to work with ffmpeg!

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@deobald@fantastic.earth @swick@hachyderm.io I love this except I'm strongly in the no cinnamon and no cardamon camp :)

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@deobald@fantastic.earth @swick@hachyderm.io Do you know why adding the milk prevents the bitterness from happening? Is it just masking it or is there some chemistry I don't know? I didn't think that would be a thing!

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@dneary@mastodon.ie I've not experienced this, but if you want to give me root on the machine, I'm happy to debug it a bit and see what's happening with you.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@whack@hachyderm.io Totally fair! Previously when I would run qemu manually, some things were easier, some harder, and overall I ended up personally (for the kinds of things I was doing) benefiting from the glue and polish and setup provided by the libvirt world, but YMMV.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@carlopiana@mastodon.uno @ubuntu@ubuntu.social what arm do you have?

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@tmarble It's such a huge embarrassment when I see NASA posting things in imperial :/ What happened in this instance, was there something on the stream?

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Lydie Amazing! When you find a good product that can be purchased without extreme tariffs in Canada, please let us know =D

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@carlopiana@mastodon.uno @ubuntu@ubuntu.social neat! I still don't own any "fast" ARM hardware, but I'm interested to! At some point I need to find something to test https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ builds on.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@swick@hachyderm.io @deobald@fantastic.earth I want to join the competition/learning discussion: https://mastodon.social/@purpleidea/116195108072021704

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@jzb@hachyderm.io I don't know the blog and I do use Wayland but I suspect people are angry because I'm typically distro fashion it was pushed in when so many bugs and missing features still remain as compared to X. The Free Software movement doesn't win because we're more Free, it wins when we have unilaterally better quality software then the other stuff. Yes this is an uphill battle but we have a lot of good people on our side. Wayland went into "production" too early and is still making users suffer.

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@carlopiana@mastodon.uno @ubuntu@ubuntu.social This Nvidia connectX thing is some proprietary network SFP type deal? Does this run stock distros (aarch64 of course) or do you need to run the custom nvidia stack?

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@krisbuytaert@mastodon.social yeah and you should also get a new sock

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@whack@hachyderm.io Is tty speed set really low on the viewer perhaps?

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James Just James @purpleidea@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

I'm flattered that more folks are realizing they want fast/reactive systems like #mgmtconfig but I'd also appreciate a little shout out if you're going to try to copy or be inspired by my ideas. I know cfengine is mostly legacy these days, but it's still a Goliath compared to the little David that I am. https://docs.cfengine.com/docs/lts/reference/components/cf-reactor/

docs.cfengine.com

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