Month: April 2019
Debian and GNOME rocking it so far on this new (second hand) box.
Seeing how far I can get without enabling the non-free repo. So far Debian has detected that the WiFi card needs a non-free driver, but that’s cool, I can luckily just stick with wired for this machine.
Looking forward to more indieweb action at HWC.
This page is horribly full of white dudes.
I’m 100% for moving away from centralised silos.
That said, can’t lie, whenever I see a link to a project that looks cool, to find that the link is something like git.mysupercoolsite.net:3000, I click with nervous anticipation and wait with fingers crossed for it to actually load…
I do a bunch of post-install steps every time I do a fresh install of a distro. (I like to do a fresh install semi-regularly as a kind of low-key disaster recovery run-through…)
It might be package installations, pulling various config files in from a git remote, restoring documents, changing app settings, etc.
Thinking what’s the best way to automate all that? I guess probably a shell script should get me pretty far.
Listening to an episode of Libre Lounge from a few months back, fascinating to hear about the two recent vectors that compromised projects via npm.
Both supply chain attacks, one a compromised build and the other a kind of social engineering hijacking of a no-longer-maintained repository.
https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-2-thanksgiving-npm-and-malware-in-free-software.html