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eliasp

@eliasp@mastodon.social

#OpenSource and #OpenData fanboy & contributor (#KDE, #NixOS, #OpenStreetMap)

hopelessly idealistic - realistically pessimistic

values science & facts over feelgood-ism

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GrueneBundestag, to random German
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1/2 Klimaschutz bekommt ein starkes Update - ganz ohne Fahrverbot & trotzdem müssen alle Sektoren liefern! Mit dem
schaffen wir erstmals einen Mechansismus, der für 2040 verbindliche & ambitionierte Ziele festlegt & erreichbar macht. Dazu kommt das Solarpaket 👇

eliasp,
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@GrueneBundestag und mit welchen "rechtlich bindenden" Mechanismen wird denn dann sichergestellt, dass z.B. vor allem das @bmdv irgendwann liefern muss, anstatt nur auf die anderen Sektoren zu verweisen?

eliasp, to UX
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Why must the #UX of any kind of #cryptography related tooling on our systems suck so much?

Today's task - manage CA certificates on our clusters' base-systems using #Ansible.

The canonical way on #RHEL systems seems to be, to use #p11kit's "trust" CLI.

"--help" says to use "trust list" - that sounds easy. I'll just compare those certificate serials against my desired state and then import the delta into the trust store…

But: the unique identifier of "trust list"'s output is a PKCS11 URI!

eliasp,
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And the unique part of the URI seems to be the "id=" value, e.g.:

pkcs11:id=%22%F1%9E%2E%C6%EA%CC%FC%5D%23%46%F4%C2%E8%F6%C5%54%DD%5E%07;type=cert

What's this ID? It's not the cert's serial.

After 2 hours of digging through the documentation, RFCs etc. I ended up with the conclusion: it's completely up to the local tooling, since RFC#7512 says:

"…the corresponding PKCS #11 "CKA_ID" object attribute can contain arbitrary binary data."

Digging now through the sources for using a key tool… 😔

eliasp,
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@flameeyes I feel like I understand how those #UX shortcomings occur.
People deep down in the crypto rabbit-hole might work under the assumption, that anyone operating at their depth will know surely what they're dealing with, so there's no need to explain the basic primitives everywhere.

But I don't get it from the perspective of an enterprise provider like #RedHat - cryptography is a fundamental aspect to operate their product.
Not even a junior should fail at this basic task due to poor #UX

eliasp,
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@flameeyes sometimes I wonder, what the whole crypto world would look like if we started with today's knowledge from scratch.
I hope we'd avoid at least ASN.1 🤪

tfunken, to random
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Mh.. Hetzner is really hosting the AFD website :neocat_googly_shocked:

eliasp,
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@tfunken unfortunately not just "some", but the far-right party with around 20% of votes across Germany, in some states even close to 40%.

@ahhhhhhoniichan

SheDrivesMobility, to random German
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    eliasp,
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    @dans_root weil diese leider nach wie vor einer der größten Indikatoren hierzulande ist, ob man gewisse Privilegien genießen kann oder nicht.

    Und wenn selbst jemand, der quasi mit allen Privilegien gesegnet ist, die man hierzulande haben kann, seinen Beruf nicht mit der Familie vereinbaren kann, ist das ein Indikator dafür, dass manche Dinge leider nach wie vor fundamental schief laufen.

    @SheDrivesMobility @TwraSun

    BrodieOnLinux, to linux
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    KDE Plasma "Tiling" Is Not Really Tiling https://youtu.be/gNFG9XgKlXg

    eliasp,
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    @Jessica it was explicitly stated when those features were introduced, that they're meant to be building blocks for a later real tiling implementation either within or 3rd party extensions.

    @BrodieOnLinux

    j3rn, to fedora
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    Nothing makes you miss the background updating of quite like waiting on macOS or Windows to update.

    eliasp,
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    @j3rn especially with forced reboots like #Windows ...

    eliasp,
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    @j3rn my #NixOS never made me wait for an update to complete during the boot process.

    It's crazy, how multi-billion dollar corporations are unable to build atomic background updates...

    drewharwell, to random
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    New from me on Truth Social:

    • Trump's site made $4M in revenue last year, little more than average McDonald's (but less than Chick-fil-A)
    • Executives got $600,000 "retention bonuses" even though company lost $58 million last year
    • Trump Media called this a "ridiculous hit piece" even though it's all their own numbers
    • Stock just opened down 9%

    Gift link: https://wapo.st/3JcnUEG

    eliasp,
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    @drewharwell and their whole codebase is apparently just a fork of @Mastodon with a few minor changes and federation disabled...
    So they don't even have any really valuable IP.

    SheDrivesMobility, to random German
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    eliasp,
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    @SheDrivesMobility bevor jetzt wieder die üblichen Kommentare "aber es ist doch nur nachhaltig das gesamte Tier und nicht nur das Fleisch zu verwenden" kommen:

    Würde das Leder nicht für gutes Geld verkauft, müsste das Fleisch deutlich teurer sein um die Gewinne zu sichern. Dadurch lohnt sich die Haltung/Schlachtung deutlich weniger und es gäbe weniger Antrieb, überhaupt dieses ökosystemzerstörende Business zu betreiben.

    Taffer, to KDE
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    Progress(?) in my battle against the touchpad…

    I've got udev rules that trigger a shell script when I turn the mouse off/on. That's the first part!

    Still haven't been able to find a way to use libinput, kcfg (Python CLI for modifying KDE settings), probably something else to disable the touchpad or stop processing its events.

    #touchpad #trackpad #kde #kde6 #plasma #udev #libinput

    eliasp,
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    @Taffer in case your environment uses Qt 6.6 or newer, your apps should survive a crash/restart of (on ):
    https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwayland/+/377104

    jpmens, (edited ) to random
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    eliasp,
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    @jpmens
    Job: used #Salt for more than ten years, now mostly #Ansible
    Personal use: #NixOS everywhere

    GuidoKuehn, to random German
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    Die Bahn erwägt zur Bekämpfung ihrer systemischen Krise einen Einstellungsstopp und eine Haushaltsperre. Klingt wie ein Plan, wenn man sich den Zustand der Bahn so ansieht–also so zwischen akuten Sanierungsstau und Personalmangel. Was könnte da besser helfen, als ein Einstellungs- und Ausgabenstopp?

    eliasp,
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    @GuidoKuehn herzlichen Dank an die Herren #ChristianLindner AKA #Investitionsblockierer und #VolkerWissing AKA #Mobilitätsverhinderer.

    2 Personen aus einer Partei, derer ewiges Mantra "wirtschaftliche Kompetenz & Freiheit" ist, deren Politik aber das krasse Gegenteil davon darstellt.

    Ohne Investitionen keine gesunde (Volks-)Wirtschaft.
    Ohne Mobilität für alle keine Freiheit.

    #FDP

    arstechnica, to random
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    Waymo and Uber Eats team up for automated food deliveries

    You'll need to run outside when your robot delivery arrives.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/waymo-and-uber-eats-team-up-for-automated-food-deliveries/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    eliasp,
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    @arstechnica what a fucking dystopia! As if there weren't enough cars on the roads, now we're adding more and more demand for them just to serve some lazy asses their curry, pizza, sushi or whatever.

    radioscout, to random German
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    Ich habe gerade mit großer Freude gesehen, daß die DHL-Paketverfolgung jetzt verwendet.

    eliasp,
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    @radioscout auch in der #PostDHL-App die Übersicht mit Standorten von Filialen und Packstationen nutzt jetzt #OpenStreetMap
    Leider ist die Implementierung noch etwas unglücklich und blockiert jedes Mal wenn Karten- oder Standortdaten nachgeladen werden die ganze Karte... 😩

    SheDrivesMobility, to random German
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    eliasp,
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    @denki das erinnert mich an diese Werbungen von Nissan und Renault:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn__9hLJKAk
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rWju2Wi9hg

    @SheDrivesMobility

    xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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    Hello, it's me, a trusted expert in open source computing with nearly two decades of experience. I wrote this article. I could not, for the life of me, figure out why my the official #Nextcloud Docker image was suddenly refusing to bind to port 80 in the container.

    (Edited to add: resolved after nearly a day of hair-pulling because @eliasp nudged me in the right direction.)

    https://xahteiwi.eu/resources/hints-and-kinks/rootless-podman-docker-compose/

    eliasp,
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    @xahteiwi because your container is rootless and port 80 is privileged (<=1024)?

    shollyethan, to random
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    Today I'm launching a project I've been working on for several months - a browsable directory of self-hosted software:

    https://selfh.st/blog/introducing-selfhst-apps/

    It's a supplemental tool to Awesome-Selfhosted and meant to be an alternate view focused on details that I personally find more relevant. And more importantly - it'll always be up-to-date as it's built on the dataset I use to monitor updates and releases for This Week in Self-hosted.

    Feel free to reach out with feedback!

    eliasp,
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    @shollyethan you might want to add #Zammad, the #OpenSource support/ticket system:
    https://zammad.org/

    eliasp,
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    @shollyethan oh, and @penpot as well:
    https://penpot.app/self-host

    xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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    When you write SQL code snippets, do you put keywords in all-caps?

    eliasp,
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    @xahteiwi uppercase keywords make it much easier for me to parse what I'm editing.

    drewdevault, to random
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    If you're asked to sign a CLA and/or copyright assignment before contributing to a FOSS project, refuse, and make a hard fork of the project instead.

    Take direct action for free software.

    eliasp,
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    @drewdevault

    isotopp, to random German
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    https://chaos.social/@isotopp/112161052755586174

    Ich schrieb:
    "Aber es führt dazu, daß das Teil für solche Arbeit auch massiv nutzlos ist. Sobald solche "KI" "sicher" wird, ist sie zu nichts mehr zu gebrauchen.

    Oder man muß sich als ethischer Romance-Writer lizensieren lassen, bevor man Zugang zu einem unlimitierten LLM bekommt."

    Das ist nun gerade mit Google Docs passiert.

    eliasp,
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    @isotopp sehe ich da eine Nische für Anbieter, die grundlegend den Einsatz von AI ausschließen und damit diesen Szenarien vorbeugen?

    fribbledom, to random
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    Once upon a time I sent in a Linux change that fixed hundreds of typos in the kernel's sources & documentation.

    Guess how that worked out.

    eliasp,
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    @fribbledom should've masqueraded as a 4 year old:
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=690b0543a813b0ecfc51b0374c0ce6c8275435f0

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