tara

tara, 20 days ago to DuckDuckGo

For the #duckduckgo users, also #qwant search engine seems down.

Time to go back to man pages, the good ol' documentation and ... perhaps some real-life activities.

P.S. No, I'm not going to use Google or Bing. 👩‍💻

tara, 1 month ago to london

As they invented co-working spaces, there should be also an offer for #nap spaces. #London is so big that most of the times going back home for a couple of hours isn't feasible. 😴🧑‍💻

tara, 1 month ago to wireguard

An excellent solution from @solene 👇 to protect #Wireguard tunnels on #OpenBSD from #TunnelVision attacks.

Have a closer look at the example about rdomain 0 and rdomain 1

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-10-09-openbsd-wireguard-exit.html

#bsd

tara, 1 month ago to RedHat

As a proud member of the open source community since 1995, as being part of the OSS revolution as a #RedHat, #Canonical and #SuSE employee, with regrets I have to admit @geerlingguy is not totally wrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcBk6cwim8
(Corporate Open Source is Dead)

This is why I'm increasingly embracing the #BSD world, particularly #FreeBSD.

Also, some of the reasons are highlighted by @mms in this post:

https://michal.sapka.me/bsd/why-bsd/

#opensource #linux

tara, 1 month ago to random

Today I found this in an Italian supermarket: "Bud Spencer's Beans"

Bud Spencer and Terence Hill were actors in some "spaghetti western" movies. And always eating beans, hence these cans.

Probably this is mostly an Italian thing and for some European countries where Carlo Pedersoli, aka Bud Spencer, was also known... For the others: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer

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lauren, 1 month ago to random

Many years ago I was in a bread and breakfast in London, back when there were only like 3 or 4 TV channels available. I was flipping around between them when I happened upon a thrilling game of snookers or whatever it was that was just ending (maybe around 11pm or so), I believe on BBC2. So they then run this bizarre little short with naked animated figures going after each other. They then cut to the traditional analog clock BBC logo, and the announcer says this (pretty much the exact words):

"So it's time for shutdown here on BBC2, and I hope you enjoyed that little piece. And all I can say after that is, have at it!"

Transmission ends, and I'm sitting there with my mouth hanging open staring at static.

tara, 1 month ago to Futurology

The last episode of the "Hermit Project" is out, and it offers some insight into possible future scenarios for the project and my life.

Because Hermit wasn't just a computing project, it was mostly a journey of self-discovery.

https://tara.sh/posts/2024/2024-04-18_hermit_part_6/

Special thanks to @nina_kali_nina, @yottatsa, @usrbinkat and a friend (if you're reading this, yeah, it's you).

Also thanks to @kiwa and @ruhrscholz

#computing #homelab #life

tara, 1 month ago to random

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/30yo_netbsd_releases_v10/

#netbsd #bsd

tara, 2 months ago to python

... because the day wasn't shitty enough... 🙄 👩‍💻

I found out that from Python 3.11, you are forced to use virtualenvs. These are ok, but what about all those Python programs installed as a package (or brew) that do not and require a Python package that is not packaged?

https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/5018

#python #deprecation #notheday

tara, 2 months ago to linux

Something I didn't know: LXD is no longer part of the Linux Containers project

https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-is-no-longer-part-of-the-linux-containers-project/17593

#containers #linux

tara, 4 months ago to technology

I promised I would start talking about my Hermit Project. 👩‍💻

It’s a TL;DR, and this is the very first post: https://www.tara.sh/posts/2024/2024-02-12_hermit_part_1/

I'm no professional writer, so I don't expect the following posts to be available at a
given cadence. They will be ready when they are ready. 😉 😗

Thank @nina_kali_nina @yottatsa and @kiwa for inspiring this project. 💜

#technology #computing #homelab

tara, 4 months ago to Blog

Ok, fedi. I need your help. I'm searching for a blog post that passed here. It spoke about how the internet has gone wild and how people are tired of oligopoly and offered links to the sentiments of other people and why it was worth creating a blog on your own.

I am writing an article and I want to reference it, but I can't find it.
Thanks.
#fedihelp #blog

tara, 4 months ago to mastodon

Capture the flag 🤭
#mastodon #fosdem

tara, 4 months ago to windows

Sometimes you got to the airport so early that the announcement screens haven't been unlocked yet. 🙄 ✈️
#windows #airport #london

tara, 4 months ago to random

Super-cute mini laptop that is perfect for my "Hermit Project". And it's RISC-V!
https://3.14.by/en/read/RISC-V-Sipeed-Lichee-Console-4A-Alibaba-T-Head-TH1520-review

/cc @yottatsa @nina_kali_nina

#openhardware #risc_v

tara, 5 months ago to london

Are you aware of any #mainframe user group either in #London or #Milano? Thanks

tara, 5 months ago to random

Any iOS client for Mastodon to suggest? It's for a non-technical friend of mine that I am trying to convert to the Fediverse. So it has to be simple. Pros if it can apply filters to photos. Thanks.

tara, 5 months ago to Matrix

Great job from @josh
"Migrating from EMS to self-hosted Matrix"

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/01/migrating-from-ems-to-selfhosted-matrix/

#matrix #selfhosted

tara, 5 months ago to firefox

I always used Firefox in all my devices since ... 1995? Basically forever. But the latest development in the Mozilla foundation made me thinking about switching. I don't want to use an upstream browser like Chrome. I have @Vivaldi as a secondary browser and primary browser on my mobile. I have heard about @brave but never tried one. I value multi OS desktop/mobile experience.
What are your thoughts?

P.s. I would be happily go back to elinks

#browser #firefox #mozilla

tara, 5 months ago to cooking

This evening I will try to bake an Apple Strudel. 👩‍🍳

Once upon a time, I was a decent cook. I stopped ~3 years ago, for personal issues. I lost interest in many things, including cooking.

I was inspired by a post of @kevin yesterday. It won't be my best result ever, but it is something.

Recipe from one of my Südtirol books

#MentalHeath #transition #cooking #tirol #austria

tara, 5 months ago to homelab

This is a lovely #ARM Ampere deal for the #homelab lovers and those who want to experiment with the ARM platform. $1500 for an Ampere Altra Q64-22, 64 cores and Micro-ATX Server motherboard. I'm seriously tempted (gosh, I ran out of space in both houses)👇

https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813140134

tara, 5 months ago to FreeBSD

I get easily distracted in a regular desktop environment, and my anxiety levels just skyrocketed lately. For my time off, I needed something that helped me to slow down and focus on just one thing.

This is how "The Hermit Project" was born. It borrows two main concepts from @nina_kali_nina i.e. the creation of a distraction-free device and that we have more than enough
compute power nowadays, even with pretty old/cheap hardware.

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#freebsd #hardware #adhd #anxiety

tara, 6 months ago to FreeBSD

Good news with FreeBSD 14. Quoting from its release notes, "The use of FIDO/U2F hardware authenticators has been enabled in ssh, using the new public key types ecdsa-sk and ed25519-sk, along with corresponding certificate types." 😍 🎉

#freebsd #FreeBSD14 #security #openssh #fido2 #FIDO_U2F

tara, 9 months ago to FreeBSD

Podman on FreeBSD (and Linux): satisfying my curiosity and the bug I found. Here's my article:
https://tara.sh/posts/2023/freebsd_linux_podman_and_lro/

The above is far more than a tech post for me. I last wrote a tech article (perhaps) over two years ago. I went through a lot, including transitioning, and I'm trying with all my energy to return to normal. It'll take a while, but I thank those who stand by my side daily.

#freebsd #podman #linux #containers

tara, 1 year ago to random

Good evening #Brighton!

Not great news today. There are good chances that my time here in Brighton is limited. I'll probably go back to #London after. 🏖️ ☀️

Also, I came out to a customer as a #transwoman. The way they behaved, I think they won't renew my #contract next year. I was expecting it but is still unpleasant to experience. 👩‍💻

At least, I had time to see the #sunset

#badday #uk #consultant #consultantlife