Keyoxide is a project that parses a PGP key and makes its data available to Mastodon for identity verification.

Added by Ken - 2022-12-27

To list the key

gpg2 --list-secret-keys

To update and export your key

YOUR_GPG_UID=$( gpg2 --list-secret-keys | grep -A1 'sec' | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}' )

$ gpg2 --list-secret-keys ${YOUR_GPG_UID}

$ gpg2 --edit-key ${YOUR_GPG_UID}

gpg> uid 1

gpg> primary

gpg> notation

Enter the notation: [email protected]=https://YOUR-MASTODON-SERVER/@YOUR_MASTODON_ID

gpg> showpref

gpg> save

$ gpg2 --armor --export ${YOUR_GPG_UID} > pub-key.asc

Upload to https://keys.openpgp.org/

Select Verify email

Click the email link

You should get a message "Your key ${YOUR_GPG_UID} is now published for the identity YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS."

Got to your mastodon server https://YOUR-MASTODON-SERVER/settings/profile

And on the page add GPG and https://keyoxide.org/hkp/${YOUR_GPG_UID}

Links

https://opensource.com/article/22/12/verified-mastodon-pgp-keyoxide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLhiNOa4DBs

In today's show we will talk about installing synergy so that you can

control the keyboard and mouse of another computer securely over

ssh.

Install synergy on both computers as root

# dnf install synergy

# apt install synergy

The main pc is pc_middle and it is the one with the

keyboard and mouse we intend to use for all the computers.

The only other pc in this configuration is, one on the right which we

call pc_right

On pc_middle create a configuration file. I put it in

~/etc/synergy-work.conf

section: screens

pc_middle:

pc_right:

end

section: links

pc_middle:

right = pc_right

pc_right:

left = pc_middle

end

On pc_middle add entry to ~/.ssh/config to

allow portforwarding back, for the synergy port

24800

Host pc_right

Hostname 192.168.0.150

RemoteForward 127.0.0.1:24800 127.0.0.1:24800 # send back from the client to me

On pc_middle run synergy server in the foreground with

debug enabled

[user@pc_middle ~]$ synergys --debug DEBUG --no-daemon --server --address 127.0.0.1 --config ~/etc/synergy-work.conf --name pc_middle --log /tmp/synergy-work.conf.log

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: opening configuration "~/etc/synergy-work.conf"

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: configuration read successfully

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: XOpenDisplay(":0")

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: xscreensaver window: 0x00c00001

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: screen shape: 0,0 5760x2160 (xinerama)

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: window is 0x05e00004

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: adopting new buffer

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: opened display

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] WARNING: LANGUAGE_DEBUG Poll result 0

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: registered hotkey ScrollLock (id=ef14 mask=0000) as id=1

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] NOTE: started server, waiting for clients

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: event queue is ready

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: add pending events to buffer

[2022-12-03T16:29:05] DEBUG: screen "pc_middle" shape changed

On pc_middle you can check that it's running

[user@pc_middle ~]$ netstat -anp | grep 24800

tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:24800 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 90859/synergys

On pc_middle you can connect to

pc_right

[user@pc_middle ~]$ ssh pc_right

user@pc_right:~$

On pc_right (either on its own keyboard, or via ssh

session from pc_middle), check that port 24800

is listening

user@pc_right:~$ netstat -anp | grep 24800

tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:24800 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

On the other keyboard that is connected to the pc_right

(see note below †)

user@pc_right:~$ synergyc --debug INFO --no-daemon --name pc_right 127.0.0.1

[2022-12-03T16:38:59] NOTE: started client

/build/synergy-3N7yN5/synergy-1.8.8-stable+dfsg.1/src/lib/synergy/ClientApp.cpp,404

[2022-12-03T16:38:59] NOTE: connecting to '127.0.0.1': 127.0.0.1:24800

/build/synergy-3N7yN5/synergy-1.8.8-stable+dfsg.1/src/lib/client/Client.cpp,146

[2022-12-03T16:38:59] NOTE: connected to server

/build/synergy-3N7yN5/synergy-1.8.8-stable+dfsg.1/src/lib/synergy/ClientApp.cpp,294

Back on pc_middle, you should see the the log that you

have connected

[2022-12-03T16:40:15] DEBUG: Opening new socket: 18FC73A0

[2022-12-03T16:40:15] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2022-12-03T16:40:16] DEBUG: received client "pc_right" info shape=0,0 5760x2160 at 2787,1371

[2022-12-03T16:40:16] NOTE: client "pc_right" has connected

† Note: If you tried to run the client syne

https://gnuworldorder.info/ See episode 489 Cloud

Services

How using a Chromebook could eventually result in Mankind creating

GOD in his own image.

A brief discussion of my attempt to emulate Google Services from a

Chromebook on a Devuan equipped Lenovo Laptop and how all of this will

eventually result in mankind actually creating a real GOD who will be

masters of EVERYTHING.

A Squirrels perspective on life, the universe and everything - even

Cloud Services and the lie that is A.I.

Overview

I have recently been wondering about the use of abbreviations which

are built from the first letter of a word followed by a number and the

last letter. The number represents the count of letters between the

start and end letter. Thus accessibility becomes

a11y. This came to light (to me anyway) during an email

exchange with Mike Ray regarding the accessibility issues on the tag

index page on the HPR site. The website issues were resolved, but I was

left wondering how useful the term a11y is, or whether it

just jars with me!

According to the Wikipedia article

this type of word is known as a numeronym, but they may also be

referred to as alphanumeric acronyms, alphanumeric

abbreviations, or numerical contractions.

As the Wikipedia article notes these types of abbreviations are

almost always used to refer to their computing sense — such as

g11n for globalisation — in the context of computing,

not the general context.

Looking at a11y as an

example

While I sympathise with the motivation behind using

'a11y' to mean accessibility, I do find it odd and

counter-intuitive. I often find myself pondering the acceptability of

this type of abbreviation. How many other words in common English fit

patterns like this I wonder? Quite a few I would expect. How does this

affect the admissibility of such abbreviations?

Not only are they adventurously strange to my simple brain, but I

find them to be aesthetically displeasing. My experiments with the

standard Linux dictionary looking for words that fit this pattern I find

affirmatively supportive of this view. I describe this experiment

later.

Algebraically, it is to be expected that there are many dictionary

words of 13 characters which start with 'a' and end with

'y'. Looking at them allegorically, such numeronyms convey

little meaning except in very limited contexts since the motivation

seems to be to reduce the need to type long words. Alternatively, if

they were accepted by data entry software and expanded automatically a

better case could be made for applicability, but only one word could be

assigned to a numeronym.

In my mind there is a certain artificiality in the use of these

abbreviations.

You might wonder at the weird rambling nature of the above section -

this was my (small) joke to try and use many of the words that match the

a11y pattern.

Here’s the result of transforming them:

While I sympathise with the motivation behind

'a11y' to mean accessibility, I do find it odd and

counter-intuitive. I often find myself pondering the a11y

of this type of abbreviation. How many other words in common English fit

these patterns I wonder? Quite a few I would expect. How does this

affect the a11y of such abbreviations?

Not only are they a11y strange to my simple brain, but I

find them to be a11y displeasing. My experiments with the

standard Linux dictionary looking for words that fit this pattern I find

a11y supportive of this view. I describe this experiment

later.

A11y, it is to be expected that there are many

dictionary words of 13 characters which start with 'a' and

end with 'y'. Looking at them a11y, such

numeronyms convey little meaning except in very limited contexts since

the motivation seems to be to reduce the need to type long words.

A11y, if they were accepted by data entry software and

expanded a11y a better case could be made for

a11y, but only one word could be assigned to a

I tend to put the "no" in notes!

https://www.presonus.com/products/AudioBox-USB-96

https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/

Official Noisetorch repo: https://github.com/noisetorch/NoiseTorch

Noisetorch demo video by Linux for everyone

The Pipewire soundsystem for Linux.

We wrap up our stay in Topock, Arizona and move down to Ajo, Arizona, not far from the Mexican border. Kevin gets a head cold and takes it easy for a few days, but we still manage to get out and see some things. At the end we repair our steps and head off to the Tucson area.

Links:

https://www.palain.com/travel/southern-arizona/

The part I made moments before the show is available at Thingiverse.

Here is a screenshot of modeling it in Blender followed by the piece installed on the microphone holder.

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Also a photo of the green screen hooks I created for hanging these large holiday light things.

See full image

The drill dust collector (on Thingiverse)

Humans,

Download the following compressed tar file containing the Squirrels

Podcast thingie.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1akf74fhM6s1DtDFPhrVvvbKXkzCCa4JQ/view?usp=sharing

Untar the thingie;

tar -zxvf PODTHING

explore the subdirectories it created.

You can copy the Media_Gift directory to where ever you want it to

reside and even rename it

mv Media_Gift /home/me/mythingie

install your own korn shell {KSH} or modify the bashpodder.shell

scripts located inside to point to where ever you keep bash on your

system.

Run the entire script from the Media_Gift directory

./get_all_podcasts

Enjoy Humans. All Squirrels love all humans. Happy Holidays. Eat more

nuts.

Reality 2.0 Podcast

https://www.reality2cast.com/